Contentious C
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2 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:
FWIW, over this 8 straight trips to the AFC title game run, the AFC East actuality has the best cumulative win percentage by the three non-champions of any division.
The 2008 11-5 thing is fascinating to me. It's objectively a very good record, but it also was a five game drop off from the previous year.
The Dolphins went 12-2 after their undefeated season, and they didn't lose their most important player one quarter into the first game. So, regressing to the mean even that much is...well, it's pretty good.
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The problem with that narrative is Voldemort is still positioned where he always was.
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1 hour ago, Craig H said:
Fate of the Furious had Charlize Theron looking like she was just making a paycheck
Much LOL @ "looking like"
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I sort of despise those stats, though only in relation to how much I despise myself.
I clocked something like 3x that many hours (meaning, your total count for 2018) just playing Marvel Heroes on PC. That was a game that was born and died entirely within the timeframe of my PhD project. So I basically spent 5 months of a <5-year project screwing around on 1 video game. FML.
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It was also still 1 point below the MSG record, set by.... some ex-Rocket, I guess.
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5 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Maybe almost as important to the voters, Jeter never had any off the field issues
Other than Googling "Derek Jeter herpes tree".
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No pretzel dogs, no peace.
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And locally, crab cakes get balanced out by "lake trout". McNulty and Bunk weren't making that shit up. You seeing a lot of lakes around Baltimore?
Reminds me, I gotta see if the Pretzel Dog stand is open again in Fells when I'm up there this weekend.
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I had somehow forgotten about one other entrant into "Kids don't pick up on sex and/or racism". Sometime around 90/91, maybe a little prior to that, MTV ran some promotion to the effect of, "Win a trip to meet/party with Guns 'n' Roses". And Axl is in the commercial for it, explaining the crazy stuff they do. At one point he mentions the bed in the hotel, and says something like, "This is your bed: it's never been slept in. Well...it's been used, it's just never been slept in." Wouldn't be surprised if the Tube has that commercial somewhere.
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Abreu, lol. Jim Edmonds is giving Bobby some side-eye from their seats next to each other in the Hall of Very Good.
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R.E.M. could probably own this thread if they wanted. Living in the south when "Losing My Religion" became a hit...fuck alllllllllllll those morons.
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A song in a similar vein - creepy *if* misread, rather than flat-out creepy *and* misread - is "To Whom It May Concern" by the Civil Wars. Because it's performed as a duet, you get the impression from the song that it's two people who are crushing on one another and just don't have the nerve to make a move.
Take the same song and have just one voice performing it, and, well, it turns into Michael Fassbender on the subway in Shame.
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Luckily, there's already a big summary of tone-deaf misuses in political campaigns, so I thought I'd just provide the link.
Favorite there is easily "Rudi Can't Fail". Jesus, what would he play as entrance music these days? "Hateful"? "Clampdown"? "The Four Horsemen"?
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It'd be pretty close to equal, I'd say. At least Nick can actually play the field (though oddly enough, every year he's won a GG, he's been a negative in dWAR, and almost -7 for his career thus far).
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If Markakis can go until he's 40, he could turn into the guy who ruins 3000 hits as a HOF benchmark.
At least until the "Whatever the Today's Game Is Called in 10 Years" Committee bollockses that up.
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Quick, name the sports franchise owners who don't behave like the folks running The Purge.
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I think my biggest issue from reading Dracula all of once was how clearly it was a product of the publishing mores of the day: the pacing is so shoddy that even someone unfamiliar with serialization could spot it, and then, once things need to wrap up, they do so a little too quickly. So. Much. Space. is spent on just figuring out what's wrong with Lucy that it never felt like there was enough material working below the surface of that, or parallel to it. It's maybe the only positive thing I can say about Coppola's movie, for instance (since everything else about it is badly done, hamfisted, and laughably gauche - well, except for Tom Waits, but we knew that, because it's Tom Waits). The actual development of a story between Dracula and Mina at least keeps it from dragging too much and adds some needed dimension to the characters (even if that story is frequently hokey).
I suppose, on the other hand, you could make a strong case that the book works better largely because Dracula is a pure monster, and that softening his edges runs counter to the idea of the creature.
Oddly enough, I think the only vampire book I ever read that felt at all suspenseful was, I want to say, Jeanne Kalogridis' first book. Covenant with the Vampire, Wikipedia says. But even that was trading heavily on literally everyone's prior knowledge of the Big Bad lurking around the corner to ratchet up the tension. Too bad the other two books were hot garbage.
Reminds me I need to rewatch Herzog's Nosferatu.
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Oh, I know; I've seen John whack you for that in quite a few other threads and, jerk that I am, couldn't avoid some mild trolling.
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Given the, ahem, timing of this review (and it's not like I was posting again as of 2016), my question is, are any of these still sitting around in a box in New Mexico?
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Darren McFadden got a DUI for falling asleep in the drive-through lane of a What-a-Burger.
What surprises me the most about this is that there are still What-a-Burgers.
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Oh, I have a story.
After the Sosa/McGwire chase in '98, they put out a 22-karat gold card set as a collector's item. My grandparents got it for me for Christmas; it was apparently the most expensive thing anyone got from them.
Now you can't get rid of for $10 on eBay (part of that could be that eBay has made collecting moot, but Bonds didn't help, nor did bad behavior). No idea what it originally cost. Maybe the gold is still worth melting down.
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Dwight Howard made an NBA finals, so, that's an easy answer between the two of them.
Watch for the 7 jersey curse. I'm calling it.
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SB LI is the only game involving Brady that looked like it would be a blowout, and, well, we see how that turned out.
This will be close. The gameplan versus the Chiefs could still be effective versus the Rams, although L.A.'s talent level is higher across the board. Their run stop isn't great, and their pass rush can't get home if it has to respect the run more. And they're weak in the secondary. Then again, they did just put Brees on the ground a few times, and he's always been a lot more mobile than Brady.
Hard to say who Belichick takes away. Given the familiarity with Cooks, it may be him, and it's as good a choice as any.
It's time for that new thread! That I did not see. Sorry Brian.
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Someone changed the search text for "Super Bowl" on Wikipedia to say "When the Patriots play the last game of their season". Got a screenshot before it gets edited back to normal...
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Is that a crossover title or a climate change documentary?