Taken from The Beer Pen  4/28/2009 

Ricky Weeks A.K.A. Mickey Rourke

I told myself I wouldn’t do this but I’m going to dedicate another entire article to Dick Weeks.  Look, I can admit that he’s playing quite well thus far, but I refuse to jump on his bandwagon simply based on the fact that he hasn’t disappointed us yet.  I’ve spent some, a lot, too much, an unhealthy amount of time trying to figure out how he has been playing so well when he’s clearly a loser by nature.  Then, while watching Sin City over the weekend it finally clicked.  Dick Weeks is the sports equivalent to Mickey Rourke.

Let me explain.

Mickey Rourke’s acting career is littered with flops, bombs, straight-to-TV-movies, and gonorrhea.  Dick Weeks’ career is littered with strikeouts, errors, braided hair, and gonorrhea.

Rourke started out his career being consistently horrendous.  His first fifty movies play like a bad movie marathon on the UPN Network.  With disasters such as Body Heat, Homeboy, 9 ½ Weeks, Another 9 ½ Weeks, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Wild Orchid, and Double Team, it’s no wonder he would rather spend his time trying to be a boxer while strung out on every drug imaginable.  This period of Rourke’s career coincides directly with Weeks’ career up until the beginning of this year.  Still with me?

Then Rourke astonishes the world with his badass performance as Marv in Sin City.  Then Dick magically comes out this year and astonishes Brewer fans with his exceptional play.  Coincidence?  No.

Which brings me to my next comparison.  Could Rourke’s unlikely continued success (The Wrestler and possibly Iron Man 2) mean continued, if not increased success for Weeks?  Actually, I hope so.  As much as I hate the guy and want to see him flying over the hood of my car, he is our leadoff hitter and starting second baseman.  How many teams have succeeded when their leadoff hitter and starting second baseman fail?  None.

This is starting to get confusing so I’m going to leave you with this.
Look at the movies Rourke is scheduled to release in the next few years:

2010: St. Vincent – “A hit man, returning to his former New York City neighborhood to finish off the botched killing of an informant, masquerades as a priest and finds himself taking the confessions of his target.”

2010: Eleven Minutes – I won’t get into the specifics but it has to do with prostitutes in Switzerland.

2010: Passion Plays – “An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.”  … Yes, I’m serious.

2011: Rambo V – “Rumors say the script will follow the original one written by Stallone for Rambo (2008), in which Rambo finds out he has a daughter and she has been kidnapped by a hostile cult, from which Rambo must rescue her. There are also rumors about Rambo V being in Africa.”