Post-game thread: Giants choose their own destiny, take series from Orioles
by Grant Brisbee on Jun 16, 2010 3:58 PM PDT
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PrintSorry, but if the Giants couldn’t beat the Orioles at home with Tim Lincecum starting, the day would have been ruined. Week, maybe. Quite possibly the year. It would have been worse than the Ryan Spilborghs game and the Steve Finley game combined.
Maybe not that bad. But it wouldn’t have been good. See, the Orioles are not a good baseball club. Losing a series to them at home would be unacceptable, and that’s been true for the last five years, much less when the Giants have an actual team behind them.
So let’s take the time to appreciate a couple of people:
And you know that the next time Wilson blows a save, people will still come out of the woodwork to lambaste him. He's pitching like prime Nen right now. Appreciate it.
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"Even the Swedes are getting mad."-Randy Hahn
"It's very cozy in the sin bin."-Randy Hahn
WHOOOOOOOO WIN
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 16, 2010 3:59 PM PDT reply actions
THIEF
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Maybe I should write a “Choose Your Own Adventure” about Judy Steffes.
by Grant Brisbee on Jun 16, 2010 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions
CHOOSE YOUR OWN CHURCH ADVENTURE!
WHY IS BENGIE?!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 16, 2010 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
To inquire about RYAN ROHLINGER, go to page 35. To ask a cop to intimidate some nerd, go to page 3.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 5:51 PM PDT up reply actions
very excited to watch this site narrowly dodge trademark infringements over the next couple of days :p
Honestly, the very little I know about trademark law (which is indeed very little) this company might not have much of a leg to stand on anyway. IIRC, what basically matters is if there’s any confusion as to whether Grant is writing an official CYOA or not. Also, you might have a good chance to escape under the general umbrella of parody… cuz I definitely don’t think they can trademark an entire genre.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Jun 16, 2010 7:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Ow
My nerves.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
followed the game only on Yahoo!
Er, status of Timothy’s shoulder? I heard he got hit by a line drive — on what was likely going to be his last pitch anyway?
Great night
Saw Les Miserables in Paris, game back to a Giants victory.
My Son, the best position player on the damn team.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
Current Pass Recipients: Posey, Whiteside, Huff, Sanchez, Torres, Uribe
Sheesh, good for you. Bust out the Foie Gras, baguette and a glass of wine and you’ll be set.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Had fresh-baked baguette sandwich for lunch
Ham, lettuce, and Brie. It was delicious.
My Son, the best position player on the damn team.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
Current Pass Recipients: Posey, Whiteside, Huff, Sanchez, Torres, Uribe
I’ll bet. Color me jealous.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
The French are weird, but they’ve definitely got food figured out.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Well, except for that fried-egg on a hamburger thing. That’s just weird.
It's my blarg! Quick Pitch
And I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Weird how delicious it is…
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 16, 2010 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, not a lot of food weird me out. Except balut. That shit’s disgusting.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 16, 2010 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I will never understand how they decided that was edible.
Take my bags, not my top 3 pick!
"Winning is not enough. All others must lose." - Larry Ellison
by Badly Browned on Jun 16, 2010 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Keeping them incubating is like a preservation method that doesn’t require refrigeration… your eggs would last weeks.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 16, 2010 7:23 PM PDT up reply actions
IT IS THE GROSSEST THING EVER.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 16, 2010 6:50 PM PDT up reply actions
/shudders
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 16, 2010 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions
hahahahaha
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
It’s salty.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 5:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Really, if it wasn’t so salty it would taste fine.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh wait, I’ve been thinking of the hundred-year egg.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve never tried balut. But I wouldn’t mind trying it.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:53 PM PDT up reply actions
So, uh… What do you do with that pork blood? Is it a sauce?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I’d give it a whirl.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Dinaguan isn’t so bad.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 5:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Damn it, I spelled that wrong.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 5:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, dinuguan’s okay.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 16, 2010 6:51 PM PDT up reply actions
ugh
Puking Orange and Black since 1981
Proud member of Sabean's "lunatic fringe" or in other words, "vast majority"
What’s wrong with chicken feet and pork blood?
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 8:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I stand behind my posted picture.
