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2014.12.06 11:55 mequals1m1w You know, Bryan Adams

I mean, when you've loved and lost the way Bryan Adams has, then you, uh, you know what life's about.

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2011.08.26 23:54 coltron Ryan Adams

We like Ryan Adams. Not Bryan Adams although he is cool too.

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2013.12.09 16:21 likewhatalready Kacey Musgraves

A subreddit dedicated to country singer Kacey Musgraves.

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2024.05.19 07:31 Mr_Samurai149 Challenge

The challenge is to come up with Artist(s) of your choosing and also come up with any 10 songs for them. The catch to this challenge is that, there cant be more than 10 songs for the Artists of your choosing. These songs are songs that u would love to have in Fortnite Festival, there also cant be any copying what someone has already come up with, so if someone already picked it or its already in Fortnite than u have to pick something else. U can pick as many Artists u want and it doesnt have to be 10 songs exactly but it cant be more than 10.
Template Song-Artist Here's an example of songs I've come up with ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The Final Countdown-Europe
Scatman(Ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop)-Scatman John
Blue(Da Be Dee)-Eiffel 65, Gabry Ponte
Ring Ring-Chase B, Travis Scott, Don Toliver, Quavo & Ty Dolla $ign
Link Up-Metro Boomin, Don Toliver & Wizkid (feat. BEAM & Toian)
Too Many Nights-Metro Boomin (feat. Don Toliver & Future)
Die For Me-Post Malone (feat. Future & Halsey)
Mourning-Post Malone
My House-Flo Rida
Wild Stallions-Stallion
Fight with the Devil-Hollow Ground
Miss You To Death-Cauldron
Sex Type Thing-Stone Temple Pilots
Kryptonite-3 Doors Down
Breakfast In America-Supertramp
Run To You-Bryan Adams
Dirty Laundry-Don Henley
Southstreet Brotherhood-Ambush
Ace Of Spades-Motorhead
Assault Attack-Michael Schenker Group
(I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight- Cutting Crew
Running In The 90s-Max Coveri
Angels Don't Kill- Children Of Bodom
Angel Witch-Angel Witch
Airborne-Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast
Rusty Cage-Soundgarden
Friction-B'z
Going Though Changes-Army Of Me
Stand and Deliver-Adam & The Ants
Closer-Lacuna Coil
Until You Leave- Permanent ME
Road Racin-Riot
Thunderstruck-AC/DC
Back In Black-AC/DC
Shoot to Thrill-AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night-AC/DC
Sharp Dressed Man-ZZ TOP
Gimme All Your Lovin-ZZ TOP
La Grange-ZZ TOP
Gaps In The Armoire-Ghost Atlas
Lesser Gods-Ghost Atlas
In The House Of Leaves-Ghost Atlas
Seeker-Ghost Atlas
Cry Wolf-Ghost Atlas
Legs-Ghost Atlas
Badlands-Ghost Atlas
Memories-Dreamwake
Midnight Rain-Dreamwake
Luna-Dreamwake
Paradise-Dreamwake
Kaizen-Dreamwake
Master Of Puppets-Metallica
Enter Sandman-Metallica
Rock of Ages-Def Leppard
Photograph-Def Leppard
Looks That Kill-Motley Crue
Live Wire-Motley Crue
Kickstart My Heart-Motley Crue
Dr Feelgood-Motley Crue
Crazy Babies-Ozzy Osbourne
Believer-Ozzy Osbourne
Bark At The Moon-Ozzy Osbourne
Take What You Want-Ozzy Osbourne, Travis Scott, Post Malone
Your Love-The Outfield
Bad Case Of Loving You-Robert Palmer
Let Me Be Your Superhero-Smash Into Pieces
Higher-Smash Into Pieces
The Tide-Smash Into Pieces
Freight Train-Smash Into Pieces
Throne-Smash Into Pieces
Wake Up-Smash Into Pieces
Adieu-Rammstein
Engel-Rammstein
Sonne-Rammstein
Radio-Rammstein
Du Hast-Rammstein
That's All-Genesis
Last Jedi Knight-Star Wars parody song
Dark Side Light Side-Star Wars song
Ari Ari-Bloodywood
Machi Bhasad-Bloodywood
Gaddaar-Bloodywood
Yaad-Bloodywood
Jee Veerey-Bloodywood
Endurant-Bloodywood
The Eagle Flies Alone-ARCH ENEMY
War Enemy-ARCH ENEMY
War Pigs-Black Sabbath
Iron Man-Black Sabbath
Paranoid-Black Sabbath
Powerless-Linkin Park
What I've Done-Linkin Park
Ruby-Kaiser Chiefs
Welcome to the Jungle-Guns N Roses
Paradise City-Guns N Roses
Ritual-Ghost
Mary On A Cross-Ghost
Elizabeth-Ghost
Show me the way-Black Tide
Don't believe-Seether
Walk Away from the Sun-Seether
6 Gun Quota-Seether
Fake It-Seether
Eyes of the Devil-Seether
Show me the way-Seether
Train kept a rollin'-Aerosmith
Sweet Emotion-Aerosmith
Love in an Elevator-Aerosmith
Mama Kin-Aerosmith
Walk this way-Aerosmith(feat. DMC)
Pink Shoe Laces-The Chordettes
Children Of Heaven-Sword
Flawed Design-ALESTI
Anomaly-I See Stars
If Hatsune Miku ever comes to the Festival these are songs I expect to see

Senbonzakura-Hatsune Miku
Sadistic Music Factory-Hatsune Miku
Online Game Addicts-Hatsune Miku
Sweet Devil-Hatsune Miku
39Music!-Hatsune Miku
Yellow-Hatsune Miku
Clover Club-Hatsune Miku
Two Sided Lovers-Hatsune Miku
World is Mine-Hatsune Miku
Miku Night Fever-Hatsune Miku

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2024.05.19 03:14 MLS_Reddit_Bot Match Thread: Colorado Rapids @ Real Salt Lake

Overview

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Home	Real Salt Lake	5
Away	Colorado Rapids	3
Status	Full Time
Venue	America First Field
City	Sandy, Utah
Date	Saturday May 18, 2024
Time	07:30 PM MDT

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Lineups

Real Salt Lake	Pos		Colorado Rapids	Pos
Zac MacMath, #18	G		Zack Steffen, #95	G
Brayan Vera, #4	CD-L		Andreas Maxsø, #5	CD-L
Justen Glad, #15	CD-R		Moise Bombito, #64	CD-R
Alexandros Katranis, #98	LB		Sam Vines, #3	LB
Andrew Brody, #2	RB		Keegan Rosenberry, #2	RB
Matt Crooks, #25	AM		Djordje Mihailovic, #10	AM
Braian Ojeda, #6	LM		Cole Bassett, #23	LM
Emeka Eneli, #14	RM		Oliver Larraz, #18	RM
Cristian Arango, #9	F		Rafael Navarro, #9	F
Diego Luna, #8	AM-L		Omir Fernandez, #11	AM-L
Andres Gomez, #11	AM-R		Calvin Harris, #14	AM-R
Philip Quinton, #26	SUB		Jackson Travis, #99	SUB
Fidel Barajas, #17	SUB		Darren Yapi, #77	SUB
Anderson Julio, #29	SUB		Adam Beaudry, #31	SUB
Bryan Oviedo, #3	SUB		Kevin Cabral, #91	SUB
Maikel Chang, #16	SUB		Lalas Abubakar, #6	SUB
Bertin Jacquesson, #27	SUB		Sebastian Anderson, #22	SUB
Nelson Palacio, #13	SUB		Jasper Löeffelsend, #21	SUB
Gavin Beavers, #35	SUB		Jonathan Lewis, #7	SUB
		Connor Ronan, #20	SUB

Match events via ESPN

Kickoff
5' ⚽ Goal! Real Salt Lake 0, Colorado Rapids 1. Cole Bassett (Colorado Rapids) left footed shot from more than 35 yards to the centre of the goal.
19' ⚽ Goal! Real Salt Lake 0, Colorado Rapids 2. Rafael Navarro (Colorado Rapids) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.
23' ⚽ Goal! Real Salt Lake 1, Colorado Rapids 2. Cristian Arango (Real Salt Lake) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
32' 🟨 Zack Steffen (Colorado Rapids) is shown the yellow card.
40' ⚽ Goal! Real Salt Lake 2, Colorado Rapids 2. Andrés Gómez (Real Salt Lake) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Diego Luna with a cross following a corner.
45'+4' Halftime
45' Start 2nd Half
51' 🟨 Matt Crooks (Real Salt Lake) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
56' ⚽ Goal! Real Salt Lake 2, Colorado Rapids 3. Djordje Mihailovic (Colorado Rapids) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.
60' 🔄 Substitution, Real Salt Lake. Nelson Palacio replaces Braian Ojeda.
60' 🔄 Substitution, Real Salt Lake. Anderson Julio replaces Matt Crooks.
65' 🟨 Brayan Vera (Real Salt Lake) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
67' 🔄 Substitution, Colorado Rapids. Kévin Cabral replaces Calvin Harris.
67' 🔄 Substitution, Colorado Rapids. Connor Ronan replaces Omir Fernandez.
71' 🔄 Substitution, Colorado Rapids. Jasper Löffelsend replaces Oliver Larraz.
71' 🔄 Substitution, Colorado Rapids. Darren Yapi replaces Rafael Navarro.
75' 🔄 Substitution, Real Salt Lake. Bryan Oviedo replaces Alexandros Katranis.
78' 🟨 Emeka Eneli (Real Salt Lake) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
83' 🔄 Substitution, Colorado Rapids. Lalas Abubakar replaces Djordje Mihailovic.
85' ⚽ Goal! Real Salt Lake 3, Colorado Rapids 3. Cristian Arango (Real Salt Lake) header from very close range to the bottom right corner following a corner.
88' ⚽ Goal! Real Salt Lake 4, Colorado Rapids 3. Andrés Gómez (Real Salt Lake) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cristian Arango.
90' 🟨 Andrés Gómez (Real Salt Lake) is shown the yellow card.
90'+2' 🔄 Substitution, Real Salt Lake. Philip Quinton replaces Andrew Brody.
90'+2' 🔄 Substitution, Real Salt Lake. Maikel Chang replaces Diego Luna.
90'+6' ⚽ Goal! Real Salt Lake 5, Colorado Rapids 3. Anderson Julio (Real Salt Lake) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nelson Palacio following a fast break.
90'+9' 🟨 Darren Yapi (Colorado Rapids) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

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2024.05.19 02:48 Obvious-Friend3690 $30 haul @ Rasputin

$1 each, found some great soundtracks and 80s-90s pop/rock. Also found an Austrian import CD of Pearl Jam’s Jeremy, which is always a great find.

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2024.05.19 00:40 Feeling-Ad9425 AEW Collision

Hello AEW will be coming close to where I live in Palm Desert, CA for Collision for May 30. I’m not too familiar with the show like AEW Dynamite. I’m a big fan of the WWE, but wanted to experience my first AEW show in person. I wanted to know who usually wrestles or appears in Collision? I see Penta, Adam Copeland and Bryan Danielson being advertised. For those that have attended how long are the tapings? I understand that they tape ROH with Collision. Thank you.

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2024.05.18 18:03 Ziltoid94 Help me find Everything I do acoustic version.

The Bryan Adams one btw. There's one acoustic version where it's just him with an acoustic guitar and a piano player. And the crowd is singing along with him.just so intimate and I can't find it anywhere.

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2024.05.18 17:44 Thunderblessed63 Rebuilding the Bavarian Juggernaut: Squad Planning and Transfer Targets

Well folks, the season is over, with the final whistle being blown on a 4-2 loss to Hoffenheim, and the remaining excitement now revolves around which manager will Bayern manage to pull in after the massive debacle this past season has been. There is much blame to go around, with Tuchel, many of the key players, and the supervisory board all failing in significant fashion as Bayern fall to third-place in the Bundesliga, and a very early exit in the Pokal in embarrassing fashion (though Bayern did manage to rally for a strong run in the Champions League).
Roberto de Zerbi in action.
At this point, Italian manager Roberto de Zerbi seems like the most likely candidate, which an announcement coming that he'll be leaving Brighton this season. However, some additional candidates remain available, as Erik ten Hag, Massimiliano Allegri, and some others are still out there and de Zerbi is not a lock to Bayern yet.
Ten Hag with Bayern II.
Either way, this post explores what I would largely do if the transfers were up to me at Bayern. While the specific manager does play a degree of importance in these decisions, part of this does extensively look at some options who could fit a number of schemes, styles, systems, tactics, and such. My slight preference is for Erik ten Hag, as I think his familiarity from Bayern II and his past success at Ajax would be easier to replicate at Bayern than it was at Manchester United, a club I find is more concerned with its branding than its footballing. But I think de Zerbi has a lot of potential, though I worry about whether Bayern's supervisory board would be willing to let de Zerbi do his own thing, and the lack of German is going to be a problem for that board. It's problematic that the board feels so much need to do things one way and operate in such a chaotic fashion, so whomever Bayern hires is likely going to be fighting an uphill battle.

Defense

Bayern's future keeper, Nubel (left) and current keeper, Neuer (right).
Let's start off with the goalkeeper position, a spot that Bayern are largely set at. Right now, Bayern is set at that spot, as Manuel Neuer continues to be an elite goalkeeper even at 38-years old. And while the Bavarians have Sven Ulreich as the immediate backup keeper, Alexander Nübel is the long-term successor being eyed and groomed for the role, recently extending his contract at Bayern, though he remains loaned out to Stuttgart. Then of course there's also Daniel Peretz, a 23-year old keeper that Bayern added this past season. He seems likely to head out to a club such as RSC Anderlecht for a loan period for awhile this summer. In the meantime, Bayern might have Johannes Schenk back from Muenster to fill that third keeper on the roster, or he might get loaned back out once more. Overall, Bayern appear to be in really good shape for the goalkeeper spot, with Neuer continuing to lock things down for another season or so, before probably passing the torch over to Nübel in 2025 or 2026.
Shifting to the centre-back position, Bayern right now seem to have a good deal of interest in adding another big time centre-back, with rumored links of varying degrees to Ronald Araujo and Virgil van Dijk. This would likely mean that at least one current centre-back would need to be sold, as Bayern have a decent enough set of four starting caliber CBs on the roster, headlined by Matthijs de Ligt, but also including Kim Min-jae, Eric Dier, and Dayot Upamecano. My guess would be that if any departs, Upamecano is the most likely, given his inconsistent play and limited role in the lineup these days. De Ligt is the leader of the backline and has had some terrific outings as of late. Min-jae was a big time signing this past summer from Napoli, but has had some bumps along the way adjusting to life in Germany, and meshing into the current defensive system, which is quite hectic from the frequency of errors committed as a whole. Min-jae was excellent at Napoli and so it would not be too difficult to project him returning to that level of form after additional time in Bavaria.
Eric Dier was brought in as a late in the window depth addition, but so far has become a very solid add, starting a good number of matches alongside de Ligt. And whether he projects to start or is a rotational player next year, Bayern have already triggered an option to keep him next season. He's a solid piece to the puzzle overall, capable of giving them some veteran experience, and another Englishman alongside Harry Kane.
If Bayern did opt to sell Upamecano, then they reasonably could take a look at some other options to add into the mix. The top end of options here probably starts with discussing Ronald Araújo further, a 25-year old Uruguayan star for FC Barcelona. He's been a long desired prospect for the Bavarians, but he'd cost a pretty penny no doubt, as some have projected it could be upwards of 100 million € to acquire the talented CB. That's a big price tag, especially after Bayern spent almost €60 million last summer to bring in Min-jae.
Riccardo Calafiori in action for Bologna.
Should de Zerbi take the Bayern job, it's already been rumored that he has some targets in mind, namely Bologna center-back Riccardo Calafiori, a 21-year old Italian talent who can also handle some duties at left-back. He's been excellent this past year under Thiago Matta, and could fill a very valuable role for Bayern, competing with Min-Jae and Dier for the starting position next to Matthijs de Ligt. He also happens to be a left-footed defender, something Bayern have been lacking there as of late.
Some more middle tier options that peak the interest could be Kevin Danso, a 25-year Austrian CB playing for RC Lens in France. He spent a handful of seasons at Augsburg, and so has a good deal of Bundesliga experience and 100 appearances for Les Sang et Or these past three seasons. He's projected to cost about €25 million, so a much cheaper option that could fit well. Another mid-tier option could be Maxence Lacroix, currently in the Bundesliga at Wolfsburg. He's valued at about €20 million, and is a very strong and menacing presence on the backline, still 24-years old. He did get cooked a couple of times against Bayern, which probably harms some appeal there for some, but week-to-week he's been a quality player for Wolfsburg. The third name I'd mention here is Feyenoord's Dávid Hancko, a 26-year old Slovakian talent. He's a smart, savvy defender, and also provides some versatility between centre-back and left-back, which could be quite useful going forward. Oh and I'd be remiss to not mention German national Malick Thiaw, currently at Milan, as another promising option there.
The other option is to go with a younger, less established talent, someone like Armel Bella-Kotchap, who landed on Bayern's transfer rumor threads a good deal in the winter circuit as they were searching for some defensive help.
At left- and right-back, Bayern are in another similar spot where they might be fine, as the Bavarians have a deep rotation of capable options, but positional versatility, injuries, and inconsistent play have caused varying levels of upheaval. Let's start with this one -- if Bayern's new manager is able to convince Joshua Kimmich to remain as a right back, that would be one of the biggest wins they could manage. Kimmich is an elite player at the position, and while he's certainly a high caliber midfielder as well, I think he's best at right back. Whether that's likely or not, is a to-be-determined piece, but it should absolutely a conversation a new manager has with Kimmich.
While Bayern has kept its contract offer on the table for Alphonso Davies, I must admit, whether this is a popular position or not, I would not be a huge fan of Davies remaining with the club at this point. Part of this is because it very much appears as though Davies largely checked out of the season, instead letting all the plotting of a Real Madrid move occupy his headspace, leading to some very uninspired performance. Essentially, I hate to put it so bluntly, but I have been unable to really see it any differently despite my best desires to, it really looks like Davies quit on his team midway through the year, dreaming of Madrid. Whether Madrid come in with an offer at this point or not remains to be seen, but I would look for a way to remove Davies. As much as he offers a lot of potential, any new project for Bayern is going to require players who are bought in to making it happen once against in München, and I just cannot see that happening with Davies at this point.
Behind him, we've seen some excellent play down the stretch from Raphaël Guerreiro and Noussair Mazraoui, tag teaming duties at left-back and left wing to various degrees. I think if Kimmich is willing to man the right-back position, then a trio of Mazraoui, Guerreiro, and promising youngsters like Frans Krätzig and Adam Aznou would be sufficient.
Milan's Theo Hernandez, potentially Bayern's new left-back.
Bayern have been linked, however, with major moves such as AC Milan's Theo Hernandez, a world class player with elite pace and ability. They've also apparently looked into hijacking a potential reunion of Ian Maatsen and Borussia Dortmund, as the Chelsea-owned talent was quite good in Dortmund on loan. BVB would like to get Maatsen permenantly, though Bayern could pull a heist there. I think Bayern could also look at some other German options, such as 27-year old Stuttgart left-back Maximillian Mittelstädt, who recently broke out to the tune of some national team call-ups lately, or perhaps emerging youngster Luca Netz, who looked very promising at Borussia Mönchengladbach this past season.
And then the final note here, but Bayern are likely set with their right-back room, as Joshua Kimmich, Noussair Mazraoui, Josip Stanišić, and Sacha Boey are all on the team. However, there have been rumors that Bayern are interested in Leverkusen's Dutch phenomenon there, Jeremie Frimpong. While he plays as a very forward-oriented RWB, he's a very prolific player outright, with tons of big moments for Leverkusen this past season and a big part of their success.

