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Saw it on Sunday, and nothing in it really struck a chord. Battle scenes were cool, but unless you are familiar with the battle it is just chaos and most won't know the significance of what's happening. It glosses over critical details, invests heavily in material that likely should have been peripheral, and has all the excitement of a documentary. It just skips the surface and was pretty unsatisfying if you know much about the battle. There was more time dedicated to John Ford being on Midway during the battle than there was to the Japanese counterattack that sunk the Yorktown. Or, that the fourth Japanese carrier (Hiryu) was sunk by Yorktown planes flying from Lexington and Hornet. I had an uncle that graduated from Annapolis and was stationed on the Enterprise when WWII started. He didn't talk about it much, but once we were sitting together in a duck blind near Port O'Connor and he told me about coming into Pearl Harbor at night after the attack. The island was blacked-out but it was as clear as day because of the fires. To navigate the channel to the harbor he was assigned to take a lantern to the bow and watch for buoys, and waive it when he saw one. That's the most I heard him say about it. He never talked about Midway and only after he died and the internet arrived with its access to information did we learn that he had been in charge of a sector off of Makuti Island (PT-171) when PT-109 was sunk.
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I laughed at Jared's biological parents piling on, and thought their final line about his presentation being "underwhelming" was lough-out-loud funny. Jared's Biological Parents The rest of the show was a waste of time.
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Care to guess which one was a former prosecutor in the SDNY? It's not the one reading from a script or asking questions he doesn't already know the answers to.
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you rang?
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Every article or item I've read said that it didn't occur, if it occurred at all, during the postseason. "rumored?" The Red Sox were stone cold busted.
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Oh, so the escalator is for fans going to the baseball game?
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Thru 2-episodes. Was hoping the assassin would ask for "a name, any name," and be forced to swear by the seven New Gods and the Old Gods beyond counting. So far, so good.
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Aggy gets Jimbo. FSU gets Stoops. Difficult to find the winner here.
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2019 commit RB TY Jordan [Passed away page 5 for latest]
Saint Tacky replied to Machinator's topic in Football
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2019 World Series: Houston Astros vs. Washington Nationals
Saint Tacky replied to elfenix's topic in Baseball
This is the least of my complaints about Joe Buck because I have zero problem with natural sound and I don't need gimmicky catch phrases or a signature call. The primary reason Gene Elston was fired by Drayton McLane in 1986 was for simply uttering "There it is!" and then allowing Glenn Davis to run to the bag and seal Mike Scott's no-hitter while the crowd screamed and the players jumped. Contrast Elston's call with Milo Hamilton's screeching throughout Hank Aaron's 715th home-run trot and I'll settle for something in between. IMHO Milo spoiled Hank Aaron's 715th home run by screaming as Aaron went all the way around the bases. If he had just STFU after "..and its Henry Aaron," and let the event play out I could stomach it. Instead, I prefer Vin Scully's or Curt Gowdy's calls of the same home run. Particularly Scully. Hank Aaron-715th Home Run - Three Different Calls But, Drayton wanted screaming and gimmicky catch phrases, so he went with the polar opposite of Elston by hiring Milo. Yelling and ego-maniacal to a fault. Just not my taste.* But, there was one other Astros announcer that would talk non-stop during a game and that was Bill Brown. Brown was very knowledgeable, and he's a nice guy, but he could not tolerate so much as three-seconds of dead air without speaking, and therefore spoke incessantly. He knew his stuff, but Brown called television like it was radio and it was annoying. * ironically I will always utter or think "gotta go get-em Astros!" a la Milo when they head to the 9th on the short end of the score. -
Soto had the ball in hand and was wheeling around to throw when Reddick was still 3 to 5 strides from third-base. Only a terrible relay would have saved him. Besides, with Altuve coming up Pettis was wagering that Reddick was going to score anyway. They can be reviewed. But, Altuve was brushed on the jersey in DC and it was clear as day on the replay. He didn't raise a stink, it wasn't reviewed, and he popped out.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
Saint Tacky replied to Neonmoon's topic in Football
I cannot recall a moment that notion ever crossed my mind. Dump DeLoss and Flush the John. -
One of the greatest, Willie Brown, has died
Saint Tacky replied to PittsburghTiger's topic in Football
First Cliff Branch and now "Old Man Willie Brown." Damn. The Raiders stopped being my team when they moved to Los Angeles, but these players never stopped being Oakland Raiders to me. RIP. -
Off topic, but Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" is a raw and gritty look at the AIDS crisis in New York in the 80s. I saw it on Broadway when it re-debuted in 2011. It's intense and heartbreaking, and I just felt like I had seen something really important. HBO picked it up and did a movie several years later that is extremely graphic, but it captures the terror, uncertainty, and the helplessness that whole community was experiencing. It's not an emotional pick-me-up either.
