It should make you sick.

The World Series begins tonight, and either of the Cleveland Indians' best pitchers — C.C. Sabathia or Cliff Lee — could win World Series MVP. Both are wrapping up legitimate Cy Young seasons. Both have a chance to earn their first championship ring.

The only problem? Both are former Indians pitchers.

           

Sabathia, who won the Cy Young in 2007, carried the Yankees to their first World Series appearance since 2003. Lee, who won the Cy Young in 2008, lifted the Phillies to their first-ever back-to-back National League penants.

Meanwhile the Indians are on some unnamed Island in the Carribean, wallowing in the sun and recovering from a dismal season in which they finished 32 games below-.500.

It should make you sick.

Cleveland is a big market. It's 16th largest media market in the nation, according to Nielsen Media Research. It's not New York, Boston or Los Angeles, but it's not Kansas City either (27th largest market). Yet perenially woeful Kansas City is who we finished tied with for last in the AL Central.

And Milwaukee, the 33rd largest market, is where traded C.C. Sabathia last season. You're telling me Cleveland can't hold onto players once they become superstars?

Look, there's no telling whether Michael Brantley, Matt LaPorta, Carlos Carrasco or Lou Marson  — the guys we got in return for C.C. and Cliff — will become franchise players. I doubt it, but it's possible.

But tonight's game reminds us what the Cleveland Indians could have been. If each one of these pitchers can carry a team to the World Series on their own, shouldn't have we, with both of them, have been able to accrue enough pieces for Cleveland to get to the World Series?

Instead, we're left with "What could have been?" or "What will be in 2012 or 2013?" instead of enjoying the present. Instead, we're one of the worst franchises in baseball.

It should you make you sick.

Earlier this summer, Fox News mega-personality Glenn Beck said President Obama was "racist" and has a "deep-seated hate for white culture."

In a riveting interview with Katie Couric and CBS last week, a viewer asked Beck to explain what exactly is "white culture." Beck refused to answer, saying Couric and the viewer were playing the "gotcha game."

VIEWER: What is white culture?

BECK: Ummmmm, I don't know.

Beck then said people can go to his Web site and watch the segment from his show to see what he meant. Couric said he didn't define "white culture" during that segment and pressed him for an answer.

COURIC: People just want to know. What is white culture?
BECK: I’m going to see if I can play your game. People just want to know.
COURIC: Well, [viewer/questioner] Adrian wants to know.
BECK: That’s good for Adrian.

Beck told Couric he’s “not going to get into your sound-bite gotcha game.” Couric noted that the interview would be “completely unedited, so if you felt like you wanted to explain it, you have all the time in the world." Beck still wouldn’t budget. Watch it below:
                                                              

Babe Ruthless. Malice in Wonderland. Smashley Simpson. How could anyone not look forward to a movie with these characters in lead roles?

"Whip It!" follows Bliss Cavender (Ellen Page of "Juno" fame), a small-town Texas girl who shuns her mother's beauty pageants to join the high-octane world of women's roller derby. No it's not the best story I've heard. And I'm sure it's riddled with clichés. But Drew Barrymore's directorial debut received rave reviews at the Toronto Film Festival this weekend, and it looks like an infectiously sweet, surprisingly violent romp that will inject some grrrrl power into this fall's male-dominated movie lineup.

Boasting an almost all female cast, "Whip It!" features Page, Kristen Wiig ("Saturday Night Live") and Barrymore as ladies on skates laying down the law. Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden ("Mystic River", "Into the Wild") plays Page's disapproving mother, and forgotten comedian Daniel Stern ("Home Alone," "Home Alone 2") makes a surprise turn as Page's encouraging father.

No doubt: This one will appeal more to the ladies than the men. But acclaimed cinematographer Robert Yeoman ("Rushmore," "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" "Red Eye") has apparently imbued the roller scenes with some panache, and if you're up for some breezy action, playful dialogue and sugary, indie pop soundtrack, I'm sure almost anyone can enjoy. Check out the trailer below:
                                        

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When Heath Ledger passed away last year, pundits pronounced his role at the Joker in "The Dark Knight" his last hurrah. Like Ted Williams, Ledger had hit a home run in his last at-bat, even earning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor posthumously.

"This is a career-making performance if ever there was one," declared Claudia Puig, movie critic for USA Today. "Too bad it was a career-ending one as well."

But alas, the man who portrayed the Joker has one final ace up his sleeve, one more chance for fans to enjoy his no-holds-barred, all-in acting style. Sony Pictures Classics will release fantasy film "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" on Christmas Day, with Ledger as the lead role.

"Parnassus" follows the 1,000-year-old leader of a travelling theatre troupe (Christopher Plummer) who, having made a deal with the Devil (Tom Waits), takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations. At some point, the Devil comes to collect on the deal, and wants the doctor's daughter as his compensation (Lily Cole). But a mysterious outsider named Tony (Ledger), who recently joined the troupe, vows he can savethe daughter's soul.

The film, directed by Terry Gilliam, looks like a visual feast: Colors and monsters and magic flying in and off the screen like hurricanes of eye candy. And Ledger looks like he gives a Joker-eseque performance: Lively, mysterious and utterly captivating.

Of course, Ledger passed during filming, so he doesn't get to see the part all the way through. Actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell agreed to finish the film as a tribute to their late colleague. But don't be surprised if Ledger receives another posthumous Oscar nom, even for an unfinished role: He looks as lively and luminous as ever. Check out the trailer below: