The Associated Press: Marlins get long-coveted Miami ballpark.

When the Florida Marlins won the 1997 World Series, there was a rumor that the movie Back to the Future II had predicted this.  Not quite.

The film predicts that the Cubs would sweep Miami, not Florida, in the 2015 World Series.

But now, news came out today that the Florida Marlins would become the Miami Marlins in 2011 when the team finally gets its own stadium.  Creepy.  I’m thinking about putting down a solid bet for that year.

Still needed, the Marlins will need to move to the American League by then as well.  Could happen.  Bump Kansas City or the Twins to the West (the Timberwolves play in the North West division in the NBA), move Toronto to the Central, and transplant Florida to the East.  Done and done.

Unfortunately, the Jaws franchise needs to release about 3 films a year to catch up to the Jaws 19 prediction.

If you’re buying the Dark Knight Two-Disc Special Edition DVD, make sure to slide the shrink-wrapped portion out of the outer box to make sure you’re getting the widescreen version.  I haven’t seen the Dark Knight yet, so I was pretty anxious to watch it when it came out on DVD.  I brought  it home, pulled it out of the sleeve, and got:

Aaaaaaah!  I don’t know why we have full screen any more.  Just put everything in widescreen.  The black bars at the top and bottom aren’t that big of a deal, are they?

The bad thing is that there’s nothing on the cover of the special edition to indicate whether it’s widescreen.  I assumed that it would be since it’s the special edition and all.  Bad assumption on my part:

Couldn’t find anything on the back either that would indicate the format.  So make sure to slide the container out of the sleeve before you leave the store.

[UPDATE] – This probably wasn’t the fault of the distributor.  More than likely someone swapped out the two-disc edition for the cheaper single-disc version.  Although, the sleeve has a hole in it for the barcode, so that wouldn’t have worked anyway.  Either way, make sure you’re getting the right one.

I was playing around on Disney’s wall-e website with the boy and found the games section.  One of them allows you to create your own wall-e wallpaper.

One of the images that Eve has reminded me of one from the Matrix.  Here, Trinity has a gun pulled on an agent and says her famous line, “Dodge this.”

Dodge This

So I played around with the wall-e image maker and a little Photoshop and came up with this (click on image for more sizes),

Eve from wall-e doing her best Trinity impression