6/22/05

With a couple of day baseball games most notably the Yankees one would figure that living in New York City they'd give me at least one channel that the Yankees are broadcast on at least occasionally. No such luck. So I have experiences like today where I follow the game online and put something else on TV. After Unsolved Mysteries wrapped up, keep in mind these are all cases from the 1980s, one of those absurd Lifetime made for TV movies came on. Ya know what why not how bad could it possibly be? Bad. "Murder at my door"was absolutely awful. About 20 minutes in it was clear that the son in the tragically dysfunctional family was the murderer at the aforementioned door. But thinking the director couldn't possibly be boring enough to give it up that early I took the rest of the field for 2-1 odds. I lost. And he wasn't just any typical murderer - this kid was messed up. But his dad was an alcoholic, his mom had an affair, his baby brother died when he was younger in a fire that he started - I couldn't make this up. So he goes around murdering attractive girls - usually after they make an advance on him? Go figure. And so as he's about to have would-be victim #4 meet the same fate as the rest, his parents show up at the familys summer cottage which is currently engulfed in flames to stop him. And what does he do? He lets the girl go and walks back into the cottage without so much as flinching. We're talking Backdraft type flames. The heat would have knocked him over before he got close. But he walks back into the burning house without stopping and we assume he burns to death. OK this is one of many problems I have with this movie. The bad guy in most movies usually dies in some agonizing pain no matter how tough they are - aside from John Travolta welcoming an A-bomb in the chest in Broken Arrow - but this 18 year old kid burned to death without a sound. As believable as it was to this point - the movie lost me there. This is what I was forced to watch as opposed to the Yankees blowing today's game to Tampa Bay after their 13 run 8th inning last night. Sorry Bernie Williams, looks like this isn't the turning point yet. Carl Pavano throws his one walk of the game, gets two outs, then hits a guy and finally serves up a 3 run home run and the Yankees lose 5-3. So now that the only movie I will ever watch in lifetime is over, its back to watching the college kids in the College World Series and surprise surprise another pop-up overran. Is it the pressure? Seriously its like watching the kid on your little league team who you tried to hide in right field but he happens to get every ball hit to him. But back to the non sports world for the highlight of the day. Daniel M'Mburugu a 73 year old Kenyan farmer killed a leopard with his bare hands. You think thats impressive? It gets better. M'Mburugu had a machette in his hands when the leopard attacked him but heard a voice from god that told him to drop the machette and stick his hand in the leopard's mouth. So this guy sticks his hand in the leopard's mouth and rips the thing's tounge out - thereby killing it. I can't wait to see what tonight brings seeing as the Mets and Phillies will most likely be blacked out and without MSG, I'll be at the mercy of another lifetime or bravo classic.