Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category
Fantasy Baseball Movies III
Posted in Cinema, Sports, tagged atlanta braves, bobby cox, brian mccann, burning churches as metaphors for the atlanta hawks, carlos beltran, chipper jones, david wright, derek lowe, fantasy baseball, fat, gunslingers, jose reyes, mccabe and mrs. miller, new york mets, NL east, revisionist westerns, sniper rifles, snow, westerns on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What We’ve Been Watching: March 5, 2008
Posted in Cinema, Sports, Television, The Internet on March 5, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Oh, Hi There. We’ve been watching television and movies and things on the internet and we’d like to tell you about them. Consider it an advice column for the socially stunted.
OSCAR NOMINATED LIVE ACTION SHORTS (TH)*
German for "Big Winner"
Spielzeugland (Germany) – A rather pedestrian short about a German boy during the 1930s who’s been told by friends and family that his Jewish friend and piano partner will soon be taken away to “Spielzeugland” (“Toyland”). There are about 47 flashbacks and flashforwards during the 13-minute film, and shit doesn’t get explained particularly well. This won the Oscar, which is silly, because it’s a little exploitative, and not particularly well-made or inspired. (more…)
Fantasy Baseball Movies II
Posted in Cinema, Sports, tagged Aaron Rowand, Brian Wilson, Bruce Bochy, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, DAve Roberts, Fred Lewis, Greene, guess who's coming to dinner, Kerry Wood, Lincecum, Lou Brock, Lou Pinella, Mark DeRosa, Marmol, meet me in st. louis, Milton Bradley, Molina, No Country For Old Men, Ozzie Guillen, Pujols, Randy Johnson, Randy Winn, San Francisco Giants, Shumacker, St. Louis Cardinals, Steve Holm, Thome, Tony La Russa on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Eric Marsh and Benjamin Kumming
Guess Who’s Lincecumming To Dinner (Bruce Bochy, 2009) Guess Who’s Lincecumming to Dinner is a 2009 baseball season starring Tim Lincecum. It was managed by Bruce Bochy. The season’s award-nominated score was composed by Barry Zito.
Guess Who's Lincecuming to Dinner
What We’ve Been Watching, February 24, 2009
Posted in Chicago, Cinema, Sports, Television, tagged alan rickman, ben stiller, boring boring hockey, bottle shock, bug, chicago blackhawks, cronenberg, danko, david cronenberg, death becomes her, el topo, festival express, friedkin, fuck, fucking motherfucker, grateful dead, guts television, james woods pulls a tv out of his stomach, janis joplin, janis joplin drunk, janis joplin high, jim carrey, jodorowsky, kelly reichardt, lester freamon, michelle williams, minimalism, minnesota wild, motherfuck, motherfucker, motherfucking cocksucker, next generation, randall miller, rick danko, rick danko drunk, star trek, the band, the cable guy, the wire, videodrome, wendy and lucy on February 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What We Imagine They Mean By “Making the Most of Being Single, a Human Resources Event”
Posted in Chicago, Cinema, Sports, tagged benefits, dating, existenz, glengarry glen ross, human resources, leagally blonde 2, meet me in st. louis, museum of 15th century danish engineering, single life, soccer, three legged race on February 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The bulletin of upcoming events at the institution at which a few of us here at RD work makes mention of the following seminar: “Making the Most of Being Single: Tips on how to enjoy being single in Chicago, hosted by Human Resources.” Now, I’m not the type to demean those who find it difficult to chart the troubled seas of love (I’m a big proponent of lunch hour speed dating myself) but I couldn’t help but wonder what kind of love advice one gets from the Human Resources department of a mid-sized Catholic institution of higher learning. Here’s my best guess:
From the Vault: Fantasy Baseball Movies
Posted in Cinema, Leisure, Sports, tagged alex gordan, animal collective, baseball, bosley crowther, brad lidge, bridge on the river kwai, curb your enthusiasm, dayton moore, john maine, mark teahen, metropolitans, movies, omar minaya, state and main, takeshi saito, the taste of tea on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Soon to be a weekly feature, here’s some old pun-inspired fictional synopsis for movie remakes in which the movie is actually a baseball season.
How You Know We’re Fucked, #3
Posted in How You Know We're Fucked, News, Sports, tagged chicken dance, How You Know We're Fucked, john madden, nfl of nbc, nfl on fox, phil hartman, robots, science, superhuman strength, that stupid dancing football robot, war of the worlds on January 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
They're already eating Asian children
According to MSNBC, the journal Science had published an article regarding the development of robotic muscles that do not need electricity to function: (more…)
Aesthetics and Sports, Part I: Shaquille O’Neal
Posted in Sports, tagged aesthetics, air, behemoth, behoemoth, earth, Fu Schnickens, grace, hack-a-Shaq, hope, Kobe Bryant, Larry Bird, LSU, Michael Jordan, power, rik smits, Shaq, Shaq Diesel, Shaq-Fu, Shaquille O'Neal, Shazam, skill, Sports, Steel, The Diesel on December 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Greetings. It’s been too long.
When one thinks about sports, and particularly about American sports, with all of their emphases on contact and power, other aesthetic aspects can get lost in the shuffle. This loss is papered over by today’s legion of sports announcers, anchors, pundits, and thinkers, who focus on sports almost as if in a vacuum, comparing athletes only to other athletes. This is not really a problem, exactly. For example, Gus Johnson does not spend a lot of time that he doesn’t have anyway focusing on why Chris Paul’s crossover dribble is visually appealing, but he doesn’t have to. It’s not his job. No, the problem, I think, is that even those who could spend time writing about connections between sports and other human endeavor (I’m looking at you, Simmons, and you, Posnanski – again, fine columnists) simply do not. So, let’s consider one question as a way to get a small and very partial ball rolling. The question is this: why do I dislike Shaquille O’Neal so intensely?
Adrian Peterson is a Pokemon
Posted in Sports, tagged adrian peterson, pokemon on December 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
