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Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on April 14, 2016, 01:54:53 PM

Quote from: J Rod on April 14, 2016, 01:45:48 PM
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Anybody watching season 4?  I haven't seen last night's yet (episode 5), but episode 4 had a big update...don't know policy around here regarding spoilers, etc. or I would elaborate.

Your sentence will be carried out... shortly.

This season has been amazing so far. Seems like they're building up to some amazing pay offs with Martha, Paige and the pastor, the weird relationship with Beeman, Phillip's obvious increasing dislike of his job, etc.

I know next season has already been picked up but

I get the feeling that Martha's days might be numbered.  They have a good cover story with Beeman finding the valium and revolver in her apartment...a staged suicide, perhaps? But then the previews for next week seem to suggest something else.  If this show has 1, or 2, more seasons left, you'd think that they were start moving in the direction of how it will wrap up...which I think has to have Philip & Elizabeth defecting to save their kids.

Don't see anyway Elizabeth defects.  Kinda hard to see them ending up together.  If the whole show is a study of a marriage with the backdrop of a spy show, where they work for a country only a few years away from breaking up, hard to see how they aren't "divorced" somehow by the end.

Don't think so?  Of the two, she's definitely the more devoted to 'the cause', but I can see her defecting.  It seems like there are occasional cracks.  It wouldn't be because she had some realization that she liked the U.S. (for which she has huge amounts of disdain)...it would have to be something dramatically changing on the USSR home front, or to protect their kids.  I would be surprised if they ended up separated by the end of the show...every now and then (like the end of ep. 5) she seems to claim her territory with Philip...and she'd never be able to find someone to relate to, like she can with him.

Quote from: Slaky on April 18, 2016, 12:37:00 PM

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on April 14, 2016, 01:54:53 PM

Quote from: J Rod on April 14, 2016, 01:45:48 PM
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Anybody watching season 4?  I haven't seen last night's yet (episode 5), but episode 4 had a big update...don't know policy around here regarding spoilers, etc. or I would elaborate.

Your sentence will be carried out... shortly.

This season has been amazing so far. Seems like they're building up to some amazing pay offs with Martha, Paige and the pastor, the weird relationship with Beeman, Phillip's obvious increasing dislike of his job, etc.

I know next season has already been picked up but

I get the feeling that Martha's days might be numbered.  They have a good cover story with Beeman finding the valium and revolver in her apartment...a staged suicide, perhaps? But then the previews for next week seem to suggest something else.  If this show has 1, or 2, more seasons left, you'd think that they were start moving in the direction of how it will wrap up...which I think has to have Philip & Elizabeth defecting to save their kids.

Whenever I hear Beeman, I always think of this guy...

So...about that 7.20 team era of Colorado's...

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Anybody watching season 4?  I haven't seen last night's yet (episode 5), but episode 4 had a big update...don't know policy around here regarding spoilers, etc. or I would elaborate.

Quote from: InternetApex on April 14, 2016, 12:17:02 PM
Lackey will finish the season with a sub-4.00 ERA and earn every penny of that meh contract.

And I'll still hate him. I hated Jim Edmonds too. I don't just forget the past and embrace these former Cardinals like some war criminal. Heyward doesn't count. It's not like he ever wanted to be a Cardinal in the first place and he cut a fucking swath out of St. Louis so fast it made General Sherman stand up and take note. 

Quote from: Canadouche on April 14, 2016, 09:28:18 AM

Quote from: Median Desipio Chucklehead on April 14, 2016, 08:55:17 AM

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Quote from: SKO on April 14, 2016, 07:35:49 AM
If you take out John Lackey's 8 runs in 12.2 innings, the Cubs have a team ERA of 1.83. Even with him it's 2.51. Their bullpen has allowed 2 ER in 19 innings of work.

Even if you leave them in, the Cubs still have 7 quality starts in 8 games, and they won the one game that wasn't a QS.

There is no team in baseball that is going to enjoy playing the Cubs this year.

Yeah but I wanted to praise this team while still shitting on Lackey and I say Mission Accomplished.

Lackey should spend every non-pitching day doing the breast stroke through a pool of elephant diarrhea. And if the Cubs had anybody who was a better option as a #3 starter, I'd want him doing it on pitching days too.

While watching last night's game, the camera panned on Lackey in the dugout and my wife said "I don't like that guy. He looks like a douche." She's about as oblivious to baseball as you can be, and even she knows.

Haha...my wife was the same, watching Lackey pitch last night when Deshaies was talking about how the team likes him, but no one else does...Her: "Isn't that guy supposed to be an asshole?"...Me: "Yeah, nobody likes him."