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Do as you please with pitch clocks but until MLB puts a halt to the networks trying to cram each half-inning with as many commercials as possible, the games will continue to get longer. Especially the playoffs when they know more people are watching. I realize that more commercials means more revenue, but more commercials means longer games and ultimately less eyeballs. A balance needs to be struck somewhere.
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I binged the Pacific again over last weekend. I appreciate it more every time I see it. As someone mentioned above it suffers next to BOB because of the format. There's just not as much detail about the men, and I believe all but two of the primary characters were deceased when it was filmed. Some of it may have also had to do with the type of warfare in the Pacific. It's raw and they don't romanticize or dilute it; but, once I sorted the characters out and did a little research on them myself, I really became invested in them and I like it just as much as BOB, but for entirely different reasons.
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Kid should bring that shotgun to BCS. Plenty of time and opportunities to hone his shooting skills on Mond's deep throws. Cheaper than shooting skeet at a range too. Quack.
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Downtown. Which was also news to Bob Lanier and the city. Yes! Which is how the scoreboard in the Dome met its demise. Every time I see the home run display at Minute Maid it reminds me of that scoreboard in the Astrodome. Dome Scoreboard
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Lucky sperm club. Her brother was tabbed to be the successor a long, long time ago. But, he offed himself at the family farm back in the mid-80s so she gets the team by default. Consider the source didn't fall far from the tree. I remembered a good Bud Adams story yesterday. In the midst of haggling with the City of Houston over the Astrodome Bud called a press conference to announce that he and Les Alexander (Rockets' owner) were joining forces to fund and build a multi-purpose covered stadium to be used by both franchises. He presented a scale model of a domed stadium and wheezed on and on about finances and the relationship with Alexander and the Rockets. We called the Rockets and they had no idea what the hell Bud was talking about, but deferred to Alexander. When we finally got Alexander on the phone he told us that this domed stadium and partnership was all news to him and that he had not spoken to Bud, and further, the Rockets would not be interested in a multi-purpose facility to replace the Summit (basketball only). Liar, Liar Pants on Fire
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Bob Allen and Earl were good buddies from the "Luv Ya Blue" era. For the 10-year anniversary of the Renfro/Pittsburgh fiasco we ran around and interviewed a bunch of players and coaches from the team. I remember we were interviewing Earl and I recall he enjoyed hearing that a buddy of mine lived across the street from him on Candle Lane in Southwest Houston and that no one believes me when I tell them that Earl used to mow his own yard. Anyway, Bob was talking to Earl about Tim Wilson, his former fullback. Tim had some off the field issues and they were fairly well known by then. Earl started talking about vices and drugs/alcohol. Off the cuff Bob blurted out"what's your vice, Earl?" Without pause Earl simply gave a one-word reply referencing a part of female anatomy. Without being told I copied the video to another tape, left out that answer, and destroyed the original. Earl was family to Bob. There's a picture out there somewhere of Earl running into Bevo when he was at Texas. Well, Earl didn't actually run into Bevo. He ran into Buz Webb, who was a photographer for KHOU -11 at the time and our photographer for all my years at KTRK. The momentum carried Buz into Bevo. I remember Earl and Buz laughing about that every time I saw them together. Buz claimed Earl got all the accolades and that he took the worst of both Earl and Bevo, and that he preferred being hit by Bevo.
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I will, or I should. My memory of that Bills loss is much different than most of us here. By then it was a job and a story. A sad story, but it was work. My one big recollection of that day was our weekend news anchor, Bob Boudreux, running up and down the hallway screaming about the "dogshit Oilers!" Tim Melton locked our office door so Boudreaux couldn't get in because Bob (who is a pretty intense dude anyway) was just bouncing off the walls, screaming, kicking and pounding at everything. He had already trashed his office and was banging on our door and Tim told him to "go away. We were busy." Boudreaux tried to break our door down. So, my memory of that day is Boudreaux screaming outside our office while I was editing and handing my tapes to the intern after he had crawled through the window to avoid Boudreaux. Also, our news producer made me put together a video for the close of the 10 pm. cast that night using the Mariah Carey song "Don't Want to Cry." That song would instantaneously dredge up memories of that day. Good times.
