Laguna Biatch Reloaded

MTV showed a marathon of the first season of Laguna Beach yesterday. Reminded me of what a great show it was. I did some searching on Amazon and found that the DVD for Laguna Beach Season 1 comes out in July. Think I'll have to get that.

Hotel Rwanda

It was a good movie, though it's hard to tell in these movies what was real and what was exaggerated or added. Either way, it was a sobering reminder of how much we take for granted in this country, in terms of basic things like political stability and personal safety. We work every day to save up money and provide a better life for ourselves and the ones we love, but if one day an army were to pull up to your house and wanted do whatever they felt like doing to you and your family, what could you really do about it? At that point, all the stuff we normally think about and care about is out the window and the only thing that matters is survival.

Original Star Wars

Found my old original Star Wars trilogy on VHS and watched "A New Hope". I still remember when I first bought it for $30 in high school and that was a big investment for me back then. But they said it would be the "last chance" to own the original trilogy on video, so I decided to pay up. Since then, I think we can all safely say that it was a good thing I did, because look how scarce these Star Wars movies are these days. Anyways, I was disappointed to find that my tapes had deteriorated since the last time I watched them (probably at least 5 years ago). Still watchable, but a little flickering in some parts of the picture. I really did not get my money's worth in buying that VHS trilogy. At least the next time when I buy the sixlogy or whatever the complete set ends up being called, it will probably be DVD or some even more advanced digital format and will last longer.

Baseball Tonight

I used to like watching Baseball Tonight on ESPN every night. There was the story (I think recounted either on my blog or P's blog) one year when me and P were so excited to see the first BBTN of the season, but were hungry, so we raced across the street to Mykonos for some food and rushed back within like 10 minutes so we could catch the beginning.

Unfortunately as I've been watching that show this year, it has turned into a borderline unwatchable program for me. Half the time it turns into John Kruk and Harold Reynolds yelling over each other about something stupid, like whether or not Juan Uribe was wrong to trick Derrek Lee on that "foul ball" play. Honestly, if I wanted to see annoying arguments about pointless topics, I would just watch PTI, Around the Horn, I, Max, or any of the 20 million shows on TV that do exactly that.

The other day they were showing a highlight of Dae Sung Koo giving up a monster home run on a 3-0 pitch, when Harold Reynolds made some comment like "this isn't the Japanese leagues anymore". At first I thought I didn't hear him right, but then he went on to talk about how "in Japan, they don't swing at 3-0 pitches, but here, we'll make you pay".

What an ignorant thing to say. Sure, the talent level in the US is higher than in Japan, and there's differences in the style of play. But it's not like American pitchers have never grooved 3-0 pitches and gotten burnt before. To say something like "you're not in Japan anymore" is just condescending and unnecessary. And on top of it all, I don't think Koo is even from Japan. Pretty sure he's Korean. Not that I would expect Harold to know or care about the difference.

I get a little tired of complaining about race issues all the time, and I think overall I just let most things go, but sometimes it just has to be pointed out. Anyways, back to non-racial topics, I also noticed Harold Reynolds sucks at his fantasy advice too. The guy has little to no clue what he's talking about, and most of the time his explanations on who to trade and who to keep make zero sense. Honestly I used to think he was a good anaylst but he and the BBTN show have really gotten a lot worse in recent times.

Willie Harris Quote

White Sox article in the Sun Times
I got a laugh out of the quote at the end by Willie Harris: "Like Ice Cube said, today was a good day"