Poll of the Day > Sports Discussion Topic #166: Four Months Until Spring Training

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Yuli Gurriels hair is fucking ridiculous.

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Lmao Puig

What the fuck was the first base coach doing? Tell him to go to second

I had a totally not clever but relevant idea for a title but you beat me to making a topic

It was Super Mario World Series

I'm surprised that PotD had nearly 20 minutes to snip a 500 and they didn't do it

Also, yes, I'm proud of you SpeeD

I was gonna make the title "Bat flips for some, miniature American Flags for everyone else"
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Obviously chewys cant be used now, but way to spoil a future topic, Slurpee

SpeeDLeemon posted...

Yuli Gurriels hair is fucking ridiculous.

More like Yuli Guile

Congrats on taking the initiative SpeeD

Kind of a weird game but (obviously) a big win for the Astros. They only have a clear pitching advantage in the Verlander starts so it was good to steal one here even though McCullers was pretty much just as bad as Darvish. At one point he threw like 10 of 12 balls in a row or something stupid. Anyway. Wood is for sure better than Morton and it would be huge for the Dodgers to get one before Kershaw even goes. I predict that the Dodgers will win the next two games and then lose two in a row at home.

The Nuggets won tonight, but their point guards still suck. I hope they can pull the trigger for a trade for Eric Bledsoe. I guarantee this is going to be another trade they pass up and then some already superior West team like the Clippers or Spurs will pick him up for some garbage

Stars win! Whoop!

Do any of yall follow CFB much? Florida State got wrecked by Boston College 35-3.

Boston College is weird. They've beaten the shit out of UVA and now Florida State the past two weeks. They aren't playing games now.

Please let UVA win today and us qualify for a bowl. Please please please.

By the way, for no real reason, I went ahead and ranked all the Treehouse of Horror shorts (up to Treehouse of Horror 9).

27. Starship Poopers
26. Hell Toupee
25. Easy-Bake Coven
24. The Homega Man
23. Bad Dream House
22. The Genesis Tub
21. The Terror of Tiny Toon
20. If I Only Had a Brain
19. Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores
18. Terror at 5 and 1/2 Feet
17. The Thing and I
16. Bart Simpson's Dracula
15. Hungry are the Damned
14. Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace
13. Fly vs. Fly
12. Clown Without Pity
11. The Bart Zone
10. Citizen Kang
9. Nightmare Cafeteria
8. The Monkey's Paw
7. Homer
6. King Homer
5. Dial 'Z' For Zombies
4. The Devil and Homer Simpson
3. The Raven
2. Time and Punishment
1. The Shinning
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I agree on #1 obviously but to me Hungry are the Damned is the second best one. Serak the Preparer.

Hungry are the Damned is still good, but none of the jokes carry as well as the ones above to me.
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I'll make my own, superior list later

I might make two changes to that list:
1. Move "Dial 'Z' for Zombies" up to 2
2. Move "The Thing and I" to 12
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Zeeky_Bomb posted...

Hungry are the Damned is still good, but none of the jokes carry as well as the ones above to me.

"How to cook for forty humans" is one of the best jokes of all time.

Oh and I finally really dug into Odyssey. I'm taking a lunch break after a pretty long sesh. I don't have much to say because it just seems basically perfect so far and I don't want to spoil any of the thousands of perfect little moments for people who haven't played yet. I guess my complaints so far are that it's the first time I've played a Switch game that I feel needs to be docked (not that I won't play it on a plane some day, you just don't get the same experience handheld) and that it's weird how they keep telling me how to like roll or throw my cap over and over and over again.

gah you guys make me wanna buy a Switch, except I won't get my racing game fill with it

CaptainHammer posted...

"How to cook for forty humans" is one of the best jokes of all time.

I personally much prefer "Have all the donuts in the world!" and...


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27. Starship Poopers
26. Easy-Bake Coven
25. The Terror of Tiny Toon
24. If I Only Had a Brain
23. The Thing and I
22. The Bart Zone
21. The Raven

20. Hell Toupee
19. Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores
18. The Genesis Tub
17. Bad Dream House
16. King Homer
15. Bart Simpson's Dracula

14. The Hmega Man
13. The Monkey's Paw
12. Dial 'Z' for Zombies
11. Fly vs. Fly
10. Terror at 5 1/2 Feet

9. Homer
8. Clown Without Pity
7. Time and Punishment
6. Hungry are the Damned
5. Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace

4. Citizen Kang
3. Nightmare Cafeteria
2. The Devil and Homer Simpson
1. The Shinning

The line breaks are intentional and meant to signify tiers, since I could go back and forth on some selections within each tier.

