Poll Results and New Poll

Well, you had a long time to vote in my last poll, and five of you did so.


To recap, the question was, "Which of Justin's most anticipated movies of the fall are YOU most anticipating?"

The surprise winner, with a whole two votes, was "For Your Consideration." I like a Christopher Guest mockumentary as much as the next guy, but I was surprised this one. I thought this was way under the radar as far as the movies coming out, and it was probably the last one to make my list.

Other movies getting votes (well, one apiece) were Borat, All the Kings Men and Last King of Scotland.

The new poll is on the right. Today, the potential Democratic candidate I supported the most, former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, announced that he will not be running for president. So which of these potential candidates would you most support?

Desperate Republicans in Wisconsin

The only thing surprising about this is that this is only the first time that someone has tried to use sexual exploits with the Green Bay Packers into a political advantage in Wisconsin.

Revisiting my MLB predictions again

I originally posted my MLB predicitons on March 30, and I revised them on July 10. Let's see how I did.

NL East 3/30 Braves 7/10 Mets

My 7/10 prediction held up, but it was pretty much already a certainty by then.

NL Central 3/30 Cardinals 7/10 Reds

Boy, did the Cards ever try to blow the division. But they didn't. I should have stuck with the original prediction.

NL West 3/30 Dodgers 7/10 Dodgers

The Dodgers had to settle for the Wild Card, with the Padres winning the division.

NL Wild Card 3/30 Brewers 7/10 Cardinals

Well, given how crappy their record was, and how they barely made the playoffs, it sure FEELS like the Cards are the Wild Card team...

NL Cy Young 3/30 Jake Peavy 7/10 Brandon Webb

Peavy was a terrible prediction, although he pitched fairly well, despite his record. Webb could still win it, he's currently third on ESPN's Cy Young Predictor. They have Billy Wagner winning it, but I think they'll go with a starter, and Chris Carpenter will repeat.

NL MVP 3/30 Albert Pujols 7/10 Albert Pujols

Ryan Howard might eek this out, but since he didn't make the playoffs and Albert did, I might have called this one right from the beginning.

NL Champs 3/30 Cardinals 7/10 Cardinals

Still possible.....

AL East 3/30 Yankees 7/10 Yankees

My theory that the Yankees will win this division every year until the end of time served me well once again.

AL Central 3/30 White Sox 7/10 White Sox

My confidence in the defending champs was misplaced all year, as the Twins took the division and the Tigers took the Wild Card.

AL West 3/30 Angels 7/10 Angels

The A's won. Another bad prediction for me.

AL Wild Card 3/30 Blue Jays 7/10 Tigers

Woo hoo! My revised prediction was right! Even if I was wrong about the team that would beat the Tigers in the Central.

AL Champs 3/30 White Sox 7/10 White Sox

That is looking rather unlikely.

AL Cy Young 3/30 Roy Halladay 7/10 Roy Halladay

Roy is 8th on the Cy Young predictor. It looks like Johan Santana.

AL MVP 3/30 Alex Rodriguez 7/10 David Ortiz

I do think Ortiz had the best overall numbers in the AL, but missing the playoffs could hurt him. My hunch says Derek Jeter.

Your 2006 World Series Champions 3/30 Cardinals 7/10 Cardinals

Woohoo! Sticking with it.

Movies I've seen

I haven't gotten around to changing that poll you see on the right, but I have seen two of the movies listed.

Last week I saw "The Science of Sleep." I think I liked it. I say "I think" because it was so confusing and abstract that I can't say much about it for certain. Still, it was very fun visually. I am officially interested in any movie Michel Gondry makes from now on.

I am much more certain that I really liked "The Departed." Scorsese in top form, a great story of cops and criminals and moles and the such. Jack Nicholson was probably the best of the bunch of fantastic performances... Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin were all quite good as well. One of the best all around ensemble casts I've seen in a while.

Now, I need to go think of a new poll.