9/12-9/14 Red Sox vs. Athletics Series Thread

Ah, reminds me of my favorite "actor saying the name of the movie" scene ever...

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David Ortiz‏Verified account @davidortiz 2h2 hours ago

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I think it's f-ing brilliant, even if it turns out (in retrospect) to be John Woo doing a greatest hits compilation for American audiences who hadn't seen his previous films. I hadn't seen those (and still haven't, in fact), and neither had my ex and my best friend, and (as a mix of serious cinephiles and -- my Buddy -- people with great taste) we all walked out of the theater stunned at how good it was.

How is that? We're also all hard-core science fiction fans (the buddy being, years later, my fellow World Fantasy Award nominee).

See, the thing is, people usually don't classify it as science fiction, but if you do (and you can and should), it's completely believable, because sci-fi is never believable. Which is to say that we are used to suspending our disbelief of an sf text. The "science" in science fiction films like Donnie Darko and The Prestige is even less credible, but they're my choices as the 3rd and 4th best sf films of all time.

And since the face-changing science is already preposterous, if you really want Travolta and Cage to play the leads, then, as you say, you just run with it. I've gone on endlessly about the ridiculousness of casting Bobby Canavale as Al Pacino's son (in Danny Collins), but while watching Face/Off the first time it literally never occurred to me that Travolta and Cage had completely different bodies. Sci-fi viewers are used to turning off the part of the brain that thinks that way because the goal of many sf texts is to tell a story, given certain premises, that will explore issues you want to explore.

So I'll totally agree that it's a bad action thriller film, because of its preposterous elements. But it's not an action thriller film; it's sci-fi with action and thrills, and it was probably the best example of that until Mad Max: Fury Road.

Not exactly a lineup that strikes fear into a team that just swept the Astros. Looking forward to next year when hopefully guys like Young and Holt are longer on the team. They also need to find a way to manage Ramirz abs so his 2019 option doesn't kick in.

No Andrew in the RHH lineup. Fen'Fan's delighted I'm sure.

I really love Erod's changeup. That's definitely a plus pitch, much better than his slider.

of course.  and the MFY get to have a road series sleeping in their beds.  I swear part of the reason I hate them so much is this kind of stuff.

apparently, it was the Rays request. It makes sense from a travel perspective since they were in Boston already, but it is just infuriating to deal with.

OMG.  Mookie.  

Devers nailed that as he always does, 107 mph.

Tampa Bay plays 162 road games a season anyway.