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NATS AVOID SWEEP IN BALTIMORE

2006-08-11T10:35:00.000-07:00

[June 24th] -- You know things aren't going very well when "Nationals Avoid Sweep" is a really positive headline. But after losing the first two games in Baltimore, they badly needed a win before shuffling off to Toronto. Thank goodness they got it.

It didn't look very encouraging early on. Livan Hernandez, who's trade value seems to be dropping each time he takes the mound, allowed leadoff hitter Brian Roberts a single and then walked Bill Fahey. Miguel Tejada hit a double-play grounder, but Fahey took out Jose Vidro at second base, leaving runners on the corners with just one out. The Orioles should have gotten a run out of Javy Lopez's fly ball to right, but Marlon Anderson did his best "Jose Guillen" impression and threw Roberts out at home, ending the threat.

Do you remember the Nationals' exhibition game at Camden Yards earlier this year, just before the start of the regular season? The Orioles pitched Daniel Cabrera, whose 99 mph fastball, coupled with his devastating slider, made the Nationals look silly all game long. Not this time. He would throw a 98 mph fastball in the dirt, then try to compensate for his wildness by throwing 99 mph the next time. He threw one of those out-of-control heaters near Daryle Ward's head, then threw the next one even harder, hitting Ward on the upper shoulder, just inches away from the unprotected nape of his neck. Too close, and very scary.

Cabrera's "stuff" looks electric; I mean, how can a 99 mph fastball not be? His curve, his slider, all the off speed pitches, are top-notch. That said, he seems to get whacked around pretty good each time he takes the mound. One day, he may stop being a thrower and become a pitcher, but, it hasn't happened as of yet. But it might. When I was a tiny, tiny lad, I went to a game with my brother at The Los Angeles Coliseum, before Dodger Stadium was completed. I don't remember much, but I do recall this slender, stylish lefty who seemed to be able to throw his fastball through a brick wall. His curve was so good that when he threw it, my knees buckled. He lost the game something like 9-1. My brother told me that if he ever learned how to pitch, he'd become great. Sandy Koufax certainly did. Koufax "did it" by easing up a bit on the fastball and letting that rainbow curve become his out-pitch. To a lesser extent, Ramon Hernandez did the same thing this year, and won five games in a row. He's got all the tools to be dominant, but does he have the desire to change his style? Time will tell.

Ryan Zimmerman continues to concern me. He is 1-24 in his last four games, and looks both timid and tepid at the plate. He's down below .270 for the first time in quite a while, and you have to begin to wonder if he's just in a slump or has the league found a flaw in his approach? I don't know. A rookie season wouldn't be a rookie season without a few slumps, but Zimmerman is the "golden child," the team's Moses ready to lead them out of the wilderness and into the promise land. And, as we all know, Moses succeeded. Will Zimmerman?

Royce Clayton got three hits and is now batting .270. Regardless of what you think of him, no way would Cristian Guzman be hitting this well so late in June. Daryle Ward had two hits, two RBI's, and is hitting .322. Of the team's "long term" stars, Nick Johnson is the most replaceable, thanks in part to Ward. Ward and Matt LeCroy could easily take over at first for Johnson this year, and Larry Broadway could be ready next near. Marlon Anderson got two hits on Sunday, and Fick added a single. Marlon Byrd had his first good swing in a month, launching a ball deep over the left field wall. I guess the formula for success, at least for now, is to play all those guys that Jim Bowden signed that no one else wanted.

Jose Guillen's Plight: I love my wife, I mean, I really, really love my wife. I love her so much that you wouldn't think that we've been married 27 years. She is angelic and sweet and wonderful. Sometimes, though, when one of the kids are doing dumb things, or one of her college classes isn't going right, or when (God forbid) I've done something stupid, she gets a little, well, "testy" might be the right word to describe it. So when she's happy, everyone is happy. When she's "testy," .... well you get the idea. Remember now, her base personality is **perfect**. So what happens when you have someone like Jose Guillen, who's season thus far is a major league version of having a rough home life? Guillen is "testy" on his good days. When he is this year's Cristian Guzman, however, I can't imagine what it must be like to be around him. When he's hitting 25-30 homers a year, his teammates consider him "different;" When's he batting .217, he's a jerk. Bowden needs to trade the jerk ASAP before the pollutes the clubhouse any more than he already has. And if he doesn't, I'm going to have my wife rip him a new one. That'll show him.

