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QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 28, 2012 -> 01:17 PM) i actually just don't think that's true. with Slumdog if Milk had won you'd be making the SAME argument. Or Frost/Nixon. If any of those had won you'd be saying there was an "agenda" I was actually saying that Frost/Nixon was the best back then. It was discussed quite a bit on this site, as I recall. We came up with a long list of movies that was superior, some that weren't even nominated. And in regards to your bold part (I don't care if this gets me suspended), go f*** yourself.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 28, 2012 -> 10:00 AM) don't try and use your logic here. it is unwelcomed with this crowd. First of all, I hadn't noticed until very recently exactly how snide you are. Not sure if that's a recent trend or if I just hadn't noticed. Secondly, I added more than just the Holocaust/gay/handicapped scenario. The Jamie Foxx Best Actor was given to him for portraying a music legend that had recently died, except it wasn't the best performance that year. His portrayal of Charles was basically Eddie Murphy's impersonation of Stevie Wonder. The following year, unfortunately for Joaquin Phoenix since he provided a better performance and the best of that year, the same situation was there. But they didn't give him the award, and I'd bet it's almost entirely based on the fact that another actor won for playing a similar character only a year before.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Feb 28, 2012 -> 09:00 AM) Since 1960. There have been 9 awards out of 255 given to a movie or actor/actress involving either being gay, mentally retarded or the Holocaust. Best picture - Rain Man, Forrest Gump and Schindler's List. Best actor - Milk, Capote, Rain Man, The Pianist, Forrest Gump and Philadelphia. I may have missed a few, but That's not really an agenda. The problem is that about half of those were chosen over better candidates. It's not just those particular cases either. Slumdog Millionaire won over about half a dozen better movies that year. I can't explain it perfectly, but it was shoved down our throats as a feel-good, never-give-up-hope, help-yourself picture in a down economic year. It's just that they often choose a movie or actor to make a statement rather than the most deserving one.

Yeah, let's give a guy who's earned absolutely nothing as a member of this team in three years the biggest honor a member of the pitching staff can get from his team. I am dead serious when I say that every other starter is ahead of him on that list.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 10:52 PM) New movie idea: beautiful actress/handsome actor is given significant makeup job to make them look ugly/plain. They play a mentally-handicapped Jew escaping the Holocaust. 3 Oscars minimum They're escaping with their over-the-top gay brother. QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 28, 2012 -> 08:10 AM) I'm trying to figure out whether the original post was referencing that or not... I've seen it, but I wasn't even thinking about it at the time.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 08:06 PM) You can be an exciting broadcaster in a neutral setting. Gus Johnson is a prime example. I also really think Mike Tirico does a pretty good job. And if you watch international soccer, there are a lot of great broadcasters. But what about strictly for baseball? QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 09:45 PM) I don't mind Hawk being a homer, it's one of his good qualities. I do mind that he's a grumpy, insufferable bully that goes out of his way to talk over his broadcast partner. He hasn't had an original thought in years. I don't care about Yaz or Frank Howard. I don't care to hear "get on back there" and "stretch" for balls that aren't going to get to the warning track. I can see it from my couch. Couldn't agree more.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 07:10 PM) They even stuck Brian Daubach in the outfield, if memory serves me correctly. I had to look him up to both remember who he was and when he was on the Sox. All I could picture was Dante Bichette for some reason.

I'll just give an example from a few years ago. They were announcing the nominees for Best Short Film (or Best Foreign Short if that even exists, just one of those categories nobody cares about). I knew nothing about any of them two seconds before, but they gave a quick synopsis of each movie as they announced them as nominees. As soon as the one was listed as some person's experience during the Holocaust, I turned to the people I was with and said "that's gonna win." It did.

Forgive my ignorance, but why the f*** are Somali pirates such a problem? Why aren't we just having the Navy sink them left and right?

Why is there 31?

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 04:35 PM) My god, Trayce has legs for days. He kind of has Rios body type, at least in that image.

