Poll of the Day > Sports Discussion Topic #179: Baseball Season is in Full Swing-and-Miss

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Well yeah. He has really good maneuverability and can add barrier though. The lack of damage blocking hurts but I think he's really strong overall. Maybe I was in a good team comp or something but I did really well with him.

I haven't played the new hero but wrecking ball is probably the dumbest name for a hero. Great song though

Raise your hand if you totally knew that Joakim Soria was still around and weren't at all shocked to hear that he was the centerpiece of a trade

https://frinkiac.com/video/S09E06/ts6hDjwjaNGqF2v83PecEfJEI0k=.gif

It's the Brewers I am not shocked that he was the centerpiece of the trade. I get news emails from the Brewers and they tried to make it seem like this is the trade that will help us.
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He appears to be having a really good year. But a closer can only help so much.

Excellent gif choice

Just looking at his FG page and oddly enough it seems clear to me that he's probably in the 99th percentile or something for best relievers of all time

edit: I tried to link the FIP- rankings all time for RP with over 300 IP because he's top 30 but the link was huge and I don't feel like bitlying this shit

Today was my sister's birthday and we went out to dinner and blah blah blah. Anyway, birthday cake you get from the grocery store is so good. It's better than any kind of "interesting" cake. Just get a chocolate rectangle with frosting.

I don't know if this counts as "interesting" but I really like ice cream cakes from DQ. Cookie cakes are cool too

I hate all cake except for ice cream cake and cheesecake. So, basically, I hate traditional cake.

Well yeah I guess I should have counted ice cream cakes. Those DQ ones are pretty incredible. I like cookie cakes a lot too but I don't put them in the same category as regular cake.

I too love grocery store cakes. Ice cream cakes don't do it for me since I think cakes are worse when cold.

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

I too love grocery store cakes. Ice cream cakes don't do it for me since I think cakes are worse when cold.

I'm appalled at this cake take.

I've never thought of myself as a cake guy, but I like most kinds of cake. This might be sacrilege, but I don't like cheesecake. I also don't really like pie. A slice of cherry pie or blueberry every once in a while is fine, but I never seek it out and pretty much always turn it down at thanksgiving and stuff.

The regular grocery stores ones are great, but you know what non traditional kind of cake is great? Angelfood

I'm not a pie guy at all either. #1 is always ice cream of course but I also love cookies and brownies as well as cake. Then there are donuts which are somehow considered a breakfast food instead of a dessert and are of course perhaps the greatest sugary baked good

Cookies are great. Here's a quick power rankings for cookies off the top of my head (and none of that store bought stuff like oreos):

1a. chocolate chip (the king)
1b. oatmeal scotchies (my god these are good)
1c. Peanut butter
2. Ginger snaps
3. Snickerdoodle
4. Sugar

MNTwins1991 posted...

I don't know if this counts as "interesting" but I really like ice cream cakes from DQ. Cookie cakes are cool too

Cookie cakes are good. The closest DQ to me has 50-60% off ice cream cakes the day before Thanksgiving, so that's what I tend to bring to the family Thanksgiving.
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CaptainHammer posted...

Then there are donuts which are somehow considered a breakfast food instead of a dessert and are of course perhaps the greatest sugary baked good

Donuts are kind of ruined for me. My parents' resort has a donut machine and they make their own from donut mix... this thing can crank out like 200 donuts an hour. It's kind of their claim to fame. People go apeshit over the donuts. They are good...a fresh hot cake donut right out of the machine (I like mine covered in cinnamon), but year after year I'm just tired of them. The smell is burnt into my brain

Here's some from the 4th of July https://m.imgur.com/a/vQdmOmi

Those donuts look hella bomb

Man I want those donuts real bad but I understand getting sick of them when they're in such huge quantities. I used to get donuts for breakfast fairly regularly and sometimes I would look at them in the display and feel like I'd rather die than get another one (then a week later it's donut mania again)

Today's poll is classic GFAQs. Too scared to go to a damn movie theater

CaptainHammer posted...

Today's poll is classic GFAQs. Too scared to go to a damn movie theater

Why pay too much to get in, and too much for snacks, just to miss something when I have to pee?
At least with baseball, the PA is piped into the restroom.

Maybe don't drink a large coke by yourself before previews end

I'm skipping the soda for Mission Impossible tonight because I can't afford to miss a minute. It's not hard to not pee during a movie if you don't want to

57 people have so far said their preferred movie viewing experience is on their phones.

Went and saw princess mononoke the other night and that was awesome. Going to the theater is a little pricey but it's worth it to see good movies on the big screen I think

That's what's weird about those Alamo Drafthouses to me (well, and normal theaters that sell beer now). I'd have to go see something where I don't really care about missing stuff because beer makes me pee a lot

Yeah, they don't have Alamo around here but there is a "dine-in" theater I went to one time. It was egregiously overpriced food that was just fine and they straight up interrupt your viewing to deliver it to you. I saw Now You See Me though which was bad so I didn't care, but I can't imagine seeing a decent movie and having that all happen around you.

OhhhJa posted...

Went and saw princess mononoke the other night and that was awesome. Going to the theater is a little pricey but it's worth it to see good movies on the big screen I think

I would love to catch that on the big screen. I was amazed at how good Akira looked on the big screen and Princess Mononoke is a better looking movie imo

STLCards1991 posted...

Yeah, they don't have Alamo around here but there is a "dine-in" theater I went to one time. It was egregiously overpriced food that was just fine and they straight up interrupt your viewing to deliver it to you. I saw Now You See Me though which was bad so I didn't care, but I can't imagine seeing a decent movie and having that all happen around you.

This is the Alamo too. They try to be discreet but it's still distracting.

