College World Series and Star Wars

Watched the last part of "Revenge of the Sith" when I got home. I will never cease to be amazed at the full circle of the films. I'm watching Ewan McGregor and I'm seeing Alec Guiness. McGregor must have lived and breathed the first Star Wars. It is effortless to see the change from Obi-Wan in Revenge to Obi-Wan in Star Wars. i loved seeing the young (well, I know it wasn't him but they got a pretty damn good representation of when he was younger) Peter Cushing as Moff Tarkin. That always puzzled me - in the first Star Wars, it seemed that Tarkin was over Vader - when, as the Emperor's apprentice, it seems Vader should have busted him in his head. Ida know.

Well. A rematch in the CWS. I don't know who to pull for. I want LSU to still be the last team to win back-to-back. But, I want the traditional baseball power conference (Pac 10) to win rather than the ACC.

I hate Prairie Home Companion

One of the little tortures of being with M for all those years was that, every weekend, I was subjected to the torture that is the Prairie Home Companion radio show. I cannot put my finger on it, but I hated, hated, hated that show. I hated the god awful "update from Lake Woebegone" worst of all.

The Superfriends

OK, let me get this straight. In an episode of the Superfriends, we learned that Lex Luthor and Superman were friends back in Smallville. Lex Luthor's lab was on fire, and Superman PUTS THE FIRE OUT and SAVES HIS LIFE, but in the course of putting the fire out, Superman's breath blew chemicals onto Luthor and made him bald. So . . . the reason Lex Luthor hates Superman with a passion is because he turned him bald. Mmmm. Hey, Lex, meet Jean-Luc Picard. He's bald and he'll kick your ass.

College World Series

The super regionals are set.

North Carolina v. South Carolina
Ole Miss v. Arizona State
Rice v. Texas A&M
Mississippi State v. Clemson
Michigan v. Oregon State
Cal Fullerton v. UCLA
Wichita State v. Cal-Irvine
Oklahoma State v. Louisville

It goes without saying that there are more teams who are not traditional baseball programs this year. Neverthless, I maintain my position that experience and seasoning counts for more, particularly the farther you go. For that reason, I am going to say Cal Fullerton and Rice in the finals.

MLB draft is tomorrow. We'll see how high LSU recruits go. I still think that a major college program prepares you for the show better than the minors.

The changed face of college baseball

There once was a time, years ago, when one could predict the winner of the college world series. The winner would most likely come out of this group: USC, Cal State Fullerton, Arizona State, Texas, LSU, Rice, Miami, and Stanford. Not any more. Regionals started today and several number one seeds lost. Let's see, San Diego lost, Arkansas lost, Florida State lost, and Texas is on the verge of losing, I think captain obvious would say that college baseball has achieved parity. However, winning regionals is one thing - let's see how the super regionals and CWS pans out. It takes a mature, experienced and, most of all, deep team to win it all. If Texas makes it out of the regionals, my money's on them. If not, I'd say Fullerton or Rice. I'd like for Vandy to win it all, because they are such a classy team and coach, but I don't think they are seasoned enough. It took LSU five CWS trips before they won it all.

Eddie Murphy, tic-tacs and Klingons

I like it when an actor (or writer or whoever) ties two unrelated movies together. In The Golden Child, one of mine and Rog's favorite moments is when Eddie Murphy is tied up and the thug (played by Randall "Tex" Cobb) emphasizes what his boss says by putting his face inches from Eddie's and says "Yeeesss" as he breathes on Eddie. Eddie makes a wonderful face and says "In my pocket, I got a whole thing of tic-tacs - take as many as you want - please!"

In Shrek, for some reason, Donkey (voice by Eddie Murphy) is subjected to Shrek's breath, to which he replies something about having tic-tacs and Shrek being welcome to them.

BabelCon is getting better and better. Freakin' Robert O'Reilly (Gowron) is going to be there! I'd crawl across ground glass to go to see him. Anyway, on the BabelCon site, there is a link to a group in La. who do Klingon role play. That is so cool! I sent stuff to join up. Looking forward to getting/making a uniform.