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I'll just give an example from a few years ago. They were announcing the nominees for Best Short Film (or Best Foreign Short if that even exists, just one of those categories nobody cares about). I knew nothing about any of them two seconds before, but they gave a quick synopsis of each movie as they announced them as nominees. As soon as the one was listed as some person's experience during the Holocaust, I turned to the people I was with and said "that's gonna win." It did.

Forgive my ignorance, but why the f*** are Somali pirates such a problem? Why aren't we just having the Navy sink them left and right?

Why is there 31?

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 04:35 PM) My god, Trayce has legs for days. He kind of has Rios body type, at least in that image.

QUOTE (Jake @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 08:02 AM) Dunn tried to act like he hasn't done anything different. ...and I respect that. He doesn't want to draw attention to himself with a bunch of fluff pieces. He just wants to play better. Agreed.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 05:10 PM) Are you saying that Schindler's List wasnt deserving? No, that one was. There are, of course, some exceptions.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 03:57 AM) I really wish UNDEFEATED was around here for me to see. I actually fell asleep right after Director was announced. Streep? Come on. Viola Davis should of won by a landslide. Honestly thought they would give it to Clooney even though the guy from The Artist was better. They tend to give Oscars to people Hollywood likes often. See Bullock and Julia Roberts. And Sean Penn. Another thing I hate is the way the Academy pushes their own agenda. They love straight guys who play stereotypically flaming homosexuals, and the Holocaust thing I mentioned earlier. I hated that they gave Jamie Foxx Best Actor for playing Ray Charles when both Leonardo DiCaprio and Don Cheadle were better that year. And in doing so, it screwed Joaquin Phoenix the following year (not giving the same award to another guy playing a recently-deceased music legend in back-to-back years) when they gave it to PSH for Capote. Adrien Brody stole Daniel Day-Lewis' in 2003, Roberto Benigni stole everyone's, Mickey Rourke getting robbed in favor of Penn, etc. They love to push their agenda.

QUOTE (The Baconator @ Feb 26, 2012 -> 11:26 PM) Not to assume that you were saying they were undeserving but I'm going to play devil's advocate here... Relate this back to baseball and the Gold Glove awards. Think of how many years there have been amazingly deserving candidates for a GG but they get beaten out because of the name-game candidates like Jeter and Hunter. Now bring it back to these lesser-to-unknown candidate winners of the Oscars: while we as casual observers may say the "Jeter" of the acting field should have won, the true advocates probably feel very happy that these lesser-known people got their due recognition. The question of "wonder if we'll still remember ... in five years" is again pertinent in the GG discussion; while we (as baseball fans) know who DID win, we still talk about how SHOULD have won, and that's equally true in the entertainment world. Thankfully there weren't any Holocaust movies this year to steal any awards they didn't deserve

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 26, 2012 -> 10:23 PM) First semi-surprise, Clooney loses to the French dude from THE ARTIST. Wonder if we'll still remember: the Actor in a Leading Role, Jean Dujardin Director, Michel Hazanavicius five years from now? How was that a surprise? I knew each winner for this year without seeing any of the movies. It was all incredibly obvious. I know I didn't post it on here, but I don't care if anyone doesn't believe me

QUOTE (3E8 @ Feb 26, 2012 -> 09:59 PM) Cool your jets, it's coming. Yeah, of course they do it right after I bring it up But they said it was coming up like 45 minutes ago when they said they'd also do the Supporting Actor.

They f***ing skip the memorium part?

QUOTE (juddling @ Feb 25, 2012 -> 06:48 AM) For those in here still watching The Walking Dead.....some good news as they cast the role of The Governor (coming next season) Meet The Governor After quickly scanning his Wikipedia page, I've never heard of him. But he sounds like a very good actor, which ought to help that show a bunch.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 03:10 PM) So you started when you were 8 or so? Ha, took me a minute to even get what you were joking about. Doesn't help the argument that I was walking before 8, I suppose.

And I guess that was venturing a guess, so I lied.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 03:07 PM) How old were you? I can totally understand if you were just a little s***. Although I became a hardcore fan when I was 6, I never went to a game until I was 12 (1962). I couldn't even venture a guess. I would bet that I was brought to a few games a year since I was able to walk.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 03:03 PM) Read Game of Shadows. One of the co-authors is Mark Fainaru-Wada, same guy covering the story for ESPN. Additionally, you saw the physical transformation with Bonds. You don't see it with Braun. You didn't see it with a few guys. f***ing Pablo Ozuna was on them. Rafael Palmeiro didn't change at all. And to be clear, we have no idea when Braun started using steroids. He may have been on them for a very long time. It's possible to stay ahead of the curve. It's obvious that this is one of those divisive issues where people are not going to agree. I wanted to walk away from this thread earlier, but I relented. I'm just going to stop talking about this now

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 02:58 PM) The entire reason Bonds took the cream and the clear was because he was pissed that McGwire and Sosa were getting all the hype during the '98 home run chase. Additionally, he made about $100 million in additional salary after he began taking them. He also took them beginning at the age of 33/34 and showed many symptoms of taking PEDs. Prove it.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 02:53 PM) Spring training opening day or April opening day? That's still six weeks away and he is already out? To say that Sizemore is made of glass is an insult to guys that are actually made of glass, like Peavy and Quentin. Grady is more like the breakaway glass they use in movies.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 02:54 PM) Scott Merkin ‏ @scottmerkin Since last seen with the White Sox, Brian Bruney has dropped 25 pounds. Looks primed to make a run at one of three open bullpen spots It was 30 a few hours ago, according to another source. By the time the season rolls around, people will probably realize that he gained weight (memories of Jenks).

Am I the only one that has no recollection of his first Sox game? The best I can do is remember the first game I went to without adults.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 02:46 PM) I think that's cool. I appreciate Peavy saying that, but it really shouldn't be up for debate anyway.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 02:34 PM) He isn't guilty, but he sure isn't innocent. I can't stand the Brewers fans on my floor that love to champion the following: LeBron, Wade, Lin, Tebow, and Braun. God I l'd love to see one of their idols fall, especially Braun because while I liked him in the past, if he's innocent he's not resorting to procedural error to cover his ass. Huh? I can get Wade, I guess. QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 02:43 PM) There sure as f*** is a profile. He is already celebrated as one of the best players in the game. He signed a below-market contract basically through the end of his career, yet he is also set monetarily for life. By all accounts he is an extremely hard worker and a grounded, easy-going guy. He's young and in the prime of his career. He also has come out in the past against steroid and PED usage. I'm sorry that you're so jaded that you're going to consider everyone guilty before proven innocent, but I'm just not buying it here. Barry Bonds.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 02:25 PM) Because Braun didnt need to prove tampering. He only needed to prove that MLB screwed up and therefore the test was invalid. No reason to go beyond when its unnecessary. That's why its entirely speculation. If this was a case where not only did Braun have to show "improper protocol" but he also had to show that he was "likely to prevail on the merits" it would be an entirely different scenario. But its like the "fruit of the poisonous tree" in criminal law, once it was improperly handled, all of the evidence is no longer reliable. There are ways to prevent this, but MLB just does not have a policy to protect against errors. (IE MLB could require every stadium to have a facility to store specimens indefinitely, that way there would have been another sample that had not been improperly handled to test against.) Simply put, MLB's own laziness lack of control caused this problem. If they are mad, they should be mad at themselves. I agree with you. But I would like to know if you believe Braun was using a banned substance.