- It’s
funny…pretty much no one gives a damn about Home Run Derby at the Major League
Baseball All-Stat Game, yet there’s a bit of drama surrounding the Caribbean
Series' inaugural Home Run Derby. Many major leaguers play in the Series as
well as play winter ball in Latin or South America, so there are plenty of big
names on hand for this one, yet the Major League Baseball Players Association
has forbid a trio of stars from participating in the derby. It was previously announced
that David Ortiz, Robinson Cano and Miguel Cabrera would compete in the derby on
the third day of the tournament as a way to enhance the show, but on the first
day of the competition, the MLBPA put a stop to the trio's participation for
fear of injury. "Unfortunately, the people in charge of the event didn't
follow the necessary protocol to ensure that any major leaguers participating
in an event like that one is protected from a possible injury," said Tony
Clark, MLBPA's executive director. "As a result, in order to protect the
rights and interests of the players invited to compete, we were forced to
advise those players and their representatives that participating in the event
was not in their best interests." The organizers of the 2016 Caribbean
Series figured that fans would be fired up to see Ortiz, Cano and Cabrera
participate in the event, but the organizing committee claimed the MLBPA said
it would need a financial guarantee to allow Ortiz, Cano and Cabrera to
participate and that didn’t happen. Instead, the derby went off at its planned
time, but with lesser-known names and much less interest than it was originally
scheduled to have………..
- When
you get quality stage time at a downtown Nashville honky tonk, you don’t allow
anything to keep you from delivering a great show and finishing what you start.
No one needs to tell that to the drummer for the Don Kelley Band, which
recently had a show at Robert’s Western World. As the show wore on, the band
gave its best effort to make a lasting impression on the modest crowd and no
one more so than drummer Stan Saxon, who went from hitting the high hats to
reaching new lows when he fell through a window near the stage. “If you look at
it, it comes right at the end of the song,” said Robert’s Western World
employee Julie Rahimi “It’s almost a
stunt kind of thing, but it’s not.” Because everyone has a camera in their hand
at all times with their omnipresent smartphone, the moment was caught on video
and Saxon quickly garnered his 15 minutes of fame. Part of the video’s appeal
is that Saxon responded to the embarrassing moment by lifting up his stick, shaking
off a broken rib and heading back inside to finish the show. Not only that,
this would-be rock star went to a bar across the street and played another gig
that lasted until 3 a.m. As for the fall, he said he got caught in some cords
that pulled him backwards, leading him to attempt to sit down. “It felt like
somebody grabbed the back of my shirt and yanked me through the window and
slammed me down on that concrete,” Saxon said. “Falling through a window has
made me more popular than all the stages and countries I’ve been to.” Despite
being one of the weird, paranoid types who doesn’t use social media or email
much, Saxon said he has received texts and messages from many fans asking about
the fall........
- Hey
everyone, remember the cinematic classic that was the 1999 film “Cruel
Intentions,” starring Ryan Phillippe and Reese
Witherspoon? It was such an iconic film that, um, actually…no, it wasn’t. It
was a mediocre and borderline forgettable movie that was a bit of a hit with
the teenage world, but hardly a big-earning juggernaut that scored tons of
awards. There really isn't any reason to remember it, but that doesn’t mean a
television network desperate for content and anything that might have some name
value won't try to pluck it from the dusty back corner of the shelf where it’s
been sitting for more than a decade and attempt to squeeze some life out of it
by turning it into a series. Step right up, NBC, with your episode for a pilot
order of “Cruel Intentions” the TV series. The pilot will center on Bash Casey, the son of the characters played
by Phillippe and Witherspoon in the movie. It will also include Kathryn
Merteuil, the character played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, and the official
network synopsis for the pilot reads in part: “Cruel Intentions picks up over 15 years after the hit movie left
off. It follows the beautiful and cunning Kathryn Merteuil as she vies for
control of Valmont International as well as the soul of Bash Casey, the son of
her brother, who was the late Sebastian Valmont, and Annette Hargrove. Upon
discovering his late father’s legacy in a hidden journal, Bash is introduced to
a world of sex, money, power and corruption he never could have imagined."
In other words, exactly like dozens of other shows already on television, except with even less originality………
- The
items may have been fake, but the rage was real this week when Thai police
attempted to seize counterfeit goods at a famous
border market. The Department of Special
Investigation put itself in the middle of a sh*t storm when its officers went
to the Rong Kluea market on the border with Cambodia to seize items such as
fake perfumes that violate intellectual property laws and that storm was a
tempestuous, violent one as an enraged mob of vendors chased them away,
injuring 12 officers in the process. According to a DSI statement, about 400
Cambodian laborers surrounded the police and began pelting them with rocks and
bottles. Crude weapons are a great inclusion for any riot and so was the piece
de resistance, the angry mob overturning a police truck in a show of brute
force serious enough to inspire police to withdraw from the scene. John Q. Law
tried to save face by claiming that the officers pulled back to ease tensions and
if that makes them feel better about themselves, then it’s all good. Thailand
is one of many Asian nation flooded with counterfeit products ranging from
cosmetics to DVDs, which are one of the big draws at Rong Kluea, which also
sells secondhand goods. Also involved in the raid were French Embassy observers,
who now have a great story to tell their friends back home about that one time
they tried to shut down the bootlegged goods section of a famous Thai market
and nearly got themselves tarred, feathered and blasted with Molotov cocktails
for their troubles……..
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