QUOTE (Jake @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 08:02 AM) Dunn tried to act like he hasn't done anything different. ...and I respect that. He doesn't want to draw attention to himself with a bunch of fluff pieces. He just wants to play better. Agreed.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 05:10 PM) Are you saying that Schindler's List wasnt deserving? No, that one was. There are, of course, some exceptions.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 03:57 AM) I really wish UNDEFEATED was around here for me to see. I actually fell asleep right after Director was announced. Streep? Come on. Viola Davis should of won by a landslide. Honestly thought they would give it to Clooney even though the guy from The Artist was better. They tend to give Oscars to people Hollywood likes often. See Bullock and Julia Roberts. And Sean Penn. Another thing I hate is the way the Academy pushes their own agenda. They love straight guys who play stereotypically flaming homosexuals, and the Holocaust thing I mentioned earlier. I hated that they gave Jamie Foxx Best Actor for playing Ray Charles when both Leonardo DiCaprio and Don Cheadle were better that year. And in doing so, it screwed Joaquin Phoenix the following year (not giving the same award to another guy playing a recently-deceased music legend in back-to-back years) when they gave it to PSH for Capote. Adrien Brody stole Daniel Day-Lewis' in 2003, Roberto Benigni stole everyone's, Mickey Rourke getting robbed in favor of Penn, etc. They love to push their agenda.

QUOTE (The Baconator @ Feb 26, 2012 -> 11:26 PM) Not to assume that you were saying they were undeserving but I'm going to play devil's advocate here... Relate this back to baseball and the Gold Glove awards. Think of how many years there have been amazingly deserving candidates for a GG but they get beaten out because of the name-game candidates like Jeter and Hunter. Now bring it back to these lesser-to-unknown candidate winners of the Oscars: while we as casual observers may say the "Jeter" of the acting field should have won, the true advocates probably feel very happy that these lesser-known people got their due recognition. The question of "wonder if we'll still remember ... in five years" is again pertinent in the GG discussion; while we (as baseball fans) know who DID win, we still talk about how SHOULD have won, and that's equally true in the entertainment world. Thankfully there weren't any Holocaust movies this year to steal any awards they didn't deserve

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 26, 2012 -> 10:23 PM) First semi-surprise, Clooney loses to the French dude from THE ARTIST. Wonder if we'll still remember: the Actor in a Leading Role, Jean Dujardin Director, Michel Hazanavicius five years from now? How was that a surprise? I knew each winner for this year without seeing any of the movies. It was all incredibly obvious. I know I didn't post it on here, but I don't care if anyone doesn't believe me

QUOTE (3E8 @ Feb 26, 2012 -> 09:59 PM) Cool your jets, it's coming. Yeah, of course they do it right after I bring it up But they said it was coming up like 45 minutes ago when they said they'd also do the Supporting Actor.

They f***ing skip the memorium part?

QUOTE (juddling @ Feb 25, 2012 -> 06:48 AM) For those in here still watching The Walking Dead.....some good news as they cast the role of The Governor (coming next season) Meet The Governor After quickly scanning his Wikipedia page, I've never heard of him. But he sounds like a very good actor, which ought to help that show a bunch.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 03:10 PM) So you started when you were 8 or so? Ha, took me a minute to even get what you were joking about. Doesn't help the argument that I was walking before 8, I suppose.

And I guess that was venturing a guess, so I lied.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 03:07 PM) How old were you? I can totally understand if you were just a little s***. Although I became a hardcore fan when I was 6, I never went to a game until I was 12 (1962). I couldn't even venture a guess. I would bet that I was brought to a few games a year since I was able to walk.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 03:03 PM) Read Game of Shadows. One of the co-authors is Mark Fainaru-Wada, same guy covering the story for ESPN. Additionally, you saw the physical transformation with Bonds. You don't see it with Braun. You didn't see it with a few guys. f***ing Pablo Ozuna was on them. Rafael Palmeiro didn't change at all. And to be clear, we have no idea when Braun started using steroids. He may have been on them for a very long time. It's possible to stay ahead of the curve. It's obvious that this is one of those divisive issues where people are not going to agree. I wanted to walk away from this thread earlier, but I relented. I'm just going to stop talking about this now