Quote from: Huey Potatohead on June 07, 2018, 07:13:43 AMQuote from: SKO on June 06, 2018, 10:43:52 PM
Holy fucking shit
Too bad he's not dead amirite
Are you sure we aren't all dead
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Huey Potatohead on June 07, 2018, 07:13:43 AMQuote from: SKO on June 06, 2018, 10:43:52 PM
Holy fucking shit
Too bad he's not dead amirite
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on June 05, 2018, 08:28:18 AM
In the first round of this year's draft the Cubs selected SS Nico Hoerner.
From Stanford.
Has anybody checked on Stew to make sure he's OK?
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on June 04, 2018, 03:01:50 PMQuote from: SKO on June 04, 2018, 12:47:24 PMQuote from: Quality Start Machine on June 04, 2018, 11:18:03 AMQuote from: SKO on June 04, 2018, 08:49:04 AMQuote from: Quality Start Machine on June 04, 2018, 08:20:33 AM
How are the Cardinals' playoff odds looking these days?
About a 45% chance of making the postseason per baseball prospectus. Cubs at 83% to make the playoffs, 52.1% to win the division.
So in other words, maybe we shouldn't sweat such things until either a) Labor Day or b) the Cubs find themselves 10 games back.
you'd think, but no.
Then how about this...
The Cubs are tied with Milwaukee in the All-Important Loss Column, with one elite pitcher (Darvish) currently on his second stint on the DL, another (Hendricks - yes, a guy who won the ERA title a year and a half ago is elite) is approaching his career ERA and is historically a better second half pitcher (Career second half ERA is .70 below his first half), and one usually-elite hitter (Rizzo) finally hitting league average offensively.
They're also 14-8 since the weekend debacle in St. Louis.
My wish for you, my son, is that everything you sweat over is as under control as this shit is.
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on June 04, 2018, 11:18:03 AMQuote from: SKO on June 04, 2018, 08:49:04 AMQuote from: Quality Start Machine on June 04, 2018, 08:20:33 AM
How are the Cardinals' playoff odds looking these days?
About a 45% chance of making the postseason per baseball prospectus. Cubs at 83% to make the playoffs, 52.1% to win the division.
So in other words, maybe we shouldn't sweat such things until either a) Labor Day or b) the Cubs find themselves 10 games back.
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on June 04, 2018, 08:20:33 AM
How are the Cardinals' playoff odds looking these days?
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on June 04, 2018, 08:23:53 AM
In the Damning-with-faint-praise dept...
Heyward is now on track for his best season as a Cub - both 2016 and 2017 he managed a hefty 1.0 WAR. He's currently sitting at 0.6.
Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on June 02, 2018, 11:19:38 AM
I was bored for the first 90 minutes. The last 35 minutes were fine. Predictable. Not much of a character arc for Han. I think I laughed with it more than anyone else of the 50 of us or so in the theater. It so badly wants to be another Marvel Universe. I dunno. Probably in the second Hulk range.
Far better than Rogue One.
Not looking forward to seeing Darth Maul in the upcoming Obi Wan gets revenge film.
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on June 01, 2018, 03:10:28 PM
According to mlb.com, Over the last 7 games (Why they just don't make this chomp 10 games is a fucking mystery*) he's slashing 455/500/591. He's dinking and doinking his way into actual value.
*Best guess is they're trying to represent a week.
Quote from: CBStew on May 31, 2018, 01:24:03 PMQuote from: SKO on May 31, 2018, 12:27:03 PMThe only Star Wars movie that I have ever seen is the very first one. Have I missed anything?Quote from: Bort on May 31, 2018, 11:41:08 AMQuote from: SKO on May 31, 2018, 11:22:16 AMQuote from: Bort on May 31, 2018, 10:49:15 AMQuote from: SKO on May 31, 2018, 09:58:45 AM
I can't imagine anyone that likes Star Wars not liking that movie regardless of whether you are good and smart and right thinking and loved the Last Jedi or you're a basement-dwelling reddit Nazi that hates women and did not like TLJ.
That was just 2 hours of quality, fun Star Wars filler. Solid B+
It was quite good. Not all-time great, but perfectly cromulent. Did what I wanted, which was be a Star War.
I agree, and while the Reddit assholes are trying to take credit for the relatively modest box office opening for a Star War I really think they probably should have just pushed this one back a few months. Episode IX isn't due till December of 2019, because they waited till after TLJ's theatrical run was over to begin heavily marketing Solo and they scheduled it to compete with Infinity War and Deadpool 2 they really f--ked themselves. Later in the year would have been the perfect place to deposit a Competent But Not That Exciting Star War.
That and the only news forever about it was that it was troubled and the lead actor needed a coach (guess what: that happens all the time to actors of all experience levels).
It is interesting to me how much the rise of film blogs and film twitter and the insights into movie production we never had before can change people's perceptions of movies. Back in the day no one would have known shit about Solo outside of a few trailers and an Entertainment Weekly puff piece and they'd have gone to see it and rendered their judgment then. Now people carry an expectation of Solo being a patchy mess into the theater and look for seams that I honestly really don't think are there. Compared to other recent movies that are mashups of two different directors and a bunch of reshoots (cough Suicide Squad cough Justice League) it was not actually that easy to look at this movie and see where the different parts of it butted heads.
Quote from: Bort on May 31, 2018, 11:41:08 AMQuote from: SKO on May 31, 2018, 11:22:16 AMQuote from: Bort on May 31, 2018, 10:49:15 AMQuote from: SKO on May 31, 2018, 09:58:45 AM
I can't imagine anyone that likes Star Wars not liking that movie regardless of whether you are good and smart and right thinking and loved the Last Jedi or you're a basement-dwelling reddit Nazi that hates women and did not like TLJ.
That was just 2 hours of quality, fun Star Wars filler. Solid B+
It was quite good. Not all-time great, but perfectly cromulent. Did what I wanted, which was be a Star War.
I agree, and while the Reddit assholes are trying to take credit for the relatively modest box office opening for a Star War I really think they probably should have just pushed this one back a few months. Episode IX isn't due till December of 2019, because they waited till after TLJ's theatrical run was over to begin heavily marketing Solo and they scheduled it to compete with Infinity War and Deadpool 2 they really f--ked themselves. Later in the year would have been the perfect place to deposit a Competent But Not That Exciting Star War.
That and the only news forever about it was that it was troubled and the lead actor needed a coach (guess what: that happens all the time to actors of all experience levels).
Quote from: Bort on May 31, 2018, 10:49:15 AMQuote from: SKO on May 31, 2018, 09:58:45 AM
I can't imagine anyone that likes Star Wars not liking that movie regardless of whether you are good and smart and right thinking and loved the Last Jedi or you're a basement-dwelling reddit Nazi that hates women and did not like TLJ.
That was just 2 hours of quality, fun Star Wars filler. Solid B+
It was quite good. Not all-time great, but perfectly cromulent. Did what I wanted, which was be a Star War.
Quote from: Tonker on May 31, 2018, 03:42:29 AM
I've got to say, I expected it to take longer than just one film until the Deadpool franchise turned into what it was satirising.
Quote from: Oleg on May 29, 2018, 10:32:03 AMQuote from: SKO on May 25, 2018, 03:21:48 PM
jumping on the first pitch again.
You think that's bad, you should see his stats when he swings on 1-1 count.