Comic for Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Posted: 7:41 am, Thursday, October 19th

Damn, Mets-Cards has turned out to be the can't-miss series of October. We caught the last few innings at a local watering hole full of Mets fans last night and it was.. well, loud. Never let it be said that Billy Wagner doesn't bring out the best in So Taguchi. Hey, 15, so you know, you can hang with the Deadspin guy at that bar you tried to rally the troops to that once.

Staying on baseball, the always-excellent Uni Watch had a mind-boggler yesterday. Billy Buckner wore a Cubs batting glove under his mitt out in the field on that fateful night 20 years ago. WOW. Crazy. Lukas has been the best thing on Page 2 for about a year now just on basis of the awesomeness of the uniforms he writes about, but now that he's doing some investigative stuff, too? Damn!

I bought Bully on my lunch break yesterday. The verdict? Well, the first three and a half minutes of it were cool. As soon as 2.0 got home, we had to start doing laundry and talking on that rat bastard phone. Nobody ever says, when you get engaged, the next week straight is spent on the phone. I'm thinking of jazzing up the story and saying I proposed via skywriter.

This is a little old - it came out right after the ALDS - but, man, the Onion can really peg Steinbrenner when they try to.

Grafe sends The Lost Year in Iraq from Frontline with his recommendations. I have no idea when I'm going to get a chance to watch this, but I'm going to try.

Vaguely related, evidently there's a faux-documentary about the assassination of Bush coming out? Um, weird. The recent trend toward everything being faux-documentary is really friggin' obnoxious. Especially those ads where a film crew of safe-looking hipsters gleefully announces, "We're making a film about how much people love their Verizon high-speed!" or "I'm living out of my Nissan and filming it!" It's almost as bad as those stupid fucking film student shorts for Coke that they used to run before movies. (I especially hated the one done by the kid from Florida State, but that's more because of his school than the fact his short sucked. Which it did.) Anyway, evidently they make this movie quite boring, but I did like this line from the review:

It is, indeed, a harrowing thought that a man who eats live kittens for dessert would become the leader of the free world.

Hee-hee!

Anyway, that's all I've got. We got in late last night and I'm writing this right before it goes up. I just noticed that I've been terribly derelict in updating the archive this month. Yeesh! I'll have to try and do some site-keeping over the weekend.

bullfrog

Yeah, that Uni Watch observation was so captivating. I guess this proves that the Cubs' curse is universal. And if you're more than a little superstitious, you probably should never wear any Chicago Cubs attire, at all.

Now, do I listen to the Met's or Cardinal's radio broadcast?

I beg to differ that "Nobody ever says, when you get engaged, the next week straight is spent on the phone"...Reggie said precisely that. That's why making the announcement at an unrelated large gathering of family and friends is the best route. Can tell the story once and reach the masses.

At the risk of getting 15 all worked up, I recommend the WFAN team. I actually really enjoy them. It helps that the other option in NYC is the always-loathesome John Sterling.

I know you said that, Reggie, but I just figured you were being your usual sociable self at the time.

I like this new breed of spam telling me that they're having trouble loading some of the pages because they use a non-standard browser. Oh, OK! I'd better re-design the site to accomodate you and your non-standard browser! And, yes, I think I will buy Viagra from an anonyous moran.

The end paragraphs of this guy's blog make me halfway glad the Sox wrapped up the Darfur World Series a few weeks ago.

http://faithandfear.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/10/19/2427559.html

Man, October 2004? I was just meat. The entire month went by without me really noticing.

The Cardinals announcers (particularly the moonman Mike Shannon) are also great - but I've heard good things about the Mets announcers so I won't explode at you. My advice would be to switch to whichever one is winning in the ninth.

I'm missing most of the game tonight (can you believe it????) but I'll show up at Dewey's at 10:30 or so. I'll let you know if I meet the deadspin guy!

I can't believe Broadway is winning out over game seven of the NLCS, dude.

Yeah, if the Cards win big and I miss it, I'm never, ever going to see another play for the rest of my life.

Now we'll see if spammers will actually take the time to enter stuff by hand.

The IT wing of Five Bucks to Friday does it again.

I don't believe you for a second, 15. no plays? keep in mind, baseball is only 6 (or 7, if you're lucky) months of the year. Plays are ALWAYS :) Plus, I knew you in grade school-Alan Cambell obsession!!

Yeah, I just cancelled my play tonight so that I don't have to stop seeing theatre forever (I was kidding about that anyway). Unfortunately, I dithered and waffled too long, and missed my chance to go to the game. But at least I'll be seeing it with the deadspin guy!

GO CARDINALS!!!!

What, no Lost discussions today. No fishbiscuits for YOU.

Zero

Fun Link o' the Day (have you seen this before?):

The Nietzche Family Circus: http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/

LOST: I totally knew that kid was a cop. I'm glad to see Hurley back, I'm confused by Desmond now, and I'm pretty sure the polar bear would've continued to chase/attack Locke after getting its face burned. Locke's Native American side caught me a bit off guard.

CK, that thing is awesome. Nice grab.

Belated Lost realization - last week or so Sawyer was excited about getting a fishbiscuit, but one of the guards said 'the bears did it quicker.' Polar bears, maybe? nitpicky side note - Polar bear fur isn't white, it's transparent and hollow and reflects the colors around it, so Locke wouldn't be finding white tufts. I'm just sayin'. Hurley is HUGE.

Zero

RAW is my hero! There's only so many Viagra ads a man can take in a day. And, apparently, only so many Viagra because if it doesn't come down for over four hours you have to seek medical attention.

I actually dislike Mike Shannan because he's kind of gotten to ramble on far more than he should in an not as eloquent way. Of course, having listened to Jack Buck for many years, I'm probably still jaded. I do like the new announcer, previously from the White Soxs.

What I'll probably end up doing is going by half innings until someone gets a good solid lead (or if one of the two starting pitchers has a no-hitter going past seven innings, which isn't likely). Oh, and could someone tell WFAN to please develop a better jingle leaving every half inning? It sounds about as old and corny as the Meet the Mets song from '68.

Zero - I totally thought that was a wolf that scared Locke out of his sweat tent. Lousy CGI, gang. But, yeah, I'm assuming those were the polar bears. I wonder how long it took the smoke monster to figure out the fish biscuit contraption?

Miyaa - Now, hold on. Meet the Mets is brilliant. I love that song! Aside from Take Me Out to the Ballgame, I can't think of another song that so immediately makes me think of baseball. And it's not like I was raised on that jingle, either. I love that they still kick off the broadcasts with the over-the-top horn rendition of Meet the Mets. The trombone bits rule.

Yeah, seriously, RAW, this is a job excellently done.

Those of you who are all baseball-ed out, or would like any soundtrack that's not fucking Joe Buck and Tim fucking McCarver (he gets an extra expletive all to himself for being so Goddamn stupid), Wilco is on All Songs Considered tonight, live and in concert.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6262709

They've been playing some new songs on this tour, getting ready for their new album that drops in (I believe) April.

(By the way, Mara is wearing the coolest Wilco tee I've ever seen.)

LOST: So, did the island used to be a zoo or something? Is that why there are all the cages, and a polar bear and a crazy bird and horses (albeit mirage-type ones)?

Cardinals win! Woo!

Definately the best game of the seven.