I hate the Yankees
 

This pitching staff:

• Schilling - Mussina: Wash
  
  Pedro - Lieber: Advantage "Daddy"
  
  Wakefield - Brown: Advantage Yanks
  
  Arroyo - El Duque/Vasquez - I call this a wash, given Yanks uncertainty.
  
  Embree/Williamson/Timlin - Sturze/Quantrill/Gordon - slight edge to the Yanks (could be my bias)
  
  Foulke - Rivera: Normally this is a no-brainer, but Mo may be a snakebit by this team - wash

I hate the Yankees
 

The one that is not cursed by Il Bambino.

You just gotta keep on livin', man. L-I-V-I-N.
 

God help me, but I agree with all of this. I saw D&C in college, and thought it was fun but nothing more. I didn't even bother to see "Before Sunrise." "Waking Life" put him back in coolsville --- it was cool enough to form the entire basis of a Sealab episode, and that's the pinnacle.

Linklater is in pre-production for a remake of "Bad News Bears" with Billy Bob Thornton as Walter Matthau. Meanwhile John Sayles is writing "Jurassic Park IV." We are cursed to live in interesting times.

You just gotta keep on livin', man. L-I-V-I-N.
 

FWIW, I think "Before Sunset" is the second-best movie of 2004. You don't really have to see "Before Sunrise" to fully understand and appreciate "Before Sunset," but it helps.

I saw the best movie of 2004 again last night. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" doesn't lose anything on second viewing.

You just gotta keep on livin', man. L-I-V-I-N.
 

Henk, you've lost your mind. D&C is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Its a classic. I can watch it over an over again. Its a hell of a lot more than just getting high jokes. McCaughnehey's character alone was worth the movie.

Or maybe you had to grow up in the sticks to really get it.

They come in threes
 

Janet Leigh, Rodney Dangerfield and now Christopher Reeve:

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Tears in Texas
 

Despite my yelling for four and a half quarters, the Houston Texans managed to lose in overtime within minutes of the Astros loss to the Braves. And noooo, they couldn't just flat out lose the game like I expected them to. They had to go and impressively fight their way back from a two touchdown deficit in the last six minutes of the game, tie it up, give me hope, and then lose the game.

Yes, yes, I should know that this is the basic playbook for a Houston team, but damnit, I'm never going to learn.

You just gotta keep on livin', man. L-I-V-I-N.
 

Maybe. It reminded me a lot of my highschool in the sticks - I liked it a lot.

Bed update: I was in an antiques store this weekend that was having a huge moving sale with tremendous markdowns and bought an Indian four post platform bed. Apparently it is about 80 years old. Really nice. I have to get some slats replaced. It looks very strong - bolted together, but I hope it does not fall apart the first time I have sex on it. Oh well, if it does, it was totally cheap, so not a huge deal.

You just gotta keep on livin', man. L-I-V-I-N.
 

You are mad. Mad, I tell you. There is nothing clever in any C&C movie. D&C, on the other hand, has some fantastic scenes and lines. Hell, the opening with the hot rods slowly pulling into school to the sound of Sweet Emotion is a perfect scene. And the dialogue is perfect spot on high school nonsense talk. The "I just want to dance" speech is great and the "Check you later" bit is classic.

D&C is subtle. Its not knock-uo-over funny, and I don't think its intended to be a true representation. Its just a great slice of what's become the idealized notion of dumb 70s behavior, with a few poignant bits.

They come in threes
 

And Ken Caminiti.

You just gotta keep on livin', man. L-I-V-I-N.
 

It is no Slackers, but I enjoyed it. I felt like it was kind of a period piece. Like a Merchant and Ivory deal for the 70s.

I hate the Yankees
 

You're getting off message - we're seeing this on the politics board, too.

Repeat after me: what rivalry? The Red what?

I hate the Yankees
 

Query: why are the Red Sox cursed but the Cubbies simply bad?

You just gotta keep on livin', man. L-I-V-I-N.
 

Good knows I'm no timmy, but I also know precision is important to you more than it is to anyone else here. So I assume you'd want to know that the above was a fuck up. Slacker is the prior movie. Slackers is a Devon Sawa project summarized as:

Dave (Devon Sawa), Sam (Jason Segel) and Jeff (Michael Maronna) are about to graduate from Holden University with Honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have proudly scammed their way through the last four years of college and now, during the final exams, these big-men-on-campus are about to be busted by the most unlikely dude in school.

I hate the Yankees
 

The cubbies are cursed by a billy goat (of all things).

The Red Sox are cursed by bad decision making. Hopefully, the residue of the curse plays out again this year when it looks like they have a better team on paper than the Yankees.

I firmly believe that the Red Sox team has an expectation of something going wrong or often play to not lose. The fans in Boston, exaggerate the problem by predicting doom whenever their team goes into a skid and jump all over any player that has two poor performances, trying to run them out of town. (The Yankees have this problem too, but it seems different to me. It's more "what have you done for me lately" than "you're going to choke against the Yankees so we need to kill you now, before you get the chance.") If Schilling struggles in this series, watch everyone turn on him.

Either way, it's going to be a great series. Always is.

TM