So it may not be quite fair to compare them, since one is a straight adaptation and the other a “remix”, but, yeah, Watchmen is blowing His Dark Materials out of the water in terms of how to adapt another medium’s source material. Even if HDM hasn’t done as many episodes, comparing the two show’s same number aired,…

Draymond Green’s a dick-and-balls-kicking asshole but he’s also right a lot of the time. For every can’t miss prospect like LeBron or KD or Zion, there’s a dozen guys every year who have the potential to have long, productive careers in the NBA and never get it because they don’t land in a situation that’ll help them…

He’s not wrong. Of course then the Knicks are out here wondering how certain teams keep getting lucky all the time. Truly a mystery. 

In general, I’m not in favor of make up calls because most applications of them will leave the ump’s fingerprint on the game, even if just subtly.

Yeah, make up calls seem to fall under the old adage “two wrongs don’t make a right”. And crap like certain calls - which clearly fall under the category of objective visual evidence - being unreviewable because reasons is exactly why I’m in favor of scrapping instant replay altogether. We can Zapruder a runner’s foot…

The final pitch was way too close for Sanchez to argue as much as he did, even if we ignore everything else that happened in that AB. Probably a ball but not exactly shocking it was called a strike.

Yeah, no. The ump made the call here because Sanchez’s acting made him think it was a foul ball. This is absolutely how it is supposed to work. Sanchez is an idiot for thinking he’d get any calls the rest of that at bat after that bullshit.

A half hour after the Astros won the game to even the series at a game apiece, Sanchez was still upset about his final strikeout.

in its own sloppy way, justice was served

It looks like he argued that he tipped it. If true, I can only hope the baseball gods reward the Yankees the same way they did fifteen year ago when ARod decided slapping a ball out of someone’s glove was a good idea, and that lying about it despite the multitude of cameras that would clearly show what he had done was…

Yeah, I can’t see what Sanchez was so pissed about. I mean it was an obvious make up call, but dude, you just lied about foul tipping a ball you didn’t get close to, and the umpire knows it. He should have already been out, and definitely should have expected to not get any close calls, and this pitch was close…

A hundred percent that was a ball there.

Those install flash player scams aren’t anything they are doing on purpose. It’s some sort of malicious ad (internet sites rarely sell ads directly, instead they sell to networks that bid out the ad slots in real time, meaning that the site publisher has very little control of what actually appears).

They basically ignored season 2 of The Tick. I don’t know why they’d start acknowledging it now.

This is the bit at the end of the second act where you realize you’re a monster.

Really? I love this guy. To steal from the poster below you, he’s such a “beautiful weirdo”

Over the summer I started listening to Dead Pilot’s Society, a podcast that reads failed TV scripts. John Hodgman read one of his for the second episode, and it’s fantastic. It’s disappointing it never got made.

No mention of Acting Dr Director Agent Hobbes? You used his picture at the top of the article. 

Does CC Sabathia still count? If there’s anyone, it’s a 300lbs pitcher whose about to retire because of an arthritic knee.

What professional athlete could you outrun?