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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 10, 2016 -> 02:47 PM) Sox were picked something like 3rd or 4th going into the season. Fans were really divided on the Pods/Carlos Lee trade. Not a whole lot of optimism pre-season. Bandwagon got rolling early with a hot start. Pretty similar to this year honestly. This is kind of the feeling I had. I didn't have a negative feeling, but I remember being like "the Sox are just gonna be their usual above-average, but not great selves." I was shocked by how hot they started the season and once the summer started and they showed no signs of slowing down I was never excited about any baseball season like that before. The lineup didn't even really look that imposing on paper (even though they ended up hitting lots of homers). Jermaine Dye started off really slow that year, and Frank Thomas got injured early, but that didn't seem to stop them. I don't want to make too many parallels between this team and that team though.

Yeah, that was a different era. The local media protected its superstars and the sportswriters were almost all male, in media that was just about all print and local TV. That's not a thing in this era.

What was the fanbase's consensus feeling heading into 2005? I don't remember, I was pretty isolated and had just moved, I didn't know about this board, social media didn't exist yet, etc. I remember being excited about picking up AJ but I never expected that team to start off the year firing on all cylinders the way they did.

Quinnipiac under-sampled non-white voters for some reason.

QUOTE (shysocks @ May 10, 2016 -> 01:50 PM) MJ in 1996 led a record-setting team, put up a PER that was then in the top-15 all-time, had a higher win share than Steph (not that these were things back then), and made first defensive team. I'm not trying to cheapen what Curry has done, but I don't see why his season has justified a unanimous vote where that MJ season didn't. Why defend MJ's voters? They were pretty bad. Not really defending MJ's voters, just seems like the common reaction everywhere has been to imply Curry doesn't deserve to get unanimous MVP because Jordan never did, and that strikes me as dumb 1980s BBWAA HOF voting logic.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 10, 2016 -> 01:46 PM) I know it is sacrilegious to think it now, but Jordan got a lot of the same selfish flack that LeBron has in his career. He wasn't team oriented enough in some people's opinion early on. Then he got to a stage where he was so good, it was just assumed he was the best, and that the MVP should go to the next best guy. My stepdaughter watches a lot of Full House reruns for some reason, she was watching one where Stepanie was trying to get some boy to like her and pretended to like sports, and said "if Michael Jordan ever got some help, Chicago would be unstoppable." That episode was from about 1989 I think, lol.

Jordan, at least, never had a year like this relative to everyone else in the league, he was pretty much the same MJ every year doing the same numbers getting the same results. Curry played like the NBA was too easy for him.

Scalia wasn't actually scheduled to be murdered until a year into Obama's 3rd term. Someone dropped the ball on that.

Steph Curry is so ridiculous I'm not even impressed by anything he does anymore. This is not shade. I wake up in the morning and hear Curry hit like 20 three-pointers and they were all from the halfcourt line like "well I mean yeah. Of course he did."

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 10, 2016 -> 10:17 AM) Was Bucky ever actually given a serum? And those other winter soldiers were clearly unstable. It's like how it worked for Banner, technically. No one's ever gotten the perfect serum + vita rays combo since Cap. No Every time they've tried similar experiments to reproduce the formula it's been a disaster. Nuke was unstable. They experiment on a bunch of black soldiers in the 1930s to test the serum (something Cap did not discover until decades later) and almost all of them died except Isaiah Bradley.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 10, 2016 -> 10:09 AM) Right, my thoughts on this are get as many wins as possible. I align with the the posters that say things like "if we go .500 the rest of the way we will be 86 wins" or whatever we are. I also kind of look at baseball records as a series of floors, each 10 games apart. For the last 7 years, seems like the struggle was to establish the .500 floor. We would hit it, but not by more than a game and didn't allow a cushion to regress. Now we are establishing our new floor of 10 games over. If we continue climbing. If we hit the ASB with a new floor of 20 games over .500, I'll buy tickets to MD and we can high five. Yeah, if you think of baseball as sets of about 3 series each, that's kind of like a football season. 16 games, but played every 10-12 days instead of every 7 days.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 10, 2016 -> 10:16 AM) Yes, coincidentally would have been the better word to use. Deja vu. Grammar 101. Like continuous/continual. Yeah, deja vu fits a lot better

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 10, 2016 -> 10:05 AM) The Black Panther "reprieve" at the end was more interesting in terms of his character development than the Iron Man/Cap detente. You just knew it was coming...felt more like a tease after they inserted the "i'll be there when you need me" note. Nobody has mentioned the Emily Van Camp/Captain America romance...is there a precedent for that in the comics? Someone said she might be joining the cast of Agents of SHIELD. That's exactly what T'Challa would've done in the comics - he went into it a little too hot, because he was a new leader and jumped to a conclusion a little too soon, but once he got the whole story, Also, yes, Sharon Carter is Cap's main romantic interest.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ May 10, 2016 -> 10:00 AM) People are saying that Saladino will give you better defense yet no worse offense vs RHP. Not sure that qualifies as a "solution." It looks to me like doing something for the sake of doing something.

