Bits and Pieces

The kid is a BEAST.Here's something I suppose I could have guessed at, but still seems surprisingly quaint -- in the Braves home opener, there was already demand for merchandise featuring uber-prospect Jason Heyward (who didn't disappoint by crushing a HR in his first at-bat) -- so much that over 500 items were purchased during the game itself.

That's not the quaint part - that part is that said merchandise couldn't go on sale until the fifth inning, when the game became official, because by rule, a player’s apparel cannot be sold until he’s played in a Major League game. That's cute, isn't it?

In related news, J-Hey is on my fantasy team, and though my brother (who I co-own the team with) gasped when I bid $11 for the guy who had previously done nothing, he's now on board. The kid is a beast, with power, speed and the ability to hit for a solid average as well. Let's just say that I understand the excitement.

As detailed previously (though not really recently) on this blog, we watch a decent amount of TV here at the Reign of Error Palace, and it's only lately that I have realized a few things about the shows I watch.

For instance, Robert Leckie on The Pacific? That's Chase Edmunds from 24.

I didn't figure this out myself, but read it in an online review of The Pacific, which by the way is good and well-made and I'm not sure what's taking so long. (It's a bit slow, but I'm liking it.)

Some other connections it took me too long to make:

Walter Bishop from Fringe? That's the deranged king from Return of the King.

But the one that really got me? It was this one, which really only works for you if you watch The Good Wife:

Glenn Childs, the shady D.A. in The Good Wife is ... The Man In Black from Lost.

I'm not quite sure why that eluded me for so long (besides the Occams Razor solution which is, of course, that I'm an idiot), but it did. Props to Titus Welliver, who plays Childs and The Man In Black - both for two jobs well done, and for having a ridiculously fun name.

Finally, to add in a bit of politics, I was a little alarmed by what sounded like a terrorist airline incident. Then, it appeared to be something else. Finally, it was summed up nicely by Adam Serwer:

Good evening, all..