Sam Sanchez

Harold Baines (RF) - Career WAR 38.7 over 22 seasons Tim Salmon (RF) - Career WAR 40.6 over 14 seasons So, does this mean Salmon has a chance? Ha.

Chapman is a likely better than Arenado elite defender at 3B and will probably receive a decent amount of MVP votes. He's a name you should probably know

I'm not in favor of Kurt Suzuki, but have you actually kept with him at all? Since when did Mathis ever put up a near .900 OPS in a season or a near .800 for that matter like Suzuki the last two seasons? Or even ever have anything close to a 100 OPS+ in a season.

Easily the Red Sox. They are my second most hated team but it's an easy decision between them and the Dodgers. We've already seen them win 3 times, a 4th time isn't gonna hurt any more than before. I was born in 86, so the Doyers haven't won since I've been old enough to know, and I would hate for that to change.

Just watched this last night for the first time. Was a pretty big blindspot for me, but definitely great. Watched a few Spike Lee movies over the past few days, watched She's Gotta Have It and School Daze for the first time, mildly liked She's Gotta Have It, and did not like School Daze at all. Amazing how just one year after School Daze, he directed Do the Right Thing which I also rewatched and is still a great movie, probably my favorite Spike Lee. Also went and saw BlacKkKlansman which is my favorite Spike Lee movie probably since Inside Man Haven't posted that much in this thread this year as there's been a diminished amount of movie talk here, but just a heads up for other 2018 movies I think are worth checking out: Mission: Impossible - Fallout - probably my second favorite M:I movie behind Ghost Protocol Hereditary Paddington 2 - surprisingly great if you're into ridiculously polite bears Isle of Dogs First Reformed - Paul Schrader does Taxi Driver, again but with a priest Sorry to Bother You - debut film by rapper Boots Riley and it's incredibly weird but great A Quiet Place Game Night - way more fun than I expected it to be Mom and Dad - only seek out if you're in the mood for a fun and wacked out Nicolas Cage performance

So....for my fantasy team purposes, should I even consider picking up Ward since I need a Catcher and he qualifies as one. I just don't feel confident Scioscia will even give him enough starts to play on my team for it to be worth given his history with rookies.

Yes as someone mentioned earlier, Pujols was already at 100 and dipped under after last year. Crazy part is that Adrian Beltre is currently at 95 career WAR. There is a pretty decent chance he surpasses Pujols in WAR especially if Pujols keeps helping him amount.

If Jabari Blash was traded to the Dodgers, he'd figure out MLB pitching.

I was about to say the same thing. Checked http://www.baseballpress.com/lineups and the lineup is posted with Justin Upton in it. He's on my fantasy team too, so was curious to see if he was playing. 1. Mike Trout (R) CF 2. Shohei Ohtani (L) DH 3. Justin Upton (R) LF 4. Albert Pujols (R) 1B 5. Andrelton Simmons (R) SS 6. Zack Cozart (R) 3B 7. Ian Kinsler (R) 2B 8. Kole Calhoun (L) RF 9. Martin Maldonado (R) C

Watched both Isle of Dogs and Unsane this weekend. Isle of Dogs is great if you're a fan of Wes Anderson or specifically Fantastic Mr. Fox style of animated movie. Unsane is a perfectly fine thriller that is probably most interesting that it was filmed on an iPhone. Claire Foy definitely carries the movie.

Ill second Effectively Wild. Very smart, analytics driven and that is genuinely funny at times. They know their stuff and I like they are more open to directly criticise a player or even a baseball journalist (Heyman, Nightingale, etc..) than Olney or another ESPN analyst. They also seem to tackle weekly Mike Trout hypotheticals in the email segment

Yeah I just barely started listening a couple months ago. I used to listen to the Ringer MLB Show with Ben Lindbergh but not knowing he had another podcast. Easily my favorite baseball podcast now. Really like Jeff Sullivan's sense of humor on it too. "Mike Trout Hypotheticals" tend to be a staple of the show. Have also been curious on who'll they'll get for the Angels, maybe Pedro Moura if not Fletcher? They got Andy McCollough for the Dodgers and Ben seemed to be familiar with the Sportswriters Blues podcast with McCollough and Moura.

Effectively Wild. Its a Fangraphs podcast with Ben Lindbergh who has recently been on MLB Network doing the Top 10 countdown and Jeff Sullivan.

Was funny to see who was the worst of all time: Carlos Gomez with an impressive .354 ops.

Was just listening to a podcast where they were talking about greatest hitters in extra inning history (yes very specific) and was interesting to hear the Top 3 hitters with the highest OPS with a minimum 100 plate appearances: 1. Mickey Mantle - 1.305 2. Justin Upton - 1.202 3. Ted Williams - they didn't give his OPS unfortunately That's some pretty random elite company to be sandwiched in between for Upton. Hopefully some of that carries over to us this year, could use some fun walk offs.

Can't say I agree with Pham being #2 but he definitely wasn't a scrub last year. Around a .930 ops, 20 + HRs, 20+ SBs, and posted a 6.0+ WAR despite playing around 120 games. Not sure if one season of that merits a #2 placing but he arguably had a better season last year than Springer.

