HEAT

Not the Miami kind, who I still think will figure it out for the playoffs, but the great movie with Pacino and De Niro. I watched it again and was just mesmerized at how beautifully the movie was done. The cinematography is just fantastic, which is a classy was of saying it looks gorgeous. The acting is amazing, with Pacino and De Niro at their finest, which is incredible to watch. I forgot how well done the film is and was excited to post up and remind people to check it out. It's hard to classify it because it's a character study, but an action/heist movie as well. It's so large in scope and does such a great job of making you a part of the characters lives while not being boring about it. One of the best done action films ever and the reason Michael Mann keeps getting work.

NCAA tourney time and baseball are upon us and WI, for the first time, has some things to be excited about. With the emergence of Jordan Taylor as Alpha Male and Gassert's continued improvement the Badgers will be a tough out in the tournament. With no great teams floating around, it once again is a fairly wide open year. The Brewers have assembled one of the best staffs in baseball and if Marcum, Greinke, Gallardo, Wolf, and Parra (joke) stay healthy it's almost impossible to think the Brewers will miss the postseason. You just hope for continued development from their young core and that playing for a contender will make Betancourt play at a higher level than usually. Fielder will be impossible to unload and will be a painful loss. The compensation will not be worth it and he will leave a hole in the middle of the lineup that will be tough to replace. Gamel will need to develop a lot before he'd be ready to play every day at first base and produce at the plate. Carlos Gomez absolutely needs to step it up at the plate. If he can't figure it out, it's going to be rough having a CF hitting .240 again. It's time to start praying Axford can return to last years form immediately because I don't want to have to find a different closer on the fly. Reasons to be excited though for baseball in WI for the first time since the Sabathia deal.