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1. Kris Jenkins in 2016
2. LSU-Clemson 2019

Number 1 is easy and I had no rooting interest in the game.
The timeline messed me up as well. Is this just the show trying to indicate their further disconnect with society in the early 2000's? I thought the only character dressed for the time was the younger version of Sean William Scott.

It wasn't a homerun episode but I laughed a few times and overall enjoyed it.

re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

Posted by kballa6 on 4/11/25 at 12:14 pm
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but I really appreciated AFFC more the second time I read it. You notice a lot more little items that seemed unimportant the first time around.


I've heard this as well. The Arya parts are interesting I guess but the Dorne parts are tough. I think I'm not giving it the focus it deserves because of the horrible storyline in the show. I need to go back through those chapters when I'm done.

re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

Posted by kballa6 on 4/10/25 at 12:52 pm
Feel like I'm never getting to A Dance of Dragons with the pacing in A Feast for Crows. This book is slow and besides Cersei, boring.
Best episode in a long time.

I was losing it with everything related to the Nanny.

"Where the f**k is Sola?"
"She's changing"
"What's she changing for?"
"Ain't nobody give a f**k what she's wearing. She's the nanny. We ain't paying her to put on fashion shows. We paying her to nann."

re: MLB The Show 2025

Posted by kballa6 on 3/20/25 at 1:13 pm
I don't know about broken but it is more difficult than 2024. There are way less "miss hits" if you are not accurate with the PCI. Outside breaking pitches are really hard to hit unless you are using ambush to sit on the outside corners. I've gotten a few Good's and Perfects that are line outs our warning track shots, but I'd say it's in line with 2024.

Pitching is similar. Pure analog is harder and more sensitive to mistakes, like hitting. I abandoned it pretty quickly.

In general you have to be better with the PCI and controls. They no longer reward you for misses.

re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

Posted by kballa6 on 3/13/25 at 2:48 pm
There are some of us that were late to the party. I watched the show but never read the books.

Now that Audiobooks are available through Amazon Music, I've been listening to these from the beginning. I just got to the Red Wedding today.

re: Recommend a PS5 game for me

Posted by kballa6 on 3/4/25 at 2:49 pm
Not open world, but my kids and I have been loving Astro Bot. I find myself going back through levels to find the things they miss and have a blast doing it.
Yes, Nico Partida. Freaking awesome pitcher/SS that throws mid 90's and another really great kid. I will root for him to succeed. Great baseball program.

Other "small town" cool story.

I coach my son's Little League team in Pearland. I drafted the grandson of the head baseball coach at Pearland High School. He had to bring him to practice one day and just stood to the side the entire 90 min practice observing. I didn't know what to expect when I saw him just watching.

At the end of practice he walked over to me and commended myself and my other coach on a good practice. He asked some questions about my background and offered to let me and the team sit in on practices at the high school to learn.

Back on Serna, I agree NIL has helped and Partida would have gone pro if not for A&M's offer. I know Omar really loves LSU, but it will take a "strong a$$ offer" to get him there.
Cool story incoming.

Omar trains a lot at a locally owned indoor practice facility here in Pearland. He also helps coach youth baseball camps there. My two boys will always go to camp wearing their LSU gear. He always hangs out with them after camps and just talk to them. Any other time we see him there he always says hey and talks to them.

He's a great kid and I wish him the best at whatever he does, but my kids will be devastated when he goes pro instead of going to LSU.
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Marvels - Never had a chance because of Larson
Quantumania - Should have been good but tried to do too much
Wakanda Forever - Would have made a Billion if Chadwick had not died
Love & Thunder - Taika went off the rails
MoM - Best of all of these
Eternals - Told a story that just wasn't good
Black Widow - Not needed at all
The Falcon & Winter Soldier - Not needed, but Marvel said "we have to make something"
She-Hulk - Not needed, but Marvel said "we have to make something"
Miss Marvel - Better choice than making a movie
Secret Invasion - Didn't even watch
Echo - Didn't even watch
Agatha All Along - Didn't even watch



I'd love to know some of the conversations that took place when these were being planned. I can see one "Let's try this" per year if it is bookended by great movies.

Marvel's big leap in Phase 1/2 was GotG and it was sandwiched between Winter Soldier and Age of Ultron. After its success, they were invincible until the Infinity Saga was complete. Phase 4/5 is has been cluttered with failed attempts to recreate the excitement from a lesser known property like GotG.
They smell like 30 year old paper.

Saw it yesterday with my kids (9 and 10). We were entertained overall but it was not great by any stretch.

re: PS5 controller drift

Posted by kballa6 on 1/29/25 at 8:52 am
Buy a new controller and move on.
Astrobot
Crash Bandicoot
Any of the LEGO games

re: Superman teaser trailer

Posted by kballa6 on 12/19/24 at 8:48 am
They really made my man Jonathan Kent Otis from The Walking Dead?
As others have said, Animal Kingdom but it's a one day and done park.

Both Avatar experiences are great. Safari ride is fun. Everest is great. I thought the food was solid as well. It's just a nice park to walk around.
Ouch. I was thinking of seeing this on my day off tomorrow. May pass now.

re: Moana 2 discussion (Spoilers)

Posted by kballa6 on 11/27/24 at 10:17 am
Saw it last night and it was just OK. None of the songs were memorable and besides Maui and the side characters, I was bored.

Inside Out 2 was better and The Wild Robot is far and beyond the best animated movie of the year.

re: Rebel Ridge - Netflix

Posted by kballa6 on 11/4/24 at 8:24 am
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It was a very similar to Reacher season 1 at times


That's how I described it to my wife after I finished watching it last night.