Dorks And Losers

After going 0–4 in every game of the July 16–18 series against the San Diego Padres which brought his bat­ting aver­age to an embar­rass­ingly low .133, New York Mets OF Last­ings Milledge went on a four game mul­ti­hit streak. His aver­age jumped to .283 and his OPS sky­rock­eted from .423 to .798 after hit­ting two dou­bles and a home run dur­ing that span.

If the Mets want to hold off the Atlanta Braves and the surg­ing Philadel­phia Phillies (although Chase Utley just broke his hand), Milledge is going to need to step up, espe­cially with Car­los Bel­tran hurt­ing and Moi­ses Alou about to come off the dis­abled list.

A few other notes:

1. Barry Bonds is still two home runs away from tying Hank Aaron’s home run record of 755.
2. Alex Rodriguez is one home run away from 500. The scary thing is tomor­row is his 32nd birth­day. 800 wouldn’t be a stretch for him.
3. Tom Glavine is one win away from 300.
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The teaser trailer for the Alvin And The Chip­munks movie!

It’s one of those live action films with loads of CGI in it. At least Jason Lee is in it, and it sounds like the orig­i­nal voices from the early 90’s car­ton are in it too.
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Cool arti­cle on the suc­cess of the Nin­tendo Wii.

Less than four years later, the machine that Iwata built around his con­tro­ver­sial strat­egy is the world’s top-selling game con­sole. In the United States, Nintendo’s $250 Wii sold 360,000 units in April, while Sony’s $600, graph­i­cally intense, Blu-ray-powered PlaySta­tion 3 props up the bot­tom of the sales chart like a doorstop, with 82,000 units sold.

BTW: Nin­tendo sold 381,000 Wii’s in June. Microsoft sold 198,400 Xbox 360’s and Sony moved 98,500 PlaySta­tion 3’s. I don’t think any­one would have seen this hap­pen a year ago.

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