Heretic

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On Jan 18, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "2020 MLB Thread" at 01:51 pm

  • I'm not as vocally pissed about the Astros as some on here, mainly because my team wasn't one that can credibly say they got fucked over by them, but do feel the Astros are trash for this shit. One thing to be stealing signs and stuff (gamesmanship forever!), but to go to this level is pretty insane. But, overall, I'd say I'm more annoyed by Manfred's lame response more than anything, which basically resulted in a few managers/execs suspended and then fired for either their roles or simply not doing anything to stop the players from pulling this off, while the only player who got any punishment is the player who moved on to managing (Beltran) and the team got to keep its championship and accolades. And then, to make it even more pathetic, dude tried to impose what is essentially a gag order on all the other franchises to not voice opinions on the matter.

    Talking about a very, very high $$$ business here. Things like roids and now this are pretty good indicators that a lot of players are willing to gamble that they can sneak outside the rules, at least long enough to get their share of that money AND with a case like this, to get rings in a scenario that would have been executed flawlessly if a former pitcher didn't snitch. And let's be real, if you're a player and you see that your whole clubhouse can get in on a high-tech cheating  plan, possible ride it to a title and while league-mandated consequences might be faced by someone, it's not going to be you, well, there's a lot more money in being a dishonest winner than a honest loser.

    I will admit to being really interested in what happens when a team decides to take "discipline" into their own hands, which I think is pretty obvious will happen at some point due to how they all got a free pass from the league. Everyone is really digging into that clip of Altuve telling his teammates to not rip at his jersey under the assumption he didn't want it ripped due to it concealing some sort of communication set-up. So, what happens when he inevitably gets blasted by an "errant" fastball?

On Jan 17, 2020:

  • Heretic repped a post in "Progressives, part 3..." at 11:29 am
  • posted by ptown_trojans_1

    Yeah on the GAO. The GAO reports are usually used by the opposing party to state how they do not like what the Executive Branch is doing. That said, the GAO has blasted almost every President.

    I'm starting to like the GAO.  ;)

  • Heretic replied to "2020 MLB Thread" at 11:26 am

  • Fun Fact about Carlos Beltran:  He managed the Mets in two different decades, yet never won a game.

On Jan 14, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 06:23 pm
  • posted by O-Trap

    Okay, I'll rephrase:

    The sum total of the writers for NPR work out to about as much of a wash as any outlet.  A good case could be made for Bloomberg, C-SPAN, WSJ, and probably a few others, too, but generally NPR is fair overall.

    Obviously, there are hacks with an axe to grind at every source.

    One could also play the "consider the source" game with the dude commenting so that you had to rephrase. The guy who hasn't met a right-wing talking point blog he doesn't love as much as life itself to the degree he's conditioned himself to believe they are the only true fact-presenters and everyone else offers nothing but bias. If it isn't free PR for hard-core conservatives, it's not legit to him.

  • Heretic replied to "National Championship Thread" at 12:47 pm
  • posted by wildcats20

    OBJ giving $100 handshakes to LSU receivers after the game. Not a good look. 

    I love anything where people are just showing utter contempt to the NCAA's stupid rules. The more people clown them openly, the better.

On Jan 13, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "The WTF thread..." at 06:01 pm

  • I can honestly say I'd start watching those music/singing/talent contest shows if more of them had animal attacks as integral parts of performances. Just think of how much more entertaining The Voice would be if contestants had to belt out their song while fending off a starving wolf out for blood!

