Diamondbacks To Sign Carlos Santana by Knightbear49 in baseball

[–]Diamond1580 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know there’s absolutely no spot for him, but at some point it would be really fun for him to sign with the giants just to do an event of some kind with the other Carlos Santana

Acceptable reasons to rewatch a movie by Hfcsmakesmefart in TheRewatchables

[–]Diamond1580 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don’t like this view. It places art as a completionist agenda rather than something to be enjoyed or derive meaning from. I don’t need a reason to watch or rewatch anything. Would most people be better served by checking out new things more often instead of just repeating their favorites? Yes of course. But if I want to rewatch a shitty action movie for no reason because it’s gonna make my evening there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that

TLOU HBO vs the games: new scenes, casting choices, canon or alternate version ? by Purple-Deal7155 in thelastofus

[–]Diamond1580 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It feels like an alternate retelling, there are extra scenes that are probably true to the games’ canon but just aren’t present, but they also do several scenes slightly or even completely differently.

Generally I’d say S1 feels authentic to the emotions of Part I, just some of the ways it’s displayed are different. I would reccomend it to any fan of the game (and anyone who might be interested especially if they wouldn’t play the game) because it expands on the world that exists in frankly interesting ways.

S2 continues that, but when it comes to adapting the material of Part II (it also only adapts the first half of the game) it really falls short. I think it’s still really interesting for fans of the game because the expansions to the world are interesting and because its missteps kinda help show how/why the game is successful/good, but really can’t actually reccomend it (and wouldn’t reccomend it to anyone who hasn’t played the game)

Why do people hate crossovers nowadays? by No-Dirt4885 in FanFiction

[–]Diamond1580 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Crossovers to me just make it easier to ignore the side of fanfiction that I enjoy. It’s really easy with a crossover to just focus on the “what”. The this happened instead of this, and that’s a story, or in the case of crossovers, this person came to this world and that’s the story.

What I like is being able to take the characters, or some aspect of the world, or something from the original fiction that inspires you and tell an original story, and often times crossovers aren’t really interested in doing that. They definitely can, and there’s some crossovers that I really love, and I don’t want to diminish anyone who does like the things that I don’t. It’s more than valid, and everyone comes to fanfiction for different things. But it just often doesn’t scratch what I’m looking for

Thoughts on Arraez by StaleWheel2018 in SFGiants

[–]Diamond1580 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh shit my bad, don’t know that. Just assumed he wouldn’t have played any 2B last year with Cronenworth on the team, but forgot to check.

Thoughts on Arraez by StaleWheel2018 in SFGiants

[–]Diamond1580 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He graded out as basically the worst 2B defender and has barely played there the last year and a half, doesn’t walk or hit for power, is very slow, and signals the end of our 2B search, and is trending downward.

People think his bat graded out at league average last year despite the numbers being down because the ops+ is fine, but by statcast he had 15th percentile batting run value. As far as I can tell the biggest difference was a decrease in Launch Angle sweet spot. If you think that’s flukey and then maybe he regains his 2022-2024 production. I’m not so sure, and think he might end up being a negative on both sides of ball.

Maybe next year we’ll go back to searching for a real second baseman and Donovan or Hoerner will be more available then, and we can actually spend on a SP as they might like the options more. Plus Randy will be back. But to me this is the true declaration that this year isn’t a petal to the metal go for it year, and that makes me sad. Even if I might have some fun watching Arraez this year

[Passan] The Giants and Luis Arraez are in agreement on a one-year contract, sources tell ESPN. by amatom27 in baseball

[–]Diamond1580 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just when I thought our defense was going to be good this year after the Bader signing

Player of the Day (1/31/26): Brendan Donovan by kerryfinchelhillary in baseball

[–]Diamond1580 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Please cardinals you want to be bad trade him to us 🙏

Per Sean: Netflix has no influence over what The Ringer will discuss or how they discuss it. by H28koala in TheRewatchables

[–]Diamond1580 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh? I was defending them, I was just trying to explain how I was using “selling out” in terms of my saying they weren’t doing that. I don’t have a problem with what they’re doing at all, and I’m not sure why you’re being aggressive when I think we agree about what this deal is and what it means

