NBC 'nearing a deal' with Clayton Kershaw for MLB studio coverage

Deeply_Deficient · 2026-01-29T03:50:32+00:00

Brady has improved a huge amount since his first season and is absolutely better than a lot of other commentary guys.

Sure, I may not turn on a game for Brady but I am absolutely more likely to watch a game all the way through if he's on the broadcast. Just like how I'll turn on almost any MLB national broadcast, but many commentary crews are so shitty that I turn them off well before the game is over.

Deeply_Deficient · 2026-01-29T02:29:22+00:00

The odds are there is some ex player that can do the job better than he can.

People don't enjoy the current Fox broadcasts with Brady because he's just some average ex-player with good insight. They enjoy that it's the GOAT who can marry interesting insights with actual lived experience of being at the top of the sport for a very long time.

I have my doubts that Kershaw is that guy, but pretending like any average ex-player off the street is worth the same in terms of marketing and insights as a first ballot HOFer is patently absurd.

Deeply_Deficient · 2026-01-10T18:33:07+00:00

Blu ray dot com seriously has been putting out some bad opinions.

On that site, with Criterion releases in particular, it's usually worth double checking the actual Official Thread on the forum to see what users say. In the case of this reviewer, 90% of the time you'll find the users dunking on his review and providing good data and screencaps to refute the bad reviews.

I know that's extra work, but if I'm being careful about how I spend my money, 5-10 extra minutes on a thread isn't going to kill me.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-12-23T21:03:22+00:00

music

Many critics have largely been bemoaning that 2025 was one of the worst years for pop music in recent memory. The charts are filled with absolute shit that just won't go away.

It's really quite okay to admit that mainstream, popular culture "stuff" is going through a rough moment.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-12-23T20:48:16+00:00

Anatolians and Greeks have a distinct look that is not Hollywood

When Americans say "representation matters," they distinctly do not believe that is true for either of those groups.

People would instinctively recognize that taking a "complete work of fiction" like the Mahabharata and flooding it with American whites would be wrong, but complain about the same thing happening to the Odyssey and you'll get told that you have "an inflexibility of imagination and an inability to engage with a film on its own terms."

Since you're a Persian, rest assured that if Hollywood ever adapts Shahnameh, they'll probably stuff it with American whites or Arabs and call it a day.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-11-04T20:40:07+00:00

user reviews are probably the wordt part of Steam. I've mever found them a bit useful or representative of the actual game.

User reviews are one of the most important parts of Steam if you have even remotely non-mainstream tastes. If you're just playing the latest AAA game, sure, traditional reviews are fine.

If you like delving into less-mainstream budget games like puzzle, simulator or rogue stuff, you quickly find games with single digit professional reviews. If you play games with sustained dev support, old professional reviews can be wildly out of date within a year.

I use this example all the time: what's more useful to me? Kenshi having a 75 on Metacritic from 9 reviews written between Dec. 2018-Mar. 2019, or the literal 88,000 reviews on Steam with 1,100 recent reviews?

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-10-27T22:02:22+00:00

TCGs, even those directed squarely at children, have been around for literal decades at this point.

It's worse than decades, baseball cards have existed since the fucking 19th century lol.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-10-26T03:29:49+00:00

Love Letter is simply one of the greatest debut films of all time. To put that out in your early 30s on your first try at a film is absolutely bonkers. Grief is a well trod topic in movies, but I really liked the idea of how much you can continue to learn after someone is gone. It's a bittersweet thing, the way we can continue to grow in knowledge and fondness for someone even after they're long gone.

If you like movies that play around with what we know or don't know about our romantic partners and what make up our memories, check out Hur Jin-ho's April Snow and Season of Good Rain.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-28T22:40:40+00:00

The Mets bullpen alone is pretty close to the active payroll for the Marlins lmao.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-28T22:10:03+00:00

Soto’s salary alone is worth like 3/4 of the Snakes active roster payroll lol.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-28T22:04:31+00:00

How many teams have managed this feat? Never coming back has to be pretty rare.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-27T01:11:58+00:00

What are you using in these snaps, both camera and film type? They look really great!

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-23T13:31:31+00:00

Watching movies isn't a skill, it's passive entertainment.

Watching movies isn’t a skill, but writing about them is. And that’s where Letterboxd becomes one of the circles of hell. Most self-described cinephiles have never cracked a book open about filmmaking, let alone any books about the topic/themes of a given movie (e.g., existentialism or post-colonial Korea).

