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Just clubbed his first homer for Bingo.

His ass isn't the only thing expanding. His 1.53 ERA at Bingo last year has ballooned to 4.09 this season --- at the same level. This is not the day of the expanding man.

Kyle's doing what they pay him to do, as a 24-year-old most-everyday-ish outfielder for Bingo. .281 / .348 / .421 // .770. You want a walkoff sac fly? Kyle's your man. A pro's pro, I tells ya. He's 11 for his last 31, and I wouldn't want to be the guy that makes him cross.

One hit in his last seven games has seemingly cooled him off, but he's walked eight times in that period, and even plated three RBI. [list:2fa102zp]BA: .324 (19th in the PCL) OBP: .485 (2nd) SLG: .595 (10th) OPS: 1.079 (4th)[/list:u:2fa102zp] That's him cooled off.

What a sausage fest your family is.

Saw a preview of that last week, and it seemed weepingly bad. Probably one of the oldest and (and emptiest) comic themes there be.

A lot of folks talking about that. The original cast was full of men too. Wars are full of men.

Vic Sage wrote: ...and introducing a mature notion of ambiguity... . And an ambiguous notion of maturity. It's interesting that Anna's falling-in-love song felt catchy but dumb and shallow and forced and jarringly different from the rest of the songs, and it turned out to be appropriately so, as her relationship turned out to be dumb and shallow and forced.

TransMonk wrote: The best part about that picture is that George Lucas does not appear to be in the room. [fimg=700]http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/386358/article_img.jpg[/fimg] Clockwise from robot: Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, Producer Bryan Burk, Kathleen Kennedy, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Mark Hamill, Andy Serkis, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, Adam Driver and Writer Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. "Dyn-O-Mite" Abrams.

The low-res black-and-white photo and the modular furniture sure gives this a 70s feel, though don't it?

metsmarathon wrote: iand i did hand-wring at the time that the whole pivotal let it go song was kinda saying, "move past your doubts and insecurities - you too can be sexed up, bitchy bad girl if that's what you really want" This is the crux of thing, I think. It's thematically about female maturity, and how down we are with this song and with this film kind of depends on how we draw the line between sexed over and cold and mean and (literally) anti-social on one hand and self-possessed and free and artistic and liberated and in control of one's own sexuality on the other. I don't know where I fall, and I guess not being a girl or the parent of girl liberates me from the challenge of the question, but I salute them for trying to throw that out there and living a little in the ambiguity.

I like that they had to have R2D2 in the corner of the room for the read-through. I noticed that Kenny Baker isn't in the picture. Maybe he felt he had to crawl back in the can and do the read-through in costume. That would be hardcore.

[fimg=700]http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/386358/article_img.jpg[/fimg] The Star Wars team is thrilled to announce the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film. Director J.J. Abrams says, "We are so excited to finally share the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. It is both thrilling and surreal to watch the beloved original cast and these brilliant new performers come together to bring this world to life, once again. We start shooting in a couple of weeks, and everyone is doing their best to make the fans proud." Star Wars: Episode VII is being directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, and John Williams returns as the composer. The movie opens worldwide on December 18, 2015. On one hand, how cool that they can't do a read-through without R2D2 sitting in the corner. On the other hand... NO LANDO?!?!

Carmona Philly and Tissenbaum Tampa were lesser-known Damon Runyon heroes.

Is there a girl in your life? Say, 6-14? Then this film has probably taken over your existence. Disney updates Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen. [fimg=450]http://steadfastlutherans.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Frozen-movie-poster.jpg[/fimg]

The Billy Beane of Baseball: .388 / .488 / .507 // .995. He's just making it all look silly right now in St. Loo. Only five of the 26 hits have gone for extra bases, but it would be real miserly to complain about that sort of thing at this moment.

Guess which 27-year-old minor-league vet is the Pacific Coast League Player of the Week? It's the guy who had two homers and ten RBI, reached base at a .593 clip, and slugged .900.

Guess which 27-year-old career minor leaguer just moved up the depth chart?

.417 / .588* / .625 // 1.213 through 10 games and 34 plate appearances. Surely some of this must translate at the big league level. * Leads all affiliated American baseball.

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In our tour documentaries about the record making bidness, our next selection is Dave Grohl's history of Sound City, the LA dump of an analog studio that took rock from mid-period classic (their first album was the Buckingham/Nicks duet that precipitated them joining Fleetwood Mac, followed by Rumours and TP&tHBs' Damn the Torpedoes) through pop nu wave (Rick Springfield), a little punk (Fear), lotsa eighties glam (Ratt, Warrant), until finally their failure to modernize and go digital had them on the verge of going out of business, when a grunge band at a crossroads landed on their doorstep, recorded an album called Nevermind, and the lack of computer processing and sequencers became a virtue for all the acts that followed in Nirvana's wake. Featuring, among many others: Vinny Appice, Frank Black, Lindsey Buckingham, Mike Campbell, Kevin Cronin, Mick Fleetwood, John Fogerty, Dave Grohl, Jim Keltner, Barry Manilow, Stevie Nicks, Rick Nielsen, Krist Novoselic, Tom Petty, Trent Reznor, Rick Rubin, Pat Smear, Rick Springfield, Benmont Tench, Lars Ulrich, and Butch Vig.

yeah, i have no idea what you're talking about. I try really hard I get that you don't like superhero movies; you've made that point (sometimes elliptically, but consistently) in many similar threads. No, this isn't true. You keep doing this thing where you put something on me that I absolutely don't say, so you can disagree with me (or "me") and stand up and make a speech. I hope you see you have me all wrong.

Interesting. Did you feel he was too independent and mature and best-days-are-behind-me-ish?

Chris Martin inducting Peter Gabriel into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame last night: "He brings together sounds from all over the world. At times it feels like he releases music at a snail's pace. But one looks back now and sees this amazing cathedral of song. It was worth the effort and the time that it took. He's always been an innovator and a seeker. He's a curator and an inspirer. He also helped John Cusack get his girlfriend back in the movie Say Anything."

What I've got, you've got to give it to Ione! Saw her in the movie and her dad was John Mahoney! What I've got here is a swingin' eighties actress! You front a band in Hollywood, it gives you special access!