BobbyWhioux

If saggin' and being pregnant with the ball at the same time is wrong, I'm less interested in being right. And another!

Nice technique on the Bearhug, Uruguay defender.

I see Diego Forlan continues to look like he might be related to Jeremy Roenick.

I go with a hard [numbered] save around the hour mark, every hour. And more at significant plot/branch points (so I can go back and play alternate paths on, say, the civil war, without starting all over. Or right at the end of Helgen so I don't have to go through it again, etc.) In between that I quicksave pretty regularly.

Seen that several times and want to believe.

God Dammit that sucks A's radio broadcast team just mentioned he was planning on attending tonight's game in Anaheim and saying hello to a bunch of old friends on the coaching staff (Bob Melvin, Curt Young) and a bunch of the young pitchers on the A's who he'd been helping as a roving minor league instructors. Really stunning and sad news.

I wouldn't mind them doing the ASOS epilogue style Stoneheart reveal, except they'd probably have to burn Lame Lothar -- who stands a slight chance of being recognized as the goofy hat guy (who stabbed Mrs. Robb right in her pregnant belly) -- instead of introducing Merrett Frey just to immediately hang him. But Thoros and Anguy the archer have to be there and explain away "oh Beric couldn't be here, but we got someone else" since there the only name BWB guys so far. But I do really wanna see Beric find Cat's body (like the BWB is looking for RW witnesses/survivors?) and pass the essence on. Have her eyes spring open in classic horror movie style.

People just don't like the fourth and fifth books as much as the first three, that's all. Seasons 3 and 4 have mostly been Book 3 and that suggests books 4 and 5 will be squeezed a bit more in order to keep to 7 Seasons/7 Books plan. Which they're fine with because again they don't like 4 and 5 as much so cutting from them is "a good thing". Now, since books 6 and 7 don't exist yet the show is getting close (especially in some plot lines) to reaching the end of published source material, which may be forcing the show to start developing and using its own ideas on how to get to the endpoints as early as now. Which can include stretching out some bits and cutting others. But nobody can entirely be sure what because we're entering uncharted territory and book readers don't know what's coming anymore, either. They/we like to think they do based on years of anticipatory speculation, but they really don't

Bummer. Young Ones and Blackadder were among my earliest DVD purchases. He gave me a lot of laughs. RIP

Brienne's actress promised in pre-season interview clips/"making of" trailers that she bites someone's ear off this season. So that has to happen. Pretty stacked -- possibly overloaded -- card for next week: Tyrion, in the bathroom, with the Crossbow (has to be Joffrey's old Phallic Crossbow too) Sandor's "death" and Arya redeeming her Chuck E Assassin token to Braavos Brienne eats an ear Jon/Mance parley Bran gets to The Three Eyed Raven Stannis arrives at The Wall Tyrion's escape from prison (and says goodbye to Jaime) and from KL entirely Reveal that The Mountain was poisoned, Qyburn volunteers to study him Drogon kills a child this time, Dany chains up the dragons Balon finally dies? Lady Stoneheart

Well, she shot his dad, and Jon already went over on Tormund and on Magnar, so this way kid gets his heat back and a blowoff, too.

Supposedly part of his issue with Donaldson was the tag caused him to make a sudden move to try and dodge the tag -- which risked aggravating the knee injury that caused him to miss so much time. Which of course makes him look really bad when he is so reckless and unrepentant about hitting the catcher in the head with his bat and apparently causing an actual injury that forced Norris to leave the game. And Baltimore had already responded to Donaldson's tag later in that same game. Then he tries to throw his bat at Third Base A] When Donaldson is no longer even in the game B] and came close to hitting Angel Hernandez

Trant is such a jabronie he's not even worth the effort of killing off. They'd have to change/recast the "token Kingsguard bozo who isn't Jaime" role and unless they really want to do that for some reason or Balon Swann turns out to actually be relevant enough the show "needs" that role, they're better off keeping Trant for face recognition since this show has so many different characters and recasts as it is. Better the lickspittle the audience knows than the lickspittle they don't.

