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Kind of surprised we had a Jessica Jones thread and not a Daredevil thread. How progressive us.

I'm through the third episode of season 2. God damn this show is good, and it's depiction of the Punisher is fantastic. The idea of having him as an antagonist, and seeing just how horrifying that character would be from the perspective of his victims, great move. He makes a really interesting foil by challenging Daredevil to question the limits and rationale behind his own vigilante justice. Is it ever right to do what he's doing? Great stuff.

If we already have a 2016 general mlb thread I apologize.

Reading the ZiPS projections for the Angels and kind of marvelling at this:

QuoteA team composed of all exactly replacement-level players and also Mike Trout would record roughly 57 wins over the course of a season — meaning the Angels, as a group, need to augment Trout's contribution with about 30 wins of their own in order to qualify for the postseason in some fashion.

And then laughing at this:

QuoteKole Calhoun (604 PA, 2.7 zWAR) and the newly acquired Andrelton Simmons (590 PA, 3.7 zWAR) would appear to be useful in that endeavor. Depending on the health of his foot, Albert Pujols (602 PA, 2.7 zWAR) might also be, as well. After those four players, however, finding even an average projection among the club's hitters is difficult.

Add in that Keith Law and others seem to think that the Angels farm system is the worst in the majors by far, and that they appear unwilling to spend their way past the luxury tax while Pujols becomes dead weight more and more each year....it's kind of depressing how the Angels are going to waste the best years of Trout's career.

I wonder if there's any other team in the playoff era that has managed to consistently waste that level of production from one or two young superstars.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/14/alan-rickman-giant-of-british-film-and-theatre-dies-at-69

Snape and Hans Gruber are gone, because fuck cancer.

Do you consider there to be a difference between "fine" and "mediocre"? Would you use them as synonyms? Which one would you say is better, if they are not synonyms.

I was 100% sure Harrison Ford only signed up so Han could be killed off for good. The movie basically was Han saying "I'm only three days away from retirement" short of giving out every cliche possible indicating he was going to die. The entire scene with Kylo Ren was way too drawn out when it was obvious what was going to happen the whole time.....

...and yet goddammit Han Solo is dead and it hurts.

That was my only real complaint about the movie, they overdid that scene just a bit much. I didn't care for Rey hearing the word "Force" and suddenly realizing she can use the Jedi Mind Trick, but oh well, she was great. I am glad they showed Chewie shooting Kylo Ren and had him hitting his wound during the fight so that it made a novice beating him in a lightsaber duel more plausible.

They did a great job of giving you just enough info to get you really interested in knowing more. How did the Empire become the First Order? Who is Snoke? How did he seduce Ben Solo? Was he someone Luke trusted?

Also  "that's not how the force works!" was maybe the funniest line in the entire franchise.

It's high time dipshit gets his own thread.

8 Hours ago: "Cubs trade Baez for Miller"

7 Hours ago: "Cubs close to deal for Baez for Miller (after talks moved on from Soler)"

6.5 Hours ago: "Second source says nothing close with Braves"

6.25 Hours Ago: "Soler still in play in Braves talks"

I'd post the direct link to the tweets on here but twitter is fun-filtered on my work computer and Gordo's blocked me anyway so someone else can do it.

Regardless, Jesus Christ, I know the Sun Times is basically printed out of a van down by the river and has no credibility left anyway but why they keep letting Gordo make them look even worse is beyond me.

So I assume some of y'all are watching this? I'm about 5 episodes in. Jesus Christ, Kilgrave is fucking terrifying.

I hope the Cardinals never fire this guy.

-Using Lance Lynn, who has been a total turd for a month, to give up a run in an inning of relief in game 2 and then trying to call it a "throw day"

-Siegrist vs Rizzo and Schwarber despite Siegrist's hilarious reverse split.

-400 year old mouthbreather starting on short rest.

-Pinch hitting Garcia twice in big moments (once for Randall Grichuk, who has stupid power) just because Garcia had been 3-3 vs Pedro Strop. Strop restored sanity to the world by actually taking the free out both times.

Why should Snork have all the fun?

Does this turd even throw fucking warm-up pitches or what?

Eat shit,  pube beard.

I know we were using the Ross thread as a de facto Miggy splooge thread, but this guy deserves his own I think. Safe to say his slump his over.

If we already have one of these, I apologize, but I didn't see one.

Bartolo Colon's double is the greatest thing I've seen in ages. David Ross probably gets an inside the park home run on that. Dan Vogelbach is at least taking a hard turn around 3rd on a standup triple. Bartolo just says "aww fuck it" after he rounds first.

Alea iacta est.

I don't really hold a bad AB against Chapman against him, but every time I think about why he's even on this roster I get angry, so let's firebarn the sonofabitch.

Last two games: 4 hits, 2 walks, 2 triples, and a mammoth shot for all of us to win the game vs. LaTroy Hawkins.  I like this dude

Goodbye, Spock.

Leonard Nimoy dead at 83.

So did anyone even fucking see this thing?

Is it any good? I have heard only from people who think it's just some visionary masterpiece and people so incensed at it for being pretentious garbage they walked out of the theater.

You other nerds still watching this? Because I got one word for you:

GRODD

Shocking that I'm the one to post about this, I know.

It's okay. I think it has to decide what kind of show it wants to be. Is it a normal police procedural in a fucked up city that has really eccentric villains in it? Is it a really long, drawn out and probably shitty Batman origin story? Does it keep trying to be dark or does it embrace some of the really funny camp possibilities it has? It's kind of done all of the above so far.

There's potential to be really good, though, mostly because Ben McKenzie as Gordon and Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock are just so fucking perfect for their roles, and I'm really enjoying the weird dude they have playing The Penguin. Since I normally fucking hate the Penguin, it's a nice change.

Jada Pinkett Smith is awful, though.

So that we can all make uncomfortable arguments about domestic violence elsewhere.

Watching that game last night I felt some validation for championing Cutler over McCown, and I feel like it's pretty clear the franchise is better off without Lovie than with him, but I was still felt kinda bad for the guy. Just seems like the entire game has passed him by.