Early Weekend 6-pack (6/4/09)

by APV on Jun 4, 2009 4:09 PM EDT Comment 51 comments

This week's early weekend 6-pack will be considerably abbreviated owing to time constraints (see below), but here it is. My six favorite moments of the Tribe's season so far:

1. Cleveland 10, Yankees 2

April 16, inaugural opener for the new Yankees Stadium. A game in which everything went more or less like it was supposed to. Lee equalled CC Sabathia through 6 before the Indians offense unloaded on the Yankees and sent their fans home early. Classic.

2. Opening Day

So it turned out the game sucked - but Opening Day will pretty much make any top list I make every year simply because of what it is - the return of baseball, summer, hot dogs and beer outside, and all things good.

3. Cleveland 22, Yankees 4

Maybe the only good weekend the entire season, so far?

4. Eavesdropping on the bosses during spring training.

This one is admittedly a personal guilty pleasure. It might be even more interesting to eavesdrop on them these days...although probably less fun.

5. Matt LaPorta 2-run HR, May 4

In his second major league game, Matt LaPorta, much-hyped and critical for the future, hit a long HR to deep left off former Indians and current Blue Jay, Brian Tallet. Good work young(ish) man.

6. ???

The last one I'm leaving blank in the hopes that good things are yet to come. I take off Saturday for a 6-week stint in the far reaches of the internet hinterlands - meaning I'll pretty much be on a hiatus from LGT until mid-July. Keep the home fires burning while I'm gone and hopefully the situation will seem less dire when I return. I'm leaving the keys to the early weekend 6-pack around, though, so feel free to step in and fill the void while I'm gone. Until then, here's a whole display case of beer.

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really, not the 7-run 9th inning comeback?

by Brick. on Jun 4, 2009 5:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I wasn’t around for that game…and i was already feeling pretty grim about the season

by APV on Jun 4, 2009 5:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think we’ll have guest 6-pack columns while Adam is away.

E-mail me if you’re interested in writing one. Beer knowledge (or some impressive substitute thereof) is required.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

by Jay on Jun 4, 2009 5:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

hmm, interesting. I don’t have much beer knowledge… but I can surely find a pic of some beer online.

FE WEE

by westbrook on Jun 4, 2009 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I may be interested…

Ride on ye fearsome Horsemen of the Basketball Apocalypse. We got this.

by Turkmenbashi on Jun 4, 2009 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What, you’re playing hard to get? Thing long and hard about it and get back to me. And while you’re at it …

E-mail me if you’re interested in writing one.

… work on your reading.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

by Jay on Jun 5, 2009 12:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

My God, it’s full of stars!

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jun 4, 2009 5:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

so I’m not the only one who watched 2001/2010 recently?

by APV on Jun 4, 2009 5:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Watched 2010 last night. It was on two different channels, staggered by 90 minutes. I flipped back and forth, enjoying the various scenes in arbitrary order, which is kind of appropriate.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

by Jay on Jun 5, 2009 12:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

sort of a strange movie, huh? Admittedly, it’s a strange book, in that it really just serves as a halfway house for the beginning and end of the trilogy. But somehow the movie is incredibly compelling. Definitely gets that ‘Das Boot’ vibe.

by APV on Jun 5, 2009 12:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I was pretty impressed with it when I saw it in the theater as a teenager.

Now, I’m more like, what exactly was the point of all that?

It’s interesting that they choose to solve the big mystery of 2001 — why HAL goes nuts — with a few sentences, almost as a throwaway. And I will admit that that climactic scene where Bob Balaban decides to be honest with HAL is genuinely moving.

Interesting that nobody really predicted the omnipresence of the Internet, and at the same time, they figured the USSR would still be around in 2010. Boy was that way off.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

by Jay on Jun 5, 2009 12:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Agreed on all points. That’s why I make the Das Boot comparison – it is a movie that somehow succeeds (not as well as Das Boot…) with very very little actually happening.

by APV on Jun 5, 2009 12:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Interesting that nobody really predicted the omnipresence of the Internet, and at the same time, they figured the USSR would still be around in 2010

That’s particularly interesting given that Clarke was as much futurist as novelist – he proposed geostationary satellites as a telecommunications relay in the mid-1940s, for example, even if some of his predictions were way off. And it’s not as if writers didn’t imagine something akin to the internet – Jules Verne described a worldwide “telegraphic” communications network in a novel written in 1863.

by FredOx on Jun 5, 2009 9:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Is that from Edison’s in Tremont?

by Les Fleurs Du Mal on Jun 4, 2009 5:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Good luck and godspeed.

Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile

by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Jun 4, 2009 5:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

So, you’re leaving for the wilds. Does that mean you might be someplace where baseball news is extremely limited and you might miss Tribe scores for a week or so at a time?? Can I carry your bags?

If you believe it's just a game, you're also probably wondering why Santa keeps skipping your house every year.

by LeftyCatcher on Jun 4, 2009 6:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

if you have any particular knowledge of sedimentological processes – you are hired

by APV on Jun 4, 2009 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

One semester of geomorphology is the best I can do.

