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I don't think the games he pitches will be sellouts.  Especially midweek games in April and May.  Maybe in the summer but that could be due to the team overall.

I've done yoga a few times and it was a great workout.  My wife does it twice a week.  I have nothing against it.  Just the current class schedule where we go doesn't fit me.  But when I did yoga I didn't even feel like I was working out.  To me it was the stretches we do after our classes.  But the next few days I was sore in places I didn't know I had muscles.  

I do not take vitamins.  On my chart I said I did and at my last physical he asked if I am still doing it, and i said "Actually no...  "  He didn't tell me to take them.

I have nothing against htem I just don't think to do it.

Bill Burr's recent comedy special was called "Drop Dead Years".  The point was he turned 55 and he says that's the age where if men died, it doesn't get questioned.  "Oh, what happened?"  No. They just died. People move on. That's what happens to us.  If a woman dies at 55 they wonder why and how.  

I hate saying this because I'm superstitious but I am far healthier today at 52 then I was even 10-15 years.  Maybe 30 years.  I had a herniated disc in 2012/2013 and it was the most painful thing I went thru.  Luckily no surgery.  I just had to get off my fat ass.  Too much sitting around. I was a high school athlete and always had a gym membership my whole life.  In the early 2000's my new doctor weighted me and asked what I weighed in HS, I told her '190'. She asked what happened.  I asked her what she weighted in HS.  You can 2-3 pounds a year, it adds up.  After my herniated disc I finally got serious.  I run, depending on when races are, 2-3 times a week.  I work out 3-4 times a week with strength and cross training. In terms of healthy eating I'd give myself a 7 out of 10.  I like beer.  My doctor is fine with it because all of my numbers look great.  He said my EKG is what he'd show a med school student for a perfect EKG.  I got a colonoscopy in early 2025.  Don't need another one for 5 years.

Get a colonoscopy.  It was easy.  They told me the prep would be hard but it wasn't.  Not at all. The sensation of going under was so fun.  I was expecting a countdown like in the movies.  I literally just blinked and it was the future. I didn't get drowsy or whatever. I had an IV put in so I didn't know "when" it would happen.  I can see why people get addicted to that.  

Overall... just move.  Walk.  Run. Whatever.  One foot in front of the other is progress.  

Part of me wishes it plays out in one election just to see the reaction by the "Trad Wives" who did the godly thing and took their husband's names and can't vote and those liberal feminists who kept their name can vote.

My attorney's son in law took his daughter's name.  I know this because his grandson went to school with my son and he told us the name was the same b/c of that.  But it's a cool Italian name and i said "I would have done that too".  In reality I think it was good for business for her to keep her name.

John Mulaney tells a joke about the time he was writing something and used Midget.  He was told my someone that "You know, Midget is as bad as the N word".  Mulaney said "Um... no... when you are comparing two words and you can't even say one of the words... they're not equally bad". 

That's just a joke.  I applaud the move by Canada.  It's just decency.  If people say a word is cruel in their mind then oblige.  It's an easy thing to do and costs nothing.  Why do people worry about being able to use words?  Just pick another.  On the flip side during the 'transition' don't flip out if it's inadvertently used.  If someone's being a jerk about it, then yeah, have at it.  But if they didn't get the memo yet, give them a chance to apologize and move on.

Explain to me how Reese is a better option than JV when he's out for 2026?  Verlander signed a 1 year deal.

Quarter zips.  

She didn’t sound well and that more than what she said matters most to her audience. I don’t think he will be happy. “Not good TV”

She sounds like that lady in that viral airplane video. 

My dad had quintuple bypass surgery 17 years ago this week.  He was 80 at the time. A few months later my mom called to say that he fell outside but he's ok.  I asked the details and he was in the garage.  "What was he doing?"  "Moving some tarps"

Those tarps had probably not been moved in 3 or 4 years but.... he had to move them.

We're dealing with this with my MIL.  She'll admit to doing things she's not supposed to and luckily we're a mile away.  She was trying to shovel.  Luckily my wife called her right as she started and she always answers her phone.  She's 78, two bad knees.   Uses a cane.  But she didn't want to wait for the neighbor to do it b/c of the mailman.  It was like 2 inches of snow.  So I had to run over there to finish it.  The trick is determining when to let them be when they want to help.  She walks into our house and always runs to the sink to do the dishes.  She has to feel useful.  For Thanksgiving she started to cry because we didn't need her help with anything.  That's the real challenge as we age.  I want to tell her to just relax and watch the game, let us handle the kitchen.  But especially for a old Polish woman who grew up during an era when it was always the Buscias in the kitchen while the men drank beer and watched football.... that ain't the way it's supposed to be.

