Thursday, March 22, 2007

Get over yourself Rocket

Roger ClemensIt’s that time of year again. Time for Roger Clemens to posture, pose and speculate as to whether he will pitch again this year. Is it only me, or is this act growing old. No one really cares if you pitch or where you pitch. You will pitch with whomever feeds your massive ego the most. The Yankees? He can reunite with his BFF Andy Petitte, Zzzzzzzzzzzz. The Red Sox? Putting him with Schilling would make Boston the self absorption capitol of the world. The Astros? Surely he would mandate that his son be added to the Major League Roster so that they could play a game together. My money is on the Astros. It’s the most self serving of the options. Get over yourself Rocket.

It’s also PBS fundraising time of the year. Time for those great PBS music specials, with the interminable intermissions. A great endorsement for TiVo. There is a great special running now, The Rockabilly Legends: They Called It Rockabilly Long Before They Called It Rock And Roll. If you get a chance check it out. Great footage and interviews with Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, The Burnettes and many more. And while your at it, support your local PBS station.

HBO has a new documentary coming up in the next week on the History of UCLA Basketball. With the Bruins making another March Madness run deep into the tournament, a look back to the great days of Coach Wooden, Kareem, and Bill Walton couldn’t be more timely.

Speaking of HBO, did you catch the live George Lopez Stand- Up HBO comedy Special Americas’s Mexican? Not only did Lopez go live, he used a lot of material he had never performed in public before. That takes balls, and Lopez has them galore. It was up there with Eddie Murphy Raw and Richard Pryor Live At Long Beach as stand-up comedy classics.

Looking forward to Sunday’s results show for Grease, You’re The One That I Want. If I was casting the show it’d be Max over strutting Austin. Laura gets my call for Sandy. Speaking of Sandy’s. How sad a life has Sandra Dee had. She could have been an icon. Instead she’s a reculse. Another sad testiment to the price of fame. Sandy Bullock’s new movie Premonition is pretty interesting. Certainly worth a trip to the movies.

Last word comes from Jay Thomas who laments the state of Republican Presidential Candidates. “Republicans get to chose between Rudy Guliani who has had three wives, and the Mormon Mitt Romney who will have three first ladies.”

posted by Frank Pace at 11:26 pm  

7 Comments »

  1. Now that Paplebon is in the bullpen, don’t be surprised if you do indeed see Clemens in Boston this summer!

    Comment by Don41 — March 22, 2007 @ 11:45 pm

  2. Clemens again in Boston… Interesting!!! The media would have a hey-day with that… Maybe we could sign him for a one-year for 20 mil and he could pull a “Wells=Canseco” and play 1/2 a season… No thanks!!! DICEK BABY!!!

    Comment by Oberman — March 23, 2007 @ 2:29 pm

  3. 160 million already do we need another 20 million dollar baby. Maybe Clint can produce that also.

    Comment by novaman47 — March 23, 2007 @ 3:47 pm

  4. whatever….start paplebomb, close with papplebomb….bring back cy young, ted williams and billy monboquette….sox still finish second to yankees…..

    Comment by effiewarren — March 23, 2007 @ 4:49 pm

  5. Yankees? Please. They’ll end up behind Toronto, too!

    Comment by Don41 — March 23, 2007 @ 5:20 pm

  6. Yankees are finished before it even starts

    Comment by novaman47 — March 26, 2007 @ 5:40 pm

  7. I don’t see the Yanks doin’ it this year, but you can see the Bosox fans are still scared to death.

    Comment by Skip — May 25, 2007 @ 2:24 pm

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