WLD - 3/20/10 - Weekend Link Dump or Weekly Link Dump? Basically it's all movie stuff regardless of what this dump is called.

everyone must be sleeping off their drinking ;-)

but the trailer didn’t really make me laugh.

On the new Predators movie I have to wonder what they were thinking with the casting? I mean you could buy Arnie in his prime beating a Preadator but Adrien Brody and Topher Grace? What was Michael Cera not available? At least they have 69 year old Laurence Fishburn there to save them.

I enjoyed the first Iron Man even though I had never heard of Iron Man before I saw the movie. My two hopes for Ms. Johansson in the movie are tight outfits and lots of slow motion running.

as for remakes, I wish they’d just stop….

that is all

Both Washington National pitching prospects will be in Double-A Harrisburg to start the 2010 season.

Storen is arguably the bigger surprise here, but ultimately it was unlikely that either would break camp with the Nats. These two are the future of the franchise—ideally, their ace and closer for years to come—and GM Mike Rizzo wasn’t about to do anything to jeopardize that. It’s a virtual certainty that both will be up at some point during the year, it’s just a matter of when.

It’s not movie-related, but maybe they can make a movie about Strasburg if he leads the Nationals to the 2012 World Series.

in the Drumbeat….she includes info about the new A’s ads, including this one, which I can’t wait to see:

My favorite is the one that will air before the A’s June 26 Turn Back the Clock Day; Bailey’s wearing an Afro and a handlebar mustache ala Rollie Fingers, and, surrounded by 70s era A’s uniforms, Mark Ellis is wearing an oly-timey baseball uniform.

“I misread the memo,” Ellis says. “I thought it was 1870s.”

(Ellis really looks the part in an old-time uniform, by the way. He’d fit in nicely in that era.)

Just an FYI… He is producing it. A guy named Nimród Antal who i think directed Armored is helming that flick. Still sounds like it will have Rodriguez’s style and influence in it.

Didn’t get laid, got in a fight.
Uh huh.
It ain’t no big thing.

so I’ve decided to burn my diplomas and claim I went to Mizzoui instead…..what a f’ing embarrassment…..Bill Self go to your room you’re grounded!

I’m tired, drung. and I’m going to sleep now. Good night.

I wonder what counts as a “convincing” Russian accent in movies. I’ve known a lot of Russians and real-life Russians don’t sound much like the Russians I’ve seen in movies. I suspect that it’s reached the point where what convinces the audience is not so much sounding like a real Russian as sounding like other Russian movie characters they’ve seen.

He posted this in Sunday’s game thread

Huey Lewis?
Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in ‘83, I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He’s been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour…In ‘87, Huey released this, "Fore," their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don’t listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it’s not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it’s also a personal statement about the band itself.

My question to the Branch Floridian is as follows:

Did you mean that, or are you just f**king with us?

Because if you meant that, I think it means you have outdone me and taken back your position as second weirdest poster on AN.

ESPN claims he could have gotten $250 mil on the FA market. But $23 million a year (I haven’t seen detailed year by year salaries yet) is a ton of money. At what point does someone have enough money? This is only 8 years of his life, it’s not like he isn’t going to work the rest of his life. I’ll check cots later but he has to have already made at least $1-$2 million in his career already right? (perhaps more if he got a signing bonus while drafted). I see this as less of an issue for a player signing with a team like the Yankees because they have plenty of cash flow and can afford other players but the Twins aren’t that kind of team (well I guess they have a few high priced players already and a new stadium but still). Isn’t Mauer worried that his salary will limited the Twins ability to put a good team around him?
   I can see why to Twins wanted to sign him, hometown player, great catcher, make the fans happy, give the team a star in the begining of the new stadium years. According to ESPN they assured Mauer they would field a competitive team. Maybe there is some defered money in the contract as well?

Let me vent here for a moment.

I have essentially been fired from my job at the sign shop. If you’ve been paying attention the last couple of years, you know the only thing I don’t do at my sign shop is sleep. I’ve literally made myself unhealthy to try and make this place work.

Now I’m being forced out. Granted, I don’t necessarily mind, but in that process I’m being vilified as a psychotic ogre with whom no one can get along. There’s little to no recognition of my sacrifice to make this place work. I have zero profit motive. I simply don’t care about money. The only thing I wanted was for my brother’s company to work.

In addition to that, they expect me to work through my sister-in-law’s vacation next week. But I might just wanna walk out of here. Thoughts?

and I doubt many of you will be amused by it, but it certainly tickled me:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/8578061.stm – Smithy’s Sport Relief Rant.

oh, make that 201

for an apartment for rent for $650 less than I’m really advertising. and yet, I can’t find the Ad on craigslist. perhaps it has been deleted but people still have it printed out or something.

203

Chris Evans is going to play Cap and I say BOO!!

They better not make Cap a comedic character in the movie. Evans seems a little to skinny also. I’m scared to see who they pick for Thor.

The link also has a trailer for “The Losers” which has Chris Evans in it and cements my disappointment with the pick. Although the movie looks kind of fun in a popcorny kind of way.

Han Solo Gets the Final Piece of the Puzzle

250, suck on that

dumpster-diving.

If that’s not your thing, there are some other ways to get free food today.

but we weren’t on this level. [knocks lightly on our collective wooden heads]

poor kid. get better gunnar!

Zonis Draft = meh

I think it might be time for someone to make a new WLD. Hopefully one with stuff AN people actually like.

I’ve got enough stuff on the front page already, and I have another fanpost happening tonight.

Just get me a bacon bouquet!

I think my favorite is the logo from Tim Burton’s Batman movie is the best.

this time fighting Darth Vader

Darth Vader riding a cat into battle

The only thing I could find about scouting this guy was a post on another forum -

The scouting on Edwar, is a 90-92 MPH fastball, and a plus plus changeup. He has a slider too, but thats just a show me pitch, that he might use to sneak in a strike to start the at bat or something. Basically uses the slider like once every time out. Main pitch is a nasty slider, that he can break left or right (thus hampers both right handers and left handers). Fastball is not all that great, but when combined the changeup, its good enough.

no one else say anything!