Watched this last weekend with the wife.  After some infuriating attempts to explain what shorting the market means ("So these guys are assholes? They're the ones who destroyed the economy?"..."No, they're just making bets that the value of certain investments will drop, which will make them money."..."I don't get it.")...she finally fell asleep and I was able to enjoy it.

I thought it was well done and entertaining, albeit with an angle they were obviously trying to perpetuate (...example, Baum's last line, "I'm afraid they're going to blame the poor and immigrants."...with the narrator confirming this...although I've only heard 'big banks' be blamed).  Avoiding a diatribe on the causes of the collapse and responsible parties ("big banks", government, lenders, appraisers, borrowers, ratings agencies, etc.) - I'll just say that I think they all hold some level of responsibility, some more than others.

Oh, and when Baum's team went to Florida to investigate the housing bubble first hand, I will say that they nailed it with the portrayal of sub-prime salesmen (the 2 guys talking about owning boats, earning $10K/loan, being a bartender 3 months prior...) - totally true to form, especially for Florida. And their brief explanation of SISA/NINA mortgage applications were frighteningly true. For awhile there a LOT of subprime mortgage applications were evaluated on FICO scores alone.

Quote from: SKO on April 07, 2016, 08:19:56 AM

Quote from: Slaky on April 07, 2016, 08:18:32 AM
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Maybe they should have spent less time in spring training being butthurt about "the team up north" and more time not striking out all of the fucking time.

I am laughing so hard at a fanbase that told me "the Cubs strike out too much to win in the postseason" K'ing 30+ times in 3 games.

So I was curious and looked it up...they struck out *37* times in 101 ABs!

37!

http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/stats/batting/_/name/stl

Quote from: SKO on April 06, 2016, 07:40:45 AM

Quote from: Tonker on April 06, 2016, 07:32:23 AM
I literally don't have the words to express how I feel about Tony Ballgame.  I don't yet love him quite as much as I do Kerry, but he's heading in that direction.

Oh he's tops in my book already, but I apparently just gravitate towards any good Cubs first baseman. Mark Grace was my favorite growing up, Derrek Lee was my favorite for pretty much his entire tenure, but now Tony is the man. Considering Tony will hopefully play over a decade in Chicago and be the first baseman on multiple pennant/championship winning teams, I think he'll have the #1 spot locked down for good.

Definitely #1 on the current team currently [/edit].  I usually don't put much stock into what a guy is like off the field, but from what I understand Tony is an all around good dude, in addition to being nails on the field, so it makes it that much easier to root for him (and why I don't mind my son wearing a Rizzo shersey).

Quote from: PenFoe on April 17, 2015, 02:33:37 PM

Quote from: Eli on April 17, 2015, 02:31:48 PM

Quote from: J Rod on April 17, 2015, 02:18:41 PM
Have you had #5 yet? 

Not yet. I've got two sitting at home, but just need to figure out when to crack one open.

Now.

Maybe wait until Bryant hits his first of...I guess it's down to 3...dingers today.  Then open to celebrate.

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Quote from: PenFoe on April 15, 2015, 04:16:50 PM
Despite my long-standing LOUD aversion to fruity beer (and the subsequent spawned meme,) I've been on the lookout for Grapefruit Sculpin for like 2 years now and just finally got it in Colorado and I'm expecting to enjoy the fuck out of it.

MEME BE DAMNED.  

Do you like Lambics? I fux with some of that.

A little, but not my favorite.  

Definitely not more than 1 in a session.

What about sour beers? Boulevard's Love Child No. 5 came out this week and I'm resisting the urge to clean out my local liquor store ($18/pop prohibits that, fortunately or unfortunately). I'd been iffy on them before and this one changed my mind.

Have you had #5 yet?  I thought #4 was one of the more sour beers I have ever had.  It was good, but the acidity of it caught me off guard.  I've been sitting on a second one, hoping it mellows a bit.  Haven't picked up a 5 yet...

If you like wilds, check out Cisco's Lady of the Woods...has a dryness to it, almost like a champagne.

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Quote from: SKO on April 16, 2015, 11:52:38 AM
I'm just terrified that Yeti is the smart one in some family.

I mean...we've all heard about your family too, SKO.  

Hey I'm not the smart one in my family. I'm just the one that's smart and relatively sane. The one currently living in Thailand with his wife (who goes by the facebook name of Foxy L. Stargirrl) is basically a fucking rocket scientist. He's just completely off his rocker.

The middle brother's dumber than a stump, so that's fair.

That's "Foxie L. Stargirl", actually.

