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    Carlos Correa and the Mets (yes, that's correct) agree on a 12-year, $315m deal

    You're assuming the Twins made that offer with a real expectation he might accept it. I don't share that view. It was window dressing to sell the fans.
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    Offseason 2022-23 MLB Thread

    Falvey is a lapdog for ownership, who are basically the Judge from The Natural. Completely uninterested in winning except as a side benefit of their frugal “we tried!” bullshit. What is so frustrating is that they neither focus on developing young players (pitchers, especially), nor build...
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    Just What is Apex Mountain: Rewatchables discussion thread

    What is “Great Shot Gordo” a reference to?
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    Just What is Apex Mountain: Rewatchables discussion thread

    Yeah. Similarly, The Departed filmed it’s bar scenes in Brooklyn (Sunset Park, I believe). Like…what, there’s not some bar in Brighton or Somerville they could have used?
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    The 5 Dumbest Moves in Franchise History

    Not a top 5 but letting Carlos Pena walk after 2006 probably cost them the 2008 World Series.
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    The 5 Dumbest Moves in Franchise History

    I know Lester was well liked and a nice home-grown player, but... really? I always felt like winning in 2018 kind of put this one to rest. Heck, off the top of my head, trading Lynn was probably a bigger mistake.
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    Just What is Apex Mountain: Rewatchables discussion thread

    Brad Pitt was the recipient of the Cat Shit prank. Richard Kind was the target of another prank: Clooney, one day, found a hideous painting on the curb, had it re-framed, and signed the bottom. Then he started telling Kind that he was taking art classes, at first in passing and then all the...
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    Just What is Apex Mountain: Rewatchables discussion thread

    He’s been in, like, 6 movies since 2014 though. And the one from this year “Ticket to Paradise” with Julia Roberts took in $160 Million. And I’m guessing he only did it because he’s buddies with JR. And likely he only did Hail Caesar because he likes the Coens. Hell, one of the other few...
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    Just What is Apex Mountain: Rewatchables discussion thread

    Great ep. I do think Simmons is a little hard on Clooney; he pretty clearly decided to stop chasing superstardom years ago in favor of directing (mediocre as that's gone), doing quirky shit with directors he likes, and hanging with his family (including two young kids). Not everyone wants to...
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    Poll: Rate Your Faith in the Red Sox Front Office

    Nobody much liked Clemens by the time he left Boston, for a variety of reasons. He was lazy, he was arrogant, he was fucking nuts in ways that seemed designed to sabotage the team (eye black and TMNT shoelaces incident...), but mostly it just seemed like his time in Boston was up. He'd been...
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    Poll: Rate Your Faith in the Red Sox Front Office

    I did 60% because I just don’t think the ownership will tolerate being a non competing team for more than a few years. Eventually they’ll give the GM a kick in the ass to pay some people.
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    Just What is Apex Mountain: Rewatchables discussion thread

    I'll check it out. I have no opinion on it one way or the other.
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    Just What is Apex Mountain: Rewatchables discussion thread

    That's not my point, though (although I will say the view that it's a great movie seems like its in the minority, based on its reviews). They brought up his career and stated his 1987-2012 run is an all-timer and ran through a bunch of movies while conspicuously leaving out a whole bunch of...
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    Just What is Apex Mountain: Rewatchables discussion thread

    Yeah the choices have been pretty lackluster lately, PT&A aside. I've only listened to the first 15 minutes of the Man on Fire one but already we have Simmons wondering why Man on Fire wasn't a BIG MOVIE two minutes after talking about how at one point Denzel sticks an explosive up some guy's...
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    Let's say BB stays on until he retires. What does that mean for the franchise?

    The problem is that you aren't giving him credit for his staff when the Patriots are good, but discounting him for his staff selection when they're bad. "Well his team isn't good this year; must be his chosen staff." "Well yes, he was good last year, must have been his staff."
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    Let's say BB stays on until he retires. What does that mean for the franchise?

    But it's disingenuous to throw it out there without any context. In 1991, his first stint, he inherited a Browns team that went 3-13 in 1990, and got them into the playoffs in 1994. In 2000, he took over for a Patriots team that went 8-8 in 1999 and admittedly had some good players on it...
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    Just What is Apex Mountain: Rewatchables discussion thread

    Yeah, John Hughes was an era-defining director. I’m partial to Vacation just because I’m more than a little Clark Griswold and because it’s one of the first movies I remember watching with my family as a kid. “Holiday Road” is pure joy, and now I associate it both with being 5 and getting ready...
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    Just What is Apex Mountain: Rewatchables discussion thread

    Planes Trains & Automobiles with Van Lathan. Not all the way through, but I think they miss Chris and/or Sean to give some context to the movie and the stars. For one thing, I think Sean would have noted that the 80s/modern Road Trip Movie originated with the 1970s trucker movies like Convoy...
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    Why Do I Continue to Read Peter King?

    Magnets. How do they work?