Perfect Xero

So as far as I can recall no one on the show has explained the significance of the heron mark, and Rand has not been shown training with a sword at all?

Weird bit of trivia, the Braves won both the first and last World Series played under the recently expired CBA.

It's probably just the money, the reports are that the offers from the Angels and Dodgers weren't anywhere close to what he's getting from the Mets.

Have they ever shown how much Bob chargers for a burger? I could see that being an explanation of why the food seems to be very good but they never seem to hold on to new customers (beyond the Doylist explanation that they don't want to animate a bunch of customers in every scene).

I loved Agent Carter, and AoS was okay, but I'm ready to burn the entire TV arm down if it means we get to start fresh with the Inhuman royal family in the MCU.

Harper was significantly better at getting on base this season and had a slightly higher slugging percentage

I think Joe Buck is tolerable most of the time, as a Braves fan I'd rather listen to Buck call a game over Chip Caray whining about shifts and analytics for half the game. I do wish Buck would get over his habit of reminding people that a player is near the end of their contract any time they produce a big moment late in the series. It's such a wet blanket to toss onto things.

Every now and then your favorite team wins the championship in your favorite sport, and being s sports fan is actually fun! The Braves won 44 games in the first half and 44 in the second half, which I choose to see as a bit of magic from the Hammer.

Well, this would presumably be why someone is out to kill Nathan. It's a game changer. Good question, I assume that he's got a safe house/lab where he's able to do his work off the grid.

It's definitely time to retire the chop, Deion hasn't even played for the Braves in 27 years.

9th inning of a relatively close World Series game and FOX was playing a comedy highlight of Smoltz from 25 years ago complete with wacky hijinks music ...

I'm starting to understand why Mets players were giving Mets fans the thumbs down this season.

1. The film presents all the reasons that oversight is a good idea so that the film can then turn around and dismiss them. At no point does anyone say, "We need oversight, but a better system." It's just, "the best hands are still our own," as the only alternative. 2. As far as I can tell Zemo's plan was to destroy the Avengers by engineering a fight between Steve and Tony based on Winter Soldier killing Tony's parents. What does Zemo do if Tony never shows up at the Hydra base? Does he show Steve and Bucky the video and offer them popcorn as a cover for his escape? 3. There's a big difference between wanting someone to be perfect, and that person not trying to straight up murder an innocent man for half of the 3rd act of the film. Then that attempted murder being brushed off and completely ignored afterwards because he was mad that Steve lied isn't interesting. 4. Wanda is in the US without a Visa or citizenship according to that conversation. One might assume that means that her presence is somehow tied to her service in the Avengers relating directly to her past actions, at the very least her status is clearly something very different than the internment of American citizens based on nothing other than their ethnicity during WWII as Wanda is not an American citizen and has actually shown herself to be highly volatile and dangerous to the American people in the recent past. Granted we can only speculate on this because, of course, the film never gives us any explanation of Wanda's status before having a key moment in the film turn on it.

I dislike Civil War because: 1. The film uses every trick possible to stack the deck in favor of showing that any form of external oversight of a (self appointed) police force is a bad thing. Ross being the face of it, muddying the waters by having him talk about New York and DC instead of just pointing at the killer robots created by one of their founding members and the dead people in Africa. 2. Zemo's plan is absurdly convoluted and requires (among other things) that Tony Stark be able to jet around the world visiting different locations and having tense conversations in the same amount of time it takes Steve and Bucky to fly straight from Germany to the Winter Soldier base. 3. Tony Stark straight up tries to murder Bucky for something that Tony is aware that Bucky did while he was brainwashed. This basically just gets brushed aside by the end of the film as if it's an understandable reaction because Steve lied to him. Bonus. Steve's breaking point to Tony's pitch to sign on is Wanda's "internment" at the Avengers Compound, when Wanda was just a few years prior working with the previously mentioned killer robot until she realized that it was planning on destroying all of the people instead of just people she didn't like, and she also unleashed a mindless Hulk on a major city filled with people. Yeah, this single incredibly powerful person with a recent criminal history being kept in modern comfort is totally comparable to what happened to Japanese Americans during WW2.

If only there was some process by which the other teams in the National League East could have prevented the Braves from making the playoffs each year. Possibly even using the inherent advantages of their larger media market and payroll to give them a competitive edge in that process.

Bev only got in to NYU to follow Adam, she won't go without him

It's funny because most of the real people that Adam portrayed in a less flattering way seem to have good humor about it, but Bev is upset about Adam getting a wait listed story that's clearly just sitcom 101 to keep the show's main cast together.

She turned 80 in "Puffless", she was also a smoker and lived with heavy smokers, so that probably doesn't help. Much like with Abe, I think the writers just thought having the grandparents be older was funnier.

Dumbledore: "Yes it's true, I'm an android."

I feel like the episode was originally titled "What if ... Hope Died?" but they decided that too many people would figure out the double meaning. I find it hard to believe that Sif and the Warriors 3 would go along with Loki conquering Earth, especially after the humans helped them find Thor's killer.

It was the signs of Palladium poisoning from the original Arc Reactor that was killing him in Iron Man 2, before he created Howard's synthetic Vibranium New Element to power the reactor near the end of the film.

Thanos recognizes them and warns the others that they're "bad news" which I took as an indication that they had been part of his forces before he switched sides and the Collector "filled the vacuum". Even if we're supposed to take it that they're just hired goons or something and not Thanos's "children" as they were in Infinity War/Endgame, he still "adopted" Nebula and presumably killed off half her planet's population, which makes the whole "give dad a chance" thing beyond bad taste IMO.

So it was lovely to hear Chadwick portray T'Challa again, and the opening Star Lord turn was pretty funny, and that's the extent of what I have to say that I thought was good about this one: We have the continued lionization of Yondu, who again kidnapped a child and this time lied to him about the death of his entire nation to keep him from going how to his family that was looking for him. At least in the case of Peter you could argue that Ego being on the lookout for him gave some justification to Yondu not returning Peter to his family, but with T'Challa he was just 100% being a selfish prick. T'Challa, at least, apparently didn't suffer the years of threats of being eaten at the hands of Yondu and his crew that Peter did, possibly because he'd already at least begun training in how to fight and be a future Black Panther and wasn't just a scared kid like Peter who was an easy target. Then we also have "good guy" Thanos, who was still someone who killed, literally, billions of beings and kidnapped children and abused/trained them into being weapons getting the "gee whiz why won't Nebula give her poor kidnapper/abuser dad a chance" story, which resolves with him fighting some of the other children he kidnapped and abused into being weapons after wiping out half their peoples.

I was a bit unclear how Peggy being the Super Soldier lead to Red Skull's plan being to summon a Lovecraftian monster rather than a super bomber, but it was a pretty fun What If

I'd say that the films portray Steve as something closer to "peak human" in TFA and Avengers, but then soft retcon Super Soldiers to clearly super human (particularly in strength) in TWS which has continued through the subsequent films and F&TWS.