If everyone getting sidetracked meant they would insult Joe Morgan than I would vote for banning aderall. 

How about at the start?

@Warren: Even though there is a plethora of history and fundamentally the stats have stayed the same, there are still obstacles in doing straight comparisons between eras.  For instance, I can't recall the exact year, but there was a period when foul balls were not considered strikes.  Naturally, this unbelievably…

Can we move on from the argument that since the A's aren't good "today" that Moneyball is therefore worthless?  Beane and Co. used the stats and approach to player valuation that Bill James and others had been discussing since the late 70's.  They were essentailly the first team to, at the front office level on down,…

It's hard to tell how he'd do in a full length biopic, but Billy Crudup was pretty awesome as Hoover in 'Public Enemies'.  I think the only time he headlined a movie was Without Limits, though.

A decade ago would put him at just through the 2002 season.  He didn't become the full time closer until 1997.  6 solid seasons, plus all his postseason accomplishments, would be a good to great resume, but 6 years isn't enough for the HOF.  Maybe if he blew out his arm spectacularly or something and the writers…

frisland actually has it completely right.  While all the great Yankee-hating arguments above can tear Rivera and the Yankees to shreds for using a stupid rock song, the most important (and not once mentioned) aspect of his closing performance is that he didn't pick his song.  Whoever was in charge of the Music PA…

Are they on the internet?  Cause if they're on the internet you need to cut that number in half.  Or just make it zero altogether. 

Aren't all the Oceans movies basically Soderbergh as a gun for hire?  I'm sure some people think they're too smug for their own good, but they're commercial successes that allow a great filmmaker to churn out some experimental / less mainstream stuff, and I think they're actually pretty fun.  And by all accounts, this…

X-Men: First Class was surprisingly good.  It was like the anti-Super 8: The two older leads (McAvoy and Fassbender) were head and shoulders above their younger castmates.

Thor is a god. 

what?

Seriously.  And Hanks still wasn't that big (no pun intended) at the time to demand a shooting change, so there's a pretty good chance it was just Loggia being all grizzled and stubborn that made it be a full-body shot rather than quick cuts to the professionals' feet. 

Hell no, give Jack Warden the credit he earned. 

I think you were watching There's Something About Mary.  Or maybe Fast Times.  Or maybe I don't know the scene in the bathroom, I always just catch the movie on MTV or premium channels occassionally, so I probably missed bits. 

Didn't Shaun of the Dead use that device?

I remember them completely trashing Grandma's Boy in some inventory about people who should have never been given their own movies.  Seeing as I think Grandma's Boy is pretty funny, I can only assume it'll get destroyed.  Those commercials are like a crash-course in "abuse your potential fanbase". 

Yeah the voice can be an obstacle.  Alot of stuff i've come to really appreciate has involved getting past vocal quirks (Of Montreal, Clap Your Hands, even some Talking Heads / Neil Young).  If the music doesn't appeal to you either then I have no problem with foregoing slogging through their albums, life's too short…

Donnie: I'm going to utilize my physical prowess to secure myself some steady income, and then comes the respectability!

She was really good in The Help.  Her character is written as a kind of off the wall, unnaturally optimistic outcast but with some serious damage, and she did a pretty great job of hitting both extremes.  I guess it could've been called overacting, but if that's the way it was written then what can you do.