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IggyReilly
| Favorite team: | New Orleans Saints  |
| Location: | New Orleans, LA |
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| Registered on: | 12/23/2015 |
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re: Was Moxon the true villain in Varsity Blues?
Posted by IggyReilly on 4/24/25 at 8:40 am
I posted the below in the "Defend a Villian" thread and I still stand by it. Mox was a punk.
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Coach Bud Kilmer was not a perfect man, but he was 100% right to be up Mox's arse. Mox was completely trying to usurp his control, including installing his own playbook and running his own plays. At a school like West Canaan those players would have been taught variations of Kilmer's playbook/blocking schemes from the first time they put pads on so that by the time they reached high school they could operate as a well oiled machine. And yet here comes some kid who doesn't even like football all that much trying to run 5 wide receiver sets and call hook and ladders to their 360 pound right guard. Dumbest smart kid, indeed.
And don't get me started on Mox getting all pissy about Kilmer rightfully calling him out after the Coyotes dropped a big district game to a weak opponent.
"The hard work of so many, sacrificed by the disrespect of a few. Moxon, you sacrificed the honor of this football team and the town that supports it. shite, you poisoned my team, son. I hope last night was fun! Hope it was fun!"
The scene paints Kilmer like he's some out of pocket a-hole, but he's completely right! Mox DID organize an all night drinking binge with the team's most important players which caused them to play like crap and drop a game they had no business losing. Just because Mox didn't care about football or winning district doesn't mean the other players who are working hard don't care about it. His behavior was disrespectful to everyone involved, but instead of taking responsibility all he did was pout and cry about mean ole Coach Bud Kilmer.
Granted the injury stuff with Kilmer is impossible to defend, but just because Kilmer was wrong in that regard doesn't mean Moxon was right about everything else.
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Jackson Chourio currently has a higher batting average (.292) than OBP (.288)
Posted by IggyReilly on 4/14/25 at 5:47 pm
He's played in 16 games so far and has 73 plate appearances, one sacrifice fly and zero walks. 5 home runs and 7 multi-base hits. Seems almost impossible in today's day and age to make it this deep into the season without walking. His OPS+ is 149 so he's not exactly struggling. I don't watch many Brewers games so I'm not overly familiar with him, I guess the young man is just in straight up attack mode at the plate :lol:
re: Who saw the TWolves and Pistons scrap?
Posted by IggyReilly on 3/31/25 at 3:56 pm
It's a damned shame the Malice at the Palace didn't happen a few years later in the "everyone has a cell phone camera" era. The footage we would have gotten from that would have been legit insane :lol:
re: Some days I feel like I'm doing okay financially
Posted by IggyReilly on 3/29/25 at 10:41 pm
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Some days I feel like I'm doing okay financially
I was in drinking in the Hemingway Bar at the Ritz in Paris a few years back. It felt good to be able to order multiple 30 euro martinis and not really care about it. Then some 19 year old chick comes in and asks to buy a bottle of Remy Martin Louis XIII (retails online for around $4,800). The bartender explained they don't sell by the bottle, the 19 year old happily said they'd pay the per ounce price for the entire thing. The bartender still refused so they settled for a multi-thousand dollar bottle of Dom Perignon instead. Some people just live differently :lol:
re: Johnny Bench was 84-3 as a HS Pitcher & had only caught 17 games when drafted by Reds.
Posted by IggyReilly on 3/17/25 at 12:55 am
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Pretty good argument that (Joe Mauer) was the most dominant high school athlete ever in the big 3.
Danny Ainge is still the only high school athlete ever to be named first team All-American in football, basketball and baseball.
re: Great Characters that were "Flanderized"
Posted by IggyReilly on 3/10/25 at 3:29 pm
Steve Urkel (and Family Matters in general) is a great historical example of this. When Urkel first starts appearing he's just a nerdy, annoying kid who lives next door, but over the course of the series gets smarter (and more annoying) to the point that he's a super genius capable of time travel, cloning, shrinking people and whatever else the writers could come up with. Family Matters as a whole started off as a very grounded show for the first few seasons before getting more and more cartoonish to the point that it was completely unrecognizable by the end. Here's a good Key and Peele sketch on it.
Another great historical example. Fonzie starts the show as the local "cool guy hood" and slowly becomes a super hero capable of being the best in the world at anything and everything he tries (including water skiing, which led to one of the most infamously panned moments in television history. An act so heinous that it spawned a meme term so ubiquitous that people understand what it means even if they're completely unaware of the scene that it references).