Puking Orange and Black since 1981
Proud member of Sabean's "lunatic fringe" or in other words, "vast majority"
It’s not like you’ve never eaten blood before, though.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 8:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, I’d stand behind it too.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 16, 2010 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
least halal meal ever!
Seriously though, not even really that gross.
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
Fried eggs improve everything.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
The thai restaurant by my place serves fried egg on top of fried chicken on top of fried rice
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
My fried egg makes me sick first thing in the morning
WHY IS BENGIE?!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 16, 2010 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Foie Gras is a horrible thing
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Jun 16, 2010 7:42 PM PDT up reply actions
How arew they?
Wait a minute – it’s obvious. They’re miserable.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 4:03 PM PDT up reply actions
my favorite musical of all time
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I prefer How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Now THAT’S a classic!
I'm thinking but nothing's happening.
So very moving
I always feel guilty enjoying ‘I dreamed a dream’, because I don’t feel like my life has been shitty enough to understand what it means.
My Son, the best position player on the damn team.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
Current Pass Recipients: Posey, Whiteside, Huff, Sanchez, Torres, Uribe
I’ve never seen it in French though, that would be interesting.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Well.
That’s the weirdest thing. They did it in English.
In France.
My Son, the best position player on the damn team.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
Current Pass Recipients: Posey, Whiteside, Huff, Sanchez, Torres, Uribe
O_o
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I think it must have been some kind of novelty act for them
But the show was fucking awesome. Some of the best vocalists I’ve ever heard live, and the production values were astounding. I was really blow away.
My Son, the best position player on the damn team.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
Current Pass Recipients: Posey, Whiteside, Huff, Sanchez, Torres, Uribe
Fantastic, I’m jealous. The last time I saw it was in the West End and it was mostly great, but I didn’t care for the guy who played Javert and he’s my favorite character, so it was mildly disappointing.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
That would suck
I loves me some Javert as well, I can never decide in the end whether he’s good or bad.
Fuckin’ literature, how does that work?
My Son, the best position player on the damn team.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
Current Pass Recipients: Posey, Whiteside, Huff, Sanchez, Torres, Uribe
SHADES OF GRAY
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I actually think he’s an interesting character because he’s so convinced that he’s good and he’s doing the right thing and then, right at the end, he realizes that maybe he’s wasted his whole life NOT doing the right thing.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
He's a great character
With Valjean, you’re obviously supposed to root for him and think that he’s awesome.
But Javert is a character who’s seemingly designed to be hated, but who does nothing wrong throughout the play.
My Son, the best position player on the damn team.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
Current Pass Recipients: Posey, Whiteside, Huff, Sanchez, Torres, Uribe
play, book, whathaveyou
My Son, the best position player on the damn team.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
Current Pass Recipients: Posey, Whiteside, Huff, Sanchez, Torres, Uribe
Yeah, I mean, you could argue that a criminal like Valjean maybe wasn’t worth that level of obsession from Javert considering what he got put in jail for in the first place, but he does pretty much follow the letter of the law for the whole book/play (I’ve actually never read the book… <_<)
Although lying to the students was a pretty dick move
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I’ve never read the book either, but following the letter of the law can’t be the only criterion for doing nothing wrong.
From what I remember, there is a lack of compassion there that is not laudable to be sure.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
The Kids: Lewis, Posey, Sandoval, Bowker, Schierholtz, Frandsen, Ishikawa, Amezaga... CHONE WAR projection= 12.7
Current Team: Rowand, Sanchez, DeRosa, Sandoval, Huff, Molina, Renteria, Schierholtz... CHONE WAR projection= 12.6
Right
But my point is that Javert is one of the few characters who acts in a coherent and rational manner the entire story.
My Son, the best position player on the damn team.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
Current Pass Recipients: Posey, Whiteside, Huff, Sanchez, Torres, Uribe
I dunno, going that nuts over a guy who committed a fairly minor crime seems somewhat irrational.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Petty theft is a minor crime
Jailbreak and breaking parole aren’t, nor is lying about your identity.
Valjean did some shit, yo.
