...Nobody Wants To Be Stuck In Deep Right Field For Eleven Years.
From Dan Epstein's Rolling Stone piece on the making of the 'Doc and Daryl' documentary:
...(Judd Apatow) says that the human aspects of Gooden and Strawberry's stories were ultimately what inspired him to make the film. "I am a terrible athlete," he says, "so my sympathy is always with the team that lost or the player that is in a slump. When the Mets won in 1986, I only thought about Bill Buckner. 'How is he feeling? I hope he knows how awesome he is.' That always prevents me from getting too excited when my team wins because I am always Bill Buckner. That's the essence of what Freaks and Geeks is about — how do we survive the painful moments? I am interested in people's humanity much more than their feats of greatness."...
Sometimes I really and truly can't figure out what was so wrong with the world in the year 2000 that led to the Rovians' stealing of a presidency AND NBC's cancelling of Freaks and Geeks after only 12 episodes (fans and cable TeeVee got the last six on the air, apparently).
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As you might have been able to predict...Mr. Epstein is one of my favourite non-poli follows on the Twitmachine.
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4 comments:
Baseball is my meditation.Along with playing sax and flute(it's the breathing thing). My Giants are in first place! it's a get even year! We need Baseball right now in this world such as it is.
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Even year, indeed.
Sure is weird seeing Timmeh pitching for the Halo's this year though.
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Never should have cut his hair! Ha
Agreed.
Hey!
Maybe that's my problem also.
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