Also ranks #2 on The Saddest Anime Series of All Time 16 The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten 2023 4,443 votes Mahiru Shiina is a beautiful, smart, prime, and proper young woman who has earned the nickname “Angel" by many. In contrast, her next-door neighbor Amane Fujimiya is the ...
Any argument in Franco’s favor starts with his longevity. Given that Franco is the Mets’ all-time leader for relievers in innings and appearances, it’s no surprise that he amassed more saves than any other Met (and it’s still not close, nearly two decades after his final pitch). De...
Key fact: Mets’ all-time leader in hits, RBI, runs, doubles and position-player WAR Let’s get the negative stuff out of the way first. Injuries began interfering with David Wright’s career in a significant way in 2011, becoming a major force in his career by ’15. What was once ...
Why was it such a huge hit? We put the ZAZ boys under the microscope. Surely we’ll all have a good time! (Don’t call us Shirley.) October 18, 2024 “Only Angels Have Wings” and “Zero Hour!” 738 Condor to the Neck Host Jason Snell with Shelly Brisbin, Philip Michaels, Monty...
In 1994, Atlanta’s Greg Maddux staged an all-out assault on big-league batters. At the time of the season-endingplayers’ strike, Maddux had a microscopic1.56 ERA, thelowest WHIPin the majors by a mile — and he was within decimal points of becoming the new all-time leader in Pitcher...
McGraw's signature pitch was a dazzling screwball that bedeviled hitters and made him one of the most successful relief pitchers of his time. His spirited demeanor and unyielding determination continue to serve as a model for left-handed relievers striving for greatness on the mound. 30 ...
Despite those garlands, however, it was a relative failure at the time – notably in the US, albeit a hit with the discerning Parisians – and by the mid-1980s, its reputation had further declined: our own film editor, Chris Peachment, was not alone when he described it as ‘a ...
Despite its 207-minute running time, the resulting epic is ruthlessly economical in its storytelling. Kurosawa takes care to give each of his characters a distinct personality, some serious (e.g., “Ikiru” star Takashi Shimura as the group’s leader), others comical (like legendary scene-...
With the real-life Rampart scandal in mind, The Shield imagined a gritty, volatile world run by guys like Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), the spitting mad, hypermasculine leader of a particularly murderous police strike team. Mackey’s villain arc is the show’s most recognizable piece, but ...
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