Okay, so our last blog post was about Manny serving a suspension. Right now the Dodgers are better without him, somehow. But let's recap some other things that are magically happening in Sports.
1. King James was slain by Superman. To this, I look to barstoolsports.com and laugh at all of those Cleveland videos about sports and how "Cleveland....where amazing never happens". That you get for being a state whose majority of residence like NASCAR over baseball and basketball. Enjoy the recession because I don't see you winning a real lottery, let alone a draft lottery.
2. I'm going to say this now: In 10 years, Tim Lincecum is going to be the best pitcher to step foot on a mound. He has 500 k's after a year and a half in the MLB. Just so long that he doesn't go all Zach Greinke on us. At his rate, he could have Randy Johnson's numbers by the time he's 34.
3. David Ortiz decided to be the player in the entire league with the 3rd worst VORP. For those who don't know what VORP is, it's Value Over Replacement Player, i.e. that players value in the open market. Ortiz is worth -$5.2 million, which means if the Red Sox traded him, they'd have to pay for him to get something in return.
Now for more important news:
4. Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Her stance on Affirmative Action is not what I would have liked, because after taking Labor Economics, affirmative action hurts firms more than it helps. Equal Opportunity employers, however, are the right way to go. It's ridiculous to hire someone just because they are a certain race. You wouldn't hire a clown to fix the john would you? Sotomayor would, so long he was black.
5. GM filed for bankrupcy this week. I sort of am glas that this happened. I know Manning and I have out disputes about this. I don't blame them for giving what the customer wanted, but I blame for them for trying to give them the same product when it was obvious no one wanted an H3, or could afford it when gas hit $4 a gallon. The economics of cars and gas prices is rather interesting. I wonder if anyone ever studied the sales of automobiles by type (SUV, mid size, hybrid) when the gas prices are higher or lower. That would've been something GM could have used a while ago, but it's their fault for thinking that people will get an SUV because it says hybrid on the side of it. Or that their plans to develop the electric car are about 10 years too late. This also bares a question: If I see Transformers 2 and want to buy one of the cars I see, will it be available by the time I see Transformers 2? This also bares the question, will Ford be taking over for Transformers 3? Bumblebee as a Focus?
6. This Rockefeller guy seems very smart for a ruthless criminal. I know it seems weird to say that, but he managed to con 3 different women into 3 different lifestyles while still maintaing them all. I think this guy and the Unibomber could fix the recession if they were put up to it. Not that anyone's pitching the idea...yet.
By the way, I'm going to do a movie review right now:
Star Trek:
Growing up a Transformers fan, I had little time to watch Star Trek. Besides when I was younger, the Next Generation was on with Worf and Picard. Having said that, I am happy that JJ Abrams brought Star Trek back to the front of the line. From start to finish, this movie was awesome. The whole story, or at least what every person who was either a fan or had never seen an episode of Star Trek, was perfect. Every little detail about Star Trek that people were skeptical about was revamped. The casting was perfect because everyone fit their role perfectly. Everyone from Zulu, Kirk, Uhura, and Scotty was right down to the last bit, perfect as I could only imagine it.
Grade: A-
Terminator Salvation:
Christian Bale is going to be busy for the next couple of years between this series of movies (yes there are more) and Batman. Although I didn't think he was the best actor in the movie, I think that Bale can pretty much play any one on the screen. Having said that, Bale needs to pick a voice and stick with it. His voice isn't Batman in this one, and it isn't Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, so PICK ONE. The movie, was clever and what I always wanted from a Terminator movie. Not running around from Arnold, Robert Patrick, or some hottie in pleather pants, but a war between machines and people. Anton Yelchin (kid from AlphaDog and Star Trek) and Sam Worthington were better than Christian Bale in this one. What I want to know is whether there will be a special feature in the DVD with Christian Bale flipping out on a lights guy. Great movie though.
Grade: B
Be on the look for Up, Transformers 2, Angels & Demons, The Hangover, Land of the Lost, Taking of Pelham 123, and many more to make this summer an awesome time at the movies.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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