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Weekend Discussion Thread: Evil Baseball Promotions

Spring training has begun, and our pal Timmy suggests:

So i was watching “The Girl in Lovers’ Lane” and the Mads had evil baseball promotion night ideas. I was thinking what would your evil baseball (and will include other sports) promotional night ideas? Mine are: free coffee drink with a shot of ipecac night, free asbestos night and — an oldie but a goodie — 10 cent beer and disco demolition night.

I am old enough to remember bat day (every kid was given an actual regulation wooden bat) at Connie Mack Stadium. My two brothers and I behaved ourselves but I kind of doubt today’s kids would…

What’s your idea?

Two Podcasts in One in Minneapolis

At: Sisyphus Brewing, 712 Ontario Ave W, Minneapolis, on Wednesday, April 11, at 7 p.m.:

Two of your favorite podcasts together, live and in person — plus, beer! 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back & Like Trees Walking LIVE!

Join “Mystery Science Theater 3000″‘s Mike Nelson and co-host Conor Lastowka (Writer/Producer for RiffTrax) for a very special live edition of their hit podcast 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back. Mike and Conor will give you an honest, unflinching review of the upcoming Ernest Cline /Steven Spielberg film “Ready Player One” and also visit all your podcast favorites, including Dumb Sentence of the Week, Leaked Scenes and a very special edition of Real or FanFic?

Also, Mike will be joined by David Berge for a live and lively version of their podcast Like Trees Walking. Mike and the learned pastor will discuss the BIG issues of being a human being on planet earth, issues of philosophy, religion, life, death, and most importantly, canned fish products. You’ll laugh, you’ll think, you’ll laugh again, and then stop to think why you’re laughing.

Ticket sales will be donated to: 826 National (national creative writing non-profit) and Ace in the City (local non-profit that does literacy education in the MPS)

For more info

New Legacy Eps on Netflix

Here’s a current list of legacy episodes available for viewing on Netflix:

Time of the Apes
Fugitive Alien
The Robot vs the Aztec Mummy
Devil Fish
First Spaceship on Venus
Gorgo
Racket Girls
The Girl in Lovers Lane
The Touch of Satan
City Limits
The Beginning of the End
The Girl in Gold Boots
Manos
Catalina Caper
Eegah!
Hercules Against the Moon Men
Space Mutiny
Future War
Horrors of Spider Island
Jack Frost

Among those taken down are “I Accuse My Parents,” “Laserblast,” “Pod People” and “Puma Man,” but I haven’t seen a full list. If somebody has one, please post in the comments.

Season 11 Gets Saturn Award Nomination

The 44th annual Saturn Award nominations have been announced.

Among them:

Best Presentation on Television:
Channel Zero (SyFy)
Descendants 2 (Disney Channel)
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time (BBC America)
Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Return (Netflix)
Okja (Netflix)
The Sinner (USA)
Twin Peaks: The Return (Showtime)

The awards will be presented in June.

New Horizons Film Library Sold

Shout! Factory and China-based Ace Film HK Company Limited (ACE) have acquired the New Horizons Picture library, encompassing 270 Roger Corman films and an action sci-fi TV series from Roger and Julie Corman, the companies announced Thursday.

Hmmm…

Not sure this has any effect on MST titles, but…

Read about it here.

(Thanks to Brian for the heads up.)