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TheIncredulousHulk posted:My point in bringing up football is that it's much friendlier to those sorts of "If X and Y, then Z" deductions that you're trying to make than is baseball, in which quarters of an inch are the difference between dingers and outs. Bullpen overuse is objectively bad but it hardly means they're doomed. They just need a little luck tomorrow of the kind that isn't at all uncommon in this sport. "Bullpen overuse" isn't a thing anyway since relievers should be used to throwing back to back and then they have an off day on Sunday so using them all in Game 1 ISN'T AN ISSUE. edit; Orioles lost the 1st game in the 1983 ALCS and World Series that year Kawalimus. Chin up there is still a bo7 to play 
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Oct 11, 2014 06:39
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FoglyOgly posted:It's completely true. I was there. Ahhhh! Fogle I thought you gave up being a goon years ago! Edit: I just want to state, the two guys Royals goons tried to get INSPECTAH DECK to watch went 5-7 with 2 BB, 1 HBP, a HR, 2 2B, 4 RBI, and contributed some great defense. The KC outfield is pretty good. alpha_destroy fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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Oct 11, 2014 06:49
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Kawalimus should probably just go jump off a cliff because life is piss and if you stubbed your toe it means that everything is just going to get worse and life isnt worth living
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Oct 11, 2014 07:07
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alpha_destroy posted:Ahhhh! Fogle I thought you gave up being a goon years ago! But what are their chances of making the HoF?
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Oct 11, 2014 07:22
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Kawalimus is expressing his opinion in Sports Argument Stadium. A lot of these haters are just mad because he doesn't show the forum the proper respect or post the right way.
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Oct 11, 2014 07:36
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It's us, we're the grouchy assholes that can't handle the bat-flipping kids today.
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Oct 11, 2014 08:26
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stop being mean to kawalimus
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Oct 11, 2014 09:32
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Bob Ojeda posted:Kawalimus is fine. I mean he's a huge weirdo but I have no idea why that bothers people so much Seriously you guys are loving weird.
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Oct 11, 2014 10:04
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Ungh that was a great game to watch. This series is gonna own.
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Oct 11, 2014 13:48
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Y'all need to just picture Kaw as Bob Uecker in Major League. Just slowly drinking and saying how horrible his team is. It's really funny! I should do that with the Yankees.
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Oct 11, 2014 13:53
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Hey guys, I just woke up from a 6 month coma. Who's winning the Red Sox/Yankees AL-.....
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Oct 11, 2014 14:17
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All posts on this web forum are good.
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Oct 11, 2014 14:45
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Pastrymancy posted:Is Kawalimus more insufferable when Baltimore sports teams perform well or poorly He's more tolerable when the Orioles aren't winning because he doesn't post.
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Groucho Marxist posted:All posts on this web forum are good. Way to break the streak.
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Oct 11, 2014 15:38
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Kawalimus posted:I know about sample sizes and all but it's still a bad sign. It's not really a sign at all
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Oct 11, 2014 15:44
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Imgur now lets you posts giant gifs e: the similarity to yankees fans.gif is unnverving
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Pastrymancy posted:Is Kawalimus more insufferable when Baltimore sports teams perform well or poorly When the Ravens won the Super Bowl, he was happier about seeing a cool bird earlier that day (to be fair, the bird looked really cool) and wanted the head coach fired I know this isn't playoff team news, but still had to share. Jonathan Papelbon was the guest on ESPN's College GameDay today  
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Oct 11, 2014 17:08
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I had a dream last night where Brandon Crawford died right before the game started. I blame poisonous satanic freddy krueger hallucination dreamworld magic by the Cardinals. And drugs.
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Oct 11, 2014 18:01
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Rah! posted:I had a dream last night where Brandon Crawford died right before the game started. I blame poisonous satanic freddy krueger hallucination dreamworld magic by the Cardinals. And drugs. That's, uh, ominous.
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Oct 11, 2014 18:12
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R.D. Mangles posted:Imgur now lets you posts giant gifs "Drop, BITCH!" Clearly.
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Oct 11, 2014 18:13
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R.D. Mangles posted:Imgur now lets you posts giant gifs Needs a massive gently caress YOU gently caress YOU gently caress YOU guy
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Oct 11, 2014 18:19
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Spoeank posted:Needs a massive gently caress YOU gently caress YOU gently caress YOU guy literally on the far right
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Oct 11, 2014 18:25
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That guy's hero is Jesse Pinkman.
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Oct 11, 2014 18:25
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The only thing missing is fathers teaching their sons the proper way to insult the other team.
