tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post1744702309297260617..comments2023-11-03T06:02:02.128-07:00Comments on By Ken Levine: Best Of: 2006 -- If Aaron Sorkin Wrote a Show About BaseballBy Ken Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305293821975250420noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-7023658692024846422015-11-18T05:15:36.399-08:002015-11-18T05:15:36.399-08:00I am not an Aaron Sorkin fan.
I have seen two of ...I am not an Aaron Sorkin fan.<br /><br />I have seen two of his movies (Social Network and Steve Jobs) and I didn't like either of them.<br /><br />Reasons? Well, this parody is pretty accurate and shows pretty much my main issues:<br /><br />Unlikeable characters (they're either boring as a plank or one of the nastiest people you will ever see) with only 1 or 2 characters being half-way decent people.<br /><br />Unnatural dialogue: Half the time the characters just randomly start quoting statistics in places where no-one would do so (during a date, for example) or talk like the only vocabulary they know is "novel speech" talk.<br /><br />Annoying and/or unfunny quips: The quips from the characters aren't very funny to begin with, and they just keep piling up, making it very annoying to listen to.<br /><br />And I know those examples are based on real-life people. I'm just talking in terms of the movies themselves on their own.dwibs93https://www.blogger.com/profile/04354736902491034080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-15413390152892310482015-11-17T03:10:45.293-08:002015-11-17T03:10:45.293-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Sudheer Yadavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14336763195411670132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-31480319044741154162015-11-16T16:54:05.290-08:002015-11-16T16:54:05.290-08:00DrBop
I just watched your link. I also thought of...DrBop<br />I just watched your link. I also thought of that scene from Bull Durham when I read Ken's post. I LOVED that scene too.<br /><br />BTW, if anyone is interested in finding out how the ROYALS may just have "changed baseball" with the way they played this year, just read the outstanding article by Tom Verducci in the Nov 9 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. "It's a new model for how the game is played, though one that is not easily replicated." And it will put a lot more action in the games making them more fun to watch.Diane D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-66734161395706674982015-11-16T15:35:56.546-08:002015-11-16T15:35:56.546-08:00OMG, I love that scene. Absolutely hilarious! Ho...OMG, I love that scene. Absolutely hilarious! How can you not write a whole script just so you can include it? Diane D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-16099482452277654622015-11-16T13:14:38.538-08:002015-11-16T13:14:38.538-08:00Beautiful!
One of my favorite baseball movie scene...Beautiful!<br />One of my favorite baseball movie scenes of all time has a bit of a similar ring to it :<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc-ruS9DuE0<br /><br /><br />And a question :What's your take on the fantasy gambling controversy? Do you by any chance partake of the fantasy baseball activity?<br />And what were/are the guidelines for broadcasters vis-a-vis laying down the occasional bet? How about broadcasters being sources of "inside info" for fantasy, or other, gambling interests? Ever see it? Ever happen?DrBOPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07179469265158025584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-51383271206374517512015-11-16T10:02:52.059-08:002015-11-16T10:02:52.059-08:00this is the very first one of your blog posts that...this is the very first one of your blog posts that I read. Alan Sepinwall said we should read it. I liked The West Wing but I'm not into baseball. and somehow I didn't find it funny. However, I did go back and read some of your other blog posts and I found them hysterical. Then I called up a friend and read them to her on the phone. and I bought a couple of your books. I got the one about baseball at the library. I never finished it. but I love the one about traveling, and I'm still saving up the one about growing up in the 60s for more savoring later. I should love the one about killing a TV executive or an executive killing someone - since I really like that episode of the practice where they kidnapped Les Moonves. Maybe I got distracted and somehow I didn't get very far in.<br />but the point is I spent money. Hopefully you got some of it. & I learned that you created one of my very favorite shows, Almost Perfect.<br />I hope that your trip to undateable is better this week. if it wasn't for Bill Lawrence and if it wasn't live, I wouldn't watch it. I need more fourth wall breakage!I love Jane the Virgin and the Grinder.and Bill Lawrence has been nice to us - remembering the names of his fans. but somehow that just couldn't get me to watch Cougar Town. I really tried. I got season one from the library and watched it again. It wasn't my thing. and I think maybe shows in bars don't get me either. And not a bar person and I hardly ever watched Cheers. I actually used to think they talked about sex too much. I think maybe I was just really young and naive when I was 30! also some people must think Chris D'elia is sexy, but I find him a bit intimidating. I definitely would not date him. Brent, maybe... So anyway that's my thoughts on everything under the Sun. and I really do love your blog and appreciate it when you put two of my favorite almost perfect episodes on youtube and dissected them. I don't know which VHS tape I have them on and my VCR is deadish.<br /><br />congratulations on 10 years of making us laugh through blogging! :-)I'm going to go call my friend and let her know it's your anniversary. I'm sure we can find something to read to each other over the phone :-)<br /><br />Pam from Boston. Also listener of Dale Dorman on WRKO when I was actually awake that early :-)Pamela Jayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06135379188588301400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-51396477371034856272015-11-16T09:49:35.357-08:002015-11-16T09:49:35.357-08:00Can you link to Sorkin's response to this? I&#...Can you link to Sorkin's response to this? I'm sure I remember he read this and enjoyed it.Rock Golfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04945235295808697884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-14158171561985922392015-11-16T09:08:07.467-08:002015-11-16T09:08:07.467-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Mighty Dyckersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03567545779834406431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-45216735691615831742015-11-16T08:37:59.098-08:002015-11-16T08:37:59.098-08:00Calling all East-Coasters! There will be an east c...Calling all East-Coasters! There will be an east coast get together to celebrate ByKenLevine’s 10th anniversary. In honor of Ken’s new favorite show Blindspot, we will be meeting inside a big burlap sack in Times Square. The bag will have “Ken’s Ten” written on the side and there will be hors-d'oeuvres, free tattoos, a trivia contest, a special viewing of Ken’s long lost appearance on The Dating Game (courtesy of the Paley Center) and certain surprise guests (Regis please call back and confirm). Space is limited inside the sack to TEN lucky patrons so if you are near Times Square tomorrow at 7:30 PM, join us in the sack and celebrate Ken!Glenn Enoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-71044891978467669372015-11-16T06:12:38.505-08:002015-11-16T06:12:38.505-08:00Gotta love the ol' purposeless "walk and ...Gotta love the ol' purposeless "walk and talk"emilynoreply@blogger.com