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MTG is the person on facebook complaining about the garbage collections and all of that then gets elected to council and realizes it's not easy.

She specifically referred to her kids losing coverage for health care.  Yeah.  It's easy being "small government" until you need something.

Jeimer....

13 minutes ago, Shelton said:

If you have Apple News+, which often is included when you buy a new device or have a family bundle or the like with music/tv/etc, baseball prospectus is one of the publications included. It also has the freep and detnews. 
 

Only realized this recently. 

That's very good to know.   I have to cancel my Athletic as the latest promo expires.  I would use it more but it never remembers who I am and having to log in again is just enough to make me not care to read it.  

Tigers do well in ratings so I think they'll do right, if they can.  

Did Bob Ryan give him that nickname? I can hear him saying it.

I was in New Orleans once when the Super Bowl was there.  I saw Bob leaving a bar at like 2 pm, looked pretty lit. By himself.  In my defense i had just arrived  and was meeting co workers who were already there.  Our work was already done.  I arrived a day early to party.

2 hours ago, Screwball said:

That's interesting. When I learned we put three fingers in the ball. The two middle fingers of whatever hand we threw with. The holes were drilled so we could put the first two knuckles of our finger in the hole. Then another hole for the thumb. I don't remember when, but at some point, they went to the "fingertip" ball. You only put the first knuckle of your finger in the ball. This made the distance between the thumb hole and the fingers longer so you got more leverage to spin the ball - in theory. Probably true.

As the game progressed some quit using the thumb, and only drilled 2 holes in the ball for the fingers. Now, they do a thing even more unorthodox by using both hands to launch the ball in order to get more spin. It's all nuts compared to years ago.

I find this interesting given my background. Sorry for hijacking the baseball thread into a bowling conversation.

Wow. I had no idea. I could have been a bowler?

My ring, middle, and index finger were caught in a door in fifth grade. Next to last day of school.  1984.  Door closed. 30+ stitches. The tip of my middle finger is gone. My ring finger is slightly deformed and I broke the index finger. First few weeks of summer vacation sucked. Certain songs of that era make me think of soaking my hand in some kind of solution while watching MTV.   That middle finger was he’ll playing baseball on cold days if I got jammed. It was numb for 2 innings. 

A friend in the industry tells me that the Detroit incarnation hasn’t paid their truck fees all month and that Channel 20 is something that the Ilitches have had their eye on for awhile. 

19 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

FWIW: this from the freep today:

MLB media getting into the hockey biz?

I don’t know the current arrangement but tbeir original MLB advanced media group and its later entities ran a lot of NHL and nascar and other things. NHL network was run out of MLB studios. Maybe it still is?  I haven’t paid attention lately but their web and streaming services had a wide net. 

Because of an injury as a kid to my middle finger I can’t grip a bowling ball in the holes without it being painful.  So I just always gripped the ball and chucked it. I’d hit about 150 regularly.  When I was 13 a friend needed me for his league one weekend. I got on some Larry bird 3 point contest groove and had 6 or 7 strikes in a row. 230+.  I shanked the 10th. 

I’ve been voting since 1992 and have done nothing other than fill in a circle on a paper ballot. 

THere was an awesome photo going around of them holding a young Dan Levy as a young toddler.

Wed is the hearing.

If it's any consolation that animal is only about 38% accurate.

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

With the passing of Catherine O'Harra, I decided to watch Schitt's Creek. I'm only three episodes in and I'm hooked. 

Enjoy. What I love most is that these are people you shouldn’t like. But they are all awesome. I record the episodes off CBC and I can watch any random episode and it’s still fun. 

It’s seasonal depression.  We’ve not been above freezing in 2 weeks and  no relief in sight. It’s snowed 19 straight days.  The last few weekends I decided to make soup on either Saturday or Sunday to fill my time.  Twice we’ve driven to twelve oaks mall just to move around and walk and be around peoole. 
 

I’ve been a member of our rec center for 20+ years.  It was on this day 14 years ago I began going consistently. I would walk the track and listen to this relatively new thing called podcasts.  Try a yoga class. The instructor is awesome.  

I remember Pete Weber growing up.  I had to also watch bowling with my dad. 
 

On Apollo 14 the crew had a total of 15 min space time. Shepards Mercury launch. He was grounded early in Gemini but took a special surgery to fix his ear problem. Th other astronauts were not happy he got pushed to the front though he was their boss.  The also had problems with the radar during the descent stage. An emergency software fix solved the problem in time before an abort. But some speculated Shepard wpuld have flown it without radar. He didn’t wait that long to go back into space just to abort. 

She either auditioned or was already cast on SNL during the Ebersol years but that was also when he brought back Michael O’ Donoghue and he was especially ornery.  The first meeting he talked of destroying the show so she bailed.  She might have been too good for that show. 

Jason Kelce’s wife…… 

I watched curling with my dad growing up. He loved it. 

Curling is up next

I've not dug into any of this but I'm naturally suspicious of anything Epstein himself writes.   First off, he appears to be stupid.  Mispelling and poor grammar.  He could be trying to document as much crap as possible to hold it over people and who knows what is true and isn't.

Macauley Culkin with a tear jerking tribute.... damn.

This is John Candy level.  And not just because they worked together.  Can't even begin to figure out her best work or my favorite.

For a long time for me it was her and Teri Garr as the funniest women alive.  Now I don't know....

We've discussed this before but I also don't like surveys presented as about the product/system but the questions are specifically geared toward the person helping you.  It's a bait and switch.  Then they brag about the product/system.

"Yes, Marge was nice and did her best.  But my problem was beyond her immediate ability to resolve and you didn't ask me about that."