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rlawrencem.bsky.social @rlawrencem.bsky.social · 6h

Unfortunately, I suspect that so does Netflix.

rlawrencem.bsky.social @rlawrencem.bsky.social · 10h

Hopefully this doesn't come off too bluntly, but regarding the OP's original point/joke, don't lose sight of the fact that THE IRISHMAN is a Netflix original, while the Candy-Martin two-hander predates the company.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 12h

My great old history teacher (who you may have heard me speak about) showed us The Manchurian Candidate. This was the 90s, when all a 16yo knew of Angela Lansbury was Murder, She Wrote. Fair to say my head exploded.

rlawrencem.bsky.social @rlawrencem.bsky.social · 12h

Recently watched the original THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE not knowing she was in it - thought it was great, way less hokey than I expected, and she was a big part of why.

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rlawrencem.bsky.social @rlawrencem.bsky.social · 12h

Recently watched the original THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE not knowing she was in it - thought it was great, way less hokey than I expected, and she was a big part of why.

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Aaron Gleeman @aarongleeman.bsky.social · 1d

Matt Mikulski has been released by the Twins after posting an 8.44 ERA in six games for High-A Cedar Rapids.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 1d

This is a terrific interview. Anyone interested in acting should read it, & if you've seen the film you get a new appreciation for what a great actor Tighe is. They ended up not using a lot of his lines, but I think only because his face & body did the work.

Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 1d

Thought you’d want to look at this one: thereveal.film/interview-ke...

Interview: Kevin Tighe on ‘One Battle After Another’ and a great career on stage and screen

The great character actor talks about his return to the screen in 'One Battle After Another' and a half-century journey in the business.

thereveal.film

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rlawrencem.bsky.social @rlawrencem.bsky.social · 4d

He was! Especially when Dallas realized he wasn't a post-up threat! Did Partnow or I suggest otherwise? I just forgot he was finesse-based because I was an infant during his peak, and I don't think of him as gangly based on pictures.

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rlawrencem.bsky.social @rlawrencem.bsky.social · 4d

Okay, looking at his career games played, and most teams would KILL to have a solid center that healthy. (Please ignore Bradley's shot selection for the first half of his career.)

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JM =^) @jm539581.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, they had.

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rlawrencem.bsky.social @rlawrencem.bsky.social · 4d

Who are the precedents for this tall of skinny-ish, *finesse-ish* guy who's good enough to feasibly hang around past those first big athletic declines in the late 20s/early 30s? I've got Kareem (famously long career) and Porzingis (very much hampered but also not done yet).

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rlawrencem.bsky.social @rlawrencem.bsky.social · 4d

In a way, football is structurally designed for taunting. Every single time something good happens, the game literally stops.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

fun sports history: at the 1952 Olympics Dana Zátopková won the javelin right after her husband won the 5k. he joked at the press conference that he inspired her win, and she replied: "“Alright – go and inspire some other girl and see if she can throw fifty metres!”

www.olympics.com/en/news/zato...

Zátopková inspired by feats of husband to win javelin gold - Olympic News

Born on exactly the same day as her husband, Zátopková had excelled at a range of sports as a youngster, notably handball.

www.olympics.com

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rlawrencem.bsky.social @rlawrencem.bsky.social · 4d

I remember learning about Zatopek from watching VHS tapes about the Olympics that I rented from the library when I was a little kid. Him, Abebe Bikila, Paavo Nurmi, and the 1972 Olympic basketball final were probably all that I retained from that. But I had never heard of her - great story!

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 4d

The alt text 😭

HOWLiBOOt @halibut.bsky.social · 4d

Happy 13th Birthday to Existentialist Pumpkin

It’s a craft made by my oldest when she was three. I tore up construction paper pieces for her and she glued them on paper, forming the saddest fucking jack-o-lantern on earth.

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Cemetery Rozier 🎃🦇 @velodus.bsky.social · 4d

There's now a 25% chance we could get a World Series between the Seattle Mariners and the Brewers, who were originally the Seattle Pilots

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 5d

Cricket ass baseball play.

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 6d

Josh Naylor hits a 100 mph sinker to the wall with a sword 🤯

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rlawrencem.bsky.social @rlawrencem.bsky.social · 8d

I would say that there are exceptions if you're able to do it on movement or with a heavy contest at the Duncan Robinson/Malik Beasley end of the spectrum, but even those guys had some serious years of the wilderness. The rub with Hawkins specifically is that he hasn't even hit the shots.

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rlawrencem.bsky.social @rlawrencem.bsky.social · 9d

Depending on how this works, it might actually enable *more* upsets of the 15-2 variety because those 15 seeds will be better teams in almost every case. You just might not get to see quite as many Patriot League teams running a coaching clinic against a school most people have actually heard of.

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rlawrencem.bsky.social @rlawrencem.bsky.social · 9d

Teams that win an Opening Round game earn money for their conference for winning a game (although they would have to reach the Sweet 16 to get a second share or whatever they're called), so assuming that system isn't changed, it also redistributes more money to mid-majors.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 9d

There's a million-dollar mobile game to be made out of the job of line management at airports, by the way. Shortening and lengthening queues so that people are never hanging out in an unmanaged hallway space and never walking through useless empty queues.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 9d

Some things I've learned in my first few weeks:

1) There is a grey market candy swapping racket between janitors, TSA agents, CSRs, and everyone else who has to stand someplace all day at the airport.

Hi-chews, sour candies, and gummy anything are in highest demand.

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Lucas Seehafer PhD @seehafer.bsky.social · 11d

They also:

-Have their athletes focus on external cues (i.e. the defense, the rim, etc) rather than internal (i.e. how their legs feel)
-Provide positive feedback and more feedback on what the athletes did correctly versus what they did wrong

You'd be surprised how many coaches don't do this.

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Lucas Seehafer PhD @seehafer.bsky.social · 11d

The coaches who are best at developing their athletes employ significant randomness in their practices. Randomness mimics the competition environment.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11d

Andrew, explaining pop culture to our son: You see, there was a movie called Anchorman--
Our son, singing, not missing a beat: Anchorman, Anchorman / Does whatever an anchor can / Sinks to the bottom of the ocean / And sits theeeere
Me: Yeah, that's a better movie.

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rlawrencem.bsky.social @rlawrencem.bsky.social · 12d

Probably something cathartic, albeit nowhere near mainstream, about depicting the career of someone like Willie Green (mid-major college, comically bad NBA start, major injury, somehow gets enough chances to cement himself for a decade, all while playing next to AI) finally "sticking".