Change suffered from the same thing that Andy Bernard did on The Office. Both were fine characters when they were smaller parts of a larger ensemble, but then The Hangover blew up and became one of the biggest comedies of the decade and NBC increased their roles and the characters weren't nearly strong enough to handle it. Both shows suffered for it.
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Fonzie
Another great historical example. Fonzie starts the show as the local "cool guy hood" and slowly becomes a super hero capable of being the best in the world at anything and everything he tries (including water skiing, which led to one of the most infamously panned moments in television history. An act so heinous that it spawned a meme term so ubiquitous that people understand what it means even if they're completely unaware of the scene that it references).
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Chang from Community. He was much better early on as an eccentric a-hole. When they made him completely nuts, he became boring.
Change suffered from the same thing that Andy Bernard did on The Office. Both were fine characters when they were smaller parts of a larger ensemble, but then The Hangover blew up and became one of the biggest comedies of the decade and NBC increased their roles and the characters weren't nearly strong enough to handle it. Both shows suffered for it.
re: The final fight in Rocky 3 against
Posted by IggyReilly on 3/9/25 at 3:15 pm
Hot take: Clubber Lang did nothing wrong. He was the undisputed number 1 challenger and Rock, through Mickey, was ducking him and fighting cans instead. What else was Lang to do? He'd earned his shot, but the Balboa camp wasn't playing fair. It might not have been gentlemanly to show up to his press conference and the stuff with Adrien crossed a line, but calling out Balboa's manhood was clearly the only thing that would get the two into the ring.
Don't duck fighters and you won't have fighters who can call you out on it.
Don't duck fighters and you won't have fighters who can call you out on it.
re: Louisiana Pizza Kitchen French Quarter
Posted by IggyReilly on 2/25/25 at 12:06 pm
I've eaten there quite a few times over the years. I've always enjoyed it. Decent pizza. I like sitting outside if the weather is nice and taking in the hustle and bustle of the French Market.
re: Mad Men Rewatch
Posted by IggyReilly on 2/24/25 at 10:50 pm
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He is able to use his life and anthropomorphize a product of his choosing for commercial purposes. He's the consummate Ad Man.
Don was on the verge of a suicidal meltdown before achieving inner peace for the first time in his life and his immediate reaction to that inner peace is to figure out a way to sell corporate sugar water to the masses. That's who Don Draper is :lol:
re: New York Fine Dining
Posted by IggyReilly on 2/24/25 at 8:53 pm
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Has anyone been to Le Bernardin?
I've eaten at Le Bernardin, Eleven Madison Park, Daniel, River Cafe and Gabriel Kreuther. All have multiple Michelin stars except for River Cafe which has one star. All were excellent experiences, but I rank the meal I had at Le Bernardin the highest.
re: Former Dolphins OL Jonathan Martin admits Richie Incognito never bullied him
Posted by IggyReilly on 2/16/25 at 5:09 pm
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I was admittedly a little strong in calling him a POS.
I don't think calling Incognito a POS is too harsh. Just from his wiki page he:
* Got kicked off of two teams in college
* Was voted the dirtiest player in the in NFL (by other players) in 2009
* Was accused of sexual battery against a woman at a golf tournament
* Harassed a Dolphins trainer over his Japanese heritage
* Was arrested and put into an involuntary psychiatric hold after assaulting another patron at a gym (threw a dumbbell at them)
* Was arrested for trashing a funeral home and telling the workers that he was going to shoot them
Incognito is 100% a POS, just not over the Jonathan Martin situation.
re: Former Dolphins OL Jonathan Martin admits Richie Incognito never bullied him
Posted by IggyReilly on 2/16/25 at 4:52 pm
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man you forget how big that story was
It was the biggest story in sports for a hot minute there.
Meanwhile the Saints had a "hazing" scandal in the Ditka years where rookies had to run through a gauntlet blindfolded and get punched, kicked and hit with socks filled with coins. Cam Cleeland had his eye socket broken. Kyle Turley suffered a knee injury. Another guy ran through a window and needed 13 stitches to close up the wound. Rookies who didn't participate in the ritual had buckets of urine thrown in their rooms. Legit psychopath stuff and no one outside of Saints fans even remember it happened.
re: How did The Big Sleazy, Tommy Gufano, figure out John & Jeremy were wedding crashers?