Wouldn't know. Cut him out of my life completely. He flew to Thailand on fucking Christmas Eve, after having a "heart to heart" with his six year old daughter about why it's "too hard to be away from someone you love so much." Then Christmas Day she said to me "I can't wait to show my dad my princess dress" that she got for Christmas, not understanding that he won't be back for god knows how long, and at that moment I wrote him off. Mother fucker.

Holy fucking shit...that breaks my heart...with a 3 year old girl myself, I can't imagine this...I love the twinkle mine gets in her eye when she's proud to show me something.  I truly hope she's doing well despite the POS.

Paul?  Is that you?

Who the hell is Paul?

I call shenanigans. You've been active here since 2006. You know who Paul is.

Depends how you define "active"...don't think I've regularly perused the message board for 5ish years (maybe longer), but it's starting to come back to me...

I'll shut up, I'm a douche?

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Quote from: SKO on April 16, 2015, 11:52:38 AM
I'm just terrified that Yeti is the smart one in some family.

I mean...we've all heard about your family too, SKO.  

Hey I'm not the smart one in my family. I'm just the one that's smart and relatively sane. The one currently living in Thailand with his wife (who goes by the facebook name of Foxy L. Stargirrl) is basically a fucking rocket scientist. He's just completely off his rocker.

The middle brother's dumber than a stump, so that's fair.

That's "Foxie L. Stargirl", actually.

Wouldn't know. Cut him out of my life completely. He flew to Thailand on fucking Christmas Eve, after having a "heart to heart" with his six year old daughter about why it's "too hard to be away from someone you love so much." Then Christmas Day she said to me "I can't wait to show my dad my princess dress" that she got for Christmas, not understanding that he won't be back for god knows how long, and at that moment I wrote him off. Mother fucker.

Holy fucking shit...that breaks my heart...with a 3 year old girl myself, I can't imagine this...I love the twinkle mine gets in her eye when she's proud to show me something.  I truly hope she's doing well despite the POS.

Paul?  Is that you?

Who the hell is Paul?

The walrus. Also, you (probamaybely).

Let's see how he compares to Kirkegaard first.

Kirkegaard sounds like one of those funny names I heard in my philosophy course I had to take for my undergrad...

You make a terrible Paul.

Not the first time I've been told I'm terrible at something, guaranteed not to be the last.

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Quote from: SKO on April 16, 2015, 11:52:38 AM
I'm just terrified that Yeti is the smart one in some family.

I mean...we've all heard about your family too, SKO.  

Hey I'm not the smart one in my family. I'm just the one that's smart and relatively sane. The one currently living in Thailand with his wife (who goes by the facebook name of Foxy L. Stargirrl) is basically a fucking rocket scientist. He's just completely off his rocker.

The middle brother's dumber than a stump, so that's fair.

That's "Foxie L. Stargirl", actually.

Wouldn't know. Cut him out of my life completely. He flew to Thailand on fucking Christmas Eve, after having a "heart to heart" with his six year old daughter about why it's "too hard to be away from someone you love so much." Then Christmas Day she said to me "I can't wait to show my dad my princess dress" that she got for Christmas, not understanding that he won't be back for god knows how long, and at that moment I wrote him off. Mother fucker.

Holy fucking shit...that breaks my heart...with a 3 year old girl myself, I can't imagine this...I love the twinkle mine gets in her eye when she's proud to show me something.  I truly hope she's doing well despite the POS.

Paul?  Is that you?

Who the hell is Paul?

The walrus. Also, you (probamaybely).

Let's see how he compares to Kirkegaard first.

Kirkegaard sounds like one of those funny names I heard in my philosophy course I had to take for my undergrad...

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Quote from: SKO on April 16, 2015, 11:52:38 AM
I'm just terrified that Yeti is the smart one in some family.

I mean...we've all heard about your family too, SKO.  

Hey I'm not the smart one in my family. I'm just the one that's smart and relatively sane. The one currently living in Thailand with his wife (who goes by the facebook name of Foxy L. Stargirrl) is basically a fucking rocket scientist. He's just completely off his rocker.

The middle brother's dumber than a stump, so that's fair.

That's "Foxie L. Stargirl", actually.

Wouldn't know. Cut him out of my life completely. He flew to Thailand on fucking Christmas Eve, after having a "heart to heart" with his six year old daughter about why it's "too hard to be away from someone you love so much." Then Christmas Day she said to me "I can't wait to show my dad my princess dress" that she got for Christmas, not understanding that he won't be back for god knows how long, and at that moment I wrote him off. Mother fucker.

Holy fucking shit...that breaks my heart...with a 3 year old girl myself, I can't imagine this...I love the twinkle mine gets in her eye when she's proud to show me something.  I truly hope she's doing well despite the POS.

Paul?  Is that you?

Who the hell is Paul?