Baseball Card Theater: Movie Posters

BASEBALL CARD THEATER:  MOVIE POSTERS

If you love baseball cards and movie posters than you came to the right place.  Today I make up movies based on the photo in the baseball card.  This is the second installment of BBCT Movie Posters.  The first Movie Posters is pretty funny too.

Big game 7 last night and former Astros Hunter Pence had a big game so buckle up for a good World Series between the Tigers vs Giants.

Game 7 in San Francisco

Game 7

Tonight is the night we find out who's playing the Tigers in the World Series, if it doesn't rain out.

A lot of choices on TV tonight.

THE DEBATES

You could watch the Presidental Debates.   But why?  I'll tell you what happens.  Your guy is going to win the debate and his opponent told a bunch of lies.

MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 

The Lions vs the Bears.  If it was real bears fighting real lions I'm there.  If it's just a real bear fighting people in Detroit I'm there.  Cutler vs. Stafford?  I'll stick with baseball.

NEW EPISODE OF CRASH AND BERNSTEIN

It's the show I work on for Disney about a kid with a puppet.  Tonight's episode is a face-melter because the Puppet becomes Bernstein's basketball coach.  Who would let a puppet coach a kid's basketball team?  I think you see the great potential for comedy.   I would say watch it if this is the only time it's on, but they repeat this show all week, so watch it later.

The only real option is to watch the Giants Matt Cain vs the Cardinals Kyle Lohse.  It should be a good one.  

 

Baseball Card Friday - A Man Named Cookie

Baseball Card Friday - Cookie Lavagetto - 1960

A grown man named Cookie.  No, I'm not talking about the guy who ran the chuck wagon in the John Wayne film The Cowboys.  That was Roscoe Lee Brown and his character was named Mr. Nightlinger.

I'm talking about Cookie Lavagetto the manager of the Washington Senators.  I just got 50 cards from 1960 and Cookie was my favorite card.   Don't know that much about him, so I looked on the back and this is what I found out.

1960 was the last year the Washington Senators before moving to the team to Minnesota and becoming the Twins. 

 

THE COOKIE GAME

In 1947 World Series Mr. Lavagetto got a pinch hit in the ninth to break up a no-hitter.  It also turned out to be his last hit in baseball but they named the game after him.

So I declare today Cookie Lavagetto day.

Have a great Friday and proclaim your rarity.

I love me some Alex Rodriguez

New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez

A-ROD GETS BENCHED

Alex Rodriguez has been benched for Game 4.  The game was rained out last night so that means he will be benched for the second straight night for the same game.

He's not hitting so Yankee manager has decided to sit him as well as Curtis Granderson for the same reason and now there's rumor they're trying to trade him. 

Why does a circus follow Alex Rodriguez?   He's one of the best players to ever play the game and I don't understand why he's so reviled by so many, but if everybody hates a person I'm immediately on that person's team.

So come on a-rod.

PREDICTION FOR GAME 4

Mr. Rodriguez pinch hits in the ninth inning and smacks a ball over the infield for a single.

Baseball Card Theater - Special Guest Fred Willard

Comic Genius/ Baseball Fan Fred Willard

Baseball Card Theater - Thoughts of a Photographer - FRED WILLARD

Special guest star Fred Willard makes an appearance in Thoughts of a photographer.  Mr. Willard loves baseball and we've been to a bunch of games together.  In the picture below he's throwing out the first pitch at an Orange County Flyers game.

He was clocked at 104 mph.  I used hi-speed film and it still came out blurry.

Fred Willard giving Hall of Famer Gary Carter an autograph

Anyway, I recorded Mr. Willard doing a new Thoughts of a Photographer but haven't got a chance to film it.  But for now, Thoughts of a Photographer # 1.

Have a great Tuesday and count your blessings.

Go GIANTS!!!

Bad Calls in New York City

SAFE!!!

What???   The Yankees got burned last night and on a couple of calls the night before. 

Okay, most people don't care when the Yankees get ripped off, it's like not feeling bad when you hear about someone robbing a Casino, but still something has to be done.

Yankees skipper Joe Giradi didn't blame the umpire but says we need instant replay.

This is a big can of worms MLB is going to have to open, so that might as well give it a shot.

My biggest complaint this year is that there wasn't a day off between the AL divisions and championship playoff.  Come on, they deserve a break.

The playoffs are still fun, but baseball needs to step up and figure this out instead of fixing other things like sending the Astros to the American League. 

Come on Bud Selig, get with the program.

Tim Lincecum - The Freak Is Back!!!

Tim Lincecum

Baseball Card Friday Tim Lincecum 2012

The Freak is back.  Mr. Lincecum made an appearance in relief and helped get the Giants past the Reds in game 5.

He's won 2 Cy Young awards and he's had a couple of bad years but for 4 1/2 innings in game 5 he looked like the old Tim Lincecum.

Love the hair and love his attitude.  Check out a quote in a post game interview after they won the World Series in 2010.

Smoke is in the air...

Have a great weekend and enjoy 2 game 5's today.