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Is that Neil Peart? very cool picture.

4 hours ago, Spence said:

The 13th Warrior - Antonio Banderas.  A fantastic adventure film.  A band of chosen warriors take on an ancient evil.  Great stuff and well made.

You forgot perhaps the greatest player character death in any movie.

I think everything I would mention has been mentioned.

if it hasn't been posted, wish this could be me.

http://pvponline.com/comic/2020-03-20

4 hours ago, Greywind said:

Currently working my way through Castle. Up to s3.

Watch for the change in the actors interactions. It was somewhere around this and the next season that the 2 leads dated and broke up and Filion became kind of a jerk about making sure Katic couldn't earn as much as he did. I was/am a big fan of his for all that he is done, especially in geekdom, but I really felt he took an esteem hit with his actions pertaining to this.

interesting choice. he could probably do a good job. given the first picture on that page, makes me think what a great Bookworm or Clock King he would make.

I am sure someone else posted this, but was rewatching Sin City the other day and realized how apropo this quote seemed nowadays: 

Power comes from lying. Lying big, and gettin' the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain't true, you've got 'em by the balls.

47 minutes ago, Enforcer84 said:

Quoth the Parrot, "Morrisey"

I am sure they would love to snuggle up to your neck.

first weekend of AFL 2020 Marsh series. sort of preseason games for AFL. Was interesting watching Melbourne vs Adelaide playing in what appeared to be a park, not a stadium.

I will have to check that out. I really enjoyed his Thursday Next and Nursery Crimes series.

Been listening too the Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter series. Modern Pulp Detective meets Vampire Hunter D. To much profanity, but still a good listen. the reader is very good. Escalates quickly, but then his group of "superfriends" aren't pikers. Main character is the son of Mina and John Harker, 130 years old, 20% vampire, very strong sorceror and 100% badass. Along the way we meet Uncle Luke Card (Dracula), Gabriel Van Helsing (great grand daughter of Abe, who used to bounce Quincy on his knee), Adam Franks (better known as the creation of Dr. Frankenstein) and many others.

my thought went exactly there too. 

Sympathies Simon, but I have to say, beautiful hammer before the fall.

not cynicism and ambivalence. the message was about fear, which should never be Superman. 

The scene in question, I keep trying to think of any of the Marvel characters who wouldn't do everything they could to save Jonathon's life, damn the consequences to their secret identity. and if someone says Clark was still a kid, Peter Parker would have done so anyway. Of course, his upbringing was about the message you said, great power-great responsiblity.

Superman's should have been "look out for the little guy, and all the guys are little when compared to you" mixed in with a ridiculous amount of humility.

I can watch Man of Steel, I like most the movie, but I HATED that scene. Part of the death of Jonathon Kent should have been "sometimes there are things you can't fix, so fix everything you can" like a heart attack or cancer or something. NOT A PERSON 20 FEET AWAY IN A TORNADO.

whoa, I really hope that umpire was taken to task and the player was apologized too. Also, video doesn't show, but how the coach did not come out and lose his **** after what is probably one of his best hitters is thrown out for that I do not know. had earl weaver or a billy martin had been coaching, their would have been parents covering under age kids ears in the stands.

probably is funnier if know who guy in bottom right is. other three are cool though

What is interesting is Dusty comes from the era that would have been beaning guys left and right for this stuff.

And Ryu deserves to bean as many Astros as he wants that were part of the team that lit him up.

And I believe that Doctor Evil has a doctorate.

'It's Dr. Evil, I didn't spend six years in Evil Medical School to be called mister, thank you very much.'

3 hours ago, Badger said:

I was thinking, I think one bad thing about sports today actually is analytics.  On the one side, it does help streamline a team into efficiency.   But, it has turned every team into largely a clone of each other, with money coming down to how well you can streamline.  Which, again, gives most of the advantage to the big teams.  It is in the big 3 sports, basketball has it's obsession with space and pace/3 pointers, and football with that magical RPO QB to run and pass along with more spread offense.  But, baseball has suffered the most I think.  Too obsessed with the 3 True Outcomes, don't you dare play small ball.

 

As a fan, who loved watching the 1980s Cardinals, it isn't fun for me.  could such a team compete in today's atmosphere?  The question is irrelevant as no team will try.  Not even a watered down version of it.  And while the sacrifice bunt might not be efficient over the long haul, no one seems to stop and think "But what about this very moment".   After that batter strikes out, is that a better outcome.  By no means, a call to go crazy with the bunt.  But, maybe in a sparingly few occasions it might be a good idea.

 

People have narrowed down Earl Weaver's philosophy to being that guy who loved the 3 run HR.   But, that wasn't all of that quote.  And we as big if not more so on that pitching and defense. Brooks Robinson-Mark Belanger-Bobby Grich-and someone at 1B who could catch a thrown ball might have been the best infield defensively of all time.  And for a guy who hated smallball. Mark Belanger did lead the league twice in sacrifice bunts (I imagine without looking at boxscores, that it was a good way to get value out of an all-world defensive player, who couldn't hit and keep his defense in the game.  (also in 1975, they essentially had the bottom 4 spots of the lineup consisting of 3 guys who couldn't hit .220, plus Belanger who barely did but with no power.  Though the catching platoon did produce 20 HRs despite the lack of batting average.  But Brooks, and Paul Blair, didn't produce power or an average above .220, and were done as regulars, giving way to youngsters Doug DeCinces and Al Bumbry)

 

Note: 1970s/1980s baseball is something I tend get historian about, so I tend to ramble.

MLB in one of the shows was talking about defensive runs saved. One of the guys mentioned that one first baseman had way more DRS then Paul Goldschmidt, because baseball really doesn't recognize when someone who can catch at first and undervalues their defense. He showed that in 2018 the cardinals infield was one of the worse for errors, 2019 one of the best. the difference, Paul Goldschmidt at first being able to catch the ball not thrown directly at him.

Except Incredible Hulk was 70s (started in 1977).

I also wanted to add that the Harley they are doing is straight from her solo comics after the year one reboot DC did about 8 or so years ago. The being roller derbi and having friends there, the stuffed beaver she talks to. I also really enjoyed that she would psychoanalyze people while fighting or running for her life.

Like watership down didn't leave enough scars

Saw it today. I enjoyed it. It was the movie I thought would be and many moments had me chuckling in the same way Ledgers pencil trick did. I found it fascinating watching McGregor channel Oldman's cop from The Professional as Sibonis. I echo Gale's disappointment in the Cassandra character and would have liked seeing at end Montoya become a version of the Question.

My brother has felt for years that the dodgers are skirting the PED rule. Everyyear they have some phenom come up who hits 30+Hrs and over 300 first half of season, when rookies aren't being tested, then, after they time that they are allowed to start being tested, all of a sudden their numbers drop off dramatically. His list would start with Pedersen.

4 hours ago, grandmastergm said:

 

At the time I found Kenneth Branaugh's over-the-top performance to be entertaining and the leads to be amusing, but I was a 13-year old boy .  I'll admit the movie has not held up well at all, doesn't really work, and can see why Will Smith apologized for it.

My comment about Lovelace is that I felt his disfigured psychopath was a slap in the face to the character played brilliantly by Michael Dunn (who famously learned to do his own stunts because everyone else did and earned Robert Conrad's and the stunt men's respect).

some of the mlb guys are predicting that the Astro players who were around back then, might not want to dig into the box to much when batting, just saying. Especially some of the old school pitcher guys.