The 2008 season started with the Red Sox as champs. They were beaten by the A's, who were beaten back by Boston, who were then swept by Toronto, who lost to Oakland, who lost to Cleveland, and so on, until we reached our current champion.
The Heavyweight of the Year is the team that wins the most title bouts at the end of the season.
2008 Title Bout Records:
| team | w | l |
| Athletics | 13 | 13 |
| Red Sox | 11 | 7 |
| Angels | 6 | 4 |
| Indians | 4 | 6 |
| Rangers | 4 | 6 |
| Blue Jays | 3 | 3 |
| Reds | 2 | 0 |
| Yankees | 1 | 1 |
| Tigers | 1 | 2 |
| Orioles | 0 | 3 |
2006 Heavyweight of the Year:
Oakland Athletics
2005 Heavyweight of the Year:
Oakland Athletics
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2008 Stats
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I took my older daughter this afternoon to go see the new Wallace and Gromit movie, Curse of the Were-Rabbit. My younger daughter decided to stay home and watch baseball. She didn't care much for the other Wallace and Gromit cartoons. I think the satire/spoofing goes over her head, so she experiences the movies mostly on a literal level, which doesn't quite work for her. It's the difference between age five and age eight, I guess.
When we left the house, Lance Berkman had just hit a grand slam in the 8th inning, to bring the Astros to within one run.
It's a twenty-minute walk to the movie theater from my house. We saw the movie. (Quick review: enjoyable, entertaining, but coulda been better. The plot seemed rather loose, and the editing was choppy.) We walked back home.
And the Astros and Braves were still playing.
Cue the Jon Stewart eye-rub: Wha?
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I recently answered some "What went wrong" questions about the A's over at Baseball Analysts. Check it out.
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Posting might be light here for the next week or three. Now that the A's season is over, I'm gonna try to put some intense focus on programming Fairpole.
So sad about the fire that erased the entire history of Aardvark.
Sulley scared some of my friends' two-year-olds, but later (actually, at age 3), the movie became a favorite.
My favorite line is after the penguin takes the glove off its head....
WALLACE (gasps): It's YOU!
I think the fact that one of the characters tries repeatedly to shoot the were-rabbit is probably scarier than the rabbit itself. If you have any hesitation about exposing your kid to the idea of guns, you might want to think twice.
There's also a mean dog that's scarier than the were-rabbit, too.
Nobody really gets hurt in the movie, but there are a couple moments where you think someone does.
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