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What happens when our arby years finally run out?

Mad Hot Ballroom is another good suggestion. I really enjoyed it and think it should be pretty much required viewing for any teacher. I bought it for my sister for Christmas and she's already bringing it into her school to show to other teachers. Just a thoroughly enjoyable movie and some truly amazing kids.

I went and saw My Date with Drew this past summer on a whim and enjoyed the hell out of it. I'd second it's recommendation in a heart beat. BTW, don't buy the propaganda that this is a bad year for movies. While the mainstream films released this year were mediocre, it's been a fantastic year for indie films and documentaries. In fact, I'd probably say this is one of the strongest years for film I've seen in several years. And since many of you didn't get a chance to see those films in the theatre, you should have plenty of good choices when you go rent something. Which leads me to my reviews of a few of my favorites from this past year that are now out on DVD: March of the Penguins Certainly the biggest name of all the docs that came out this year, it's also probably the most fluffy out of all of them. Incredible cinematography and a fascinating storyline make up for the at time heavy sentimentality. Though it has to be better then the original French version, which had individual voices for each penguin, including the babies. That version has midnight movie written all over it. Grizzly Man Go watch this movie. Go watch it now. Simply an incredibly intimate and tragic look at a truly tortured soul. Throw in some incredibly beautiful images, fascinating wildlife photography, and a cast of borderline insane characters and you have simply the best documentary of the year, and possibly the best film of the year. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for wildlife films. Throw in an oddball Darhma bum, a dancing parrot, and the routinely beautiful citiscape of San Francisco and I'm hooked. Mark Bittner's love for these birds is so genuine it's tough to not feel for both him and "his" flock of Amazonian birds living in the skies of San Francisco. Murderball I simply have no idea how this movie didn't blowup at the theatres. It have the backing of MTV, had some huge press in Maxim, had backing from the members of Jackass, and on top of all that was about quadropalegics playing wheel chair rugby yet only managed to pull in about $1 million. As a sports movie it's full of great action shots, and some suprisingly tense moments as the USA men's wheelchair rugby team goes for the gold medal they have won every year since it's inception. As a triumph of the human spirit, it's amazing, covering those who are just overcoming the shock of being a quadropalegic, those who are thriving under those circumstances, and those who have spent their whole life proving they don't need anyone finally admit they might need a little bit of help. A truly remarkable film with the added benefit of being one of the best DVD's I've bought in some time. Sky High It's always nice to watch a movie where it's obvious the cast is having a blast, and Sky High definately gets that across. Nothing great or eye openeing in the movie, just a nice clever satire of comics and teen movies with some truly perfect casting. Serenity Call me sacreligious, but this was the best sci-fi/fantasy movie of the year. If only the Star Wars prequels loved their original source material as much as this film obviously did. Ah well, at least Serenity gave me my much needed Han Solo fix, as George sure wasn't about too.

Can't I have all of them?

...so why do so many people put FA discussion there? I realize this is just a pet peeve of mine, and no one else seems to care. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/BusterFearSheep.JPG

Perhaps if you looked at MLE's as more of a Farmer's Almanac for prospects, instead of a true predictor of future success, you wouldn't be so gung ho against them Geno.

Once again I'd like to thank MassBrew's wife for graciouslly allowing us to monopolize her husbands time for ~6 months out of the year. You're a saint for putting up with all of us.

i guess i just don't agree with that. i'll take an average major league player like you said, using previous major league stats. over the past 3 seasons, damian miller has posted an avererage ops of .731. following the trend of his previous major league numbers, this season he is at .726. You do realize that by hand-selecting the player to participate in your study allows bias to play a role and thus reduces the validity of your findings and conclusions. i don't see how minor league numbers could give any consistant indication of wheter or not a guy has potential at the major league level. And this statement I'm almost at a loss for words. I was under the impression that statistics offered a direct correlation to show how effective a player was during a particular season at any particular level. Too completely ignore past success be it in the minors, high school, or college would be a truly unprecedented approach in baseball's history of player development. How would you even choose which players to promote? How do they apply only at the major league level, but cease to exist any where else?

I'm still trying to figure out how a difference of 4 solo homeruns somehow equates to a difference of .071 of SLG. That argument just makes abslutely no sense.

This is a rather entertaining Freudian slip.

Seven is too many. Even God rested after 6 days of Branyan discussion.

I'll admit I wasn't a fan of locking threads compared to just deleting them at first. But everyone does a very good job of leaving a solid explination of why a thread is being locked which I really thinks helps in the long run. Outside of threads that either are, or could quickly become inflammatory, I don't think their are many cases where a thread should be deleted.

I'm fairly certain that was the goal. :/

I *heart* James Jerry Hardy.

*ahem* STEVE MOSS!!! Yeah, who would prefer Moss when Fermaint is tearing up A ball... whoops. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

Nashville's collapse is almost painful. Though Krynzel heating up again is helping, and it's nice to see N Cruz finally start to pull out of his freefall. What with Brad Nelson swinging a hot bat again it might be a good time to call him back up and give Nashville a much needed bat to help make up for the loss of Fielder and Hart to Milwaukee.

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It's a right lat strain HOFFY. TBS announcers think he may have first aggrivated it during his AB the previous inning as he noticably grimaced during his swing.

Just announced, it's a muscle strain.

Sheets is kinda good. And I don't understand why SE WI would blackout TBS either. That makes no sense.

Today the thread title officially becomes ironic!

If they are talking about him throwing in 4-5 days then it must be a fairly minor strain, and most likely of the muscular variety. A muscle strain happens when the muscle fibers pull or tear away from the ligaments.

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Monster game by Braun, and he finishes it off with his second walk-off homerun.

Looks like it will be Josh Habel pitching for Huntsville tonight instead of Dennis Sarfate. Also Mark Rogers is taken out in the 5th inning. Sounds like it's entirely due to pitch count.