Losing PR battles on an issue like this is very hard to do if you have nothing to hide, or at least, the data contains things you don't care gets out.  

20 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Cusack wanted a Fishbone song.    Um, no.   I love Fishbone, but not for emotional impact. 

It's weird you posted this now because I'm reading "You couldn't ignore me if you tried", a book about the 80's teen/brat pack movies, mostly John Hughes but Say Anything is in it too.  I'm exactly at this point where Say Anything is talked about.  It's such a different vibe, and I think more intelligent, than the Hughes ones.  That's not a criticism so much as I believe Cameron comes at it in a different way.  Crowe and James L Brooks didn't think the studio marketed it the right way, they thought it could be an Academy movie but the studio saw it merely as a teen flick.  Cusack didn't want to do it as he'd already done The Sure Thing (Very underrated!) and Weird Science, but John Mahoney was already on board, and during filming Eight Men Out he convinced him to do it.  Told him it's different.

In Crowe's book he shares the anecdote that he and Hughes had offices in the same bungalow on Paramount's lot but never really had a relationship.  They'd see each ohter often.  One night they stayed after and spent the night in the office together talking about movies and music.  Then that was it.  He never talked to him again.  Wasn't sure why.   Hughes was heavy into the British pop in the mid 80s and played a large part in making it popular here.  

Payola seems like such small potatoes now....

My sister died the first week of September, 2017. The last thing we talked about was Verlander being traded. She didn't like it obviously.  She was going into hospice and communication was tough at that point. I thought about that just now after seeing a photo of him in camp in a Tiger uniform.

but only for an hour

Imagine a scenario of Verlander walking out of the bullpen at Comerica Park before the top of the  9th in a WS clinching game with the Tigers ahead 6-3. 

3 hours ago, buddha said:

tigers traded by the tigers dont make the choice to leave.

i dont know why youre arguing with me about how i feel about players who used to play for the teams i follow.  its not a logic problem, its who i have emotional ties to.  

Logic has no place in sports. I mean…. If you told me in 1998 about Chris Chelios?  

1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Favorite ending to a movie?   

It's a lighter touch, not a dramatic one.   I guess you could have categories for endings

 

Mine is Say Anything.    Waiting for the No Smoking light to go off in the airplane (showing you how old the movie is, you could still smoke on planes in 1989).      There is something very satisfying about the way it ends.   

Say Anything is an extremely underrated movie. 

They couldn’t figure out what song he would be playing in the “ scene”.  Then Crowe heard In Your Eyes on something his wife had and he couldn’t believe how well it matched up.  Peter Gabriel wasn’t one to give up his music. Somehow they got a tape of the movie to him and they were told he would call after watching  He did call and said no.  Crowe was able to quickly ask “why” before he hung up and he said it didn’t fit in with the shooting up and then he OD’s.  Turns out Gabriel had been sent the movie about Belushi called Wired and thought that was the movie Crowe was asking about. .He agreed after seeing Say Anything but the cost was $600K. 

I remember hearing it said that he's what Mickey Mantle would have been with 2 good knees.

He's one of those guys, like Griffey for me, where his numbers will actually be better than we remember.  Our perception is thrown off, at least mine is. But I remember a long time ago looking at Griffey's numbers and thinking "Man, he was really really good..."

2 hours ago, buddha said:

i'll always root for verlander.  i couldnt care less about scherzer.  

if skubal leaves i will still root for him.  like you said, homegrown.    i feel the same way about stafford although i get people dont feel the same way.

i always root for michigan players once they make the pros too.

ANd now it's safe again to root for him guilt free 🙂

Tigers signed Verlander?

My uncle did time

The first time my dad was aware I was hungover, I lived in the basement, he came down to mess around in his work room like he always did.  He called me over, reached up into the ceiling where he stored the mason jars and offered me some moonshine.  I reacted accordingly and he just laughed and said "You think you are a big boy now?"  I think he used it on his lawnmower at times.  He hadn't had a drink since 1974 but kept it around for others.

The attraction to certain sports is simply cultural and in our nation football became our culture... but if you go into MN or northern MI, or downriver and certain western wayne county areas, hockey is a cultural thing, just like it is in Canada.  And soccer is obviously so huge everywhere but here.  You won't convince me that it has more action than baseball so it's not that.  People like what they like and you learn to look for things that the average person wouldn't.... I get reminded of this when I watch curling.

It's not about "better" or "worse".  It's just what you know and grew up watching.

41 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Massie is profile in courage stuff right now.  

He's probably a weirdo in so many other ways but man...i need to think there are a few people shaken by their consciouses to do the right thing. 

I've been impressed by him in this situation as well. In normal times we need 2 parties but this is not normal times and the GOP has a long way to go before they prove to be normal again.