24 thoughts on “May 20, 2019: Word On The Street”

1. Massive attack. A weighty topic for a Monday.

   1. Truly a momentous decision.

      1. Enlightened thinking, even.

         1. You guys are getting a little heavy on the puns.

            1. You just need to lighten up, sir.

               1. I'm not sure any of you understand the gravity of the situation.

                  1. This thread is making me want to kilo-ver.

                     1. Naturally, people are gonna kibble with the methods.

2. This Newscut entry would make a great Survivor story.

3. Got 6 of 8 on this week's Invisibles. Missing #1 and #7.

   1. 2 - 6, 8	SelectShow
      2. American Beauty 3. Princess Bride 4. Bridges of Madison County 5. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles 6. Psycho 8. Clueless

      1. #7	SelectShow
         #7 Red Dawn

4. https://twitter.com/parkerhageman/status/1130494303082565632?s=21

   1. that was a pretty serious punch.

   2. Somehow I never saw this before. Googling images for this event is fun.

   3. "This is a good clean play by Pierzynski, he has to go through the catcher, he was blocking the plate." BS, he had an outside lane to the plate, only his foot was blocking.

5. AMR (and other bird watchers), I was at Silverwood Park on Saturday and got to see a great horned owl chick as well as the parents, who were perched nearby. It was pretty neat.

6. In this weeks' 4ltr Power Rankings video, Tim Kurkjian points out that the Twins have three 6-HR games this season, then mentioned three franchises that have done it fewer times in their entire existence. Then pointed out that it wasn't even June yet.

7. Jared Diamond gets a beatdown in The Paper of Record. Not quite like Guy Fieri's, but close.

   1. Diamond had one really good book. He cribbed and extended it into GG&S. And he's been living off that success.

      1. I tried really hard, but I could not finish GG&S.

         1. I enjoyed the anthropological/science history of GG&S (learning about prehistorical giant mammals was cool!), but the human history was meh. Collapse was worse. The last thing he wrote I listened to on tape while driving around to various court hearings, and it was especially meh (can't even remember the title). I understand that his specialty is Papua New Guinea, but man he forces stories about Papua New Guinea into every single thesis he forms.

            1. I pretty much agree with this. Except the section on Haiti-Dominican Republic was pretty good in Collapse.

            2. I really enjoyed GG&S, and then I picked up The Third Chimpanzee and realized how much of GG&S was recycled.

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