I went and saw the new Harry Potter movie tonight. I’m not really a Potter fanatic in that I’ve never read the books (although I intend to) but I really enjoy the movies. Plus, a lady friend was wanting to go so I figured what the hell. Let me say that this was by far and away the best of the movies so far. What’s unfortunate is that the subtleties of the acting and script are lost on the 14-year old girls in Griffindor scarves and Potter capes. They laugh at scenes that are meant to be serious and giggle when people kiss. That was annoying.
For anyone familiar with the films, however, the acting by two characters in particular is quite good. Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) and Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) easily capture any scene they are in. They stand heads above the rest of the cast in all the previous movies. This time they were joined by Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton) who outshone them both. She plays the perky fascist role to perfection. In any event, I’m glad I watched that than the Cardinals getting their a$$e$ handed to them tonight.
Quad Citians (they call themselves this on their radio stations — honest to God) went deep three times. A-ball on up won their games tonight. Rick Ankiel did not hit a home run. Jarrett Hoffpauir just keeps hitting. And Springfield brought their bats in tonight’s Daily Prospect Report!
- Brendan Ryan goes 1-for-6 in his return to the minors.
- Jarrett Hoffpauir started at 2nd and went 2-for-4 with a walk and 3 runs scored.
- Rick Ankiel went 3-for-4 with a pair of walks. Well done Rick.
- Matt Pagnozzi went 2-for-4 with a BB and a HR.
- Mike Parisi had a rough go of it. He allowed 8 hits, 5 runs (4 earned) and 3 walks against 3 strikeouts in 5 innings.
- Matt Ginter struck out 4 in 2 innings of relief.
- Mark Worrell and Brian Falkenborg both pitched a scoreless inning.
- Colby Rasmus went 3-for-4 with a pair of BBs.
- Juan Richardson, Mark Hamilton, Juan Lucena and Henry Guerrero all had 3 hits.
- Jose Martinez went 2-for-5 with a HR.
- Jaime Garcia had a good outing. He allowed just 1 ER on 6 hits in 7 innings; he walked 5 batters, however, against 5 strikeouts. The 13-3 groundout-flyout ration is nice.
- Chris Russ pitched a scoreless frame striking out 1.
- Luke Gorsett went 2-for-2. He was caught stealing and picked off 1st though.
- PJ Walters improved to 3-1 with a 6 innin, 6K gem. He allowed 1 run on 4 hits and 2 walks.
- Jon Mikrut struck out 4 in 2 innings.
- Luke Gregerson allowed 2 hits in a scoreless ninth.
- Daryl Jones went 2-for-4 with a BB to drag his average over .200.
- Jared Schweitzer wern 2-for-3 with a pair of BBs.
- Arnoldi Cruz went 3-for-5 with a bomb.
- Steve Hill went 2-for-4 with a bomb.
- Catcher Nick Derba went 1-for-2 with a bomb and 2 BBs.
- Brad Furnish went 6 innings with 2 hits, 2 walks, 1 ER and 4 Ks. He was getting the flyball outs tonight with a 5-9 GO-AO ratio.
- Kyle Saldowski struck out 2 in a scoreless frame.
- Armando Carrasco struck out 1 in a scoreless 9th.
- 1B Charile Pelt — HERE IS YOUR
- Clayton Mortensen went 3.2 innings striking out 3 against 3 hits, 1 walk and an ER.
- The Batavia offense struck out 16 times tonight against 1 walk.
GCL Cardinals 1, GCl Dodgers 2
- 2B Guillermo Toribio went 1-for-3 with a BB.
- RF Edgar Lara went 1-for-3 with a HR and a BB.
- C Ivan Castro went 2-for-4.
- James Hooker (change your name to Rauschenberger buddy — it won’t make you a good pitcher but you’ll be better off for it) went 4 innings striking out 3 allowing 5 hits, 1 BB and an unearned run.
- Phillip Andersen struck out 2 in a scoreless frame.
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Arnoldi Cruz, you are starting to intrigue me a bit, good sir.
I have to wonder what the Cards are thinking with Cruz. His first month in pro ball, and he’s now played at four different levels, in four different parts of the country. I could see moving him up from the GCL if it was clear from Day One that he was too advanced for that level of competition. What I can’t figure out is why he needed to spend a week at each of the next two stops before landing in the Midwest League.
Maybe it has to do more with moving other players around. I hope it’s not an evaluation thing — “Holy cow, he’s too good for this league too! Let’s move him up again!” Even Albert got to spend a half-season at Peoria in 2000 before he started leapfrogging up the system.
can’t wait to see the movie, i should be going today sometime. i never read the books either, but i’ve seen all the movies and they get better as they go on. my wife is a pretty big fan of the movies and books, she wanted to watch it 4 times already.
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i thought that was a good read. it’s good to remember that colby is not simply hype.
Cruz went boom again tonight. Time to move up to Palm Beach I guess
Was not impressed with the movie, and Erik, your wife will more than likely be upset. I found the HP series in Iraq and really liked the first four movies. I understand that a lot of things get left out during the transformation, but wow, the fifth left more questions than it gave answers.
Just my take, I know, but my fiance was much more upset. I guess she would be considered a ‘fanatic’ but at least the seventh book will be here soon. All the rest of the nerds out there like me have something to look forward to now that the Cards are struggling.
i saw the movie and really liked it, actually. i don’t know how they’re gonna squeeze out 2 more movies before Harry starts looking more like Hagrid, however.
He is getting a little old for the part. What did your wife think of it? Everyone I know that has only seen the movies liked it for the most part. I’ll stick with the books since then I can keep the Harry/Hagrid comparisons out of the equation.