Well, the beans have been spilled about new Captain Marvel artist Aaron Lopresti coming aboard as of issue #19. Newsarama has the item, along with artwork that has every single fan saying, “Yea! Captain Marvel is back in his old costume!”
What’s great is: Every fan who says that is wrong.
Mwaahaha. Dance, puppets, dance…
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Interesting week. Spoilers throughout.
Continue Reading “COWBOY PETER’S TV ROUND-UP (ALIAS, SMALLVILLE, WEST WING, ANGEL)”
Issue #15 is out. What’d’ja think?
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And so the world can continue to turn peacefully on its axis, with no imminent threat of any so-called curses being broken. Let us consider the following:
1) By blowing the 7th game, the Sox spared us the sadness of watching them go to a Cub-less World Series. It would have been like arriving at the Prom and discovering your date had a flat tire and never made it. Here, it’s more like you and your date were driving along, had a blowout which sent you plummeting off a cliff to a fiery doom and thus never made it to the prom.
2) Had the Sox made to the Series, they likely would have lost. Losing to the Cubs would have been a big deal because, y’know, the Cubs would’ve won. Losing to the Marlins…who cares? The only way history would have been made in a Sox/Marlins game is if the Sox had won the first three games and everyone would have been saying, “Well, that’s it, no team has ever come back from a three-game deficit in a best-of-seven Series, it’s a lock,” at which point the Sox could have been the first team to blow a three game advantage. That would’ve been kind of cool.
3) If it had been a Cubs/Sox game…one of the teams would have lost their mystique. I mean, one of the things that’s so legendary about them is their constant inability to win. If one of them had won, they would have been reduced in status to a team that wins on rare occasions, and we’ve got a bunch of those. This way, parity remains between the AL and NL.
4) If it had been Cubs/Yankees, I would have felt compelled to watch, and thus suffer through another twenty showings per game of that dámņëd Visa Check cashing card commercial. Since it’s Yankees/Marlins, I can skip it and thus not have to be badgered by it anymore.
Thus ends the baseball blog entries for the year 2003.
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The Cubs should hire him.
Seriously. Find a job in the organization for him. He’s not stupid. Guys’ a finance major. Must be something on the business side he can do. Plus he coaches youngsters. Let’s keep in mind that he, an amateur, displayed the most often quoted baseball axiom that even many pros forget: Keep your eye on the ball. He did that. So if the Cubs have a youth club (as many ball organizations do) put him in charge of that.
And just imagine the commercials for next year: “I’m Steve Bartman. As Chicago Cubs associate business manager, I have permanent seats at Wrigley…nine rows back of home plate. I’m nowhere near the front row. NOTHING can stop us now.”
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Well, I’ll tell you, I’m glad I’m not a Cubs fan particularly, because if this is the kind of thing they’ve been going through for the last 57 years, I don’t think I could take it. I mean, at least the Mets just stunk up the place from the get-go. But *this?*
And that poor Bartman guy. It’s like the entire city of Chicago is going to be one big prison shower and he’s bending over to pick up the soap. Never mind that the Cubs may very well have found a way to blow it entirely without his help. There are going to be fans who will seize on that moment and say, “If it hadn’t been for him…” At best, he’d better never go into any sports bar again, because inevitably some guy is gonna come over and say, “You’re him, aren’t you. The idiot.” And wam. He might as well change his name to Goatman. Or to anything else. Or just leave town, at least until spring training arrives so that hope can swell anew before it’s eventually dashed.
What made the Sox/Cubbies match-up so intriguing was that history was going to be made (and a curse shattered as far as the curse-obsessed media was concerned) one way or the other. If it’s Marlins/Sox, well…you just figure the Soxs will lose and that’ll be that. Which is not to diss Sox fans; I personally would be pulling for them. But it just won’t be the same. And as I said before, Marlins vs. Yankees, the only ones who give a crap will be the respective fans. Big ratings in NY, big ratings in Florida, rest of the country, uh uh.
But hey, at least it’ll be Pedro vs. Roger one more time. If nothing else, that’ll be something to see.
Cowboy Peter’s TV round-up will wait until I have a chance to watch the shows I taped since I was watching baseball.
Oh, and once again…if you’re one of those baseball snobs…feel free to take this opportunity to just shut up for once, okay?
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