My Son, the best position player on the damn team.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
Current Pass Recipients: Posey, Whiteside, Huff, Sanchez, Torres, Uribe
Hugo devoted 50+ pages to Waterloo, which added nothing to the narrative that couldn’t have been done in five pages. One of the reasons I guess I don’t enjoy literature from the 19th century is that one of the few forms of entertainment was to read, so authors just made stuff unnecessarily long. I didn’t like Frankenstein for the same reason.
girth>length
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I know, which is kind of the point. By page length (depending on the edition, around 200 pages), it’s not, but my God, it felt like it dragged on forever and ever. I’m definitely a bit verbose, but those 19th century writers have me beat hands down.
Saw the Robert DeNiro version last week
very entertaining.
I like my beer cold ... my TV loud ... and my romosexuals flaming.--Homer Simpson
Very badly for the literature, and for the fuckin’.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
The Kids: Lewis, Posey, Sandoval, Bowker, Schierholtz, Frandsen, Ishikawa, Amezaga... CHONE WAR projection= 12.7
Current Team: Rowand, Sanchez, DeRosa, Sandoval, Huff, Molina, Renteria, Schierholtz... CHONE WAR projection= 12.6
Weirdest thing for me
Seeing Rocky Horror in Paris. Movie in English, weird ass banter in French.
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
Which reminds me
I just saw Casablanca for the first time and it was awwwwwwwwwsome.
I was promised lasagna.
/high five
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 16, 2010 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions
fail!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
He’s just like any other Cookyman, except moreso.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
There have to be at least three lines from that movie which have worked their way into the American ...vernacular? Lexicon?
“Here’s lookin’ at you, Kid.”
“Play it again, Sam.”
“This could be the start of a beautiful relationship.”
…
“I am Shocked, SHOCKED, I say, to discover that gambling has been going on at this establishment!”
“Here are your winnings, Inspector.”
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions
fun fact
of course no one in the movie actually ever says “Play it again, Sam”
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
He comes damned close.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 5:13 PM PDT up reply actions
from wiki:
One of the lines most closely associated with the film—"Play it again, Sam"—is a misquotation. When Ilsa first enters the Café Americain, she spots Sam and asks him to “Play it once, Sam, for old times’ sake.” When he feigns ignorance, she responds, “Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’” Later that night, alone with Sam, Rick says, “You played it for her and you can play it for me.” and “If she can stand it, I can! Play it!”
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
Also, I’m split on Renault. I know that the whole point is that he’s kind of a douche, but really, the guy forces desperate, young, married women to have sex with him for exit visas. Doesn’t that alone make him a horrible, horrible man, that any half decent guy like Rick should hate?
I was promised lasagna.
Oh, he’s awful, for sure. But he’s hilarious.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
You'll have persuasive ability someday.
Then you’ll consider him merely “horrible”.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 5:18 PM PDT up reply actions
That he is
But it made me kind of hate the last line of the movie, especially since it pretty much ruined the line I said was my favorite.
Though, I guess Renault did just save Rick’s life. And he’s his only way out of Casablanca. I think I’ll just tell myself that Rick is only pretending to like him so he can get out of Casablanca. It’ll help me like the movie more.
I was promised lasagna.
Is there a scene that demonstrates that Rick knows?
I haven’t watched it in a couple of years.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
The Kids: Lewis, Posey, Sandoval, Bowker, Schierholtz, Frandsen, Ishikawa, Amezaga... CHONE WAR projection= 12.7
Current Team: Rowand, Sanchez, DeRosa, Sandoval, Huff, Molina, Renteria, Schierholtz... CHONE WAR projection= 12.6
Yes. A young lady comes to the bar and asks Rick about Renault (“he’s just like any other man, except moreso”). She can’t afford visas for her and her husband, and Rick understands (though she doesn’t explicitly say it) that she’s going to sleep with Renault for them, so he makes sure that her husband wins a ton of money in the casino (because he is awesome). Renault notices, and tells him that tomorrow another young women will come, and that he’ll appreciated it if this time her husband doesn’t win anything. I don’t it’s made clear whether Rick obliges or not.
But really, Rick does pretty much have to stay on Renault’s good side for the entire movie, for different reasons, so I can’t blame him.
I was promised lasagna.
Why does Renault not want the husband to win money? Just because he’s a dick?
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
So they won’t be able to afford visas, and the wife will have to sleep with him.