The White Sox are playing at something like a 110-win pace (I haven't actually bothered to do the math, I just eyeballed it from the record). Are they going to actually win 110 games, or even 100 games... probably not, but at this time last year and the year before, we were pretty much finished already. This was literally unthinkable.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 10, 2016 -> 09:58 AM) Personality is the most important. With Spidey he needs to have this overwhelming sense of responsibility, being a nerdy outsider as Peter and a wiseass in battle. I think the question I'm trying to ask is actually "why does everyone still think Peter Parker is 16 years old"

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 10, 2016 -> 09:54 AM) As long as i never see another Bat Credit Card, i will live. I think it was smart of Marvel not to dwell on Tony Starks alcoholism, it seems like they replaced it with his want to be Iron Man(which is why Pepper said see ya) That actually happened in the comics too. They kinda touched on the alcoholism in Iron Man 2, though, they just didn't go all the way with it.

I don't see how people think Saladino is a solution. What am I missing?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 10, 2016 -> 09:43 AM) To me, there is a character "profile" that for the most part has to stay consistent. The exterior stuff (Parker being in HS, hot Aunt May, high rise, wealth) doesnt really bother me, that can change. The makeup of the character (peter having the weight of responsibility constantly, his nerdy personality, his courage) should stay consistent in any iteration of the character. There are things you should "know" about certain characters as soon as they step on screen. Bruce is a damaged, driven individual who will stop at nothing to bring someone down. Spiderman, see above Superman, boy scout Cap, also boy scout I think there's a lot less things that are "canon" than people think are actually canon, cuz stuff changes from writer to writer and movie to movie. Batman for example has a much shorter list than people think: -His parents were murdered in front of him in an alley when he was very young -He's a billionaire who was raised by his butler Alfred after the murder and as an adult he carried this trauma with him -He disappeared in early adulthood to somewhere (the Himalayas, but could be anywhere) to master a bunch of martial arts -His liaison with the GCPD is Jim Gordon That's it - the rest of the stuff is totally negotiable, even the extended Bat-Family (unless they are included in the story, which changes the equation for that character only who has his/her own canon)

My coworkers have a tendency to obnoxiously debate right-wing nonsense, and I finally got headphones approved for my workstation and work is 10x more tolerable now.

I wonder where people get their idea of the definition of how to define comic characters? People (me included) say this version of Spider-Man is the "most faithful to the comics" but only his personality is. -Peter Parker hasn't been a high school student the entire time I've been reading comics, and I'm in my mid 30s, so even if you're older than me you really couldn't have gotten that idea from the comics. He's actually about close to me in age. -Aunt May is elderly, not hot, lol -They never lived in a high rise -Right now in the comics Peter actually owns a multinational corporation and he has wealth rivaling Tony Stark's

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 10, 2016 -> 02:49 AM) Why would you be fine with that. There's no telling if he has male body parts but let's say he has not had the surgery and does have a male body part. You would let a 10 year old walk right behind this guy into the bathroom without even telling her to scream loudly if he approaches her in any way? If he's gone through the surgery and now is a woman it might be a different issue for me. Might. But we are supposed to let males in female bathrooms because they feel they identify with being a woman??? You know how many potential murderers there are out there in this day and age? Nutjobs who would indeed put on a dress and heels and still have male body parts and want to stalk. I don't get it. In this society parents now won't let their kids do anything without parental supervision yet because of P.C. they'll let the abovementioned scenario take place?????? Do you go into these histrionics when boys are in restrooms with men too? Men can, and do, molest little boys after all, and this is something that's documented, not a made-up, hypothetical situation.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 10, 2016 -> 08:07 AM) Ironically, a lot of people gave up on a game and left USCF nearly two decades ago against these same Texas Rangers that Robin Ventura won with a grand slam. That's not really ironic, lol. That's just a similar occurrence from a game that happened a long time ago and Ventura happens to be the manager.

Went to sleep last night because extra innings isn't the same priority as playoff hockey and happy to find out about this grand slam. f*** yes what a night by Frazier

Ok f*** this game I have a job to attend tomorrow