Edgy MD

Maybe the last-ever Harvey Weinstein film, although I imagine there are couple in the can or in post-production.

Hey, somebody really liked this film, to the tune of 4 1/2 starz. Who was that ranker?

You can't fool the children of the revolution.

My wife and I are both big fans of Blade Runner. One of those bonding things when we first met. She suggested that we go see this and I couldn't muster any enthusiasm at all. The dystopia we are living with is more than enough to wrestle with. #ImOldandWeary

Has anybody done a Hidden Figures/Right Stuff mastercut?

Hey, maybe Adam Rubin was right after all!

Because José Fernandez is dead.

Edgy MD wrote: You like a 2-3 for Smith? How about a 2-3 against Jose Fernandez? The former Rookie of the Year is tearing through his rehab starts like cheetah through the grass. A cheetah on 5-Hour Energy Drink. But Smitty is no blade of grass. He's batted .365 (57-for-156) since May 9, with 20 doubles and two home runs. Re-reading this thread and this makes me sad.

"Matt Reynold's" is starting at third today. He's sort of on the hotseat. He's a reliable infielder, but he's been passed (as expected) by Rosario, but if he doesn't hit more consistently, he's going to be passed by Cecchini and/or Evans and find there's no room on the big league roster for him, even after losing Wright extendedly and shedding Duda and Walker, with Cabrera and Reyes dangling.

What do you think about building it with a skyscraper gashes into the side of the stadium? Kinda weird, huh?

Uh: Shea Stadium (New York City) Citi Field (New York City) Yankee Stadium II (New York City) Veterans Stadium (Philadelphia) Camden Yards (Baltimore) RFK Stadium (Washington) Nationals Park (Washington) Wrigley Field (Chicago) PNC Park (Pittsburgh) Harbor Park (Norfolk) NYSEG Stadium (Binghamton, they had nice eggs) Prince George's Stadium (Bowie, but I'm no royalist) Municipal Stadium (Hagerstown) Keyspan (now MCU) Park (Brooklyn) Hunter Wright Stadium (Kingsport) I'm sure there are others. I have completionist impulses but I resist them when it comes to ballparks.

It's a town that generally gets lots of nice summer weather too.

I've done OK in the left field corner. Had a buncha 7-Liners there with me and they weren't complaining in their section. I admit I haven't tried the rightfield side. I guess it's important to amend "not a bad seat in the house" with the qualifier that I haven't literally sat in every seat.

There's not a bad seat in the house in this ballpark. The tickets are reasonably priced and the crowds are friendly even to fans of the visiting team.

Roy is a lineman for the county. Juggling job and family pressures, he gets called out late one night when the whole power grid is on the fritz. Lost in the dark, he has a strange interaction with a bright light, and thereafter begins driving his family bonkers with his visions of a big butte. An enormous butte. Could a massive government coverup conspiracy be underway? In limited release.

One of the Americans in this was driving me crazy trying to think of where I'd seen him before. He was the villain in Ant-Man.

I support this film. It's really two films. The first half is their journey across their country, going in multiple directions upon learning that neigboring countries are closing the borders for them, even as they are being hunted by soldiers in each direction. The reasons for the war aren't really hinted at. It was really a land-grab, with the dominating factions of the north seeking to wipe out populations in the south and on the peripheries where there were and are vast oil reserves, but it also had an ethno-religious component. The audience is as in the dark as the children as to why this hell is raining down on them. One day, their out minding the cattle, and planes and soldiers swoop in and virtually wipe out their village. The oldest boy Theo returns to the village and returns wit his surviving sister Abital. And they set out on their journey with Mamere, Paul, Daniel, and Gabriel and others. Without giving too much away, after many misadventures, under the bold but stumbling leadership of Theo, who has inherited the mantle of chief among his village's surviving children, several in the party finally arrive on their very last legs at a refugee camp, where they are surprised to encounter people who have no color in their skin. The second half jumps us ahead 13 years. Thirteen long years the children have been in the refugee camp, having grown up but stayed together as a family of circumstance, before finally getting notice that they will be granted asylum in the United States in the mysterious exotic village of Kansas City, where they seek jobs, adjust, hang out with Reese Witherspoon, and fight to keep their makeshift family together. No small amount of death, and that's tough to witness, but no small amount of human and social significance and triumph and Mark Twain references to go with also.

A family of Sudanese "lost boys" (actually including a girl) are forced into exile after their village is attacked during the country's civil war. Left without adult supervision, one of the boys assumes the role of chief, and the struggle forward becomes as much about staying together as it is about staying alive. [fimg=575:die98p1f]http://68.media.tumblr.com/eae863402bf3cc3e47005e21fac3f077/tumblr_ndq175QIzC1teelmro1_1280.png[/fimg:die98p1f]

Merandy putting up a 0.98 ERA over his first 18.1 innings in the Miami system. His 11 strikeouts and five walks won't knock you out, but, well, there's no bad way to a 0.98 ERA.

I tend to think that, if they bother you, you should let it bother you. #healthy

Maybe Being There and Zelig or Being There and Dave, but Forrest doesn't strike me as curriculum-worthy except from a special effects perspective.

Give it a shot. I recognized the protagonist's aggressive and abusive brother-in-law (the middle figure from the poster above) from Amelie, in which he played a gentle, simpleton grocer boy.

An Algerian naif, treated as the village fool in his hometown, sets off on a picaresque journey to the Paris International Agricultural Show, walking his (too-)beloved cow Jacqueline across France and encountering adventure along the way.

A swing-man for St. Lucie, Kevin Canelon is one of the best-kept secrets in the system. He's appeared in 24 games, five of them starts, and has a 2.75 ERA through 55 2/3 innings, striking out 59 and walking but 14. That stingy, stupid Jon Sickels gave him a C+ rating at the start of the year, but what does stingy, stupid Jon Sickels know Look at this lefthanded Pedro Martinez motion! Watch Kevin Canelon. But not too closely. You may hurt your eyes.

PJ has had a rough mid-summer but has straightened it out the last two starts, giving up one run over 13 1/3 innings. He now sits at 7-7 with a 3.68 ERA and hopes to visit the destitute Las Vegas rotation someday soon.