Baseball: The NY Daily News back page centered on the Red Sox/Yanks match-up in part because it tends to be the Yanks paper, but also because the Yanks have more to lose. Aside from a big picture of the goat of yesterday's loss Alex R., it has a little strip on the latest collapse of the Mets bullpen. But, this isn't really fair. The pen pitched eight innings yesterday versus a tough team and only gave up three runs. This is not bad at all.
Now, admittedly the runs came at inopportune moments. As things turned out, using three pitchers to get through the seventh (Stokes again serving a good middle relief role for two innings) was not good. At least Heilman survived his three inning stretch, the last time such a "take one for the team" deal leading to him finally to give it up. And, the winning run wasn't a bases loaded walk to a pitch-hitting pitcher who makes Al Leiter [Mets fans will know] look like a hitting star -- it went to 3-2, after SS came in and immediately gave up a triple.
Last time Pedro pitched, the Mets barely hung on to a nine run lead, the bullpen doing most of the damage. This time it was largely Pedro's fault -- a four run fifth doing the trick. These days, it simply is too stressful to actually watch this sort of game. I kept track of the extras, after Gary Cohen pissed me off, online. Nifty play by play options for baseball and football that occur mostly in real time, give or take some part of a minute or so. Anyway, a split of the two games (knock on wood) would mean no change. But, the way they lost -- two outs in the ninth etc. -- is what gets you. Oh well.
Television: A bit more on True Blood. It is more than a vampire show -- the box speaks of a backwoods Louisiana town (Bon Temps, a temp agency in these parts) where vampires roam and can survive without you know biting people. Not that they do not still have the urge. Anyways, Anna Paquin (the bratty kid in that piano movie all grown up) plays a local waitress who can hear people's thoughts, who is attracted to the new vampire in town.
Good role and she runs with it, if the first episode is any judge, and it also shows off good local flavor, pretty good acting and some good sexy stuff too. I don't have HBO, but I'm sure the first season will be on DVD sometime next year. Meanwhile, in G land, iCarly had a bit of a slip-up in one episode. The girls wore bathing suits in one episode, Carly wearing a two piece (the actress was around thirteen at the time, and it was properly G rated).
Problem is that the producer of the web cast loves her (which is nicely lets pass most of the time), and surely that would have affected him somehow (cf: him looking at his young teacher in a sexy dress). No comment. I know the show does not want to look at Carly in that sort of way, but the characters appear to be in around eighth grade, and the fact they have crushes and so forth have been addressed. So, especially given it aims toward to knowing tween, that sort of thing is likely to be picked up.
I said "MNBC" yesterday; showing how often I watch MSNBC.