Edgy MD

I didn't realize Forbidden Planet had a potentially fake reality. A monster projected unknowingly by the antagonist, sure, but not a whole universe.

I didn't say if I liked it.

Most good Pixar (most good animated) movies have themes for parents as much as for kidzz. This one was more the former, as the parents cheerfully work through with their daughter through their worry, trying to help her find adaptations for her memory issues. Baby Dory was adoryble.

In my experience, Rocky Balboa got a mostly positive reception.

I'm Kevin Canelon and I'm coming off a mediocre year in Columbia, and unless folks start falling by the wayside, I'll be back in Columbia this season. I'll be 23 and I play it lefthand, but haven't made it too far, but I'm continuing to maintain my control, walking 1.8 batters per nine each of the last two seasons. I intend to be sucking St. Lucie suds some time soon. You'll see.

Notice how Joey takes his mother's last name rather than his father's. He knows the Newman brand is his meal ticket.

Yeah, that 5'8" guess doesn't look all that off. [tweet:1w32ptjy] [/tweet:1w32ptjy] Despite that stature, he was considered high-round talent that the Mets stole in the middle rounds by offering him enough to forgo his scholarship.

Mets prospects won the batting average title in the Florida State League (High A), the Eastern League (AA) and the Pacific Coast League (AAA), where they finished with the top three places in the batting average race. Fire flew from my fingertips as I typed that.

While Thomas Newman is pretty great, the Newman family of film composers is about the most dynastic Hollywood family going.

Forgetful fish from 2003's Finding Nemo remembers her family, and sets off on a quest to find them, bringing her and her southern hemisphere friends Marlon and Nemo all the way to California. Score by Thomas Newman. [fimg=550]http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/finding-dory-poster.jpg[/fimg]

The Great Wall (Chinese: 長城) is a 2016 monster film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Matt Damon, who plays a European mercenary in China during the Song dynasty. He encounters the Great Wall of China and meets Chinese soldiers who defend against monsters. The Chinese-US co-production also stars Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe and Andy Lau. This sounds like it was born to be an analog for the proposed US-Mexico border wall? I'm sure Matt Damon wouldn't want that to be seen as such, but the actors in The Two Towers didn't want their film to be used as an argument for the The Iraq War, but it was. It's February, though, and February is a month for dumping films the studios have no faith in, so I'm guessing The Great Wall isn't going to big enough to be used for a propaganda campaign.

The Belfast Telegraph and Irish Central each published a dispatch from St. Lucie this morning.

Pretty cool to see José's return launch him into the top 10, but I'm surprised to hear he's within reach of Piazza. Clean Jones was a helluva comedian. Kept the room in stitches but never worked blue.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I wonder where he'll start the season? I would think Binghamton is most likely, but who knows? Maybe to ease his innings count he may see time in the bullpen. The Mets are a little short on lefty relievers. I don't think he'll make the jump directly from Single A to Queens, but he's 23 years old, so... maybe? Unless and until spring injuries start rearing their ugly heads, I have him rounding out a Bingo rotation along with Tyler Pill, Ricky Knapp, Casey Delgado, and Chris Flexen. Las Vegas looks to open with Seth Lugo, Gabriel Ynoa, Adam Wilk, Sean Gilmartin, and Rafael Montero. That outlook could actually change before the spring, as in the next couple of days, the Blevins/Salas roster pinch makes for a real DFA threat to the likes of Gilmartin and Montero.

I have to say, that article reads really weird. It's like a pile of facts indifferently ordered that Kernan only hints at trying to weave into a narrative. It's like he got started late, and was ordering his notes, but the deadline was coming and he had to turn in what he had.

Well, among what can be considered Disney characteristics is the very forced PG-ness you describe.

Ceetar wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Who should he have gotten? Getting replacement players who are better than replacement players is nice, but they aren't always in the shop when you come calling. Perhaps the real sin was not having anybody better than Marc Krauss parked in Vegas. they're literally a dime a dozen. Michael Morse? There are probably a billion guys wallowing away in AAA that could've been add for cash considerations or something similar as well. They could've tried calling up the AAA scrub they were playing in Vegas. Krauss? I forget his name. It's a little foolhardy to assume all replacement guys are the same, though granted it can be equally foolhardy to just randomly plug a new guy in as soon as it looks like the last one failed. But hell, Loney was really bad and definitely not a top 30 2016 Met. I'm not sure I agree with your definition of "literally." Or "billion." Michael Morse was out of baseball most of last year. By the time Duda went down and it was clear it would take more than Campbell and Flores to fill the hole, Morse wouldn't have likely been a viable option. I suppose they could have grabbed him and given a few weeks to get his timing in the minors. But nobody touching him all season after he was DFA'd by the Pirates doesn't give me confidence that he was going to be a better addition to the Mets. The real way to do better is to shop from a higher shelf, and get an active, productive big leaguer, but the Mets clearly weren't looking to be that aggressive.

Who should he have gotten? Getting replacement players who are better than replacement players is nice, but they aren't always in the shop when you come calling. Perhaps the real sin was not having anybody better than Marc Krauss parked in Vegas.

Ceetar wrote: he was a net negative. I did more to help the Mets win last year. I don't think that's what a negative WAR really means. As much as I'm enchanted by fWAR on the offensive side, I don't think they really get defense right, philosophically, although if they did, it probably wouldn't help Loney much, and perhaps would be more likely to hurt him.

I was really hoping this would be an Odd Couple thread. I saw Hidden Figures a few weeks back, and I may be crazy, but I don't recall Viola Davis being in it. What did I miss?

Yeah, I don't know how he fell off of my list. He must be the original player missing from my set.

In 1951, a wickid stawm off the coast of Cape Cahd has somehow split an oil tanker in half. As the crew on the half of the boat that is still afloat bickers about how best to survive, a socially awkward Coast Guardsman, who is too upright to refuse an order, no matter how crazy, takes a 36-foot lifeboat (looked more like 25 in the film) on a suicide mission to find and rescue the stranded sailors. Now streaming on Netflix. [fimg=500:16jgnjgi]http://www.farewaymovies.com/media/movie/poster/4EljSOaIcGHaiuCy06EAS4AB0Np.jpg[/fimg:16jgnjgi]

The book on which it was based only came out in September. The rights were clearly acquired long before the book was completed and the two were developed was almost in parallel, which makes it something of a mercy that it was as factually accurate as it was.

Yeah, we noted the glaring cigarettelessness too.

I liked it a lot despite myself. It has a lot of Disney wash on it. The three protagonists are represented by three off-the-rack archetypes: the bookish virtuous one, the sexy irrepressible one, the matronly authoritative one. The racism they confront is sometimes cartoonishly overt, and the poise they exhibit in the face of it is almost too too. The music (largely by Pharrell Williams) imitates the modern jazz and soul of the era, but feels more ... -ish. Pretty much all of the white characters are based on composites or pure fiction, which is something of a copout. If you want to indict racists who roadblocked talented women and risked holding back history, well, you oughta name some names. You couldn't get them to sign a release? Well, too bad. You think Bob Dylan got William Zanzinger to sign a release? But the protagonists' stories are real. And they feel real up there despite the writers playing fast and loose with the timeline and some of the particulars (as noted). I tell you, I saw this with an audience of folks who had a stake in this story. And it was a great experience of communal filmgoing I hadn't sat in on in years. There's a sweet proposal scene, and I heard and felt a hunnert folks of all ages squee at the same time. I can harangue about details but you get to sit in on a super-squee like that, well, that's money well spent.