THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011
PAGE 13
Wednesday's rainout is the second one in World Series history.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: When was the last World Series rainout?
A: Oct. 28, 2008; Game 5 between the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays
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MORNING BREW
Imagining MLB as a movie
Growing up, "Rookie of the Year" was one of my favorite movies to watch. If you haven't seen it, I am referring to the film where a middle school boy breaks his arm and gains a super-human fastball as a result.
For a kid who went into the backyard, threw the ball against the fence and pretended to be in the majors, what could be better than a film with a kid who actually gets to play alongside his heroes?
Berkman and Heddo both look like youd be more likely to run into them at a motorcycle bar outside of Colombia, Mo., than in a professional ballpark.
This year, while watching the MLB playoffs, I couldn't help but notice that St. Louis Cardinals slugger Lance Berkman looks strikingly similar to the villain from "Rookie of the Year," Alejandro "Butch" Heddo.
Both players are on the heavy side, and their faces looked stuffed inside their batting helmets as if they are about to spill over, with mullet-esque hair dangling out the back. And they both have scruffy facial hair.
Pair Berkman with his machine-like teammate Albert Pujols, a man who has an evil smirk on his face every at-bat.
and then add Yadier Molina, their smug catcher who once spit in an umpire's face when he didn't agree with the call, and you have a perfect trio of Disney quality movie villains.
Their opponents, the Texas Rangers, even have the quality redemption story every Hollywood screenwriter dreams of in Josh Hamilton. Even if Hamilton's redemption is from a drug addiction that almost ended his career instead of the more family-friendly broken arm.
Now I know there is no way Berkman would taunt a child after hitting a home run off of him, and I know he has a reputation as a good guy in the community, but I can't get the image out of my head. I can't bring myself to root for him to do
well either.
In fact, I hope Berkman comes to bat with the series on the line. I want to see him cock his bat back, ready to knock a ball out of the park, his tongue hanging out of the corner of his mouth and whipping so hard on a change-up that he falls over, collapsing to the dirt as the Rangers storm the field to celebrate their first World Series Championship.
Edited by Jennifer DiDonato
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Average BCS score calculated by averaging the percent totals of the Harris Interactive, USA Today Coaches and Computer polls.
1 LSU .9702
2 Alabama .9627
3 Oklahoma State .9240
4 Boise State .8302
5 Clemson .8240
6 Stanford .8124
7 Oregon .6877
8 Kansas State .6681
9 Oklahoma .6642
10 Arkansas .6581
11 Michigan State .5380
12 Virginia Tech .5338
13 South Carolina .5014
14 Nebraska .4385
15 Wisconsin .4333
16 Texas A&M .4281
17 Houston .3676
18 Michigan .3416
19 Penn State .3071
20 Texas Tech .2012
21 Arizona State .1633
22 Georgia .1594
23 Auburn .1310
24 Texas .1187
25 West Virginia .0733
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