THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the movie Interstate 60.  Christopher Lloyd is in it and has an amusing character.  It’s one of my favorite movies of all time, but for some reason it was just never marketed well at all… I’m not even sure it was in the theaters.  I was walking through the video store a few years ago and saw something on the cover to the effect of “written by the guy who wrote Back to the Future”, and that was enough to make me give it a shot.

Interesting.  Lots of b-name actors:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165832/

Viewers gave it a pretty good rating.  I’ll see if I can come across it…

That was FUNNY!  Reminds me of one of my favorite Cheers spots.  Norm walks into the bar, and as usual everyone yells, “How’s it going Norm?”.  Norm yells back “It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, and I’m wearing Milk-Bone underwear!”

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!”.

The final scene of the last episode of the second Newhart show is an absolute classic moment in American television as well.

More of talk show and a lot more recent by a guy who always seems to make me laugh somehow is Norm MacDonald.

Norm on the Daily Show:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=125858&title=norm-macdonald
Norm on the Conan (kind of have to listen to part of a boring interview, but worth it):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLm-vD89SQ
And since this is mostly a baseball blog, Conan plays 1864 style baseball:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd1eu_conan-obrien-1864-baseball

Yep.  Their rating formula cripples it too.  Mean rating is an 8.1, but they scale it down due to only getting 7,000 ratings.  8.1 would be good enough to make the top-250 list otherwise!

Right, IMDB actually do a regression toward the mean.

And agreed that the Newhart finale, the final scene, was the ultimate scene to which all other finales will be compared against.  Simply brilliant.  That Newhart series (the second one) was fantastically funny.  Great show.