Comic for Monday, April 6, 2009

Posted: 6:35 am, Monday, April 6th

Thank God, it's baseball season! I saw a few innings of a very windy exhibition game between the Sox and the Mets the other day, and, I dunno, New Shea looks OK. Evidently, the new Pit of Hell is exactly as subtle as you would expect that dickbag franchise to make a stadium paid for with tax dollars. Thankfully, the new Grand Old Flag of stadia is set for decades to come. Here's what your favorite teams will be wearing in this 2009 Red Sox Championship season, and here's a lengthy article on your reigning AL MVP that I've not read in its entirety yet, but assume is full of spit and gristle. Let the games begin! (The first baseball book I plan on reading this season - a tome somehow defending Walter O'Malley, the most hated man in Brooklyn, 1958-present.)

OK, so Richard Pattinson or whatever will continue to act, but I don't believe this article about Cullenism is made up. We can now debate the "virtues" of L. Ron Hubbard v. Stephanie Meyers as authors.

I have to read the Secret Garden for my adolescent lit class tomorrow. It is 300 pages long. I wish I had known this before waiting until Saturday to pick it up from the library.

I love the worldwide acceptance of the awesomeness of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Stacked is in India right now, and has a great update on his trip to Mumbay. (I continue to call the dude by his old blog title, and I'm stuck between modern and imperialist India. Oh, man, I read the Secret Garden over the weekend. What a bizarre book. It's like Jane Eyre, modified for seven-year olds.)

Of course Charlie Weis is twittering.

Three days 'til spring break! I need to find time to do the rest of the week's strips. Ooooooh boy.

bullfrog

Miyaa -- Monday, April 6 2009, 07:54 am

And the big thing from Yankee central is apparently they've allowed beer sales for the Bleacher Bums. And I think that will last exactly one week before they get cut-off again.

Secret Garden is adolescent lit? really? I swear I read that when I was 7 or 8. I just can't imagine a 14 year old enjoying it at all.

By "adolescent lit", I think the professor meant "6-year old lit". I can't imagine a 30-year old enjoying it at all, either.

While your Sox get and deserve much respect, watch out: The Winning (as opposed to The Evil) Twins will honor that bastion of Upper Midwestern utilitarianism, The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, with yet another World Series championship in its final year of baseball service.

you baseball people are nuts. especially in the Boston area- tonight is the freaking NCAA men's basketball FINAL, and all anyone can talk about is stupid opening day and uh-oh, it might rain. unbelievable.

Go Heels!

I liked The Secret Garden when I read my daughter's copy, and I was over 30 at the time! It's so beautifully done I forgave the sentimentality. Hm, Wikipedia says it reflects the author's Christian Science beliefs in the healing power of the mind?!

Oops, once again, that was me just above.

I'd like to say GO STATE, and if they win it seems I'll win the Deadspin pool and get to write a post. That makes me extremely nervous.

Zero

Frozen Four is starting soon too. Go Bemidji State!

As for new stadiums, one day Fenway will crumble and the Red Sox will need a new ball field. When that day comes, I'm sure they will be happy to take as many tax dollars and perks as they can. I'm also quite sure they will not build some piece of shit park but rather a modern facility with lots of amenities and hopefully some props to the past. So if you don't like the new TARP Field or Yankee Stadium , fuck off and stay away.

Personally, I can't wait to go and spend $95 for an upper deck seat and a $10 Pepsi.

Don't worry, I'm never setting foot in that hell on earth.

I did not enjoy your Yankee bashing and Red Sox felching but I did enjoy the comic today. You've probably mentioned it before, but this is the first time I'm noticing the band name - "Telly and the Mundos" - that is quite funny.

The Sox announced the other day that after all the updates they've done over the past 8 years they believe that Fenway Park will be able to last at least another 40 years.

A friend of mine tutors rich high school kids on the UES, and one of her tutees (???) had a signed photograph of Robert Pattinson, autographed to her. The friend asked where the girl got it, and apparently he came to the girl's birthday party -- for a fee, of course, and with a limit of 25 girls. Can you imagine being hired as the official eye candy at a teenage birthday party?

I also adore THE SECRET GARDEN. But I read it as a kid, and I think it's very much a kids' book -- the power of secrets and creation. I wouldn't assign it to teenagers ever.

I have to admit, as good as the Secret Garden is as a book, it's lousy as when it's turned into a made for television or movie event.

Zero: I love Michigan State's chances. Revenge game, essentially a home game for the Spartans, and the distinct possibly of Sparty beating down the Tar Heel mascot into submission and thereby pausing the game halfway through.

Besides, I know Roy Williams from his days at Kansas. Yes, he's won one title since being at North Carolina, but he's better at spectacular implosions.

You know, it's starting to look like that the 38 point loss they had on at Ford Field against North Carolina just might be eclipsed at the rate the beat down is going in the National Championship game. Wow.

Fenway is a shit hole and that is why I puked on it and I think DFFD took a piss on it.

On my next trip to Boston, I am bringing TP.