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Monday, September 12, 2005 |
The Unsure Thing: Mariners 8, Angels 1
There was a great little 1985 movie called The Sure Thing, which starts out as the adventure of an east coast frat boy who finds himself on a quest to LA to meet this girl his buddy swears is "a sure thing". Of course, this is ostensibly about him getting laid by some mythical 10 he's never met, but real life intervenes, and he falls charmingly in love with someone totally unexpected. (That it's a John Cusack movie -- and really, the film that launched his career -- doesn't hurt; Cusack has an almost supernatural gift for picking good vehicles for his understated but abundant talents.) About their onscreen collision, Roger Ebert wrote
I know this is an obvious movie ploy. I know, in fact, that what will happen next is completely predictable: They'll fight, they'll share experiences, they'll suffer together, and eventually they'll fall in love. I know all of these things, and yet I don't care. I don't care because love is always a cliché anyway, and the only thing that makes it endlessly fascinating is that the players are always changing. These two particular characters, Walter and Alison, played by these two gifted young actors, Cusack and [Daphne] Zuniga, make "The Sure Thing" into a special love story.In the case of tonight's game, you'd think that something like that might be in operation, and you'd be right. Of course, it doesn't end as pleasantly for the Angels as it did for Cusack's character in the movie, and in fact, is the exact opposite of that movie's plot line. In this case, the overtaxed rookie -- who only threw 43.2 innings last year inbetween arm trouble -- falls apart, while the schizophrenic veteran tosses a nearly perfect game, which would be something like Cusack actually making it to the West Coast, falling in love with the floozie, becoming depressive when he realizes she is a floozie, and then killing himself.
Fortunately, this is not a movie. However, with the A's beating Cleveland 2-0, the Angels' AL West lead dissipated to a single game. Shite.
Comments:
"The Sure Thing" also was one of Tim Robbins' first films. And Nicolette Sheridan was a long way from being a "Desperate Housewife" and Anthony Edwards had hair.
Bob T
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