On Jan 11, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "NFL Playoff Pick’em" at 11:29 am

  • Titans @ Ravens -9.5 (4 points)

    Texans @ Chiefs -8.5 (6 points)

    Seattle @ Packers -4.5 (7 points)

    Vikings @ 49ers -6.5 (5 points)

  • Heretic created thread "THE 2020 Pittsburgh Pirates Thread of Infinite Sadness" at 11:26 am

  • As we prepare to enter a new year with a team that changed its manager and front office in the off-season to legitimate applause by me...and then has spent the duration of the time afterward seemingly operating under the hypothesis that doing that is easily going to be enough TO! CHANGE! EVERYTHING!, I want you all to read this snippet from mlb trade rumors, as it's the perfect capsule version of just how depressing everything is. Both in the names of the possible 3B signings (low-power utility guy Brock Holt! Todd Frazier and his "some power, not much else" bat!) and in the fact that our incumbent was no more than replacement-level caliber in over 500 FUCKING AT BATS.

    The Pirates have shown “at least modest interest in the third-base market,” Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes. It seems adding a stopgap to help serve as a bridge to the Ke’Bryan Hayes era is possible. Speculatively, the likes of Brock Holt (a former Pirate whom new general manager Ben Cherington knows from Boston), Todd Frazier, Matt Duffy and Logan Forsythe are among the types who could interest Pittsburgh. But at least a couple of those players were no better in 2019 than incumbent starter Colin Moran, who was merely a replacement-level player across 503 plate appearances.

On Jan 10, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "Browns Regular Season 2019 Season | Season of Dreams" at 10:00 pm
  • posted by BR1986FB

    Yep, agree with both of you. If Moneyball's opinion overrules (with Haslam) the smart bet, we're doomed as fans and this team will never field a winner. McDaniel's is the obvious choice but it sounds like the sticking point is that he wants "total roster power" and that point is "non-negotiable." We'll see if either side caves but if the leaks that Daboll is a top candidate are true, they might as well have just stuck with Kentucky Fried Freddie.

    I don't know I'm the biggest fan of "give the coach all the power", but I also read here that (I think) you guys were saying that Haslem's preferred power structure is the coach can pick his GM, but both have to answer to him. And I would prefer the coach having all the power than the owner having it, simply because when I think of NFL owners who want to have the final word on everything, the two franchises that come to mind are Washington (dysfunctional laughing stock from top to bottom because Snyder is a grade A moron) and Dallas (the franchise that has all the advantages due to TV giving them national exposure and verbal blowjobs constantly, but have had a comparable amount of success to fucking Cincinnati over the past decade or two to show for it because Jones might have had his shit together in the 90s, but comes off as a senile drunk nowadays). And Haslem hasn't done much of anything to show he's much (if any) better.

  • Heretic replied to "2020 Dead Pool" at 06:57 pm
  • posted by BR1986FB

    RIP Neil Peart and my 10 year old cat Bella (just got back from putting her down)

    Sorry to hear about your cat. My last one (at least for the immediate future) passed early in '18 and I'm still a bit bummed about that.

    And a definite bummer about Peart. Was having dinner with a couple friends tonight and found out. Had to do a shot in his name.

On Jan 9, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "Impressed by the Trump administration part II" at 04:54 pm
  • posted by Spock

    Yeah it takes years for these companies to pull the trigger when the time is right.  Trump has made that time right.  If Hiliary was Prez they wouldnt be happening.  Thanks for making my point.

     

    posted by O-Trap

    So, can you explain the companies that pulled the trigger under Obama's policies?

    Also, you completely missed his point.  Many of the things that are coming about "broke ground" when Obama was around, and his policies were in place.


    Just here to LOL at CC being CC.

     

     

  • Heretic replied to "Browns/Bengals fandom a medical condition?" at 11:36 am

  • All you have to do is read the Browns' thread from beginning to end during the average season and you'll know that's the case.

    I can't really say the same about the Bengals because I don't know if they even have enough fans to provide any sort of legit sample size.

On Jan 6, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "Impressed by the Trump administration part II" at 11:45 am
  • posted by jmog

    Ah, the tried and true liberal talking point that all the problems economically during Obama's presidency were Bush's fault, and everything working well now is due to Obama's changes. I mean "it takes a long time for policies to take effect" right?

     

    Is there some delay in changes in laws/policies before they take effect on the economy? Absolutely.

