28 Days Prior
Baseball season is so close you can taste it. 28 days from now, you, me, and the rest of the Mets-loving world will watch Johan Santana make his Mets debut down in Florida.
28 days can feel impossibly long this time of year. I'm so excited for baseball; so ready to put last season behind us and so anxious see how this season will play out.
I really don't know what I think about how the year ahead will play out. In the days after we first got Johan I was pretty sure we were the class of the National League. And for the most part I still think that, but... put it this way, that familiar Mets-fan pessimism was only magnified by end of last season.
The Phillies are gonna be good again. The Braves could contend. I don't think we'll run away with the division. More than anything I'm ready to start watching the fight unfold. But I can't, not for another 28 days.
In that time what is there to do? Well you can watch Spring Training games, but those are only so exciting. I watched Johan's debut, that was fun, and it's great to see Wright and Reyes and the rest of the team back on the field.
But one of the elements of Spring Training I really enjoy isn't really present this year. For me, one of the real treats of Spring Training games is having a chance to watch some stud prospect you've read a lot about. For the Mets, there's not a lot going around in the way of stud prospects. I mean, really, there's Fernando Martinez and who else?
So chances are I won't spend the next 28 days watching every Spring Training game. What I've been doing to fill the time consists of a lot of movie and television viewing.
(As I write this, "Wedding Crashers" is on the tube. Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams are smiling at each other.)
On the movie front I've seen "There Will Be Blood", "Into the Wild", "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford", "Gone Baby Gone" and "Just Friends" recently. (Highly recommend "Into the Wild" -- really good flick.)
If anyone's got any recommendations let me know. Tonight there's "Eastern Promises" which I'll watch after finishing this. I had wanted to rent "In the Valley of Elah" but it was out. Oh well.
As for television, whoa!, did anyone catch 60 Minutes on Sunday? The ray gun! Pretty wild stuff. Saturday Night Live was awful this weekend. To echo Cheddar on this one, Terminator is the truth, really bad ass.
It's been fun; I'm killing at dinner parties and what have you, but I'd trade it all for March 31st. The good news is it gets closer every day, doesn't it?
- A.F.O.M.G.
28 days can feel impossibly long this time of year. I'm so excited for baseball; so ready to put last season behind us and so anxious see how this season will play out.
I really don't know what I think about how the year ahead will play out. In the days after we first got Johan I was pretty sure we were the class of the National League. And for the most part I still think that, but... put it this way, that familiar Mets-fan pessimism was only magnified by end of last season.
The Phillies are gonna be good again. The Braves could contend. I don't think we'll run away with the division. More than anything I'm ready to start watching the fight unfold. But I can't, not for another 28 days.
In that time what is there to do? Well you can watch Spring Training games, but those are only so exciting. I watched Johan's debut, that was fun, and it's great to see Wright and Reyes and the rest of the team back on the field.
But one of the elements of Spring Training I really enjoy isn't really present this year. For me, one of the real treats of Spring Training games is having a chance to watch some stud prospect you've read a lot about. For the Mets, there's not a lot going around in the way of stud prospects. I mean, really, there's Fernando Martinez and who else?So chances are I won't spend the next 28 days watching every Spring Training game. What I've been doing to fill the time consists of a lot of movie and television viewing.
(As I write this, "Wedding Crashers" is on the tube. Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams are smiling at each other.)
On the movie front I've seen "There Will Be Blood", "Into the Wild", "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford", "Gone Baby Gone" and "Just Friends" recently. (Highly recommend "Into the Wild" -- really good flick.)
If anyone's got any recommendations let me know. Tonight there's "Eastern Promises" which I'll watch after finishing this. I had wanted to rent "In the Valley of Elah" but it was out. Oh well.
As for television, whoa!, did anyone catch 60 Minutes on Sunday? The ray gun! Pretty wild stuff. Saturday Night Live was awful this weekend. To echo Cheddar on this one, Terminator is the truth, really bad ass.
It's been fun; I'm killing at dinner parties and what have you, but I'd trade it all for March 31st. The good news is it gets closer every day, doesn't it?
- A.F.O.M.G.
posted by A Friend of Mr. Glass' at 8:53 AM
3 Comments:
You should watch "The Wire" series finale next Sunday. Also, Sometimes in April (which is an HBO produced film) starring Idris Elba is a recommended viewing. It deals with the story of a man and his family during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.
- "Killing it at dinner parties?"
Who goes to dinner parties?
- There Will Be Blood should be retitled:
"There Will be 3 hours of hell"
or
"The only thing as enjoyable as Game 162, 2007."
- Isn't it weird that Next year is like three years ago, now?
Vaya,
Sip
friend of mine called there will be blood... 'there will be boredom' therefore, I have not seen the film.
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