Thoughts: 03-July-2010

The summer is just flying by. I have to plan my trip home to Harrisburg for August, have to write a poster for the SFN meeting in San Diego, and do a million other things.

Sports Update.

Boston Red Sox: A great week that saw the Red Sox take 2 out of 3 games from the Giants, split a two game series with Tampa Bay, and then take the first of a 3 game weekend series with the Orioles 3-2. Tim Wakefield gets the win last night with a 8 inning pitching run and with help from a 2 HR effort by Drew. This puts the Red Sox only a half game behind the hated Yankees for first place. Things are heating up baby.

NCAA Football: I just read an idiotic commentary by Beebe the Big 12 (but really 10) commissioner trashing the Pac 10 and Big 10. He claims that the geographic area where the Big 10 is located is losing population and thus are not going to be supported that well. Funny, the Big 10 network seems to be doing pretty good and is available nationwide. Somebody must be watching, and those somebodies are sure as hell not going to be watching the Big 12. My guess is that Beebe's song and dance act that he put on to convince teams to stay in the Big 12 is now raising questions as to where is the money going to be coming from that you promised us? I predict in the next five years the Big 12 will be losing teams and will soon be a nonentity.

Big 10: In the latest issue of Sporting News, there was a nice article that Nebraska was going to be a major power in college football again which will be good news for the Big 10. Should make a stronger attraction for the Big 10 network.

HawthoRNe (TNT): Yes, last week I swore I would not watch this show again. So Tuesday comes along and I do not have anything to watch at 8:55 pm on my DVR, and was too lazy to pick out a DVD. So I decided to watch this show. Episode 2 was a vast improvement over the stupid crap shown in last week's show. It was kind of fun to watch everyone blow off Christine's interference and attempts to push doctors around. Then she somehow managed to convince the doctor in charge of the ethics committee to talk to the patient that they denied treatment too which caused them to reverse their decision, which is what Christine wanted. But before she finds out, she makes a fool of herself before the committee by berating them for not doing what she wants. When they inform her that we did change our minds, she kind of shrunk really little like they used to do to Fred Flintstone in that old cartoon series. I guess seeing her not get away with her crap was kind of fun. C

Next Tuesday Warehouse 13 (SyFy) comes back for season 2 and I may be able to give up HawthoRNe for good.

Looks like ABC shelved plans to show the last two episodes of Eastwick on July 10. That show got no respect and just as it got interesting it was cancelled. At least the one actress has some appearance on Eureka (SyFy) coming up.

Oh well.