While OPS and War an FIP have become very important stats, batting avg. is not a discounted stat by scouts or baseball insiders. Won-Loss record still has some adherents (I am not of them however). RBI's on the other hand are not worth a damn.  If you want to get a good idea of a player his OBA, OPS and WAR should…

Wow!! An AV Club article about great TV that didn't mention the Wire!! Amazing!

I am a die hard Rangers fan and when it comes to Hartnell, he is simply a guy who you love on your team, and hate on a rivals. He is a good physical talented guy who sticks up for his guys. As someone who played the game all his life, I can appreciate that.

I am surprised that nobody has talked about the 1st episode of season2 of Sherlock in this thread……

You are right pedanticoldgit… I had a bit too much to drink last night, sorry for the redundancy. That being said the point I'm beating to death is 100% correct. :0)

I like to have my dreck cut with laxatives.

WHile Holmes certainly had the physical capabilities to be an excellent fighter in the stories, He engaged in more violence in the first half of the wretched first film than he did in all of the short stories put together (yes I am exaggerating….it is not much of an exaggeration however). I imagine that this being a…

"although it might be to constantly and explicitly deny the possibility"… No even in those circumstances it isn't homophobic, simply because it is constantly brought up by a variety of people. It seems that any story from the past that features two male characters has to be mined for its "homosexual undertones". This…

Of course nobody in these films is as painfully out of period as one trick pony Robert Downey Jr.

You could not be more wrong about this. Try actually reading the stories.

That phrase should be kept on standby for all of Guy Ritchie's films..

Your right! It is horrible that anyone should have actually read the stories and novels that ACD wrote! How dare anyone prefer those stories when comparing them to utter brilliance of Robert Downey Jr. playing himself for the 1000th time, and with hack director Guy Ritchie putting the rest of the film community to…

It's OK to invade countries if you pray real hard and Jesus tells you it's the right thing to do.

These movies are the British version of Wild Wild West.

I think the more egregious crime this film commits is it's complete destruction of the brilliant characters that Conan Doyle created. This might as well be a porn parody at this point. Why does Guy Ritchie keep getting to direct films. They all look exactly the same, and they all feature wooden characters with no…

I imagine that I would find these films somewhat enjoyable if they just changed the name of the characters. Once again Mr. Downey Jr. portrays himself (or the film version of himself), while screwing the source material into oblivion. I am waiting for the day when most people finally realize that RDJ is playing THE…

Ummm…. have you actually read "The Godfather"? 

"but I think Tarantino takes a much more ruthless, uncompromising
approach to storytelling in all his films than Fincher does in any of
them."

I have tried very hard to understand the appeal of the book that this film is based on. It has neither an intriguing plot, nor particularly interesting characters. When I bought it, I assumed that at worst, due it's massive popularity, it would have a somewhat engaging premise. However, it moves at a snails pace, all…

I don't have any problem wit Stern, but even as a fan, you know that his golden age is long behind him. Don't get me wrong, he can still be funny, but he's no longer part of the cultural conversation.