Improbable comebacks, deez nuts, Joanna the Mad, Philip the Handsome, Dane Dunning, She-Hulk, and Great Moments with the Heroes of the Intellectual Dark Web
I have two words on She-Hulk: Tatiana Maslany. It’s no Orphan Black, but I would watch her read the phonebook.
Poor Dane Dunning. I guess you can’t be a has-been if you never were.
The tying run in the bottom of the ninth in the Nats-Marlins game came on a (deep breath) video review reversing a game-ending appeal play negating a sacrifice fly (exhale)… Who says the MLB today isn’t packed with excitement?!
The CO2 levels in NYC are down today because every Mets fan is holding their breath. The only good news so far is that it's not Max's arm. But odds are he will have to miss some time, and the staff is already pretty thin with Megill and Jake out. Here's hoping for the best, and also for a few more offensive performances like last night's.
"She-Hulk" is probably the worst name imaginable for a super-hero. But the character is one of the best. After a brief time where she was sort of like the Hulk - who is her cousin, and for reasons that make sense only in a comic book had to give her a blood transfusion to save her life - and hulked out when angry, she became someone who chose to be a somewhat buff, seven foot tall green woman and maintain her practice as a lawyer. She loves being a hero, loves standing out in the crowd, is (for a Marvel comic) very sex positive, and has often find a way to have it all. Yes, there are a lot of soap operatics in her life, and sometimes she gets put through the ringer. But at her best, she is a lot of fun and her career as a lawyer is a great launching point for stories. Like the time she represented Spider-Man in a long overdue libel suit against J. Jonah Jameson. If the TV show can tap into the best of her comics as well as Ms. Maslany's talent, it should be good. Assuming they fix the FX. (I get hiring an actor of her talent, but why not hire someone from the WWE who is actually tall and buff? Surely there is someone from the female ranks ready to be the next John Cena or Dave Bautista.)
I would feel better about the "para deez nuts" joke in the Rays/Tigers recap if that matched the way he pronounced his name. But, I guess it is good to live with our discomfort on these kind of things from time to time.
I think Craig should run a piece called "most handsome monarchs of Spain", in which he ranks, top to bottom, the rulers of the Iberian peninsula based on looks alone.
Thanks for the post, William. Brought back memories of both the time when my daughters were that age and of a game I played back in the late 70s called Extra Innings Baseball - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17368/extra-innings-baseball. I have no idea if your game is similar to that one, which was kind of Strat-O-Matic light, but it was just roll dice and get results based on the player's stats from that year or career.
The Nats won one last night, although I missed the high drama, choosing instead to watch Avengers: Age of Ultron as part of my quest to watch the entire MCU movie collection. (I thought the movie was kind of "meh".) The high drama for the Nats came in the bottom of the ninth, when Tanner Rainey gave up a single and two walks, and then with one out induced a fly ball on which Jesus Sanchez scored the tying run, but then was called out on appeal for leaving early, but then was ruled to have not left early after replay review, and so the game was tied and eventually won by the Nats in extras. Maybe I should've stayed with the game.
She-Hulk looks like Shrek, and Tim Roth still looks s-s-s-s-smokin! Too bad I have no interest.
As much as I dislike the new look in Camden Yards, Boone needs to just be quiet. I’ll give Judge a bit of leeway because he’s at least been hitting there long enough (and successful there long enough) that I think he’s entitled to a bit of bitching and snark. Juuuust a bit. But Boone just went on the defensive about Yankee Stadium’s dimensions after the Chris Woodward thing. I don’t know, I feel like the manager should be above that?
Also, the Yankees are 7-2 against Baltimore this year and have the best record in the majors. As an immunized man would say, R-E-L-A-X. I’d be more concerned with Aaron Hicks being a void in the lineup than the dimensions of a road stadium you’re 4-2 at this season.
1) I can't recall ever being forced to eat nuts. Can you?
2) To William Akers, you're too late. I have been maintaining that children are horrible, here and on other Calcaterra-dominated portals, for years. Anyone who doesn't want to be bored should avoid kids and maybe buy themselves an odd Hemingway hound like my late lamented Fido. Even dead, he's more interessin' than a kid.
I have no interest in signing up for Disney+ or watching their Marvel shows, but I actually enjoyed the She Hulk trailer and am kind of tempted to watch the show.
I enjoyed the satirical and irreverent tone it sets because that's in keeping with her solo comic book from the 90s -- sort of like the female version of Deadpool.
Although, I do know social media has been critical of the special effects quality of She Hulk herself.
I'm in for Deadball - looks like fun. I played countless games of Statis Pro Baseball when i was a kid. When I was in junior high school I made my own baseball, football, and horse racing games. We couldn't be rolling dice in homeroom at school so the randomize function worked by one person secretly writing down a number and the other writing down a modifier (+5, -3, whatever) and that gave you the key number to use on the lookup tables for actions. As I remember it, baseball never worked that well but football was quite playable and the horse racing was so good we had kids buying ownership stakes in horses in the game and betting real money on the results.
I read the words Prognosis Ohio and immediately thought of a grim doctor’s office or ER waiting room scene where the bad news is delivered. I mean, how could I not?
But glad for the heads up. A podcast from a professor at my alma mater dealing with the state’s public health. Count me in.
Perhaps that was a 'before' portrait of Philip the Handsome. He may have inspired one of the most confident men in modern history.https://images.app.goo.gl/jauhih3yGcJ3W1NR9
I have two words on She-Hulk: Tatiana Maslany. It’s no Orphan Black, but I would watch her read the phonebook.
