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Probably common knowledge among others, but I realized today that Bert Blyleven is one of only two HOFers who wasn’t born in the Americas and the first to be elected to the Hall (Ichiro of course being the other).

Seen it bouncing around the streaming services here, I will make sure to watch when it’s available again. As you said, I can’t ever recall going wrong with a Michael Keaton movie.

We watched Wicked Little Letters tonight and I haven’t enjoyed a movie as much in some time. Funny, bawdy, thoughtful and with a dash of intrigue. Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley were both wonderful in sparring roles.

Ope, this is a belated tip of the cap to you-earlier this week in the category of 2000+ hits/30 SB's, Clyde Milan was my man, assisting in my climb towards 1600 unique players, with a smooth .004% rarity score.

Again, the committee had a blatant oversight with the omission of "Senor Smoke" (the committee's attempt to procure this list hunched over the computer while wolfing down their lunch at work speaks to the limitations of multi-tasking). The committee doesn't feel they should bump anyone from the...

I was a bit surprised by the dearth of nicknames for the Twins over the years-Rat was definitely in consideration, but I recall him more as G-Man which is pretty lame. Herbie, Bruno, Kitty, Tony O are pretty pedestrian.

Definitely an oversight by the committee, but I don’t know who I would bump

You inspired me BTP--check out the Top 5 list. Dissent is encouraged.

Top 5 Twins' nicknames: 5. Frank "Sweet Music" Viola 4. Willians "Tortuga" Astudillo 3. Rich "El Guapo" Garces 2. Bombo Rivera (given name: Jesus Manuel) 1. Jim "Mudcat" Grant

I didn't phrase my original post very well-meant to say on the basis of just GWH and Bourne trilogy would be enough for a legendary career in my book. Add in Saving Private Ryan, The Informant!, The Martian, The Departed, True Grit, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ocean's 11. . . a hell of a career...

I got sucked into watching Good Will Hunting last night, once the kids went to sleep and let me tell you, it holds up and then some. It's hard to track in my mind that the movie was released nearly thirty years ago and to realize how that set off the careers of Damon and Affleck squared, plus...

I don't know if I responded to this back when you originally posted, but Ordinary People is indeed extraordinary (I couldn't help myself). I know over the years it's caught a good deal of grief for winning Best Picture over Raging Bull, but it's such a well done family drama and so wonderfully...

I just hope no one brought their daughters to the game tonight.

Slim, that you? 😉

Three Days of the Condor was a fabulous Cold War spy thriller with Redford in the lead.

I’m on your heels Ope, sitting at 1587. Aurelio Lopez was my All Star, I think from that juggernaut year of the ‘84 Tigers. I was also surprised by the number of All Stars and had totally blanked on Fernando being from Mexico. I was skating by on the skin of my teeth in that category today.

As I should have known, my big words came back to bite me in the ass for week 2. Allen, Henry, and Brown all underperformed and I chose to ride with Moore vs. Odunze for my second WR slot. Oh well, hopefully the dog in Allen/Henry's season arrived in Week 2 and isn't indicative of how the season...

Twins on the Grid today and without being too obvious about it, a current platoon situation is there for the taking.

I was able to achieve rarified air today-9 for 9 on unique players. My recent deep dives in the SABR project write ups really paid off (Fenwick is an interesting one-second MLB’er of Japanese heritage who played baseball at the “U” and made his home in northern MN where he was a county...

In 1961, Frank Funk won 11 games, lost 11 games and earned 11 saves for the Cleveland Indians.