Did you see Preston Wilson's personal list on the show? He had Trout at #3 behind Blackmon and Springer. Brian Kenny gave him shit

True. I've watched a ton of silent and 1930s movies in general, so I probably get the majority of the stuff and the humor but there has definitely been times where I've read up on a few of them and explained something that I wasn't even aware was intended to be funny , so I'm sure there's way more I could be getting out of it too. Especially the 1930s when the Hays Code kicked in, a lot of "dirty" humor had to rely on innuendo that sometimes could go over the audience's head.

Chaplin is probably my least favorite but still like him a lot. He has very high highs. I love The Kid and City Lights a lot, and a couple shorts like The Immigrant and Easy Street are great but he doesn't have the same amount that I love with Keaton: The General, Sherlock Jr, Seven Chances, Cops, One Week, The High Sign, etc... Just a lot of awesome ones. I've been working my way through Harold Lloyd, Safety Last is amazing, and Speedy is awesome for a baseball fan as Babe Ruth plays himself in a fairly long cameo as part of the plot. I subscribed to Filmstruck, and they have like 25 Harold Lloyd films/shorts. Not bad.

This is probably the first time I've seen every best picture nominee without really trying to since they've expanded beyond 5 nominees. Ranking them, I would put as: 1. Phantom Thread 2. Three Billboards 3. Get Out. 4. Call Me By Your Name 5. The Shape of Water 6. Lady Bird 7. Dunkirk 8. The Post 9. The Darkest Hour I would input I, Tonya slightly behind The Post, and The Disaster Artist tied with The Darkest Hour. That said, I enjoyed all the movies to some degree.

Have been watching a ton of silent comedies. Can't really decide who I like the best between Chaplin, Keaton, and Harold Lloyd, but they are all great. Lloyd is easily the underrated one among them, but I'd put him on the same level based on what I've seen. If I had to pick one though, I'm think I'm going Buster Keaton.

Paddington 2....would highly recommend this for anyone with kids or just anyone in general looking for something nice and fun to watch. Just an incredibly good-hearted movie that is very pretty look at, funny and has Hugh Grant chewing the hell out of the scenery. It feels like a Wes Anderson movie for kids. Honestly, would have been on my Top 10 of 2017 if it wasn't a 2018 movie. Sounds like it's completely bombing here in the U.S., which sucks because it's one of the best kids movies I've seen in awhile.

Just off the bat, Mudbound and The Meyerowitz Stories are NetFlix Originals from this list. So would recommend checking those out. Also, there's a movie on there called I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore which is a pretty fun dark comedy though pretty violent at times. Would have been on honorable mention for this list. I'd have to see what is on the other services though. One recommendation for Hulu is a documentary called How to Build a Time Machine. The director of that is a host on a podcast I've been listening to for about 8 years now. I caught it at a one-time screening in LA with a Q&A and I thought it was a great documentary. I believe it finally got a release on Hulu back in November or December, might be worth checking out if your into documentaries. Note: edited the original post to include a look at a few random movies I'm interested upcoming later this year.

Yeah...I actually liked the ending a lot of Three Billboards, watching the last 30 minutes on its own probably doesn't do the movie any favors. Frances McDormand probably has the best performance I saw all year in that movie. Definitely this about Get Out. It's incredibly smart and very well-directed psychological horror movie with a lot of humor in it and a critique about racism. Has similarities to something like Stepford Wives and there's a lot of homages to classic horror in there that surprise coming from Jordan Peele but they're all very welcome. Saw hints of stuff like Rosemary's Baby and as well as Suspiria with the opening driving past the woods with similar opening music playing. I enjoyed Lost City of Z a lot. Reminded me of older Werner Herzog movies like Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre: The Wrath of God. As far as Logan and Blade Runner go, I felt Logan was easily better than anything Marvel Studios has done to-date, and probably only behind the Nolan Batman movies and maybe Spider-Man 2 as superhero movies go in general. Blade Runner I thought was an amazing accomplishment. I really like Denis Villeneuve as a director and he had the tough task of making a sequel to a now beloved sci-fi classic (not very beloved at the time), and he had clock in at 2:40 and still managed to make an entertaining and worthy sequel though it seemed to bomb at the box office unfortunately. I also liked It a lot which seems to be getting mentioned a ton. Would be one of my "honorable mentions" if I already didn't feel like 25 was a lot.

Yeah, also a fan of PT Anderson, even liked Inherent Vice which everyone seems to hate. I actually went in kinda of lukewarm on Phantom Thread based on the trailers but ended up loving the movie and it's the movie the more I think about, the more I like it. Wind River is great. Curious to see what else Sheridan does. He wrote the scripts to Sicario and Hell or High Water which are great and then he wrote and now directed Wind River. Has a knack at writing solid crime/thriller movies. Agree to an extent with Dunkirk. As much as I tend to like Nolan, I would expect going in to be among the top 5 or so. I've only seen the movie once and have been meaning to check it out because I did see it not in the best of moods late at night. I still need to see that. I like Bale but not huge on Scoot Cooper as a director who did Black Mass and Out of the Furnace which I wasn't too big on either.