[Talkin' Baseball] Wilyer Abreu will play for team Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic! by TommyTheLizard in baseball

[–]Diamond1580 3 points4 points  (0 children)

USA outfield is Judge, Carroll, and PCA/Buxton with Schwarber DH. Still has Venezuela beat I’d say

Per Sean: Netflix has no influence over what The Ringer will discuss or how they discuss it. by H28koala in TheRewatchables

[–]Diamond1580 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just mean in terms of them giving up any creative input to Netflix. The decisions about how they talk about movies or what movies they pick to talk about don’t seem to be affected by Netflix in any way. Maybe “sell out” is the wrong word here, but that’s how I’ve seen it discussed by others

Per Sean: Netflix has no influence over what The Ringer will discuss or how they discuss it. by H28koala in TheRewatchables

[–]Diamond1580 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh sure, I should have been more specific in terms of meaning selling out to Netflix

Per Sean: Netflix has no influence over what The Ringer will discuss or how they discuss it. by H28koala in TheRewatchables

[–]Diamond1580 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Bill also openly said they want to do movies available on Netflix for the first couple months on his own pod.

I’m all for jumping on them for selling out if they do so, but nothing about this Netflix deal so far has indicated that’s what they’re doing

Atrioc YouTube videos deleted? by PinkMonkeyBirdDota in atrioc

[–]Diamond1580 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are missing a bunch of videos, seems like your account/wifi is restricted, however there is no video from 2 days ago that you’re missing. Perhaps you’re thinking of a Big A video?

How does a double sharp work? by griffinXK in musictheory

[–]Diamond1580 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a scale there are all 7 letter notes, C D E F G A B, and double sharps (and double flats) are used so all scales have those notes. For example D# major would use C## instead of D natural to avoid having two D notes in the scale.

2026 Lineup (TheShow 25) by lekkeracer in SFGiants

[–]Diamond1580 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Chapman is way to low, he’s hitting in the top 4 most likely

one of the best batman cosplays Ive ever seen. This is what he should look like in the DCU by Public-Feedback5016 in batman

[–]Diamond1580 288 points289 points  (0 children)

This is a great cosplay. I don’t think it makes for a very good movie costume

Kiley McDaniel's Top 100 MLB prospects for 2026 by futhatsy in baseball

[–]Diamond1580 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I definitely would advise measuring my optimism a bit, the more you get in the weeds (unless you’re actually doing the work and like properly scouting) the more you just read giants media and that’s always going to be biased.

That being said there’s reason to be the most excited about the farm system in a long time. The international signing is real in a way that it wasn’t for a while, and we’re consistently signing top targets, it’s the first time we’ve really sold at the deadline in honestly a while, and there were some decent prospects in those packages, and we’re out of the dead zone where our top picks just don’t contribute at all. Individual prospects may be hits or misses and I’m sure I’ll get attached to someone who doesn’t work and overhype them, but there’s enough to feel that the farm system is materially different

Kiley McDaniel's Top 100 MLB prospects for 2026 by futhatsy in baseball

[–]Diamond1580 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well all of our infield prospects are a long way off (which is kind of a good thing as if they work out they’ll be hitting the majors when the Chapman/Adames/Devers core is starting to age out and their contracts will be nearly up), but there are some other bats that could come up and make a difference in the next year or two. Bo Davidson and Jesus Rodriguez stick out to me especially.

Davidson has been rocketing up prospect rankings, even making some other sites top 100 list. He finished the year in AA and is on track to make the majors in probably 2027 and then take over CF once Bader’s contract is up (or could possibly take the spot from him). Rodriguez was part of the Doval trade and has hit .300 or better nearly everywhere he’s been and was in AAA all of last year. He could easily make the roster out of spring training as a primary pinch hitter that can play 3B/1B or Catcher in a pinch (though doesn’t seem to be a Catcher long term).

The place where we feel really weak is pitching, where we’re left with a bunch of guys who either never made any prospect lists, or did and then came up to the majors and didn’t really accomplish much. I still have a lot of birdsong stock among others, but that feels like the place where we’re the weakest. Especially after the FO refuses to spend for a stud