Midfield

Do not for this one, while the no. 10 position is classified as a midfield position, I am including it in attack, with this one more just focused on the no. 6 and no. 8 roles in the midfield.
Pavlovic had a breakout season in Bavaria.
Bayern's midfield is going to need a major reshuffle. The two most certain pieces to be kept around are emerging youngster Aleksandar Pavlović, an academy talent who has worked his way up to being a go-to starter late into the season, and Konrad Laimer, who is valuable due to his versatility, intensity, and toughness. Kimmich, we'll touch on more below, but in the mean time, one of the major questions for any midfield duo at Bayern is going to be who departs and how things align? I think the one guy probably on the outside looking in is going to be Leon Goretzka. He's had his moments, some ups and downs, but right now figures as the odd man out for assorted reasons, namely the need for more defensive help in the midfield. Goretzka would have a market too if Bayern opted to move forward without him, with teams such as Juventus, Manchester United, and West Ham all having interest over the past year. Unknown. I'd lean towards a departure, even if only because Kimmich in the midfield is a better overall asset, and Bayern would need to free up some funds to acquire a better midfield partner than Goretzka provides.
Then of course there is 29-year old Joshua Kimmich. Mentioned him earlier as ideally slotting in at right back for Bayern going forward, but he's also proven to be quite capable in the midfield. He's excellent at dictating the play going forward, with timely, precise passes, and an aggressive demeanor. He's not terribly reliable as a no. 6, and some of this was the source of the rift between Kimmich and Tuchel earlier this summer, where he and Tuchel were somewhat publicly feuding over whether or not Kimmich could handle that role. Ultimately, I do think Kimmich is better as more of a no. 8, with a more defensive-oriented type of player brought in to compliment him. I think in that role, Kimmich can be wildly successful for Bayern in the remaining years of his career, but a long-term extension is needed at this point. As I've said earlier, I would prefer to keep Kimmich as a right-back, but I am quite content keeping him in the midfield if Bayern can find that no. 6.
Everton's Amadou Onana is a tempting target for Bayern.
And speaking of the need for a defensively minded midfielder... I do believe there is one genuinely excellent option there, with Everton's Amadou Onana available. Onana is a Senegalese-born Belgian national, and came up playing in Germany, with time at Hoffenheim II and Hamburger SV. Thus, he's fluent in German and could integrate to life in München quite easily. He's a very disruptive defensive stopper, with excellent ability to make tackles, halt offensive build-ups, and then quickly turn and push the ball forward for his side to go on the counteroffensive. He's an ideal fit for the system, able to help turn defense into offense in a hurry. Another one for the no. 6 that's been mentioned for Bayern is Adam Wharton, currently at Crystal Palace. The 20-year old English midfielder had an excellent season this past year.
The other one that I would anticipate being a priority if we see ten Hag taking over is a ramped up pursuit of Barcelona's Frenkie de Jong, a fellow Dutchman who was at Ajax under ten Hag for awhile. De Jong's had some injuries issues plaguing him lately, but when he's on, he's an excellent possession-oriented central midfielder, bringing a very well-rounded game as well that includes some noteworthy capacity with dribbling, defense, and passing as well. De Jong also has a notable history/connection with Bayern's Matthijs de Ligt, which makes it seem more feasible that he'd integrate well into the team. In many ways, I think de Jong probably only makes sense as a replacement for Kimmich if he were to depart.
Additionally, while he has been mentioned more as a Tuchel target than anything else, Fulham's Joao Palhinha is an intriguing option as a defensive midfielder. He's an elite tackler and defender in the middle of the defensive half, and shows some solid ability to distribute the ball and lead the build-up. Personally, I think Palhinha is the ideal partner in the midfield to be paired with Aleksandar Pavlovic, whereas Onana next to Kimmich is more preferable there. So some options based on how Bayern wants to set-up. And one other name that could pop up here is Mats Wieffer, currently at Feyenoord, a central figure to Arne Slot's success there. A 24-year old Dutch midfielder, Wieffer has been an excellent option in Slot's midfield, and it seems likely he'll be pursued by Liverpool with Slot taking over there, but Bayern could perhaps try to hijack it.
While at this point, I think Bayern would probably add Onana or Palhinha, maybe de Jong if Kimmich leaves, and then call it a day with Konrad Laimer and Aleksandar Pavlovic there as well, with Kimmich maybe even splitting some time between right-back and midfield throughout the season, there could be room for more players to be added. For some additional depth in the midfield, I think Bayern would do well to go after former academy player Angelo Stiller, who appeared in almost 30 matches this past season for third-place Stuttgart. The 23-year old is an excellent passer, able to distribute the ball forward with precision and anticipation. He'd be a nice reunion for Bayern as well, as he's also born and raised in München, and was added to the national team roster for the EUROs. However, I think Stiller's probably one that Bayern does not really need at this point, though if additional midfield help becomes a need (say perhaps next winter), then he's one to continue monitoring. One other name here would be OGC Nice's Khéphren Thuram, a talented 23-year old midfielder who is quite cheap considering his talent. His brother played for several years at Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Another younger option I'd love to add to the roster here would be 17-year old Sverre Nypan, a Norwegian midfielder who currently plays in-country with Rosenborg BK. I admittedly don't know much about Nypan personally, but am going off of something from I read earlier about Ten Hag and United already monitoring his progress. He'd be a nice piece to add to the mix with other young midfielders like Zovrenek and Wanner coming through the ranks. However, I think a loan for at least one of them would be worthwhile.

Attack

Simons has been electric this past season at RB Leipzig.
Looking at the no. 10 role for Bayern, I have some questions. Jamal Musiala is an exceptional talent, and at only 21 years old, Bayern need to be doing everything in their power to extend him and make him the central figure of the club in the years to come. But, as far as position goes, he's very versatile and that allows for Bayern to get very creative in how they configure their attack alongside him. And while Leverkusen's Florian Wirtz is a top target for the 2025 transfer window for Bayern, I do tend to agree with take from Complexes on Twitter, that Wirtz probably follows Alonso to Madrid in 2025, and thus I'd be very much in favor of Bayern opting to add Xavi Simons from RB Leipzig this summer. This isn't to say Bayern should abandon its pursuit of Wirtz, but rather that I'd say that Bayern should pursue Simons this summer and be quite happy/content to land him, lest they risk going 0-2 on both if Wirtz does indeed land with Madrid next summer.
The thing I love most about pairing Simons and Musiala together is the versatility and creativity. While both tend to occupy a spot more frequently as a central attacking midfielder, Musiala has played a decent amount of time on the left wing and Simons has also played over as a right wing. Add in Bayern's current right winger, Leroy Sané, also showing some versatility between right wing and occasionally cutting in and operating centrally, and you have the recipe for a versatile, ever changing, flexible attack that can advance the ball. Overall, I think Simons addition into Bayern's attack would unlock a new level of effectiveness for the incoming regime.
The other one to mention here is Schalke academy product Assan Ouédraogo. At just 18-years old, Ouédraogo has already landed on the monitor of Bayern and RB Leipzig, and the two clubs appear to be battling for his signature. A move to acquire Ouédraogo and then loan him back out for more experience, whether back to Schalke or moving him up to the Bundesliga, would seem to be a solid plan for the Bavarian giants to see if Ouédraogo could become a long-term fixture in their lineup. If a move for Ouédraogo falls through, another young attacking midfield with immense promise that I think Bayern should look at is 16-year old Polish midfielder Jakob Adkonis, currently at Legia Warsaw. He'd definitely be a development piece long-term, but the upside is very high.
Then looking at the wing spots, Bayern are in an interesting spot. Jamal Musiala and Thomas Müller have interchangeably slotted in as attacking midfield types with the ability to spell time out on the wings. Serge Gnabry and Kingsley Coman are both very talented options there, but suffer from a lack of reliability with their frequent injuries.
Fuhrich is a very solid player who could be a strong add for Bayern.
This section thus deals with a lot of ifs. I think Bayern could theoretically look at it and say Serge Gnabry, Kingsley Coman, Jamal Musiala, Thomas Müller and then maybe some Mathys Tel, as well another who can play wing at a good level, and be content. But, if they choose to sell one of Gnabry or Coman, which I think they should, Bayern could be in the hunt for a replacement there. They've already been linked with German international talent Chris Führich. He has been very good for Stuttgart this past season, and would only cost Bayern a fraction of some bigger names. At 26-years old, Führich could still give Bayern a solid run of play, and has shown some versatility to alternate sides or even drop into the midfield as required. He's a steady and solid player, not a superstar by any means, but could serve as a valuable rotational piece if Bayern do move on from Coman or Gnabry.
Another option would be the speedy Nico Williams, a 21-year old Spanish winger playing for Athletic Bilbao. He's going to be in the very expensive price tag range, but with his combination of potential, production thus far, and excitement, he could be well worth the cost. Another younger option here, and a more affordable one, would be Brajan Gruda, a 19-year right-side winger playing for Mainz. He infamously had the jersey swap photo already with Thomas Müller and seems like a rising talent with 27 appearances for Mainz. While Gruda statistically hasn't had much production thus far, at just 19-years old, he's given some very promising performances against the likes of Bayern and Dortmund as well while getting acclimated to life in the Bundesliga.
If Bayern continues to play Tel more as a winger than a true no. 9 striker, which I think is also the correct call, then Bayern are going to need to be in search of a strong replacement for Eric Chuopo-Maxim after this season, a genuine backup to Harry Kane. There are two routes they can go which is to either find a youngster who could theoretically take over for Kane in 2-3 years (as most of the reports indicated he'd probably want to return to the Premier League before the end of his career to chase the all-time EPL goal record), or a veteran looking to milk the last couple of years out of their career and be a part of a championship squad. If Bayern go the youngster route, two names that stick out are Leipzig's Benjamin Šeško, a towering 20-year old Slovenian who has looked really sharp in Leipzig spelling Lois Openda. Sesko would likely cost a pretty penny, but if Bayern are willing to pay it, I think they should make that move. If they want a more budget friendly option than perhaps angling for Hoffenheim's recent DFB call-up, Maximillian Beier as a promising up-and-comer could be in the cards. Beier scored against Bayern in the final match of the season. Not as young, but Wolfsburg's Jonas Wind, a 25-year old Danish talent, could perhaps fit nicely, as he can also operate as a second striker and produced 11 goals in the Bundesliga this past season.
If Bayern want a veteran option, Serhou Guirassy has been a player that Bayern are already linked to. He's also got some interest from Dortmund and Tottenham as of late. While Guirassy is a fun player, and a talented one, as he was second in the Bundesliga in terms of goals scored, I don't think that he should be a significant priority for Bayern, as they need to allocate funds to other positions before coming around to landing a backup striker to Harry Kane. And since we've mentioned significant versatility for a lot of others, both Mathys Tel and Thomas Müller could certainly be able to fill in situationally, though if there's a major injury to Kane that becomes more problematic.
Personally, the move I think is much more likely is finding a veteran striker on a lower level squad who might be interest in chasing some titles with a bigger club. Bayern added Chuopo-Maxim as a 31-year old, albeit from PSG rather than a smaller club, but I do think it's a decent example of a reasonable move Bayern can make to shore up their depth without breaking out too much spending. Two names I think really intrigue in this kind of mold are Hoffenheim's Andrej Kramarić, a 32-year old Croatian forward who scored 15 goals this past season for Die Kraichgauer, including a hat trick against Bayern in the season finale as well. The other one is Tim Kleindienst, a 28-year old German who has played largely in the 2. Bundesliga but has spent a few seasons in the top league at Heidenheim and Freiburg during his career. He had an excellent showing in Heidenheim's upset win over Bayern earlier this season, netting himself a brace, two of his twelve total goals this season. Both are veteran, experienced strikers with some capacity, but might be open to a diminished role behind Harry Kane in order to potentially get some bigger opportunities with Bayern's pedigree.

Final Squad Planning

Now, time to prioritize.

Top priority for me would be figuring out what Joshua Kimmich is going to do. I'd still love to extend him, and ideally keep him at right-back which he's indicated he's open to. Besides, Kimmich's non-stop motor, stamina, and intensity make him well suited to being a highly versatile piece, so someone who starts at right-back every week, but can easily spell others in the midfield throughout the season. That's the top priority.
Next one is figuring out who goes. In this exercise I am going to go ahead and move forward with the idea that I would sell the following players:
- Midfielder Leon Goretzka
- Winger Serge Gnabry
- Defender Dayot Upamecano
- Left-Back Alphonso Davies
I could certainly be talked into selling some others, like Kingsley Coman, Kim Min-jae, or Noussair Mazaraoui, maybe even Leroy Sane if the contract talks don't prove fruitful. In this scenario, let's just say Kimmich is set to take on the right-back role, and thus we facilitate a departure for Noussair Mazraoui who still is in a stage in his career where he could command a bigger role at plenty of other quality clubs. With Kimmich and Stanisic taking on the roles there, the right back spot remains set.
Before we even think about what the team needs, I'd see what Bayern can make happen to bring in PSG's Xavi Simons into the lineup, ideally a loan with an option to buy afterwards, though PSG seems reluctant to sell, and thus it's probably only a loan on the table. I'd still be fine with a one-year loan, as it'd set Bayern up to see about integrating him for one season and then either pursue and land Florian Wirtz next summer, or at that point revisit a purchase with PSG.
After that, Bayern's defense needs better shape. They've had some rough stretches lately, and while the backline has shown some shakiness, I think adding a true no. 6 to command more of the structure and steadiness there is ideal. I would prioritize a pursuit of Everton's Amadou Onana, as his time in Germany suggests he'll be able to integrate into the team quite easily. Palhinha would be my backup option.
Next up is the left-back role, and I'd be glad to see them make a big signing here, going for Theo Hernandez, whom it already sounds like they've been back-channeling with to facilitate something. He's a world class player who should fit just about any manager. After him, I think my next choices would be Maatsen and then Mittelstadt, though at that point, I would just as soon not sell Mazraoui and let him take over at left-back. But if they can move Davies, get Theo, then I am estatic.
I'd want another CB option here with Upamecano on the way out. If it's de Zerbi as the manager, Riccardo Calafiori seems like a no brainer for him to add, though Kevin Danso would be a fun choice as well, as both play similar styles.
For a striker behind Harry Kane, I'd make a push for Hoffenheim's Maximillian Beier. He's a very talented younger player, and Bayern can use him behind Kane and then he has the pace and speed to contribute as an additional versatile forward.
With Gnabry out, the right wing needs some solidifying. Even though Sane is the starter, it would be nice to have further options there, so we'll go ahead and target Stuttgart's Chris Führich to join Bayern. Again, versatile and can be an excellent piece for Bayern.
After that, it's youth stacking time, as I'd push to add both Assan Ouédraogo and Brajan Gruda, though probably with the desire to send both out on loan for another season or so. The priority is towards Assan, but either would be a very fun add.

Additions:

Position	Player	Former Club	Valuation*
MID	Amadou Onana	Everton	€50.00m
MID	Xavi Simons	PSG	Loan
LB	Theo Hernández	AC Milan	€60.00m
CB	Riccardo Calafiori	Bologna	€25.00m
ST	Maximillian Beier	Hoffenheim	€24.00m
RW	Chris Führich	Stuttgart	€23.50m
MID	Assan Ouédraogo	Schalke	€15.00m
RW	Brajan Gruda	Mainz	€9.00m

*- number listed is the value projected for the player on Transfermarkt for the sake of consistency.**- my preference here would be to facilitate a loan with an option to buy for Simons.
And of course, that means a number of players need to depart. Here's ultimately who I'd move on from:

Position	Player	Any Where In Mind?	Valuation*
MID	Leon Goretzka	Juventus	€30.00m
RW	Serge Gnabry		€45.00m
CB	Dayot Upamecano		€50.00m
LB	Alphonso Davies	Real Madrid	€60.00m
RB	Noussair Mazraoui		€30.00m

Again, just using the Transfermarkt values for consistency on these. This would lead to pretty much net zero spending if only these values were used. The reality of it probably becomes that Bayern would end up shelling out more than they'd get back, as I know, just off the top of my head, that with Davies contract where it's at, it's likely he wouldn't command as much as the valuation indicates. So overall, it's a spot where if Bayern can sell some of these guys for bigger figures, they can make multiple changes to the squad to revamp it.

