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I'm up to the season four finale and you guys are right. The stuff with Mitchell is aces. All kinds of good stuff going on. This is a completely different show than the early seasons, thank God.

What the hell is Mo Vaughn doing these days?

ARod Drops MLB Lawsuits I am terribly disappointed with this news (seriously). ARod has caved into MLB and Selig and dropped his lawsuits against MLB, Selig, and the MLBPA. This disappoints me as I was looking forward to ARod's guys grilling Selig on the stand as well as the Yankees folks for their awful health care they gave Alex. Probably smart, though, as Alex was looking at $10m in legal fees and little hope of recouping that in suspension reduction.

Dude, you went to school with Pedro Martinez?

Speaking of Fallon/Leno, Conan got in a zinger on Leno's last night: "The Olympics start airing tonight on NBC," O'Brien said, near the end of his monologue Thursday. "That's right, NBC has the Olympics. It's a big deal. NBC will finally get to show somebody who's okay with passing the torch." Kinda makes Conan look bad, taking a shot at Leno, but it's a well-deserved one.

Is he more unlikeable than Debra on Everybody Loves Raymond? Good lord, what a shrew. Alright man, will do.

Have had a PS4 for a few days now and have played: Pinball Arcade - This one was a bit of a disappointment. Parts of it look pretty nice, parts of it don't. Not nearly the graphical upgrade that it should be over the PS3 version. And, in yet another reminder that Farsight is one of the laziest, sloppiest development houses going, the sound files in the game are from the mobile version and, thus, sound AWFUL. Nothing screams 2014 like STATIC in your sound files. Unreal. Oh yeah, they also REMOVED the feature that let you configure the controls for the flippers. Stupid. At least the bug I hated most in the Attack From Mars table, which would cause lost balls for no reason, has been eliminated. 6/10. Zen Pinball 2 - Farsight really should try to copy Zen. Pretty much everything Zen does is just done better than what Farsight does, except maybe physics - and even that, Zen is better in some areas. You can import 20 of your tables from the PS3 version for free, so that was nice. Not a huge upgrade over the PS3 version but definitely some graphical improvements. That's not a huge deal as the PS3 version already looked super-nice. Seems to play a little faster than the PS3 version which is not necessarily a good thing but not bad either. 8/10. Resogun - Picture a modern day Defender played with twin stick controls and a playing area that's a cylinder in shape. This game ROCKS. Great game with some great graphics. I'm not convinced it couldn't be done on a PS3 but there's a lot going on here. 9/10. Assassin's Creed 4 - I spent about 2 hours last night cleaning out the initial Cape Bonavista area completely. So far, so good. This is a spectacularly beautiful game and, hey, it's Assassin's Creed. Controls feel just a slight bit more loose than previous incarnations but that could just be my rust talking. Can't comment on the story as I'm not far enough in yet but they drop you right into action with no messing around, unlike AC3. So, yeah, I'm all good with this one so far. 9/10?

I'll take your word for it on the sex scene. I'm not gonna rewatch just to double-check you. I just remember that they didn't stick with the gimmick and that it bugged me, with that scene sticking with me for some reason. Either way, not a bad movie, just not as good as I'd heard/hoped.

Thanks to 2 long days of being laid up (yay back pain!), I finished season 3 and started season 4 of The Shield. The show definitely picks up in season in pretty much every way. The acting all around gets better, the production sucks less and overall the show has a better idea of what it's trying to be. I think the money train stuff was completely ridiculous and the show seems hell-bent on giving you nobody to actually like. Your choices are basically Claudette, who chooses to have no relationship with her kid, or Danny, who has no problem with sleeping with married guys. After that, you've got the corrupt captain who jerks off to rape videos, the animal-killer Dutch, the no-problem-with-assaulting-people Julien and the strike team. Awesome. I think they, in general, handled the splintering of the strike team pretty well and in a way that mostly made sense. And, obviously, with Glenn Close joining for season 4, the acting quality definitely gets a boost. I'd say the show is up in the range of "good" at this point. Quite a jump from the first 5 episodes

Is that some new show? I've never heard of it. I'm not on the cutting edge though - I'm just watching The Shield , after all.

C'mon, one of the scenes from the camcorder is a sex scene between Gyllenhaal and his chick - and includes footage of both of them but with nobody to work the camera.

There isn't one. The topic died with the old board.

How the hell did I let a Randy Moss discussion get this far without this???

End of Watch is pretty good if you ignore all the times that the movie messes up the found footage gimmick. 3rd person in the room controlling the camera when there couldn't be someone there and all that.

I don't think it's a coincidence that all those guys had their best years with Moss as their #1 receiver. He elevated QBs - big-time. I don't know that you can say the same for Owens, except maybe the Super Bowl year in Philly.

Moss had 6 1300+ yard seasons. Owens had 4. Moss had 10 1000 yard seasons in his first 12 years. Owens had 9 total. Moss had 4 seasons of 15+ TDs. Owens had 2. Moss led the league in TDs 5 times. Owens did it 3 times. Moss set the all-time single season TD record. Owens didn't. Owens was probably a little more consistent but Randy had the higher ceiling. Owens was a great receiver - a lot better than some give him credit for - but Randy was better.

Randy Moss should go in ahead of every other receiver as soon as he becomes eligible. He was a LOT better than Reed, Brown, Harrison, Carter, Owens, all of 'em.

Yeah, but a breakfast majority is only 62%.

I get it to some degree. Yet, it wasn't a turnover. If Manning had turned around and handed the ball to Moreno, only to have him run backward for 14 yards and get tackled, the result would have been identical. I'm not saying it should count against Moreno's stats but it should count against the team. Kinda like how Manning taking a sack doesn't count against HIS passing totals but does count against the team's.

Found this while reading an article on something else. The link called it "the greatest video game glitch of all-time" - I would be very hard-pressed to argue. Watch the whole thing!

Ah, I see. They're counting that play as a fumble - which it really isn't - instead of a rush for -14 yards. Pretty stupid but I at least understand where Fox got their numbers from now. Seems really dumb that an offense can go backwards 14 yards and not have it count against their total offense numbers.

Good call. Her transformation got a ton of publicity in the run-up to T2.

Forgot this little bit of hilarity from Fox. As Denver was taking the field for their third possession, they showed a total yards stat for each time. I forget Seattle's at that point but for Denver, they showed "4 plays, 8 yards" (may have been "4 plays, 7 yards"). Either one is laughably wrong. I guess Fox just decided to completely ignore the -15 yards they got on their first play from scrimmage. Oh, they counted the play alright - just not the negative yardage. FIAL.

For whatever reason, the main camera angles for Fox were bumping up the saturation on the Broncos orange during the game. Replays and alternate angles showed the normal shade of orange. Really weird.

The funny thing about the fast travel spots is that I hardly ever use them. I find that between all the load times and delays, a lot of times I'm better off just running to the other place.