World Series Tied One Game Each!
The Phillies started off strong and dominant in game one with Cliff Lee pitching the game of his life. Shutting down the Yankees with no earned runs and walking off the field and out of Yankee Stadium with a 6 to 1 win and taking game one as if it were candy from a baby! Lee’s performance was outstanding and even Tim McCarver seemed surprised at not only how well Lee pitched but how relaxed he was on the field. Lee made plays you’d expect in the World Series! Like a nonchalant catch of a pop up to the mound and then a behind the back group of a hot grounder back through the box. If the Phillies end up winning the series it will be because Lee pitched so well in game one it gave the Phillies confidence going in to game two, and guaranteed them at least a split when they come home this weekend.
Game two with AJ Burnett and the ever talkative Pedro Martinez looked to be a repeat of game one through much of the early innings. Pedro was quite dominant and he held a one run lead going into the bottom of the 4th inning until mark Teixeira homered off a change up on the outside of the plate! And it remained tied until Hideko Matsui homered in the bottom of the 6th of Pedro and that was all that Burnett needed. The Yankees took a two run lead going into the 8th and 9th innings with Mariano Rivera pitching a two inning save. His 8th inning appeared less strong when he allowed two runners to reach with only one out, but a strong throw by Jeter got the double-play and got the Yankees out of the 8th inning!
I think it was more of a relief than joy for me when they won last night and even the series at one win apiece! Going back to Philadelphia is not the hard part in my mind for the Yankees, I think keeping the Phillies offense out of the game-as they were by Burnett in game#2-will be the difficult part for their starters and the bull-pen. I expect to see the Yankees come back to the Bronx Wednesday for game #6 and hopefully win the series at home!
Phillies-Yankees Game #1
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2009_10_28_phimlb_nyamlb_1
Phillies/Yankees Game#2
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2009_10_29_phimlb_nyamlb_1
Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs-animated 2009 Film
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs [2009]
I’ve been a fan of many of the animated films that have been released in the last several years. The Incredibles [2004] and Monsters, Inc [2004] are probably my favorite animated films since the turn of the century though I did enjoy Monsters v. Aliens as well as Wall-e and Igor. However the latest animated film Cloudy with a chance of meatballs ranks up there with the plot lines of A Scanner Darkly and Ratatouille [2007]. The plot is obvious from the title of the film. An odd scientist like inventor creates a machine that can turn water in to food!
The movie sounds interesting at least at first, but then we learn that the inventor-Flint Lockwood-has a father who can’t talk with him and doesn’t understand him as well as that Flint has a crush on a local weather reporter who acts dumb even though she’s super smart! Is this what we want out of our animated films-A pretty girl who acts dumb to be accepted and a crazy inventor who doesn’t get along with his father? To make matters worse in the plot the machine that alters the DNA of the water into food breaks down near the end of the film and is creating sentient food-forms. We see whole cooked chickens walking around as if they are alive! What better Pr for vegetarians!
The film also has a happy ending-which I didn’t expect considering how the plot had gone up to that point, so it was a letdown of sorts to me to have such an ending.
Over all it’s not a bad film, just not an exciting or great film. See it when it comes out on DVD or watch it on cable.
official website-cloudy with a chance of meatballs
http://www.cloudywithachanceofmeatballs.com/
Cloudy on imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844471/
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
I’ve been a fan of many of the animated films that have been released in the last several years. The Incredibles [2004] and Monsters, Inc [2004] are probably my favorite animated films since the turn of the century though I did enjoy Monsters v. Aliens as well as Wall-e and Igor. However the latest animated film Cloudy with a chance of meatballs ranks up there with the plot lines of A Scanner Darkly and Ratatouille [2007]. The plot is obvious from the title of the film. An odd scientist like inventor creates a machine that can turn water in to food!
The movie sounds interesting at least at first, but then we learn that the inventor-Flint Lockwood-has a father who can’t talk with him and doesn’t understand him as well as that Flint has a crush on a local weather reporter who acts dumb even though she’s super smart! Is this what we want out of our animated films-A pretty girl who acts dumb to be accepted and a crazy inventor who doesn’t get along with his father? To make matters worse in the plot the machine that alters the DNA of the water into food breaks down near the end of the film and is creating sentient food-forms. We see whole cooked chickens walking around as if they are alive! What better Pr for vegetarians!
The film also has a happy ending-which I didn’t expect considering how the plot had gone up to that point, so it was a letdown of sorts to me to have such an ending.
Over all it’s not a bad film, just not an exciting or great film. See it when it comes out on DVD or watch it on cable.
official website-cloudy with a chance of meatballs
http://www.cloudywithachanceofmeatballs.com/
Cloudy on imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844471/
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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