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What they need to do is stop being cheap and invest more in their scouting and player development. Every team in the league would want the problem of paying Trout and Ohtani. They're big box office, good role models and they perform at HOF level. Yeah, the baseball draft is even more of wild gamble than any other sport, but they don't do a good enough job to hit  on even one of their top three picks every year. Contrast that to the Dodgers that have a ROY candidate almost every year even if they don't become stars.

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If I'd said a month ago that tonight's game (Dolphins at Bengals) would feature one undefeated team and one team with a losing record, you probably would have believed me.
 
If I'd said that the Dolphins would be the undefeated team, you've laughed me out of the building.
 
Such is the NFL.

Definitely behind, the Deadpool movie are pure gamer humor of the highest quality.

Pujols pops not one, but 2 tonight to reach 700!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
#699 was his 20th this season, marking the 18th time he's reached that level, behind only Aaron and Bonds.

Awesome, I was really rooting for him to hit that, especially if he's serious about this as his last year. 

LL, agree almost completely with the exception that I would say the people who were doing the DC TV shows were actually doing a pretty good job of staying to the characters. Only major difference to me was GA becoming Batman, in effect. Snyder should never have been put in charge of any Superman or WW projects (really, I would say anything other then Batman, honestly). Why Johns wasn't in charge from the beginning, I have no idea.

Arrow felt part-Batman, but also a journey from vigilantism to heroism (with some backsliding along the way).  Diggle calling him out in an early Season 1 episode that, if we're only in this to get the guys in the book, not to protect innocent people, then I'm not in this at all was an early moment in this regard.
 
Flash, on the other hand - very Four Colour

LL, agree almost completely with the exception that I would say the people who were doing the DC TV shows were actually doing a pretty good job of staying to the characters. Only major difference to me was GA becoming Batman, in effect. Snyder should never have been put in charge of any Superman or WW projects (really, I would say anything other then Batman, honestly). Why Johns wasn't in charge from the beginning, I have no idea.

One of the all-time great base stealers has passed.  Maury Wills was 89.  No CoD was given.  
 
He persevered...8 years in the minors, after being drafted out of HS.  That limited his peak, which largely was from 60-66, but included an ASG MVP in '62 (the year of 104 steals), 2 Gold Gloves, and 5 All Star designations.  

The MCU has had great success by -- at least until recently -- staying true to the essence and heritage of their characters, and by telling stories like those from comics, emphasizing hope, compassion, responsibility, self-sacrifice. Those films and television shows were made by people who know and respect the source material. That successful example leads me to believe that superhero comics could regain a lot of their market if they returned to the things about the genre the majority of people want.
 
The people behind DC's television and film efforts often don't seem to know or respect the source material, or they don't care. There's a scene in Zack Snyder's infamous cut of Justice League that stands out in my mind as an example. Superman joins the final fight against Steppenwolf, puts him flat on his back, then uses his heat vision to cut off part of the villain's projecting skull bone, causing him great pain and mutilating him. Supes then proceeds to hammer Steppenwolf's body, again and again, while his opponent is clearly helpless to resist. That isn't Superman. That's Zack Snyder's power fantasy. Knowing that Superman always holds himself back from brutality is one big reason why the world trusts him, despite his awesome power.

Sounds good to me.  After seeing the album cover, I always wanted to go as a Tarkus.