Bayern Munich "Depth Chart" 2024-2025 Season

Harry Kane (left), and Joshua Kimmich (right front) are major pieces for Bayern's chances at a turnaround.
The idea of a "depth chart" isn't used in international football as much as it is in other sports, namely American football. However, think it's a useful organizational tool to get a feel for roughly what the squad would look like headed into this next season. The bolded names are the ones I'd most want in an ideal starting XI, and then the rotation and depth players would also see various minutes based on how far into the Champions League, Pokal, and other competitions that Bayern goes through, or injuries require.

Position	Starter	Rotation	Depth
Goalkeeper	Manuel Neuer	Sven Ulreich	Johannes Schenk
Left Back	Theo Hernández	Raphaël Guerreiro	Adam Aznou
Centre Back	Riccardo Calafiori	Eric Dier	Tarik Buchmann
Centre Back	Matthijs de Ligt	Kim Min-Jae	- - -
Right Back	Joshua Kimmich	Josip Stanišić	Sacha Boey
Defensive Midfield	Amadou Onana	Konrad Laimer	Noel Aseko Nkili
Central Midfield	Aleksandar Pavlović	(Joshua Kimmich)	Lovro Zvonarek
Attacking Midfield	Xavi Simons*	Thomas Müller	Arijon Ibrahimović
Left Wing	Jamal Musiala	Kingsley Coman	Yusuf Kabadayı
Striker	Harry Kane	Maximillian Beier	- - -
Right Wing	Leroy Sané	Mathys Tel	Bryan Zaragoza

And this sets up fairly well for the 2025 summer transfer window, as Bayern can aim to bring in Leverkusen's Florian Wirtz, and either shift Musiala over to the left wing, where I personally think he has the highest potential, or find ways to integrate both together more centrally.
Loans

Position	Player	Club
GK	Daniel Peretz	R.S.C. Anderlecht (Belgium)
MID	Paul Wanner	Lower Bundesliga.
LB	Frans Krätzig	Austria Wien
MID	Assan Ouédraogo	Schalke

Could also maybe throw in a loan move for Zaragoza depending on how things shape out there. Feel bad for him. Not much opportunity for the guy lately.
Probably plenty of other good options, and I'm sure there's some parts that'll happen quite differently than projected, but this would be my ideal outcome for Bayern at this stage in the process. It's been a rough process so far, but think there's still lots of potential for Bayern with a revamped and refreshed squad.

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2024.05.18 15:28 rugbykickoff Match Thread: Gloucester vs Newcastle - Premiership

Comp: Premiership
Venue: Kingsholm
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London	Paris	Jo'burg	New York	Sydney	Auckland
15:00	16:00	16:00	10:00	00:00	02:00

Gloucester	Pos	Newcastle
Josh Hathaway	15	Louis Brown
Jonny May	14	Adam Radwan
Chris Harris	13	Matias Moroni
Seb Atkinson	12	Cameron Hutchison
Ollie Thorley	11	Ben Redshaw
Charlie Atkinson	10	Brett Connon
Caolan Englefield	9	Sam Stuart
Jamal Ford-Robinson	1	Adam Brocklebank
Seb Blake	2	Jamie Blamire
Kirill Gotovtsev	3	Eduardo Bello
Freddie Clarke	4	Tim Cardall
Freddie Thomas	5	John Hawkins
Ruan Ackermann	6	Sam Cross
Lewis Ludlow	7	Guy Pepper
Zach Mercer	8	Callum Chick
Santiago Socino	16	Bryan Byrne
Mayco Vivas	17	Mark Dormer
Ciaran Knight	18	Richard Palframan
Albert Tuisue	19	Adam Scott
Jack Clement	20	Freddie Lockwood
Stephen Varney	21	James Elliott
Alex Hearle	22	Rory Jennings
Jake Morris	23	Oliver Spencer

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2024.05.18 13:39 Alexpocket85 Full Marvel Universe cast

Couple of months ago with an ex of mine we recasted the marvel universe so I taught I could share it here
J-Jonah Jameson:Bryan Cranston
Venom:Sam Witwer
Carnage:Andy Serkis
Whiplash:Edge (Adam Copeland)
Iron Man:Matt Damon
Captain America(mine): Roger Clark
Punisher:Karl Urban
Red Skull:Christoph Waltz
Spiderman(Peter B Parker):Jesse Heisenberg
Spiderman(Sorcerer Supreme):Joe Keery
Spiderman(Peter Parker):Jack Quaid
War Machine:Terry Crews
SpiderHam:Andy Samberg
Falcon:Jesse T Ucher
Spiderman(Miles Morales):Wilson Radjou
Nick Fury:Idris Elba
Firestar:Erin Moriarty
Captain Carter(What if):Emma Stone
Steve Rogers:Jamie Bell
Daredevil:Wade Barrett
Lizard:Viggo Mortensen
Sandman:Dwayne Jonhson
Ghost-Spider:Zendaya
Dr Octopus:Giancarlo Esposito
Mysterio:Neil Patrick Harris
Thor:Alan Ritchson
Hulk:Braun Strowman
Black Widow: idk
Scarlet Witch:Emilia Clarke
Green Goblin:Ewan Mcgregor
Mary-Jane:Stephanie Beatriz
Black Cat:Alexa Bliss
Jarvis:JK Simons
Peper Potts:Becky Lynch
Antman:Jonh Krasinski
Bucky Barnes:Taron Egerton
Loki:Willem Dafoe
Silvy:Jodie Comer
Blade:Booker T
Gamora:Karen Fukuhara
Dr Strange:David Tennent
Wong:Jacki Chan
Twisted Dr strange:Michael Sheen
Ebony Maw:Cillian Murphy
Kacilius: Alexander Skargard
Mordo:Djimon Hounsou
Taskmaster:Temuera Morisson
Luke Cage:Bobby Lashley
Shocker:Jesse Williams
Crossbone:Daniel Gillies
Electro:Grant Gustin
Hawkeye:Dominic Sherwood
Kraven The Hunter: Danny Trejo
Wolverine:Woody Harrelson
Yellow Jacket: Stephan Lang
Winter Soldier:Sam Worthington
Amber Grant:America Ferrara
Betty Brant:Sophia Lillis

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2024.05.18 12:15 jaztinax I Ranked Every Glee Song: Part 7

Hi friends! I've made the slightly unhinged decision of sharing my ranking of all (well, close to all) the songs that were featured on Glee. This is part 7 out of... probably like, 50. Because Glee has a lot of songs. A LOT.
4 years ago, I also hosted a very extensive ranking where the sub got to participate in ranking the entire Glee soundtrack, and you can see the results here! Let me know if you guys want a redo of this, and I'll find a less consuming way to make this happen, because that ish was HARD.
If you coincidentally also have ranked all of the Glee songs, you are more than welcome to join and reveal your rankings as well!! Or share your opinions, everything is welcome :)
Just a quick reminder of what I've had in mind while ranking these so you guys understand more: I scored them based on vocal performance, context of the show, how it compared to the original song and how much I liked the actual production/arrangement of the Glee version. So a song could be really good, but if it was used in a bad or cringy scene, it'll affect the score negatively or the other way around!
We are still in the good tier, which are songs that I think are good, but not great. They've made it just within my range of songs that I'm okay with.

GOOD TIER

584. It Must Have Been Love

Performed by New Directions, with Kitty Wilde and Spencer Porter as leads.
This whole storyline of them finding Sue's kryptonite songs so that she wouldn't sabotage them yet again is so unhinged. I like this song a lot and they do a good job with it, although I don't think it's the best song for either of them.
Score: 59,75/100

583. Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Kurt solo version)

Performed by Kurt Hummel.
I've always found this song one of the more skippable songs, but I can't deny that they sound good in it. If we have to compare vocals though, Kurt definitely is weaker in this than Rachel, and it suits Rachel more.
Score: 60/100

582. Don't Make Me Over

Performed by Mercedes Jones.
Me finding out that this was Amber's favorite song to sing was mind-blowing because this has always been my least favorite Mercedes solo. I guess I understand why she enjoyed singing it so much, but for me it falls flat compared to her other songs. But, it's Mercedes so it can never be bad or even subpar.
Score: 60,1/100

581. Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Rachel solo version)

Performed by Rachel Berry.
I already said everything I needed to say two spots over.
Score: 60,15/100

580. What Happened To Saturday Night?

Performed by Carl Howell (with New Directions).
A very fun performance by a pretty cool character. Can't complain.
Score: 60,2/100

579. Don't Cry For Me Argentina

Performed by Kurt Hummel & Rachel Berry.
But nothing beats Hummelberry together!
Score: 60,2/100

578. Everybody Talks

Performed by Jake Puckerman & Kitty Wilde.
I don't think their voices usually go well together, but they do here.
Score: 60,25/100

577. Love Is A Battlefield

Performed by Blaine Anderson & Kurt Hummel.
Another good duet that feels balanced between the two - they both sound equally good here.
Score: 60,3/100

576. Hey, Soul Sister

Performed by the Warblers, with Blaine Anderson as lead.
They sound great and I used to like this song, but now I don't, so this is lower than I would've put it, say, 12 years ago.
Score: 60,33/100

575. Outcast

Performed by New Directions, with Jake Puckerman, Kitty Wilde, Marley Rose, Ryder Lynn and Unique Adams as leads.
I love season 4 group numbers, they are always so wholesome and there's this nostalgic yet fresh feeling to them. I really liked that the newbies did the leads on this one too. Also, does anyone else ask themselves how Artie got up on that stage so quickly??
Score: 60,4/100

574. Help!

Performed by Blaine Anderson and Sam Evans (with all the show choirs in Ohio).
And the most unrealistic scene goes to... I just get so caught up in the logistics of this, because there's just no way they would travel all around Ohio in one day like that and like, how is each show choir randomly practicing whenever they get there? And do they have time to just tag along? Anyway. Good song.
Score: 60,45/100

573. It's Too Late

Performed by Blaine Anderson and Kurt Hummel.
The way this feels like the 20th Klaine duet I'm writing about already, but I know there's still so much more to come. I didn't care for this song much during the time season 6 was on, but I've since learned to love the original and then realized that the Glee version isn't all that bad either.
Score: 60,5/100

572. Piano Man

Performed by Blaine Anderson.
To be honest, I prefer the Will Schuester and Bryan Ryan scene, but their version isn't included in this ranking, so I wanna take this opportunity to give a shoutout to them. Blaine doesn't do a bad job, though.
Score: 60,55/100

571. Shout It Out Loud

Performed by Artie Abrams, Finn Hudson and Noah Puckerman.
A solid song and solid vocal performances from all of them. I've never had a problem with this song, but it's always been one of those songs I skip more often than I don't.
Score: 60,6/100

570. As If We Never Said Goodbye

Performed by Kurt Hummel.
I really liked that this wasn't just a choir room song, but that there was a montage of him in different places of McKinley, and I really liked how this scene captured how happy everyone was to have him back, but also how happy Kurt was to be back.
Score: 60,67/100

569. Fire

Performed by April Rhodes and Will Schuester.
Not gonna lie, their season 1 duets always hit. This one is the least interesting out of them imo, but they still sound great and it's a cute song.
Score: 60,7/100

568. Chasing Pavements

Performed by New Directions, with Marley Rose as lead.
I love the actual scene/performance of this because I remember how new it all seemed when this aired. Marley starting off the song and watching the rest of the group rehearse was so different, but it really set the tone for season 4. It was also really rare to see Schue actually directing them and rehearsing choreography with them, so that was fun as well. I don't think she measures up to Adele with this song, her voice is a little too... plain? But she does a decent enough job.
Score: 60,75/100

567. Bridge Over Troubled Water

Performed by Mercedes Jones.
Usually I think gospel covers of songs are great or make the original better, but this one I've never been particularly fond of. Mercedes' vocals are really pulling the weight on the score here.
Score: 60,8/100

566. Raise Your Glass

Performed by the Warblers, with Blaine Anderson as lead.
The Warblers sounded the best doing pop songs when Blaine was doing them. A pretty fun competition number, it's one of their best competition numbers imo.
Score: 60,85/100

565. Torn

Performed by Rachel Berry.
Usually, I don't think these type of songs suit her very well, but I think this one does.
Score: 60,9/100
That's it for now! Are any of your favorites here?

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2024.05.18 09:21 Powermetalbunny A Gift From The Void

