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henrygandorf

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  1. no, that's not how residuals work. suits and billions also have a habit of reciting movie lines verbatim. so much so that it starts to bother me, and tv/movie quotes are about my favorite thing ever. if i was a character in a show, i would be allowed to quote movies as part of my personality. it's just a character quirk and fair use. it does get annoying when writers have everybody in the show doing it, because that's not realistic to me. i've heard in the past that some producers reached out if something was going to be used in a somewhat controversial way, just as a heads-up. it kinda treads over into the product placement territory. it's hard to pay coca-cola every time you see a can or someone says "i'll have a coke" at a restaurant. but if a plotline was that specifically drinking cokes was making women pregnant with satanic devil zombie babies, you might want to shoot an email to compliance or clearances and see where you stand. re: ted lasso, those movies probably got written about and referenced in a good way on social media or article reviews, so it's good for them, much like an older song being used somewhere.
  2. not running for reelection would also risk undoing his greatest achievement - which would be stopping donald trump. that article makes it seem like we're not sure who the gop candidate will be. hard to trust opinion pieces like that.
  3. i don't see any way they get to the dream team. in fact, i would bet they only involve jordan with a bit of a wink/nod, instead of making him an actual character. and i think that would happen in the mid 80's. i know they've done a great job with casting and capturing the spirit (if not the exact look) of some of these real people, but there's no way they could do that effectively with the dream team. shit, even just casting barkley seems ambitious.
  4. they don't care about trump. they need trump's voters. they're fucked until he dies and then they're still fucked but maybe 10-15% not as fucked. those people will never vote again.
  5. uh... yeah. 11 days ago he said any impeachment inquiry would go to the floor for a vote. he doesn't have the votes. the circus clowns are cashing in their chits.
  6. my head is not in the sand. i am a man of logic and reason. please explain the electoral math to me, including trump's path, and above all, show your work. and while you're doing that - remember that the reason the trumpers are going so hard after biden (and his crime family) is because they know they can't beat him. if this impeachment nonsense goes through, it's going to be an absolute bloodbath from president down to dog-catcher.
  7. the crystal balls are the dumbest thing ever because they never get used the way they were setup to be - predictions. like i don't know, a crystal ball. but since they started tracking performance, most people don't even put in a prediction until the answer is almost a certainty. like when a dude is announcing at 3pm and suddenly at 2:40pm about 6 predictions come in.
  8. this team does as this team plays. the opponent never ever matters. we can sweep the braves on the road or get swept at home by some garbage team like the a's or the yankees. it's always about how we're playing, which is why i try not to look at the schedule. if you told me 6-3 from vs nyy, @bos, @tex and asked what the breakdown was, zero chance i come close on the guesses. as for the padres, it's bizarre. i've watched them a lot because i have several guys in fantasy. they have a few good to great sp. they have a pretty solid lineup, bolstered by a few true superstar talents. they have a top closer. it's a fucking mystery. also i have no knowledge of any clubhouse drama, but culture is a real thing, and i would imagine theirs sucks.
  9. there's also a huge cast and several movie stars in this. hbo is notoriously cheap but it's still gotta be pricey.
  10. i'm seeing hb -135 tonight vs snell, arguably the best pitcher in mlb since late may. gotta get that pc up and have him only go 5, then deal with the bullpen.
  11. those two knuckleheads are playing their balls off the past 4-6 weeks, depending on who you're talking about. montero has been excellent for a while, and he's our rp5 if my math is right. abreu is a supporting character in this play, and he's playing just up to that standard. his job description is to not suck, and he's almost pulling it off since the asb. i blame the rangers for everything else. if they hadn't allowed our b-team to whip their asses, then dusty would have no cover. the shitty thing about blaming dusty is we have to lose games to do it. when we blow out teams, we just look like an awesome team with quality depth. it's a tough choice, but yeah i want to win another world series. if we get to the series, dusty will get whatever he wants and i'm not sure i have a decent argument against. a year ago, nobody knew what we had in yainer and chas. now we have two budding stars under team control. other teams are probably bitching about it - how can the astros just bring up an all-star level catcher when that was their main weakness?? that's not fair. it isn't. fucking deal with it. for a few years i've been calling the pressly trade the best trade nobody ever talks about. soon that might be the straw trade. it brought us yainer and freed up center for chas. it also made korey lee expendable. i know he's hitting .390 for the white sox, but who gives a shit. lol he's hitting .125.
  12. if pena stays hot i don't really give a shit if he bats 2, but he's not our best option there. if you drop him to 9th does he start sucking? either way our lineup is stretched out when the right guys are in it and pena/abreu are doing what they're supposed to do. that lineup is ridiculous but still probably can't hit at home.
