Banter TRTT Part 15: David KOCH on Epstein List!!!11!!!!!!

[Sleezy]

Just going on playing record, I doubt anyone comes close to Bradman.

Still, 70 years after he retired, he's 80% better than the next best cricketer to ever play.

Pity he was a campaigner, haha.

 

[Sleezy]

Also, cycling is entering a golden era atm. Pogacar, Vingegaard and Evenepoel are every bit as good Fed, Djoker and Nadal and all have 8-10 years left in their primes.

Pogacar is an absolute star.

 

[JimmyBC]

Just going on playing record, I doubt anyone comes close to Bradman.

Still, 70 years after he retired, he's 80% better than the next best cricketer to ever play.

Pity he was a campaigner, haha.

I reckon if Bradman was around now he'd be more a 60 average, 37 of his 52 tests were against England & he never played anywhere outside of Australia & England.

 

[pstew2dstew]

I reckon if Bradman was around now he'd be more a 60 average, 37 of his 52 tests were against England & he never played anywhere outside of Australia & England.

Yeah that's a good point,

Another point too I saw his bat on the mcg tour that shiz was paper thin.

 

[JimmyBC]

Yeah that's a good point,

Another point too I saw his bat on the mcg tour that shiz was paper thin.

He played on gluepots/uncovered wickets as well so yea that's another tick in his favour.

 

[Dylan8]

Tarantino made a good point about movies vs the tv series, it doesn't matter how movie like or cinematic the modern tv series medium becomes you still don't remember them years later like great movies that stick like glue in your mind.

Bull shit I think about Mad Men, True Detective, Twin Peaks etc etc all the time.

 

[Dylan8]

Yeah I thought John Wick was shit. There was nothing memorable about it. No plot. Nothing special. I'm sure peeps are thinking welcome to 2014, but yeah, kind of shit.

John Wick 1 and 2 reside in my top 10 movies ever. Wicked films. Tight as ****, cool universe, incredible action. You should get your brain checked for Shit Taste Itis. Or something. Dumbass!

 

[Sleezy]

Bull shit I think about Mad Men, True Detective, Twin Peaks etc etc all the time.

Star Gate SG1

 

[Dylan8]

I think you know you're watching different gravy when you get the "oh"

 

[Dylan8]

Star Gate SG1

Guys will sit around BigFooty naming old tv shows

 

[JimmyBC]

Bull shit I think about Mad Men, True Detective, Twin Peaks etc etc all the time.

No one else does.

 

[pstew2dstew]

I think you know you're watching different gravy when you get the "oh"

"What did he say"

"Enough"...

*chefs kiss

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Always tough.

Bradman
then daylight
Jordan
then daylight
Wayne Gretzky, Tom Brady, Rod Laver, Lionel Messi, Pele, Tiger Woods

Patrick Mahomes, Shohei Ohtani are very impressive and still going.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

I reckon if Bradman was around now he'd be more a 60 average, 37 of his 52 tests were against England & he never played anywhere outside of Australia & England.

I reckon he'd go for more.

I'm pretty sure batting averages have stayed relatively the same since Bradman.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Bull shit I think about Mad Men, True Detective, Twin Peaks etc etc all the time.

First season of True Detective
Up until the executives ruined Twin Peaks
Every episode of Freaks and Geeks
Not a Wire guy but I'm a The Shield guy
Getting lost in Lost
Star Trek but I'm a Deep Space Nine type
The first two seasons of Fargo
A breath of Aussie fresh air with Mr Inbetween

Plenty of great memories.

 

[Dylan8]

No one else does.

I will bash you or anyone!

 

[backtozero]

Sopranos and Breaking Bad are goated

Tarantino is a self important windbag

 

[backtozero]

You have to take into account the era that these stars played in too.

What made Jordan so good was the incredible competition that he had to come up against in the 90s.
The NBA of 2024 is also loaded with talent, but is less physical.

By the same token, Wilt Chamberlain doesn't get the same accolades despite his incredible stat's because most people would agree he played against plumbers and bricklayers and was a giant.

 

[Contested Marx]

LeBron is better than Jordan was and Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie

 

[Jonts]

I dont think Jordan can be beaten, he is the greatest sports person in any sport, above Tiger Schumacher Ali etc in his own rare echelon.

Tiger is the only other person I would consider in this echelon

Bradman says hi

Him and Gretzky are the only two that are stacks above statistically the best

They have their own category imo

 

[Jonts]

I reckon if Bradman was around now he'd be more a 60 average, 37 of his 52 tests were against England & he never played anywhere outside of Australia & England.

He also played with bats skinny then his arms, on green as decks with long boundaries and long out fields, I think his average goes up not down

 

[VineValerian]

Always tough.

Bradman
then daylight
Jordan
then daylight
Wayne Gretzky, Tom Brady, Rod Laver, Lionel Messi, Pele, Tiger Woods

Patrick Mahomes, Shohei Ohtani are very impressive and still going.

1. Bradman

2. Jordan

3. Pele / Brady / Gretzky / James / Nicklaus / Sobers

4. C Ronaldo / Laver / Lindrum / Maradona / D Fraser / Phelps / Warne

5. Chamberlain / Messi / E Woods / Ruth / Court

6. S Matthews / Djokovic / S Williams / Erving / Palmer.



Off the top of my head! Probably missed a few out.

 

[Festerz]

Not a Wire guy but I'm a The Shield guy

Get that and my wife's the same.

One thing I loved about The Wire (and like everyone else I watched it via Box Sets long after the last episode aired in the US) was the way it unintentionally documented the rapid transformation of telephony over the early 2000s from fixed phones/payphones, to pagers to mobiles/burners. All through the eyes of a street drug trafficking network- with most of the characters based on real life.

Had to watched it through a couple of times to 'get it' and then wanted more. Went looking for this old cop show made from 1993-1999 written by the same guys as The Wire and also set in Baltimore called Homicide: Life on the Street - found all the episodes in mostly SD quality on the ok.ru and dailymotion websites. Just like The Wire it rated poorly but was loved by critics for its script and acting.

And then Breaking Bad came along.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

1. Bradman

2. Jordan

3. Pele / Brady / Gretzky / James / Nicklaus / Sobers

4. C Ronaldo / Laver / Lindrum / Maradona / D Fraser / Phelps / Warne

5. Chamberlain / Messi / E Woods / Ruth / Court

6. S Matthews / Djokovic / S Williams / Erving / Palmer.



Off the top of my head! Probably missed a few out.

Nice one with Walter Lindrum.
I think there was a dominant Oz cyclist around that time as well.
Court is another one.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Get that and my wife's the same.

One thing I loved about The Wire (and like everyone else I watched it via Box Sets long after the last episode aired in the US) was the way it unintentionally documented the rapid transformation of telephony over the early 2000s from fixed phones/payphones, to pagers to mobiles/burners. All through the eyes of a street drug trafficking network- with most of the characters based on real life.

Had to watched it through a couple of times to 'get it' and then wanted more. Went looking for this old cop show made from 1993-1999 written by the same guys as The Wire and also set in Baltimore called Homicide: Life on the Street - found all the episodes in mostly SD quality on a .ru website. Just like The Wire it rated poorly but was loved by critics for its script and acting.

And then Breaking Bad came along.

Yeah, I just liked all of the characters on the Shield.
Great writing.
Typical great writing you see with a lot of TV shows from Goodfellas onwards.