The new gift-specific dialogue from the 1.6 update has me absolutely tickled pink! This one especially… I also haven’t practiced my creative writing in a while, and I decided it needed to happen sooner rather than later, so here, have a short story! Sorry if it's boring… I’m a little rusty!
“A Gift From The Void”
It was only yesterday… No one was quite sure where it had come from. There had been a sinister cackling noise ringing through the night air and Abigail had mentioned seeing an unidentifiable shape soaring through the sky during her walk home from the cemetery. The townsfolk gossiped and speculated about what it could have been that evening, but by the next morning they still hadn’t come to any reasonable explanation. It was only yesterday, and yet the entire village seemed to have already put it out of their minds and moved on. The scandal and chatter following the “Anchovy Soup Incident” at the Summer Luau several years back had lasted far longer than this… Even now Sam was still getting sideways glances whenever he got within a 20 foot radius of the soup cauldron, but this just blows over in less than a day? The priorities of small town people were strange.
Things had gone back to that same semblance of backwater, middle-of-nowhere kind of normal, and now the night had become just the same as any other Friday evening. Sebastian was playing a round of billiards with Sam, and while Sam was preoccupied with lining up the cue with his intended target ball, the farmer strolled into the saloon and up to the bar. Heads turned and raised to the newcomer for a moment before returning to whatever it was that had been previously holding their attention. Sebastian caught the sudden flourish of movement out of his periphery, but didn’t pay it much mind. The farmer ordered a coffee and a plate of the night’s special, and struck up a conversation with Gus about a peculiar egg that had materialized in their coop seemingly out of nowhere the night before. Apparently they’d decided to tuck it away into the incubator and wait to see what… if anything hatched from it.
Sebastian had never really been one to eavesdrop, but the wait for Sam to make his move was becoming boring, and sometimes the stories that passed around the saloon on Friday evenings got interesting depending on who all was involved. The story didn’t really go too far into detail. The farmer poked at their food until it had cooled enough to not scald the inside of their mouth, then they took a few bites before bringing up the events of the previous evening. What first started off as a funny story seemed to turn into some deep discussion with Gus about the mysteries of life. Eventually, Willy and Elliott were caught up in the mirth and it turned into a medley of strange tales from faraway lands and once-upon-a-times. Obviously exaggerated sightings of fearsome creatures on a midnight stormy sea, legends of colossal white whales, references to works written by masters of the mystery genre, as well as some from a trashy neo-noir novel or two that had probably been picked up from a bookstore clearance shelf.
Willy stroked his beard and mused about some daring battle between himself and a fish of questionable proportions that seemed to grow larger each time he told the story. Sebastian had heard this one before. The fight over the line had gone on for over an hour before the shadow of the fish rose near to the surface, and just before Willy could land the monster of a catch, it dove below again, taking the whole fishing rod overboard and nearly Willy himself with it.
Elliott gulped down the last few swigs of ale in his tankard, slapped the farmer firmly on the back, snorted and chuckled in an ungraceful yet jolly display that only ever crept out of him when he’d had a bit too much to drink.
“That fish becomes more miraculous each time he talks about it!” Elliott shook his head and smiled as he leaned almost a little too far forward. There was a slight sway to his posture and he tried to straighten his body back in line with the barstool. “To life, and her many little silly tricks of fate, my friends!” he declared. He raised the empty mug, and with his free hand, delicately tucked a few strands of stray hair behind his ear with the tips of his fingers. He rested his elbow back on the bar before he could lose his balance and sighed contently. Elliott’s cheeks were practically glowing red at this point and it was a wonder that he wasn’t slurring his words yet.
“Aye, you’ve all heard my fish story haven’t ye?” Willy chuckled. “How ‘bout the one about the Baba Yaga?” the farmer’s head tilted and they gazed curiously at the fisherman. Willy rested his foot on the crossbar of the barstool, lifted the rim of his hat out of his line of sight, and leaned into the counter. “Some know ‘er as the cannibal witch… others say she’s just a misunderstood haggard ol’ woman who lives alone out in woods or marshes. It’s said she lives a rickety old house that stands on chicken feet, and she likes to lure weary travelers into ‘er home, only to gobble ‘em up once they let their guard down. Apparently she’s especially fond of the taste of children…” He laughed in a hoarse tone and made strange spider-like gestures with his calloused hands as if he were telling campfire stories to a group of kids. The farmer’s nose wrinkled at the outlandish notion of some feral old woman devouring toddlers, and Willy laughed heartily at their reaction. “I think that last part the parents like to add into the story to frighten the little ones. It keeps ‘em from wondering into the forests and swamps alone at night.”
Sebastian rolled his eyes and glanced back to the pool table. He watched the cue ball clack into the twelve before the twelve bounced off the barriers in the corner of the table and rolled slowly to a stop on the felt surface without pocketing. Sam huffed and stood back upright.
“You really aren’t very good at this, are you?” Seb chimed as he returned his full attention to the game at hand. Sam grinned and laughed.
“Nope!”
“Watch and learn….” Sebastian took aim at the cue ball, and after a single firm strike, drove it into the tiny gap between the two and seven. The cue stopped hard, but the two and seven sped to the opposite corners of the foot of the table, each dropping into one of the corner pockets simultaneously. Sam scoffed and paced about the pool room, but looked back over his shoulder just in time to catch Sebastian with a triumphantly cheeky grin on his face. Sam clicked his tongue and lightly thumped the base of his cue stick into the floorboards.
“Show-off…” he mumbled.
Elliott lifted the rim of the empty vessel to his lips, then chuckled again as he noticed the absence of ale and gestured it in Gus’ direction.
“Good sir, my glass is empty and…. I’m a writer!”
“Maybe you should stop for tonight…” the farmer interjected. “You won’t be sober enough to start your next chapter in the morning!” Elliott rolled his eyes and leaned against the bar counter. He tried to give one of his best theatrically exasperated sighs, but when the exhale turned into a case of the hiccups, they knew he was down for the count. He smiled defiantly and tried his best to look dignified through the sudden spasms in his diaphragm and soused thousand yard stare.
“I-am fiiine… ne’re betta’…”
“…..Aaaand, there he goes…” Leah giggled from the end of the bar counter. “It’s like dropping a ton of bricks on a peach.”
“I oughtta’ help the ol’ scallywag home, I s’pose!” Willy groaned as he stood from the bar stool. He smiled as he hoisted one of Elliott’s arms over his shoulders and stood him up from the bar stool. “C’mon you menace… Let’s get ya home before you make a fool of yourself in front of all the lassies!” he chuckled. Sam took a moment to appreciate the situation at the bar counter. He shook his head and laughed, then took another shot at the 12 and missed horribly yet again.
“Easy does it there!” Emily cooed as she cleared away the empty tankard. “Try not to drop him too hard!” Elliott wobbled towards the door as Willy struggled to keep him upright, and just before they stepped out into the lukewarm summer evening, the farmer waved one last farewell and called out to the well marinated dandy-man as he staggered away.
“Nighty-night! Sleep tight, Rapunzel!” they chirped. Elliot responded to the joke by blowing an overly exaggerated kiss over his shoulder and daintily waiving his fingertips at the company in the saloon, then he nearly tripped over himself as he turned back to the path home. A couple of snorts, giggles and guffaws rose up over the music and chatter in the saloon and quickly melted back into the white noise once the moment passed.
Seb looked Sam in the eyes with a determined glare and smirked.
“Eight in the corner pocket….” Seb didn’t have a clear shot, but leaned over the table, reared back the stick and spiked it into the cue ball. It ricocheted from the bumper, side-swiped the eight, and put just enough force into the edge to cause it to spin sideways into the pocket he’d called. Sam laughed and scratched at the back of his head.
“Awwww, man…” he groaned. “You got me again!” Sam leaned against his cue stick and looked over the table before his eyes lit up in anticipation. “How about a best three out of five?” Abigail giggled at Sam’s request as she stretched and leaned back into the sofa.
“Give it up, blondie! He cooks your goose at this game EVERY single time…. You’re doomed.” She teased. “It’s getting late anyways…”
…
It had been almost a month since the odd shape had been spotted flying over town at this point. Seb and Abby had talked in depth about it, and though most of the other townsfolk had come to the conclusion that it had merely been some sort of exotic bird flying out toward the fern islands, Abby was positive she hadn’t been mistaken. In fact she was adamant that the form looked human. She hadn’t seen or heard any wings flapping and the “squawking” sounded more so like the laugh of an old woman than the cries of a bird. The figure seemed to levitate or hover effortlessly and without the use of any physical or mechanical assistance. It was slumped over as if it was curled up or sitting and just…. Floated away.
The long night spent coding and researching the relevant programing issues at the computer, had caused Sebastian to rise late. He was groggy, didn’t have much motivation to bother rolling out of bed, and it was almost noon at this point. He could hear the rain pattering against the roof of the house and the rumble of distant thunder. As lazy as he felt, a smoke sounded pretty good about now. The sound and sight of the ocean on rainy days also had a way of clearing his head and a little stroll would probably do him some good.
He didn’t pass anyone on the way out of the house. Robin was likely at her aerobics club, Maru, at work in the clinic, and who knew where Demetrius was… Out shoving dirt samples into test tubes, or measuring the volume and PH of the current rainfall? As long as he wasn’t dissecting frogs. Out of all of Sebastian’s childhood memories, that was the one that stuck in his head and haunted him. Back then, Maru had only just been born, and while Robin was busy keeping her entertained, fixing her bottle or changing diapers, Seb was wandering the house trying to find something to occupy his time. He’d wandered into his step-father’s study and there on the examination tray was a deceased frog pinned on it’s back, limbs splayed like Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” with it’s belly sliced open. Sebastian had cried and pouted over that for several days and had given Demetrius the silent treatment for even days longer intermixed with spells of arm crossing, head turning and the occasional stuck out tongue and blown raspberry. He cringed at the thought even now.
The hinges creaked as he pushed the front door open and paused. The summer was starting to give way to autumn and the parched ground soaked up the rain and turned loose the pungent, almost overpowering scent of petrichor.
Sebastian flipped the hood of his pull-over around his head and tightened up the drawstrings. He took a moment to smell the aroma of wet grass and earth that drifted through the air and held the fragrance in his lungs as he closed the door behind him.
He began his slow, steady march toward the beach and lost count of his steps after he’d passed the old Community Center. He’d barely noticed the changing of terrain under his feet as he moved almost subconsciously toward the ocean. The raw, muddy dirt paths of the mountain, the crunch of rough stones and shuffle of old, dead pine needles that carpeted the ground… They’d transitioned into the grass and cobblestone of the town plaza at some point, but they all seemed to blend together into “just steps” after a while. His inner thoughts distracted him to the point where he barely paid attention to his surroundings until he felt his footfalls sinking and shifting underneath him, and he knew he’d hit sand. He heaved a deep sigh of the salt air and looked over the horizon as he paced toward the docks.
When the sky was this gray and muted, the color of the sea seemed to take on it’s own jewel-like quality and without the blue sky to draw attention away from it, the eyes of each breaking wave became a splendor to watch. They erupted into columns of aquamarine, sapphire and sodalite laced with the bright, almost pearlescent white of the sea foam before curling over, crashing into the tides and giving way to the next one.
Sebastian came to a stop at the furthest reaching section of the wood panels and straightened up his posture as he groped into his pockets for the pack of cigarettes he’d brought with him. He selected one from the box, tucked it between his teeth and plunged his fingers back into the pocket for his lighter. He curled his left hand in front of his face, to protect the fire from the wind, flicked open the lid and thumbed the igniter. The flint sparked into a flame as it spun and lit up the end of the cigarette to a smoldering red glow. He pulled in a breath and held it for a moment before letting it out and watching the smoke dance away in the wind. It still wasn’t quite as satisfying as that first breath of rain when he’d stepped out of the house. Another sigh escaped Seb’s lips as he stared back at the oncoming crests of seawater and his mind started to drift again.
He imagined the city lights blazing somewhere across the ocean like stars, and thought about starting over somewhere far away. Disappearing, and reappearing somewhere else like a shadow moving through fragments of darkness and light, somewhere where no one knew him. Just vanishing and leaving everything behind. His parents, his sister, his friends… the thought excited him for a moment, before giving way to an intense feeling of regret and sadness. Maybe even a little shame. Having everyone was frustrating, but would having none of them be better or worse? He’d never known anything else. The same friends he’d grown up with, the same smell of the changing seasons in the mountain air, the same four walls of his bedroom, the sound of his sister’s laugh, or the taste of his mother’s cooking… even the way his stepfather overreacted to the littlest things was something he'd grown used to. He took another long breath.
The waves lapped and pounded at the underside of the dock so loudly he couldn’t hear the patter of oncoming footfalls against the wood and he was caught unaware when a sudden presence made itself known.
“Hey.” The start was enough to make him tense up, and he almost tripped over his own feet. Seb whirled around and when he found himself face to face with the farmer, he relaxed again.
“You scared the absolute crap out of me…..” He said as he rolled his eyes. He flicked his thumb against the filter of the cigarette to knock away the ashes and looked over the docks. They were alone.
“Sorry….” There was an awkward moment of silence between the two of them before Sebastian tried to force conversation.
“What are you up to out here?” He asked. He wasn’t really interested in the answer, but felt obligated to return the acknowledgement of his presence. The farmer held up the rod that was firmly clasped in their right hand and gestured to the ocean.
“Fishing!” Seb raised an eyebrow and cocked his head at the response.
“In the rain?” he asked. His tone was almost dismissive. The farmer nodded.
“Willy said that there’s a number of fish that only come out when it’s raining, so I wanted to see what bites.” They began. “Some fish just like it better this way I guess.” There was another long pause. “…and you?”
“Hanging out…” Seb shrugged and adjusted the collar of his hoodie.
“In the rain?” The irony of the retort wasn’t lost on either of them though only the farmer seemed to find it amusing.
“Some people just like it better this way too…” Seb declared as he shifted his posture and crossed his arms over his chest. “I like to come out here where it’s quiet and have some alone time with my own thoughts.” There was a brief moment of guilt when Sebastian realized that he hadn’t actually ever bothered to ask the farmer’s name, but his introverted nature snubbed it out pretty quickly.
“Well, if you’re out here for some alone time, I won’t keep bothering you. I’ll go find a spot to fish and leave you to it.” At least they could take a hint. The farmer turned to leave and Sebastian suddenly regretted the entire conversation. Maybe he came off as cold and bristly? Either way, they hadn’t meant any harm. Just engaging in basic pleasantries. He found himself compelled to say something else just so the conversation wouldn’t end on such a sour note, then the thought of the flying figure and the appearance of the strange egg in the farmer’s coop a while back suddenly popped into his head.
“Wait….” Sebastian flicked away the spent cigarette and stamped it out with the toe of his shoe before he continued. The farmer turned back in his direction. “I was just curious… do you remember what happened a couple of weeks ago? The night that… thing… flew over Pelican Town?” The farmer’s eyes narrowed and they nodded slowly. “That was the night that strange egg just showed up in your chicken coop, right?” The farmer looked bewildered. Seb chuckled soundlessly when he realized that, for at least a moment, he was acting like the epitome of some small town country boy who was nosing into someone else’s business. The farmer was likely confused because they hadn’t spoken to Sebastian about it directly. How could he know about that? They didn’t have to ask before he preemptively put the question to rest. “I was in the saloon playing pool with Sam the night after it happened. I overheard you talking about it with Gus, Willy and uh- …Rapunzel.” He explained. A tiny snort escaped the farmer’s nose as they stifled a laugh and they nodded again.
“Right… I still don’t know where it came from.” They rested the handle of the fishing pole on the dock like a staff or walking stick and looked up at the sky as if they were contemplating something. “I don’t know if the egg had anything to do with the flying figure, or if it was just a coincidence… they did both appear on the same night.”
“Everyone in town says that the flying thing was probably just some weird bird heading toward the islands…” Seb droned. He shoved his hands into his pockets to sooth the chill in his fingers. “If that IS where the egg came from, then maybe it was just a bird…” The farmer briskly shook their head before they answered.
“No, I don’t think so.” They rested a hand on their hip, fidgeted with the line strung through the fishing rod and seemed to gaze off into the distance towards the island in question. “That wouldn’t make sense considering what hatched.” Sebastian’s head snapped upright to meet their gaze. Now this was getting interesting.
“It actually hatched?!” He piped as his eyes widened inquisitively. “What was it?”
“A chicken…. And those can’t fly long distances.” The farmer chortled as they watched Sebastian’s face droop back to some semblance of apathy. He looked mildly disappointed.
“Aww…. Well that’s kind of anticlimactic.” He groaned.
“Yeah, sorry it’s not more exciting than that…” There was a sudden gust of wind and both of them had to brace against the pelting of raindrops that came with it. “It is a pretty peculiar looking chicken, if that makes you feel any better.”
“Really?... How so?” He gazed back at them expectantly and waited for them to go into detail.
“The feathers are jet black and the comb and wattles have a bit of an odd shape to them. The eyes are also bright red, like an animal with albinism and they’re almost reflective in the dark too… like a cat’s eyes.” They paused and rested their hand over the lower half of their face as if they were taking a moment to recall more of the specifics to memory. “And there’s just something about the way it clucks.” They added. “It doesn’t really cluck like a normal hen, but it sounds more like… an echo of a cluck, I suppose.”
“What?....” Sebastian laughed as his expression shifted again. The description of the noise sounded completely ridiculous. Not a cluck, but an echo of a cluck? They may as well have likened it to a phantom voice or the cry of a specter. Something that eluded the range of sounds that most humans would ever have the chance or perception to experience. The farmer lifted their eyes back to Sebastian’s as if they’d suddenly remembered something else.
“She started laying eggs a couple of days ago. They look just like the one that appeared in the coop that night…” They let the fishing pole drop from their hand to the wood planking of the dock and slipped their arm out of the left strap of their backpack. “I actually have one with me if you want to see it….” They slid the other strap off of their shoulder and swung the bag around their right side, letting it come to a rest in front of them as they knelt down. Seb took a few steps closer and stooped to get a better look as they dug through the contents.
They gingerly grasped what looked like a tiny bundle wrapped in a kerchief and began to slowly peel away the corners of the fabric, exposing what was probably the most bizarre looking egg he’d ever seen in his life. It was black and somewhat glossy, unlike the calcified matte shells of most chicken eggs, and the surface seemed to be covered in tiny indents or fissures that exposed flecks of a bright, almost luminescent red underneath. The farmer held the egg out to Sebastian as they stood up straight and nodded, silently offering to let him hold it for a closer look. He gently cupped the egg in his hands, tucked his arms in close to his body and cradled it in his palms like a cautious child trying to hold a hamster. It was heavier than he’d expected it to be, and surprisingly warm.
The color reminded him of magma or hot coals. Something like the intense heat glowing through crackling obsidian after a volcanic eruption or a dying fire. He leaned his head even closer to the egg as he examined the texture of the shell, and his nose wrinkled a bit when he caught the scent. It was sulphurous, and almost earthy smelling, but not overpoweringly so.
“It’s not rotten, is it?” he asked as he gently turned the egg over in his hands.
“See, that’s the strange thing about it. It can’t be…. That egg was just laid this morning.” They explained. “All of the eggs that hen lays have that… little whiff of something burning to them.” The rain was starting to slow up a bit. The farmer thought for a moment and giggled at the notion of what they said next. “I’m not inclined to say that they’re edible either… at least, not to people, and I wouldn’t be keen on being the first one to test that.” Sebastian winced at the thought…and smell, and stifled a laugh.
“Me neither…” He smiled softly when the red speckled pattern caught his attention again. “It does look really cool though!”
He really did have a nice smile. It was kind of a shame that he didn’t let people see it more often. His eyes brightened, and his face looked softer and more approachable, yet also, inquisitive and curious. It was a look of fascination and wonder. Like a kid who’d just discovered dinosaurs and outer space for the first time, or someone who’d just felt their first taste of freedom and didn’t quite know what to do with it. An imaginative or inspired sort of expression.
“Since you like it so much, why don’t you hang onto it?” the farmer beamed.
“Can I?” Sebastian’s eyes lit up again and he gazed back at the farmer with a delighted look on his face.
“Sure! Hens lay eggs every day or so. There’ll be more before long!” they chimed. Sebastian chuckled as he curled his fingers about the egg and sheltered it from the rain.
“Thank you!” He gazed at it for a few moments more as the farmer hefted the rucksack back onto their shoulders and pulled the fishing rod from it’s resting place on the dock. “Hey, this might sound kind of stupid….” He began as he gazed back and forth between the farmer and his new prize… “But, do you think it’ll hatch if I put it under my pillow?” he laughed awkwardly at his own question when he realized how foolish it must have sounded, but was pleasantly surprised when the farmer’s response was more optimistic than he had expected.
“Umm, I don’t know… Maybe! It’s worth a try anyway, and stranger things have happened.”
“Only one way to find out I guess!” Sebastian said smiling in anticipation.
“Good luck! You’ll have to let me know what happens!” They scanned out over the tides as if looking for something before turning back to Sebastian. “I should hurry and find a spot to fish before the rain stops again, but it was really nice talking to you!”
“Yeah, you too!” Seb agreed. “I’ll see you later!” He distracted himself for a moment, making sure the egg was tucked away safe and warm in his hoodie pocket, when he suddenly realized something. “Hey, wait!...” he quickly turned back to where the farmer had been standing just a minute before, but by the time he’d remembered what he’d needed to ask, they’d already trotted too far out of earshot to be able to hear him. “Aw, man… I forgot to catch their name again.” He lamented. “I’ll have to remember to ask them next time… Next time for sure.”

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2024.05.18 05:38 Kelson64 Facts or Myths? - More items to fact check about AEW!

