My take on this “plan” is that the window shoot-out, along with delivering the zombie horde to overrun the Sanctuary, was intended to drive the Saviors out of their safe harbor so they would turn against Negan (a la turning the North Koreans against Kim). I recognize this doesn’t gibe with Rick’s rhetoric about…

“For “Blast Off,” is this a reference to a meme I don’t know? Is it... is it Nyan Cat?”

“but if he can recapture that kind of form”

Small sample size is the bugaboo of sports analytics. I think players (in all sports) can try too hard in big games, taking them out of the mind- (and skill-) set that made them successful, but by and large, you can take any 5 or 7 game stretch of games and show Barry Bonds or Babe Ruth underperforming.

Well, the soundtrack’s got Machine Gun Kelly and X Ambassadors, so you know its going to be white.

How big does that thing get? If its, like, 5 inches, than cool story and all, but ho hum. But it’s one of those giant giant jellies, like a 6 foot bell and 30 meter tentacles, we’re talking the next Cloverfield monster.

Somewhere around the early 90s, kid actors became a legitimate career in the sense it wasn’t just about adorableness, but actual acting. But the curse of the child actor persists, so it scares me as to what is going to happen to the 4 leads of Stranger Things. They all did a bang-up job in season 1 and it sounds…

Also, you should totally watch this show. While it’s narrative uses 80s movies like The Goonies as a basic structure, the production from top to bottom is so far superior to those films as to make it effectively an entirely different experience. If you like eerie, Stephen King stories, you’ll like Stranger Things.

You’re supposed to begin, “Hello, I’m Alpaca L., and I’m a 90s kid . . .”

Talk about looking like an idiot. The Suns have been bad under Watson during his entire year+ running the team (I mean, they have bad players who have played badly, so its a little hard to parse out Watson’s contributions to that badness), but they brought him back this year despite that. But 3 games in is suddenly…

I hate to be xenophobic, but I’m thinking that any investment opportunity these days offered by someone with a Slavic name is to be avoided by prudent investors.

But isn’t calling Pence out for wasting “taxpayer’s money” just using his own rhetoric against him to expose his hypocrisy? I completely understand your explanation (and was enlightened by it, so thank you), but isn’t it like calling George W. Bush a “draft dodger” or that idiot pro-life, pro-family guy from…

In the aftermath of Charlottesville, NPR had a number of interviews with a guy who was once a white supremacist but who now ran an organization that helped bring people out of that community (I’m pretty sure it was Christian Picciolini of Life After Hate). He provided a pretty compelling argument for giving Nazis a…

Baseball is great with the unlikely guys doing amazing things: (1) Mark Whiten (423 career RBI in 11 years) is tied for the records of 4 HRs and 12 RBI in a game; (2) a nondescript starting pitcher named Tony Cloninger going for 2 GS and 9 RBI in a game against the Giants in ‘66; (3) Bobo Holloman (one season career,…

One of the more important contributions to the world from the Sabrmetrics community is the realization that so much of baseball comes down to luck: the inconstancy of BABIP from season to season revealing how little control pitchers have after the ball leaves their hand; the non-existence of “clutch hitting”; the…

I’m assuming you are saying the Cardinals and Dodgers won American Association pennants and the Reds won a National Association one?

Yes, exactly. With the exception of NFL QB, there probably isn’t a bigger developmental step up in sports than the one from college basketball to the NBA. Even the greatest players have to rethink their game (mentally and physically) for the simple reason that what worked well against college competition simply…

Well, something good has come out of the player’s protests and Kaepernick’s martyrdom.

As with about 90% of the “political” issues in the US today, the people who have twisted protests about the documented and pervasive (alleged) mistreatment of people of color by police into something against patriotism fall into one of two categories: (1) idiots and (2) cynical political manipulators.