metsmarathon

my pitching is doing remarkably well considering $57 clayton kershaw has given me one start in australia, and may not pitch until mid may. hopefully it holds up...

i have 3 pitchers and 1 position player on my payroll (either salaried or as a cap-hit) who have undergone tommy john surgery this year: patrick corbin (60-day DL) josh johnson (cut) bruce rondon (cut) and miguel sano stupid ligaments...

eventually, my offense should heat up... right?

i wish they would get around to putting my clearly injured and out for hte season guys on the 60-day DL already. dude just had TJ. he ain't coming back anytime soon. clear up the damned roster spot already!

i should rename my team the tommy johns. i've already got at least 3 on my roster.

nope. if nobody else bids, he's yours for $1, wether you want him or not.

so... what happened?

wont somebody fix the draft?

muddy chickens, mohawk red flyers, and im back are all friends of mine. the rest of us are, i think, all cranepoolers. not that you're not all friends of mine. just that. well. they really exist. i mean i'm sure you all exist. i just can't readily prove it. this place needs a capcha, is what i'm saying.

can i use him as a hitting instructor? doesn't show up on my team page. does show up on my transaction listing. odd. if you could remove him altogether, it would be muchly appreciated. thanks for fixing the things!

so, my new strategy will be to abandon my team, have someone come in and cut all my players, reclaim my team, and have all my old players reinstated at 50 cents on the dollar. note, for instance, alex gordon had been salaried at $32. he was cut by cherington's puppet, reducing his salary to $16, and was reinstated at $16. his salary should be reinstated at $32, as well as for all the other players cut by cherington. this may be something you're already aware of and working on.

jim is interested in returning. if we boot random interloper, does he get his money back (did he have to pay to usurp the team?)? i'd hate to screw him needlessly.

weird. well, i'd suggest that seawolf should pay up!

did we have anyone else who wanted to get into the league? i had one other friend who expressed interest a while back. not sure if he's still interested.

no. keep it at the 19th. if random interloper can't do it, then too bad for him.

he didn't pay. apparently ottoneu dropped him, and freed up a team for someone to gobble up. the puppet is a random interloper. not sure if we want to or need to or really can do anything about this...

wait... what just happened? who is cherington's puppet? that should be my friend jim's team. it is not. i'd not heard from him an intent to drop out of hte league. perhaps he didn't pay up...?

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http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-lego-movie/ a little article about the closing credits for hte lego movie, which were 2 1/2 minutes of physical lego stop motion. took 60,000 pieces, a year of planning, and a month of shooting. i think that all serves to underscore the difficulty in doing a full-feature physical stop-motion lego movie. but it would still be cool to see attempted.

according to producers, there are 3,863,484 unique lego bricks used in the movie. however, to recreate the entire movie using physical bricks, you would need over 15,080,330 bricks total, as some of hte unique bricks get "re-used". i'm not sure what this means... possibly cloned buildings and the like. that kinda makes sense. if you have ten lego skyscrapers in the background, you clone the whole thing and slap in the copy where you need it. fifteen million bricks sure seems like a lot. the full-scale lego x-wing used 5 million bricks. but it's not getting set and re-set 24 times a second.

while i agree that adding in an extra 5-10 minutes of take a goddamn breath willya!? would've helped the movie a lot, i think that the frenetic pacing and immersiveness of a universe rendered entirely in lego are what made the movie so enjoyable. i'd love to see a feature film made entirely with lego, in the way you describe, but i don't hold that against he lego movie, any moreso than i would hold the CGI woody, buzz, and the whole rest of the gang against toy story. what you describe is an entirely different movie. a good one to make that i would love to see, but it's an entirely different animal. i still maintain that it would be missing somehting that the actual movie had. legos to infinity. a wholly brick-built universe would need to employ forced persepctive, or would need to occupy dirigible hangars for every outdoor scene, and while the forced perspective or turning smal bricks into large distant objects is challenging and cool and would be awesome to see done on a large scale, bricks to infinity. its a whole goddamn immersive universe built of lego. this is what you imagine when you build your lego firehouse and set it in your lego town, and have lego batman swoop in with your totally cool classic space guy and his swooshable classic space space ship. that they are in their own universe, where anything is possible with enough bricks.

stop motion would've been very limiting. using real actual physical bricks would've been limiting, and damned near impossible within a reasonable budget. there were freaking waves in a lego brick-built ocean. rebuilding and resetting that 24 times a second (or more depending on your framerate) would've been a monster task. also, using real minifigs would've greatly limited the movement of the minifigs. it would be done, and many have done stop motion thingies with lego, but to get it big enough to merit a feature film would have been far far more effort to produce a lesser product. its good enough for me that the world they built could be built with real actual bricks. i don't need them to assemble and reassemble a billion bricks for ever frame of the movie.

Minimm is 4.1 years old, is scared of the bears in Brave, and the trolls in Frozen, and only got a little scared in the lego movie. I forget when, prolly when the bad guys were winning, but once he sat on my lap he was fine. No hiding or worry.

about the only way to not like wreck it raplph is to go in thinking, "bah, video game nonsense. i'm so above it." which may also be true of the lego movie.

seriously, go see it. if you have a kid, are a kid, or ever were a kid, you should enjoy it. no, you should love it. unless you are broken inside. its not just a movie about lego. it is so very much more, in a way that i couldn't describe without undoing some of the magic of the movie. its a movie about lego as much as toy story is a movie about toys.