Dax Harwood is actually a published author! In 2020, he released his autobiography titled "Dax Harwood: FTR - Tag Team Wrestling Reinvented." The book delves into his career journey and offers insights into the world of tag team wrestling.
Tony Khan is a registered architect.
Renee Paquette was in Tom Green's video for "Teachers Suck". She appears in a red bikini in the video.
The Young Bucks are the only duo in history to achieve the NJPW Tag Team Triple Crown! This means they captured all three of New Japan's prestigious tag team championships: the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championship, and the IWGP Tag Team Championship.
Bryan Danielson overcame a stutter while growing up.
Don Callis' wrestling career almost didn't happen! He was initially supposed to be paired with Rick Martel in WWE, but Martel's sudden jump to WCW left Callis in limbo. Bret Hart, however, intervened and vouched for Callis, ultimately landing him a spot in the company.
Tay Melo has a black belt in judo.
Powerhouse Hobbs was quite skinny in high school, weighing in at about 142 pounds.
Aubrey Edwards worked as a video game developer for a decade.
Will Ospreay had a brief stint in TNA in 2015.
Ruby Soho was one of the founding members of the Oedo Tai faction in STARDOM.
Claudio Castagnoli has his own coffee line called "Claudio's Cafe"
Mina Shirakawa's major in college was English Literature.
Konosuke Takeshita wrote a 20-page essay on the German Suplex for his graduate thesis.
Riho trained as a jockey before becoming a wrestler.
Anthony Bowens was Division 1 baseball player in college
Stokely Hathaway is a real estate agent.
Maki Itoh claims she went into debt getting plastic surgery before entering professional wrestling . . . and no one noticed the change.
Keith Lee says his hair started turning white at the age of 16
Taz was a bounty hunter before becoming a pro wrestler.
Adam Cole (whose real first name is Austin) was mistakenly called in for a tryout by WWE. They were trying to contaxt Xavier Woods (whose real first name is also Austin).

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2024.05.18 05:09 thesylphroad Restore Me literally hurt my feelings so bad and I need to scream about it!!!

Heavy on the spoilers and devoid of all brevity, but if I do not get this off my chest I will lose my mind. I’ve been on a Shatter Me high all week. The first three books have altered my brain chemistry. I have said the words “Aaron Warner, the man you are” so many times I am beginning to question my sanity. I cracked open Restore Me last night, fully prepared to trust-fall into the arms of my #1 Fictional Boyfriend of all time.
So, um, what the fuck was that?
Look, I can forgive messy plotlines and overwriting, I can ignore ill-planned and lazily-executed rebel coups. I can even appreciate the absurd surplus of metaphors and similes crammed in between strings of dialogue, if for no reason other than comedic value.
What I can’t get behind is Book 4 Aaron Warner.
Seriously, who is this guy? Because I’ve gone through the five stages of grief, turned around and reread the entire book in frank disbelief, and the only conclusion I can possibly come to is that I’ve somehow picked up an imposter, written in very bad faith. When Adam Kent did a 180 in Ignite Me and went from “gentle, pathetic childhood crush who can suffer through Juliette’s touch in some small capacity” to “bitter, controlling ex-boyfriend driven mad with jealousy,” we all understood this to be much-needed fan service. Juliette was, after all, being an idiot; she needed a little push, to realize that Aaron Warner was the undisputed crown jewel. Most of us came to this conclusion two and a half books ahead of her, but better late than never. I walked away from Ignite Me feeling content. The power couple has been established. Anderson is dead. Juliette’s rise to Supreme Commander was satisfying, if a bit hasty. I went into Restore Me confident that, with Aaron at her side, Juliette could achieve anything.
The transition was…jarring, to say the least.

“The Reestablishment does not allow time for people to grieve.” - Book 3 Aaron.

(Alas, this is Book 4, and *insert obligatory Bob Dylan joke*)
The Times, They Are a’ Changin’
Anyway, what I’m getting at here is that Aaron is grieving, he is mourning, he is SAD. This is totally understandable, both to me as a reader and to Juliette as a character. It appears to be the guiding factor behind his new penchant for stonewalling and emotional blackmail. Before diving into THAT can of worms, I’d like to add a couple of bullets to my list of “Miscellaneous What-and-Why-the-Fucks:”

Why does Juliette have zero advisors? Where is her council? Her attendants? Her scribe? Her translator? Her GUARDS?
What, exactly, is Kenji’s job? She refers to him as her “second-in-command,” and while I adore his character, I can’t help but feel that lending snarky input does very little in the way of running a tight ship. Why is she entirely on her own?

Moving on.
A TIMELINE OF SHITTY EVENTS, IN WHICH I HANG UP MY ‘ADAM KENT’S #1 HATER’ JACKET AND SHRUG ON MY ‘AARON WARNER SUCKS’ VEST:

~~Juliette is trying to make peace between two unruly schoolboys who refuse to get along at the playground.~~ Sorry, Juliette is trying to make peace between two grown men, both of whom appear, in some capacity, involved in the running of North America. This is going “Not Very Well,” if Aaron’s botched haircut is any indication. Fortunately, he comes to terms with his Slim Shady Era, and while he’s clearly going through some things, I could roll with the punches and learn to love the buzz cut, if only he didn’t IMMEDIATELY TURN INTO THE JOKER AFTER THIS.
Aaron knows better than anyone else about the role and responsibilities of a Supreme Commander. Still yet, he appears completely uninvolved in Juliette’s day-to-day regimen. He makes zero effort to inform her about details that might save her from needless embarrassment. Her fuck-ups seem imminent. Perhaps this is why he has no inclination to avoid them, nor lessen their impact on her pride or public image. Slim Shady is a lone wolf. He has completely forgotten that whole “I’ve told you from the start, we would make an excellent team” spiel. North America is a One-Woman (De?)establishment. Kenji appears to play the role of court jester, though he lends emotional support when necessary–and always with more empathy and forethought than Regent Warner, who, I might remind you, has the power of READING ENERGIES (“hers, especially”).
Enter Delalieu, to inform Juliette her quarters are overflowing with unanswered mail, and worry that this may reflect poorly upon her as a new leader, to which she’s like “I have quarters?” This revelation comes on the heels of Castle’s memo that “all of her correspondence is being monitored.” I suspect somehow this is Castle’s fault, which brings me to my follow-up point.
In Book 4, Castle becomes less of an incompetent hippie and more of a prick to Juliette. He terrorizes her with cryptic warnings, but refuses to divulge any information he may have about Warner’s past, which–given her new status–seems like it ought to be grounds for some sort of official noncompliance. He also had her reach out to the other supreme commanders “as an experiment.” It was at this point I decided I wasn’t a fan of how everyone kept undermining or making a mockery of Juliette at every turn. I couldn’t help but notice how Castle’s comments to Aaron about her went entirely unchecked. I am reminded, if you will, of that scene in Shatter Me, when Aaron staged a big spectacle in which a soldier was killed, to ensure his men knew not to fuck with Juliette. He seems to have forgotten this virtue, in Book 4.
Despite being warned that Ibriham’s children are en route, Aaron lets a conversation with Kent take precedence over informing Juliette what to expect, how to dress, what to say, etc. Castle also informs him once Haider arrives. Juliette chooses to meet Haider without waiting for Aaron, but he should have been there regardless. He can FEEL her energy, he doesn’t need her to say it out loud to realize she’s insecure and needs him to be there, and she wouldn’t BE insecure about so much shit if he would step in and stop allowing everyone to make her the butt of every joke!!! Where’s that supportive boyfriend act you roped us all in with, buddy? Also, literally neither she nor Kenji know jack shit about politics, why would he let them walk into a meeting with the children of foreign leaders entirely blind?
Speaking of the meeting with Haider, Aaron has a closet full of clothes organized by color and shade; yet he didn’t think to help Juliette pick out a new wardrobe for her designation as Supreme Commander? He literally chose her entire last wardrobe, and look, I get it, they’re busy with war things and his evil dad is dead and that’s sad and all, but don’t introduce us to a standard you can’t maintain! She goes to meet this snotty rich boy in BLUE JEANS AND A PINK SWEATER. Kenji “cringes” at her. This was so humiliating I literally felt my face getting hot when I read it.
Again, Castle specifically *told* Aaron when Haider arrived, but when he and Juliette discuss it later, he turns it around on her to justify why he didn’t show up to support her!

“You didn’t tell me he’d arrived earlier. I wish I could’ve been there to assist somehow.”
Like, are you fucking kidding me? Again, he can FEEL her energy; he is well aware that she spent that meeting getting humiliated, and still decides to make his absence a product of her incompetence. Like, his entire pep talk after this left me filled with visceral rage.

Allow me to share this absolutely infuriating passage in Aaron’s POV:

“She [Nazeera] has the same long legs and lean frame as her brother, and she carries herself with great pride, like someone who was born into position and privilege. She wears a gray tunic cut from fine, heavy fabric; skintight leather pants; heavy boots; and a set of glittering gold knuckles on both hands.
And I’m not the only one staring.
Juliette, who’s been watching quietly this whole time, is looking up, amazed. I can practically see her thought process as she suddenly stiffens, glances down at her own outfit, and crosses her arms over her chest as if to hide her pink sweater from view. She’s tugging at her sleeves as though she might tear them off.
It’s so adorable I almost kiss her right then.”

Are you fucking SERIOUS? So she is here, dying of embarrassment, already feeling inferior because she’s comically underdressed and only speaks one language, and his response is to GAWK AT A HOT GIRL IN FRONT OF HER AND INFANTILIZE HER IN HIS INNER MONOLOGUE. “I’m not the only one staring” ???? Be so for real right now, like I am lost for words!

Aaron is “fairly certain” and generally insistent that Castle’s suspicions will prove false. Like, why would Castle just be pulling random hunches like this out of his ass? When I read it, I was like, “Hmm, kinda sounds like Aaron is just rationalizing why he isn’t going to tell Juliette any of this.” Spoiler alert: I was right.
Aaron sits in silence and watches Juliette flounder helplessly while trying to explain to Haider how she only sort of knows what the “Continental Symposium” is.* OH YEAH, DID I MENTION IT IS ALSO TWO DAYS AWAY? Like, Aaron clearly knows this is a big deal, it appears to be a tradition of sorts. Why is he once again letting his girlfriend be humiliated and condescended by their guests? He also *CRINGES,* he CRINGES at her for not knowing about it. Like, at this point I am beginning to greatly resent this man.
He also doesn’t defend Juliette when Haider calls her “some idiot psychotic girl” TO HIS FACE. RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER. Actually, SHE steps in and defends HIM. I wish she hadn’t. After this, in his inner monologue, Aaron is like, “I wonder if she knows I would do anything for her.” FUCKING DO SOMETHING WARNER, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
Juliette peeks in on Aaron in his office, finds him listening to old vinyl, discovers he likes Bob Dylan. ME TOO, BUDDY, I’ve seen him live. Might I suggest a little less “Like a Rolling Stone” and a little more “Just Like a Woman,” “Tangled Up in Blue,” “Lay Lady Lay,” ‘COZ I AM BEGINNING TO HATE YOUR ASS FOR THE WAY YOU ARE TREATING JULIETTE!
Again, Aaron is fully aware of Castle’s warnings that people are coming for Juliette. WHY is she walking unarmed and unguarded on the beach at night? That’s right, because he ran off with Haider to count gold coins or suck each other off or something, leaving her to be sad and alone and not on the lookout for danger. Once again, he fails to come through and keep her safe, and she gets hit with some kind of bullet or dart or something.
AGAIN, why is Castle allowed to stand here and disrespect Juliette right to Warner’s face, invalidate her and tell him how HE should have been the one who became Supreme Commander? Like, she already has zero support around her whatsoever and this rat is allowed to talk shit about all the things she does and doesn’t know, what she gets told, and potentially also her MAIL. Why hasn’t Warner killed this fucker yet? Warner, ARE YOU STILL IN THERE?
Remember when Aaron was clever? Yeah, me too. He seems to have abandoned that trait in Book 4. Things like “taking basic precaution” no longer hold any precedence. He and Juliette have, however, found the time to fuck twice, despite having no time or opportunity for all the critical conversations they’re not having that could have redeemed Aaron Warner in my heart and mind. P R I O R I T I E S.
*slams the back of his head against the wall in frustration* I actually had an ex who did this once when I caught him cheating. It is not something intelligent people do, in my experience. I am beginning to hate Aaron the way I hated Adam. Side note, I still hate Adam. Glad he kind of disappears after the first couple of chapters.
Great, Juliette is now hallucinating from poison bullets. Good thing Aaron is there to…look really scared and terrify her even more. Moral support? Don’t know him! Just…staring fearfully, jumping in to prevent her from going outside. Maybe a pat on the head or something would help…no? Okay then.
At this point he decides it’s time to fess up. He couldn’t have chosen a worse time, by the way. Juliette asks if it’s okay if she washes the blood and sand off first (she was just attacked on the beach, remember?). She is clearly still sick and “hallucinating” (seeing the bright white lights outside of her window, the way people do right before they die). Maybe he could…I don’t know…HELP HER? Run her bathwater? Help her clean up? Yeah no, he just nods. She can do all that by herself, just like everything around here. Juliette, girl, if you don’t kick this deadbeat to the curb I’m gonna SCREAM. P.S.: WHO IS THIS MAN? THIS IS NOT THE AARON WARNER I KNOW. Remember how he remembered to bring gloves and a coat for her before he dropped her off at Omega Point? They weren’t even dating yet. How hard did he slam his head into the wall? Maybe he should keep going. Maybe he would like a little help? I’m not busy at all rn.
See the thing is, now Aaron has to do a big fess up about Juliette’s life. He’s obviously lied and withheld some vital information, but more importantly he spent a couple of years torturing a sister she doesn’t know about yet. And while I realize he didn’t have any CHOICE in this particular matter, I also loathe him at this point for a ton of other shit he’s done leading up to this, so it’s really hard to feel sorry for him when–REALLY THEY FIND TIME TO FUCK AGAIN AT THIS POINT? SOMETHING IS FUCKING WRONG WITH THESE TWO. I can’t help but notice she’s “crawled on top of him” both times now. Guess she’s doing all the work in the sack, as well. Remember that “flip over on your stomach” line from Ignite Me? That guy is dead now. This dude blows and I hate him. Separate LOL at “onto to the floor.” That’s really in there. You can check.
So the only time these two can communicate is during coitus. Cool. Maybe instead of reminding each other of their mutual love, they could reinforce their bond with something like…confessional hour? Maybe Aaron could use his energy to feel her energy and figure out something safe to say, that isn’t super fucked up and wrong. Spoiler alert: he doesn’t.
CONFESSION TIME! She starts crying when he gets to the “Reestablishment is coming for you, they’re coming to take you back” part. This is pretty reasonable, but he doesn’t pause to reassure her about it before he’s like, “Oh yeah and about your SISTER–” At this point she actually asks him to stop, probably so she can digest some of this horrifying information, but he says, and I quote, “No.” I really feel like he could have paused for a few minutes to let her process, maybe find some solid ground to stand on(since the man whose lap she is sitting in is a spineless moron and awful boyfriend, and thus not at all likely to be of any assistance).
Juliette panics. Again, this is not entirely unjustified. Aaron speaks seven languages, none of which are “reassurance,” or “comfort,” and so when she actually gets up and runs away he just…accepts it. I want a refund. I want the first three books to apologize for love-bombing me. I made this man my #1 book boyfriend of all time. THIS Aaron Warner…this man is a fraud and I hate him. She should honestly just hook up with Kenji. At least he still calls her princess. Has Aaron called her love even once in this book? It’s possible I missed it, over the sound of his ceaseless letdowns from Chapter One onward.
Aaron has a panic attack. Luckily his nemesis Kenji is there to comfort him. Why is no one worried about Juliette? While we are all crying over Warner’s psychosomatic breakdown, she is hysterical, hallucinating poison, has a voice in her head, and is being hunted by some kind of evil bureaucrats and possibly her own parents.
Allow me to share yet another passage that made blink in disbelief:

He [Kenji] shakes his head. “You just can’t, man. You can’t be with someone and keep that many secrets from them.”
“It’s never stopped me before.”

At this point, Mafi, I already hate him. You did not need to include this passage, at all.

**PARAPHRASING** Kenji’s like, “Hey man, you’re kind of being shitty to your girlfriend by not telling her about things like all your exes.” Aaron is like, “Well, I wouldn’t have ever done anything to hurt her (barring all those things I did to hurt her), but since I already lost her, who cares? Water under the bridge!” To which Kenji reminds him that ‘water under the bridge’ means Juliette can go out and fuck someone else, and Aaron doesn’t like the idea of that, so he decides he probably wants to fix things, after all.
Aaron: “You couldn’t have called, Lieutenant? Isn’t that what our phones are for?”

Nothing significant here, although it is news to me that they have phones. When did they get phones?
Anyway, turns out Delalieu tried to call him, but Warner disconnected his phone. Can we like, demote this guy or something? This guy SUCKS.

Juliette chooses the moron’s escape route (blind sprint into the open night), and gets snatched up by Jazeera (who can fly). This is the first time Jazeera has shared said secret with anyone, which she confides when they land in a tree. It’s a really great time for these two to kiss, and it’s only fair. After all, Warner never had any friends, so this childhood friend of Warner’s technically doesn’t count. Juliette lets Aaron block her blessings once again, but Jazeera is nonetheless more emotional support than Kenji and Aaron put together. You know, I usually read fantasy to ESCAPE the disappointing reality of Men. This book is reminding me they manage to infiltrate even sacred spaces like fiction. Jazeera is sucking on a hard candy, and I’M turned on, but Juliette is sad, so I’ll be quiet.
Jazeera tells Juliette that Warner isn’t a bad person. Unfortunately, I must disagree. She’s still hot so I’m still listening.
Lena Mishken? Yeah, no, never heard of her, but once again thank the gods for Jazeera, who spills the tea. It is…entirely embarrassing that since-revoked #1 fictional boyfriend Aaron Warner would let this information have to come to his girlfriend through a near stranger’s gossip, but turns out Lena is Aaron’s EX-GIRLFRIEND. I wonder how he could forget to mention a thing like that. Maybe Good Guy Aaron Warner didn’t anticipate she would still be part of the global, troubled teen Brady Bunch they’ve all been part of since they were kids, who are all apparently coming to visit. I’m not sure why he didn’t anticipate this, and I’m also not sure why all these people are showing up for this “Continental Symposium.” Symposiums typically involve presentations of some sort, that is the extent of my knowledge. I am sure if that was the case here, Warner would conveniently forget to remind his girlfriend about it. I am truly convinced at this point he gets off on humiliating her, so he’ll really enjoy making her walk on stage unprepared for something like this. I personally preferred when he was firmly ddlg/cgl coded in books 1-3. Uhhh, I would have appreciated a tw for this kind of content rebranding, but no matter.
Did I mention Lena and Aaron were together for TWO YEARS?
Did I mention Lena and Aaron only broke up EIGHT MONTHS AGO?
Did I mention the Reestablishment is planning to destroy Sector 45?
Also Lena is Russian. That seemed arbitrary, unless we are just supposed to know she’s extra hot or something. I don’t think Juliette needed any more tearing down, actually, but duly noted!
Lena shows up outside of Warner’s room. Let me include this tiny snippet from his POV:

“Open the door, asshole.”
“You never did hold back with the flattery.”

