MLB Adds More Wild Cards to It's Playoff Format

Major League Baseball will add one more wild card team from each league starting next season.

Starting this October the division winners plus two teams with the next best records in each league will graduate to the post season. Although this may negate last day pennant-race thrillers such as last season involving the Boston Red Sox and the Atlanta Braves when they both suffered late-season collapses.

The only thing is, and this is probably due to time constraints involving cooler weather in October, especially on the east coast, the wild cards in each league will only play a one-game playoff (exactly like what would happen if two teams are tied with identical records at the end of the season) to determine who advances to the division playoff against the regular season division winner.

All in all though it does give more teams a better chance to advance to the playoffs and should create more excitement come early October.

Finally, Some Class at the Oscars

It's about time some actor reminded us of how Hollywood used to be; elegant, classy and humble-well, the performers anyway. Here's about-time-Oscar-winner for Best Supporting Actor winner Christopher Plummer and his acceptance speech doing justice to the old-time thespians. sagacious brevity, theatrical elegance, and understated humor.

It calls to mind other memorable Oscar speeches given by Hollywood legends such as Cary Grant, Charlie Chaplin and John Wayne, whose well-chosen words continue to teach and inspire.

The Oscars: 2012 Edition

Ok, really. Other than Christopher Plummer finally winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, as for the rest of the Academy Awards (aka "Hollywood Elitist and Millionaires Patting Themselves on the Backs Night") Who cares?! Not only do these Tinseltown Bubble Elitists (TBE's) have absolutely no idea what goes on beyond their entourages and "Yesmen," besides what they're told and read in their gossip rags (assuming that they see their own names in it) but they make worse and worse movies year after year.

I can name a handful of actors that can actually act, but they usually stay out of the spotlight, so the attention then goes to other celebrities who Hollywood thinks we give a rat's ass about. And when we don't care, they try and tell us that we do. There's a reason why movies suck now and re-hashing television shows and now flicks based on board games isn't going to change that.

Hours and and hours of boring, "Look how great we are" television, telling people to go to the movies more while honoring movies no one knows or cares about isn't going to garner you ratings, fans or ticket sales. Here's a novel idea: Make better movies!! I know. What a concept, huh?

Anyway, if your interested for some reason as to who won these seemingly inconsequential statuettes, here's the run down.

Gary Carter Dead at 57

Not only is this perhaps number two of the three of "celebrities" to pass within the last few days (although Gary Carter had more class and was most certainly not a vain whiny know-it-all like most famous personalities these days) but Gary Carter was my favourite baseball player. I used to love to watch him play with the Montreal Expos growing up. I even was lucky enough to see him play at Olympic Stadium in my very first Major League ball game on a trip to Montreal in 1981. It was the year of the Expos' phenomenal pennant run in that strike-shortened split season. It sure was awesome to see the Great #8 play live. I'm also glad he went back to the Expos and played his final year there in 1992 before they were sold and moved to Washington. Gary Carter, the three-time Golden Glove and two-time All-Star MVP succumbed to brain cancer at the all-too-young age of 57.

That's two of my childhood favourites to pass in the last year or so. It probably won't be long before they're all gone. That's when you really examine your own mortality. Bummer.

Whitney Houston Dead at 48

Pop star Whitney Houston, who had become more famous in the last decade or so for her problems with domestic violence and drug abuse than her singing and songwriting has died. She was 48.

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Woolley Mammoth Found Alive?

So by now you've all probably heard that some Russian government-employed engineer shot some footage of a supposed woolly mammoth (that have been extinct for 4,000 years) last summer in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia.



It's a bear, folks. A big damn bear with a fish in it's mouth. Case closed.