The Mets: Baseball's worst franchise, sez Jeff Pearlman

[G-Fafif]

Ashie62 wrote: I don't need scattershot hyperbole to remind me or inspire others.

Scattershot Hyperbole would have been a great name for an overblown art-rock album. Or perhaps the band itself.

[G-Fafif]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Mostly for the 8 updates a day. I think his book was pretty good, actually, and don't understand much of the complaints. But my goodness, it's these tossed-off, barely considered "opinion" pieces, many of them from a perspective every bit as narrow and naive as John Rocker's, that makes ya nuts.

Bingo. That and the "lazy" remark.

[HahnSolo]

Zvon wrote: Whoops. Sorry.

So Batman carries a big stick and Robin is the Catcher. Got it now. Oh, and Superman likes to watch.

[MFS62]

I said Godzilla is the worst because the plot is utterly ludicrous, the special effects are mediocre and Matthew Broderick, starring as Dr. Niko Tatopoulos, turns in a performance that evokes the pleasure of a festering boil. "Nothing happens!" I said. "The movie goes on for two hours, and absolutely... nothing... interesting... happens." My friend nodded. A Steven Spielberg die-hard, in 2001 she waited on a four-hour line to buy tickets for A.I. "I knew everything about the production, about the plot, about the characters," she said. "A.I. had a $100 million budget, and if Spielberg is spending that sort of dough on a project, you know it'll be fantastic. But A.I. wasn't fantastic. I fell asleep." I am unmoved. Godzilla universally bombed. Kids hated it, adults hated it, critics hated it. Factually, it was a worse film than A.I.

That quote causes me to question Pearlman's judgement on anything.
He must not be a New Yorker.
The movie was a paean to the Big Apple.
There's a scene in which four people are in a taxi, trying to escape the 50 foot tall monster chasing them, and someone says "Nobody takes the FDR Drive in the rain".
How can anyone who has driven that road in the rain not roar with laughter? The people in the audience where I saw the film did.
That line alone elevates it above being "the worst".
B'sides, the Brooklyn Bridge needed renovation anyhow.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

HahnSolo wrote: So Batman carries a big stick and Robin is the Catcher. Got it now. Oh, and Superman likes to watch.

And Batman chokes up, and they're all so stupid that they don't understand that they're facing the wrong direction and fair territory is behind them.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy DC wrote: HahnSolo wrote: So Batman carries a big stick and Robin is the Catcher. Got it now. Oh, and Superman likes to watch. And Batman chokes up, and they're all so stupid that they don't understand that they're facing the wrong direction and fair territory is behind them.

Batman is the epitome of comic-book grit. Would you expect anything else?

And maybe they're symbolically "turning away" from baseball, since it's the cover of the fall issue?

[Benjamin Grimm]

How would they know anything about fall baseball? There hasn't been a World Series in DC since the days of Walter Johnson.