     

    Does it take 4-8 years like the democrats/liberals want everyone to believe? No.

    Well, except for how he didn't say any of that, yeah.

On Jan 4, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "NFL 2019 season playoffs" at 05:30 pm

  • FUN FACT: "Booger" is trending on Twitter solely due to football fans utterly savaging his commentating skills and/or the fact that after waiting an entire season for playoff football, the Booger/Tess combo is getting it started.

  • Heretic replied to "Buckle up for war, fellas...what happens next?" at 12:54 pm
  • posted by O-Trap

    It's funny the reaction you get when you point out where Republicans skirt the Constitution.

    Also, fucking hell, Spock.  I've not seen logical gymnastics like this in awhile.

     

    So, we have one opinion on this thread that basically says that because Trump and Congress aren't on the same page, he is in the right to completely ignore all that "checks and balances" protocol and just do what he wants on a military level without even consulting them. And we have another opinion that has provided an all-time great "move the goalposts" argument that, so far, has gone from:

    He'd been previously named a terrorist by Obama, so this is MY GUY finishing the job he couldn't do!

    No, dude, Trump was the one who named him the terrorist...

    DOES IT MATTER WHO SAID HE WAS A TERRORIST!?!??!

    Well, you're the one who brought it up to say that he's been long considered one...

    WHO CARES!!???!?! He's a bad person with power in a bad country!!!!!

     

    About on the same level as when the whole "where are the WMDs?" question concerning Iraq was going around, with how it also seemed that it was other countries and groups behind 9/11. I was kind of amused at how quickly the vibe went from "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! Terror is one the run!!!!" to "Well...uh...look at all the happy faces of those people we freed from a dictator!!!" as if our actual goal in the whole proceedings was to blow off us getting attacked to simply help the common folk in an unrelated company.

    Always entertaining to watch the "look at these stupid progressives" people essentially self-owning themselves to illustrate they're no better when it comes to their own fabricated justifications.

  • Heretic replied to "Impressed by the Trump administration part II" at 12:42 pm
  • posted by iclfan2

    I tend to disagree with this, as most people were glad Bin Laden was killed, regardless of party (doubtful they gave Obama the credit, I'll give you that). A lot of the left crying about this guy getting killed though. 

    I'm not really sure what you're disagreeing with, since the part in parenthesis where you are kind of agreeing with me is basically the main point I was saying, with the other one being that this particular killing will get every moron on both sides out of the woodwork to give their idiotic takes on things. With you seeming to disagree with a point that exists more in your brain than in anything I typed.

On Jan 3, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "Impressed by the Trump administration part II" at 01:13 pm
  • posted by Spock

    Dont mess with the US under Trump.  Wonder how many times we could have got this guy under Obama?

    Yay! Another round of Middle East conflict to the delight of no one besides mouth-breathing idiots and dipshits who jack off to any chance we have to flex military muscle. And all the blind partisan commentary that will provide for both sides of morons, such as this. Because I have a sneaking suspicion that a few years ago, CC did not say "Dont mess with the US under Obama. Wonder how many times we could have got this guy under Bush?" when Bin Laden got whacked.

On Jan 2, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "Random TV Thread" at 06:30 pm

  • I'm back to working my way through the episodes of MST3K again. Since it was a TV show and I'm watching it on my TV (through YouTube), I say it counts!

    A few days ago, got to where Mike replaces Joel as the main guy. And last night, came to a realization that this show is a big part of the reason I enjoy watching micro-budget shitty horror films WAY more than a person should. I'll be watching those and having an internal monologue going on that really resembles what Joel/Mike and the Bots are saying out loud during their films. I was watching the Teenage Strangler episode where that movie was made in Huntington, West Virginia and was basically amateur hour where most of the people in it had no acting experience and it showed in a big way with a couple of them. It was basically an older version of some of the micro-budget stuff I've watched, which made the episode even more hilarious for me.