Poor Dane Dunning. I guess you can’t be a has-been if you never were.
The tying run in the bottom of the ninth in the Nats-Marlins game came on a (deep breath) video review reversing a game-ending appeal play negating a sacrifice fly (exhale)… Who says the MLB today isn’t packed with excitement?!
The CO2 levels in NYC are down today because every Mets fan is holding their breath. The only good news so far is that it's not Max's arm. But odds are he will have to miss some time, and the staff is already pretty thin with Megill and Jake out. Here's hoping for the best, and also for a few more offensive performances like last night's.
"She-Hulk" is probably the worst name imaginable for a super-hero. But the character is one of the best. After a brief time where she was sort of like the Hulk - who is her cousin, and for reasons that make sense only in a comic book had to give her a blood transfusion to save her life - and hulked out when angry, she became someone who chose to be a somewhat buff, seven foot tall green woman and maintain her practice as a lawyer. She loves being a hero, loves standing out in the crowd, is (for a Marvel comic) very sex positive, and has often find a way to have it all. Yes, there are a lot of soap operatics in her life, and sometimes she gets put through the ringer. But at her best, she is a lot of fun and her career as a lawyer is a great launching point for stories. Like the time she represented Spider-Man in a long overdue libel suit against J. Jonah Jameson. If the TV show can tap into the best of her comics as well as Ms. Maslany's talent, it should be good. Assuming they fix the FX. (I get hiring an actor of her talent, but why not hire someone from the WWE who is actually tall and buff? Surely there is someone from the female ranks ready to be the next John Cena or Dave Bautista.)
Your Mariners geography theory is a bunch of Toro.
I would feel better about the "para deez nuts" joke in the Rays/Tigers recap if that matched the way he pronounced his name. But, I guess it is good to live with our discomfort on these kind of things from time to time.
I think Craig should run a piece called "most handsome monarchs of Spain", in which he ranks, top to bottom, the rulers of the Iberian peninsula based on looks alone.
Thanks for the post, William. Brought back memories of both the time when my daughters were that age and of a game I played back in the late 70s called Extra Innings Baseball - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17368/extra-innings-baseball. I have no idea if your game is similar to that one, which was kind of Strat-O-Matic light, but it was just roll dice and get results based on the player's stats from that year or career.
The Nats won one last night, although I missed the high drama, choosing instead to watch Avengers: Age of Ultron as part of my quest to watch the entire MCU movie collection. (I thought the movie was kind of "meh".) The high drama for the Nats came in the bottom of the ninth, when Tanner Rainey gave up a single and two walks, and then with one out induced a fly ball on which Jesus Sanchez scored the tying run, but then was called out on appeal for leaving early, but then was ruled to have not left early after replay review, and so the game was tied and eventually won by the Nats in extras. Maybe I should've stayed with the game.
She-Hulk looks like Shrek, and Tim Roth still looks s-s-s-s-smokin! Too bad I have no interest.
As much as I dislike the new look in Camden Yards, Boone needs to just be quiet. I’ll give Judge a bit of leeway because he’s at least been hitting there long enough (and successful there long enough) that I think he’s entitled to a bit of bitching and snark. Juuuust a bit. But Boone just went on the defensive about Yankee Stadium’s dimensions after the Chris Woodward thing. I don’t know, I feel like the manager should be above that?
Also, the Yankees are 7-2 against Baltimore this year and have the best record in the majors. As an immunized man would say, R-E-L-A-X. I’d be more concerned with Aaron Hicks being a void in the lineup than the dimensions of a road stadium you’re 4-2 at this season.
1) I can't recall ever being forced to eat nuts. Can you?
2) To William Akers, you're too late. I have been maintaining that children are horrible, here and on other Calcaterra-dominated portals, for years. Anyone who doesn't want to be bored should avoid kids and maybe buy themselves an odd Hemingway hound like my late lamented Fido. Even dead, he's more interessin' than a kid.
I have no interest in signing up for Disney+ or watching their Marvel shows, but I actually enjoyed the She Hulk trailer and am kind of tempted to watch the show.
I enjoyed the satirical and irreverent tone it sets because that's in keeping with her solo comic book from the 90s -- sort of like the female version of Deadpool.
Although, I do know social media has been critical of the special effects quality of She Hulk herself.
The White Sox losing their organizational "How to hit right-handed pitching" binder might explain how this season has gone
I'm in for Deadball - looks like fun. I played countless games of Statis Pro Baseball when i was a kid. When I was in junior high school I made my own baseball, football, and horse racing games. We couldn't be rolling dice in homeroom at school so the randomize function worked by one person secretly writing down a number and the other writing down a modifier (+5, -3, whatever) and that gave you the key number to use on the lookup tables for actions. As I remember it, baseball never worked that well but football was quite playable and the horse racing was so good we had kids buying ownership stakes in horses in the game and betting real money on the results.
I read the words Prognosis Ohio and immediately thought of a grim doctor’s office or ER waiting room scene where the bad news is delivered. I mean, how could I not?
But glad for the heads up. A podcast from a professor at my alma mater dealing with the state’s public health. Count me in.
Perhaps that was a 'before' portrait of Philip the Handsome. He may have inspired one of the most confident men in modern history.https://images.app.goo.gl/jauhih3yGcJ3W1NR9