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Too many to tell. When I was a producer at KTRK-13 I would go to the Oiler practice facility a couple of times a week during the season. Some memories include Jeff Alm pretending he was going to drive his Cadillac into the group of reporters/photogs interviewing Jack Pardee in the parking lot. Did a big fish-tail and sped off. He died right after that (I saw the autopsy report, so don't bother). I remember Ian Howfield crying after he got cut for missing a chip-shot in Washington. Saw Buddy Ryan and Kevin Gilbride's first altercation. Ray Childress got me kicked out of the facility one time for telling PR guy Chip Namias that I had told Ray to tell Chip to "get Jack's ass out here because was tired of waiting for him." Actually collected on a bet with Cody Carlson I had made several years before when he was at Baylor. We were at the same black-tie sorority event in Waco when he was quarterback there and I was a pup at Texas. He was trash talking at dinner and I had finally had enough. We bet on the Texas-BU game that year, and he actually remembered it when I brought it up later and paid up. I produced Ray Childress' show, and we also had Ernest Givins in studio every Sunday night after home games. They were both good dudes to work with, though Ray's wife (a UT Tri-Delt) was more pleasant to be around. Also did some of the "Off the Field" material and would go along to the players' homes to shoot interviews and b-roll. Bruce Matthews, Mike Munchak, Chris Dishman. When we would go over to the APC and would see Bud Adams' he would always say the same thing to Bob Allen every, single, time. "Hey, Allen. What marriage are you on now?" Then he would cackle as if it was the first time he ever said it. Adams had to have been the inspiration for the Judge in "The Natural." His office was in the basement of the APC, with no natural sunlight and the lights were always dim. I will also take partial credit in getting Jerry Glanville fired. The day after they lost to the Steelers in the playoffs I was sitting in the office while Bob was doing the six-o'clock and a guy calls from Intercontinental Airport to tell me that Glanville is sitting out there waiting on a flight to Atlanta. Within an hour I had a crew from our Atlanta affiliate on the way to the airport there, but only after Bob got on the phone and screamed at their anchor. That guy would not believe that the Falcons would interview, much less hire Glanville. He refused, but eventually caved. Glanville's face getting off the plane was priceless. He was caught and he knew it. We got the video via satellite about 10-minutes to 10 p.m., and Glanville had made the comment to the effect of he was happy to be there "because if you're not sleeping in Atlanta, you're just camping out." Bob was livid. He called Bud and played it for him over the phone and then went onset and just winged a 2-minute rant on what a piece of shit Glanville was and how he had dissed Houston, the Oilers, errybody. They fired Glanville the next day (or, had a mutual parting of the ways). Last story. After the Chiefs/Montana playoff loss I got fired for a couple of days. The station was being remodeled and the sports department was outside in a trailer. I had told the security guard to make sure the west side door by the heli-pad was unlocked so I could tapes to playback in time. About 5-minutes before Tim Melton (my favorite guy) went on at 10 p.m. I ran out of the trailer with ALL my tapes. Highlights Post-game. Everything. And, the door was locked. No one was coming. No one was answering the phone. So, I sat down on my ass and kicked in the bottom glass panel in and crawled through. Otherwise, our whole Sunday sportscast would have been Tim tap-dancing for five-minutes. The next day they brought me into the station manager's office, showed me the security tape, and fired me. On Wednesday Bob Allen (RIP) called me and told me to "get back here." I don't know what or how, but he and Tim went to bat for me. Two of the best human beings you could ever hope to meet.
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Just get him some runs and let him do his thing.
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Confucius say man who finger girl while she's on her period get caught red-handed.
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Art Briles: New Head Coach of Mount Vernon High School in Texas
Saint Tacky replied to Landomatic's topic in Football
I didn't say he was a "dumbass." I posted that I was repeating what I was told by people that had left the game. I didn't give enough of a sh*t to research it. Thanks for your misinterpretation though.
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