Thursday, October 24, 2002

One thing I love about Law & Order: playing Spot The New York Regulars. If you take a look at the IMDb info for Oz, and then look at the credits for almost anyone on the show, you'll see that they've done time on Law & Order. This morning, I've got a 2000 episode on, and I've already seen two guys I recognize from Oz, and a guy who played a psycho in an earlier episode of L&O.
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posted by Davezilla at October 24 3:31 AM. Two men held in connection with sniper case And I was just getting used to seeing 24-7 coverage of it on every frigging channel. Now we'll have to hear about Iraq or Martha Stewart again. [MetaFilter] Nah - we'll get wall-to-wall coverage on the 5 minutes worth of information they have on the guys they're detaining...
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As Piniella Talks Stall, Mets Turn Their Attention to Howe. With their hopes of landing Lou Piniella to be their next manager all but dead, the Mets have zeroed in on Oakland Athletics Manager Art Howe. By Rafael Hermoso and Murray Chass. [New York Times: Sports] Suckers! Art Howe has been managing a team with sick amounts of young talent, and he's only been adequete. I'm not saying he's a BAD manager per se, but he's not a particularly *good* manager either. Then again, I still don't know why the hell Pinella wants to go to Tampa - sure, it's home, but if he retired, he could spend even more time with his family, and he wouldn't have to manage a truly horrible team in the bargain. The Mariners are actually going to really benefit from this: the rumored compensation is Randy Winn and Rocco Baldelli. For those of you who don't know more about baseball than they do about anything useful, that's Tampa Bay's only All Star from last year, and the Baseball America minor league player of the year. Pinella is most assuredly not worth that cost...I could see sending Winn - if the Devil Rays don't give away Baldelli, they've got three uber-prospect outfielders just about ready to play in the majors - Carl Crawford, Josh Hamilton, and the aforementioned Rocco Baldelli, making Winn replacable. Winn also may be arbitration-eligible - meaning he's got a multi-million dollar raise coming to him this off-season, which means the D-Rays would LOVE to get rid of him. But Baldelli? We're talking about a kid who, at age 20, rocketed from Single A ball to AAA by the end of the year. He's got another year of seasoning before he's ready for the majors, but still - he's *good*. REAL good.

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Eeek. First a Nasdaq commercial with the CEOs of Dell, Starbucks, and Microsoft (ack! Ballmer!), then a commercial for Level 3 narrated by Sean Connery. His voice actually sounded old, if you'd believe it. Oh crap - it's past midnight. I was busy writing an email to a short girl from Pepperell (don't ask) and lost track of time. Off to bed. G'night.
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