What did you say sweetie? Okay, I'm off the computer right now. Of course, I'll take out the trash, and change Katie's diaper, and go get you a Dr. Pepper, and .....

Ay Che Wa Wa

2006-08-03T17:51:00.000-07:00

It was a scorcher yesterday at Dodger Stadium. They showed a thermometer on the Jumbotron reading 119 degrees -- I don't think it was that hot, but not far from it.

This actress from the new soap opera on Telemundo, "La Viuda de Blanco" (who threw out the first pitch) was appropriately dressed for the weather. But I'm guessing she would have worn the same outfit even if there were snow warnings out.

THE SCANNERS OPENING SHOTS PROJECT: ROBERT ALTMAN'S THIEVES LIKE US

2006-07-29T16:20:00.000-07:00

One of the most fascinating and illuminating ongoing projects happening right now in the film blogosphere is Jim Emerson’s Opening Shots series over at his excellent blog Scanners. Jim is taking submissions from readers which describe, in as much detail as the writer cares to go into, memorable, moving, expressive, thematically resonant opening shots-- emphatically not opening sequences, but strictly the very first shot in the movie—and how these shots work to telegraph, expand or otherwise illustrate some of the film’s meaning or intent as it will unfold throughout the running time. As Jim stated when he initiated this project, “Any good movie -- heck, even the occasional bad one -- teaches you how to watch it. And that lesson usually starts with the very first image.”

In further explaining the genesis of the project, Jim went on to say, “Two of my cardinal rules for movie-watching are:

1) The movie is about what happens to you while you watch it. So, pay attention -- to both the movie and your response. If you have reactions to, or questions about, what you're seeing, chances are they'll tell you something about what the movie is doing. Be aware of your questions, emotions, apprehensions, expectations.

2) The opening shot (or opening sequence) is the most important part of the movie... at least until you get to the final shot. (And in good movies, the two are often related.)

The opening shot can tell us a lot about how to interpret what follows. It can even be the whole movie in miniature.”

Jim kicked off the series with a spectacular exegesis of the opening shot of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, complete with screen grabs to remind you (if anyone needed reminding) of just how great, how tactile, how gorgeous Kubrick and cinematographer John Alcott made that film look. I defy you to read this piece and then resist the urge to run right out and rent (or even buy) Barry Lyndon so you can get another look at it. Jim has also contributed excellent readings of the opening shots of Alan Rudolph’s Choose Me, Shane Caruth’s Primer and Richard Linklater’s Slacker, with more from him to come, I suspect—- I hope!

But Jim has had many other wonderful, eye-opening and eye-popping contributions grace his pages since the project kicked off just over a month ago too, including...

Kim Morgan on Kiss Me, Deadly (check out Kim’s blog, Sunset Gun, a brand-new addition to the SLIFR sidebar)

Peet Gelderblom on Altered States

Robert Cumbow on Halloween (read this one now!)

That Little Round-Headed Boy on His Girl Friday

Dave McCoy on Miller’s Crossing (a movie Jim correctly describes as one of the best movies of the ‘90s)

Nadia Aboufariss on Aguirre, The Wrath of God

Mike Leto on Dazed and Confused

Girish Shambu on Flowers of Shanghai (read this one now, and then rent the movie!)

Edward Copeland on The Crying Game

Christopher Long on Stranger Than Paradise

Scott Gowans on Beware of a Holy Whore

Mark Robert on Superman, Lost in Translation and more

Leonard Maltin on Scarecrow

Jonathan Pacheco on 2001: A Space Odyssey

Jeremy Matthews on Cache

Brad Damare on George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead

Robert Daniel on Deep Red

Ali Arikan on Withnail and I

John Hartl on Nights of Cabiria (read this one now!)

Robert Humanick on Fight Club (read this one now!)

Richard T. Jameson on Accident and Juggernaut

Barry Toffoli, Mike Leto, Justin Russo and Alex Murillo on Star Wars

Roger Ebert, Drew Holton, Hiram M. and Chris Oliver on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

and Hiram M. again, this time on Annie Hall.

And for those who still haven’t sent in their essays and comments, Jim has also provided a handy lexicon of film terminology, just so, as he says, we can be sure we’re all speaking the same language when it comes to Opening Shots.

