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And traded for Gary Templeton! By transitive property, he was traded for the Wizard of Ozzie Smith 😉

I went back to a couple familiar wells: Mariners-John Moses (.5%) Mets-Tim Teufel (3%) 40 WAR-Jim Perry (slides on by with 41--0.3%) I was surprised that Teufel wasn't more of a rarity--next time these two teams come up, I'll need to remember who we received in the Teufel trade--Mr. Moneyball...

I'll throw out another more obscure name from the past, Pitt's Chevy Troutman. A wide body whose interior passing was sublime. I'm going to channel him for Mr. Vaihola.

I would LOVE a Golden Gopher version of Oliver Miller.

Regarding that final scene, I was right there with you-man, did I want him to hang out with his nephew , connect with his wife, come back into the fold-where movies tend to take us, the full on redemptive arc. But the way it closed, I thought it was perfect in its ambiguity and IMO, what brought...

I can agree with you (to a degree) on the caricature of their characters, but what caught me was the vulnerability of both—Eisenberg’s successful life, but desiring what his cousin has in the ability to connect and Culkin’s charm/big feelings translating to a driftless adulthood. I felt those...

Funny you posted this, as I was also bemused by the 200 hits category--in my head, it was something that used to happen often, particularly in the more free-swinging eras of the '60s to the '80s, but as you mentioned with the Giants, when you look post-WWII, there's only been four players who...

I watched A Real Pain last night and recency bias aside, it’s feeling like the best movie I’ve watched in a long time-even surpassing Sing Sing (which I greatly enjoyed). So many layers packed into a taut 90 minutes and the final shot of Caulkin in the airport was so…evocative? Haunting...

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I know we're talking about Shooter and I know that we're getting a touch into the weeds, but it would have been really nice to add a line that alludes to something like this: "it's very likely we won't see a resolution until after June 1, because that is when teams won't be affected in regards...

Prolific shooter from Davidson-I’m down with that.

I could have wrote a dissertation on the subject, but that would go against the whole ethos of the field of study.

Twins on the Grid today, I went with: Portugal, the Man (.7%) "El Tiante" (1%) Eric Soderholm (.6%)

Strange grid today, with the only criteria for all nine squares being “played in MLB”. I went obscurity hunting from the Twins archives and ended up with a score of 0%. Twins used: Vic Albert, Mark Funderburk, Craig Kusick, Terry Bulling, Pete Redfern, Andre David, Rick Sofield, Hosken...

Hollins and Hollins

It’s a fool’s game to project in March, before the tournament has ended, the standings of any conference, when the make-up of teams are totally in flux. Not only the portal but NBA draft declarations (that always include surprises) will shift rosters unexpectedly. Plus we’re already seeing...

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A great point guard for SDSU back in the day too, earning All-WAC honors in both sports. Found this snippet on his Wikipedia page: By the following season in 1979, Gwynn still had not heard from Aztecs baseballcoach Jim Dietz about joining the team after the basketball season.[39] However, an...