David Ortiz, at 37, is hitting better than last year or the year before. Honest-- it's the winter conditioning program. Really.
Method-actors can be very annoying, especially to the other members of a movie crew, or even the other actors. You don't matter, Laurence Olivier. You don't matter sound-guy. You don't matter director. I must commune with my inner-self, draw on my child-hood memories and experiences, and connect my personal emotional life to the artistic representation of this character's inner life. Stand back and wait. I'll let you know when I'm ready. You philistines really have no business deciding when I need to get in front of a camera.
Angel Hernandez had the opportunity to review High Definition footage of a double off the wall Wednesday, May 8th, in a game between Oakland and Cleveland. It was quickly evident to millions of viewers that the ball was not a double: it struck a pipe railing above the yellow stripe that demarcates the field of play, therefore it was a home run. Hernandez however, for reasons that no one has been able to explain, called it a double.
Hernandez is a method umpire. After the game, he prepared for his role as defender of the ineffable perfection of umpires by drawing upon his arrogant inner ego and connecting it with his artistic representation of immutable authority: I am the umpire. I am never wrong. When the media asked him about the call, he refused to allow anyone to record his answer. Then he refused to provide an answer. He was so deep into his role, that his other personality, that of a rational human being, had been completely submerged by the time the media had tucked away their microphones.