56

No not the number of games Joe DiMaggio hit safely in. The number of times the Jones' have both hit a HR in the same game. I can't find the number of times they've won in such games but I know it is only like 8 or 9 losses, sometimes they show, sometimes they don't. Last night they didn't. This continues to push the Braves' best record even better.

Tonight is Smotlz going, I gotta say our chances are pretty good. The guy the Nationals have going is usually pretty good against the Braves so that could hurt. Also I sweeps don't have happen very often, it is a lot to expect one. We'll see tonight, it is hard for me to miss a Smoltz game so you know I'll be watching.

6-1

Yes he is going to write about baseball again. It is easy to keep me blogging which is something I actually enjoy.

The Braves have the best record in baseball. Their offense finally stepped up and showed a little bit of life, despite trying really hard not to in the first part of the game. Tim Hudson has been incredible in his first two starts. Of course they were playing the Nationals but like I wrote yesterday, even the bad teams win at least 54 games. More Nationals tonight, let's see if Chuck James can have two good starts in a row.

Nationals come to town

The Nationals are a horrible team, possibly the worst in all of baseball. The Braves have the best record in league. This could still go poorly, all teams win 54 games, all teams lose 54 games, it is what you do with the other 54 games. Some of those 54 games could be the worst team beating us. In addition to that the Nats are throwing pitchers the Braves have never really seen, they typically suck against those. Mix all of that with the possible let down of beating the Mets, could be bad, we'll see.

Dr. Dolittle

Yet another movie I Tivo'd. I didn't recorded this one for The Little One however. She saw the end of it a few months ago and really wanted to watch it again. She loves animals and the talking animal thing just blew her away. I watched it with her even though I'd already seen it, it was at the movie theater I was working at.

I actually enjoy Eddie Murphy, Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2, 48 Hours, SNL, Shrek, Mulan, and my favorite Bowfinger are all very enjoyable. I enjoy this one as well but like anything that involves The Little One that is the actual fun. She would ask me a ton of questions as the movie went and when it was over, it was a lot of fun.

16 Blocks

This movie was on HBO and I like Bruce Willis and Richard Donner so I figured I would TiVo it and give it a try.

Well, at least I didn't pay any extra for it, it was awful.

The Last Days of Tony

Last night was the first episode of the final run for The Sopranos. It wasn't an exceptional episode but it was very good. I did spend a good bit of time trying to guess how they are going to end the series based on events introduced in the first episode.

I love The Sopranos but I will probably be happy for the end. The series started in 1999 and this is finishing up only its sixth season. This will be the longest season at a whopping 21 episodes which is huge, every other season was only 13 episodes. In 8 years we will have 78 episodes, that is whole lot Bada but not a bunch of Bing. I will be glad to be done with the anticipation. It has been a great run.

Smoke and Mirrors

It seems the Braves are just doing it with smoke and mirrors. I don't mind at all, being 5-1 is much better than 1-5. I am a little worried that one run games will catch up to them before too long. A week done and they are one game in first, not bad at all.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter!

Smoltz > Glavine

I watched the game and I'm still not sure how the Braves won. I've been saying for two years that the Mets D would hurt them and it did today but that shouldn't have been enough. Smoltz was greater than Glavine but I'm not sold if the Braves are even close to greater than the Mets. If anything though the Cardinals proved last year that all you have to do is get into the playoffs, the best team doesn't always win.

Edit - I did not steal this headline from Yahoo or Fark, I saw their headline after I wrote mine. Pretty cool though.

300

How could it get more appropriate than to write about the movie 300 with my 300th post. I logged in and was going to write about Smoltz and the Braves win over the Mets but then I see the post counter stuck at 299, it just makes sense to write about 300.

Pretty Bird and I saw the movie on Thursday night. When I first saw the previews for it I was very blah about it. As I saw more and more previews I was ever more turned off by it. For me to like something that is stylized it really must be good. Then the movie was released and quite a few reviews gave it a good rating. Then even more of my friends have seen it and raved about it, then I figured it was time to see it.

Well we saw it and both loved it. 300 isn't a great movie, it isn't something that you'll look back on and say "man that was a great movie." That doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it. The lead was great, the action was great, the story held your attention. A great popcorn flick in the middle of March (or in our case April). It does set the bar of popcorn flicks high for the Year of the Trilogy.

I've seen two movies released in 2007 and I've enjoyed both of them. Hopefully this will keep up for the rest of the year.