I’ve been a fan of Scanners for quite some time, and I was thrilled when Jim noticed Professor Van Helsing’s Spring Break Quiz some months back and made a fuss over it on his site. Ever since then we’ve communicated via e-mail and through each other’s blogs, and I think I’m probably most excited and proud of my (brief) association with Jim because he seems like a genuinely kind and interested person, and Scanners is a model of what I hope SLIFR can someday become. I really value and enjoy his accessible, humane, non-snarky, thoughtful, intelligent, critical writing, and I especially value the tone he has set with that writing and with Scanners, one of respect for the opinions of others, even those with which he may disagree. Scanners is not a place to get flamed or to do the flaming, and it’s clear his readers value Jim’s blog as a Internet safe haven from the monosyllabic tirades and abuse that comprises so many forum “discussion groups.” (Have you had a look at the Fray on Slate lately?) He has cultivated an arena of mutual respect between himself and his readers, even as he occasionally takes it to those in the creative community who deserve the willow-switch treatment, and it’s one of many elements that makes Scanners a consistent, addictive, unpredictable joy to read.

When Jim invited me to participate in his Opening Shots survey, I accepted with enthusiasm and then immediately began to worry. Every example of a great opening shot that was coming to mind ("Touch of Evil," "The Player," "Shadow of a Doubt") had already been pawed over and written about to such a degree that I certainly didn’t think I would have anything more to add to the discussion that hadn’t already been said, and far more eloquently than I would be able to say it. And as I continued to drag my feet, I saw some of the off-the-chart top choices I had come up with ("Dazed and Confused," "Kiss Me Deadly") get snapped up and written about, again, quite eloquently, by others. So, after digging through my DVD and laserdisc collection, I finally came up with what I think are some great ones, and as usual I haven’t the discipline to hold myself to just one. I sent them all to Jim to use at his discretion, but I promised I wouldn’t publish them on this site until after he’s used them. (The ones he doesn’t use, well, I’ll publish them too, just because I feel sorry for them.)

On July 15 Jim posted my first submission, a look at the opening shot of Thieves Like Us. Unfortunately, the movie is not on domestic region 1 DVD, which sent Jim scrambling to find an overseas version. His acumen at digging up these morsels is not to be sneezed at—sure enough, the movie is available on a German DVD, which Jim quickly procured and used to obtain the screen shots which he used to illustrate my essay, and which I have borrowed from his site to do the same here. Here then is my contribution to Jim Emerson’s Opening Shot project as it appeared on Scanners.

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Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman, 1974; photographed by Jean Boffety)

Robert Altman has had more than one rich, visually stunning opening shot in his long career. From the Panavision image of helicopters racking into focus to kick off M*A*S*H, to Rene Auberjoinois’ mysterious lecturer announcing a series of avian themes and questions while surrounded by bird skeletons and other classroom paraphernalia at the beginning of Brewster McCloud; from Elliot Gould’s Philip Marlowe stretched out on a bed, counteracting the proactive image of Raymond Chandler’s private eye to the strains of “Hooray for Hollywood” [and "The Long Goodbye" -- JE] to open The Long Goodbye, to the K-Tel-esque record commercial that serves as the opening credits of Nashville, to the raising of the flag by bugle call leading into the staged massacre that opens Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (proclaimed on-screen with satiric bombast as “Robert Altman’s Absolutely Unique and Heroic Enterprise of Inimitable Lustre!”), Altman knows how to kick off a movie.

One of his most beautiful opening shots, however, occurs at the beginning of Thieves Like Us, a shot that artfully prepares us for the somber mood, the deliberate, unhurried pace of the film as a whole, and its naturalistic attitude toward the story it intends to tell, that of the doomed relationship between a young escaped convict and the naive young woman with whom he falls in love.

As is often the case in an Altman film, we hear some ambient or film-related sound layered in underneath the studio logo — this time there are crows heard cawing underneath the United Artists logo. The shot fades up on an open stretch of field, backed by a thicket of forest and bisected horizontally by a length of railroad track. A handcar enters the frame and travels from right to left silently. Two men sit at the head of the car, dressed in matching brown jackets. On the floor of the car sit at least ten men, dressed in prison stripes. As the car gets closer we can see the men in brown are carrying rifles.

