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...fairness, last week the Yankees - already the richest, best team in baseball - traded for Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod) - the richest, best player in baseball. The Yankees now have a slightly better lineup than the National League All-Star team, one of whose members will undoubtedly be the Yankees' second baseman by the play-offs...
...visualized by artist Gary Baseman (whose illustrations have appeared in TIME) and voiced and sung by Nathan Lane, Spot is a creature of indefatigable show-biz sizzle. In this expansion of the Saturday-morning show, Spot follows his boy Leonard to Florida, where Spot means to submit to the genetic-engineering experiments of Dr. Ivan Krank (Kelsey Grammer). The script, by Cheers vets Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, has a whirligig wit, and 11 songs crammed into its 67 minutes: that's more melodic content than in most Broadway musicals...
...Baseman design--balloon-animal shapes and clown faces, vividly colored--has been filled out by director Timothy Bjorklund with such loving congestion that you'll need to see the film twice to get all the fun. (Look for the Mickeys!) As CGI cartooning takes over the world--Disney just closed down its traditional-animation studio in Florida--Teacher's Pet finds a fresh and frisky approach to doing things the old, Walt way. --By Richard Corliss
...third and deciding game of the 2003 Ivy League baseball championship series, Szymanski—an All-Ivy centerfielder last season—chopped a hard ground ball off of first baseman Mike Dukovich, before beating out Zak Farkes’ throw to the bag. In the ensuing mayhem, two Tigers’ runners crossed the plate, expanding the Harvard deficit to the game’s final three run margin...
Kerry peppered his speech with lines about the recently-ended Red Sox season. His speech approached the realm of poor taste when he joked that Bill Buckner—the famed first baseman whose error lost the 1986 World Series for the Red Sox when a ball passed between his legs—tried to kill himself by laying on train tracks, only to have the locomotive pass between his legs...