Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

[johnnyilluminat]

Saw Sunshine yesterday. Hmm, what to say? Well, first of all I love the Alien template: a small crew, deep in space on a ship, getting a distress signal. Sadly, Sunshine doesn't do much with the promising situation. As long as the film seemed episodic, with the crew periodically discussing chances of success and fear of dying, tending the

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[den_mother]

I remember when the Braves let go of Greg Olson, their catcher, not to long after a big collision at the plate that broke his leg. It healed and he came back but wasn't ever as good as he had been. I became really disenchanted with baseball after that. It was my first time realizing how capitalistic it was and how loyalty to players only gets carried so far, no matter how they have helped the team in the past.

But then it warms my heart when a big deal team like the Mets, who wasn't giving Julio Franco chances to bat much but then saying he's not hitting well, decide to let him go and that same team I got so angry with back in the early nineties picks him up (taking him back, actually, as he used to be a Brave until 2006) and immediately starts using him and giving him a lot of at bats so he can effectively get in his spring training. And that he starts hitting fairly well pretty quickly. And that every time the first few games he came up to bat the crowd went nuts for him.

It makes me happy to be a Braves fan, even though I know they'll disappoint me later by cutting someone else I really like loose.

[johnnyilluminat]

I definitely find it difficult to balance the business side and the emotional side of sports; I'm glad the Astros made it a priority to keep Bagwell and Biggio their whole careers, but then again, Biggio hasn't been very good the last year or so. Would we be better without him? Maybe so, but I wouldn't want to trade Bidge getting his 3,000 hit with us--if he got 3000 with, say, the Royals, that would seem like a betrayal by the front office.

And I saw that the Braves picked up Franco--I'm rooting for him to play until he's fifty!

Johnny Illuminati