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Lenny's Pizza on 86th Street in Brooklyn, made famous by SNF's Tony, who stacked 'em one on top of another, closes for good. [media=youtube]rRHY27aFpLA[/media] [media=youtube]ONm_sYsuM3E[/media] Also, this is one of my all-time favorite SNL skits: [media=youtube]8g5mD5C5X_I[/media]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: The first time they went kung-fu it was fun, the next 25 weren't as fun. Yeah. I bailed out at about the 45 or 60 minute mark.

What a long-winded pedantic way of simply saying that the end years of a long-term contract might not benefit the team as much as the earlier years of that contract. And that the Mets shouldn't overpay for Alonso. But if they do overpay, well, Cohen could afford it so who knows what's good for the ultra wealthy money-coming-out-the-wazoo New York Mets?' The wealthy teams have been overpaying for superstars for decades and decades. It's the price of buying superstars on the free agent market. A team wants a player's productive early 30s years? It's also gonna have to buy some of that star's less attractive late 30s years. That's what it's gonna cost. The Yankees, as just one example, have been doing this for about thirty years and haven't had a single losing season in all that time. In fact, they have baseball's best overall record in that time. It'd be nice if a team could void a superstar's contract unilaterally as soon as the player sucks -- in other words, whenever the team feels like voiding the contract. Is that what you want? Is that what you think should happen? Because if not, then thanks for mastering the obvious principle that baseball contracts carry risks to both sides. But yeah, we get it: the Mets shouldn't overpay for Alonso -- (whatever overpay actually means to the Mets). And besides, there are significant benefits to signing a star earlier, or as you put it, before it's necessary. The price of signing elite top baseball talent goes up every single season. The price has never gone down. Not once -- not since the dawn of free agency after the '76 season. The price of top baseball talent rises every single year, by at least 10%, usually more than that and some years, much more. Then apply that price hike over the length of a multi-year contract. So it's cheaper to sign a player earlier rather than later. Waiting another year to extend Alonso could cost the Mets thirty or forty million dollars over the life of the new contract, all other things being equal. Plus, this all started when you wrote this: Why? To throw millions of dollars around needlessly and screw themselves if he comes down with a career-ending injury in the next two years? ... which is a wholly different concern from what the length of Alonso's hypothetical new contract should be. Not to mention that Alonso could, just the same, sustain a career ending injury even if he's extended after the 2023 season. Or after the 2024 season. And not to mention that if you're concerned about Alonso sustaining that injury during the period before he would've become a free agent -- well that's insurable. A non-pitcher in his mid 20s with no injury history (I can't recall Alonso ever landing on the IL. Or DL) is insurable.

Bowden: 15 key MLB contract extension candidates to watch before Opening Day Excerpt: Also: https://theathletic.com/4107153/2023/01/20/mlb-contract-extensions-players-2023/

By the way, Pete Alonso's most similar BBRef comp through his age 27 season is the aforementioned Cecil Fielder. His closest all-time comp is future teammate Shohei Ohtani.

The DH option is huge here. David Ortiz raked until the end of his career. Ortiz was pretty much, exclusively a DH. The Fielders, (Cecil and Prince) were toast by their very early 30s. The Fielders fielded quite a bit, especially the fielding Prince, who was a NLer when his league had no DH. Coincidence? Or did the DH greatly impact these different outcomes? Nobody knows what Alonso's future is. Predicting his future is a guessing game and a luckfest, to a great extent. Like Edgy said in the other thread, there are risks, but also benefits to every baseball contract. Jacob deGrom's new contract also carries risks. And I doubt that deGrom -- a pitcher -- is insurable at this point of his career and with his injury history. This all started when you know who dismissed out of hand extending Alonso without even considering the tremendous upside in this terrible post: Why? To throw millions of dollars around needlessly and screw themselves if he comes down with a career-ending injury in the next two years? It's an uninformed post. The risk of injury in the next two years to a non-pitcher in his 20s is insurable. Procuring insurance in a situation like that one is standard operating procedure in MLB. Throw in Cohen's enormous wealth, and the risk practically disappears. Also, why limit the injury risk to the next two years? An injury can happen at any time. The poster then changed his post 180 degrees, but obviously, only after reading and considering my responses, which he pretended to ignore. Yeah right. He's' probably scrutinizing my posts with a microscope and a fine-toothed comb.

Catch The Lady Vanishes tomorrow morning at 7:30AM on TCM. It's a British Hitchcock double feature with The 39 Steps preceeding TLV. https://www.tcm.com/schedule/https://www.tcm.com/schedule/

I saw some games there in April of 2015, too, against the Braves. I've been to Marlins Stadium many times, but not since Jeter became GM and they implemented a lot of re-designs to the stadium and the Marlins unis. All of the games I saw there were night games. I would've liked to see at least one day game there because the back wall of the stadium behind the outfield is made of glass and during the day, you could see downtown Miami through the glass, with its classic Miami look -- bright white skyscrapers against a beautiful blue sky. But I never experienced that view in the darkness of the night. I thought it was a cool stadium, interesting is the better word, with its pop art flourishes all over, but I liked the stadium more in pictures than in person. In person, with the closed roof, the stadium had a very claustrophobic feel to it. Also, the stadium food, I thought, was nothing special and by today's higher standards for stadium food, especially Citi Field, kind of subpar. Their attendance is weak, and for Mets game, there are, without a doubt, more Mets fans present than Marlins fans. More Mets gear, too.

Edgy MD wrote: We need a supercut that's chronological but stitiches together scenes from multiple movies, where the flashback exposition scene from earlier years gets cut and placed in the year it belongs. Like The Godfather Saga.

