And of course there'll be sport.
Feb. 20th, 2009 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogWe interrupted my Doctor Who obsession for a few brief hours tonight (don't worry, I'll be back tomorrow for the End of the World) to watch another of the instant Netflixieri: Mystery, Alaska. One more to add, retroactively, to my ever-growing "How Did I Miss This Movie?" list.
Russell Crowe, Burt Reynolds and a cast of Not The New York Rangers highlight this fantastic depiction of an outdoor hockey game, almost a decade before the first of such things actually came to the coldest of the Lower 48. (None of the actual Rangers of the time deigned to be in this movie. As they say on the northern border, fook em, eh?) The game itself is almost anticlimactic, but the final scene shows the youngest and hottest-shot star of the Mystery team being signed by those same New York Rangers and boarding their helicopter with them. But he won't be playing for the big club anytime soon, he says; they're assigning him to "Binghampton."
My only nitpick is them forcing Colm Meaney to use a Noo Yawk accent instead of his standard brogue. If they'd at least thrown in a "Red Alert!" joke when the Mystery team lit the lamp, it woulda been okay.
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Then we have a Tale of Two Other Sports Heroes. He was the best of guys, he was the worst of guys.
First, there's our own local star running back, Marshawn Lynch. Not a year removed from running over a pedestrian on Chippewa Street, stonewalling about it for weeks, and finally copping a plea to a minor traffic infraction, Lynch was busted in California earlier this week for carrying a loaded, unregistered weapon in a tag-less Mercedes with the smell of the chronic coming out of the vents. Earlier today, he was charged with three misdemeanors, sparing him serious time and probably saving his salary from an NFL suspension. He is a punk, pure and simple, and I find it harder and harder to root for a team which employs such a punk, were it not for the fact that the other 31 teams employ similar quantities of them as well.
On the other hand, we have an NBA guy named Stephon Marbury. He's playing out the string of his current multi-million dollar contract, without even the hapless New York Knicks having a roster spot for a guy they're paying $21 mil to. He was captured on YouTube earlier this week, being interviewed by a guy in a Superman shirt and Robin Hood hat, who just happened to run into the dude at, of all places, a Southern California bus stop. Yep, this guy's ordinary enough to take the bus, and not take himself too seriously. (There's a whiff of sockpuppetry in the air here, and it won't surprise me to hear that his agent was in on this gig, but until the proof comes out I'll presume him innocent of that, just as we have to presume that Marshawn Lynch is innocent, too. Other than of being a punk, which he is.)
Anyway: Exhibit 1. (The other two should link up at the end:)
So. Any baseball players in the news?
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Date: 2009-02-21 05:44 am (UTC)わ～。偶然。