From Good Joe to Bad Bro

With the beginning buzz for Brothers gearing up, this the first chance see Jake as we have never seen him before. The Bad Ass, Black Sheep, Bad Boy. Looking to reform.

Looking over his career prior to Brothers, Jake played pretty much the do good nice guy, yes he has his foibles but for the most part he was never the bad guy, misunderstood yes, misbehaving yes, former prisoner no. Not forgetting Donnie Darko. But Donnie was different.

That's not to say that Donnie was a good guy or a bad guy- he was destined to be who he was, what he was, and did what he did. Was Donnie morally corrupt? What do you think?

But Tommy Cahill is different. Tommy is out of prison, and lives on the edge of the law. This is not the boy scout of Zodiac or the government agent of Rendition. He had no higher purpose to do wrong. He's a rule breaker and trouble maker. And this is the first character that Jake has played who is morally compromised but not his last. What drew Jake to Brothers? Is it the story about the reformation of bad into good? Or is a chance just to be bad, someone he isn't? But the question is can he be the bad ass with the good boy face? Will his fans buy into it?

It seems like a smart move to start with a story like Brothers, someone on the wrong side of the law trying to reform. Dipping his toe into the grittier less likable characters pool. As if to ease Jake's fans into seeing him play something different. In a way getting them used to new directions he is taking his acting.

Many times in Hollywood playing against type is what gets you noticed and recognized for your work. Do you think not only fans will do this but the critics and Hollywood as well?


OMG Olympic Moment
Baseball
Baseball's stature in the history of the United States is perhaps reflected more clearly in a simple dictionary rather than in the seven-centimetre-thick baseball encyclopedia.However, just as the game did not begin as a wholly US enterprise, it did not end the 20th century as one either. Baseball's all-time home-run champion is a man named Sadaharu Oh, who hit 868 during a legendary career in baseball-mad Japan. The national team of Cuba overpowered the Baltimore Orioles of the US major leagues 12-6 in a 1999 exhibition game.

Baseball became a full medal sport in Barcelona in 1992.

Three strikes, full count, 4 balls. Grand Slams. This is why its an OMG Olympic sport. And if you grew up in the US, the analogy of 1st base, Getting to Second, Third Base, and rounding third and heading home has nothing to do with baseball.
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And just leaving it up to you to speculate about playing catch.
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