Okay, this second line is what I would consider ‘flirting’ and I don’t like that. Good thing I decided I cannot stand this man like, twenty chapters ago, so at least this isn’t anything unexpected by now. This character is utterly irredeemable to me, and I wish I could act like I didn’t cry about it, but I can’t. I am devastated by the character assassination that took place in this book.

Next up, Lena is attacking him because he broke up with her through a letter to his mom. Nothing surprises me at this point. Also, there is this:

She’s still thrashing against me, landing several kicks at my shins when I finally manage to gentle her arms and pull her close.

Suddenly, she stills.
My lips are at her ear when I say her name once, very gently.

This is an...awfully intimate way to subdue your ex-girlfriend. This would end any relationship in its tracks, for me. Also Kenji is here watching this all happen. He will not say a word to Juliette about it, if my guess is correct.
Why…did the author do this? I am literally sick to my stomach. This is worse than never getting a fourth book. I am really so hurt.

Juliette has gone 2009 Britney and shaved her head. I really cannot take anymore humiliation of this protagonist who spent two and a half books learning how to make eye contact with other human beings and is now being torn down and betrayed by every single person she has ever cared about.
For some reason Kenji and Warner walk in at this point. She is obviously wrecked and in her underwear, with a half shaven head. It’s nice to confirm that Kenji has sided with Warner in the breakup. This is the most debasing experience for me. Like I was really here for the found family and learning how to trust in love tropes. I wish I had never opened this one, to be quite honest.
Warner talks to Juliette like she is a small, crippled animal (she is, essentially, and I would call this at least 75% his fault, but moving on). She is pathetic and drunk and we’ve all been there and I do not want to listen to her idolize her piece of shit boyfriend she broke up with but will get back with in the morning. She begs him to stay and hold her and he obviously can’t do that and still play the victim so he goes to the living room. I am honestly sick to my stomach.
Warner has some “woe-is-me” inner monologue that I skim because I hate him with a burning passion at this point.
Juliette wakes up and is, predictably humiliated. Now she has to go in front of all these terrible rich snobby assholes after manic shaving her head bald the night before. The author attempts to turn it into a big empowering moment, but this simply is not realistic as the author has just spent the entirety of the book tearing down and crippling every shred of confidence this girl gained over the course of the first three books.
Lena is transphobic. That is an odd detail. Moving on.
Warner tells Juliette he likes her hair. She asks him why he didn’t mention Lena. He tells her it “wasn’t a real relationship.” He tells her it was “purely physical.” The only explanation at this point is that the author did not want to write another book, but then she continued o write books after this so…I have no idea why she destroyed this man’s character so meticulously. I am honestly at a loss for words.
Juliette is reasonably upset about this, and Warner launches into explanations and excuses for why he doesn’t think before he speaks or consider her feelings the way he did when he was trying to steal her away from Adam. Like, at this point it is safe to say Adam Kent was telling the truth, despite the fact that he also sucks very hard.
He’s like “blah blah before you I never wanted to get close to anyone.” Well you clearly had no problem getting CLOSE to her, but you also refuse to be emotionally vulnerable with Juliette, so all of this is useless rabble and he is just a narcissist trying to win back a girl who will probably forgive him at the end of the day, to her own undoing. He says some lies and then ends with, “Give me another chance. Please. I swear on my life I won’t disappoint you.” Yes, yes, this is what they always say. If you keep refusing he’ll promise to go to therapy, too, Juliette, this is a universal experience and not the one any of us wanted when we cracked open this book. He kisses her after that and it’s special because it’s in front of all these people he’s been humiliating her in front of for like however many days it’s been now.
After their kiss, Juliette runs away for…I don’t know. Theater?
Castle shows up and pretends to be a father figure to Aaron, for some reason. I don’t like him so I don’t care to elaborate.
Juliette stands at a podium and gives a speech about what she wants to make better in the world and nobody wants that so a bunch of people in the crowd advance on her and she gets shot in the forehead but she’s invincible somehow. Once the first bullet doesn’t do anything they all start shooting. It’s okay because she screams and kills 554 people, which may or may not have been real, I’m not really following at this point. She runs through all her old friends, most of whom she’s just killed, and then a couple greet her and tell her they’re her parents and they’ve come to take her home.
Warner’s POV is blank. He’s probably still alive. Who cares? He’s ruined either way.
Juliette wakes up in a child’s bedroom. Spoiler alert: it’s hers. She starts snooping and finds a letter from Warner’s dad about how they’ve found a suitable family for her (she is obviously the “her”). She finds photos of her and her sister before school, then photos of her, her sister, and Nazeera. Oh yeah, then she finds a photo of her and Aaron together as kids. Her real name is Ella.

This is all good and fine, the plot twist was even cool. But there is literally no salvaging what was done to Aaron Warner’s character or his relationship with Juliette in this book. Like, what was the point? I literally have cried way too many times about this and I thought reading it a second time would convince me I am being dramatic or embellishing the level of betrayal I feel but no, like, I am certain this was devastating.

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2024.05.18 04:52 BrewersBot Postgame Thread: 5/17 Brewers @ Astros

Line Score - Game Over

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E	LOB
MIL	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	7	0	6
HOU	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	0		5	10	0	6

Box Score

HOU		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
2B	Altuve	4	1	1	0	0	1	.311
SS	Peña	4	1	1	3	0	1	.326
RF	Tucker	3	0	2	0	1	0	.288
3B	Bregman	4	0	1	0	0	1	.228
DH	Diaz, Y	3	0	0	0	1	2	.265
1B	Singleton	4	1	2	0	0	0	.221
CF	Meyers	3	1	1	2	0	1	.264
C	Caratini	4	1	2	0	0	1	.276
LF	Loperfido, J	2	0	0	0	0	2	.306
LF	Dubón	1	0	0	0	0	0	.281

HOU	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Brown, H	5.0	4	4	4	3	5	93-55	7.71
Scott, Tay	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	17-11	2.14
Montero	1.0	2	0	0	0	1	16-9	3.05
Abreu, B	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	20-10	3.27
Hader	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	12-9	4.50

MIL		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
2B	Turang	4	0	2	0	0	2	.306
PH	Miller, O	1	0	0	0	0	1	.118
C	Contreras, Wm	3	0	0	0	1	1	.353
LF	Yelich	4	0	0	0	0	2	.338
SS	Adames	4	0	1	0	0	0	.250
1B	Bauers	2	2	1	1	1	0	.241
DH	Sánchez	3	0	0	0	1	1	.234
DH	Monasterio	0	0	0	0	0	0	.063
RF	Frelick	3	1	0	0	1	1	.252
3B	Ortiz, J	4	1	3	3	0	0	.296
RF	Chourio	2	0	0	0	0	1	.215
CF	Perkins, B	2	0	0	0	0	0	.210

MIL	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Peralta, F	5.0	8	5	5	1	6	97-62	4.17
Koenig	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	14-9	3.12
Peguero, E	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	11-9	3.32
Milner	1.0	1	0	0	1	2	25-13	1.77

Scoring Plays

Inning	Event	Score
T2	Jake Bauers homers (5) on a fly ball to right center field.	0-1
B2	Jake Meyers homers (4) on a fly ball to left field. Jon Singleton scores.	2-1
T4	Joey Ortiz homers (5) on a fly ball to right field. Jake Bauers scores. Sal Frelick scores.	2-4
B5	Jeremy Peña homers (5) on a fly ball to left center field. Victor Caratini scores. Jose Altuve scores.	5-4

Highlights

Description	Length
Bullpen availability for Houston, May 17 vs Brewers	0:07
Bullpen availability for Milwaukee, May 17 vs Astros	0:07
Fielding alignment for Houston, May 17 vs Brewers	0:11
Bench availability for Houston, May 17 vs Brewers	0:07
Bench availability for Milwaukee, May 17 vs Astros	0:07
Fielding alignment for Milwaukee, May 17 vs Astros	0:11
Starting lineups for Brewers at Astros - May 17, 2024	0:09
Measuring the stats on Jake Bauers' home run	0:13
A deep dive into Jake Bauers' home run	0:11
Jake Meyers: Home Run Statcast Analysis	0:13
Visualizing Jake Meyers' swing using bat tracking technology	0:11
Measuring the stats on Joey Ortiz's home run	0:13
An animated look at Joey Ortiz's home run	0:11
The distance behind Jeremy Peña's home run	0:12
Jeremy Peña's home run through bat tracking data	0:11
Breaking down Hunter Brown's pitches	0:04
Hunter Brown's outing against the Brewers	0:25
Breaking down Freddy Peralta's pitches	0:04
Freddy Peralta's outing against the Astros	0:22
Jeremy Peña's great jumping throw	0:21
Yelich, Adames combine to nab Kyle Tucker at third	0:22
Jake Bauers' solo home run (5)	0:23
Jake Meyers' two-run home run (4)	0:28
Hunter Brown works out of a jam in the 3rd inning	0:13
Joey Ortiz's three-run home run (5)	0:21
Jeremy Peña hits a three-run home run (5)	0:29
Hunter Brown strikes out five against the Brewers	0:41
Field View: Jeremy Peña's big three-run homer	0:29
Willy Adames steals second base after a review	0:27
Freddy Peralta's six strikeouts against the Astros	0:45
Bryan Abreu escapes a jam in the 8th inning	0:09
Jake Bauers is hit by pitch following a review	0:28

Decisions

Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save
Brown, H (1-4, 7.71 ERA)	Peralta, F (3-2, 4.17 ERA)	Hader (6 SV, 4.50 ERA)

Game ended at 9:50 PM.

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2024.05.18 04:51 AstrosBot Post Game Thread (May 17, 2024): Brewers (26-18) @ Astros (20-25)

Line Score - Game Over

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E	LOB
MIL	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	7	0	6
HOU	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	0		5	10	0	6

Box Score

HOU		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
2B	Altuve	4	1	1	0	0	1	.311
SS	Peña	4	1	1	3	0	1	.326
RF	Tucker	3	0	2	0	1	0	.288
3B	Bregman	4	0	1	0	0	1	.228
DH	Diaz, Y	3	0	0	0	1	2	.265
1B	Singleton	4	1	2	0	0	0	.221
CF	Meyers	3	1	1	2	0	1	.264
C	Caratini	4	1	2	0	0	1	.276
LF	Loperfido, J	2	0	0	0	0	2	.306
LF	Dubón	1	0	0	0	0	0	.281

HOU	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Brown, H	5.0	4	4	4	3	5	93-55	7.71
Scott, Tay	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	17-11	2.14
Montero	1.0	2	0	0	0	1	16-9	3.05
Abreu, B	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	20-10	3.27
Hader	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	12-9	4.50

MIL		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
2B	Turang	4	0	2	0	0	2	.306
PH	Miller, O	1	0	0	0	0	1	.118
C	Contreras, Wm	3	0	0	0	1	1	.353
LF	Yelich	4	0	0	0	0	2	.338
SS	Adames	4	0	1	0	0	0	.250
1B	Bauers	2	2	1	1	1	0	.241
DH	Sánchez	3	0	0	0	1	1	.234
DH	Monasterio	0	0	0	0	0	0	.063
RF	Frelick	3	1	0	0	1	1	.252
3B	Ortiz, J	4	1	3	3	0	0	.296
RF	Chourio	2	0	0	0	0	1	.215
CF	Perkins, B	2	0	0	0	0	0	.210

MIL	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Peralta, F	5.0	8	5	5	1	6	97-62	4.17
Koenig	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	14-9	3.12
Peguero, E	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	11-9	3.32
Milner	1.0	1	0	0	1	2	25-13	1.77

Scoring Plays

Inning	Event	Score
T2	Jake Bauers homers (5) on a fly ball to right center field.	0-1
B2	Jake Meyers homers (4) on a fly ball to left field. Jon Singleton scores.	2-1
T4	Joey Ortiz homers (5) on a fly ball to right field. Jake Bauers scores. Sal Frelick scores.	2-4
B5	Jeremy Peña homers (5) on a fly ball to left center field. Victor Caratini scores. Jose Altuve scores.	5-4

Highlights

Description	Length
Bullpen availability for Houston, May 17 vs Brewers	0:07
Bullpen availability for Milwaukee, May 17 vs Astros	0:07
Fielding alignment for Houston, May 17 vs Brewers	0:11
Bench availability for Houston, May 17 vs Brewers	0:07
Bench availability for Milwaukee, May 17 vs Astros	0:07
Fielding alignment for Milwaukee, May 17 vs Astros	0:11
Starting lineups for Brewers at Astros - May 17, 2024	0:09
Measuring the stats on Jake Bauers' home run	0:13
A deep dive into Jake Bauers' home run	0:11
Jake Meyers: Home Run Statcast Analysis	0:13
Visualizing Jake Meyers' swing using bat tracking technology	0:11
Measuring the stats on Joey Ortiz's home run	0:13
An animated look at Joey Ortiz's home run	0:11
The distance behind Jeremy Peña's home run	0:12
Jeremy Peña's home run through bat tracking data	0:11
Breaking down Hunter Brown's pitches	0:04
Hunter Brown's outing against the Brewers	0:25
Breaking down Freddy Peralta's pitches	0:04
Freddy Peralta's outing against the Astros	0:22
Jeremy Peña's great jumping throw	0:21
Yelich, Adames combine to nab Kyle Tucker at third	0:22
Jake Bauers' solo home run (5)	0:23
Jake Meyers' two-run home run (4)	0:28
Hunter Brown works out of a jam in the 3rd inning	0:13
Joey Ortiz's three-run home run (5)	0:21
Jeremy Peña hits a three-run home run (5)	0:29
Hunter Brown strikes out five against the Brewers	0:41
Field View: Jeremy Peña's big three-run homer	0:29
Willy Adames steals second base after a review	0:27
Freddy Peralta's six strikeouts against the Astros	0:45
Bryan Abreu escapes a jam in the 8th inning	0:09
Jake Bauers is hit by pitch following a review	0:28

Decisions

Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save
Brown, H (1-4, 7.71 ERA)	Peralta, F (3-2, 4.17 ERA)	Hader (6 SV, 4.50 ERA)

Game ended at 9:51 PM.

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2024.05.18 04:51 hearts-and-stars When you love someone cover

I know this is originally by Bryan Adams, but can you figure out who did this cover? I know it’s from YouTube, but can’t seem to find it.

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2024.05.18 04:13 hearts-and-stars When You Love someone cover

This is a cover of Bryan Adam’s When You Love Someone. Can you help identify who sang this cover? I’ve seen the video on YouTube before, now it’s gone and I can’t find it…I tried many searches and no luck.

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2024.05.18 02:48 Useful_Society9237 🚀 thoughts on Asteroid City?

