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But as I mentioned, all they would have to do is go look at how Monaghan played the prelude Joker in the Gotham series (I haven't seen the latest season yet, so not sure how his "brother" will be). The thing I liked about Leger and Monaghan was they both made me laugh and then realize "That's not right". Specifically I think of the disappearing pencil for Ledger. A joker who is a failed standup comedian due to thugs beating him up isn't the Joker to me. Even the psycho gangster joker was more joker to me.

Hmm, so now Joker is Michael Douglas from Falling Down instead of tattoo'd psycho gangster as he was portrayed in Suicide Squad. Not sure a sympathetic Joker works. I really liked Ledger's portrayal in Dark Knight or Monaghan from Gotham. Joker needs to be an intelligent (at or near Batman's level) force of chaos.

one problem I had with the starter is you need to mix up who it is. TB used it against the angels in one series and on the 2nd game, he is facing same players and they were getting a lot better swings on him.

Sadly, with the exception of maybe 10-15 pitchers, the days of starters going past 6 is over and any of your 3-5+ starters are lucky to go past 5. Really, with modern analytics, most teams don't want their pitchers to face someone a 3rd time in a game, especially as the players they will face those 3rd times first are probably the 3 best hitters on the team. Used to be about pitch count, now it is about times through order. I think a big part of this is the predilection of guys who throw 96+ but really don't have a good 3rd or 4th pitch and aren't really learning to pitch (just throw what catcher puts down) to setup batters anymore. I think eventually what you will see is the 4-5 spots in a rotation not being so much a bullpen day but a duel starter day. One guy goes through order 1-1.5 times other guys does other 1-1.5 guys, getting you to/through 5th/6th (I was going to make this about outs, but it really won't be). Your rotation then would have a 1 who can hopefully get you 7 innings, 2 and 3 who can do 6 and then, in effect, 2 long guys matched for the other 2 days. I think that pairing will almost always be a lefty/righty combo, thereby messing with your opponents batting order and bench depth.

Sometimes, as the A's announcers were talking about last night, saving the game isn't really in the 9th inning, but is in the 7th or 8th, when the lead is precarious and the opponents best hitters are due up. Not to denigrate anyone, but would you rather your best reliever face the 1-5 hitters in the 7th/8th or the 6-9 in the 9th? Miller from Cleveland started one of the new trends of the fireman (as Brian Kenney calls it) rather then the Closer.

The old quote still applies. "Baseball is 50% pitching, unless it is bad, in which case it is 90%".

See, I think Ohtani is more likely to continue pitching over hitting, provided he maintains velocity. I would love to see him convert to a closer/late inning guy, one who could do multiple innings. Then he could DH most the game and just come out on mound. Of course, late in game, DH doesn't matter as much as you would pinch hit for your pitcher anyway. Though apparently he mentally prepares for each separately, hence not hitting in the 2 days around his pitching day.

Sadly, my Angels seem in trouble. Hopefully Upton and Ohtani won't be long, as our pitching is at best average. Our hitting was supposed to be a strength, but we got shutout by Mike Fiers, so not impressed yet.

sadly, I do taxes for a living and therefore from January through april I just record stuff to binge watch later, so haven't seen Lex on show yet.

My wife, her brother and his wife went and saw it. they follow the MCU loosely and don't read comics and they all enjoyed it and thought was fun.

I used to love the Rathbone/Bruce pairing up until I started watching the Brett/Burke/Hardwick series and realized how much, in the books, the point of Watson wasn't to be a buffoon to Holmes, but to be a DOCTOR, therefore very intelligent to show just how much above normal people Holmes, his brother and Moriarty really were. I am glad that most instances now do portray Watson as a very loyal and competent sidekick.

If I recall correctly, the person who originally started Smallville was a lesser version of this. It's why he swore there would never be a costume or Superman flying. He never understood the character. It's why it seemed like it took a few years to really get going, because he left. Course, I loved the Lex Luthor from the show and still despise Eisenberg's Luthor (I don't despise Eisenberg and like him in other roles). Sadly, I think someone else doing Dawn of Justice could have made Lex less Joker and more "sympathetic" megalomaniac. I think of Smallville Luthor or Lois and Clark Luthor - worked to be the height of human intelligence and economic/political power and then along comes a man who can fly. "Oh, one more thing. If you ever need to find me, all you have to do is look up."

