HuffPost TV on 30 Rock:
Both Fey and Baldwin are signed for Season 7, if NBC renews the long-running comedy. According to EW, the show will likely get a seventh and final season.
This show is on our DVR and we have watched it since the beginning, but it’s had a good run and I won’t be that sad to see it go. It definitely existed for longer than I thought considering the kind of show it was, and the fact that it was on network TV. I am sure Fey and Baldwin being involved helped a lot.
Jim Margalus on White Sox hitters with 3-0 counts:
You can read more about their 3-0 patterns in that post, but to sum it up in a sentence, “taking all the way” became a calling card of the Ozzie Guillen/Greg Walker offense. Alexei Ramirez turned it into postmodern art, watching the pitch by not watching the pitch. I’m pretty sure he didn’t bother to fasten his batting gloves after going 3-0.
Apparently this has changed already under the Ventura regime. Definitely a good sign.
This play by the San Francisco Giants will not make any baseball fundamental videos.
(via Grantland)
Pretty cool. Apparently this was an All-Star game of some sort.
(via Mashable)
Amazing story about the guy who is responsible for the first baseball “video game”.
Jason Snell:
If Apple’s going to embrace the cloud wherever possible, it needs to change iTunes too. The program should be simpler. It might be better off being split into separate apps, one devoted to device syncing, one devoted to media playback. (And perhaps the iTunes Store could be broken out separately too? When Apple introduced the Mac App Store, it didn’t roll it into iTunes, but gave it its own app.)
It is a weird approach to just keep piling features into the same application, but Apple just keeps doing this with no end in sight.
HuffPost TV:
Close to 4 million people watched the Season 2 premiere, making it one of HBO’s highest rated broadcasts in months. The ratings remained strong for Episode 2, delivering 3.8 million viewers, according to EW. With TV viewership typically decreasing after a premiere, “Game of Thrones’” ability to retain nearly all of the Season 2 debut audience is quite the feat.
This show undoubtedly has a huge and devoted following. I am happy with the first two episodes of season 2, and it’s no surprise that it was renewed. HBO’s deal is usually to renew one season at a time, so it’s not like it was going to be more than this.
Every year around this time, I make a pledge to watch more baseball. I love baseball. I love the stats. I love the strategy. But even I can only watch so much of it. When the White Sox start to fade, so do I. I will always watch the playoffs, but there is usually a gap in August and September where I have basically stopped watching. In an effort to rectify that, I have decided to embark on a new quest, one which involves watching every team play (on TV) at least once this year.
The White Sox will play every American League team multiple games this season. This will help me see almost all of the American League. I won’t use the Cubs to take the same advantage of the National League. This is mostly because I have no desire to watch the Cubs play more than a couple of times in a season. They will be a good fallback though, if there are National League Teams I miss early on.
I really have no hurry to accomplish this. The baseball season is long and there is plenty of time to see all 30 teams. Even the bad ones will pop up on ESPN or Fox at some point. And thanks to DVRs, I can condense the games and move through them faster.
Is there any real point to this? No. It’s not like I am not watching something else instead. I wouldn’t otherwise be spending this time reading or cleaning I am sure. But perhaps if it all goes right I can get some people in the action. I plan on tweeting when I am going to be watching a game. I will use the hashtag #mlb30. I will try to tweet a day or two ahead of time when I plan to be watching a game. So if you are free and bored, join and tweet about the game. I will also post sporadic updates about my progress.
I realize how silly this all probably sounds, but who are we without our idiosyncrasies?
Bill Simmons’ on the LA Clippers:
Dirty little secret: This isn’t a very good Clippers team. Randy Foye, Caron Butler, Kenyon Martin, Mo Williams, Eric Bledsoe … those are all spare parts. Backups, basically. DeAndre Jordan just isn’t getting better; he’s an emphatic dunker and weakside shot blocker, that’s it.9 Blake Griffin plays his Kia-driving butt off, puts up 23-11′s every night on pure athleticism, takes an unfathomable pounding, keeps coming and coming … only he’s an unpolished gem, someone who’s never been coached, hasn’t played enough games, doesn’t know what he’s doing defensively and struggles in the half-court game (especially against good teams). The Clippers look better on paper than in real life…
I think everyone just assumed that Chris Paul would re-sign with the Clippers, but I don’t think they are growing like people thought they would. I still have my suspicions that Paul and Dwight Howard will try to hook up next summer, if the Clippers don’t get better by then, I think it’s definitely more likely.
Stephen Hackett:
While I love my 27-inch display, unless you have a ton of Thunderbolt accessories, its hard to ignore panels made by other companies that sell for far less.
I agree. I am contemplating getting a new display this year and have already been wavering back and forth with whether or not to get an Apple display. I have seen 27-inch monitors for less, but I think it’s worth pointing out that sometimes you get what you pay for.
If you look at CNET’s top 27-inch monitors, most of them are around the same price as the Apple display. So just be careful how cheap of a screen you buy.
