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43 minutes ago, DTroppens said:

I haven't legitimately watched a TV series since Breaking Bad. I started watching Better Call Saul, and it was fine, but somewhere down the line I lost interest in it. I'm sure I'll see the end one day.

I was really upset that Gus wasn't the one that got the spinoff show. If there was ever a cooler villain than Gus, I don't know who it was. 

Finish watching Saul then. That’s all I will say.  I liked BCS better and when I put on the AMC stories channel on Amazon prime I watch that. If it’s breaking bad I don’t tune in unless it’s an early episode. 

They are done from what I have read. All NBA playiff games are on national networks. The parent group is shutting down offices. 

Both are players a good org should be able to replace fairly easily. Riley wpuld be fine to hold on to if he wasn’t going to be expensive but he’s not a guy I would worry about losing either. 

Apollo 16 was a great crew.  John Young is considered the greatest astronaut of all time.  Flew the first space shuttle mission. Charlie Duke was so competent during his early training that Neil Armstrong personally wanted him as CAPCOM during the moon landing on Apollo 11.  He's the voice you hear "We copy you down Eagle".  He's still alive.  Mattingly passed away recently and was originally supposed to be on the Apollo 13 crew.  He also commanded a e few space shuttle missions, including a classified mission that required the crew to be all military officers.  Rumors are they deployed some top secret satellites.  All he would say is we'd be happy if  we knew what it was about.

just boring brown ones.  Sketcher slip ons because I'm an old man and am sick of messing with tying shoes.  Even on my running shoes I buy the lace lock things, but that's so I don't have to mess around during a race.  

I went to buy some new shoes last night.  As I pulled into my driveway coming home, listening to Dan over 97.1, not my app, he called the Perez HR.  I left my blinds open and didn't park in the garage so I could see the TV in the window with the game on.  It was two pitches behind.  That was regular DSN thru Xfinity.  

I just assume that with each tech layer you add on that  it's expected to get a delay.  I do not have a plugged in over the air radio in my house so this was the first time in a long while I've checked a broadcast vs TV. I bet if I had the radio feed on my phone thru the app it would be closer?  

I even get different syncs between TV's in my house.  My main TV and a bedroom TV thru a roku connection are off.  The ROku TV has a cable box plugged into it.  

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pro life my ass

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

You do or do not believe in the great "man" or great person school of history? 

It doesn’t apply to Jackie.  Branch Rickey wanted to improvise his baseball club. 

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

Branch Rickey was no racist. 

I’m not referring to specific individuals but the MLB hierarchy as a whole. One man doesn’t absolve an entire league.  If they want credit for doing the right thing then it wouldn’t matter who they selected. In fact they wouldn’t have had to “select” anyone. They would have just invited them to spring training and picked the best players. 

2 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

I forgot about Sen O' Rourke and Sen Harrison.  How have they done in the Senate?

55 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

When Von Hayes went to the Phillies. Pete Rose said: "I was suprised to find out that you were white because everybody told me how fast you were." To give the devil his due, Rose was not racist though.  He reportedly went out of his way to befriend Black players at time when things were still segregated.  

In Bouton's book he relayed a story Joe Morgan told him about Rose.  Rose had slid home but was called out. Back on the bench he told Joe "If I was black I'd have been safe".  Joe said "If you were black you wouldn't have had to slide"

it's not a criticism of Jackie but a reminder of why we know of him beyond being a great player.  When we say he broke the color barrier what we mean is he was picked by racists as acceptable in an attempt to make it look like they were righting their wrong.  To me it's like someone writing a check to charity for domestic violence support after being discovered as an abuser.

I have to do my taxes tonight.  

I have my thoughts on Jackie Robinson day.  It's great we honor him and what he had to go through and he deserves all of it.  But I've always felt that the way MLB frames this is an attempt to absolve them of the reason we need a Jackie Robinson Day.  There's one reason we have this day and it's because MLB was run by a bunch of racists who didn't want blacks in baseball.  Jackie didn't break the color barrier because "finally we had a qualified back person that could play".  He broke it because of the courage of some to decide it was time.  Still others didn't believe that and orgs like Boston and Detroit held out even further.

I care less about my senator's vote for a cabinet official who would have won anyway and I care more about my senator's appeal in the rest of our state that outside of a few metro areas, can be as red as Alabama and if that vote makes it more likely they'll get some votes they otherwise wouldn't get, then fine.  

What Obama did in 2008 is ancient history.  The world and landscape is different now and he's not running.  Al-Sayed is not Obama.

One game that always gets mentioned in lists like this, outside of those with playoff implications, is the 1998 game against the Cubs.  I was there and it seems like everybody else was.  I had just started working, shirt and tie kind of job, recently married, and met friends there on the way home from Warren.  So there I am in July at a game in a shirt and tie.  Kerry Wood pitched.  Matt Anderson made his MLB debut, threw one into the backstop during warmups, Sammy Sosa hit a HR breaking Rudy York's record for HR In a month.  I believe he got a curtain call.

28 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Are you a Turtle? 

You bet your sweet ass I am. 
 

astronaut Wally Schirra was asked this during a mission  He had to answer thru a private channel 

weather might be an issue on this one...

On 2/14/2026 at 7:23 PM, Stormin said:

Not baseball,  but I still think Chuck Long is the best QB name of all time.

That was my dads name 

I understand that sliver of voters but if they fell for his schtick in '24 then that tells me they are stupid and will fall for anything and can't be counted on.

I have Polish colleagues and there was one who was known by Peter Kielbasa.

I figured they were just ****ing with him to separate him from the other Piotr we had in the group.  Like saying Johnny Bananas

Nope.  That was his name.

Did Harbour wear a fat suit?  Someone with his girth should have a fuller face I think.

Just now, ewsieg said:

I might be annoyed at where they put their 'red' line, but happy when folks realize it's been crossed.

I take it to mean "Ok, you say that now just to move on and not have to defend it, but next week you'll forget about it."

I mean... how much more proof do we need of anything negative you could possibly say about him that wasn't there in 2016?