They take their Mimic testing very seriously.

A great story would be Walker being put in as CAP by the military (aka Ross as the liaison from the Sakovia Accords) and being too pro USA. I may be wrong, but I don't think he was the Captain America who went crazy (that was Burnside), but they could bring elements of that storyline in and have to get Sam and Bucky to take him out. Then the 2 of them get together with Fury (or whoever heads SHIELD at the time - maybe Steve Rogers himself put into the role to give SHIELD back at least the appearance of being cleaned out) and decide one of them take over the role (or perhaps introduce a new character to take the role that both of them agree could fill Steve's shoes - one friend from the perspective of Steve pre and during WW2 and one from the perspective of the modern Steve Rogers). Maybe even introduce Walker through Sam and Bucky as US Agent after Ross put in William Burnside, a result of one of his Hulk Experimental soldiers, he believes is a die hard American - who turns out to be a rascist and psychotic amplified by the experiments. Walker could help Sam and Bucky take him down and they could say, after watching him, that he should take the mantle.

Still considering seeing it in IMAX, just not sure my brain could take it and hoping IMAX won't be stupid 3d.

I think the best thing going on with this thread is that Marvel Studios has set such a high bar with some of their stuff (to me First Avenger, Winter Soldier, Black Panther and even the first Iron Man) that a movie most of us seemed to like, but even those who disliked it, would rate it above 50% or more of the movies that Hollywood puts out. In a lot of ways, they remind me of Pixar, in that I am always willing to give them the benefit of the doubt about seeing the movies despite negative comments. I really couldn't have said that about DC (before Wonder Woman) or even some of the other Hollywood franchises out there.

Tahiti - It's a wonderful place.

As I said about the Eye earlier, I liked the idea he lost it taking a bullet for Pierce, as was hinted at and then turned about on Pierce as it was that eye that still gave Fury access to restricted documents. Losing it to the Flerken was silly UNLESS it turns out it is now infected to do something else at some point.

I am thinking he is, as others have mentioned, taking the comments she made about Wrinkle in Time (which is basically true, the movie wasn't made for 40+ white males) that were being credited as being about CM, due to the fact she made them at a press conference for CM and was answering a criticism of Wrinkle in Time.

A big part of this is comfort, but also, Trout is as old school a player as is out there amongst the younger guys. He believes in the great players that only played for 1 team and having that as a legacy. I think that weighed more into it then people give credit for.

Or, you can get out and taunt it and show Darwinism at work: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/video/man-car-taunt-bison-yellowstone-57008452 Sorry, not sure how to embed the video.

One other thing mentioned was that she didn't have a hatred of the Skrulls. Actually, my impression of her and her teams reaction was "Another Bug Hunt", IE Aliens. It may have to do a lot with the fact her team seemed to be one that was A: Covert Ops type and B: seemed to have a leader (Yon-Rogg) and others (Minn-Erva and Korath) who were more in the know about the truth behind the Skrull threat (that the Kree had basically won and were using it as a scare tactic).

I liked the blowing up the missiles thing. Felt like an homage to Missile command where you blow up the other missiles with the first one.

They did show that when she battled the SI, the Tesseract was sitting there increasingly glowing and feeding her power. So part of endgame may be that she is on a "limited" amount of power, with the stone being gone again.

The sound you hear from the east coast is all the Philly fans becoming, well Philadelphians, and lamenting the loss of the hope for a Harper Trout outfield and all the Yankee fans jaws drops as they KNEW there was no way he wasn't going to come play for them with Judge and Stanton. Rumor has it that Trout is about to sign an extension equaling Harper's length for basically an additional 100 million (under paid if you compare WAR, which shows that Trout should have got twice as much as Harper) making him effectively an Angel for life, or at least until he is 38. It's funny, I can remember when Puig came up and one or two radio guys were trying to say they would rather have him then Trout. A year after that, they admitted they had been WAY wrong.