I must say this film has been nothing but perplexing /pos. I just find it amusing that this feels like this could’ve been Oppenheimer’s long lost quirky relative 😭 I find the character design of the alien funny too as it could’ve been someone’s trypophobic nightmare 😭
Anyways, I read some reviews this centered around death and grief. How we should be able to grow around absence.
Read some reviews too that this is the Wes Anderson has Wes Anderson-ed ever. I mean, if Tiktok were to try to dupe me up with my style, I, too, would also unleash the quirkiest work ever out of spite /j
let me know your thoughts as well! 👽

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2024.05.18 01:40 Leather_Focus_6535 The currently 105 inmates executed by Florida since the 1970s and their crimes (warning, graphic content, please read at your own risk) [part 1, cases 1 to 52]

Here is my list of Florida's post Furman execution roster that I wrote for my personal death penalty project. To be clear, the dates given here are a loose timeframe of an offender's first known criminal activities (including misdemeanors and delinquent activities) to their executions, and not at all their years on death row. In a large number of death penalty cases, the offenders were committing high level felonies, even other murders in extreme cases like Ted Bundy, well before the murders that condemned them. I wanted to encapsulate the earlier known or suspected offenses in order to express the scope and scale of their crimes.
As a warning, due how the death penalty is utilized in the United States, many of the surveyed crimes are extremely graphic by nature. Please read at your own risk. On a different note, Florida is the last currently completed list. I'm still working on Texas, and as of now finished 484 entries out of the state's 587 cases to date.
As with my lists for Missouri, Virginia, and Oklahoma, reddit's character limitations forced me to split Florida's roster into two parts. Here is the link to part 2.
The currently 105 executed offenders, cases 1 to 52:
1. John Spenkelink (~1972-1979, electric chair): While on the run after escaping from a Californian prison, Spenkelink picked up 45 year old Joseph Szymankiewicz while he was hitchhiking. Like Spenkelink, Szymankiewicz was a career criminal, and had a conviction for murdering a owner of a furniture store during a robbery. They went on a nationwide crime spree together, but Spenkelink shot Szymankiewicz and disemboweled him with a hatchet while he was asleep in a hotel room. He claimed that the killing was done to protect himself from a sexual assault and being forced to play Russian Roulette, but this was rejected by the courts. Spenkelink had several previous convictions of armed robberies, some of which he was serving when he escaped from California.
2. Robert Sullivan (1973-1983, electric chair): Sullivan and his accomplice abducted 38 year old Donald Schmidt from a Howard Johnson's he managed. They bound Schmidt's hands behind his back, and drove him to a remote swamp in the Everglades. He was beaten with a tire iron and shot four times in the head. The pair then took Schmdit's watch and his credit cards from his body.
3. Anthony Antone (~1970s-1984, electric chair): Antone, a high ranking mobster, was hired by a crime boss to arrange the murder of Richard Cloud, a 33 year old private detective. He arranged for two of his associates to gun down Cloud on his own front porch. Although he wasn't directly present at the crime itself, Antone bore the harshest penalties due to his employer and one of his triggermen committing suicide in custody and the surviving triggerman agreeing to testify against him.
4. Arthur Goode III (~1960s-1984, electric chair): Goode lured 9 year old Jason VerDow into a forest, and raped and strangled him to death. The next day, he abducted Billy Arthe, a 10 year old Guatemalan immigrant, and took him on a journey to Washington D.C. On their way through Virginia, Goode kidnapped 11 year old Kenny Dawson. Both boys were sexually abused, and he strangled Dawson to death with a belt in front of Arthe. Arthe was rescued when a passing woman recognized him from the news coverages. Good was notorious for being a shameless pedophile who openly flaunted and defended his predations of young boys to any listening ears. When he acted as his own attorney during the proceedings for VerDow's murder, Goode's defense entirely hinged on pedophila apologetics and advocacy. He started victimizing younger boys in his early teens, and dealt with several accusations of sexual assault throughout high school. His execution was somewhat controversial, as Goode was cognitively disabled and had the mentality of a young child.
5. James Adams (~1962-1984, electric chair): During a burglary of a ranch, Adams beat the owner, 61 year old Edgar Brown, to death with a firepoker stick. Several of the undisclosed items Adams stole in the robbery were discovered in his wife's car. Prior to the murder, Adams had a rape conviction that gave him a 99 year sentence, but he managed to escape from prison.
6. Carl Shriner (~1962-1984, electric chair): Shriner shot and killed Judith Carter, a 32 year old clerk, while robbing a convenience store. He was involved with petty crimes since he was 8 years old, and Shriner was on parole for armed robbery at the time of the murder.
7. David Washington (1976-1984, electric chair): Washington started his crime spree by fatally stabbing a minister, 69 year old Daniel Pridgen, during a robbery of his home. A few days later, he broke into a home that had 64 year old Katrina Birk and her 3 sister in laws inside. He tied up all four women, and stabbed and shot them. Birk was killed, but her sister in laws survived with crippling injuries. The day after Birk's murder, Washington and his accomplices kidnapped 20 year old Frank Meli from a university, tied him to a bed, and tried extorting a ransom from his family. When that failed, he stabbed his captive to death. In his 10 day long murder and robbery spree, Washington stole jewelry, a car, an undisclosed amount of some money from Pridgen, and $8 from Birk and her sister in laws.
8. Ernest Dobbert Jr. (1972-1984, electric chair): Dobbert routinely tortured his children with beatings, poking their eyes with his fingers, dunking their heads in bathtubs, and burnings with cigarette lighters. Two of them, 9 year old Kelly and 7 year old Ryder, were strangled to death during one of his daily beatings and torture sessions.
9. James Henry (~1965-1984, electric chair): Henry invaded the home of Zellie Riley, a 81 year old Civil Rights activist. He tied up and gagged Riley, slit his throat with a razor blade, and stole $64. A few days later, Henry shot and wounded detective Ronald Ferguson in a confrontation. He previously shot and injured a man in one incident and non fatally stabbed a man in another, and alleged in both cases that the circumstances were self defense. However, the apparent victims made identical claims that Henry was trying to rob them.
10. Timothy Palmes (1976-1984, electric chair): Palmes used his girlfriend to lure her employer, a 41 year old furniture store owner named James Stone, to her apartment and knocked him unconscious with a hammer. Palmes and his other accomplice, Ronald Straight, bound him with wire and locked Stone in a wooden box they specifically made for him. They tortured their captive by slowly cutting his fingers off, and stabbed him 18 times with a machete and knife. The trio dumped Stone's body (which was still trapped in the box) into a river and stole his watch, car, and $2,800 from his store. Palmes tried to blame the killing entirely on his girlfriend, but she was granted immunity in exchange for testifying against him and Straight.
11. James Raulerson (1975-1985, electric chair): Raulerson and his accomplice robbed a restaurant at gunpoint, and raped one of the female employees. When the responding officers arrived at the scene, the pair engaged in a shootout with them. Both Raulerson's accomplice and a policeman, 23 year old Michael Stewart, were killed in the skirmish.
12. Johnny Witt (1973-1985, electric chair): Witt and his accomplice frequently stalked random people they could in the woods, as they were thrilled by the prospect of hunting other human beings. On a whim, the pair ambushed 11 year old Jonathan Kushner while he was riding his bike. They incapacitated Kushner by hitting him in the head with a drill star bit and gagged him. After they tossed him in the back of their truck, Kushner suffocated on the gag. Witt and his accomplice then cut the boy's stomach open to prevent bloating, engaged in intercourse with his body, and buried Kushner in a shallow grave.
13. Marvin Francois (1977-1985, electric chair): During what is now called the "Carol City massacre", Francois and two other men, Beauford White and John Ferguson, forced their way into a drug house. They tied up the 8 men and women inside (who were all between 24-45 years old), and shot them all in the head. Only two of the victims, 45 year old Johnnie Hall and 24 year old Margaret Wooden, survived. A total of $800 was stolen in the attack. Accomplice Ferguson (who was executed in 2013) also committed a series of unrelated murders that Francois wasn't involved with. These crimes are discussed in depth under Ferguson’s section (case 78) in Part 2 of this list.
14. Daniel Thomas (1976-1986, electric chair): Thomas and his accomplices, dubbed the "Ski Mask Gang" by the media, went on a rampage that involved the burglaries of 16 homes and the rapes of 5 women. The husband of one of those women, 49 year old Charles Anderson, was shot dead in an attempt to protect her. Other murders attributed to the Gas Mask Gang include 20 year old Henry Kersey (shot to death while trying to defend his wife, who was then tossed off a bridge) and 70 year old Tessie Henderson (succumbed to injuries received in a beating). Another woman was blinded after members of the Ski Mask Gang poured liquid plumber into her eyes.
15. David Funchess (1973-1986, electric chair): Fuchess was fired from a liquor store due to the owners suspecting him of stealing money. A year later, he assaulted his former workplace with a knife. He stabbed two employees, 62 year old Bertha McLeod and 52 year old Anna Waldrop, and a customer, 56 year old Clayton Ragan. Waldrop and Ragan were killed at the scene, while McLeod died from complications relating to her injuries two years after the attack. Fuchess left the store with several canceled checks that total around $6,000. He had several misdemeanors and minor felonies on his previous record that included theft, loitering, obstructing traffic, public intoxication, and disturbing the peace. Fuchess also attracted some public sympathy due to him being a Vietnam combat veteran that was diagnosed with PTSD.
16. John Straight (1976-1986, electric chair): As mentioned in Timothy Palmes' section, Straight took part in the torture murder of David Stone, and the robbery of his furniture store.
17. Beauford White (~1963-1987, electric chair): White was another participant in the "Carol City massacre" that the previously mentioned Marvin Francois was involved in. He had a lengthy criminal history dating back to the 1960s, and one of his past convictions was related to an attempted rape.
18. Willie Darden (~1970s-1988, electric chair): Darden was convicted of the shooting death of 54 year old James Turman and the non fatal shooting of a 16 year old neighbor while robbing Turman's Furniture Store. Turman's wife was also raped in the robbery. Some supporters had citied that he was tried by an all white jury, and used it to push a narrative that Darden, a black man, was condemned out of racism. He had several previous convictions, which included assault, forgery, theft, and the attempted rape of a 70 year old woman. Darden was on furlough for the latter conviction during the time of Turman's murder.
19. Jeffrey Daugherty (1976-1988, electric chair): While on a road trip with his uncle and girlfriend, Daugherty murdered at least 4 women and one man, 68 year old Carmen Abrams, 50 year old Betty Campbell, 49 year old Lavonne Sailer, 28 year old Elizabeth Shank, and 18 year old George Karns. The victims were slain through either shootings or stabbings at grocery stores, gas stations, and restaurants they worked at, but Sailer was attacked while hitchhiking. Daugherty mostly murdered for personal enjoyment, but he often stole coins, clothes, and watches from the victims.
20. Theodore Bundy (~1970s(?)-1989, electric chair): Across multiple states, Bundy kidnapped, raped, and murdered a bare minimum of ~20-36 females between the ages of 12-26. Although his true body count is uncertain and heavily disputed, most experts agree that it well exceeds official estimates. Bundy's abduction tactics were diverse, and ranged from grabbing targets by force, pretending to be a cripple in need of help, posing as emergency workers, seduction, and luring them in through hitchhiking. On some occasions, Bundy broke into the residences of victims, and assaulted them in their bedrooms. After an abduction, the victims were bound with handcuffs, raped while they were alive, and he engaged in acts of necrophila with their bodies. Most of his killing methods were strangulations with cords or beatings with tire irons and other blunt instruments. Several victims were also decapitated, and he kept their heads as trophies. Bundy disposed of corpses by dumping them in deserts, mountains, swamps, and other remote wilderness environments accessible to him.
21. Aubrey Adams Jr. (1978-1989, electric chair): Adams lured 8 year old Trisa Thomley into his car by offering her a ride home from school. He tied the girl up and dragged her to a remote forest. She was then raped and suffocated with a plastic bag.
22. Jesse Tafero (~1960s-1990, electric chair): A pair of patrolmen, 39 year old Phillip Black and 39 year old Donald Irwin (who was also a Canadian constable), found Tafero sleeping in his car with his wife, their children (which consisted of a 9 year old son and a 10 month old daughter), and a friend. What exactly occurred next is heavily disputed, but Tafero or his friend shot both officers dead, after they noticed a gun on the dashboard and asked the group to climb out. The group then fled in a police car, disposed of it, and kidnapped a man to carjack him. Tafero's execution was controversial, as his head caught on fire during the electrocution, and his supporters cited evidence of his friend (who was sentenced to life, but was released in 1994 on good behavior) being the triggerman in the shootings. He also had a long history of armed robbery, rape, and sodomy. Tafero's wife was initially condemned for the murder, but her sentence was reduced to 25 years to life on appeal in 1981, and was released with an Alford Plea in 1992.
23. Anthony Bertolotti (1983-1990, electric chair): Bertolotti enticed 46 year old Carol Ward into his home with the promise of helping her make a phone call. He held Ward at knife point, demanded money, and raped her. She was stabbed to death during the assault, and Bertolotti drove away with her car. In the trial, Bertolotti alleged that Ward offered him sex in exchange for stopping the robbery, and used it to claim that his angry girlfriend made him kill her for it.
24. James Hamblen (1984-1990, electric chair): Hamblen shot and killed 34 year old Laureen Edwards during a robbery of her store. Despite forcing Edwards to disrobe, Hamblen left he unmolested. He then fled to Texas and quickly started a relationship with 20 year old Debbie Abbott. A month later, Hamblen shot Abbott dead during a heated argument.
25. Raymond Clark (~1964-1990, electric chair): In 1964, Clark beat Marshell Taylor, his landlord's 14 year old son that he groomed and abused, to death with a pipe. After his parole at an undisclosed date in the 70s, Clark groomed another 14 year old boy into an illicit relationship. He recruited him in the abduction of David Drake, a 49 year scrap dealer. With the boy's help, he kidnapped their victim at gunpoint with the intentions of ransoming him back to his family. The pair forced Drake to write them a $5,000 check, and shot him in the head. When he wasn't able to cash in the check, Clark dropped his accomplice off at his home to avoid being charged with the boy's kidnapping, fled to California, and tried to trick Drake's family into paying his ransom. However, a series of calls was traced to his accomplice, and he implicated Clark to the police.
26. Roy Harich (1981-1991, electric chair): Harich kidnapped two teenage girls, 18 year old Carlene Kelly and 17 year old Deborah Miller, after luring them into his van from a beach. The pair were then both sexually assaulted. He shot Kelly dead, slit Miller's throat, and dumped them on a highway. Miller survived the attack and dragged herself to safety.
27. Bobby Francis (~1970s-1991, electric chair): Suspecting him of being a police informant against his drug trafficking enterprise, Francis abducted 35 year old Titus Walters. He tied him up and forcibly injected drano and battery acid into his body for a span of two hours. Despite Walters' pleas for his life, Francis shot him in the head and heart.
28. Nollie Martin (1977-1992, electric chair): Martin and his accomplice robbed a convenience store at knifepoint, stole $90, and kidnapped the clerk, 19 year old Patricia Greenfield. She was then raped and stabbed to death by her captors.
29. Edward Kennedy (~1977-1992, electric chair): In 1977, Kennedy and some partners shot and killed 33 year old Robert Brown, during a robbery of a motel. He was given a life sentence for the murder. Four years later, Kennedy escaped from prison. While on the run, he broke into a house in hopes of stealing money and guns. The homeowner, 32 year old Floyd Cone Jr. returned home with his cousin, 35 year old Robert McDermon (who worked as a state trooper), and unwittingly intercepted Kennedy. He shot them both dead, fled to a neighboring home, and took a 21 year old woman and her 4 month old son hostage. After a hour long standoff, Kennedy released his captives and surrendered himself to the police.
30. Robert Henderson (~1964-1998, electric chair): In December of 1982, Henderson went on a month long rampage across 6 states. He raped, robbed, and murdered a total of 12 people between the ages of 11-79 through shootings. Three of the victims where his wife's parents, 61 year old Ivan and 57 year old Marie Barnett, and her 11 year old brother Clifford. A few other victims were women, like 50 year old Dorothy Wilkinson, 37 year old Cheryl McDonald, 30 year old Jerilyn Stanfield, and 21 year old Lucinda Russell, that were kidnapped from their workplaces and homes and raped. A couple more were men, such as 79 year old Murray Ferderbe and 61 year old Sam Corrent, that he killed while robbing their homes and businesses. Henderson's last remaining murders were a trio of hitchhikers, 27 year old Vernon Odom, 23 year old Frances Dickey, and 18 year old Robert Dawson, that he killed together. Last but not least, Henderson bound an unidentified woman and her 12 year old daughter at gunpoint during a break in of their home. After Henderson raped the mother, he tried to do the same to her daughter. The mother then broke free from her restraints, and chased him away from her home. Contemporary media reports noted that the mother "fought harder for her daughter then she did for herself." Henderson had prior convictions of growing marijuana, assaulting officers, and stealing license plates.
31. Larry Johnson (1979-1993, electric chair): During the robbery of a gas station, Johnson shot and killed the clerk, 67 year old James Hadden. Like David Funchess, Johnson enjoyed a considerable amount of public sympathy due to him being a combat veteran of the Vietnam War.
32. Michael Durocher (1983-1993, electric chair): In 1983, Durocher made an agreement with his girlfriend, 31 year old Grace Reed, to conduct a murder-suicide pact involving her 5 year old daughter Candace and their 6 month old son Joshua. Although he shot and stabbed them all to death, Durocher backed out of his end of the pact. He later shot dead 27 year old Thomas Underwood while robbing a decorating story in 1986, and beat his roommate, 38 year old Edward Childers, to death during an argument in 1988.
33. Roy Stewart (1978-1994, electric chair): 77 year old Margaret Haizlip invited Stewart into her home. When she caught Stewart stealing a gold watch from her medicine drawer, Haizlip tried to evict him. In the confrontation, Stewart raped and strangled her to death with an electrical cord. Her body was found with 8 broken ribs, a fractured larynx, bite marks on her thighs and breasts, several contusions, and a torn vagina.
34. Bernard Bolender (~1970s-1995, electric chair): In a drug deal gone wrong, Bolender and two accomplices abducted their dealers, 39 year old John Merino, 38 year old Rudy Ayan, 33 year old Nicomedes Hernandez, and 25 year old Scott Bennett, at gunpoint, and robbed them of their jewelry. All four men were beaten with baseball bats, stabbed, and burned with heated knifes to extort an additional source of cocaine from them. Most of the hostages died in the 2 hour long torture session, but Merino was still alive when Bolender burned him and the other hostages' bodies in a car. Although most of his criminal history is murky, Bolender was heavily involved in the drug trade during the 1970s at the bare minimum.
35. Jerry White (~1962-1995, electric chair): White robbed a grocery store, and held the owner, 53 year old Alex Alexander, and a trio of customers (which consisted of 34 year old James Melson, an unidentified man, and the man's 12 year old daughter) at gunpoint. He shot and killed Melson, wounded Alexander, and tried forcing the father and daughter into a freezer. When the pair refused, White tried to shot them, but his gun misfired. The man and his daughter were able to flee with their lives and called the police, while White ran off with $338. White had 9 previous convictions, which included attempted murder, armed robbery, theft, and burglary, and was first arrested at the age of 14.
36. Phillip Atkins (1981-1995, electric chair): Atkins kidnapped 6 year old Antonio Castillo and molested him in a forest. When Castillo threatened to tell his parents about the abuse, Atkins bludgeoned him to death with a pipe.
37. John Bush (~1970s-1996, electric chair): Bush and three other men kidnapped 18 year old Frances Slater from a gas station she worked as a clerk at. They stabbed her to death and stole $100 from the register. Slater's murder attracted national attention due to her being the granddaughter and heiress of renowned singer Frances Langford and the outboard motor mongrel Ralph Evinrude. Bush's previous convictions include rape and robbery.
38. John Mills Jr. (1982-1996, electric chair): Mills and his accomplice tied up and abducted 30 year old Les Lawhon after ransacking his trailer for any valuables. They took him to a nearby abandoned airport to hideout. Lawhon then was beaten with a tire iron and shot in the head execution style.
39. Pedro Medina (1982-1997, electric chair): Medina tied up and gagged 52 year old Dorothy James in her home. He stabbed her to death and stole her car, which he was captured sleeping in by investigating police officers. His execution was a source of controversy, as Medina's head burst into flames as he was electrocuted on the chair. Medina's case and similar incidents led to Florida gradually phasing out of the electric chair in favor of lethal injection.
40. Gerald Stano (~1960s-1998, electric chair): Stano was convicted of murdering 22 women and girls between the ages of 12-35, though he admitted to 41, and is suspected of a total of 88 killings. His victims were all lured with promises of rides, payment for sexual favors, or abducted through force. The methods he used were diverse, and included drownings, shootings, stabbings, and strangulations. Most of the sources noted that none of his victims were raped, and that Stano seemed to have murdered out of an enjoyment for killing. As a child, Stano was charged with fasley pulling fire alarms at school and throwing rocks at cars. He was also fired for stealing from coworkers in one of his jobs.
41. Leo Jones (1981-1998, electric chair): Supposedly out of revenge for being brutalized by policemen, Jones was convicted of killing Thomas Szafranski, a 28 year old officer, in a sniper attack. Szafranski was driving his patrol car when he was ambushed and murdered. His execution was contested, as Jones claimed that he was coerced into confessing by investigators through beatings, and one of the apparent witnesses allegedly recounted his testimony.
42. Judy Buenoano (~1957-1998, electric chair): Over the course of 11 years, Buenoano poisoned her husband, 32 year old James Goodyear, her son, 19 year old Michael, and her boyfriend, 39 year old Bobby Morris with arsenic to collect their life insurance policies. She also made an attempt to poison another boyfriend after he was injured in a suspicious explosion, but was foiled by a police investigation. As a young girl, Buenoano assaulted her father, stepmother, and stepbrothers, and served a two month sentence for it.
43. Daniel Remeta (1985-1998, electric chair): Remeta and his accomplices shot and killed 5 people, 60 year old Mehrle Reeder, 55 year old Glenn Moore, 42 year old Linda Marvin, 29 year old John Schroeder, and 27 year old Larry McFarland, across Kansas, Arkansas, and Florida. The victims were all murdered in convenience store, restaurant, and gas station robberies.
44. Allen Davis (~1970s-1999, electric chair): Davis broke into a home with the intentions of raping 9 year old Kristina Weiler. Although no sexual assault occurred, Davis tied Kristina up and shot her in the head. He also struck her pregnant mother, 37 year old Nancy, 25 times on her head and face with his pistol, and left the body "bruised beyond recognition." When Kristina's sister, 5 year old Katherine, tried to escape, Davis shot and bludgeoned her to death. He then sacked the home for any belongings. Davis was a long time felon, and had several previous convictions of burglary, child molestation, and involuntary manslaughter. His execution caused significant controversy, as his nose bled all over his body during the fatal shocks, and he suffered burns to his legs, head, and groin. The backlash, combined with other botched incidents like Pedroa Medina and Jesse Tafero, resulted in Florida replacing the electric chair with lethal injection.
45. Terry Sims (1977-2000, lethal injection): George Pfeil, a 57 year old deputy and WW2 veteran, walked into a pharmacy that Sims and his 3 accomplices were robbing, to pick up a prescription. Upon seeing what was happening, Pfeil pulled out his gun and engaged the robbers, but was killed by them in the shootout. Although Sims was injured, he managed to escape the scene, and was captured a month later while trying to carry out another robbery in California.
46. Anthony Bryan (1983-2000, lethal injection): Bryan and his accomplice kidnapped a night watchman, 60 year old George Wilson, and used his keys to rob a bank he guarded. They drove Wilson to a remote forest and shot him in the head. The pair dumped his body in a creek and drove their car into a lake to destroy any evidence.
47. Bennie Demps (~1971-2000, lethal injection): Demps received his first death sentence in 1971 when he shot and killed a real estate agent, 54 year old Robert Brinkworth, and his client, 64 year old Celia Puhlick, while the victims were trying to engage in a house sale. He also wounded Celia's husband, 62 year old Nicholas, and stole a safe from the house. However, his first death sentence was lifted from the brief nationwide capital punishment ban from the Furman decision. Two years after his first death sentence was commuted, Demps was given a second death sentence when he fatally stabbed another inmate, 23 year old Alfred Sturgis, on the behalf of the Perjury Incorporated prison gang. Sturgis was in prison for murder, and he was targeted due to Perjury Incorporated's suspicions of him of being an informant.
48. Thomas Provenzano (1984-2000, lethal injection): In retaliation for being charged for disorderly conduct months earlier, Provenzano stormed a courthouse, and shot and killed Arnold Wilkerson, a 60 year old deputy that was a veteran of WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, on the scene. Two more policemen, 53 year old Harry Dalton Jr. and 19 year old Mark Parker, were also hit by gunfire, and they both died from complications relating to their injuries years after the attack.
49. Dan Hauser (1995-2000, lethal injection): Out of a desire to kill somebody, Huser enticed a stripper, 21 year old Melanie Rodrigues, into a motel room with the promise of payment for sexual services. After they had intercourse, he strangled her to death. Hauser was also caught stealing a truck months before the murder.
50. Edward Castro (1986-2000, lethal injection): Castro lured three homosexual men, 57 year old Austin Scott, 50 year old George Hill, and 46 year old Claude Henderson, from gay bars. The victims were all tied up and stabbed to death in their homes. After each killing, Castro left with valuables such as cars, watches, rings, money, and wallets.
51. Robert Glock II (1983-2001, lethal injection): Glock kidnapped 34 year old Sharilyn Ritchie from a mall parking lot and forced her to withdraw $100 from an ATM. He then drove Ritchie to a forest 60 miles away and shot her in the head. Ritchie's wedding ring and purse was also stolen in the attack.
52. Rigoberto Sanchez-Velasco (1986-2002, lethal injection): Sanchez-Velasco raped and fatally strangled Katixa Ecenarro, his girlfriend's 11 year old daughter. While awaiting execution for Ecenarro's murder, Sanchez-Velasco got into a fight with fellow condemned inmates, 41 year old Charles Street and 30 year old Edwin Kaprat, and stabbed them both to death. Kaprat received a death sentence for the sexual abuse and torture-killings of 4 elderly women, while Street was sentenced to death for the shooting murders of two police officers.

