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Joel Zumaya posted on his facebook account that he's selling his "entire" Pokemon collection.

In case you're wondering how things are going with him.

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.

We know Dom’s mother thru a running club. It’s cool to see. 

10 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Nothing more intoxicating to the sociopathic psychopath than the power of life and death over millions.

It’s the Christian thing to do 

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.

Jan 6 Capitol Police say hello Bethany.

She's a twat.

7 hours ago, pfife said:

Lol

The great thing is that can refer to any post

I see why so many Republican and right wing men beat their women. 

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.  

punk ass was quiet for days while things went in the ****ter and dough boy boards up one of the windows he shattered and suddenly it’s good news. 

Fake Christians.  Not enough pedophilia and grifting. 

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.

1 hour ago, mtutiger said:

 

Regime change here too. 
 

He’s Putins Bitch and he’s Bibi’s bitch. Those are the ones we know about. 

Had a fun time last night at the Hamtramck Blow Out. $20 gets you access to all kinds of fun music laid out at the many places there. At times I felt out of place as it was a lot of young “freaky” people but then you would see some “dads”. And most places had $2 beer.  Music ranged from acoustic folk in a quiet coffee shop to raging punk from a band called “Morbid C**t”. 

You know things aren’t going well when all “they” got to pretend to brag about is Bill Maher. 

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

That’s one of the things I like about being a dinosaur with DirecTV satellite: it has never logged me out for god knows what reason and forced me to painfully input one character of my very long password at a time through a TV remote to get back in.

I’m the same way. I feel claustrophobic when I use an app to watch sports. Like I am trapped. Movies and such don’t bother me because I’m watching the movie. Sports is more casual. Especially baseball.  I’ve had mlb.tv for years and rarely used it because going in and out was just enough hassle to not be worth it. around playoff time I would watch some games.  I hope they come up with a resolution for the providers. 

Is Fire Stick a proper brand or just a casual name for a Roku type service ?  I have a Roku on my office TV and for my outdoor setup when I use that. 

I came back from a walk and put the game in.  Find the icon. Scroll to it. Hit enter. Wait for the spinning thing to finish.  Get to the menu. Click on the Comerica park picture.  Go to the bathroom.  Come back and it’s the “pregame”. It started from the beginning. Maybe I missed a question. Go back. Try again. Same thing. Try a third time and find an icon finally to “go live”. 
 

There’s buffering on my end. Not a lot. But noticeable.  Audio is spotty but that could just be the environment. I’m not glued to it visually but it looks clean. I like that. No clutter.  

I have it on now thru MLB. It’s thru the app on my Samsung TV. I logged in like I always do and clicked on the tiger game. It’s giving me “about to start”.  Earlier when I tried it told me “you are too early”. 
 

don't forget the liver

12 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

DUDE STOP. JUST STOP. Would you rather be lead by a black woman? Think of how bad that would be.

and a black woman that didn't get the nomination the "normal" way

It had to do with the economy and the stimulus checks... I made the comment that a lot of people who were fortunate enough to keep working during the early days of the pandemic found themselves saving money and then then getting an infusion of cash from those checks were spending money on projects and other things they normally might not have done... thus causing some of the inflation we saw... "you guys sit there in your finished basements while working people suffer" or something to that effect.

I read that while working in my non cubicle in my unfinished basement.

For me apps are fine in limited circumstances but in general I don't like it when the games I want to watch are on them.  I like to flip around.  Unless it's a "must see" game like a playoff or an opener where it will have my full attention...  Otherwise having to exit out and then go back is annoying.  Then they forget who you are and you have to log in again.  I'm a dinosaur.  I still have cable.   I will be ticked if I have to pay for this more than I am now.  I'm already on an elevated tier that includes sports, like MLB Network, Big Ten,  NHL Network, etc. and that includes FanDuel.  Before their fight a a few years ago the old Bally's wasn't on that tier, they moved it to that.  Fine, whatever.   But if I now have to go above that, yeah it will bother me.  I'll pay it because I'm a slappy... but it stinks.

If it were just me in the house, I'd go bare bones and get rid of all of it, like my son has done since he moved out.  But my wife needs Friends on during the day on TBS and at night on Nick.  Yeah, I know it's on HBO Max.  That's not the same. 

"we need to work together for the American people"

And the media will go along with it.