Roose Bolton, usually just called Lord Bolton if anything by characters in the show, is the guy who looks kinda like Vlad Putin. Roose was Robb's Mailman in Season 2. Also Chief Giver Of "...Seriously?" Looks to Robb whenever he ended strategy sessions early to bang his foreign nurse girlfriend. When Robb learned Theon had turned on him, Roose offered to deploy his bastard son to sort shit out for Robb. In Season 3 he unleashed his henchman bounty hunter Locke to re-acquire Jaime after Catelyn cut him loose under Big Girl's custody. He broke the bad news to Robb about Bran and Rickon being missing presumed dead after Winterfell was burned down "by the Ironborn, as they retreated". He REFUSED to drink alcohol, repeatedly, which made everyone think he was weird and creepy. He trolled Jaime about his sister maybe being dead LOL just kidding Stannis lost your sister is fine. He sent Jaime on his way as an "apology" for Locke "accidentally" cutting his hand off, but he was actually selling Robb out. As we saw more obviously later at the wedding, when Roose let Catelyn see his chainmail and he ultimately got the deathblow and XP for killing Robb. Last scene was a heavy exposition dump with Hogwarts Janitor in which he revealed his bastard son, named Ramsay, actually burned down Winterfell and is in fact the anonymous nutjob who was mutilating Theon all through the season. He offered them Robb's surrender/amnesty terms in exchange for Theon but double crossed them and killed them all (presumably flaying them as well, cuz that's how The Bolton family rolls) and then sent Theon's dad and sister a Dick In A Box. He [Roose] also made mention of marrying one of Hogwarts Janitor's daughters. Since Hogwarts Janitor offered "my daughter's weight in silver" as a dowry, Roose chose the fat one. We saw her, once, for about five seconds this season. He sent Locke to go find/kill Bran and Rickon (fail) and he told Ramsay to be less of a fuckup / capture Moat Cailin, which we just saw Ramsay use Theon/Reek to do. And Now Ramsay Is A Real Boy/Not A Bastard. And the last shot of them was their moving in to Winterfell. He's a bit of an asshole, even by Game Of Thrones standards.

Jon and Sam. Impossible. The Night's Watch is an organization sworn to protect and serve the entire country, not just one part of it, as explicitly stated in their mission statement and the vows Jon and Sam took. Jacques and Pierre, conversely, explicitly abdicated any comparable responsibility in their theme song, wherein they sang "we're NOT the mounties" i.e. they are not policemen, they are not public servants, they are not here to protect you. They're out for themselves. Sam could plausibly steal Pierre's le cannonball Finishing Move though, admittedly. But that's as close as it gets.

Fucking Littlefinger dropping SPOILERS. He really is the most evil man in Westeros.

Except the Lannisters didn't really win and in fact this pretty much played out in the worst possible way for Tywin: Jaime's still in the kingsguard Tyrion's still condemned to die [thus, no way to carry on the family name] his Pet Terrorist Gregor Clegane is broken and bleeding out even in "victory" Oberyn's death puts an end to all his work to bring Dorne back under the tent as an ally (particularly since, oddly enough, Oberyn got Gregor to confess and thus technically Mission Accomplished) Which means he's still stuck depending on only the Tyrells as allies, which means their bargaining position gets stronger (and as we know they're really out for themselves anyway, they did actually kill Joffrey) And there's three potential foreign invasions he has to worry about, one of which just got a shot in the arm care of The Iron Bank because Tywin couldn't/didn't pay them back on time... and that's just the three he knows about... there's also that fourth one The Martells still hold Princess Myrcella The gold mines are still dried up. The trial by combat fucked up the Lannisters as much as The Martells: Cersei's the only one dumb (and sadistic) enough to not realize it. If Oberyn kills Gregor clean then yeah Tywin loses his hatchetman but at least maybe he can spin that as appeasement and asskiss The Martells into helping him out (and Tyrion goes into exile instead of dying). Tywin's plans are fucked to hell. That's a big part of why Tyrion called for this trial by battle in the first place; it was a no-win for Tywin.

And here I was arguing that the Claw Hold was a Stark family finishing move... So much for that.

Well, 2 of the 3 teams have no reason to pursue a new goalie at all and "blame/replace the goalie" already came up a couple years ago on the San Jose Sharks' Cosmic Wheel Of Playoff Excuses so it won't be time for them to press that particular panic button again until about 2016. So I think you'll get what you want.

Gotta admit, I'm impressed with Dubya's "Bring it on!" Challenge Fastball.

Ironically allowing far more runs than his ERA would suggest. 4 over 7IP, i.e. NOT A QUALITY START LOL. Doing his part to put a stake in the heart of both stats. Good for him.

Finally, internet:

Well, after that tangent this thread certainly can't be called "unsullied" anymore, anyway...

Tywin says he wasn't even wiling to kill Tyrion, for all he resents him. If he wouldn't kill Tyrion, it stands to reason that he wouldn't kill Joffrey (who after all had way more upside and use, being king). Not that Tywin isn't ruthless enough to take full advantage of Joffrey's death and no doubt considers it for the overall best that Joffrey died. The Tyrells, on the other hand, obviously gain a lot from killing Joffrey and have no qualms about doing so since he's NOT their blood relative and they've already shown in the past that one king is as good as another to them. Also Tommen is (as far as anyone can tell) much easier for Margaery to manipulate, and far less likely to shoot her with a crossbow when he's [trying to] reaching sexual climax.

Er, I should've said Hodor's is the most protected version of the Northern Claw, not the most over. He only gets mad enough to bust it out once at year at the super card but when he does IT IS DEATH. Piledriver in Mexico Death.