Uncle Dennis wrote:
Most Bogart and Cagney movies catch my eye. I always enjoyed The Petrified Forest, and earlier last week watched Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy.

For many years I went out of my way to be sure to watch "Yankee Doodle Dandy" on The 4th of July. In recent years I've usually made certain to catch at least parts of "Independence Day." I like being able to laugh, and to be able to feel patriotic. I like to see live fireworks hopefully from water on the 4th of July, and to cap it off with The Boston Pops 4th and the show on The Mall in Washington to end the day.

I have "Yankee Doodle Dandy" around here somewhere in an unopened moving box. I'll try to find it this week.

"You're a Grand Old Flag."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1rkzUIL ... re=related

Thanks, Bud Selig, for a really boring break week from Our National Pastime.

We have yet another day day and more hours before the next meaningful pitch.

Yawn.

(where's that NFL schedule? camp starts in less than a month)

The incredible thing about Cagney was his dancing abilities. He was extremely limber!

Uncle Dennis wrote:The incredible thing about Cagney was his dancing abilities. He was extremely limber!

Yep. Those "dancing down the step" numbers were amazingly good, especially for a man of his age.

I choose to think he gave us goals.

PRONK!!!
Solo HR 1-0 Indians in 2nd

2nd and 3rd, one out, NO runs scored for the Tribe. Marson K'd. Damon flew out. Brantley's double goes to waste. Still, 1-0, bottom 4th.

If I ever strive to dance down steps somebody please shoot me.

My goal is to only use buildings with an elevator.

..............WE WIN!!!

MLB.TV lost the game for the final out.


Fortunately, Chris Perez made it 25 of 27 saves.

Win goes to Hafner as his solo shot was the only run of the game.

Extra innings in Kansas City, the White Sox are the guests.

With a KC win we would move to 2 out.

KC can move to 8 1/2 out.

And 1 1/2 later, it is now the top of the 14th in Kansas City, knotted at 8

I shouldn't have paid attention. The ChiSux won it in 14 innings.

We're still just three out.

MLB.TV lost the game for the final out.

MLB.TV was widely f***ed for most of the games last night. I eventually stopped trying and just listened on XM radio. I don't know exactly where the problem is, but since my "contract" is with MLB it's MLB that I shall call a bunch of bad names.

VT'er wrote:

MLB.TV lost the game for the final out.

MLB.TV was widely f***ed for most of the games last night. I eventually stopped trying and just listened on XM radio. I don't know exactly where the problem is, but since my "contract" is with MLB it's MLB that I shall call a bunch of bad names.

I received an email from mlb.tv today apologizing for the problem that took them down. The email included a code to for a 40% discount for any item at the mlb.com shop for the inconvenience to customers.


Late edit:

I went with this using the 40% discount:

I checked on the game at the gym this afternoon and saw we were down 10-4 in the 4th, so I didn't tune in.

I was surprised to see we made it respectable with a final of 11-9.

Fortunately, the ChiSux and Tiggers lost as well, and we remain in 2nd place just three games out.

August is now just two weeks away.

Late edit:

Oh, geez. Now I see it was Aaron "frickin" Laffey who picked up the win for Toronto.