I thought they would have had a better career...

Just watched the 30 for 30 "Doc & Darryl"; while Strawberry was fantastic, reminded me of how fantastic Gooden was in 1985, 24-4, 1.53, 300ks, at just 20! I recall his curve/hammer was the best, nearly equal of Ryan's (of course having gas helps). Damn, drugs are a helluva thing.

 

Great tune.

 

Phoebe Cates was smokin.' That scene on the diving board to the Cars' "Moving in Stereo" is classic.

 

She was in Gremlins too. Didn't she basically retire from acting to raise a family with kevin Kline? I don't think the opps washed up. I mean, with those assets, how could they?

 

Michael Schoeffling and Haviland Morris didn't do too much of note after Sixteen Candles.

 

She got out of the business after repressed memories of a really bad Christmas resurfaced and left her emotionally scarred.

 

Playing catch-up, but this caused a "Get the fuck out!"

 

I think the key here is to never go coach at Notre Dame. Never.

 

Dontrelle Willis and Scott Kazmir are two that come to mind for me, but there are seemingly hundreds of these types of baseball guys.

One day that have it and the next day it's gone.

I don't put guys like Mark Prior in there. Less points for injury-prone guys.

 

What about John Mayer? He still makes music, is actually pretty respected, and fills amphitheaters.

But in my parents' era, he would be pumping out radio hits at this point like a latter-day Don Henley, Billy Joel, or Peter Cetera did in the '80s. The notion of a 30-something white adult contemporary singer-songwriter charting top 40 hits in 2017 is laughable.

 

But, Kazmir had it, lost it, then had it again.

Those are the guys that blow me away.

How many pitchers have been released, only to go on to score multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts a few years later?

 

Bruno Mars ain't laughing. He's 32 and charting hits. Mayer released an album in April and it has been as high as No. 2 on the US charts and No. 1 on the US rock charts. Somebody is buying his records. Top 40? According to this, Ed Sheeran has three of the top four songs of 2017. I couldn't place any of these fucking songs.