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I feel the need to plug again.

In an effort to keep the series run­ning, the sec­ond install­ment of the “Adult’s Guide to Preschool TV” is up on Pop­Bunker. I hit on the Dis­ney Chan­nel on this one (specif­i­cally “Play­house Dis­ney”, as Dis­ney labels its Preschool shows.)

I had a lit­tle less fun writ­ing this one than I did on the Nick Jr. one. I don’t know if I was just more inspired on the Nick Jr. piece, or if it was because I was get­ting back into writ­ing in the first one and the sec­ond one just seemed “nec­es­sary”, but it just kind of left me with an “I’m fin­ished” feel­ing instead of being pleased. Maybe I’ll get some good feed­back on it and I’ll feel a lit­tle better.

Third install­ment will come around even­tu­ally, but I might try a dif­fer­ently themed arti­cle for my next Pop­Bunker post, just so I don’t feel locked in. Fig­ure that with the preschool series I can only go in two direc­tions — PBS Kids stuff (most of which is pretty good and not that easy to make fun of) or pick­ing var­i­ous pro­grams that I haven’t men­tioned in an effort to wrap it up. The lat­ter is more likely, since there are some ripe tar­gets out there (one of which prob­a­bly deserves its own post) and it works bet­ter to wrap up the series.

Not that a great deal of you actu­ally still come to the site, but for those of you who do, I’ve writ­ten an arti­cle for PopBunker.net called “The Adults Guide to Preschool TV: Nick Jr”. As the title implies, it’ll be part of a series — I’ll touch on Dis­ney Chan­nel as well, along with a PBS one and pos­si­bly a fourth cov­er­ing those that I missed in the pre­vi­ous three.

So check it out or something.

OK.

So appar­ently Alex Rodriguez has a torn labrum in his hip, which will either put him out for 10 weeks (accord­ing to his brother), 4 months (if the Yan­kees feel he needs surgery), or not at all (the ini­tial approach the Yanks are taking.)

admis­sion that he took steroids» Read more…

So once again, could be worse.

The Bal­ti­more Ori­oles have picked up for­mer hyped cen­ter field prospect Felix Pie from the Chicago Cubs for starter Gar­rett Olson and minor league pitcher Hank Williamson. Pie needed to be dealt because after six sea­sons, you stop being a “prospect” and start being the guy who couldn’t make the major league ros­ter. His days were num­bered after this past sea­son — when your team chooses to stick a cor­ner out­fielder who couldn’t make the Blue Jays 25-man ros­ter (Reed John­son) in cen­ter, then after real­iz­ing that was a bad idea chooses to rean­i­mate the corpse of Jim Edmonds rather than give you another shot in cen­ter, you’re never going to make it. Bal­ti­more is a fresh start for him, and he’ll get as much shot as any­one to get the cen­ter field job. » Read more…