Random topics 9/18/11
I think it would be a good idea for bars and restaurants to re-install phone booths. Not the phones, just the booths. Then people would have quiet places to talk on their cell phones.---
Last night, during the 4th inning of the Cardinals game in Philadelphia, the bullpen phone in the Cards dugout stopped working. (Sadly, they would need that phone on several occasions.) The action of the game ground to a complete halt while this was brought to the umpires' attention, and apparently the solution in this situation is to unplug the other team's bullpen phone as well-- so that the situation is fair to both sides. Doesn't that seem strange that, in this day and age, they don't place cell calls, text, or even send an email? In the case of Tony LaRussa' 10-man bullpen-by-committee in St. Louis, the team probably doesn't want to have to pay for all of those minutes.
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Brad Pitt is starring in a new film called "Moneyball." It's a dramatization of a baseball book written about Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, and about how the executive attempted to revolutionize the game through statistical analysis in helping his small-market team compete against the better-financed Yankees and Red Sox. You know, this movie looks interesting, but I think I'll wait until they make a movie about the Minnesota Twins' fourth-place American League finish in 2003.
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Don't watch the Emmys tonight if you're doing so for a glimpse of Alec Baldwin. Fox/Newscorp cut a phone hacking joke from a skit he was participating in so he walked. I love how the network claims the joke was cut because it was in poor taste. As if a joke at the expense of Rupert Murdoch, the perpetrator of the hacking crimes (as I'm sure this one was), is the same as a joke at the expense of the victims. Hilarious.
posted by CM @ 1:42 PM
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