💪Finkel's Fast Five Issue 110 - March 6, 2020

March 07, 2020

Welcome to Finkel's Fast Five #110. Thanks for reading and subscribing! - Jon

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MAN'S BEST FRIEND - My four-legged best buddy passed away last week. As anyone who has been through it knows, it hurts. A lot.... This is a post I dreaded writing and debated writing but ultimately had to write. Mostly for me. Maybe for you. Below is our story.

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BOOKS - We're a month out from baseball season and the release of author Brad Balukjian's book: The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife.  This book is, without question, one of the coolest, most unique ideas for a book I've seen in a while. In Brad's own words: "I took a pack of 1986 baseball cards and made a pact: 1. I'd track down all guys inside. 2. I'd chew the gum. 3. I'd write a book about it." If you're a baseball card nerd or used to be, then of course you know he's referring to a classic pack of '86 Topps. How awesome is this idea? The minute I heard about it I knew I was reading it. And it has one of the all-time great sports book covers as well. Check it out.

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PODCAST - Mike Tyson has a podcast/YouTube show called Hotboxin'. He is a surprisingly strong interviewer, especially when it comes to talking with current/former boxers and other athletes. He is raw, erratic, occasionally hard-to-follow, but always (and i mean always) entertaining.  I enjoy watching the episodes in the background while I'm working more than listening to them, because I think Tyson's facial emotions, mannerisms and body language are so strong. This episode with Sugar Ray Leonard, where Tyson talks about the fear of letting his inner demons out, is incredible.

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MOVIES - There's a phenomenal sports movie that came out about ten years ago that has gone a little too under the radar. It's on Amazon Prime now and I just re-watched it and here's my hot take: it belongs in the pantheon of all-time great sports movies - right up there with Rocky and Remember the Titans and whatever other movies are on your list.  The movie I'm talking about is 'Warrior', starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton and Nick Nolte. All three give outstanding, gutsy performances and on top of that, the fight scenes and the finale are as good as it gets. What sticks with me the most about the film is the stark contrast in the two brothers (Hardy & Edgerton) in terms of motivation, fighting style and personality...and how those traits manifest themselves at different points in the movie. I wrote a post about it which you can read here: Choose Your Warrior Movie Motivation: 'Rage' Like Tom Hardy or 'Heart' Like Joel Edgerton. Or if you haven't seen the movie, here's the trailer.

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