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He’s pulling a Grant Hill on us. Screw him.  Get a Ben Wallace and win a cup in 3years and let him limp his way to the end. 

bye

I really do not understand the point of the He Man movie.  I watched it every day as a kid when it was on, like 83-84.  I had the action figures.  I had skeletor's castle.  I'm 52. I'm the target demographic.

But nobody asked for this.  It wasn't a cartoon based on other sources, like comics.  It was created specifically to sell toys.  It had a small shelf life.  My kids have no idea who it is.  It has no cultural relevance.

The simple 2 facts that every team needs a rep and fan voting means that AS game selections rank very low on how to evaluate a player's career.  A popular guy gets voted in and some crappy reliever gets picked from the worst team over a deserving fellow.

All Star games were fun when we didn't have interleague play and baseball wasn't on TV every day. We knew on a summer Tuesday night we could watch a game and see Fernando pitch to George Brett.... and that was the few times a fan of an AL team could see him pitch at all on their TV.

So he “heard”.  Sounds like “many people are saying”. 

Cody is mad they didn’t do what he thought they should so he has to make **** up. He’s a tough negotiator. That’s bad?

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

That is a good question.   I don't know if they really said that.  I was speaking hypothetically.  If he is difficult to deal with, I would not necessarily view that as a positive.  

I’ve seen others say it but I suspect it’s just some loud mouths who came up with the theory and it gets accepted. And like has been said here… “is that bad?”   Is it just the words of some disgruntled GM or former GM who didn’t get his way?

What’s the source for saying Harris is “difficult” to deal with?

Driving today my wife was on her phone and started to tell me about something regarding Dr Oz and I just shut it down. I’m tired of reading about all of them. 

I can’t imagine having to defend this.  Republicans are not normal. 

You can’t do solar in space. Haven’t you seen pictures?  It’s dark. 

Make no mistake, there is a decent bloc of Tiger "fans" who enjoyed what they saw in May because for some reason they have a hatred of Scott Harris... I see it as a combination of his youth and intelligence.  Many are not cut out to be baseball fans because it's every day and requires some balance.  You can't over react to every play and every game but talk radio and podcasters and twitter folks need something to talk about.

The Heinz museum in Pittsburgh has a great section on the Seven Years War.  I never paid much attention to it, just one of those things you gloss over in HS history class.  But it was fascinating to read about it there and it was quite complex.

11 hours ago, casimir said:

that year is the equivalent to the 1980 and 1985 seasons of SNL.  It was there but we don't really acknowledge it.  Between that stupid logo and the striping on the jerseys... hideous times.

What’s with the “4” patch?  Did Bobby Higginson die?

If I knew nothing about the candidates the guy on the right would look foolish. Who decided that was a good idea?

They don’t care.  The GOP cares in terms of electoral politics but the admin is outside of that now.  They just care about getting rich. 

I take the US/Soviet space race and project paper clip approach. “Our Germans are better than their Germans” 

7 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Somebody has been two busy self promoting to actually do a smidgen of research on the founders  view of Freedom of Religion.

Most of us critical of organized religion support the right to decide who and how to worship, not just blindly follow what the TV and most MAGA Church leaders want us to believe. Basically they hate educated folks

do they hate Jews too?  Or Buddhists?  How come those religions never whine about it?  It's always the Christian Nationalists.

SEriously... look through history. Every important social evolution that's taken place in our nation's history had protestant Christianity opposing it.  Slavery.  Womens rights. Civil rights.  Interracial marriage.   Gay acceptance.  

Yet they bitch anytime you call them out and pretend to be victims.  

calling a "freedom from religion" group a group that "hates Christians' is some of the biggest pussy ass thinking you can find.  Grow a pair.  Man up.  Stop acting like a victim just because someone doesn't want your theology shoved in their faces.  What a coward.   It really shows a lack of faith and confidence in your own beliefs to have to play victim all the time.  But we knew that.

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

seeing that Stevens has pulled ahead in MI Senate race polls.  Is that good?  I ask you niggling purists?  

Hard to say... I personally don't really care as long as D wins the seat but I fear that Al Sayed's supporters will pull a Bernie and bail because, as MB said, Stevens isn't anti "zionist" enough or whatever.

progressives can be cry babies and the arab/muslim community is very tribal and once Al Sayed had a shot, if he doesn't get it, they'll see it as an anti muslim act and just sit at home... unless our local leaders show courage that they didn't in 2024, by pretending there's no real difference between a republican and a democrat.

Sounds like someone you’d like. 

A news story said the guy was looking for Tom  Cruise and made references to his father but it wasn’t clear whether his or Toms father. He was going the wrong way then slowly drove into the terminal. 

I think that was the McNamara terminal. This was the Evans. Wonder how busy that one is now with spirit gone. I used it once for United. 

I remember being sad that I missed 1976 because I was just under 3 years old.  I had 250 marked as something that would be awesome.  Now it's just meh.  That bastard will make it all about himself and show no dignity or grace.

Speaking of... Obama's library is opening up soon.  Those events used to be fun for bipartisanship.  You'd get all the former presidents together being friendly.  In one of my books they talk about Clinton's library opening and George HW Bush and Clinton had by that point become great friends. They were wandering around the halls slowly and Dubya, showing his hand as POTUS told a staffer "Will someone tell 41 and 42 that 43 is hungry?"

There's plenty of money to go around and really the only meaningful competition between the two regards the lunar lander and even as presented there's a lot of doubts.   At minimum the New Glenn's are needed to deliver rovers to the moon for use on any lunar landings, they were awarded $188M to do that this week.... Artemis's goal isn't just to go to the moon and back like Apollo.  If all of these systems aren't working then there's no point.   Artemis III is going to test out lunar landers in low earth orbit, allegedly next year.  I doubt it.