When NBC's Smash first debuted last season, I was immediately intrigued. I'm a theater geek, and I loved the idea of a TV show that followed the ups and downs of Broadway. Sure, I had concerns that maybe one of the show's big stars, former American Idol runner up Katherine McPhee, might be a bit too wooden and one-dimensional, but I gave it a go.
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"There are four kinds of people who join the military.
"Family business. Patriots. Guys who just need a job. And then there are the ones who want a legal way to kill human beings." -- Tom Cruise
LrKrBoi29 will come up with six exceptions, but that gets our arms around it, Tom. -- Dr D.
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There are basically four kinds of pitchers who walk 1+ men per nine innings:
Groundballers. SSI follows on Bill James in discriminating against this interest group. They are analogous to "Soldiers who just needed a job." Braden Looper, Jeff Suppan, Nick Blackburn. Although Suppan walks guys every now and again. Joel Piniero after he left the M's.
Gopheritis vic's. On 3-1, they just huck it in there and let you do your worst. These parallel the "Airmen who follow their dads into the service," because nobody questions their courage, although a few of their fellow Airmen might occasionally question their minds. Tommy Hunter, Rodrigo Lopez, Bronson Arroyo, Josh Tomlin.
With just weeks to go now until the 85th Annual Academy Awards, I'm finally beginning to get a clear picture of the film I believe will win the coveted Best Picture Oscar. Trust me when I say I've agonized over my personal choices, because honestly, 2012 was a great year for film in general. Each of the Best Picture nominees is an outstanding cinematic achievement. But I'm putting my personal feelings aside now, and trying to look at the cold hard facts on this one.
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and the single folks out there may be looking to set something up before it’s too late. Rather than heading down to the local bar and sitting in the corner until you find someone desperate looking enough to pounce on, why not try the fancy, high-tech world of the Internet? What’s that you say? Not had any luck over at OkCupid or eHarmony? The only members of the opposite sex who will speak with you just don’t have that special something that you need? Well, if you happen to be one of those people that have special enough needs, you’ll be happy to hea
I am a HUGE fan of the Golden Girls. I always have been.
For those who enjoy smoking, Indonesia is even more of a paradise with cheap cigarettes and no restrictions on the activity. For those who aren't very fond of the habit, the incessant smoking of locals and tourists alike puts a bit of a damper on a trip to Indonesia. Smoky buildings, flickering red dots in the night and stale smells taint an otherwise beautiful destination.
Hopefully, by now, we’ve all seen the movie “Cool Runnings.” Hopefully we can all laugh at a good, “Sanka, ya dead man?” joke and pump ourselves up by starring in the mirror and repeating the lines, “I see pride, I see power, I see a badass mutha, who don’t take no crap off of nobody.” If not, watch the film, then read this article. In an interesting turn of events, world class 100-meter hurdler Lolo Jones not only made the U.S. bobsled team, but also helped lead them to a gold medal this past weekend.
It’s an argument that’s popular among atheists when they’re making an attack directed against religion - that the very presence of religion has caused countless acts of violence over the years. And while it can not be denied that there have been plenty of violent acts taken in the name of nearly every known faith, personally I think there’s a bigger point to be made here than just using the connection between religion and violence to form an attack on those who choose to cling to faith.
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Count me in the camp that initially didn't understand why JZ exchanged Jaso for Morse. The conversation here at SSI has changed my mind and here are the main reasons.
Let's go along with the idea that Jaso is one of your best hitters in 2013, meaning you bat him 3rd in the lineup. Well, what happens when your prime hitter has an obvious achilles heel? If you rely on Jaso in the later innings (implicit with the assumption he is one of your best hitters), you have to accept that he is going to be facing a lot of LH specialist relievers in key situations. Why would you construct a team with such an easily exploitable flaw?
This is a very large, very basic light bulb that had never been on for me before.
Let's say that Ken Griffey Jr. had been a career .179 hitter against lefties. This would have made it just about impossible for him to hit in the 3 hole. The guys on the bench would have been going, "Sure, he's fine in the fifth inning. But in the seventh inning they just knock him over with their LOOGY."
I was always very fond of batters with huge platoon splits, but it suddenly dawns that these kinds of guys have mostly just been pinch-hitters in the big leagues. I never thought of a platoon hitter as a six-inning player, but now I do.
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Today we celebrate one of the most inspiring men of the 20th century, Martin Luther King, Jr. Beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 until he was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, MLK was a fearless leader who fought for racial justice.
