A says he's glad to be here
Well, I guess I'm a terrible fan, because I turned the Mets game off when they went down by two in the top of the 11th, not willing to watch another heartbreaking loss *shakes tiny ineffectual fist at Ender Inciarte*, but this morning I woke up to the news that Asdrubal Cabrera hit a three-run, game-winning home run in the bottom of the 11th. Woo! You gotta believe!
According to the Elias Sports Bureau (sorry! I am not usually the kind of person who starts sentences like that), the Mets last night became the 1st team ever to win a game by erasing two deficits of 2+ runs in the 9th inning or later with HRs. Which is a lot of words that don't really mean much but sound impressive strung together like that. Also it was the first game they won this season after being down through the eighth inning. They are now 1-63 in games where they trail after eight. Idek. I don't think they can do much if they do make the playoffs, considering the state of the starting rotation and also their streaky offense, but what a ride, man. What a ride.
I did interrupt real life baseball to watch the premiere of Pitch, which I mostly enjoyed, though as I said on tumblr, did they really have to subject us to Joe Buck? That was painful. I never thought I'd say this, but poor John Smoltz.
Anyway! I thought Kylie Bunbury was excellent as Ginny Baker, Mark-Paul Gosselaar was almost unrecognizable as the catcher, and Bob Balaban looks like a serial killer as the team owner. Which is as it should be, I guess. Also, Dan Lauria was kind of born to play a put-upon major league manager, no? I don't dig the ~surprise twist~ that the father is dead, but it does explain why the mother in the stands never interacted with him, and why he wasn't there being as obnoxious as the agent.
The writing could use some work, but the direction at times reminded me of FNL, which is only to the good. I'm interested and will continue to watch for now. I think they definitely have a lot of stories they could tell, though I might have structured it differently starting out (started with her in the minors, working/hoping for a call-up, rather than with her MLB debut, but that's me). Given that it's Fox, I'm a little scared they'll pull a Sleepy Hollow and get rid of Ginny to focus on Lawson, but hopefully they won't do that.
Speaking of which, or similar anyway, here's a link I just ran across yesterday, though it's a few months old, about Rey's central place in the new Star Wars trilogy, and the fear that she'll be shunted aside for whiny entitled asshole Kylo Ren*: Rey At Risk: Keeping Lucasfilm Accountable to Her Potential. It makes a good argument for why she should be centered, and continued to be centered, as the hero of the new trilogy, and why making her a Skywalker would solidify that (i.e., otherwise, Kylo Ren is the sole Skywalker heir and that skews the whole story even more tragically, and whatever people might say, the main Star Wars saga is about the Skywalker family, so *hands*).
*While reblogging an Azula gif set the other day, I realized that while whiny entitled white boy cosplaying Vader is the perfect villain for this trilogy, I would care much more about Kylo Ren if he were a lady (for values of "much more" that equal "at all" at this point).
On a less ominous note, this Dinosaur Comic made me laugh and laugh. It's funny 'cause it's true. #i did it all for the robins
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According to the Elias Sports Bureau (sorry! I am not usually the kind of person who starts sentences like that), the Mets last night became the 1st team ever to win a game by erasing two deficits of 2+ runs in the 9th inning or later with HRs. Which is a lot of words that don't really mean much but sound impressive strung together like that. Also it was the first game they won this season after being down through the eighth inning. They are now 1-63 in games where they trail after eight. Idek. I don't think they can do much if they do make the playoffs, considering the state of the starting rotation and also their streaky offense, but what a ride, man. What a ride.
I did interrupt real life baseball to watch the premiere of Pitch, which I mostly enjoyed, though as I said on tumblr, did they really have to subject us to Joe Buck? That was painful. I never thought I'd say this, but poor John Smoltz.
Anyway! I thought Kylie Bunbury was excellent as Ginny Baker, Mark-Paul Gosselaar was almost unrecognizable as the catcher, and Bob Balaban looks like a serial killer as the team owner. Which is as it should be, I guess. Also, Dan Lauria was kind of born to play a put-upon major league manager, no? I don't dig the ~surprise twist~ that the father is dead, but it does explain why the mother in the stands never interacted with him, and why he wasn't there being as obnoxious as the agent.
The writing could use some work, but the direction at times reminded me of FNL, which is only to the good. I'm interested and will continue to watch for now. I think they definitely have a lot of stories they could tell, though I might have structured it differently starting out (started with her in the minors, working/hoping for a call-up, rather than with her MLB debut, but that's me). Given that it's Fox, I'm a little scared they'll pull a Sleepy Hollow and get rid of Ginny to focus on Lawson, but hopefully they won't do that.
Speaking of which, or similar anyway, here's a link I just ran across yesterday, though it's a few months old, about Rey's central place in the new Star Wars trilogy, and the fear that she'll be shunted aside for whiny entitled asshole Kylo Ren*: Rey At Risk: Keeping Lucasfilm Accountable to Her Potential. It makes a good argument for why she should be centered, and continued to be centered, as the hero of the new trilogy, and why making her a Skywalker would solidify that (i.e., otherwise, Kylo Ren is the sole Skywalker heir and that skews the whole story even more tragically, and whatever people might say, the main Star Wars saga is about the Skywalker family, so *hands*).
*While reblogging an Azula gif set the other day, I realized that while whiny entitled white boy cosplaying Vader is the perfect villain for this trilogy, I would care much more about Kylo Ren if he were a lady (for values of "much more" that equal "at all" at this point).
On a less ominous note, this Dinosaur Comic made me laugh and laugh. It's funny 'cause it's true. #i did it all for the robins
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