By the way, I understand that The Raven isn't really funny, but I find it amazingly compelling, and the skit does a good job of combining the personality of the characters with classic poetry.
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The Monkey's Paw has one of the best jokes too with Moe chasing the aliens out of town.

STLCards1991 posted...

The Monkey's Paw has one of the best jokes too with Moe chasing the aliens out of town.

As well as...
Lisa: "I wish for world peace."
Homer: "Lisa! That was very selfish of you!"
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What do you think is better, BotW or Odyssey? Obviously it's a question to revisit once we actually finish the game, but so far Odyssey hasn't captured my attention nearly on the level BotW did. I'm not sure if that's the game's fault, though. As awesome as it is to have two flagship Nintendo games in the same year, it's like the high from BotW hasn't died down enough yet for me to fully feel the Odyssey hype.

Maybe some of that hype was also misplaced, since I tried to avoid hearing too much about Odyssey, but then I'd hear things secondhand by accident and get the wrong idea. For example, I heard "open world" used a lot and I assumed that would mean there was some interconnection between the levels, but from what I can tell so far, that isn't the case. They all take place on the same planet, which is kind of cool, but it's still just separate selections like any old Mario game, which is a little disappointing. Hope I just haven't gotten far enough yet to find that there is some connection.

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

By the way, I understand that The Raven isn't really funny, but I find it amazingly compelling, and the skit does a good job of combining the personality of the characters with classic poetry.

It is my favorite segment of all the episodes. Our teacher had us read the poem for English class and I really like the poem, a few weeks later it showed up on the Simpsons with James Earl Jones narrating. It may be due to nostalgia as to why it's my favorite, but I watched it with my kids today (as well as other THoH episodes) and I think it still as good now as it was then.
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Rockies posted...

What do you think is better, BotW or Odyssey? Obviously it's a question to revisit once we actually finish the game, but so far Odyssey hasn't captured my attention nearly on the level BotW did. I'm not sure if that's the game's fault, though. As awesome as it is to have two flagship Nintendo games in the same year, it's like the high from BotW hasn't died down enough yet for me to fully feel the Odyssey hype.

Maybe some of that hype was also misplaced, since I tried to avoid hearing too much about Odyssey, but then I'd hear things secondhand by accident and get the wrong idea. For example, I heard "open world" used a lot and I assumed that would mean there was some interconnection between the levels, but from what I can tell so far, that isn't the case. They all take place on the same planet, which is kind of cool, but it's still just separate selections like any old Mario game, which is a little disappointing. Hope I just haven't gotten far enough yet to find that there is some connection.

Still too early to say definitively but I'll probably prefer BotW in the end just because it's a very high bar to clear. I think both games are masterpieces though

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Are you guys sure youre done with the Rams? Its not too late.

gah you guys make me wanna buy a Switch, except I won't get my racing game fill with it

Damn, you saying that makes me want to play NFS: Hot Pursuit on PS4. But World Series and sleep..

Astros defense!

This is a really good World Series game

Springer ends the no-hitter, the shutout, the perfect game, and the Astros take the lead. I bet Wood wishes that 3-0 pitch was correctly-called a ball.

I do not watch football anymore because it's bad.

FUCK. This is over.

Ken Giles has been absolutely brutal in these playoffs

Right? Some closer.

SHIT

Musgrove mustgo

Dagger

Morning football and it is the Browns. How did we get so lucky?

SpeeDLeemon posted...

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Are you guys sure youre done with the Rams? Its not too late.

I'm done with football

Fair enough, guys. I can completely understand that.

I don't wish a loss of team on any of you but I think it gives you a weird perspective on sports. It's also partially because these last couple of Cardinals seasons have been so lame but I feel like I'm much less of a sports fan than I was when I watched football. These MLB playoffs are the most I've enjoyed sports in a long time.

The playoffs have been really good. I have only missed a handful of games. In recent seasons in the past, I would barely watch the World Series

How often do you guys watch hockey? Do you like hockey? That could help in the offseason

Hockey is fine but I don't really watch it. I think I could get into NBA if I tried

The Oklahoma City Thunder

I would be done with football if everyone around at work didn't talk about it. It's what I get for working with old white dudes.

My internet sucks right now or else I'd stream more sports.
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This is a good game!

Socky, Vikings need to step it up

If I'm not mistaken he's actually at the game in London