Ha! I lived in DC during the “Bring the Kids to See the Kids” campaign featuring then 30 year old Melvin Mora, so I get what you mean. I remember the weird energy when Mussina pitched his first game in Baltimore as a Yankee.

This is a bad take. Attending a baseball game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards is one of the great pleasures in life. It is a fantastic ball park, and still the class of the modern ballparks even after 25 years.

The Hound’s speech to Sansa at the Battle of Blackwater is the thesis of this show. “The world is built by killers.”

Two episodes ago, Brienne vouched for Jamie, basically giving the full recap of how deep their connection is, so even if this is the first season you started watching, you got a pretty recent recap.

Stars fans: “Help us Obi-Wan Khudobin. You’re our only hope.”

True, which is why it probably was chosen as a single, since they had to promote the album somehow. Though I think ABitWP2 loses impact when it’s alone and not preceded by “The Happiest Days of Our Lives”

That’s why I said, I’d push back slightly. Art is subjective. If you like it great. If you don’t like it also great. My point there is use of a chorus there makes sense thematically, but whether it makes you like it or not is a completely different debate.

I’d push back slightly. The Wall is a rock opera, in the same vein as The Who’s Tommy. Another Brick in the Wall, Part II, is one of the many vignettes of the protagonist’s early life that contributes to his “wall.” Out of context, the song makes little sense. But the same can be said for many famous operatic pieces.…

Ha! It actually was a pretty famous road trip for the Orioles and Seattle, as it’s when the tiles fell from the Kingdome roof. We learned about it from Ben MacDonald (not one of the pitchers in the aforementioned conversation) who was getting back from the Kingdome. I remember him saying to the pitching coach, “I’m…

Check your math. Only player I’ve mentioned is Palmeiro, who was with Baltimore from 1994-1998.

Maybe, but still doubtful. Bran vs the Night King was the only thing that mattered. Obviously the Night King knows that the dragons were there, but keeping them hidden as long as possible (like he did to Jon and Dany) is smarter than having them out in the open pointlessly burning wights.

I never saw him. Honestly when we booked the hotel we didn’t know the Orioles were there, as we were in Seattle for the Red Sox series that started after it. The only position player I saw and recognized (no one is gonna pick out Chris Hoiles) was Palmeiro. 

It was a West Coast swing, so the snippet of conversation we got was talking about those cities. Oakland was the winner. “Seattle was shit” is the phrase I remember most. 

When I was 13, I was on a summer baseball road trip with my folks. In one city we happened to be staying in the same hotel as the Baltimore Orioles. As we’re waiting for a cab, some of the players are walking through the lobby. One of the pitchers is talking to another teammate and ranking AL cities by the “quality of…

I compared this to Robb’s choice in Season 1. He sacrificed 2,000 men, so he could surprise the Lannisters and captured Jamie. Jamie as a hostage was worth more than those 2,000 men, in the strategic sense. Furthermore, it goes back to the same reason Robb got pissed at Edmure Tully for taking the mill and letting the…

Robb Stark: “One time she told me the sky is blue because we live inside the eye of a blue-eyed giant named ‘Macumber’.”

The wights weren’t the strategic concern (accepting that fantasy war laws are in effect, and the Night King wouldn’t allow a wight to kill Bran), only the Night King. The battle plan as spoken last week was to basically to engage the Army of the Dead long enough until the Night King revealed himself, and then Jon and…

On the Inside the Episode, Weiss indicated Dany did the Jon mistake from BOB. Seeing the Dothraki wiped out led her to charge in on Drogon, like Jon racing to get Rickon.

He should call it the Wham! 

I would push back a bit slightly on dismissing “puck luck” as cliched, mainly because of your argument. Your point is the Charlie Finley maxim “luck is the residue of design” with which I definitely agree. However, hockey is the one sport with a higher variance of low probability events impacting a win or loss. This…