I got into the FF comicbooks as a kid (1980s) in part because of a big annual, special edition issue that revolved around Namor, a character that is certainly deserving of his own movie.

Campy Campeneris throws his bat at Lerrin Lagrow in the 1972 ALCS, A’s and Tigers.

My walk-up music would probably be the same as my wedding outro song - “Hero” by Queen, Flash Gordon Soundtrack.

The conversation about the movie-in-question is what will make or break the deal; although in my experience, music is more of a deal-breaker than movies. (“But honey,... John Zorn’s Naked City is MEANT be an ‘experience!’”)

I hope they all got their participation trophies.

re: Cara and local Sacramento news interview

Dentistry, the ADA, etc. are one tight-knit circle. My wife had to sue hers because they were essentially double-dipping - charging her insurance, getting her to sign for more insurance thru the dental office, charging them, and then charging my wife for “fees” - which grew larger over time, and especially larger when…

“Nobody goes to that restaurant any more. It’s too crowded.” - Yogi Berra

As a long suffering A’s fan, let me just say that Billy Beane wrote the book on treating players like a stack of pages with some numbers on them.

Ah, memories of 2003 ALDS losers Eric Byrnes and Miguel Tejada. Touch the damn plate already.

#whitepeople

Spoken like a true Marvel comics reader.

Since you both speak English, I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess you are also both white.

re: “probably long-suffering drummer Brad Hargreaves” - I am also a drummer and we were in college at the same time; because of this, we had very little interaction, but if you can find the earliest couple albums from jazz pianist Vijay Iyer (I’m thinking of “Architextures” and one other, which featured trio and…

So, there are way too many former Oakland Athletics pitchers on this list, they must have hit for cycles in interleague games, or after being traded to NL - the glaring one for me being Justin Duchscherer (the player jersey to get if letters-in-last-name was the undervalued market efficiency and Jarrod Saltalamacchia…

Yeah, I love this.

I also forgot to mention that collecting is not unlike hoarding, if you ask my wife. Along with toys, I collect Oakland A’s bobbleheads, folding pocket knives, vintage drumsets, vinyl records, and possibly Vans shoes. I wear them of course, but I think I have a few I haven’t yet.

I’ll agree with you on the “better than a heroin addiction” part, but this I take issue with:

Oh man, M.A.S.K. ... memories. I had a buncha Go-Bots too, and at one point somehow ended up with a Rock Lord too - I think I found him on a playground. The green one.

man, I still have a bunch of the ST:TNG figures and spaceships. I hope the 1701-D is as beloved to others as it was me. But man, that one Ferengi I never took out the package sure looks stupid right now.