The camera begins a slow pan right to left in order to follow the car. A thicket of trees passes in between the camera and the car as it purposefully moves along the track. The handcar crosses a road where a pickup truck, ‘20s vintage, sits near the railroad crossing, no one inside. The car continues right to left and begins receding away from the camera, which continues along right to left and onto an expanse of green field. The car disappears in the distance as the camera continues discovering this new landscape -- there are more trees, the ground is broken up by patches of rough soil and hilly contours and patches of dry brush. Suddenly we see a lake, and on that lake a boat occupied by two men. The camera continues to pan, following the boat’s progress as the men row toward shore and make a sharp left toward the nearest bank.

The camera, for the first time since the shot began, stops its pan in order to observe the men as they silently approach. There is a water tower and some small buildings visible through the trees off to the left. The camera begins to slowly move again, tracking ever so slightly the movement of the boat. We can now hear the conversation taking place between the two, but it is unclear exactly what is being discussed. It turns out, unsurprisingly, that the men are talking about fishing. (“The best time to go fishing is in the rain,” says the larger of the two men.) As they make shore, the camera continues its familiar right-to-left pattern. The water tower still looms in the background, unassumingly part of the landscape—the men are clearly on or near farm property. There’s a horse visible in the background, off to the left, and we slowly realize that there are prisoners working beside the horse too, and that the man on the horse is the work detail guard. The men pay no attention to the prisoners though—they get out of the boat and the larger man says, regarding their haul of fish, “Not a bad day’s work.” The smaller man agrees. The larger man then tosses the fish on the ground near the shore and says, “You fellas take care of the boat.”

Clearly, these fishermen are not concerned with cleaning and eating their catch. As the two move quickly up the hill right to left, the larger man continues: “I know they’re not gonna be here.” The smaller man replies: “They might.” By now they’ve moved up to the crest of the hill, alongside a road, and the larger man, seeing no one there waiting, says, “I told ya! They’re not here.” Smaller man: “No, look. See? There.” Larger man: “Where?” Smaller man: “There.” The men settle on a top of the crest looking down over the far edge of the very same open stretch of field that began the shot. We now realize that the opening shot has been one big circular motion—the field this time divided by opposing angles of road, rather than railroad track, down which travels a car that the men are very intent upon observing as it moves closer. Larger man: “Who’s drivin?” Smaller man: “Who was that guy that sells marijuana? The prison guy.” Larger man: “Jazzbo?”

The opening shot ends with a cut to a closer shot of the car as it barrels down the road toward the place where the two men are squatting. The men have revealed themselves, within the confines of this gorgeously choreographed opener, as very calm, cool prison escapees. And this information has been directed to us in a way that provides pieces of this minor puzzle of identification all through the duration of the shot, so that by the end we know the basics of these characters and their situation, and does so poetically, and antithetically to the approach that most any other director, who might feel compelled to show us the suspenseful escape or some violent occurrence along the way, might choose to take.

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Be sure to stay tuned to Scanners for more Opening Shots— there's no end to the series in sight, and that’s only good news for anyone who loves to read good writing about great movies—and with pictures too!

Thanks, Jim, for allowing me to take part in Opening Shots, for your superb blog Scanners, for the use of the images, and for fast becoming a friend in this wide and vast blogosphere. If you’re ever in Los Angeles, it’s Dodger Stadium and a beer on me!

Booth movement and some major college football news.....in MAY

2006-07-06T18:38:00.000-07:00

So because they no longer have the rites to Monday Night Football, ABC is pooling their resources to put together a major college football primetime package beginning this season with Notre Dame at Georgia Tech.

The goal is to pair some of the top match-ups of the season in this package, and get the "big named" teams their primetime slot. Among the teams featured, Notre Dame will be on three times, against Tech, Michigan State and USC (and maybe again in the Rose Bowl if they fall there), Ohio State is featured twice, Michigan twice, and USC three times.

(Editors note: The highlight for me personally is that October 14th game with the Alma Mater extracting revenge on Mecheatagain at Beaver Stadium. Finally we get them at University Park for the first time since 2001. Go ask THE Ohio State's Troy Smith how much he enjoyed last year's primetime game at the Beav. Oh, and your homegrown referees won't save your ass this year either.)

But the package itself is a great idea, it's the first time that network television will carry a college football primetime series, and the weeks where there is a dual broadcast, the other game will be picked up by either ESPN or ESPN2 meaning you get three primetime games likely in one weekend.

