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Yeah, this is dumber, more insulting, and less ably rendered than the standard fare in which he appears. I promise. Not making that list is Winter Passing (2005), which I think you'll like.

metirish wrote: A return to form I'm reading for Will Ferrell , his best since Ricky Bobby said another. Yes or no.....I remember you liking Ricky Booby. I don't recall having seen any films recently with the word "Booby" in the title.

This was dumber than a box of dumb. It was so dumb, it should have been called The Eighth-Inning Guys. I was offended that it was this dumb so close to Ground Zero. Seriously, I was embarrassed for all involved. I was additionally sympathetically embarassed for men, women, cops, old people, and the homeless, among others. And I don't mean any of this in a good way. There was a dumb action movie called The Hard Way set in New York, and released in 1991. Comic buddy cop bullshit with Michael J. Fox and James Woods. Few think about that film from day to day. It was released, it was dumb, it sucked, and it was forgotten. This film will additionally slide down that same continuum of public awareness, but I thought of The Hard Way on my way home, thinking, "Man, The Other Guys sucked so much that The Hard Way would really make a nice palate cleanser right now." Maybe if you're kinda drunk or high or have the giggles going in this movie will reward any foggy good will you bring to it, but there was a scene where an old lady crossing the street with a walker is forced to be a go-between in sex talk between two other characters. Now, you may think OLD LADY + WALKER + SEX TALK = GOLDMINE OF COMIC GENIUS, but I was reduced to the sort of embarassed mortifications that I used to get watching Three's Company when I was 11. But that's me, right? No, I was in a theater filled with half-stoned, half-witted Baltimore teens, and I turned around and they were all kind of waiting for the scene to mercifully end. Three or four joined me in eventually putting their damn fingers in their stupid ears. If the rest of your day is a homerun, this is the film that will reach out and interfere with it while it's still in play, leading to a review, with your day eventually being sent back out the to base paths, where you still may have hopes for it, but instead find it disappointingly stranded on third, with Marky Mark chasing three jive-assed hanging sliders out of the strike zone.

Will Ferrell and Marky Mark are a mismatched pair of detectives. One is dying for more action and the other is doing all he can to avoid it. Action comes calling, and so do hyjinx, mayhem, romance, and those things popcorn films are made of.

You know who's still in the system? John Holdzkom, that's who. Maybe I should adopt that big maniac.

I guess it wasn't too late for him to salvage this season after all.

Jeurys' selection a few days ago? Potent, it seems. He threw his finest ball of the season in knocking off MFTampa: 6 2/3 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 9 K. Let's see some more of that, kiddo. Done and done. Against first-place Palm Beach, no less 7.0 IP, 1 ER, 7 H, 0 BB, 9 K, 0 HR Who the heck was that?

Nice number kid. I always thought that might look good on a power hitter at Shea.

Lost in the non-excitement of the Mets universe last week was news that Eddie Lora --- the throw-in in the Wagner/Carter trade --- after triple-slashing to the sweet tune of .088 / .209 / .235 // .445 at Kingsport this year, has announced his retirement from baseball at the age of 21. I didn't really get a chance to adopt him, seeing as how he packed it in before I signed up. I just looked up and there he was, all quitted. I said, "Eddie, what the hell? You stunk, but it was only 12 games." He just shrugged and said, "It was really important to the team to get some measure of a win out of the deal, so I thought I'd beat Wagner by retiring faster than he did. SUCKER!"

Don't know what's going on, but Lutz --- who's been as hot as David Wright has been cold --- was pulled in the third inning last night.

I haven't seen a Leonardo DiCaprio film since Catch Me if You Can, so I'm basing this on the publicity shots and trailers for his films, but doesn't his head seem to be getting progressively larger with each movie?

The subject seems irrelevant enough, but is rendered large by the performances and other touches. I've got say though, athletically, the Leeds players look like a bunch of sad sacks who couldn't beat my junior high team. I went Stoke City. Ms. Edgy enjoyed it and Sheen's performance as the asshole at the center of the story. Maybe too much.

He's trending well.

You just know this guy has partied with A Boy Named Seo.

I realize this guy is getting a late start and is playing largely with younger guys, but holy crap. After going 2-4 for the (running away with the division) Brooklyn Cyclones yesterday, he's up to .391, and has a chance to become the league's first .400 hitter in four decades.

Hard to believe that, with all the takes you need and compression and other technology, you can't really improve on Currie's live vocal, but there you go.

Jeurys and Brad Holt are something of a 1-2 punch of disappointment this season.

DC went 3-3 with a triple, walk, and stolen base yesterday. He's going from top hitter on the Cyclones to top hitter in Cyclones history.

I demand Bruce Willis as Art Howe or I'm not making the picture.

Long Beach State Dirtbag Rylan Sandoval gets some nice ink today in the News. Adopt him and his beauty queen name.

Sounds like The Spirit of '76.

Yeah, Mario Van Peebles was really typecast in black roles. I didn't know Pele ever did gay porn. Really, all you needed to get backing for an eighties movie was a tagline of "They've got nothing in common but..."

Those three starts? They weren't fill-ins here and there. Those were his last three consecutive appearances, throwing four, seven, and six scoreless, respectively. He's thrown 23 2/3 consecutive without giving up a run.

Photo editors feeling kinda stupid? I hope so. TeamLeagueWLERAGGSCGSHOSVIPHRERHRBBSOGO/AOAVGSAVSAL501.0125300153.13776017451.6.201

Senior citizen diabolists. Textbook creepy.