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It's been a while since I played the first game, but it felt very true to the source material in tone and look. I think some minor parts of the story were tweaked, but I could be misremembering. I really enjoyed what I saw so far.

Well, of course this depends on what you mean by "good". The poster you responded to said average, so that seems to quantify a bit. Looking at the list of Super Bowl QBs from 2000 on, I'd offer: 2019 - Garoppolo 2018 - Goff 2017 - Foles 2012 - Flacco 2011- Eli 2007 - Eli 2006 - Grossman (lol) 2003 - Jake Delhomme 2002 - Brad Johnson 2000 - Dilfer

Thats crazy...what are the odds that the only 3 minutes you will watch happened to be the worst performance I have seen from them in the last 3 years.

BJ Surhoff would like a word, may he rest in peace. .

I'm going to wildly and irresponsibly speculate that Oakland was supposed to be the 3rd team or the next move after the Hader trade and that they really valued Ruiz. It just took however many months to start the deal back up.

Stearns is all about finding competitive advantages over his opponents. It would seem that the return on valuable players is not what it used to be. Teams seems to be making their higher level prospects untouchable. I am basing this on the return for Hader. So if that is the case, it would seem that we should be trading for high value players and going all in for the next 2 years. The alternative of trading our stars will result in leaving value on the table.

Just wanted to post this , as I wasn't expecting it when I looked up. Top WAR leaders over the last 3 years from Fangraphs. It would be a hard pill to swallow to lose both of them. I'd personally prioritize extending Woody over Adames. We have been absolutely spoiled the last few years. # Name Team W L SV G GS IP K/9 BB/9 HR/9 BABIP LOB% GB% HR/FB vFA (pi) ERA xERA FIP xFIP WAR 1 Page size: 29 items in 1 pages 1 Corbin Burnes MIL 26 14 0 71 68 417.2 11.92 2.35 0.69 .284 76.6% 47.3% 10.1% 96.1 2.69 2.44 2.69 14.0 2 Zack Wheeler PHI 29 19 0 68 68 432.1 9.49 2.00 0.67 .292 75.7% 49.6% 10.0% 96.9 2.85 2.83 3.10 13.0 3 Aaron Nola PHI 24 27 0 75 75 450.1 10.89 1.82 1.08 .297 70.2% 43.3% 12.7% 93.0 3.86 3.03 3.03 12.2 4 Kevin Gausman - - - 29 19 0 75 73 423.1 10.78 2.00 0.91 .315 75.9% 40.8% 10.7% 94.9 3.13 2.78 3.04 11.9 5 Sandy Alcantara MIA 26 25 0 71 71 468.1 8.44 2.21 0.79 .267 74.5% 53.0% 11.0% 97.9 2.77 3.27 3.45 10.4 6 Brandon Woodruff MIL 25 19 0 69 69 400.1 10.90 2.29 0.99 .273 79.9% 41.5% 12.1% 96.5 2.83 3.04 3.13 10.3 7 Max Fried ATL 34 14 0 68 68 402.0 8.40 2.06 0.65 .278 77.9% 51.6% 9.2% 93.9 2.69 3.02 3.38 10.1 8 Yu Darvish - - - 32 21 0 71 71 431.0 10.09 1.96 1.13 .265 76.8% 38.1% 11.6% 95.0 3.32 3.34 3.51 10.0 9 Gerrit Cole NYY 36 18 0 74 74 449.0 11.73 2.16 1.40 .278 79.3% 41.9% 15.8% 97.6 3.29 3.33 2.95 9.7 10 Luis Castillo - - - 19 28 0 69 69 402.0 9.85 3.20 0.83 .306 72.5% 53.4% 12.5% 97.3 3.51 3.35 3.37 9.7

So can they just take a lead that is like 1/3rd of the way down the line? Basically, not be advancing, but go as far as they can so that they could still get back to first before a ball could get routed to 2B then 1B. I feel like we are going to see a lot of ump opinion on what constitutes advancing towards the next base unless I am misunderstanding the rule.

If we are stating reasons for the team having a rough second half, I think lack of leadership/accountability would be down the list from the $18 mil in dead money that he is accepting, but these things are hard to quantify. If he is so concerned about the team, and this is a serious question, couldn't he act as a bench coach? They are already paying him.

Just wanted to chime into some of the comments I am seeing as I'm currently connected to this field. First off, Level 3 direct current fast chargers can typically get a vehicle to 80% in 20 minutes. When traveling across the country, this type of fill up is the method people use. The charging network companies (Volta, Electrify America, EVgo) have a lot of data to support this. Someone also mentioned placing the chargers at chain restaurants. This strategy is already in place. I've mostly seen agreements with grocery stores, banks, and convenience stores, but quick service restaurants make a lot of sense too. In the next 3 years, the big buildout will be coming to offer EV stalls at side of the highway gas stations and truck stops. Even with me being in the industry, I don't yet have an EV, so I can't weigh in on the convenience, or lack there of, on longer travel. It is my understanding that taking a 20 minute break every 250 miles is a trade off most people accept over having to drive an ICE vehicle long distances.

Has anyone heard any details on how Freddy looked yesterday?

Those White Sox jerseys will be popular.

I typically avoid events like this, but I actually checked out the draft when it was in Chicago a couple years back and had a lot of fun. My wife even enjoyed it, and she hates the NFL (she likes football, just dislikes the NFL, which I can respect).