If you believe it's just a game, you're also probably wondering why Santa keeps skipping your house every year.

by LeftyCatcher on Jun 4, 2009 6:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wear an Ohio State hat to piss him off.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jun 4, 2009 11:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Where are you headed?

2010.

by Gradyforpresident on Jun 4, 2009 6:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Georgia

by APV on Jun 4, 2009 7:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Which one? If it’s the state, and it’s near Atlanta, we should meet up.

by NickFantana on Jun 4, 2009 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

not the state

by APV on Jun 4, 2009 10:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ty Cobb and Joe Stalin were both from Georgia.

by odradek on Jun 4, 2009 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The Cold War started when Truman bunted five times in a game, just to win a car.

Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile

by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Jun 4, 2009 11:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why is this funny?

I don’t dispute that it’s funny, I just don’t know why.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

by Jay on Jun 5, 2009 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why is this funny?

Because we all know Truman would swing for the fences, regardless of the leverage index of the situation

/redacted (politics)

by APV on Jun 5, 2009 12:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Pee-wee HST violated the Unwritten Rules of the Game.

by odradek on Jun 5, 2009 1:08 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I second this query

by Logodaedalus on Jun 5, 2009 2:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Whatever the merits of that particular joke, I think absurdity-by-historical-analogy is a legitimate form of humor.

There was an Izzard discussion in a game thread this week, which would represent the upper echelon. (e.g. Pavlov’s cats—“Day 3, rang bell, cat f***ed off. Day 4, cat rang bell, I ate food”

Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile

by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Jun 5, 2009 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh, I agree. This was pretty damn funny for no identifiable reason. Which is often the best sort of funny.

by Logodaedalus on Jun 5, 2009 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m a big fan of absurdist humor. Izzard is at his best when he starts going off on tangents that only make partial sense, imo.

I believe in Carl Pavano.

by salome on Jun 5, 2009 7:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

but was either from Athens and Georgia?

FE WEE

by westbrook on Jun 5, 2009 12:19 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You mean the Georgia of South Ossetia fame? The Georgia that had an attempted military coup last month? That Georgia?

If you believe it's just a game, you're also probably wondering why Santa keeps skipping your house every year.

by LeftyCatcher on Jun 4, 2009 11:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’d highly recommend it as a tourist destination – it is cheap and gorgeous. Although it requires a little bit of assistance to find your way.

by APV on Jun 4, 2009 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Say hi to the BTC pipeline for me. It was always a favorite of mine.

2010.

by Gradyforpresident on Jun 4, 2009 11:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have decidedly mixed feelings about that pipeline…but I will certainly criss cross around it this summer

by APV on Jun 4, 2009 11:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’ve wanted to take a tour of the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation for a while.

I believe in Carl Pavano.

by salome on Jun 5, 2009 7:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Try this instead.

Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile

by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Jun 5, 2009 8:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That night, he takes two people into the Zone: a popular writer who is burned out, cynical, and questioning his genius; and a quiet scientist more concerned about his knapsack than the journey.

That’s totally me.

I believe in Carl Pavano.

by salome on Jun 5, 2009 11:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m being serious. Tarkovsky movies are very, very strange, but this is the most accessible, including Solaris.

Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile

by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Jun 6, 2009 1:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’ve seen Solaris (Tarkovsky’s version) and liked it, so I might like this one as well.

I believe in Carl Pavano.

by salome on Jun 6, 2009 3:40 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I got it in my netflix queue, looking forward to it. Also liked Solaris (both versions actually for different reasons).

by hans on Jun 6, 2009 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I thought about this more since I posted it. I figured you’d probably be closer in touch with the site if you were in the state of Georgia. Parts of it have Georgia now.

by NickFantana on Jun 4, 2009 11:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Parts of it have ~~Georgia~~ internet now.

Epic fail.

by NickFantana on Jun 4, 2009 11:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Georgia’s not a sovereign state anymore?

by Logodaedalus on Jun 5, 2009 2:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Whoa, awesome. Whereabouts?

Ride on ye fearsome Horsemen of the Basketball Apocalypse. We got this.

by Turkmenbashi on Jun 4, 2009 11:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

All over. I’ve worked in Georgia on several projects since 2002. This year I am starting my own survey project, so in addition to hanging around Tbilisi, I’ll be making trips to various parts of the country.

by APV on Jun 4, 2009 11:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hm-m-m, this sounds more interesting than the 2009 Indian’s season. Maybe we need a sister blog called Let’s Go (to) Tbilisi.

If you believe it's just a game, you're also probably wondering why Santa keeps skipping your house every year.

by LeftyCatcher on Jun 5, 2009 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good stuff, man. Enjoy your trip!

Ride on ye fearsome Horsemen of the Basketball Apocalypse. We got this.

by Turkmenbashi on Jun 4, 2009 7:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It might be even more interesting to eavesdrop on them these days…although probably less fun.

I was having lunch with my father at Saigon Vietnamese restaurant on E. 4th st. this past Tuesday and Mark Shapiro walked in and sat across the room with somebody else (it wasn’t Omar Minaya so I don’t expect a DeRo to mets trade yet). After the inital shock I turned back to my sweet and sour tofu dinner and continued my conversation with the old man about what peppers he planted in his garden this year.

by hans on Jun 5, 2009 2:01 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs