Mister Jacob's Citadel

Sergio Romo and the Tampa Bay Rays may have started baseball's next big trend. They must be stopped.          The Tampa Bay Rays may have very well kickstarted baseball's next revolution. On May 24th, the Tampa Bay Rays announced that relief pitchers would start their series against the Baltimore Orioles.  This strategy, which has been pushed heavily by MLB Network host  Brian Kenny  is called 'bullpenning'. It would involve a pitcher called the 'Opener' to start the first inning of a game. The game's starter then comes in and pitches innings 2-6 (or 7) and then relief pitchers take over the remainder game. I won't lie, bullpenning is a genius strategy. However, I hope it goes the way of the dodo before it has a chance to really take root. Bullpenning is a symptom of what's bad for the game.      I should note before I make my argument that I am not some baseball traditionalist that is resistant to any change. I am in favor...

Tax-payers have been footing the bill for filthy rich sports leagues for decades. It's time to put that practice to an end.                   The American tax-payer has been getting screwed for too long. Tax-payer funded stadiums is like trickle-up economics. Corrupt and inept city councils across America take the poor and the middle-class’s hard earned tax money and give it to billionaires who build stadiums that the poor and middle class can’t afford to go to. It’s about damn time that the American tax-payer take a stand and tell these billionaire owners to fuck themselves and pay for their own damn stadiums.     Before I suggest my solutions to this problem, I must first dispel the one big misconception about tax-payer funded stadiums.  The misconception is that tax-payer funded stadiums will pay for themselves because the new stadiums will jump start the local economy. A poll of the top ...

     The Truman Show  (1998) directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol was released twenty years ago. At the time of its release,  The Truman Show  was meant to be a satirical sci-fi film. Now that we have entered a post-reality TV world,  The Truman Show  looks more like a documentary about what our world has become.       The Truman Show  is about a man named Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey), who is the unwitting star of a 24/7 reality show that is broadcast all over the world. Truman’s world is an elaborate Hollywood soundstage that is made up to resemble a seaside town and is bugged with cameras and microphones that capture his every move. Every person in the town is an actor. Even the closest people in Truman’s life like his mother (Holland Taylor), his wife Meryl (Laura Linney), and his best friend Marlon (Noah Emmerich) are all played by actors.  The producers of The Truman Show bomba...

  This is a ranking of the best films I saw in the theaters in 2017. I didn’t see Get Out, The Disaster Artist, Blade Runner: 2049, Wonder Woman, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Lady Bird, or The Florida Project , as a result I can’t put these films in my rankings.       4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2       This sequel was even funnier and more visually extravagant than the original film. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 also improved on the original film by introducing more emotional depth to the characters. Director and screenwriter James Gunn works very hard to entertain the audience with this film.   In fact, he may be working a little too hard to entertain us. This movie is loaded with so many jokes and crazy visuals that it’s kind of hard to keep up.        3. Logan        If this is truly Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart’s last hurrah as Wolverine and Profe...

     Is The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie?   The answer is that it’s both a Halloween and Christmas movie. In fact, The Nightmare Before Christmas is the perfect movie for both occasions. Director Henry Selick and Tim Burton, who produced and wrote the story created a fantastic film that people of all ages can enjoy.      The plot of the film involves Jack Skellington (Voiced by Chris Sarandon/Singing voice by Danny Elfman), the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town becoming bored by doing the same thing every Halloween despite the fact he is very successful at it. One day, Jack stumbles upon Christmas Town and grows so enamored with the Christmas holiday that he decides to hold a Christmas celebration of his own. Jack recruits the citizens of Halloween Town to help him fulfill this desire. However, the ghost, ghouls, and monsters’ efforts to put on a great Christmas celebration fail in a hilarious fa...