The MLB Wild Card has begun and the Seattle Mariners won their first game, 4-0, against the Blue Jays! Thank you, Mariners! At the risk of being petty, I don’t really care who wins the World Series as long as it’s not the Blue Jays. I’m hoping Seattle can eliminate that possibility early.
Go Mariners!
‘The regular MLB season came to an end today.
My Texas Rangers ended up with a 68-94 record. I wish they had done better but there’s always next season. One thing about being a fan of a team is that you can’t just be a fan when your team is winning. Sometimes, it’s even more important to continue to support them when they’re struggling. The last time we made the postseason was in 2016. Hopefully, we’ll get there in 2023.
At least we won our final game of the regular season.
Congratulations to the Astros, Yankees, Rays, Indians Guardians, and Mariners for making it to the AL postseason! And congratulations to Phillies, Braves, Mets, Cardinals, Dodgers, and Padres for making it in the NL. I’m looking forward to an Astros vs Dodgers World Series.
Aaron Judge the new single-season AL home run leader! He got his 62nd home run of the season just a few minuets ago. I wish he hadn’t gotten that home run off of a Rangers pitcher but that does not take away from what is a wonderful moment for Judge and the entire Yankees organization! Congratulations!
I’m from Texas so I really can’t cheer against the Astros but I was still really hoping that, during this final three-game series, the Phillies would manage to win that last game they needed to clinch a wild card spot. Tonight, they did! For the first time in 11 seasons, the Phillies are going to the playoffs! What a great baseball story! I’m so happy for both the team and their fans and the next time I’m tempted to give up on my own team, I’m going to remember how, a few weeks ago, a lot of people weren’t even giving the Phillies a chance of making it.
Congratulations, Phillies! Good luck in the wild card!
Usually, I only share Rangers stuff but today, Albert Pujols played his final regular season home game and he hit his 702nd career home run and the 23rd of what he says is going to be his final season. Pujols is now fourth on the career home run list, behind Babe Ruth (714), Hank Aaron (755) and Barry Bonds (762).
Moments like these are a huge reason why I love baseball.
I was looking for a baseball movie to help me get over the Losing Season Rangers Blues.
I settled for a softball movie.
I won’t make that mistake again.
Jake McBride (Tom Pilleri) makes a bet that he can turn a group of models into a championship softball team. The only problem is that none of the models know how to play softball, except for Christine (Sasha Formoso) and Jake’s cousin, Holly (Tarah DeSpain).
Christine and Holly, I liked. Everyone underestimated them because they were girls and they proved all of the boys wrong. Plus, Tarah DeSpain was believable as an athlete. Those were the only characters that I liked. None of the other models had any personality and Jake was a jerk even when he was doing the right thing. Who is dumb enough to bet that much money on a softball game? The humor was frat boy humor and the movie looked like it was filmed on someone’s phone. A League of their Own, this was not.
Girls of Summer did not make me feel better about the Rangers currently being 50-63 for the season. In fact, it made me feel even worse because, as bad as the model were, they at least had a winning season. But then I remembered that the Athletics were 41-73 and I felt better. One good thing about the AL West is that, even when the Rangers aren’t having their best season, there’s usually at least one other team doing worse. Go Rangers!
by Chester Bloom
Happy Baseball Fans Day!
As I’ve said many times on this very site, the Super Bowl is pretty much all about the commercials for me. This year, there was a few commercials that I liked but, for the most part, the selection was pretty bland. Usually, I pick anywhere between 8 to 10 favorite Super Bowl Ads. This year, there’s only six that really made much of an impression on me.
And here they are:
6. Frito Lay — Push It!
Sloths are so cute!
5. Amazon — Mind Reader
Why is Alexa trying to destroy Scarlett Johansson’s marriage!?
4. All-Electric Chevy Silverado — New Generation
To be honest, I got kind of sick of all of the electric vehicle commercials that aired this year. Most of them felt …. a little insincere. But I did like this one, just because it reunited The Sopranos’s Meadow and Tony. Jr. It’s good to see that they’re still with us, regardless of what happened to Tony at the end of the series. I’m not sure how Tony would feel about his daughter driving an electric truck, though. “Gary Cooper didn’t need no charging station.”
3. Planet Fitness — What’s Gotten Into Lindsay?
Of course, if anything bad happens to Lindsay, we know who to blame.
2. Budweiser — A Clydesdale’s Journey
The horse survived! I had tears in my mismatched eyes.
I’m not sure what exactly Matthew McConaughey is selling here but he’s one of the few people who can pull off lecturing from a hot air balloon. As I watched this commercial, I considered that if McConaughey had run for governor, he could have floated around the state, campaigning from his balloon. Instead, we’re stuck with Beto and his skateboard. Oh well. Miss opportunities.
Happy Super Bowl Sunday!
The Super Bowl just ended so I guess it’s time to recap the reaction of the members of the TSL Team who watched and tweeted about it. Jeff, Erin, Case, Leonard, and I all watched and …. I don’t know. The game kind of sucked this year. I didn’t care about the game and I thought that commercials were kind of boring.. Case thought the commercials were depressing. Leonard got so bored that he left for ice cream. Jeff and Erin are mad that the Bengals lost. Even though it wasn’t as bad as last year, there was still weren’t as many movie commercials as in the past.
I think our collective reaction can be summed up as this:
There was apparently some hope at the start of the second half, when the game started get exciting:
But in the end, the Super Bowl and the commercials just didn’t deliver:
It all led to one question:
Yep, that was it.
Bengals 27
Rams 24
It’s hard for me to make a prediction when Tom Brady isn’t playing the game. This is a new situation for me but I guess it’s one that we’re all going to have to get used to. I don’t know much about either team but I’m going with the Bengals because I like Cincinnati more than Los Angeles. The Bengals achieving their first Super Bowl win would be the perfect ending for a season that few saw coming.
The Rams are fierce, though. They’ll put up a good fight. I think this game could go either way but I’m picking the Bengals.
Through the Shattered Lens 