Posted by IggyReilly on 2/2/25 at 4:18 pm
I guess we have to suspend disbelief a little and surmise that Sack sent his friend photos from the wedding to pass along. Otherwise it doesn't really make any sense. There's not nearly enough information to find them with what he gave. But with a picture the guy could have sussed them out in 5 minutes. There were zero chance the event staff, caters, photographers, etc. wouldn't have seen these guys attending multiple weddings all season and figured out their game (they were both pretty flamboyant, especially "Jeremy"). I doubt the staff would have cared. It's not like a bartender is going to kick up a fuss as long as they're not causing trouble and tipping well. One trip to a wedding venue and show someone their pictures and Tommy Gufano would have gotten all the information he needed.
re: Why is CGI so bad now?
Posted by IggyReilly on 2/2/25 at 3:46 pm
My guess is it's an issue of time. When you look at the films that are great achievements in effects it's evident that there's legitimate elbow grease that goes into them. But elbow grease takes time and the studios now have so many films in the works and a strict production schedule to stick too so they'd rather just throw a bunch of money and crappy CGI at project rather than take the time to actually craft something.
A perfect example of this the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. Peter Jackson was allowed to really take his time with LOTRs and the results are wonderful. Even 25 years on it's still a marvel of modern film making and the effects totally hold up.
Comparatively, The Hobbit looks like a thrown together mess. Jackson was given a bunch of money and a deadline to make them and you can see it in the results. The LOTRs are the types of film that will live on for decades. The Hobbit was meidocre slop that was tossed together, made a lot of money and will rarely be thought about again. But that's what Hollywood wants these days.
A perfect example of this the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. Peter Jackson was allowed to really take his time with LOTRs and the results are wonderful. Even 25 years on it's still a marvel of modern film making and the effects totally hold up.
Comparatively, The Hobbit looks like a thrown together mess. Jackson was given a bunch of money and a deadline to make them and you can see it in the results. The LOTRs are the types of film that will live on for decades. The Hobbit was meidocre slop that was tossed together, made a lot of money and will rarely be thought about again. But that's what Hollywood wants these days.
re: Justin Tucker pulls a Deshaun Watson. Allegedly.
Posted by IggyReilly on 1/30/25 at 2:07 pm
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I don't get it, just hire hookers if you're rich and have weird kinks.
For a lot of these guys a big part of the kink is getting non-hookers to do hooker-ish things that they wouldn't ordinarily do for money. You know the old adage "it's not about sex, it's about power." They could go to a rub and tug joint or get a call girl to come over in an instant if that's all they really wanted, but for many of them it's about forcing an unwitting person into their sexual game and getting away with it. It's sick behavior. Comedian Jim Norton (who was always open about his dalliances with sex workers) got super into massages years ago and would tell stories about calling legit masseuses to his hotel rooms and giving them sexual signals (like exposing himself or thrusting himself towards them while the massage was happening) and offering them more and more money to do off-menu things. Sometimes they would, sometimes they wouldn't. When asked point blank why he'd go through all that trouble when he could just call a prostitute he flat out admitted that he'd gotten bored with regular prostitutes and he enjoyed the challenge of trying to get off with regular masseuses.
(I wish I could find the audio, it's the type of thing that would 100% get him me-too'd today if he was a little bit more famous or successful)
re: MICKEY
Posted by IggyReilly on 1/28/25 at 11:18 pm
The thing is he doesn't have to resign and retire. He literally has the authority to promote himself to another role and hire a new GM (who would report to him). Loomis has his strengths and has value to the organization. There's a reason Payton loved working with him and even went as far as to attempt to have his contract state that if Loomis were to be fired Payton's contract would become void (this was when it looked like Rita might inherit the team and Payton wanted to hedge against having to deal with her).
But he's just NOT a football guy. Never has been. He's not who we need making personnel decisions and the fact that he's been completely unwilling to admit that the glory days are over is telling. He keeps thinking we're still in the Payton/Brees 7-9 years when we were legitimately a few moves away from contending again. That's not who we are anymore and barring a miracle in drafting we won't be again for at least a few more years. He had his day and was a big part of the most successful period in Saint history, but he's not the right person in the right role today and it's not going to get any better.