The timing of this sucks since we are renovating our house. Looks like I am going to have to sell a bit to make sure I can hold through anything really bad.

That makes one of us, and I've lived in 11 different cities in 7 different states in three different time zones including NY, LA, and Chicago. I've met a helluva lot of people. As for your second point, that is my point - natural talent for a sport is more important than how hard you train. There is a pretty good chance that those of us that lived in Milwaukee area during the 90s knew a speed skater. It was the training grounds for the US with Dan Jensen and Bonnie Blaire headlining it there. I knew someone at the very lower levels, but mainly because we would go to the free skates open to the public. Knowing a speed skater was like finding a burger&custard restaurant...they were on every corner. I moved away in the mid-90s, so I'm not sure what that scene looks like anymore. Pretty much nailed it. Plus, with the Pettit Ice Center, MKE became a destination for up and comers. But whatever, LouisEly is clearly an authority on this topic due to being so well traveled.

Actually, yeah, I grew up with someone who was a competitive speed skater with Olympic aspirations. And she worked/trained way harder than the other best athlete at our school who ended up having a successful pro sports career.

Okay...But she wasn't just drafted, she won a gold metal in 6 years and was in the Olympics in 2 years. How you can say this is not surprising is beyond me. In your example, Lo didn't become elite in the upper reaches of his sport until he was 29.

This happened 6.5 years ago...? Yes indeed my friend. I am party to and sharing my Senile moment with my Dad. RIP Wade Boggs. Truly a legend.

Thanks, but my point was that the general public probably doesn't matter nor care (I'll forget what you told me by the next time I end up watching it). I enjoy watching it, but to me (the casual observer), it is a lot of the "same" between the various races. Its almost like if they played basketball on a US court, then a Euro court, and 3on3 half-court. Each would have their nuances that make more difference to the player than it does the casual spectator. NBC could certainly do a better job of explaining the sport at the start of the event, but, you know, there isn't enough time because one athlete got a new cat last year and we need to be told that story through a series of interviews.

I still don't understand the difference between Super G and Downhill. I think I figured it out once and it didn't stick. Evidently not a big enough deal for me to remember. I do like watching it though. They need to cut back on the amount of different events with people doing flips and racing at the same time. I like the artistic flip/skill type events...and I like the racing events. Mixing the two seems weird. The easiest way to explain it is to say that each race is the next step on the spectrum of vertical drop and frequency of gates. Slalom - Giant Slalom (GS) - Super Giant Slalom (Super G) - Downhill. Specifically between Super G and Downhill, there is a large difference in speeds achieved, force on the skiers legs in turns, and the amount of air they will catch on rollovers. On a downhill course, the skier wants to stay tucked as much as possible, hold a clean edge in early turns (spray as little snow as possible) to set themselves up for longer straight/tucked runs, and to minimize time in the air. In Super G, they may be knocking over gates trying to get a tight line, there is going to be less time in the air, and less emphasis on carrying speed to the longer straight runs. A lighter/smaller, more technical skier can be more successful as you go down the spectrum from downhill to slalom. There are also differences in what the skiers are allowed to do to prep for the course and the number of runs. I am not sure on the specifics, but it changes the strategy.

I watch live sports. It's what I do. I don't like the Winter Games. My dislike stems from the fact that rarely do competitors face off. Watching anonymous, helmeted competitors do near-identical runs down a mountain, bobsled track, or luge track, is just not fun for me. Give me track and field where the first person to the tape gets the gold. Now, side by side downhill? Sign me up to watch! But when the gold-winning time is 1:41.35, and the pathetic loser who takes silver lolligags across the line .077 seconds later, it's not compelling for me as a viewer. Give me hockey, speed skating, curling, where your performance has an effect on an opponent. In case not obvious, the "pathetic loser" comment is a joke. These people train so hard and lose by the equivalent of a hiccup. To each their own. Your analysis of alpine racing as near-identical runs down a mountain is analogous to my wife being bored by a 0-1 baseball score because "nothing is happening."

That means it wasn't his first movie. His career was already a runaway freight train at that point after he directed Adventures in Babysitting!

I ski raced growing up and love all of the alpine events in the Olympics. However, so far I am pretty disappointed. First, the men's downhill was delayed (not exactly anyone's fault), but NBCs coverage last night was brutal to try to follow. Once Mikaela Shiffrin fell, they sort of moved on to other things. When they finally got to the men's downhill, it was too late for me to even watch. Maybe I missed something and was watching the wrong channel? The descriptions of what sports they are actually going to show doesn't always seem to line up with the actual coverage. Finally, the hill itself and the snow conditions are a joke. It looks like China just bulldozed a course into the side of a mountain and then threw ice on top of it.

So, it's trying to do a modern version of RASHOMON. Interesting. Just read a summary of Rashomon, and yeah...it would appear that The Last Duel drew some inspiration there. Responding to Outlander, I loved all the different perspectives. The differences were subtle, the way she kicked her shoes off in a playful manner in Driver's version of events, vs her kicking them off in a panic as she tripped in her version. The rape scene, especially from her perspective, was obviously not enjoyable, but necessary for the film. Anyway, while it wasn't a perfect film by any means, I thought it was very good and worth the watch.