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First Pitch: 8:10 PM at Minute Maid Park

Team	Starter	TV	Radio
Brewers	Freddy Peralta (3-1, 3.63 ERA)	BSWI	WTMJ
Astros	Hunter Brown (0-4, 7.79 ERA)	SCHN	KBME, TUDN/KLAT (ES)

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Line Score - Game Over

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E	LOB
MIL	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	7	0	6
HOU	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	0		5	10	0	6

Box Score

HOU		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
2B	Altuve	4	1	1	0	0	1	.311
SS	Peña	4	1	1	3	0	1	.326
RF	Tucker	3	0	2	0	1	0	.288
3B	Bregman	4	0	1	0	0	1	.228
DH	Diaz, Y	3	0	0	0	1	2	.265
1B	Singleton	4	1	2	0	0	0	.221
CF	Meyers	3	1	1	2	0	1	.264
C	Caratini	4	1	2	0	0	1	.276
LF	Loperfido, J	2	0	0	0	0	2	.306
LF	Dubón	1	0	0	0	0	0	.281

HOU	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Brown, H	5.0	4	4	4	3	5	93-55	7.71
Scott, Tay	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	17-11	2.14
Montero	1.0	2	0	0	0	1	16-9	3.05
Abreu, B	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	20-10	3.27
Hader	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	12-9	4.50

MIL		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
2B	Turang	4	0	2	0	0	2	.306
PH	Miller, O	1	0	0	0	0	1	.118
C	Contreras, Wm	3	0	0	0	1	1	.353
LF	Yelich	4	0	0	0	0	2	.338
SS	Adames	4	0	1	0	0	0	.250
1B	Bauers	2	2	1	1	1	0	.241
DH	Sánchez	3	0	0	0	1	1	.234
DH	Monasterio	0	0	0	0	0	0	.063
RF	Frelick	3	1	0	0	1	1	.252
3B	Ortiz, J	4	1	3	3	0	0	.296
RF	Chourio	2	0	0	0	0	1	.215
CF	Perkins, B	2	0	0	0	0	0	.210

MIL	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Peralta, F	5.0	8	5	5	1	6	97-62	4.17
Koenig	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	14-9	3.12
Peguero, E	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	11-9	3.32
Milner	1.0	1	0	0	1	2	25-13	1.77

Scoring Plays

Inning	Event	Score
T2	Jake Bauers homers (5) on a fly ball to right center field.	0-1
B2	Jake Meyers homers (4) on a fly ball to left field. Jon Singleton scores.	2-1
T4	Joey Ortiz homers (5) on a fly ball to right field. Jake Bauers scores. Sal Frelick scores.	2-4
B5	Jeremy Peña homers (5) on a fly ball to left center field. Victor Caratini scores. Jose Altuve scores.	5-4

Highlights

Description	Length
Bullpen availability for Houston, May 17 vs Brewers	0:07
Bullpen availability for Milwaukee, May 17 vs Astros	0:07
Fielding alignment for Houston, May 17 vs Brewers	0:11
Bench availability for Houston, May 17 vs Brewers	0:07
Bench availability for Milwaukee, May 17 vs Astros	0:07
Fielding alignment for Milwaukee, May 17 vs Astros	0:11
Starting lineups for Brewers at Astros - May 17, 2024	0:09
Measuring the stats on Jake Bauers' home run	0:13
A deep dive into Jake Bauers' home run	0:11
Jake Meyers: Home Run Statcast Analysis	0:13
Visualizing Jake Meyers' swing using bat tracking technology	0:11
Measuring the stats on Joey Ortiz's home run	0:13
An animated look at Joey Ortiz's home run	0:11
The distance behind Jeremy Peña's home run	0:12
Jeremy Peña's home run through bat tracking data	0:11
Breaking down Hunter Brown's pitches	0:04
Hunter Brown's outing against the Brewers	0:25
Breaking down Freddy Peralta's pitches	0:04
Freddy Peralta's outing against the Astros	0:22
Jeremy Peña's great jumping throw	0:21
Yelich, Adames combine to nab Kyle Tucker at third	0:22
Jake Bauers' solo home run (5)	0:23
Jake Meyers' two-run home run (4)	0:28
Hunter Brown works out of a jam in the 3rd inning	0:13
Joey Ortiz's three-run home run (5)	0:21
Jeremy Peña hits a three-run home run (5)	0:29
Hunter Brown strikes out five against the Brewers	0:41
Field View: Jeremy Peña's big three-run homer	0:29
Willy Adames steals second base after a review	0:27
Freddy Peralta's six strikeouts against the Astros	0:45
Bryan Abreu escapes a jam in the 8th inning	0:09
Jake Bauers is hit by pitch following a review	0:28
Josh Hader closes out Astros' win vs. Brewers	0:06

Decisions

Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save
Brown, H (1-4, 7.71 ERA)	Peralta, F (3-2, 4.17 ERA)	Hader (6 SV, 4.50 ERA)

Attendance	Weather	Wind
	73°F, Roof Closed	0 mph, None

HP	1B	2B	3B
Adam Beck	Dan Iassogna	Ben May	CB Bucknor

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2024.05.18 00:04 Ok-Raisin-5601 Ok real talk let's have a real discussion about this.

As it stands right now AEW has 4 and half singles titles. The World, TNT, International, Continental and FTW (which I'm counting as a half because it's not officially recognized and is only every used as a Tazz and Hook storyline).
The ROH titles haven't been defended on regular AEW tv outside of the ROH Women's World title on BOTB.
The only other titles that feature on the show are tag/trios titles, women's titles and the occasional special appearance titles (NJPW, CMLL, AAA, ect titles).
The roster is over 300 active wrestlers which includes the likes of Kazuchika Okada, Will Ospreay, Swerve Strickland, Bryan Danielson, Katsuyori Shibata, Adam Copeland, Samoa Joe, PAC, Christian Cage, Jay White and Jon Moxley to name a few.
So with all of this in mind please explain to me the problem with having 3 and half singles belts. I want real actual best faith arguments for why this is a problem?

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2024.05.17 23:10 BrewersBot Game Chat: 5/17 Brewers (26-17) @ Astros (19-25) 7:10 PM

Brewers (26-17) @ Astros (19-25)

First Pitch: 7:10 PM at Minute Maid Park

Team	Starter	TV	Radio
Brewers	Freddy Peralta (3-1, 3.63 ERA)	BSWI	WTMJ
Astros	Hunter Brown (0-4, 7.79 ERA)	SCHN	KBME, TUDN/KLAT (ES)

MLB	Fangraphs	Baseball Savant	Reddit Stream	IRC Chat
Gameday	Game Graph	Strikezone Map	Live Comments	Libera: ##baseball

Line Score - Game Over

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E	LOB
MIL	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	7	0	6
HOU	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	0		5	10	0	6

Box Score

HOU		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
2B	Altuve	4	1	1	0	0	1	.311
SS	Peña	4	1	1	3	0	1	.326
RF	Tucker	3	0	2	0	1	0	.288
3B	Bregman	4	0	1	0	0	1	.228
DH	Diaz, Y	3	0	0	0	1	2	.265
1B	Singleton	4	1	2	0	0	0	.221
CF	Meyers	3	1	1	2	0	1	.264
C	Caratini	4	1	2	0	0	1	.276
LF	Loperfido, J	2	0	0	0	0	2	.306
LF	Dubón	1	0	0	0	0	0	.281

HOU	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Brown, H	5.0	4	4	4	3	5	93-55	7.71
Scott, Tay	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	17-11	2.14
Montero	1.0	2	0	0	0	1	16-9	3.05
Abreu, B	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	20-10	3.27
Hader	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	12-9	4.50

MIL		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
2B	Turang	4	0	2	0	0	2	.306
PH	Miller, O	1	0	0	0	0	1	.118
C	Contreras, Wm	3	0	0	0	1	1	.353
LF	Yelich	4	0	0	0	0	2	.338
SS	Adames	4	0	1	0	0	0	.250
1B	Bauers	2	2	1	1	1	0	.241
DH	Sánchez	3	0	0	0	1	1	.234
DH	Monasterio	0	0	0	0	0	0	.063
RF	Frelick	3	1	0	0	1	1	.252
3B	Ortiz, J	4	1	3	3	0	0	.296
RF	Chourio	2	0	0	0	0	1	.215
CF	Perkins, B	2	0	0	0	0	0	.210

MIL	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Peralta, F	5.0	8	5	5	1	6	97-62	4.17
Koenig	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	14-9	3.12
Peguero, E	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	11-9	3.32
Milner	1.0	1	0	0	1	2	25-13	1.77

Scoring Plays

Inning	Event	Score
T2	Jake Bauers homers (5) on a fly ball to right center field.	0-1
B2	Jake Meyers homers (4) on a fly ball to left field. Jon Singleton scores.	2-1
T4	Joey Ortiz homers (5) on a fly ball to right field. Jake Bauers scores. Sal Frelick scores.	2-4
B5	Jeremy Peña homers (5) on a fly ball to left center field. Victor Caratini scores. Jose Altuve scores.	5-4

Highlights

Description	Length
Bullpen availability for Houston, May 17 vs Brewers	0:07
Bullpen availability for Milwaukee, May 17 vs Astros	0:07
Fielding alignment for Houston, May 17 vs Brewers	0:11
Bench availability for Houston, May 17 vs Brewers	0:07
Bench availability for Milwaukee, May 17 vs Astros	0:07
Fielding alignment for Milwaukee, May 17 vs Astros	0:11
Starting lineups for Brewers at Astros - May 17, 2024	0:09
Measuring the stats on Jake Bauers' home run	0:13
A deep dive into Jake Bauers' home run	0:11
Jake Meyers: Home Run Statcast Analysis	0:13
Visualizing Jake Meyers' swing using bat tracking technology	0:11
Measuring the stats on Joey Ortiz's home run	0:13
An animated look at Joey Ortiz's home run	0:11
The distance behind Jeremy Peña's home run	0:12
Jeremy Peña's home run through bat tracking data	0:11
Breaking down Hunter Brown's pitches	0:04
Hunter Brown's outing against the Brewers	0:25
Breaking down Freddy Peralta's pitches	0:04
Freddy Peralta's outing against the Astros	0:22
Jeremy Peña's great jumping throw	0:21
Yelich, Adames combine to nab Kyle Tucker at third	0:22
Jake Bauers' solo home run (5)	0:23
Jake Meyers' two-run home run (4)	0:28
Hunter Brown works out of a jam in the 3rd inning	0:13
Joey Ortiz's three-run home run (5)	0:21
Jeremy Peña hits a three-run home run (5)	0:29
Hunter Brown strikes out five against the Brewers	0:41
Field View: Jeremy Peña's big three-run homer	0:29
Willy Adames steals second base after a review	0:27
Freddy Peralta's six strikeouts against the Astros	0:45
Bryan Abreu escapes a jam in the 8th inning	0:09
Jake Bauers is hit by pitch following a review	0:28
Josh Hader closes out Astros' win vs. Brewers	0:06

Decisions

Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save
Brown, H (1-4, 7.71 ERA)	Peralta, F (3-2, 4.17 ERA)	Hader (6 SV, 4.50 ERA)

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