The San Francisco Giants broke training camp today, and they did it in fine style by beating the Dodgers 6-2. Overall, los Gigantes were 21-10, playing at a .667 clip, tops in the Cactus League and best of all National League teams, second only to Tampa Bay in all of major league baseball.

It bodes well for the upcoming season, which begins next week following three exhibition games against the A’s, followed by the Mariners at home on Sunday. The Giants open the season on the road against Houston on Monday April 5, and play their first home game of the season on Friday April 9 against Atlanta.

Go Giants!

Don’t forget to schedule your mammogram!

More and more of these Mitch Miller shows are showing up these days; here’s another from 1964 featuring Shirley Temple, singing and dancing. She was 36 years old at this point – she’ll be 82 this year!

Here’s a little side-poll to add to your Oscar ballot for Sunday’s show: who will garner the most applause during the ‘In Memoriam’ segment?

• Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette, Love Is A Many Splendored Thing)
• Al Martino (The Godfather)
• Patrick Swayze (Dirty Dancing, Roadhouse, Ghost, Point Break, Red Dawn)
• Larry Gelbart (Tootsie,  Oh God!)
• John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty In Pink)
• Budd Schulberg (On The Waterfront)
• Karl Malden (On The Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Patton)
• Farrah Fawcett (The Apostle, Saturn 3)
• David Carradine (Kill Bill)
• Dom DeLuise (The Cannonball Run, History of the World, Pt. 1)
• Ron Silver (Ali, Silkwood)
• James Whitmore (Shawshank Redemption, Give ‘Em Hell Harry)
• Ricardo Montalban (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Escape From The Planet Of The Apes)
• Pat Hingle (Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby)

Vote early, and vote often!