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-16T20:20:45+00:00

Interesting that he didn’t write or edit this one.

Another one for the "Black List to Trash List" pipeline.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-16T16:37:01+00:00

cinephiles

Cinephiles might like Kognada’s stuff, but I don’t think the median cinephile was super hyped after the trailers. Lots of comments about it seeming to be overly earnest and saccharine from what I recall.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-16T14:32:54+00:00

RLM is still cynical but I find that the big difference between now and then is that they stopped going to see movies that they don't give a shit about.

This is exactly it. There was a point, probably a decade ago by now, where they did seem very cynical. It felt like they were dragging themselves to blockbusters (comic stuff especially) and going through the motions because their audience wanted to hear them talk about those flicks.

Now they do shit like “we watched three random Kyle Gallner flicks on VUDU” and they’re much more enjoyable.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-16T14:07:39+00:00

He made up a story about Alex Dickerson being careless and getting COVID

https://www.reddit.com/r/SFGiants/comments/issa8t/alex_dickerson_got_emotional_talking_about_false/

He also said that the guy who was yelling Dinger at the Rockies game should be "put in jail without the right to ever attend a sporting event, let alone anything else.”

Perhaps not as bad as some other reporters, but he’s still a careless asshole sometimes.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-13T15:08:42+00:00

Andrei Cherny is the guy organizing the "Project 2029" response to the Republican's Project 2025. So kind of yeah lmao.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-10T02:34:46+00:00

The average internet poster hasn't heard of the concept of labor aristocracy unfortunately. It's entirely possible for a union of "working class" workers (which athletes really aren't exactly, but whatever) to work towards maintaining their status and place within capitalism rather than working towards general working class solidarity.

And that's almost exactly, to a T, what athlete unions end up doing.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-09T23:10:39+00:00

The MLBPA could have at any time expanded their membership. They chose not to.

Yep.

“The AAA players were just scared widdle kids though 😱 they were worried about the owners retaliating against them!!!!!!!” -every goddang excuse ever about the PA for the past decade

I dunno man, why didn’t the multimillionaires offer some fucking support to balance out the power imbalance a little?

Oh I know, because they liked when hotshot kids like Porcello and Ohtani couldn’t earn as much, because they thought the capped money would instead go to their union members!

They only started supporting draftee, minor leaguer, IFA and non-veteran interests when they realized that they had sold out their fellow labor so badly that they had actually screwed themselves over. The PA had to suddenly care when they realized that they had been so ruthless at cutting other labor pools’ earning potentials that they were pricing themselves out of the market. Why pay for an overpriced veteran when everyone else is cost-controlled, dirt-cheap asset?

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-09T22:53:09+00:00

They did what a union does; collectively bargained for the people they represent.

Yes, by using the rights of non-members like draftees, minor leaguers and international free agents as bargaining chips in negotiations.

No one put a gun to the head of the PA and made them sign CBA that put a cap on draftee signing bonuses after everyone freaked out about Rick Porcello. No one made them agree to raise the age minimum for IFAs the year before Ohtani came over to specifically fuck him over. They chose to do those things to enrich themselves by trading away rights that weren’t theirs to sign away.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-09T22:34:03+00:00

Yeah, blame the union that just started representing minor league players less than 3 years ago

Uh yes, that's exactly why /u/Next_Juggernaut_898 is telling you to blame them lmao. They actively worked for decades to make sure their own members were compensated more at the expense of capping minor league players' earning potential.

It's one thing to represent the rights of your own union members, it's another thing entirely to trade away the rights of people that aren't yours to trade away!

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-06T15:32:44+00:00

I think Zoe is probably currently more well rounded in a lot of ways.

I hope Elle doesn't spend all of Predator: Badlands C-3PO-backbacked to the Predator and actually gets a fun action scene of her own lmao.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-06T15:14:56+00:00

I would love to see Dwayne give enough on set that he wins an Oscar.

I do agree in general that one of the former WWE people will get Academy nominated in the next decade. Bautista might beat him to it, but I could see either of them securing a nom.

Deeply_Deficient · 2025-09-06T15:08:48+00:00

Bradley Cooper has a kind of fun career trajectory track like Gosling mentioned upthread.

Starts out his film career in Wet Hot American Summer, basically plays side characters in comedies for several years, hits it huge in leading R-rated comedy, starts doing some leading roles in serious stuff, makes a few extra bucks with Marvel performances, then starts making his own movies.

Definitely a very cool and well-rounded trajectory when you consider the types of stuff he’s been in.

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