  13. a few days ago during the back and forth with va longhorn, the orioles fan, he said something to the tune of, "your manager is benching your 2nd or 3rd best hitter and you're pissed, i would be too." we were referring to yainer, but that just shows how deep we are. yordan, tucker, and altuve are the unquestioned 3 best bats. but bregman has been a monster for 2 months now and now has the stats to match. chas has been covered. abreu has been a mess but is turning things around the past month. yainer is a 24 year old rookie catcher with 20+ bombs and a .530 slg but is our 5th best hitter at best. that's how deep we are right now. only the braves are better offensively, imo, and even they have hit a bit of a patch lately. the rookie (disney version) is pretty much schlock and i can appreciate that because it's disney and baseball, and i still like to watch it when it's on. one of my favorite exchanges is after the scout watches him pitch. he tells quaid he's gonna give the team the report and he might get a phone call. to defend this decision, he says something like, "if i call the office and say i got a guy here twice these kids age, i'm gonna get laughed at. but if i don't call in a 98 mph fastball, i'm gonna get fired." that's how i feel about dusty and accountability. you got a cf outproducing the biggest names in the sport and a catcher who's a superstar in the making. somebody needs to hold him accountable. it's very clear that they're aware of social media, and the results are on the field. the media is gonna media. let's just hope october goes how we need it to go.
  14. to that end, one pitcher on the staff should be allowed to have a maddux-style personal catcher. one.
  15. i said 3 years but they're basically ^^^ right now. they just paid hbo for some of their catalog, so at least they're smart enough to take advantage of other companies when they're bleeding. a few days ago we looked at their top 10 tv list, and the only 2 on it that my wife and i had seen or had interest in seeing were near the bottom - suits and swat (she used to watch swat on cbs like an old). neither is owned by netflix. this was an issue they identified ~5 years ago and are no closer to fixing it, though they have managed to throw billions at it.
  16. i haven't listened to the podcast nor do i plan to, but i know how your pager goes off anytime you can drag me into a conversation. i won't go back and find my exact quote, but i believe i said something to the tune of "they either won't be around or they will look a lot different", which was in reference to leaning more on foreign content. have you been on netflix lately? it already looks different and the content quality is in the toilet. go look at their top 10 daily tv or movies. they'll probably blame the strike, but this was an issue pre-strike and the production calendar isn't some great mystery. they've also started to employ the part 1/part 2 rollout of shows, which is a two-putt into eventual weekly, even live programming. they're abandoning their own model because they know it's not sustainable. there are only so many "suits". they did a great job doing what they're doing, and they certainly fooled a lot of other entities into believing they could do the same. i guess that makes them geniuses or at least wealthy. i still think in the long run their shitty content will make them a less desirable streaming option, and the lazy young people will become lazy slightly older people, who don't want to pay the highest prices in the game. anecdotally, we rarely even open netflix anymore when we want to see "what's on tv". used to be the first button push. i have no idea what we pay, it's my sister-in-law's account.
  17. wasn't it broken and he forgot to call the fridge guy? that was one of the things that slipped through the cracks which reminded him that he can be great at that, but that will be his whole life. i don't know shit about fuck when it comes to walk-ins, but i thought that was the point of it. they never got with the fridge guy and couldn't remember his name.
  18. you could sum up altuve's career dominance with one sentence they said last night: "this is altuve's first career regular season game with three homers, of course you'll remember he had a 3-homer game in the playoffs against chris sale and the red sox." yeah, that's reggie jackson territory and october is what makes you great. i used to deny that, because of biggio and bagwell, but it's true. i loved the 1980's astros, i loved the 1990's astros. i loved the killer b's. even derek bell. i loved how mike hampton could hit, and i loved that moises alou washed his hands in piss. i loved all that shit. but this era is different. these guys are bigtime. they don't fold in rough matchups in the playoffs or wilt against tough pitchers. we punish tough pitchers and ruin top closers. we wreck dreams. and yeah, the scandal maybe bonded us fans closer to the team, and maybe i have some bias towards altuve because he not only wore it, but thrived off it. and i'm ok with that. the article in the ny post last year hit the nail - "it's time to stop blaming altuve for the cheating scandal. (1) he didn't use it, (2) the booing makes him better and he's kicking our ass. (3) please stop." by all accounts, they are all great players and all great ambassadors of the game and especially great representatives of the houston astros. who knows how the next several years go, but i have altuve as the goat, and biggio/bagwell on astros mount rushmore. and everywhere we go, people will continue to boo altuve while he poses for pictures with your kids and signs all their autographs and tosses them batting gloves and jerseys. that's just who he is, before and after the nonsense.
  19. circling back... 1. altuve is the greatest astro of all time already. better than biggio and bagwell. yes, already. postseason homers > career war. but he'll get where he needs to with career war, unless helo is right and he's slowing down and about to fall off a cliff. 2. "would he make the hall of fame right now" is a ridiculous question rooted in confusion. if he retired at the end of this season, said it's been fun, but he wants to go build houses in venezuela, he would get elected to the hof, though there would be some drama because of the limited number of years removed from what is seen as a "tainted" season. straight performance-wise, he's in. guys with short careers don't have to hit big counting numbers, they just need to show their excellence during their career, which jose has already done. reference the postseason homers again. kirby puckett is a good recent comp here. koufax is an older one, but he was one of the best to ever do it. *now if the question is "are his numbers good enough right now to get him in during a full career where he plays until he's 38-40 years old?" well that's a different question not based in reality. sure, if he plays another 6-7 seasons and hits .210 every year with 6 bombs and 33 rbi and becomes an anchor on the team, yeah, he's probably not a hall-of-famer. but that's not what the question is. when people say, "has he already done enough and is he a hall-of-famer", the presumption is that he'll continue his pace with the usual human decline, and retire when great players retire. if that's what happens, he's a hall-of-famer. and the greatest astro of all time. he's the leader of the unquestioned golden-age astros dynasty. come on, people. do better.
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