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Photo of the Day Photo of the Day: the Greater Molina
Like they say in The Highlander, there can be only one. Well, The Highlander was a terrible movie and there are three Molinas.

In case you're wondering if Jobu is running Photo of the Day today, he's not. But here's Bengie Molina:





Click on the image to see a desktop-sized version.  Go ahead and try to play the Is Bengie Fired Up game -- I've stripped away the EXIF data from the file, so you can't use that to tell you what day and at what time the photo was taken.  Look into his eyes and tell me the outcome of this at-bat.

Click here to see yesterday's photo.

I'm participating in a charity show on May 25th -- click here to see the invitation. Contact me for tickets and I'll save you the service charges.

Aaron Reynolds uses Pentax cameras and lenses.
Posted by Named For Hank on Thursday, May 11 2006 @ 12:00 AM EDT.
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binnister - Thursday, May 11 2006 @ 01:49 AM EDT (#146677) #

The Highlander was a terrible movie....

Foul! Foul!

Stick to baseball..buddy.

Not every movie can be a 'Gone with the Wind' epic....sometimes you need good old fashioned escapism.

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Named For Hank - Thursday, May 11 2006 @ 07:30 AM EDT (#146679) #
I'm somewhat of a populist when it comes to movies -- I like cheesy science fiction and thrillers and general entertainment.  My favourite film is Out Of Sight, a very slim Elmore Leonard concoction that's all pretty camerawork and great music and laughs.

When I was a kid, I thought The Highlander was awesome.  I watched it for the first time in over a decade recently, and oh man, it's awful.  Just awful.  Same with Dune -- I thought it was magnificent, but seeing it again showed me that it was an incomprehensible train wreck.

But for the record, I also thought that the second Lord of the Rings film was disappointing and that the third was flat-out bad, and that the recent King Kong was an endless walking zombie of a movie.  I bet that I could shave a full hour out of King Kong without removing a single scene or line of dialogue.  It would still be ridiculous, but at least it wouldn't be ridiculous and boring.

I really appreciate a tightly-wound film, and especially a tightly-written film.  The Hunt For Red October is, I think, just about perfect in this regard -- there is not a wasted breath or frame of film in it.  It's also one of my all-time faves.

I really like the idea of The Highlander.  I appreciate the effort to build a whole mythology, and I like the ideas involved.  I just think that the film itself is a wreck.

However, I do love the deliberately terrible 1980 Flash Gordon movie.


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binnister - Thursday, May 11 2006 @ 12:00 PM EDT (#146702) #

However, I do love the deliberately terrible 1980 Flash Gordon movie

This, effectively, removes all crediblity you  may have had.

It's sad when our heroes fall from grace.

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Named For Hank - Thursday, May 11 2006 @ 06:50 PM EDT (#146744) #
Come on, who can't love a movie where Max von Sydow shouts out, "HALT!  LIZARD MAN!"

Plus, future James Bond Timothy Dalton plays the Prince of Arboria, the tree planet.

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Adrock - Friday, May 12 2006 @ 12:41 PM EDT (#146792) #

If you add the numbers of the Jays' catchers together, Bengie Zaun (or Gregg Molina) is 35/135 with 8 Hr, 21 RBIs, 14 Runs, and an 8/12 BB/K ratio.

I haven't compared, but in terms of production I think that stacks up favourably to just about everyone in the AL except Victor Martinez.

 

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