But he's just NOT a football guy. Never has been. He's not who we need making personnel decisions and the fact that he's been completely unwilling to admit that the glory days are over is telling. He keeps thinking we're still in the Payton/Brees 7-9 years when we were legitimately a few moves away from contending again. That's not who we are anymore and barring a miracle in drafting we won't be again for at least a few more years. He had his day and was a big part of the most successful period in Saint history, but he's not the right person in the right role today and it's not going to get any better.
re: There is no googalable intel on this NFL blended clock rule they made up in game
Posted by IggyReilly on 1/28/25 at 11:46 am
Personally I've always hated how delay of game is treated so subjectively by the officials. It just leaves too much discretion and opens doors for uneven officiating.
I've been watching football all my life. Sometimes delay of game is called half a second after the clock expires, sometimes they let it go. We've even seen times where the refs let it go for a full two seconds or more and the defense is pointing at the clock begging for the call. Sometimes it's even treated differently multiple times within the same game.
Why should the offense be given such leeway? I understand maybe back in the day when the tech wasn't there, but that hasn't been the case for a long time. Baseball has a pitch clock now and the umpires wear a buzzer on their wrist that vibrates when the pitch clock expires. If the pitcher hasn't started their motion then it's a violation. There's no reason why football can't do the same, they just don't want to.
Look, I'm not in favor of additional penalties or anything, but I also don't like how completely arbitrary it is when the refs DO and DO NOT call it. It's a clock, it's not like it's subjective. If the clock strikes :00 and you haven't snapped the ball it should be a penalty.
I've been watching football all my life. Sometimes delay of game is called half a second after the clock expires, sometimes they let it go. We've even seen times where the refs let it go for a full two seconds or more and the defense is pointing at the clock begging for the call. Sometimes it's even treated differently multiple times within the same game.
Why should the offense be given such leeway? I understand maybe back in the day when the tech wasn't there, but that hasn't been the case for a long time. Baseball has a pitch clock now and the umpires wear a buzzer on their wrist that vibrates when the pitch clock expires. If the pitcher hasn't started their motion then it's a violation. There's no reason why football can't do the same, they just don't want to.
Look, I'm not in favor of additional penalties or anything, but I also don't like how completely arbitrary it is when the refs DO and DO NOT call it. It's a clock, it's not like it's subjective. If the clock strikes :00 and you haven't snapped the ball it should be a penalty.
re: Jerrah Speaks On "Smiles & Gloryholes"
Posted by IggyReilly on 1/27/25 at 9:10 pm
He’s used the term before (at least once in a press conference around 10 years ago). It was revealed that term was also used back in the day for when someone struck oil. Stands to reason that Jones, being an O&G man, would use that term, but you’d think he would have learned by now it’s more current meaning and phased it out of his vocabulary. By Jerry does what Jerry does.
re: Unpopular Opinion: Vincent Chase was a terrible actor.
Posted by IggyReilly on 1/26/25 at 10:49 am
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Show alluded to him just being a pretty boy who who couldn't act & made bad decisions.
Sort of. In the early seasons they treated his talent as an actor as pretty unimpeachable. Vince was a highly talented, but empty-headed beautiful person who life was destined to always work out for and that was that. The later seasons (post Medellin failure) made it much more ambiguous as to how talented of an actor he actually was (with Ari himself even telling Vince he didn't represent him because he thought he was a great actor, he signed him because he thought he could be a great movie star. Big difference).
I understand why they made the switch. The show had gotten really stale after those first few seasons so making Vince a more flawed character with dubious talent opened up way more story line ideas. The problem was the writing and the acting on the show was never anywhere close to strong enough to pull what they were going for and the final seasons suffered for it. Ultimately the show at its best was cotton candy. You eat it and enjoy it for its sugary sweetness, but you know there's no real nutritional value there and if you eat too much of it at once you'll get sick of it fast.
re: Just finished reading the book Mr. New Orleans about a French Quarter Pimp
Posted by IggyReilly on 1/24/25 at 9:22 pm
I bought the book many years ago, but never got around to reading it. My understanding is that it's a fun read and Brouillette may be a good teller of tall tales, but he's not someone to be regarded as particularly credible. Sort of like a poor man's Henry Hill. He was probably loosely connected to Marcello and the New Orleans mafia in the sense that New Orleans is such a small city where everyone knows each other (especially back then) and Marcello had his fingers in a million different pots (including prostitution and anything going on in the French Quarter), but there's no reason to believe Brouillette was connected enough to know or have been involved in most of the stuff he claimed (especially about something as big as the Kennedy assassination). Just another charismatic, but low level hustler/pimp who liked to get drunk in bars and tell wild stories.
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