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Too true. Cheers Moderators!

Just... Wow! Never saw this coming before the season started. Congrats Twins! Sidenote thanks to everyone who's a part of TD... Owners, mods, members. I'd be a Twins fan regardless, but it is so much more fun being a Twins fan with this wonderful place to follow the team.

7 perfect innings, so 97 pitches by 21 batters is ~4.6 pitches per batter. That's amazing to me to average that many pitches and still be perfect. Were they fouling off pitches like mad in the game?

Well you just answered one of my questions that I meant to go looking for. I was wondering who that kid was, I knew there had to be something I was just not thinking clearly at that point of the movie. Thank you.

We actually have a vacation to Europe already planned for this summer (plane tickets and hotels are already booked/purchased). Paris was one of our stops and Notre Dame was likely to be on the itinerary and obviously that's not going to happen now. Disappointed for us obviously, but devastated for people to whom it is much more than just a site to visit on vacation.

Just took my son (12 going on 13) to 'Jumanji' this weekend and it was fun. I think Kevin Hart/The Rock falls in his wheelhouse for humor, he watched 'The Agency' on a plane ride a year or so back and was giggling the entire time, so when the trailers for 'Jumanji' came out I knew we were going to it.

I wanted to sort of re-emphasize this. Some of the posts people generate in the forum comments are huge and could easily be a blog post. I have I think 3 blogs entries from long ago that were started as replies to something in the forums, but when I realized how huge they were becoming I figured turning them into a mostly non-serious blog post was better. I think it's fairly clear most are more interested in the conversations in the forums, but there's a lot of potential for people to just make that forum reply they spent 10 minutes typing up into a blog without much more effort. It's up to the site to figure out how to make that as "rewarding" to the writer as the forum comment, though.

Nick Punto has to be joining as first base coach. Somebody had to say it...

A 10-year run as manager of the Yankees is pretty impressive, honestly. I could see why both he and the team would be ready to try something else, though.

Without Sano and Santana the season is done early again. Ultimately Santana is the only one who played consistently well all season so I'm going with him. You can pick any of the bunch being mentioned regularly in the thread as they're all deserving in their own way and I won't argue, but Santana is my pick.

Mauer's HOF chances are greatly dependent now on how much longer he decides to play and at what level (like everyone else, I suppose). If he plays another 4-5 years with offensive numbers similar to this year (as I write this he's got a .306/.384/.423/.804 line for a 116 OPS+ which are close to his career averages, and he'll probably finish with around 160-165 hits), and also picks up a couple Gold Gloves, he's probably going to have a pretty good chance. If he hangs it up after his contract runs out after next year, I don't like his chances. Either way, he's probably got a better case than Mattingly due to virtue of how good he was when he played catcher. It'll be interesting to see how the voting goes when he is finally eligible.

Worst speaker of the bunch by a large margin, but still Smalley. Most informative and he actually seems to be able to communicate something he sees to the viewer. Bert's been mailing in the same performance for years now, Morris doesn't really add anything special, and Torii is a little too jokey/jolly. I'm curious about LaTroy, I liked him in the only game I watched with him though it was obvious he was very new to the whole thing, but he has potential.

One of my favorite things in baseball, when the batter starts jumping back cause he's afraid of getting hit, and the ball bends in for a strike instead.

They managed to make Danny Rand mostly unlikeable. That doesn't work out so well for a show where he's the main character. Kinda like Dr. Strange (the movie, no clue about the comics), except much less coolness around the learning how to do the superhero thing. There was a kinda funny article on Mashable.com (too lazy to look it up right now) about how Ward Meachum was the real "hero" of the show, being the most relatable character really (not counting the whole running a multi-billion dollar company) and Danny Rand was mostly a stalker for the first couple episodes. But of course I still watched the whole season. It felt like it was finally building to the point where it was going to be fun, but it took too long to get there. I'm not sure it'll get another season, but I could easily see that being better than this one as they don't have to slog through as much Danny character-building that doesn't show him in a great light but could move right into the Danny working at being the hero (and hopefully less destructive to his company).

I'm a big fan of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher so I'm always looking for more like that, Urban Fantasy. Not the stuff that's become so prevalent of late, which I term Paranormal Romance (tough girls falling for the vampire/werewolf/angel/etc...), which seems to be proliferating at an extreme rate so that it drowns out the stuff I'm looking for. My sister turned me onto a series which I just finished rereading along with a new book which came out end of January that is definitely in the right vein. The "Rivers of London" series (or possibly Peter Grant series after the main character) by Ben Aaronovitch is excellent stuff. Aside from trying to figure out British terms for stuff (apparently a jumper is a pullover sweater...).