I was promised lasagna.
stop you’re ruining him for me
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I was kind of shocked when it happened. Outside of that he’s a lot of fun, and really not that bad. It’s pretty clear you’re supposed to like him. But that crap was pure evil.
I was promised lasagna.
yeah, I mean, I guess I always knew he did that, but I sort of glossed it over because the rest of him is really entertaining. But that is pure asshole and it goes far beyond “doing what needs to be done in a harsh world” or whatever.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
You were "shocked"?
Between that and “Doesn’t that alone make him a horrible, horrible man…” I have to ask:
Are you a shut in, Cooky?
Are you herded wherever you go?
Does your television and Internet have a really overwhelming V – chip?
Are you homeschooled?
Are you ten?
Please don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean to be as insulting as I may be coming across as – but in this sex and soullessness – saturated Information Age where people are used and abused on a grand scale in every major population zone in the world – that’s an amazingly naive observation.
I hope you never get as jaded as some of us are, and that you actually do acquire persuasive ability to a degree that you leave a very large clean spot on a very ugly world..
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, it’s not a documentary. I hold movie characters to higher standards than I do real people.
But as to your 1st sentence – yes, I do think that makes him a horrible man, and I don’t think that makes me naive.
I was promised lasagna.
If baseball has 235 players of Bondsian capability would any of them be Bondsian?
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 6:27 PM PDT up reply actions
But is it really the norm? I think I just have a hard time believing that most men (or 30% of them, to use your analogy) would act like that.
I was promised lasagna.
didn't you know
at least 30% of men portrayed in media are rapists.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
In Casablanca the Germans already had the camps up an’ running. People would do anything with whatever they had to work with to escape. Renault was an entrepreneur in a time of great desperation.
Now, I have a woman with a daily drug problem i’d like you to meet.For her, and for countless others in similar physical and financial situations this is also a time of great desperation.
Similar arrangements happen all over the world…and some have a depth of depravity that would make Renault’s dalliances seem tame.
You nor I have no idea how vast and convoluted the sex trade – or the drug trade – is.
How many governments are involved with the countless connections that involve the ebb and flow of munitions and political movements.
And how many people, if they think they can never be found to be connected to it/lose a measure of their personal standing, will cross a moral or ethical line for some measure of personal gain.
/hopes he buys into that
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 7:47 PM PDT up reply actions
and?
He’s still a terrible person. (or rather, would be if he was real)
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
It’s how calculated the whole thing is that makes it so bad. It’s not like it just happens – it’s what he does. That he even asks Rick not to help any more women, just so he could take advantage of them is just disgusting.
I was promised lasagna.
Horribly, horribly disgusting.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 17, 2010 8:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Westley really is kind of a dick. It comes across even more in the book.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I read the book in two days, but I remeber very little from it, except that the first 25 pages or something are just about how Buttercup is really really pretty. But, like, really pretty.
I was promised lasagna.
And in general
She’s a pretty stupid, unpleasant, uninteresting person, isn’t she?
Weird book. Cool, but weird.
I was promised lasagna.
Watch it again.
Just…not yet.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions
:(
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
You know who James Michener is, right?
Wrote The Bridges At Toko – Ri, Centennial, Alaska, The Bridge At Andau, Caribbean, Mexico, etc.
He has one about Hawaii,
In it, one of his characters – a very affable fellow named Kelly Kanakoa – gives his impression on the “having/wanting” aspect of, er, life: “You can never get enough unless you’ve just had some.”
Everyone has different perceptions, of course, and some people like to watch movies repeatedly. I don’t often see many movies twice. I’ll see even fewer more often…but if I do repeat I like to give myself time to forget enough that what it has to deliver has a fresher impact.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 5:48 PM PDT up reply actions
rxmeister’d?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
No, it's a reply to her.
If you click on up it takes you top the comment that is being replied to.
Found that lil’ tidbit just the other day.
That’s how I treat repeat viewings. Other folk have other methods.
But they’re all wack.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 7:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I just didn’t get what your reply had to do with me being sad that Cookyman doesn’t like Renault.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
OK.
My bad
I thought you were frowning that I recommended he not watch it right away.
/thinks about up
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I loved Hawaii but I haven’t read another Michener book.
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
Centennial is in the same historical saga vein but I dunno, I think it held me tighter to it than Hawaii did
Maybe because it dealt less with the spirituality of the generations, so my early agnosticism didn’t have to go with so much flow.
