Random thoughts:

-So... I was watching Army Of Darkness last night. It was my first time ever seeing it, actually. I fell asleep halfway through it because my brothers and I started it late, but man... I can't imagine any male watching the film and thinking that Ash is not the biggest badass ever filmed on screen. It's not that he's particularly strong or fearless... I mean, part of the coolness factor is that he wields around a gun in a medieval period... but he has pretty much some of the best one-liners in the world. Everyone would wish to sound as cool rattling off lines like he does.

So yeah. It was enjoyable. One problem was that there was a scene in which I was pretty sure a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle made a cameo appearance, but I went straight to the internet only to find out it was just a dude in a costume with a helmet sort of reptilian. That really sucked.

-I don't know if I wrote it down here or if I just told someone this, but I said that I wouldn't watch a World Series with the Yankees in it. Mainly this was due to the fact that I wouldn't be able to bear with the way the media would portray it--"redemption at last"... "nine years of struggle finally over"--you know, things you would never say about THE MOST EVIL AND UNLIKABLE TEAM OF ALL TIME.

Well, I might break my little World Series embargo if the Phillies do as well as they did last night. You know how sweet it would be to see the Phillies close the series out in Game 4 or 5, watching the Yankees flame out in misery as this beautiful postseason run suddenly turns grey? It would be sweet, I'm telling you.

Of course, if MLB has any say, I'd imagine that they'd try to extend the series as much as possible. You know, like how they wanted the Yankees to win game 2 against the Twins, so they called the obviously fair Mauer double foul?

*grumble*

-My "leagues are trying to fix games" conspiracy meter is way high, though, because I just got done reading this article on excerpts from NBA referee fixer Tim Donaghy's upcoming book (which apparently is also cancelled because the NBA doesn't like to be accused of manipulating games, for some reason).

Now, my second reaction to this is that I should be upset with how a league is pretty much fixing a sport against the wishes of all its fans. Because it is a little sketchy, and I'm still bitter about some certain calls in a Game 4 between the Lakers and the Wolves in 2004 that seemed obviously slanted towards the Lakers. But my first reaction is this: "holy f***ing balls, this is awesome."

I wrote a few weeks ago about how I still derive enjoyment out of pro wrestling. Well... this is sort of the same thing. There's a lot of angles in wrestling where the popular guy gets "screwed" by the evil boss in an important match, and they're always sort of silly, yet sort of entertaining. AND THIS IS THE REAL LIFE COUNTERPART. Sure, seeing the Lakers favored in EVERY SERIES undoubtedly sucks, but I'm going to rest easy knowing there's an evil corporation behind all of it, rather than a few refs unwittingly giving calls to the Lakers.

-While I'm on the topic of sports... Timberwolves! 1 and 0! 81 more games until we post the first undefeated regular season in NBA history!

(OK, so I try not to be a huge sports person, but in my lifetime various sports teams/figures have captured my love. Peterson/Vikings have my love right now, but at other times I've loved Santana and the 04-06 Twins, the crapload of players called up for the Twins in 99 till 2003, Moss and the Vikings 98-01, and definitely Garnett and the Wolves from 95-05. They've sucked the last few years, but I always have a soft spot for the T'Wolves. And I think we're actually going to surprise a bit this year, since we have general competence in our leaders while maintaining about the same amount of talent. But we'll see.)