Yeah they tried their best at this place too but it's just not the same. Seeing a movie is its own insular experience, I don't really need it to be a whole thing with dinner too. ANd like I said the prices were ridiculous so it didn't help my opinion that it was like a $14 sandwich and chips.

The Cardinals are playing fantasy baseball with their bullpen. They've released Holland, DFA'd Lyons, traded Tuivailala, DL'd Cecil, called up Dakota Hudson and Tyler Webb, and recalled Poncedeleon. All today. The only one of those moves I can't really endorse is trading Tuivailala. He's actually decent and we don't have many decent guys. If this means they're selling for real I'm cool with it but I'm reluctant to beileve that's what they're doing.

After Holland, Bryan Shaw and arguably Wade Davis, I'd be surprised to see any more big name relievers want to sign here again. Starters already learned that lesson ages ago

I was texting this girl from bumble today (day 3 of our correspondence) and she asked me to share like 6 facts about myself and one of them was basically my politics and her response to that was that we'd all fix all the problems in America if everyone stopped caring about each other's politics and she proudly said she didn't care about mine. This was a red flag for me because I was already thinking there was a decent chance she voted for Trump just demographically (Catholic, lives in Affton MO), and because I want you to care at least a little bit, so I pressed her on it assuming soon we would never text again anyway. And she said she truly thinks that positive attitudes for all people will save the world. I just didn't reply because all I could think to reply was basically a lecture on privilege and how positive attitudes are a privilege so I just let it sit there. Then five hours later she said she could never be with someone who can't even tolerate another opinion after she was so respectful of mine. I don't even know what to think about this. I guess it sucks that I didn't reply and as I said I anticipated this being our last day talking. I feel a little bad though I also think it's a little funny. I mean come on. Positive attitudes will save the world

You dodged a bullet. I probably wouldn't have replied to the 6 facts about myself thing.

MNTwins1991 posted...

You dodged a bullet. I probably wouldn't have replied to the 6 facts about myself thing.

It seems a little crazy in retrospect but I thought she was being funny so I thought it would be funny to actually do it

It's like when my Trump-supporting friends would say "Well I doubt your life is going to be affected that much". Great way to show how much you really care about people. Some just can't see outside of their own bubble I guess

Edit: I should say, that's a reasonable way to console somebody who is upset about the election, but it's pretty dumb IMO to just vote based on your own self-interests when your life is already pretty good

CaptainHammer posted...

OhhhJa posted...

Went and saw princess mononoke the other night and that was awesome. Going to the theater is a little pricey but it's worth it to see good movies on the big screen I think

I would love to catch that on the big screen. I was amazed at how good Akira looked on the big screen and Princess Mononoke is a better looking movie imo

It was pretty awesome. There was a lady hysterically crying at the end of the movie... i heard her say, "it's just so beautiful!" Lol

Never seen Akira but a buddy of mine told me to watch it a while back.

MNTwins1991 posted...

Maybe don't drink a large coke by yourself before previews end

To be fair, when I went to see Ant-Man and the Wasp, there was 45 minutes of previews, plus we got there 10 minutes early, so we were sitting there for almost an hour before the 2-hour movie began.

I didn't have to pee anyway, mostly because spending $8 on a soda is ridiculous, but the previews around here are ridiculous as well.

Chewster posted...

It's like when my Trump-supporting friends would say "Well I doubt your life is going to be affected that much". Great way to show how much you really care about people. Some just can't see outside of their own bubble I guess

Edit: I should say, that's a reasonable way to console somebody who is upset about the election, but it's pretty dumb IMO to just vote based on your own self-interests when your life is already pretty good

People said this about Doug Ford, and he's already using overreach to change the voting map of Toronto for the worse, so whoever thought that should go fuck themselves.
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CaptainHammer posted...

I'm skipping the soda for Mission Impossible tonight because I can't afford to miss a minute. It's not hard to not pee during a movie if you don't want to

I think I saw one Mission Impossible movie in my life and have never really given the series a second thought. Saw this one was supposed to be really good though.

MNTwins1991 posted...

CaptainHammer posted...

I'm skipping the soda for Mission Impossible tonight because I can't afford to miss a minute. It's not hard to not pee during a movie if you don't want to

I think I saw one Mission Impossible movie in my life and have never really given the series a second thought. Saw this one was supposed to be really good though.

Here's the canonical opinion for each one:

MI1 - solid fun movie, but showing its age in many ways
MI2 - pretty bad
MI3 - now we're talking
MI: Ghost Protocol - ok NOW we're talking holy shit
MI: Rogue Nation - I thought they would never top Ghost Protocol but somehow they did. Should they even make another?
MI: Fallout - well those crazy sons of bitches did it again

The twins are trading away literally everyone! Dozier and the Rodfather soon. They traded my favorite player, Eduardo Escobar
https://streamable.com/6xavi

The Cardinals are seemingly about to go full fire sale which means Carpenter is probably going to get traded but you never can tell what this team is actually going to do so I still wouldn't be fully shocked if they tried to add to the bullpen or something instead

The Eduardo Escobar goodbye tweet was the stuff of legends

STLCards1991 posted...

The Eduardo Escobar goodbye tweet was the stuff of legends

It really is. As a taxpayer, I would be more than happy to fund a statue of him like in the image
https://twitter.com/escobarmaracay/status/1022991815207792646?s=19

The Rockies are once again in the position where they're technically contending, but not really all that good. I expect them to maybe buy on a second-tier reliever (like Pat Neshek and Rafael Betancourt in years past)

Maybe they'll take racist ass Bud Norris off the Cardinals hands.

No thanks, you can trade him to the Brewers to be Hader's best Bud