metsmarathon

if you don't show up for the draft, there is no autodraft. you fill your team from the waiver wire.

damn, i just cut out a whole shit-ton of talent from my team. the draft is gonna be interesting....

anything in the latter half of march would be fine for me, provided its at 8:30 or later, preferably 9.

1. it was probably bambi, in '82, though i don't remember much of it. i was 4 or 5. 2. e.t. scared the hell out of me. i think. i don't specifically recall seeing it in a theater, although i assume that i must have...

which one is out? i may have another friend who has expressed interest in the past...

he's jcl's non-cpf friend, per the '12 thread. i'll harass my own non-cpf friend who's dilly-dallying. also, man, do you guys have high hopes for michael wacha, or what! ouch!

only four more days to bump up salaries! you jackals are doing quite a number on me already. join the fun, slackers!

i've only ever seen bits and pieces of titanic. i still need to see gravity.

arbitration time is upon us! bring on the adjustments!

whenever i go to the mall, i park at sears.

don't forget, in just 15 days, arbitration opens up, and you all can lay a serious financial whooping on me!

Yup. Doesn't appear to in my espn and yahoo leagues, but ottoneu does it right. Holy shit that was tight. Happy to have eked out a narrow win, thanks in part to a missed call on a bouncing ball into leonys martin's glove, keeping wil Myers from scoring a run. I wonder if there's a tie-breaker on ottoneu, and feel somewhat fortunate not to need to find out. That was almost an epic collapse. Me and my big damned mouth...

there's still a game tonight. muddy chickens trails the death machine by one run, and has three players going tonight, whereas the machine of death does not carry any rays or rangers. if muddy chickens scores one run, we tie for first. if he scores two runs, he wins. unless i break my stalemate at OBP with the mohawk red flyers. we're deadlocked down to four decimal places. i, too, have a few guys going tonight, and hopefully it swings in the right direction!

oh, but i am. i'm stacked with good pitching prospects, and my hitters will still mostly be below market value, even after you savages bitterly adjudicate your salary arbitrations.

stompy stompy stompy. i think it'd be kinda cool if i was able to snag a 90 by the end of the year. we'll see. not leading in OBP anymore really stings.

clooney was a very good bruce wayne. i'll grant that. and i'm sure the material prevented him from really making any hay with the batman side of things. batman & robin was meant to be a sillier, less serious, certainly not dark at all take on things, and for that reason, all i get from a clooneybat is a flat, inert goofiness. maybe if brad pitt had played robin the movie would have worked... and ultimately that's what i fear we'd get with ben affleck - a flat inertness. in clooney's case it was borne of hte material. in affleck's i worry it will be borne of the actor. the stage is certainly set for him to fool us all. if he can truly pull it off, i feel it would be a great launching pad for the remainder of affleck's career. not that he really needs any help - its just that popular opinion of him (mine included) can't help but shake his gigli.

i, myself, can't shake a george clooney vibe.

Zvon wrote: Logo looks kool. For me this all hinges on who's gonna play Batman. ben affleck. damnit.

yes, kiddie 7. the kiddie movie bar is unfortunately rather low.

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Wow, the main character is a crop duster and there are no fart jokes. That must've taken some restraint. seriously. i'm rethinking my 6 rating. for a kids movie to not be aggressively stupid or fart jokey, and only be somewhat weakly plotted and character underdeveloped, and have wonderful visuals, is something to be celebrated. when this comes out on DVD, i won't mind owning it and allowing it into the rotation, and sitting down with minimm (and the �mm's) to watch it. i'm upping it to 7.

from high above the world of cars, without the folks from pixar, comes disney's planes. it was originally set to be a d2v flick, but they saw a moneymaking opportunity, and to the big screen it goes. the movie is getting killed on rotten tomatoes, but i think that's mostly because its not a pixar flick. actually, i think the reason its getting slammed is because it feels like a pixar knockoff. and while it might be a valid criticism if some other studio, it does feature john lasseter on the credits. the movie is a bit thin on plotting and the story is fairly basic, but it's a kids move that isn't overtly and aggressively dumb, and is almost entirely devoid of fart jokes. dusty crop hopper wants to be a racer, not a crop duster. predictability ensues. along the way he encounters a bunch of planes from all over the world. naturally, they represent overwrought stereotypical caricatures of those worldly origins - none moreso than el chupacabra, dusty's new friend. el chu is voiced by the taco bell chihuahua, an american of argentinian descent. i think this guy is responsible for most of the negative reviews, actually. he's played with a very heavy hand, though the lesson he teaches is to play is to play it smoothly. i'm not sure if the criticism is warranted or not, but surely the big-ears company should've seen it coming. there was a wwii flashback in there that minimm didn't really understand at all, though i don't think he was too scared by it. the climax wasn't terribly climactic, as there was really no sense of peril at all in the movie. but it moved along well enough. the animation was a notch or two below what pixar would have turned out, but the target audience wouldn't really notice. also, we did see it in 3d, and that added nothing, and may also have detracted from minimm's experience. he didn't really want to wear the glasses too much, and really, there was nothing in the movie that warranted it, other than making some scenery seem better. if you need to take a munchkin to a movie, take your munchkin to this movie. it's no toy story 3, but its also no air buddies 17. relative to kiddie movies, i tend to give it a 6. relative to movies as a whole, i'd give it more of a low 5.

i lost peralta, but i do have mr. had-been-playing-over-his-head jose iglesias taking his spot, both on my team and on the tiggers. i picked up peralta for $1 this year, and he'd been happily productive. still, i think i can weather the storm...

i keep on catching only the latter half of RED as it airs on, what, f/x, and i rather enjoy it, for what it is. it ain't high cinema, but it's a solid five. i imagine RED 2 will be much of hte same. maybe one day i'll catch its latter half while skipping around the late night channels in a few years..

what a difference a year makes! as of today, i have hte top spot in all four offensive categories, as well as pitchers' strikeouts. i don't know if this torrid pace can hold up, but, damn, it feels good.

i can't quite say that this latest pixar installment will be one of their most enduring masterpieces, but it sure was a fun romp. we were a little worried because this was minimm's first time in a movie theater, and we weren't quite sure how he'd handle the dark, the noise, the being quiet, the whole experience. but he was great, and it sure helped to have a good, well-paced movie on screen. he didn't get bored or distracted for a second. and neither did we. they did a really fine job getting an entirely different story line out of the monsters universe in a very different kind of movie than monster's inc. the movie was all about mike and sully growing and learning together, and overcoming obstacles, moreso than it was about scaring. which was good, because we learned in the first movie that scaring is actually mean. but when it comes time to actually lay the scare down, mike and sully do a truly epic job. for the grownups, they managed to capture the college experience fairly well. they did yeoman's work sanitizing the whole experience for the kiddies and leaving it still entirely relateable for the parents. i was too busy watching and enjoying the movie to pick up on hte typical pixar easter eggs. clearly, i'll need to see it again.