Yeah you never know people’s rooting interests, unless of course they divulge them publicly like this. I’m reminded of the year A-Rod won MVP with the Yankees (‘05?) and I think he got something like 28/30 1st place votes, save for two Detroit voters who went with Magglio. HOF voting is essentially that blown up to a…

I think that does a disservice to each of these players. Jones I’ll give you was probably just good to really good as a hitter for his whole career, while playing transcendent defense early on and accumulating good #’s due to career longevity.

I enjoy a hot caffeinated beverage in the mornings to momentarily forget who I am.

I...I like this guy.

As good a time as any to ask: what’s the consensus on how scripted this show was?

I watched HBO’s The Pacific miniseries. As an enormous fan of Band of Brothers, I had been weirdly skeptical about this one. I didn’t want another WWII miniseries, even tangentially, messing with the reputation of the predecessor.

I love that the director of great fight movies, Jesse V. Johnson, can’t even get through his name without it being a face-off.  

“—both have insane, beautiful, groundbreaking fight scenes, scenes so elaborate and athletic and balletic that they both feel fresh and new”

I owe it another pass, but yeah, I actively wanted Inherent Vice to end while I was in the theater. I felt bad for everyone involved. It came off to me (again, long time ago now) as almost cartoonishly bad, as opposed to nailing the cartoonish aesthetic of Pynchon.

It might be the cough syrup / benadryl combo this morning, but is “leaving from” the right way to say that in the headline? Is simply “leaving Netflix” not right? I could just be dumb.

The Guest is gnarly as hell.

That elevator in Drive was definitely realistic enough, size-wise, to where you can stomp a guy’s head into mush.

He was an insanely dominant pitcher that could get K’s but didn’t rely on them. The movement on every pitch he threw was dazzling. To perform like he did in the stacked AL East for the majority of his career, then (to no one’s surprise) absolutely dominating the NL in his brief tenure there, was a joy to watch.

I recall seeing an interview with Charlie Cox where he said the director explicitly told them they wanted to make that scene a hybrid of The Raid and the hallway fight from Oldboy.

Dino...droppings? Droppings?

Needs the “!”

Anyone make it through all of this? Pretty rough going, and not because of the length.

I should really give that another go. I got halfway through one day and, while I enjoyed it, I kept getting fairly lost. I remember kinda liking the structure though - the subsequent chapter was in the POV of the name of the one that preceded it? Something like that?

That one time?!

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