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OneOfTheOutOfFocusGuys

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  1. For everyone that took Dole, they get the Norm Multiplier.
  2. Just when I thought this program could get any stupider, we go and do something like this…. and totally redeem ourselves!
  3. That was the writers strike season, so excusable.
  4. They were filming when I was at school and they had some ad in the daily Texan about needing extras with football backgrounds. I considered it, but was too lazy to actually follow through. I watch the show when it comes out and find out the lead, Matt Saracen, is damn near my identical twin. If I showed up to tryouts I know they would have written me in as his brother for some storyline. I would have been a STAR! A STAR, I tell you.
  5. Amusing use of a few minutes of your time is to watch a baby 19 year old George Foreman throw absolute haymakers for an entire fight and turn some commie into hamburger in the gold medal round.
  6. Always fun to see such a Comeback. Good job ladies.
  7. and this dude absolutely cannot be a lead in a show. I predict everyone should enjoy their one season, because that’s all you’ll get.
  8. This isn’t the thread for that.
  9. good. steal a longhorn's cy young at your own peril.
  10. I was looking at his BBref page and saw he was second in CY in 1990 with an ERA+ of 211 and a 10.4 WAR. Damn! Who could possibly beat that? Forgotten choad Bob Welch goes 27-6 for the A's with a 2.9 WAR with peak Rickey, McGwire, Canseco, and Dave Henderson hitting behind him on way to the A's winning 103 games. That's some shitty reliance on old school stats there.
  11. agree. all our memory there has been an external threat: start with WWII through end of cold war. then nothing until 9/11. now in the last few years, nothing again. each of those periods of external threat showed significant protective/bellicose mentality. in-fighting really is only the case when there isn't really an external threat -- see 1850 through Jim Crow; now.
  12. i don't think it was a decision to either have US in or not. the thought was we were coming one way or another, and this gave them a good shot at starting out ahead. here are some pre Pearl Harbor Dr. Seuss cartoons from Oct and Nov 1941 alone. already a lot of heat and something was going to get us in.
  13. i think all that speaks to trump being part of the ecosystem and not necessarily the sole voice of it. he amplifies skepticism of the medical world for hydroxycloroquin and anti mask. everyone sees him as an ally and paints on it their own anti medical stuff. same is true for any number of bits of stupidity. birtherism from him, racism of whatever stripe from his supporters generally.
  14. well, yeah, except those 11 per 2250 ratios happen 1000 times across the country, which makes the numbers meaningful. there were 70 million people that voted for trump. you can draw circles around big bunches of them or small bunches of them when looking at data, but they still add up to 70 million either way.
  15. this is a brainworms thread. have none of y'all met a 90 year old? how is it possible he had a poor understanding of the world when his mind was 15 years past its expected expiration date?
  16. Really only two auto first ballots out there - Beltre and Ichiro. Ichiro held on forever so he’s a year behind Beltre.
  17. part of the hall of fame is remembering the greatness you saw when baseball occupied all your kid brain space. we're going to have a hall full of scott of rolenses and no mcgwire bonds and clemens. who's going to give a fuck? let's head to cooperstown and celebrate that guy that was the third best player on a bunch of teams!
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