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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Thursday, February 26, 2009
It’s just…staggering.
Boston Red Sox
Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz
Rationale: A long roll call of options, including Cy Young, Tris Speaker, Wade Boggs, Nomar Garciaparra (before the fans turned on him) and ... some guy named Clemens. Sorry, Roger, but you’re still persona non grata in Beantown.
I didn’t think it was possible to read something dumber and more nonsensical than Reilly’s “Let’s arbitrarily reward the MVPs” article within the next month, much less within two days and on the same site.
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You mean like with English writers and poets? Hmmmm, that's a thought. Let's just bunch 'em up. That would be more fun. It would be just too tediously academician to make 23 sub-categories. Yeah, I think you've convinced me. Thanks.
Mario Galaxy
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Pro Evo Soccer
Mario Kart
(Edited to substract the just-as-good-in-the-PS2 MLB Power Pros, as I wanted to keep it more or less restricted to exclusives)
Nastassja Kinski in CAT PEOPLE
Isabella Rosselini in BLUE VELVET
Susan Dey in LOOKER
You obviously haven`t seen The Rachel Papers.
Saw one for just the second time in my life today.
#2
#3
#5
#7
Lincoln' beard
Roosevelt's glasses
Washington's teeth
Jefferson's cornea
Kit-Kat
Twix
Snickers
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup (I guess not technically a candy bar, but #### it)
Mt. Rushmore of Schwarzenegger Movies:
Terminator 2, Total Recall, Commando, Predator
Terminator is "better" than all of those except for T2, but with the sequel in there already I figured I'd diversify.
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Street Fighting Man, Brown Sugar, Jumpin' Jack Flash
Mt. Rushmore of Duane Allman Guitar Solos:
Blue Sky, You Don't Love Me (live), Dreams, Layla
three laws of motion, evolution, microorganisms, relativity
(probably incorrect, but to be fair it's like saying "Mt. Rushmore of people")
Mt. Rushmore of people:
Abraham, Socrates, Newton, Gutenberg
Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Eugene Ionesco...Jean Genet? (I don't know much about Jean Genet)
I know nothing (or next to) about Buffy, but speaking of the best episode of anything I've ever seen, I was just talking about this at work the other day:
It was just another Friday morning for Tom Quinn. He had coffee with his girlfriend Vicky and arranged a lunch date with her. Arriving at work, he was introduced to Harry's guests Bridget and Mark. But Danny was late, and just as he arrived outside the pods a huge alarm went off and the team were thrown into an EERIE exercise.
Thus begins episode 5 of season 2 of Spooks (MI-5 when it aired on BBC America.) It's a ####### phenomenal show, of course. It's better than 24 has ever been, with the note that I haven't seen 24 since season 4. But this episode? I skived off school and work a few years back, and had this from Netflix. Popped in the DVD, and what is normally a 50 minute or so show seriously seemed like it lasted for hours. I had never and have never since experienced what "riveting" means as applied to TV. I won't give anything away for anyone who is familiar with the show but hasn't seen that episode, but I will say that it was completely able to overturn the entrenched notion that you know what will happen on TV shows. I couldn't shake that episode for days.
Not that hard to do. 24 has always been a concept in search of execution, top to bottom.
You obviously haven`t seen The Rachel Papers.
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I know what you mean, but I think season 2 hit every execution point. 24 was a great show. Spooks is better.
might just be my favorite post ever.
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