Or something.
Sheesh, I read them 30 years ago, and you expect a fully involved dissertation? lawl
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 7:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I have the Bridges At Toko-Ri
can’t remember reading anything but the end to see if it matched the movie
The money lies in the RBIs
-- Jeff Kent
That was like Spielberg’s Duel..like a precursor to his getting full into his career. It seemed like a short story.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions
I was pretty meh on that movie
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
ban
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Well, at least meh > blegh
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Whoa whoa
That’s harsh
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Sorry, sorry, my fault
Poor choice of words there.
I’m just a bit non-plussed about how this movie arises indifference in your eyes. In general, I’ve found it to be a movie people have some sort of strong reaction to (both positive and negative).
Again, sorry for the hostility there.
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
lol, no problem
I don’t know, maybe I’ll like it better the second time around.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
It’s a movie with Orson Wells. Unless I’ve fallen into the chasm.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
You’ve never seen The Muppet Movie?
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 7:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Whoa, he was in The Transformers: The Movie!
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 7:03 PM PDT up reply actions
He voiced Unicron.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 7:05 PM PDT up reply actions
You watched Pinky and the Brain dubbed?
Damn. His exasperation and diabolical excitement were priceless!
Every plan Brain came up with was hilarious.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, Maurice LaMarche is a pretty amazing voice actor.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 10:34 PM PDT up reply actions
very "atmospheric"
as in contrasts, shadows, melodrama; almost laughably so. But the music is famous, so why not watch it. The story is ok.
I like my beer cold ... my TV loud ... and my romosexuals flaming.--Homer Simpson
I saw it a looooong time ago and I was bored. But my tastes were a lot different then. I don’t know if I’d like it today.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 5:55 PM PDT up reply actions
ban
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I barely even remember it now!
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions
ban
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
FINE I TOTALLY REMEMBER IT AND IT WAS ALL AWESOME AND SHIT ARE YOU HAPPY?
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:11 PM PDT up reply actions
i guess.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
i’ve seen citizen kane once and i enjoyed it, but i wasn’t nuts for it. it seems like the kind of movie you need to see twice though.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
So you have to see it in black once and white the second time?
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I SAW CITIZEN KANE AND IT WAS ALL AWESOME AND SHIT
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
You set it free. I choose to be happy instead. Also, I have never seen Citizen Kane. I just said that so I won’t get banned.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions
haha. i don’t really like that phrase either. i’m pretty sure i agree with your reasoning.
also, movies i have seen (star wars, etc) > movies i haven’t seen (casablanca, citizen kane, etc.)
...Dr. Vader will see you now.
The full list of movies I haven’t seen would horrify the members of this board.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:22 PM PDT up reply actions
THE HOT CHICK
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Good lord.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:30 PM PDT up reply actions
But I’ve been watching movies a lot longer than you have.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Really
It’s one thing when vic talks about my age, but you’re really not that much older than me. I’m probably older than you were when you first joined this site (and if not you, jponry).
I was promised lasagna.
Well, I believe I joined in 2006, so I was 21.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 7:06 PM PDT up reply actions
OK, you can make fun of my age. Grandpa.
But jponry is 22, isn’t she? So she was 18, assuming she joined around the same time.
I was promised lasagna.
I am 23 now.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
YOU’RE BOTH LOLYOUNG
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 7:11 PM PDT up reply actions
:(
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 16, 2010 7:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I could end up being your TA in a year.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 7:14 PM PDT up reply actions
For serious?
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 16, 2010 7:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Potentially. I’ll be applying for as many TA positions as I possibly can, so it’s not outside of the realm of possibility. You are English, right?
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 7:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Yep. English.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 16, 2010 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions
She could be in your class and you might not know it. She will because she has seen your fail beard a lot.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I’ll be able to tell who she is because she’ll be the one hiding from me.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 17, 2010 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions
- Never seen a Tarantino movie.
- Never seen a Clint Eastwood movie except for Million Dollar Baby.
OMG
I was promised lasagna.
