Home Alone

Saturday afternoon the wife and daughter left me alone (wouldn't Home Alone make a great movie title?) to go shopping. At exactly 1:00 I fired up Big Thunder (the TV) and while checking channels I came across one of my favorite sports movies-FEVER PITCH (2005), which is the story of the difficulties of a relationship that involves both love and baseball. It stars Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barryomore; and although it was no challenge for academy awards, it did start me thinking about some of my other favorite baseball movies. BULL DURHAM (1988) was the story of players on the Durham Bulls minor league baseball team. It starred Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandan and was academy material in my opinion. Two more favorites were MAJOR LEAGUE (1989) and MAJOR LEAGUE II (1994). Both starred Tom Berenger as the hasbeen catcher and Charlie Sheen as "Wild Thing", who came to Cleveland from prison or the "Penal League" as he calls it. I still laugh every time I think about these two movies.
I put my snowblower in the shed yesterday. Although it's only early May, sometimes a person chooses to live dangerously and that was the case. I ran it for five to ten minutes to burn up the unused gas. I was actually paying back my neighbor for his barking dogs. He probably wasn't home.