Random Notes

Further notes on this and that .....

• Getting real tired of post-game television interviews with members of the victorious team and hearing that "No one gave us a chance to win this game." It should be more like: "I chose to misinterpret every opinion that was thrown out there for consumption."
• Why bother to have referees and umpires any more if they are going to stop the game and review every questionable call? They are not really needed for the obvious calls. Everyone can just agree to agree on those and then let some master computer in New York decide the others. MLB is already set up for that possibility. Get rid of the humans!! Orrrrrrrr get rid of the replays which I am actually for. Maybe keep the review process for the last ten seconds of a game or two outs, ninth inning situations. 
• Or put a timer on the officials. If they can't decide within 30 seconds of reviewing the replays ..... or from two different camera angles, then go with the original call. 
• Apparently one local Subway is attempting to re-define the submarine sandwich and give an extra push to their salads. Why else would they be constantly running out of bread in the middle of the sub eating day? Bread, I've always assumed, is kind of a high priority required item for a sandwich place.  
• In the opening moments of the movie from the 1940's, "Bataan," there's a scene where people and soldiers are evacuating a town in the Philippines and suddenly a Japanese plane appears overhead, dropping bombs and inflicting numerous deaths and destruction. The three main soldiers in the scene dive under cover. When the attack is done they resume their trek, laughing and joking just as before despite all the wounded, dead and dying civilians and fellow soldiers, all around them ..... like they're oblivious to it all. That's always bothered me. What was the director thinking?