Edgy MD

Of course it does. The movie was fascinatingly bad. Just interesting enough that you got an idea of how boldly they aspired and how badly they failed. Part of you wants to tip your hat to them, and the other just wishes they had aimed lower and hit the target. Somehow, though, they made the better subsequent The Incredible Hulk movie a loose sequel, rather than an outright do-over, which I thought was pretty bold. And it therefore it retains Hulk as part of the Avengers canon, when good business sense might be to pretend it never happened (as you clearly would like to do). I kind of like this. There's this cool challenge that latter-day comic book writers take up for themselves: attempting to redeem weak runs from their character's past, that in subsequent decades have grown seemingly inconsistent with what we've later learned about the characters. With retro-fit connections, explanations, and expositions, they bring all the incarnations of the character back into the canon. I think some of that spirit was present in keeping perhaps the lousiest of the Marvel films (I disliked Thor a lot, but at least it was reasonably short) in the family.

Dickey 4.33 Nieuwenhuis 1.49 Davis 1.00 Byrdak 0.97 Parnell 0.71 Duda 0.68 Torres 0.42

Well, Jon Niese has gotten on base also. Turner's career .316 OBP vs. righties isn't getting me to the bank. Valdy had more power, more speed, and more leftiness. Turner had more experience, but that's not where Terry put his faith. I'm OK with that.

Memo to file: Matt Downs hits Dickey.

Fuckin' 39-year-old Desi Wilson.

Frayed Knot wrote: PH-ing Valdespin instead of Turner because of L/R?!? I approve.

Buy into the history.

They still need to find enough pitchers to get those last three outs.

Wally's an unhinged maniac and was moreso back in his (brief) Peanuts days, but I'm sure that sort of motivation is more typical than we'd hope.

So Tony LaRussa didn't actually retire but changed his name to the pornoriffic "Brad Mills"?

metsguyinmichigan wrote: I don't have a lot of faith in Acosta right now.

It's been at least a decade since we got this sort of production from a mullet.

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Go ahead run is a statue with the flu. There really should be a pinch runner there.

Gee to pinch-run?

Look at that hole at short.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Huh? Oh... you mean the 2003 movie. No, seeing that movie once was more than enough for me. He did the giant leaps and broken English for you.

Edgy DC wrote: Let's get some runs! This worked! The Cubs have rallied to tie the Phils in the eighth.

Edgy DC wrote: Leadoffy single. Can this Norris guy hold a runner? I guess so.

Leadoffy single. Can this Norris guy hold a runner?

Let's get some runs!

Wait, no Hulk?

More curious to me is Torres returning but Terry keeping Nieuie in the leadoff spot. Maybe he wants to give Torres a chance to get going first.

I figure maybe it's his day to catch a blow. I don't think he's sat yet.

Made me feel like a clueless old man trying to follow plot intricacies. Fun scene-setting establishment shots with kooky camera angles that seem to give it Brad Bird's signature. Otherwise, I take little away from it besides the corpse of a dead evening. James Bond Rule: If you have to infiltrate the home of a fabulously rich man to help save the world, he'll always be hosting a scandalously lavish black tie party that evening.