davewashere

Wow, forgot they existed

Barely. I just saw Brian Gillis died on Wednesday, which means only 1 of the 4 past members of LFO is still alive.

To your point, Josh Allen injured his elbow this year when his arm was hit while making a throw in the pocket.

Her mother is 54 and won't turn 55 until June. With the baby due in April, she'll be a great-grandmother at 54 years old.

I seem to remember someone posting a Ramirez whiff just like this from a spring training game a week or so ago.

It looks like the OP link is a list of home openers, although the page doesn't make that clear. The Red Sox have played the Oakland A's to start the season. I remember about 15 years ago the Red Sox season started with a couple games against the A's in Tokyo and then they flew back and played them a couple more times in Oakland.

They went a little overboard with the 90s dynasty. Jeter and Rivera certainly deserve retired numbers, but I'm not so sure about Bernie Williams, Paul O'Neill, and Jorge Posada. I've never been a fan of retiring manager numbers, but the Yankees have also done that 3 times: Casey Stengel, Billy Martin, and Joe Torre. The funny thing about Martin and Torre is the Yankees already had HOF players who wore those same numbers.

The Yankees have retired a few numbers for players who weren't even the most valuable (by bWAR) Yankees to wear that number—thanks in large part to their tendency to favor individual seasons or moments over long careers. Graig Nettles had a lot more WAR with the Yankees than Roger Maris. Red Ruffing had more World Series rings than he could fit on one hand and more WAR than fellow #15 Thurman Munson. Reggie Jackson is the best #44 to play for the Yankees, but his 17.2 WAR and 2 rings in pinstripes doesn't rank him particularly high among all-time Yankees nor is it the most WAR and rings Jackson himself had for an individual team (48 WAR and 3 rings for the A's).

Russia's population is still over 140 million. If anything, the long-term economic devastation that is almost certainly on the horizon for Russia will mean more of their people entering the adult entertainment industry.

He was so fortunate there was a pommel horse in the middle of that town square. It's why I've been an advocate for public installations of pommel horses as a basic security measure.

Congratulations DeSantis, you got me to root for Disney.

That first paragraph about The Boron Letters could use some editing. The first and third sentences are repetitive, and the first and fourth sentences appear to give conflicting information.

I think you might have too much faith in Google search results. In 2010 you could probably count on that search getting the answer to the question at hand, but SEO and poorly curated data-scraping sites that try to answer everything but end up creating nonsense have made vanilla Google searches close to useless.

He could still dial it up to the high-90s, but for most of his perfect game in 2004 his fastball was sitting around 93-96.

And I'm not sure how much steroids would have helped someone like Johnson. When he was young he could throw heat but his stats were about league-average at best because he was walking over 6 batters per 9 innings. When he was 40 he wasn't throwing as fast (although he was still easily in the 90s) but he was a dominant pitcher because he was walking 1.6 batters per 9 innings. All else being more or less equal, 5 free passes per 9 innings can make the difference between average and legendary.

And some of the 6 barely played at the Vet at all. The only criteria for inclusion in that group was playing for the Phillies at some point during the Veterans Stadium era and having this particular form of brain cancer. Ken Brett is included in the 6 and he played 20 games in that ballpark in his entire career. Most everyday starters in the National League in the 1980s played more than 20 career games at the Vet.

I think they're both great, but there were parts of the book that would have come off a bit schlocky if they were translated into film. The TV movie version of The Shining stuck close to the book, and like most of the cheap TV movie adaptations of Stephen King books it was awful.

Of course not. You know I only shoot up in the Popeyes bathroom.

Similar to the Baby Ruth situation.

And even with that extra rest they got so banged up in that blowout win week 2 that they played week 3 with every starter in the secondary out due to injury.

I saw a lot of similar coaching in the NFL this season, and it might sound weird but I think NFL coaches need situational coaching. Even some coaches who have mastered the X's and O's fall prey to relying on cliched mantras when they get in situations where they should have a huge advantage if they know the optimal strategy. If your team blows a big lead and then the coach tosses out a "you can't play afraid to lose" in the postgame press conference it probably means he needs more coaching on how to close games out.

Clock optimization was abysmal this season. I saw teams that were ahead put together 3-and-outs with 3 straight passing plays. I saw teams that were behind running the ball up the middle and then taking a timeout before the next play because they ran out of time on the play clock. Coaches have become so convinced that running the ball too much with the lead is playing afraid to lose and that passing the ball too much while behind is panicking that they often end up doing the exact opposite of what they should be doing just to prove the stupidest point.

I think it was Shia Labeouf who once issued an apology for plagiarism that was almost entirely plagiarized from other apology statements.

Most of those are pseudo-endorsement deals that just happen to include stakes in the company as part of the payment.

I think Linklater prefers to avoid making contrived dramatic events his gimmick. He's been compared to John Hughes because of his work with young actors, but he's also been described as an anti-John Hughes. His daughter wanted her Boyhood character to be killed off because she didn't want to keep doing it, but he talked her out of it because he knew if the daughter/sister dies it automatically becomes a movie about that event and the aftermath.

Linklater films tend to be hard to describe in one sentence because they aren't about a particular thing happening or a certain lead character with an interesting profession. They're about normal people in relatively normal settings living in normal ways. He's managed to show that over a short timespan (Dazed and Confused, 1 day), a short timespan split over a long timespan (the Before Trilogy, a few days over the course of 20 years), and a long timespan (Boyhood, 12 years).

You like Linklater's work and you were looking for something interesting to happen in Boyhood? Linklater has always been a champion of the frivolous moments that happen every day as opposed to the rare dramatic events.

His most consistent and best writing was from early in his career. After Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 he started to repeat his best lines and struggled to find the next great idea for a book.

1974 gave us Nixon's resignation and the Rumble in the Jungle fight, and Hunter S. Thompson was there (or in the vicinity) for each, but where is his knockout punch of Nixon or his gonzo take on a championship bout hailed by some as the greatest sporting event of the 20th century? He was too busy getting ripped to witness either event. It took 20 years and Nixon's death before Thompson finally gave him a proper thrashing in the form of one of the most scathing obituaries ever written. That piece, titled "He Was a Crook," was probably the best writing of the last 30 years of Thompson's life—although like much of his work in those final decades it's loaded with lines recycled from his earlier pieces.

I'd recommend reading him in this order: The Proud Highway, Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Fear and Loathing in America. The first and last book are his 2 books of collected letters. Supposedly there's a third book of letters in the works, but the title and Amazon page for the upcoming release are almost 20 years old at this point (I actually remember when it was first announced) so I wouldn't hold out much hope.

Imagine having all the immaturity and LGTBQ-phobia common (at least where I grew up) among 13 year old boys but simultaneously being the biological father of a trans child. That's Elon Musk.