I’ve never seen any Eastwood movie whatsoever, acted or otherwise.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Holy shit, you have to see Unforgiven at the very least. And Dirty Harry. I mean, come one, Dirty Harry is set in SF and everything!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Come one, come all!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
To be honest, I can’t think of one of his movies that even interests me. :/
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:38 PM PDT up reply actions
What Eastwood movies have you seen, Man?
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 6:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I'd had a good chunk of Eastwood's previous work by then...
…including Play Misty For Me which I think I saw when I was your age (which is not ten) It actually bothered me as much as MDB did but for different reasons…I was stunned by the abrupt violence of a psychotic woman stalking Clint – the – playboy – DJ, and I actually wondered how he could allow himself to be physically attacked like that.
There…a fresh definition of naivete.
MDB so suckered me in with the nothing succeeding in the face of odds recipe, flavored with crusty Clint jibing with jocular Morgan..and then suckerpunched me to the point of needing an entire day to rid myself of the pain.
But his Westerns are not your John Wayne/Audie Murphny type.
They’re…different. The spaghetti western (Sergio Leone directing so many "ini"s in the cast you’ll be looking for checkered tablecloths and plastic grapes in the saloons) a depth of character you wouldn’t find in your Bonanzas and Have Gun Will Travels
And The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is something that simply stands alone.
I’m often at a descriptive loss, all I can say is you should do a few just to experience a rather unique take on a genre. And I don’t just rec anything…horror, for instance. I have particular values there but I’m not going to try to sell anyone on anything.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 7:05 PM PDT up reply actions
If he ain't seen Eastwood
how in the hell can you expect him to have seen Audie Murphy?
The money lies in the RBIs
-- Jeff Kent
Unforgiven is one of the greatest movies of all time. It stars Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman and Eastwood. It accrued multiple Oscars. It is so worth watching.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
The more I see Freeman, the less he interests me. Serious one trick pony. I mean, he’s very good, don’t get me wrong, but he’s not De Niro good.
I was promised lasagna.
No, he's not. And yes, he is.
(reverse agreement to your statements)
He’s another “character actor” – basically the same character in everything he does. You either love the character or you need variety.
If you’ve seen Airplane! you’d have appreciated what Peter Graves and Lloyd Bridges did – which was to run away shrieking like loons from the characters they’d portrayed in their earlier work.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2010 6:48 PM PDT up reply actions
And on top of that, the script is one of my absolute favorites. It’s a masterpiece of writing.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I’d watch it.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 16, 2010 6:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Eastwood is one the greats!
You got to see the Spageghtti Westerns Trio-
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
Then you got Hang Em High, High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider for the western movies.
For the non-western movies you have The Unforgiven, In The line of Fire, Dirty Harry, Absolute Power and Million Dollar Baby.
As Director you have Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Mystic River and a good number of the ones he has acted in.
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Jun 17, 2010 7:23 AM PDT up reply actions
- ahem -
In A Perfect World you’d also see Bridges Of Madison County. But not Firefox or Any Which Way You Choose/Can
…and what the heck happened to Gran Torino?
Hell, here’s the IMDB Biography page.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 17, 2010 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
I just listed my Favorites. I haven’t seen Gran Torino or Bridges yet.
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Jun 17, 2010 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Nobody's mentioned Changeling?
That one was excellent, made all the more freaky by the fact it was a true story
I've got just three words for you: Duck The Fodgers
I hated Angelina in that role, she is a horrible actress.
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Jun 17, 2010 9:00 AM PDT up reply actions
I would’ve preferred someone else in that role, to be sure, but this was the only movie I actually thought she was decent in. Which I think is more a reflection on the writing and direction than any talent of hers.
I still really liked the movie, though.
I've got just three words for you: Duck The Fodgers
I just watched a minor Eastwood movie yesterday (White Hunter Black Heart) because Frank Lapidus was in it. I really enjoyed it, tbh, despite some sketchy racial things.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Most of his movies are, at the very least, interesting.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
MINDSPLODE
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
See, I’m winning so far.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jun 17, 2010 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions
That's one of the movies I hate most
The plot is ridonkulous.
The money lies in the RBIs
-- Jeff Kent
Damn son, saw it IN Paris? lol /jealous
Take my bags, not my top 3 pick!
"Winning is not enough. All others must lose." - Larry Ellison
by Badly Browned on Jun 16, 2010 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions