Saturday Morning Musings (#2)

Good morning, everyone! I hope you've all had a good week. I was able to enjoy a day off from school on Thursday due to yet another batch of snow in New York, so that was nice and relaxing. As for today's post, there are a few things I want to talk about, so let's get into it.

Let's talk some baseball. The Mets have started some Spring Training games and it's a straight run from now until opening day. Being that it's that time of year again, there will definitely be more baseball-related posts to come. I always enjoy watching spring training. Not only do you get to see the already big league players play a bit, but you also get to see the prospects, which I really love. I absolutely have to address the fact that Matt Harvey is back and in his debut since having Tommy John surgery, he struck out three batters and hit 99 mph on the radar in two perfect innings. He definitely looked like the Matt Harvey that left the mound 18 months ago.

Jumping over to the other Matt of yesterday's game that ended it with a walk-off: Matt Reynolds, a shortstop prospect that will most likely start his season in AAA Las Vegas, but someone I hope we get to see as the starting SS at some point this year. Last season, he played at both Binghamton (AA) and Las Vegas. He hit a combined .343 with a .454 slugging percentage and .405 on-base percentage in 126 games (via Baseball Reference). The one thing that needs some work is the number of errors he has playing the position (16 total at both AA and AAA for last season), but if he gets those down, there's a good chance we may see him at some point this year, especially if Wilmer Flores isn't doing as great as they had hoped. He could be the guy we need to fill that position. We'll see how the season plays out...

One of the television shows I watch has returned this week and I have started two others. The one that returned is Once Upon A Time, which I'm hoping has a good second half to the fourth season. Not much has happened as of yet since only one episode has aired, but I think it has the potential to be a good story with the Queens of Darkness as the villains. As for the shows I've started, those are Smallville and The Walking Dead. I've only seen three episodes of Smallville so far, but I'm not in a rush to get through ten seasons as there's nothing to catch up on in order to watch a new episode being that the series is over. The Walking Dead I had started a few months ago and only watched two episodes before starting Supernatural, which then took over the majority of time I spent watching TV since I wanted to catch up as soon as possible. I'm still only four episodes into TWD, but I'm enjoying it so far. A little side note to this is that my sister has been telling me to watch it, but I've also been telling her to watch Arrow, so we compromised, I watch TWD and she watches Arrow, a win-win since they're both good shows.

And lastly, something that I just want to touch upon: 50 Shades of Grey. I went to see it last night with some friends out of pure curiosity for what the hype is all about. Honestly? I thought it was terrible. I don't recommend spending your money on it, but like I said, curiosity got the best of me. The screenwriting was poor and my friends and I found ourselves laughing at the ridiculous lines most of the time. The only good thing that came out of it was Jamie Donan's acting, which wasn't outstanding, but it saved the movie by a very small margin, in my opinion. I've never read the books, just some poorly written lines via Tumblr, and I can safely say I still do not understand the hype over it. There's part of me that hopes Jamie Dornan does decide to quit the franchise, mainly because I'd rather him put his name and acting to something worthwhile than a book series that is only popular because of its erotic content, since the writing certainly doesn't deserve the hype. Anyway, I said I'd be brief, so that's enough of that.

I think that just about hits everything I wanted to cover today. It was a little bit of everything, but I hope you all enjoyed reading and have a great Saturday, or whatever day it is when your read this!

ICYMI: I wrote up a post on Stephen Amell this past week and how he uses his fame in some great ways.

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