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade

With all of the Indy 4 talk recently Pretty Bird and I had an itching to watch one of the originals. I love both Raiders of the Lost Ark and Last Crusade so it was a tough choice. I'd recently seen the Raiders, sometime last year and it had been a little bit since I'd seen Last Crusade so that made the decision easy.

Like I said when I talked about Last Crusade (#8) in my Top 100 list, it really makes me laugh. There are so many scenes and one liners in the perfect context to make the movie hilarious. What a great movie.

Ick, that just sucks

What a way to open the season at home, the worst home opener in Braves history. I guess the Mets pitching staff isn't that bad, four games and only 3 runs given up. Maybe we can split the final two and the Mets will leave town only a game up on the Braves. But man 11-1 just sucks.

Another Home Opener Without Me

I'm sad that I will not be at the Braves' home opener again this year. This marks two years in a row I will miss it. I guess I'm just getting older and other things are more important. As much as I've talked about the Braves so far this year it has been six years since I've lived in Atlanta, it just isn't the same.

Tonight's opener brings the Mets into town vs. a Braves team that is starting a pitcher who wasn't good enough to stay on Royals, that is just ass. Well maybe Smoltz can beat Glavine tomorrow.

Anyone got a broom?

Get out your brooms for the impending sweep of the Phillies. Of course I'm not overly confident that Chuck James is a great #3 starter but I do love beating the Phillies.

Meat!

Victorino tries to steal 3rd, with a two run lead and the MVP at the plate, idiot. Anyways he tries to steal and is meat.

Ryan Howard tries to score from 1st on a double hit to right. Silly MVP, Jeff Francouer plays in RF. He is meat.

The tale of horrible baserunning leads to Atlanta being 2-0.

All of their runs so far this year have been scored by the HR. Brian McCann is going to be fun to watch for the next few years. The new bullpen, again only two games but 8IP, 2W, 2S, only 1 ER.

I really must decide if I want to see the game on Saturday in Atlanta, Smoltz vs. Glavine, man how do I not go.

Baseball!

The best part of baseball for a sports fan is that you get games everyday. I can check box scores every morning! Most days I can even get a sports tracker going for afternoon games.

On tonight's menu is the first Braves game I get to watch. It is against a lefty so I'm sure Bobby will start a shit ton of people even I've never heard of. I've followed the Braves almost every game they've played since 1992 and Bobby does this all the time, he loves the platoon if your a lefty hitter.

Hopefully the bullpen will hold up today. I'm also hoping for the first start of a bounce back year for Tim Hudson.

Gator Hatin'

Now fans from Ohio have something in common with me, they hate the Gators as well. To have lose twice in the same year to the same team on the biggest two stages in college sports, man that has gotta suck. It doesn't suck as much as rooting for the Browns but it does suck a good bit.

One down, 161 to go

Such a long season, one win doesn't matter but I much prefer a win over a loss.

Braves 5, Phillies 3

Edgar with two HR and McCann with one.

The best thing though is the bullpen, 4IP with no earned runs. Based on how things worked out last year that is great.

Next game is Wednesday, hopefully Hudson can have a good year.

On Time

I am not what would define as a punctual person. Early in my working career I realized this and have made a serious effort to be on time. The easiest way for me to do is to convince myself that I needed to be at work 10-15 minutes before I was supposed to or that it would take 10 or 15 minutes longer. This seems to work. For the most part I'm 5-10 minutes early just about everyday, some days even the full 15 minutes. Even with that though about once a week or so I'm about 3-5 minutes late and once or twice a month I'm as much as 10-20 minutes late.

I don't care how someone works as long as they put in their normal-ish hours and gets their work done. I don't work in the service industry anymore, I'm not worried about coverage or dinner rushes or when the store opens. One thing that does piss me off though are the people who try and 'pull one over' on everyone. I had one at this job, I had one at my last job.

The current job we had a guy who was 5-10 minutes late every single day. At least 3 times a week he took a 90 minute or so lunch. Once it hit quitting time though he was gone. At 1 minute after closing time he was gone, everyday. That just rubs me wrong, it feels like he is consciously trying to cheat the system.

Another guy I worked with at my last job was every worse. We had a flex schedule, you could pick working 8:30-5:30, 9-6, or 9:30-6:30. This guys entire department was 9-6 and he figured a good way to cheat. He picked 8:30-5:30 but here is the trick. He showed up about 8:55 or so, everyday. He would jet at soon as 5:30 hit though, gone. There was a sting operation launched against him. What a jerk.

I don't care how you work but I just hate it when someone tries to pull one over, to cheat. It just drives me nuts.

Opening Day

Happy Opening Day!