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  1. I don’t remember specifically when it closed but the last thing I bought there were some surround sound speakers and wires in 2003 or 2004. Mike Adray was great for our community.  The hockey arena is named after him.  I wish I kept my old little league shirts. 

  2. 2 hours ago, chasfh said:

    'Nuff said.

    Trump gas prices

     

    Right. Generally speaking it’s true presidents don’t have that much to do with it. But this is a direct result of his extreme and unprovoked action. That is indisputable and they don’t even deny it. And you know what?  We deserve it.  Maybe our nation needs direct consequences that affect nearly everyone rather than the “others”. It sucks. I know people will struggle. But a lot of them voted for this ****. We tried to tell them. They assumed it was just the brown peoole and trans that would be affected. This is to his second term what covid-19  was to his first.   I drive less than 100 miles a week. I can cut back on my spending very easily. I understand others don’t have that luxury. 

  3. When I go outside I smell the wonderful middle eastern bakery that’s run by immigrant and if maga had their way wpuld be kicked out and that storefront would be filled with stinky **** stained maga folks in camo jackets that smell like diesel fuel.  

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  4. 1 hour ago, chasfh said:

    “Go touch some grass” is the new fashionable red hat distraction tactic designed to cover the fact that they can’t defend the thing you’ve cornered them on. The irony is that its use merely serves to highlight the distraction nature of the tactic. 

    Is that what that’s supposed to mean?   They’re just mad they can’t touch it without their fat asses falling over and they need help getting up because they’ve **** themselves in the process and they don’t want to risk getting their new under armor shirt dirty. They can’t go into dunhams anymore because the clerk there called the cops on them for lurking near the fitting rooms. 

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  5. I was all set to have a nice evening.  Had a work evening from 6:30 to 7:30 so I had the game on in the background while I did that.  Pleasant "open the windows" weather.  Had a beer while making dinner, simmering sausages and pasta sauce... things were great until 90 seconds left.  My wife says I get more upset when the Wings lose than the Tigers... it's probably due to the long road nature of baseball.  I literally just told myself yesterday afternoon "Ok, they are in decent shape now...."

    Looks like I won't have the dilemma of which team to get playoff tickets for at LCA this spring.

  6. I got thru half of a book about the relationship between Williams and Glenn. It seemed forced. Like they didn’t really have one unless people asked so it was just a history of each in the military based on quotes.  Seemed repetitive. But I did learn that Ted wasn’t really happy about having to go back for Korea.  He was a reserve after WWII. 

  7. I just remembered what prompted me to read that book.  Last month was the anniversary of John Glenn's flight and i shared a photo of him and Ted Williams eating/drinking coffee together during the Korean War.  Ted was Glenn's wingman.  He was a good pilot.  Someone shared that book with me and based on the name and the cover I expected it to be about baseball but my takeaway was an even greater appreciation for what the fighter pilots had to go through in their training.  Obviously they were bad ass to risk their life to do what they did but the training to be considered was exceptional.  George HW Bush went through it, so did many of the early astronauts, along with Ted.   It goes into good detail on why he was so successful at it when he wasn't much of a studier in school.

     

  8. 27 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

    I've just begun reading The Cloudburst Nine: The Untold Story of Ted vWilliams and the. Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II (Anne R Keene) with intro by Claudia Williams. It's about the group the baseball team formed among members of the flight school in Chapel Hill, NC including Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky and Johnny Sain, who toured the region playing exhibition games and promoting War Bonds.

    Another sidelight is the story of the team's batboy and mascot, Jim Raugh, who formed a friendship with many of the big leaguers. Raugh later became an All American and played in minors for a bit but never fulfilled his dream

    I read that a few years ago and it blew me away.  It was more about the Navy and their training programs... at least in my opinion.  I loved it.

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  9. The ****er is on TV bragging about bombing and taking away their electricity and killing people but tell me again about that being the Christian way. He’s rambling in a way that Biden never did but dumb ass saps eat it up as gospel.  

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  10. We've been watching DTF the last few weeks... it wasn't what I expected going in but it's decent.  

    It's got Richard Jenkins in it who looks the same as he did 25 years ago when I first noticed him in Six Feet Under.

     

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