-They are a great team in the NL Central who are not:

I’m a Bucco fan and my buddy is a Cards fan—in Dec. he posted something about “big things” for the Cards this year and last night he posted that this was a “rebuilding year”.

“The Cubs are not in our heads!” said Mike Matheny to the befuddled waitress about to ask him how he wanted his eggs to be prepared. “And Joe Maddon’s glasses make him look like some sort of dork!”

The 0-3 Cardinals have struck out a combined 37 times in their three losses.

It’s a better idea to list real pros and cons of both candidates then the bs you posted. But then, you aren’t looking for dialog, just pushing opinion.

Guarantee 45% of this was written 3 years ago in anticipation of the leadership book deal he’d be given after the 76ers began to turn it around. This is a victory letter that has been lazily retrofitted into a concession. He has done nothing and he’s acting as if he’s giving a TED talk. He’s the ultimate asshole and…

I wrote that same letter in college. But she remained a “once-” girlfriend. There was no “and-future.”

Objection: leading the witness.

Point of information: Hinkie himself is a big fan of repeating things he heard someone say.

Agree 100% (and can also relate from a takes-one-to-know-one perspective): Hinkie is likely confusing his own metacognitive catharsis with his desire to be understood by others who are living their own damn lives. As you suggest, it’s a rough document to read if you have ever self-marginalized and lost.

Counterpoint: Hinke always thinks he is the smartest person in the room and makes sure everyone knows it.

Just finishing skimming this. Oof. On the one hand, his reliance on reference and quotation and business-speaky just-so stories is a tic I’m primed to find obnoxious. I also think you can plausibly figure he wrote it under the assumption (or intention) that it would be made public, and therefore did so with the intent…

As my granddaddy used to say, “Even a blind squirrel can fix a broken clock twice a day.”

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that a technobabbling drone produced half a dozen pages of Gladwellian quotes of someone else’s bullshit without any real point or purpose before getting to something that vaguely resembles substance. But the kicker here is basically that there was never actually any plan besides…

“Hey Phil, we need to premiere the new Star Wars trailer, which outlet do you want to give it to?”

“It’s fucking Star Wars, you could throw it out of your fucking car on the way to work and it would have a million views by noon. You know what? fuck it, give it to Good Morning America.”

Well, that’s slightly less complicated than the BASEketball playoff bracket, at least...

They were purchased by the Kinney National Company in 1967, which went on to buy Warner Bros. in 1969. This company spun off its non-entertainment assets in 1972 (as the Kinney National Company, a subsidiary of the Scheinhardt Wig Corporation) and renamed itself Warner Communications, Inc — now known as Time Warner.

Yup. Marvel seems to put their vision of the character in front of what the director wants. Some directors have voiced their dislike for this...but as a fan of the characters I’m fully on board with making them more important than what a director thinks would be cool.

During the Dark Ages, before Marvel wised up and started handling their films in-house, there were a lot of mediocre or downright terrible film adaptations.

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