Hoped you enjoyed your Memorial Day! And now, to kick this week and the month of June off, here's a short and sweet edition of the RTs. The following were on my mind between Monday, May 24th and Tuesday, June 1st:
- All right, Blackhawks! Despite playing the first two games without their key guys like Toews, Kane and Byfuglien not producing anything except for one assist (Byfuglien to Eager in game two), the rest of the team stepped up tremendously ( I mean, Ben Eager and Tomas Kopecky scored a goal!) with great offense in game one and some hard-working defense in game two to lead the Stanley Cup Finals 2-0 in the series! I got to give it up to Philadelphia, though. Leighton did bounce back in game two after giving up five goals in game one, and there you could argue that they played better than Chicago the first two games in everything except for goaltending and the goal count.
Also, while I do see the Blackhawks hoisting the cup by the end of the series and Marian Hossa ending that "curse" of his, I do see Philadelphia making this series last for a little longer. That is, if they can continue stopping any production from Kane/Toews while playing as aggressive and in their tempo like last night. I would also like to add the fact that they're playing the next two games at home, but I won't since Chicago hasn't lost a road playoff game since the first round. Oh, and if I were to pick my favorite moment right now, it would definetly be Flyers coach Peter Laviolette putting in Dan 'The Goon' Carcillo into the game simply to hit and antagonize Blackhawks players only to have his biggest hit on teammate Jeff Carter. Classic.
- I'm a little worried about "Toy Story 3." Yes, I know pretty much every movie Pixar makes turns to gold and that the previous two films were great (so great, in fact, that according to Rottentomatoes.com, the movies are the 7th and 1st highest rated films of all time respectively). However, after seeing the trailers and clips of the film, I fear that it will be like many other movie franchises that had a ten year gap or more between the last two movies, not as good and just a caricature of its former self. Hopefully, I'm wrong.
- I love it whenever something truly amazing happens in MLB, Tim Kurkijan is there to provide us with some facts to back up how big of a feat this is, despite how pointless they are for you to know. A good example of this is when Roy Halladay pitched the perfect game (another reason why I'm such an idiot for accidentally accepting that Halladay for Sabathia trade back in April), and Kurkijan was talking about how this was the first perfect game on a Saturday in thirty-something years, how this is the first time ever two perfect games were recorded in the same month ever, first Phillies perfect game since Jim Bunning, etc. And it's not just perfect games. Unassisted triple plays, comparing players to others throughout history, minor moments that never occured to anyone else besides him and a few others how awesome it was that some moment just happened during a game, and on and on. It's as if he was a walking baseball fun facts book.
- Every movie theater should be able to show 3-D movies by 2012, not just select ones. After all, this should be the effect for we're living in a time where movie tickets can cost up to $20, electronic companies are making 3-D TVs and 3-D Blue Rays, and almost all animated studios like Pixar and Dreamworks are making all movies in 3-D.
New random thoughts to come next Monday! Enjoy these first few days of June, everyone!
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
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