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by RobVarak
Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:47 am
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: Forum issues
Replies: 8
Views: 1331

Re: Forum issues

Thanks for keeping the jalopy in tip-top shape, Jared.
by RobVarak
Sat Mar 21, 2020 7:42 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: Coronavirus Suggestions
Replies: 101
Views: 12109

Re: Coronavirus Suggestions

What was different in 1968 vs today, is that schools were still open, Sports leagues were still operating, restaurants were open for business and people were civil even in NYC. There wasn't any panic buying and stockpiling like it was the end of the world. What we have is the potential of completel...
by RobVarak
Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:57 am
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: Coronavirus Suggestions
Replies: 101
Views: 12109

Re: Coronavirus Suggestions

sportdan30 wrote:Narcos and Narcos: Mexico...and everything else is a very distant second.

I had the flu last month and binged Mexico S2 so hard that I had a dream that night that was subtitled. This is 100% true. :lol:
by RobVarak
Fri Mar 13, 2020 12:01 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: Coronavirus Suggestions
Replies: 101
Views: 12109

Re: Coronavirus Suggestions

The thing about COVID-19 is the unknown unknowns. The flu comparisons are facile because, as bad as the flu is, we have immunizations that can both limit its spread and minimize its intensity in those who get immunized. The idea that it only kills old or sick people is generally true...except when i...
by RobVarak
Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:47 am
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: Coronavirus Suggestions
Replies: 101
Views: 12109

Re: Coronavirus Suggestions

Some off-the-beaten-path streaming suggestions. Babylon Berlin. This will NOT be for everybody, but it's a German (subtitled) drama set in the late Weimar Republic. It's riveting, creepy, sexy, odd...just a hell of a lot of fun. Halt and Catch Fire. A grossly overlooked casualty of the torrent of gr...
by RobVarak
Fri Nov 29, 2019 12:00 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: Jedi Fallen Order
Replies: 25
Views: 3255

Re: Jedi Fallen Order

I'm not feeling this game at all. I'm going to finish, because the story and presentation are top-notch, but I despise the platform-y stuff and I don't think it works at all with the idea of the story. Going from being a jedi bad ass one minute, deflecting blaster shots from a half-dozen stormtroope...
by RobVarak
Wed Nov 06, 2019 3:45 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: Call of Duty Modern Warfare
Replies: 66
Views: 7500

Re: Call of Duty Modern Warfare

I just had one of those mind-melting glitches in the campaign that just drives you crazy. Near the end of a long, slow, stealth-based mission, I crouched in a corner. Some bad guys exited the building, opening the door and trapping me behind it. This door became totally immovable...and of course the...
by RobVarak
Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:09 am
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: MLB Season 2022. Playball!
Replies: 420
Views: 49696

Re: MLB Season 2019. Playball!

I enjoyed the series, even if it wasn't the most dramatic, largely because I like both of the teams involved. So happy for those old, hardcore DC baseball fans who weathered years without a team. Tom Boswell has one of the game's great writers (and boosters) for decades, and guys like him who champi...
by RobVarak
Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:36 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: Call of Duty Modern Warfare
Replies: 66
Views: 7500

Re: Call of Duty Modern Warfare

Even now, as I approach a half-century on this planet, the forum effect is real...

:lol: :lol:
by RobVarak
Thu Oct 17, 2019 6:00 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: The Beautiful Game thread, season 2018/19
Replies: 318
Views: 29604

Re: The Beautiful Game thread, season 2018/19

To some extent he was supposed to change the way US Soccer itself worked, but the problem is bigger than that. Really, it's a job that involves more than just the USSF and you are correct that five years isn't enough time. Problem No. 1 remains: We're still depending on players to fund their own de...
by RobVarak
Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:59 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: The Beautiful Game thread, season 2017/18
Replies: 341
Views: 31371

Re: The Beautiful Game thread, season 2017/18

...mis-posted.
by RobVarak
Thu Oct 17, 2019 12:07 am
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: MLB Season 2022. Playball!
Replies: 420
Views: 49696

Re: MLB Season 2019. Playball!

Listening to a podcast. They're going to talk to someone about a theory that they're not using the same juiced balls in the postseason that they were using during the regular season. The balls are different. The data on that is clear. The theories are regarding whether it's intentional or simply a ...
by RobVarak
Wed Oct 16, 2019 1:58 am
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: MLB Season 2022. Playball!
Replies: 420
Views: 49696

Re: MLB Season 2019. Playball!

