Why Do You Have One Of Those?

Last night as I was flipping around after the NFL draft, I paused on a random action movie showing on one of the movie channels. In the scene I caught, there were two guys fighting in a kitchen. One of them grabbed a knife, while the other guy grabbed a meat cleaver. This got me to thinking: this sequence happens in every single action movie fight that ever takes place in a kitchen, but do you actually know anyone has a meat cleaver in their kitchen? I don't have one in my kitchen and I don't know anyone that has one in theirs. Seriously, no one needs a cutting tool that large in this day and age. I don't think most sets of knives even come with meat cleavers anymore because, frankly, they're dangerous, cumbersome and unnecessary. Yet, when we watch movies we just accept that every kitchen has a meat cleaver in it. No one ever stops and says, "Why would you need a knife that big in your house? Those people aren't butchers or chefs." The other thing is now that I've noticed this I can't stop noticing it. It really takes me out of the movie when that thought flashes through my head.

-Since I'm usually very quick to criticize the NCAA when they screw things up, I'll take a moment to praise them for making the right call in announcing that while the NCAA Tournament will expand, it will only expand to 68 teams, not the 96 everyone expected. Basically, it will now have three Play-In games instead of the the one that it currently has. This is great because there were only a few teams that had a legitimate complaint about not making the NCAA tournament this year and now those teams can be satisfied without flooding the tournament with teams that have no chance to win. Also, the new TV deal will put every game on either CBS or one of the stations owned by Turner Sports, meaning no more getting stuck with a game you don't want to see just because one of those teams is within a 600 mile radius of your home. This is a great win for the fans. I'm sure the NCAA will screw it up and eventually we'll have a 96 team tournament, but for now I congratulate them for proceeding slowly and listening to the fans who wanted as little expansion as possible.

-I feel I have to correct a mistake that I saw on ESPN during their draft coverage. There was one graphic that flashed every time the Patriots went on the clock (which was a lot considering how often the team moved down).

Here's how it looked.
New England Patriots, Key Players Lost:
Junior Seau, Ben Watson, Jarvis Green.

Here's how it should have looked.
New England Patriots, Key Players Lost:
None.

See, that's much better.