September 27, 2006

Last night was the 7th season premiere of Gilmore Girls. *SPOILERS* It was good. I loved the whole Rory/Logan rocket thing. I also enjoyed the racquetball scene. I liked the return of the Stars Hollow cast with Kirk and Taylor and the traffic light camera. I felt that was something that was missing last season. I love Kirk; he’s one of my favorite characters on the show. I though Luke’s final scene with Lorelei, telling her that he’ll go anywhere to marry her was great, and of course, Lorelei had to screw that up. It just felt like something was missing. The normal pop culture references were missing, the whole bumper thing was odd. I don’t feel that it’s so far gone that it can’t return to what it once was. It should be interesting to see where this show goes for the rest of the season.

Premiering tonight:
9-10 PM
Lost special episode (ABC)
One Tree Hill (the CW)

Braves Update:
The Atlanta Braves smashed the New York Mets winning 12-0 last night. As if John Smoltz needed massive run support after pitching eight scoreless innings, the Braves delivered anyway. Willy Aybar, Matt Diaz and Andruw Jones all had homers. The Braves continue their series with their NL East rivals tonight at 7:35 on FSN.

Games to .500: 5
Games behind Los Angeles Dodgers: 7
Games behind New York Mets: 17

Braves Notes: Smoltzie won his 15th game of the season last night…Andruw Jones hit his 40th homerun of the season making this the second consecutive year he has hit at least 40 homeruns and his 6th of the last 8 years. He is only the third Brave ever to hit two consecutive years of at least 40 homers. Both Eddie Matthews and Hank Aaron have matched this feat, Aaron in 62 and 63 and Matthews from 53-55.

Random Quote: “I have learned that pitching is pitching, no matter if you’re 20 games up or 20 games down…My two teammates, [Tom] Glavine and [Greg] Maddux helped with that a lot.” –John Smoltz via altantabraves.com

NASCAR Update:
In Roush Racing’s continued search for next year’s driver of the #6 car, Todd Kluever will attempt to qualify for the race in Kansas this weekend in the #06. Last week Ragan started in the #06 finishing 42nd about where the #06 has been finishing all year.

An AP story released today suggests the All-Star Challenge may receive a minor face lift next year. Currently the event raced the weekend before the Coke 600 features winners of the current and past year as well as former All-Star race winners and Cup Champions of the past 10 years, the Nextel Open winner and the fan vote winner. Past fan winners include Martin Truex, Jr. who was not a full time Cup driver at the time, and Kyle Petty.

Separated at Birth:
Because it's the Braves last week, this week's SAB is for them!


Around Sports:
Football:
Cowboys annoyance, Terrell Owens was rushed to the hospital yesterday. In an ESPN report, Owens was suffering from an allergic reaction to pain medication. In a Dallas area news report, Owens attempted to commit suicide. You decide.

Baseball:
The Oakland A’s completed the AL playoff picture yesterday by clinching the West after a 12-3 win over the Mariners. The A’s join the New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins.

Golf:
Golf great, Byron Nelson died yesterday at the age of 94. Lord Byron won 11 straight tournaments in 1945. And we got all excited when Tiger Woods won five in a row. Byron was believed to have died of natural causes.

Around the World:
As if you needed another reason not to go to Cancun, large swarms of locust have taken over the Mexican resort town. These swarms can be as wide as a two way street. Last year, Cancun was hit by Hurricane Wilma, something the town has still not fully recovered from.

In totaled car news, small cars will see record sales this year, accounting for 31.5% of the total cars sold in the US. The other 68.5% could make them into true compact cars in small fender benders. Small car sales haven’t been this high since 1987. Fear not all of you SVU owners, gas prices have continually fallen in the past two months and are expected to carry on that trend.

Popo in my Crib News:
San Diego Charger, Terrence Kiel was arrested for a drug related investigation. He was released after posting $150,000 bond. Terrence watch out, because the popo are on your tail!

Celebrity Tid Bits:
Catherine Zeta-Jones will no longer be the spokeswoman for T-Mobile. The company is looking to repackage itself. I would think that just improving their terrible service would be enough to increase customer numbers, but I’m so small minded! Zeta-Jones has been with the company since 2003.

Congratulations go out to Trace Adkins whose newest CD, Dangerous Man, has already gone gold selling more than 500,000 copies since its August 15th release. His other album, Greatest Hits, Vol.1 has gone platinum selling over one million copies.

Kenny Chesney recently celebrated his astounding accomplishment of selling over 25 million albums. His latest album, Live: Live Those Songs Again, has already gone platinum. (via gactv.com)

Brad Paisley will release his first ever Christmas album, aptly titled, Brad Paisley Christmas. Christmas will be released on October 10th.

Happy Birthday wishes go out to Shaun Cassidy (48) and Meatloaf (59).

It’s been fun blogging with you,
Kate