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Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: So, I guess I'm slogging through this on my own. As long as the only way to view this involves paying (even more) cash to the Mouse/ESPN conglomerate, this will remain unseen by me. The weird part is that it comes free with the subscription. I guess that's at least partly due to the comprehensive length of it making it such a slog for even the most ardent fanboi. I'm enjoying it, but if I paid 60 quid for it, I'd be pissed. I don't have the service but I think you can sign up for like seven or eight bucks a month and watch the doc in the first month and then cancel.

=whippoorwill post_id=51141 time=1605926107 user_id=79] How did it come by its title?

Me, it depends, I guess. I haven't seen the movie. But I read the book three times before I learned of this movie. And right after starting this thread a few months ago, I went and re-read the book yet again. The book is chock-full-of scenes that would make disturbing shots in a movie. Many times over. Much of the book is very grim -- and violent. Imaginatively violent.

Action Park video action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9TACAdTiCchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9TACAdTiCc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkW-ceNvckhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkW-ceNvck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uNJmMnqmbIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uNJmMnqmbI

Just learned that Jerzy Kosinsky's novel The Painted Bird was released as a Czech movie last year. There must be an immediate American release pending because the interwebs are full of very recent takes. Am totally psyched. I read the book about 30 years ago and absolutely loved it. I read it two more times since then. Nothing to review yet, but here's the trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRDuc3IdOn8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRDuc3IdOn8 https://www.salon.com/2020/07/17/the-painted-bird-review/https://www.salon.com/2020/07/17/the-painted-bird-review/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/movies/the-painted-bird-review.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/movies/the-painted-bird-review.html

Frayed Knot wrote: * it had to be saturation advertising because I can still remember the awful "lyrics" and I probably haven't heard them in decades!! [***] The Lords of Flatbush, Flatbush, Flatbush ... Rated Pee Gee Same exact thing here. To this day, I still remember that song, especially the end, where it goes "Rated P.G." -- like I heard it 10 minutes ago. That's never gonna leave my head. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DkI-WbxbAchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DkI-WbxbAc

Frayed Knot wrote: * it had to be saturation advertising because I can still remember the awful "lyrics" and I probably haven't heard them in decades!! [***] The Lords of Flatbush, Flatbush, Flatbush ... Rated Pee Gee Same exact thing here. To this day, I still remember that song, especially the end, where it goes "Rated P.G." -- like I heard it 10 minutes ago. That's never gonna leave my head.

Now that I think about it, Winkler and Stallone were hardly household names when this movie went into production. Lords was filmed before Happy Days debuted and before Rocky went into production and hardly anybody even knew who Winkler and Stallone were then. Same for Richard Gere, who turned down a role.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: How about the Lords of Flatbush? What's up with the fake 50s music? It's cheaper music, probably original stuff recorded specifically for the flick. Like you said, way lower budget than American Graffiti.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: So what? It's not like you're in jail. MFS62 is the main perpatrator of blind link crimes and he's not bleeding all over the film review forum I thought I was being humorous more than anything else.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: it's not a personal thing though it's a community thing. Directed at me.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Do you really have to demonstrate so much persecution? No. But who else here regularly posts huge chunks of linked articles? Does this forum have to demonstrate so much persecution?

Inspired by The Lords of Flatbush. I'm posting this LINK because the movie The Lords of Flatbush (parts of which I actually saw being filmed) reminds me of the TV commercial LINKED to below. That's my explanation for the LINK below. I'm not sure how much this explanation qualifies as an original thought but youse can decide for yourselves and then write 12 paragraph posts explaining. Maybe youse can come out with like the ten commandments for posting LINKS. And since I think that I'm now required to explain every word I type where there's a LINK on the post, I'll tell youse that that last sentence was inspired by me watching Cecil B. Demille's The Ten Commandments last week. Straight through. No pauses. No bathroom breaks. No snack breaks. Maybe I'll start a movie thread post on that movie. Also, the lead singer in the commercial LINKED to below reminds me of Ron (Arnold Horshak) Palillo even though it's definitely not him. But he sounds like him and even kinda looks like him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPQ_HjbzeGUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPQ_HjbzeGU Come to think of it, with the Horshak look-a-like singer and also, the black dude in the yellow satin jacket, this commercial was probably as much inspired by Welcome Back Kotter as by The Lords of Flatbush. So hey ... there's an original thought or insight for youse LINK judgers. And if it's not original (and how could it be if it turns out that the ad really was Kotter-inspired?) well then at least I thought of it independently, without reading it elsewhere, or anyone telling it to me. P.S. -- I didn't vote in your poll because I haven't seen this movie in decades. And I guess that's an original thought, too. P.S.S. -- You didn't vote either.

Breaking Away is ranked 8th on AFI's list of top 100 all-time inspiring movies. It's a Wonderful Life tops the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Cheershttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Cheers It's also ranked 8th on AFI's all-time list of sports movies. Topping that list is Raging Bull. https://www.amctheatres.com/american-film-institute/ten-top-ten/sportshttps://www.amctheatres.com/american-film-institute/ten-top-ten/sports

Unrelated it'd be interesting to see a NEW movie/comic/hero franchise to take off from the villain standpoint. Like have a Joker movie that's less origin story and more him terrorizing Gotham in the years prior to Batman becoming Batman, in fact, he's the impetus for BECOMING Batman.... The Joker had his own comic book, for a brief run in 1975-76 --- the only villain in the DC universe to be given that treatment. [FIMG=666]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91JJ69oCEnL.jpg[/FIMG]