Monthly Archives: November 2007

Ted Turner’s Atlanta Braves Managing Stint

May 11, 1977: Dur­ing a 16-game los­ing streak, Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner sends man­ager Dave Bris­tol on 10-day scout­ing trip and steps in to man­age the team. Under Turner, the los­ing streak reaches 17 games after a 2–1 defeat by the Pirates. ‘Man­ag­ing isn’t all that dif­fi­cult,’ insists Turner. ‘Just score more runs than the other guy.’” — John Kuen­ster in Base­ball Digest (Sept. 2007, 21).

Andy Roddick On Playing Russia In The 2007 Davis Cup Finals

The only bad Russ­ian I remem­ber grow­ing up was Drago against Rocky,” he said, a ref­er­ence to the fourth install­ment of Sylvester Stallone’s “Rocky” fight films. — Andy Rod­dick on the Davis Cup Finals between the U.S. and Russia.

Someone Has Either Tons Of Genius Or Tons Of Free Time

The per­son who made this cab­i­net in the form of a Nin­tendo Wiimote is either a genius or some­one with loads of time on his hands. I will say that it’s one of the coolest things that I have ever seen. Minus the hole for that door­knob, which prob­a­bly should have been rethrough, but oth­er­wise there’s an amaz­ing degree of retail and craftsmanship.

Hard-Fi — Once Upon A Time In The West (2007)

Lon­don quar­tet Hard-Fi might need one more album to shake off all of those Clash references.

Rob Neyer On Recent Scott Boras Contracts

Rob Neyer speaks on the best-to-worst con­tracts uber sports agent Scott Boras has nego­ti­ated since 1997.

Stephen King On The Movie Adaptations Of His Books

They didn’t ruin my books. There they are, right there on the shelf.” — Stephen King

An Interview with Face/Off Screenwriter Mike Werb

Screen­writer Mike Werb has some impres­sive film cred­its on resume — at least from a male per­spec­tive. He shares respon­si­bil­ity for the bullet-spraying, com­plete dis­re­gard for pub­lic safety Face/Off. He should be praised for writ­ing an Angelina Jolie shower scene in Tomb Raider. He helped solid­ify Jim Carrey’s rise to star­dom in The Mask. His lat­est work is a script for the upcom­ing Tekken video game adap­ta­tion (before the WGA strike of course).