Good work, Nats. Damn good work. Enjoy your time off.
by RobVarak
Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:07 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: Ghost Recon Break Point
Replies: 37
Views: 4257

Re: Ghost Recon Break Point

10spro wrote: I am having some fun, expected more honestly from Ubisoft (they do come with quick patches) so at this point of everyone’s enjoyment of the game it really depends on their own ‘Breakpoint’. 8)
Banned!
by RobVarak
Thu Oct 10, 2019 12:39 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: Ghost Recon Break Point
Replies: 37
Views: 4257

Re: Ghost Recon Break Point

Got my feet wet with this finally. My God, what a mess! I've had at least 3 missions glitch to oblivion in different ways and I've only been playing for a day. The interface is a clu$f*** of epic proportions. Whoever "designed" that mission log interface should be launched out of the universe. The b...
by RobVarak
Thu Oct 10, 2019 12:53 am
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: MLB Season 2022. Playball!
Replies: 420
Views: 49696

Re: MLB Season 2019. Playball!

Well, Roberts has to be fired right? Another great season marred by horrible decisions in the playoffs. Dodger fans have to be livid right now. At least the 5 that have already texted me tonight are...so yeah. Nothing exemplifies LA fans like getting up and heading for the exits as soon as that gra...
by RobVarak
Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:44 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: MLB Season 2022. Playball!
Replies: 420
Views: 49696

Re: MLB Season 2019. Playball!

"Real quality" teams would win under all conditions, even in gimmicky tournaments, no? Quality futbol clubs, even if they win the domestic leagues, also want to win the CL. Players move to clubs to be able to play in the CL, not just win league titles. Yes, but the difference between the CL and the...
by RobVarak
Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:35 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: MLB Season 2022. Playball!
Replies: 420
Views: 49696

Re: MLB Season 2019. Playball!

But it is the goal of every team. How did the 162-game schedule come into being? It was to generate a certain amount of revenues for the ball clubs, not necessarily as a determinant of "the best" team. With so many games to play, teams are not playing with the effort and intensity of a shorter tour...
by RobVarak
Wed Oct 09, 2019 2:09 am
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: MLB Season 2022. Playball!
Replies: 420
Views: 49696

Re: MLB Season 2019. Playball!

The 16 straight division title Braves agree with this assessment. Ugh. I hate the playoffs. Nobody with a serious baseball mind looks at postseason success as a real measure of a given team's quality unless they are splitting hairs between teams of similar regular-season quality, and even then it's...
by RobVarak
Tue Oct 08, 2019 9:04 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: MLB Season 2022. Playball!
Replies: 420
Views: 49696

Re: MLB Season 2019. Playball!

I just heard on a podcast about second-order winning percentages. By that metric, Dodgers and Astros are considered super teams, maybe two of the best since 1950. Hmm, only 1 WS win between the two. Of course good chance one of them will win again this year. Still, what is the point of such analyti...
by RobVarak
Tue Oct 08, 2019 1:48 am
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: MLB Season 2022. Playball!
Replies: 420
Views: 49696

Re: MLB Season 2019. Playball!

And game 4, 100% - the most frustrating game I’ve ever watched. Even more than some of those World Series choke jobs in the 90s. This game was won about 5 times by the Braves, and yet, they lose. Impossible to have that many chances to not come through. My TV is lucky it made it through the game to...
by RobVarak
Tue Aug 13, 2019 4:29 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: The Beautiful Game thread, season 2018/19
Replies: 318
Views: 29604

Re: The Beautiful Game thread, season 2018/19

I don’t get the ultra high expectations for him. He wasn’t even that great in Germany...which is a far inferior league below the top 3/4 to the Premier League. I just think he’s going to get unfairly criticized and he really should have stayed with Dortmund for a while longer to improve his game. H...
by RobVarak
Sun Aug 11, 2019 1:47 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: The Beautiful Game thread, season 2018/19
Replies: 318
Views: 29604

Re: The Beautiful Game thread, season 2018/19

Not to be too negative. I'd love for it to be less than the year, but this is the current status: The Brazilian pulled up after taking a routine goal kick, with reports that the calf problem will keep him out for 4-8 weeks, but the ECHO understands that Liverpool are still waiting to discover the fu...
by RobVarak
Sat Aug 10, 2019 10:00 am
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: The Beautiful Game thread, season 2018/19
Replies: 318
Views: 29604

Re: The Beautiful Game thread, season 2018/19

dbdynsty25 wrote:Gonna hurt to lose Alisson for the season. Def looked like Achilles - just ask Kevin Durant. Same motion, same result.
100% Totally deflating.
by RobVarak
Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:26 pm
Forum: Digital Sportspage
Topic: The Beautiful Game thread, season 2018/19
Replies: 318
Views: 29604

Re: The Beautiful Game thread, season 2018/19

Quite a fun day of footy yesterday. The women did what the women do. The men showed that there may be some green shoots in the talent pool but Berhalter may not have the tactical chops to get the job done.