Hello,
Eddie Murphy has a new movie coming out and this movie has a return to Eddie Murphy of the good old days.
That made me think some of some of his earliest movies when he was the funniest man on the planet by far.
"48 Hours"
But his funniest work is his stand up masterpiece "Delirious". Thanks to youtube.com I watched the first four 10 minute clips of "Delirious" hoping there was one segment that wouldn't offend a great many people. However I didn't find that SFW segment. While the language is atrocious I laughed many times. Another thing that's so funny and refreshing about "Delirious" is how politically incorrect it is.
Tonight is MLB's season finale. Most teams know whether they are in the playoffs or not. There are 4 teams that don't know whether they are in the playoffs or not. Honestly we shouldn't even be having this conversation now. Both Boston and Atlanta seemed to build up near insurmountable leads in the AL and NL Wild Card chases respectively. However since the first of September both teams have lost nearly 2/3rds of their games.
What it comes down to tonight is the 4 teams are on a precipice. Four games will determine who of those 4 teams will make the playoffs. All four games start within a hour of each other. At 7:00 EST Philadelphia-Atlanta, Boston-Baltimore and New York-Tampa Bay all start. Then at 8:00 EST Houston and St. Louis start their game.
I was listening to the Will McDonaugh and Orel Hershisher radio broadcast of Atlanta-Philadelphia last night. They said that the Braves looked both listless and like they had given up. Mind you Atlanta had a game lead and were playing at home in that game. Granted they were playing the Phillies, who perhaps have the greatest starting pitching staff ever. To back up the assertion of the Braves looking like they had given up, they only managed one run in this game. Thank you Martin Prado for still showing some spirit and life. After Houston jumped out to a 5-0 lead over St. Louis, the Cardinals scored 13 of the next 14 runs.
Altanta again plays against the dominating pitching of Atlanta as St. Louis plays the worst team in the MLB again tonight. It doesn't look good for the Braves.
The Red Sox look like they could be in trouble as well. Thankfully to an unheralded rookie, Ryan Lavarnway, the Red Sox scored just enough runs to win the game. Lavarnway hit the first and second home runs of his MLB career. Talk about clutch hitting. The Red Sox were able to beat the woeful Orioles 8-7. And Tampa Bay held off the Yankees 5-3. Those two teams are tied going into tonight's games. I say you would have to give the edge to the Rays.
A much more barren than it should be Red Sox starting pitching staff has been badly exposed. When Jon Lackey pitches critical games for you, what does that tell you? Tonight the Red Sox do have the very good Jon Lester pitching, unfortunately he's pitching on only 3 days rest. If Boston and Tampa Bay tie there would be a one game playoff tomorrow in Tampa. That means that Boston would have to travel whereas the Rays are already in Tampa. Who would the Red Sox have pitch that game? They probably would go with Josh Beckett, who also would be pitching on 3 days rest. It looks like the AL Playoffs start on Friday, who should pitch Game One? The terrible Jon Lackey or Erik Bedard, the old Tim Wakefield or the struggling to return from injury Clay Buchholz.? (Even though they need starting pitching, no I don't miss Daisuke Matzusaka at all.)
Even if Boston and Atlanta somehow stumble into the playoffs, how effective will they be?
The two things Boston needs to work on in the offseason, which looks like it may come sooner than later, is upgrading their starting pitching and keeping Jacoby Ellsbury.
Here are some great videos for you if you are a Red Sox or Braves fan and the news is bad tonight.
"Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not":
Here's some motivating music for you Boston and Atlanta, this is Muse's "Resistance":
Will you be my "Dirty Little Secret":
My current favorite song. The live version seems to be a little funkier than the studio recording. I asked the 16 and 17 year olds in the Sunday School class I teach if they had ever heard of Arcade Fire, they said no. But they know Enimem and all that emo rock crap though. Tragedy!
I still love this commercial that originally debuted during last year's Super Bowl.
Sometimes the best things about the videos on youtube.com is the comments by other people. Some smart alec wrote this about the above video, and I completely agree with diamondjack75.
"I heard Lucas was happy with the ad when it 1st aired during the SuperBowl but now wants to go back and tweak it a little. Nothing major, just replace the baby doll with a CGI one. Replace the pb&j sandwich with a few CGI cookies. Give the mom a few lines of dialogue, so we can fully understand the emotional bond the two of them share. He also wants take out the sound effect of the VW Passat and change it to that of a Bugatti Veyron's engine." diamondjack75
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