ABC is smart in the sense that they have picked college football "cash cows" USC, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Michigan to lead this new adventure and they are also going with a 12-day selection package too, meaning that games from November 11 on, they will select the games they will air 12-days before hand. Good choice, this way, much like the NFL Flex schedule they can get the best match ups from the conferences they choose to air.

ABC is also carrying the Rose Bowl (only) during the BCS, so they keep some of the traditional Rose Bowl teams like Ohio State, Michigan, and USC close to the vest in the hopes that maybe they can land a match up with any one of those three in their lone BCS game. Remember the other three BCS games move to Fox beginning this season.

There are other movments in the college football world as well.

NFL Network will air the Insight.com bowl beginning this year, this to go along with their airing of live regular season NFL games for the first time. That, plus they will take the top five games from each week and re-air them in full, it's the network broadcast too.

Keith Jackson announced his retirement weeks ago, so ABC will scramble to fill his shoes and the booths are being switched around right and left. Brent Musberger will work with Bob Davie on the ABC Primetime game, Mike Patrick and Todd Blackledge (who moved from CBS) will do the ESPN primetime game, and former ABC'er Gary Danielson takes Blackledge's roll as lead analyst on CBS' coverage of the SEC this season. This means that (my idol) Brad Nessler and Bob Greise will be the lead afternoon team on ABC and they will keep Gary Thorne on the other game during the afternoon (Since Mike Tirico is now the MNF guy)

All we know about Fox's coverage of the BCS is that Thom Brennaman will call one of the games (the title game, maybe the "Plus-one" game?) and the rest of the crew, analysts and all will be named later. You could stay in house and get guys like Joe Buck or Troy Aikman, but it might be wise to go outside and get someone else. As long as it isn't the guys they use on the Fox Sports Net studio show during Saturday telecasts, it'll be OK. But Fox definitely has the shallowest of broadcasting talent pools, specifically when it comes to play-by-play and college sports.

Those changes are inline with what the NFL booths look like with Greg Gumball moving back to play-by-play, James Brown jumping from Fox to CBS and Michaels and Madden jumping to NBC, Collonsworth and Bryant Gumball jumping to NFL Network.

It just goes to show that the booth movement is almost as crazy as free agency in other sports.

Dodgers Stadium

2006-05-08T00:04:00.000-07:00

Currently, Dodger Stadium is one of the few Major League Baseball stadiums without the name of a corporate sponsor as part of the title. (Others include Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field, and Fenway Park).

2006-04-16T16:53:00.000-07:00

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Wet enough to have a two hour delay against the hated Dodgers. ... five hit ball against the hated Dodgers, raising his record to 2-0 with a 3.00 ERA. ... going yard in RFK Stadium, contrary to what some players would have you think. ...

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... ticket prices, stadium changes and renovations, and the attendance ... Okay, so all that done, how does it look for the Angels and Dodgers? How's this:. Dodgers -> Angels $0.42 [$0.23, $0.60] Angels -> Dodgers $0.29 [$0.08, $0.50] ...

Minor League Scorebook
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More on Dodgers (and Angels) Attendance
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After seeing a 7-3 loss that year, I attended every Home Opener to the close of Three Rivers save for one, the final home opener at the stadium that was delayed a day by rain, pushing it to a day that I couldn't make the trip on (I ...

I Owe LA An Apology
Falling in love with watching baseball live at Dodgers Stadium (I'm all about the Dodger Dogs). Authentic Mexican food and "scratch" margaritas. Outdoor concert venues (for fans, imagine seeing Brian McKnight in concert under a star ...

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Met Life Park I could deal with as I could with Rheingold Stadium (since the beer ... heaven forbid, something like AskJeves.com Stadium I wont be happy. ... Robinson played in Brooklyn, for the Dodgers, the team from which the Mets ...

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Fun With Big Barry
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2006-04-10T22:28:00.000-07:00

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So mighty were the Yankees, and such a draw was the team and its stadium, that by 1958 the the Giants and Dodgers, New York's other Major League Baseball teams, had moved to California. For four years, from 1958 through 1961, ...

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kdodgersstadiumtickets

2006-02-27T18:09:00.000-08:00

The Dodgers will hold a press conference Wednesday at Dodger Stadium to announce a contract extension through the 2008 season for Hall of Fame broadcasting icon Vin Scully.

Scully, 78, is entering his 57th season as voice of the Dodgers, the longest tenure of any current sports broadcaster with one team. His current contract was to expire at the end of the 2006 season.