MLB All Star Game (Fox) — When I was a kid, the All Star Game was one of the highlights of my summer. But I also collected bugs as a kid, so it’s not like I had any idea about what was actually good back then. Now I have a better idea about what’s worth watching, such as Kate Upton in short-shorts at the MLB Celebrity Softball Game.
Lawrence of Arabia (TCM) — Speaking of when I was younger, I went through a phase in high school where I tried to get caught up on classic movies from the ’60s and ’70s (Chinatown, Easy Rider, The Shining, other movies that didn’t star Jack Nicholson). All I remember from watching Lawrence of Arabia is that it felt like the longest movie I’d ever seen. It’s like you actually wander around the desert with Peter O’Toole for several months.
Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape (BBC America) — In this episode of Ramsay’s 37th TV show, he travels to Vietnam, where deadly booby traps are no longer a grave danger to visitors. Unfortunately.
Repo Games (Spike) — This blurs the line between game show and reality show: debtors answer trivia questions, and the “prize” to be won is their own car (losers get their vehicles repossessed). On tonight’s episode, someone pulls a gun. Is it just me, or does this sound like a Stephen King novella?
America’s Got Talent (NBC) — Live episodes begin tonight, with the first 12 of the final 48 acts performing. I’d be a great “AGT” judge: everyone without a dog or cleavage would get an immediate X.
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With the All Star Game tonight can I ask you guys something? I watched the Home Run Derby, and saw people fighting for the balls that came over the fences. I also read about that fireman who fell to his death last week.
My question is: why? It’s a fricking ball! Why are people shoving each other, jumping over barriers into pools headfirst trying to catch them, and then screaming like they won the Lotto.
Is this an American thing? Over here we have cricket, and fans throw the ball back, but in the States you guys keep them. Are they valuable?
I apologies for this ramble but would like to know.
*apologise
Kate Upton has changed my life. When I first saw her I thought someone built the robot of my dreams.
@Smegga: It’s a part of the game that’s grown pretty sick over time. People catch them as souvenirs. Some people throw them back if they are from the opposing team. But yes, if the ball caught is from a hit that matches or exceeds a statistical milestone, the balls are worth money to collectors. Baseball, more than any other sport, has a strong statistics angle for fans. So much so, that fans will even keep scores and stats while attending games. Check out Charlie Sheen to see an example of extreme baseball memorabilia collecting.
edit: I should say that among American sports regarding baseball and statistics tracking
Lawrence needs the whole four hours. Homoerotic subtext can’t be rushed.
Wait, baseball what?
The Ziegfeld here in NYC used to show classic movies during the summer. I saw Lawrence of Arabia there. It had an intermission…a much needed intermission.
Y’alls crazy–some of the best movies of all time are fucking long. Lawrence, but also Patton, Godfathers 1&2, Great Escape. There are plenty of shorter movies that feel twice as long, like everything Michael Bay has done, and Watchmen.
P.S. Everything seemed like it lasted forever when I was a teenager, except for the amount of time between when I could stroke and when I could stroke again, which was, like, instants. God I miss that.
@dachshund – Thanks man.
I understand the statistics part of it, much like fantasy sports has taken over.
I was just wondering why people are so obsessed for a single baseball, and how outfielders get abused by fans for not throwing them balls after the play is over.
Anyway, television? I will be watching ‘White Collar’ tonight/tomorrow.
Hey Smegga; I was at a Rockies game (yes, the Rockies) and some dude, maybe 30 years old or so jumped across three rows of seats, landed on his hands and knees (bloodies both) in front of some kid to get a FOUL BALL, even less of a prize since it was hit by a very minor player.
I just happened to look at my Idiot Meter (TM) and it was pegged.
So does Kate’s bat say Slut or is that just wishful thinking?
@Smegga – Ask Peter King about baseballs seeing he stole one from a kid at an EXHIBITION game they must be valuable right??
I know all about Peter King’s obsession with stealing foul balls from kids, but he can’t represent the majority of baseball fans can he? I know Drew ripped him to pieces for it, and continues to do so, that’s all the King I need.
Question; what does Kate’s bat smell like?