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Oct 11, 2014 19:15
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Kawalimus is either a weirdo or a gimmick, please please please stop quoting him
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zakharov posted:Kawalimus is either a weirdo or a gimmick, please please please stop quoting him Kawalimus is pretty easy to understand: - He likes bird-watching and bird-discussing; - He is Chicken Little when it comes to his favorite sports teams; - He prefers impossible odds so that he can presume the loss is inevitable and any success is a happy surprise, whereas with reasonable odds a defeat would crush his spirit; - There is (unfortunately) no convincing him otherwise on points 2 and 3, but bird-chat is a fun read. OK, so baseball. Why is it that playoff stats are always broken up by round and not cumulative? I could understand showing both "current series" and "all postseason" stats, but splitting the Wild Card game from the NLDS from the NLCS from the WS is just baffling, everything is small sample size statistical noise.
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kalensc posted:Kawalimus is pretty easy to understand: Uhm... wow, yeah, what a... weirdo... glad I'm not like that at all.... heh... quote:OK, so baseball. Why is it that playoff stats are always broken up by round and not cumulative? I could understand showing both "current series" and "all postseason" stats, but splitting the Wild Card game from the NLDS from the NLCS from the WS is just baffling, everything is small sample size statistical noise. I agree. I'd prefer the stats reflect the whole season, with occasional mentions of specific splits when appropriate. For example, when the guy's up at the plate, tell me what he's done this year. But if there's a halfway decent reason, split it to paint a more interesting picture--if the bases are loaded, what are his career stats with bases loaded? If the player has been on a tear (or a slump) since the postseason began, show me his postseason-only stats. But on Gameday and everywhere else, I'm not a fan of the stats resetting after the season ends. I'm sure there's a wonderful reason they do this, but I'm not a fan. The sample size is often so small that mediocre hitters look like sluggers because they took 4 AB's against Detroit's bullpen or something.
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kalensc posted:OK, so baseball. Why is it that playoff stats are always broken up by round and not cumulative? I could understand showing both "current series" and "all postseason" stats, but splitting the Wild Card game from the NLDS from the NLCS from the WS is just baffling, everything is small sample size statistical noise. presumably so that you can build stupid narratives round-by-round
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 This movie was terrible, but terrible in the entertaining "Mortal Kombat" way, and not in the actually terrible "Mortal Kombat 2: Annihiliation" way. I would never say it's good, but I thought it was well worth the $12 and 90 minutes of my time. Apparently Dracula: Untold is the initial foray into a series of Avengers-esque movies, only using public domain heroes/legends/whatever. With that in mind, it makes sense that there's no attempt to tie Dracula back to any of Bram Stoker's source material. Really, the only thing that Dracula: Untold uses is this: there's a vampire, and he calls himself Dracula. And he doesn't even do that until the end of the movie. Dracula: Untold doesn't take itself too seriously--it knows it's an action movie, and any dramatic moments are done sort of in the 300 way--just poo poo to set up the next action set piece. The backstory gets out of the way pretty quickly. The Turks are a monstrously powerful empire and demand tribute from outlying territories. That includes Transylvania, where a young Prince Vlad is taken as a royal hostage as a small boy. The Turkish army conscripts young boys and turns them into 300-esque soulless fighting machines. Vlad becomes the strongest of these guys, earning the nickname "Vlad the Impaler" and eventually retires from the army and goes back to be Prince of Transylvania. I'm not sure where the King was the whole time or why Vlad doesn't become King. That's not explained. There's an old man in the movie that's kind of a dick to Vlad a lot; maybe that's his dad. But he's never referred to as such. Anyway, Vlad eventually marries and has an adorable little child who looks like (and actually may be) Rickon Walnutsbane from Game of Thrones. Everything is going swimmingly until he and his soldiers are on patrol and discover a spooky cave full of bats and crushed bone, and Vlad is the only survivor as a monster in the cave immediately attacks. Vlad decides to ignore the monster and celebrates Easter with his family, but then the Turks show up and are like "Hey, I know we've been offscreen for 20 years but we want money and also now we're conscripting dudes." Vlad tries to negotiate his way out of things but he can't, and upon realizing he'll have to give up his son and subject him to the same horrors he himself faced, he goes back to the cave where a vampire killed his friends. This time, instead of attacking, the vampire has a little talk with Vlad. The vampire, played by Charles Dance, is creepy as all hell and has a massive tongue that he licks Vlad with. Apparently Vlad tastes like a worthy successor, so he makes a deal: he'll give Vlad all his power, and if Vlad can go 72 hours without drinking human blood, he'll be restored to humanity. So Vlad has 72 hours to beat the poo poo out of the Turks. And that's sort of where the movie gets stupid. The movie follows its own rules up until that point, and Vlad seems like a pretty smart guy. But after a brief scene where he discovers his vampire powers (Predator Vision, Super Speed, Super Strength, turn into bats, healing), he doesn't immediately go and gently caress up all the Turks. Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense, since anytime Vlad's fighting Turks as a vampire, he's completely invincible. Absolutely wrecks their poo poo. Kills 1000 people in a pretty fun scene that reminded me of the burly brawl scene from the second Matrix. But Vlad is powerless by day, so you'd think he'd press his advantage. Rather than going to kill the Turkish leader, he tells his people to evacuate to a monastery, wasting a day. There's naturally a bunch of scenes of "the hero is suffering; he wants to drink blood and he uses the power of his silver wedding band to burn himself and remind himself of his humanity." You know he's gonna gently caress it up or there wouldn't be a Dracula. You also know he's not gonna gently caress it up until day 3. Anyway, because Vlad failed to press his advantage he's stuck in his tent in daylight during day 2 when his people are evacuating to a monastery. They get attacked, and one of his friends gets killed before Vlad's able to race out the minute the sun sets. Yet still he doesn't go and gently caress up the Turks. He's completely invulnerable but he does nothing other than yell at his men to ready their defenses. This, in spite of the fact he's been shown as capable of single-handedly defeating the entire Turkish army. But whatever. Day 3 starts and one of the priests at the monastery notices Vlad avoiding the daylight and realizes "Oh hey, the dude who can now kill thousands of Turks with no difficulty, but only by nightfall, is a vampire." He confronts Vlad, exposes him to daylight--and to the view of his people. Everyone declares him a monster and are a bunch of ungrateful dickheads. Eventually they decide "gently caress it; might as well work with the vampire," and decide to fight. Vlad goes into the bell tower of the monastery and discovers that he also has the power to control massive clouds of bats, and wrecks the poo poo of the Turkish vanguard by just battering them with enormous clouds of millions of bats. It's really pretty cool. But while all this is happening, the Turks have snuck some dudes into the city to take Vlad's son and hold him hostage. Vlad discovers this too late and there's a ridiculous scene of him trying to save his wife as she falls off the bell tower to her death. His wife tells Vlad to drink her blood, giving in to the monster, so that he can gain enough power to kill the remaining Turks and save their child. This also doesn't make a whole lot of sense since it's almost nightfall anyway, but at this point he's ravenous so he totally eats her and then has the power to control sunset. He returns to the monastery to find all his people slain, though some are still in the process of dying. He converts all of them into vampires and they go and beat the poo poo out of the Turks and eat them. Everyone in the theater burst out laughing at this point. There's a ridiculous scene where he fights the Turkish leader in a tent filled with like millions of silver coins so he's not at his strongest and his senses are overloaded. It's kind of like that scene at the end of Bloodsport where Van Damme gets sand in his eyes and he can't see Chong Li and he makes that ridiculous face and does the "I'm Van Damme and I'm blind" cry. Anyway, he eventually wins and eats the guy, and his son is saved. Except all the other vampires he created want to eat his son, too. So the priest comes in at the last minute (no idea how he survived), rescues the son, and then Vlad declares himself "Dracula, Son of the devil" and allows the sun to rise. This melts all the other vampires and mortally wounds Vlad-cum-Dracula. There's some weird sycophant guy that shows up and feeds the melty-lovely Dracula his own blood and restores him. Meanwhile, Dracula's son finds some not-dead Transylvanians to rule over and they have years of peace because the aggressive Turks are all dead. Then the movie has its most bizarre twist. Dracula's still alive! In the 21st century! And wears a really nice suit as he sees a woman who looks like his dead wife (it's the same actress.) He calls her m'lady and acts like a total creep but she somehow does not recognize him as a Redditor and seems intrigued. The two go off to have hot vampire sex or whatever, and then a restored Charles Dance is seen saying "Let the games begin," because apparently there's going to be more of these, and this was just the origin story to get Dracula into the modern day. All in all, a very stupid movie, but it was a lot of fun. Go Cardinals.
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Spectacular.
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Oct 12, 2014 00:45
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Kawalimus, my man, I'm so, so sorry for doubting you.
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Oct 12, 2014 01:28
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Go Cardinals. See I said a hundred times we face the Royals we're screwed and that's what happened. Kawalimus fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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Oct 12, 2014 01:30
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Kawalimus posted:Go Cardinals. You keep looking at stats and you keep going "how the gently caress" and you keep looking back in anger.
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Oct 12, 2014 01:35
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oh poo poo wrong thread
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Oct 12, 2014 01:36
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it continued being the wrong thread
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Oct 12, 2014 01:39
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Well Royals, if you close this out you drat well better win the World Series or you'll have me to answer to.
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Oct 12, 2014 01:55
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Thanks for making Dracula Untold told.
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This is an honest question, but who do you guys think is the worse broadcaster of the playoffs this year, Tbs or FOX/FS1? I'd have to say TBS only because Fox has the ability to broadcast on network TV. Aside from that in both commentary and interviews their pretty much equal in my eyes. That and TBS was wholly responsible for a delay in Game 1 of the ALCS.
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Tedd_Not_Ed posted:This is an honest question, but who do you guys think is the worse broadcaster of the playoffs this year, Tbs or FOX/FS1? FS1 missed several at bats that started and ended on the first pitch because they were busy talking about whatever bullshit they talk about I would rather see a game with dumb announcers than NOT see a game with any announcers
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