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On Murder She Wrote she would cast a lot of her old acting friends so that they could obtain better SAG benefits as they got older. Genius.

man when I was a kid racquetball was king. You had those clubs popping up with a bar in it. As I got older it evolved to Wallyball, Volleyball in a racquetball court. Before any of us had kids we'd do that twice a week. Play a few games then drink cheap beer out of pitchers and eat pizza in their bar area. Do those places still exist? The few I can think of closed down.

I feel guilty for not going. Would have been solo which doesn’t matter. But the losing streak and Cooler weather had me down. And I found out a co worker passed away over the weekend so I was kind of blah. Felt more like a chore to have to go.

I actually like the broadcast without Shep. Just some friends hanging out. I mean it.

Right. What moves would you expect the Tigers to have made for this org? Sign a bunch of free agents? That’s why we are stuck with Baez. You can’t criticize for not signing free agents then complain about his deal and the predicament it left them in. There isn’t a mythical store of players out there waiting to be purchased or traded for.

Maybe ADHD or Dyslexia. When I saw some symptoms of ADHD it sounded very familiar to what I experienced. I could ace tests but would get a C in class because I didn't do the daily work. In college classes I would get bored after about 20 minutes and drift off. I had and have no problem reading things, like if you said "Read the first 4 chapters of this tonight and tomorrow's a test" I would ace it. But if you told me to fill out this worksheet every day..... nope. I was "smart but didn't apply myself". We took a standardized test my senior year in HS. When the award ceremonies came out they announced some scholarship thing and were rattling off the usual "smart kids, the all A students".... then me. I got $500 a semester from that, twice a year not spring/summer my entire college "career" because of that. And back then that covered like 25% of my tuition. My son is the same way. I just figured I was lazy but I'm not sure now.

Some orgs are so good at it that i have to think there's a skill there that's not being used by others. What kind of profile in a player do you value? That's the kind of thing I hope Harris and his team is bringing here. Whether he can we just don't know and I scoff at presumed pundits who think the book on him is already written. Unfortunately it will take time to determine. The hope was guys like Greene and Tork and the pitchers would help keep things afloat until we know.

You don't rebuild through the draft. I went through the first 3 rounds of every draft since 2016. Here's what I found for "good" players. Will Smith, Dodgers. 32nd pick in 2016 1st round Pete Alonso, Mets 64th pick in 2016 2nd round Bo Bichette,Blue Jays 66th pic in 2016 2nd round Bryan Reynolds, Giants 59th pick in 2016 2nd round Zach Gallen, Cardinals 106th pick in 2016 3rd round Sean Murphy, A's, 83rd pick in 2016 3rd round Shane Mclanahan, Rays 31st pick in 2017 1st round It's development. x100. Some orgs can develop much better than others. You can't tell me the teams are sitting on gold players after the first 2 rounds just hoping they slip through.

that's good to know.

Another choice of "do I spend the $20 between parking and a beer and drive down to sit in cooler damp weather to watch a dumpster fire?". This is where I actually like the 6:40 start time and faster pace because even if I do go there's a good chance I'm home by 9:30. I thought I was past that point with this team.

Ponch and Jon didn't get along very well either. Neither did Laverne and Shirley. Larry Hagman and Patrick Duffy were like brothers in real life. Patrick was there the day Larry died.

Geese (not goose) is a great band name.

A former FBI agent on CNN suggested it could be strategic to force a delay. But who knows.... he might have asked them to do something they wouldn't do. Did they quit in reaction to his aide being indicted?

they will argue that he was just joking or didn't know any better and Obama, Hillary, Hunter, Biden Crime Family....

because I'm an "old man" and do these things, like track flights, planets, the space station.... I also downloaded the EPA's air quality app. In philly it's currently 173. It's 117 in Detroit.

I'm not Catholic but my wife is... I am a little uneasy or skeptical of the reliance on praying to saints and others.

absolutely. Fundamentalists don't think Catholics are legit Christians because of Mary or something.

MLK Sr did the same thing until RFK called Coretta Scott King after Jr got arrested in 1960. Unfortunately anti catholic bias among protestants was acceptable back then. When JFK spoke before Baptist preachers in Texas LBJ told the staff to make sure the "meanest" looking preachers were up front and within view of the TV camera. He wanted the nation to see them nodding along to JFK.

Graham's about as good as you can get for the big name ones. The knock against him is his lack of pushback against Nixon when he was making racial and antisemetic comments on tape. Other than that I can't think of anything really controversial. I can say that many in the fundamentalist evangelical circle actually didn't like him because they thought he was too accommodating to other Christian denominations. I recall an interview on King where Larry was pressing him on whether Jews and Hindus and others would go to hell because they didn't believe like Christians do. Graham wouldn't say they would, only that his religion teaches him that he will go to Heaven.

"Why didn't I get the easy CNN?" The fact we will indict a former President is the precise message you want to send to the rest of the world.

I really hate when I go to a gathering of some sort and.... guitar guy shows up. Sitting around a fire talking and having some drinks... here comes guitar guy to sing Gordon Lightfoot and break up the fun....

I've watered my lawn 3 times in 3 days when I don't think I've watered it 3 times in the previous 2 years. There's a sprinkler system here but I've never used it. Wasn't listed on the disclosure form and the inspector found it. I asked the guy at closing and he said he never used it either. I tried turning it on once and nothing happened. I tried digging around the flower bed where the valves are on the outside to find a box to connect something and couldn't find it. My wife wants me to hire someone to sort it out but I'm not into the business of spending money to make me cut the grass more often.

It bugs me too and I'm not into golf as much as I used to be. But I knew the distinction. On a similar vein people will often bitch about something related to 3 of the majors and say something like "The PGA needs to get it's act together..."