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Monday notes

- That sure was quite a weekend for the Brewers as they got a sweep over the Cardinals and moved into first place in the NL Central for the first time in 2 years.

They wouldn't have been able to do it without the, NL Player of the Week, Prince Fielder though.  In the last 10 games, he has hit 8 homeruns, 7 of which have given Milwaukee a lead and the 8th tied up a game.  That's pretty amazing stuff.

Very early in the season, but still, encouraging to see them win a series like that against a rival.

- I know it's a smaller story, but I'm sure you've been following it...

There has been a bit of discussion in the last week or so about how baseball is looking to re-align itself in the near future to get 15 teams in each league.   Not really sure how to feel about this except for the fact that baseball really needs to try and do something to balance out interleague play schedules.   Here's part of the reason why.

St. Louis gets K.C twice, then the Blue Jays, Orioles, and Rays.

Milwaukee gets Boston, Tampa, Minnesota twice, then the Yankees.

I can understand why the natural rivalry games are in there, so that's a wash, but why can't they figure out a way for all of the teams in the division to... oh, I don't know... play the same teams in the other division, like every other sport does?

There's so much to like about baseball, but the unbalanced schedule, and scheduling in general for it, sucks.

- There was no jumping around or yelling in excitement or anything like that, but I was very happy that the Mavericks beat Miami last night in game 6 of the NBA finals.

The reasons why people dislike the Heat are myriad and there is an incredibly good chance that they will be back in this position again if the league plays again next year, but for now everyone can sit back and enjoy the fact that the King's coronation will have to wait for at least another year.

- Now that the basketball playoffs are over, hopefully we'll get a Boston win tonight so that we have all of the sports world focused on a 7th game in the Stanley Cup finals.  I don't think it's too much of a stretch to think this will happen considering the fact that the Bruins outscored Vancouver 12-1 in the first two games in Boston.

- In the movie world, I took my girls to see Kung Fu Panda 2 over the weekend.  I had a pretty good idea of what they were trying to do with the film, but I just felt that it wasn't executed all that well.  It was a decent film, but nowhere near as good as the first.  The girls enjoyed it though, so at least there was that.

Then last night I sat down and watched the new version of True Grit last night with my wife.  Damn.  That was an incredibly well done movie.   Some of the imagery in that film will be sticking with me for quite some time.  I don't know how, but Jeff Daniels keeps getting better and better every time I see him, and his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn was flat out brilliant.

Sadly, I've never seen the original, but after watching this one, I really have to do that soon.

- Lastly, in gaming I started playing inFamous 2 which is just as good as the first.

The only annoyance that I've found thus far relates to the user created levels.  Thankfully they show up on your map with a different type of marker because after you play the actual campaign or mini-missions, you'll really want nothing to do with the user-created ones.   Even the missions created by Sucker Punch just feel hollow compared to the actual game itself.

Perhaps they'll get better as time goes on, but if that's a reason you were interested in the game, you'll end up disappointed.