Random Thoughts from the Evening

[earlgreytea68]

It's been a very long time since I just hung out in my house on a Saturday night. Here are things that I am thinking:

--Where did all of the S3 episodes before EotD go on my DVR? They have inexplicably been erased. And I know they were there, because Steph and I watched TRB last week. 

--Sorry, but I *love* Lauren on "The Hills." I find her pretty and engaging, and I love that show. 

--Apparently, when Doug Mirabelli got hurt early on in the day-night doubleheader yesterday, Terry Francona, without a back-up catcher, was deluged with offers from Red Sox players saying that they'd caught in high school, or when they were eight years old. This cracks me up. 

--Are there two women whose voices sound as fantastic together as Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel? They've got beautiful voices on their own, but when they have to sing together, they're brilliant. Listen to them on "What Is This Feeling?" or "Defying Gravity."

-Theo Epstein is dressed casually: jeans and an untucked, dark blue button-down shirt. He looks very nice.

--I love Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo. Jerry Remy just told a story about how he once saw a beautiful girl sitting alone in a hotel lobby, and he said, "Are you alone?" and she said, "Yes," and he said, "You shouldn't be," and then he turned around and walked away, and Don is agreeing that it was "very smooth."

--Why do Yankee fans think that the bloody sock was a hoax? I don't understand this. Why would we orchestrate that? (OH!!!!! BIG PAPI GRAND SLAM!!!!!! I'd forgotten how AWESOME those are. Sigh. What a game these people are seeing, just when I was about to give up on it.) I guess it adds some drama, but, like, the real point was not that Schilling's was hurting but really that we won at all, with a healthy or injured pitcher. I think Yankee fans might be fixating on the bloody sock issue to distract themselves from the unassailable fact that they still suffered the biggest collapse in the history of professional sports, and that definitely wasn't a hoax. Unless they think that their precious, perfect pinstripers purposely threw the series in the most humiliating fashion possible. 

--The most interesting character on "Jekyll" is Claire. I do envy Steven Moffat his ability to write fully-formed characters in a couple of sentences, even in a subpar show. And Claire is all kinds of awesomer. A way awesomer wife than Tom Jackman deserves. 

--I know I shouldn't be ungrateful, but every time I go to a Red Sox game, I see Wakefield or whatever random number five starter we happen to have. 

--You know what I don't get? Why is strawberry the flavor in the middle of neapolitan ice cream? I really think it should be the more innocuous vanilla. 

--Why does Heidi on "The Hills" blame Audrina for Spencer flirting with Audrina all the time? Why is she an idiot?

Comments

[jlrpuck.livejournal.com]

Hey! I like Wake! Rather, I love watching a knuckleballer in action, live. It's just such a neat throwback to old skool ball.

Awesome story about Doug and everyone offering to help. Baseball is made of awesome--well, unless you have a team of overpaid divas who think one person out of a nine-man team is far more important than the sum of the individual talents.....

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

Hey, I love Wakefield, too. I just see him, you knoW, EVERY SINGLE TIME I GO TO A GAME. For the past, like, TEN YEARS. Beckett? Schilling? Lester? They'd be a nice change of pace.

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

Oops, or Dice-K. I always forget about Dice-K...