Opening day and no sleep till after Brooklyn
Well the new hat is 1-0 and the Phillies gave the game to the Mets on silver platter. I swear if the Phillies could catch the damn ball the Mets would have lost that game 5-1. And that Rollins made the critical error that allowed the tying run to score was of great amusement to the Shea Faithful – especially those of us in the upper deck.
When I got back from the game I was a bit surprised to hear that the big topic for Mike and the Mad Dog was how bad the traffic was. I mean what about the game? I suppose the deal here is that they both picked the Phillies to win the division as did a lot of other sports writers. Fine and dandy I don’t mind listening to people who aren’t rah rah since I’m rah rah enough for 30 people. Trouble is there was Mad Dog saying what Rollins said was no big deal.
Let’s go back a bit here. What Rollins said, to the best of my knowledge, was that the Phillies were the team to beat in the NL East this year. Now the thing is had he been on say the Dodgers or the Reds or the Cards or the Braves, it wouldn’t have gotten much of reaction. Thing is he’s on the Phillies.
The Phillies haven’t been in the playoffs since 1993, they have exactly one World Series Ring (1980) – they have 14 100 plus losing seasons – this is a team that since it was founded in 1883 historically hasn’t been very good.
It takes a while to turn a team around – teams need to learn how to win and that takes time, the Phillies have won about 86-88 games the last few years – the Mets, in the same period went from 71 to 83 to 97 wins – now they may make the playoffs but with the Braves looking more like well the Braves that’s not a shoo-in. So it is a big deal – it’s like someone on the LA Clippers saying this is their year.
Well that’s enough baseball for the rest of the blog okay?
Interesting report coming out of DC that Alberto (torture is a-okay) Gonzales flubbed his rehearsal for being on TV talking head shows so badly that the people rehearsing him just gave the hell up. So not only is he without principle he must be an awful liar as well. Well what did you expect W hired him? It’s not like W wants any A people around him hell C people make him nervous.
Off to play in Brooklyn tonight – the Enemy Below keeps cheering me up by saying how late it is going to be. Well you have to pay dues and you have to flog the group – so off we go.
We will be doing a couple of new songs on Wednesday at the Waltz – which is nice I’ve gotten a little well bored with the same old same old.
Didn’t get a chance to watch any bad movies over the weekend – looks like Year 2889 or whatever the hell horrible film set in post apocalyptic Texas by Larry B is going to have to wait and just as well. Even for a bad movie guy these things are soul destroying. It reminds me of the work of the guy that made The Incredibly Strange Creatures How Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies – there is a sense of desperation about these films that are deeply depressing – there are stars or at least guys who had steady work trying to eak out a living in these junk piles along folks who hope like hell that this is going to be their ticket out of the sticks. None of them do of course but you can see it in their eyes their hoping against hope this could help them some how. It never did, which I think is the major difference between Corman and these schlock misters – Corman looked for cheap actors who were good and looking for a way in – these guys just looked for cheap.
More later – still there was one thing in the news that struck me – W apparently has asked the Democratic leadership to come over to the White House so they can apologize to him and give him the spending bill he wants.
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Peace Love ground ball to shortstop
When I got back from the game I was a bit surprised to hear that the big topic for Mike and the Mad Dog was how bad the traffic was. I mean what about the game? I suppose the deal here is that they both picked the Phillies to win the division as did a lot of other sports writers. Fine and dandy I don’t mind listening to people who aren’t rah rah since I’m rah rah enough for 30 people. Trouble is there was Mad Dog saying what Rollins said was no big deal.
Let’s go back a bit here. What Rollins said, to the best of my knowledge, was that the Phillies were the team to beat in the NL East this year. Now the thing is had he been on say the Dodgers or the Reds or the Cards or the Braves, it wouldn’t have gotten much of reaction. Thing is he’s on the Phillies.
The Phillies haven’t been in the playoffs since 1993, they have exactly one World Series Ring (1980) – they have 14 100 plus losing seasons – this is a team that since it was founded in 1883 historically hasn’t been very good.
It takes a while to turn a team around – teams need to learn how to win and that takes time, the Phillies have won about 86-88 games the last few years – the Mets, in the same period went from 71 to 83 to 97 wins – now they may make the playoffs but with the Braves looking more like well the Braves that’s not a shoo-in. So it is a big deal – it’s like someone on the LA Clippers saying this is their year.
Well that’s enough baseball for the rest of the blog okay?
Interesting report coming out of DC that Alberto (torture is a-okay) Gonzales flubbed his rehearsal for being on TV talking head shows so badly that the people rehearsing him just gave the hell up. So not only is he without principle he must be an awful liar as well. Well what did you expect W hired him? It’s not like W wants any A people around him hell C people make him nervous.
Off to play in Brooklyn tonight – the Enemy Below keeps cheering me up by saying how late it is going to be. Well you have to pay dues and you have to flog the group – so off we go.
We will be doing a couple of new songs on Wednesday at the Waltz – which is nice I’ve gotten a little well bored with the same old same old.
Didn’t get a chance to watch any bad movies over the weekend – looks like Year 2889 or whatever the hell horrible film set in post apocalyptic Texas by Larry B is going to have to wait and just as well. Even for a bad movie guy these things are soul destroying. It reminds me of the work of the guy that made The Incredibly Strange Creatures How Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies – there is a sense of desperation about these films that are deeply depressing – there are stars or at least guys who had steady work trying to eak out a living in these junk piles along folks who hope like hell that this is going to be their ticket out of the sticks. None of them do of course but you can see it in their eyes their hoping against hope this could help them some how. It never did, which I think is the major difference between Corman and these schlock misters – Corman looked for cheap actors who were good and looking for a way in – these guys just looked for cheap.
More later – still there was one thing in the news that struck me – W apparently has asked the Democratic leadership to come over to the White House so they can apologize to him and give him the spending bill he wants.
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Peace Love ground ball to shortstop
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