We've all grown up.

It's been 11 years since the Toronto Blue Jays last won the World Series (of baseball). And it's been 11 years since I vividly watched baseball. But it wasn't the 1993 season that I remember best (in 1993, the Jays beat the Philidelphia Phillies); it was the 1992 season, when they first won the World Series.

I read yesterday about Roberto Alomar having played his last game the day before. At 39, he was having back problems and problem seeing among other things attributed to aging.

11 years ago, Roberto Alomar was my favourite baseball player. He played second base and, for the 1992 season, held the third spot in the batting lineup. The Toronto Blue Jays were a great team back then. I could recall the entire Lineup during the World Series (Pat Borders, John Olerud, Roberto Alomar, Kelly Gruber, Manual Lee, Candy Maldonado, Joe Carder, and Dave Winfield).
Up until after the 1993 season Cito Gaston was their manager. Then he was fired and the Toronto Blue Jays traded away many of their good players. They haven't won a World Series Title since then.

But I'm not blogging to complain about the Toronto Blue Jays. I'm writing to talk about how long it's been since I last took interest in baseball. Spring training 1993 I watched every game I could. I didn't even know when spring training began in '94 and I don't recall ever watching a complete game, let alone a few innings, since then. My interests changed, and I started watching other things or doing other things.
The point is, the 1992 Toronto Blue Jays will forever remain a childhood fascination for me. The magic of watching a team win the World Series through the eyes of an 11 year old will always be there. But time goes on. The players you watched in their prime 11 years ago have, or will be soon, retired.

Leftenant Commander, Personal Log Stardate....blah..

Well, it's been exactly a month (four weeks to the day) since my last post. Let's take a look at the updates.

Most recently, I went to see the Hostage, starring Bruce Willis. For those who haven't heard about it it is the movie where a negotiator's family is taken hostage in order to manipulate the outcome of a hostage situation.
While it is a good action movie, it seems to pale in comparison to the upcoming Star Wars movie. As most people know, the new Star Wars Episode Three movie will be opening this summer (May 2005 i think) in theatres. Already there have been two tv trailers (one teaser and one normal length trailer) promoting it; but they are not shown regularly. Rather, they are shown at set times that movie fans will, depending on how interested they are in the movie, make a concerted effort to see it. The most recent one was advertised as being shown during last week's episode of the O.C. All throughout the show it didn't show during the commercials; it was only after the show was over and the next one was about to start that the trailer was shown.
One star wars fan site even had a detailed analysis of what happened in the trailer, including a complete script of every line along with the action sequences as well as a rather precise time log of when everything in the trailer appeared.

Having only seen one of the two released trailers I've decided that the movie is worth seeing in theatres but not until at least a few weeks later. By then, hopefully, the crowds will not be as high; the first week is likely to attract the fanatics who will be wearing the costumes. I've seen people wearing costumes for movies like Lord of the Rings and Star Wars.

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