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Which begs the question… what happens in 10 years? Will my generation that scooped up the McMansions in the 90s and 00s be able to sell them and move down there? (Speaking figuratively, I did not do that and will not consider Florida). Who can we sell them to?

They are pretty tone deaf if they think they can win that battle.

In terms of a franchise icon, Yzerman tops Lidstrom for sure. But as for a player…. Nick is second only to Gordie. Seven Norris trophies. Yzerman has said that himself.

I say Cisneros because that to me is more common of a name. Like calling Christin Stewart “Christian”. I didn’t care enough to bother getting it right. Just a casual glance at text. You skip past it. People still refer to Nick Lidstrom as “Lindstrom” and he’s a Hall of Famer and the second greatest Detroit Red Wing of all time. That’s wrong.

From the Apollo 10 transcripts. this flight was a full dress rehearsal for the first moon landing. Young and Cernan late commanded lunar missions and Cernan holds the distinction of being the last man to walk on the moon Young flew the first space shuttle mission along with another. Combined those with his two Gemini and two Apollo missions, plus the launch from the lunar surface, he holds the record for most blast offs (seven). I suspect he’s the culprit for this blast off. Tom Stafford: "Oh... who did it?" John Young: "Who did what?" Eugene Cernan: "Where did that come from!?" Tom Stafford: "Give me a napkin quick, there's a turd floating through the air"

We're planning an anniversary trip to Aruba, probably, and watching those set me up probably for disappointment. Those resorts cost thousands a day. Mine, not so much.

yeah I think I liked season 2 better as well. I really hated the character Aubrey was married to. More so than the douchebag from season 1. I liked how they kept some things for to you speculate on your own. Did she really fool around or just want to make him think she did, with that dude's consent? Make him jealous.

Don't know if this is a paywall article: https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2023/01/13/stevie-wonder-reflects-on-the-late-jeff-beck-a-great-soul/69802076007/ They say that Wonder already had the song but encouraged Beck to record it too. Quoted piece below. They later talk about how Motown insisted on releasing Stevie's version first rather than a B Side, which Stevie didn't prefer. He had it for Jeff to do. Some say it caused a riff between Wonder and Beck but Stevie downplays it. In New York in ’72, Wonder was thrilled with Beck's work on "Pure Love." He and Cecil encouraged the guitarist to record a version of a new, unreleased song Wonder had recently written and tracked: "Superstition." Beck saw it as a gift from Wonder. When it comes to origin stories of songs from that era, details can be cloudy or lost to time. It has often been reported that "Superstition" emerged from an impromptu jam by the two artists, with Beck at a drum kit and Wonder at a clavinet keyboard. But Wonder clarified Wednesday that a rough track of the song was already complete when he first played it for Beck at the studio.

I wonder if Gaetz has that picture of white/Greg Allman Jesus up when he does the sex trafficking?

THye recently changed the format of feeds to "For you" and "following". It is along the top. Mine defaults to "For you". I keep having to change it to "Following". NOt sure if that's the same as the old "Latest Tweets" and "Top Tweet" where they tried to feed you what they think you want.

We had a wooden slat fence in HS. Like the kind they put up in parks during autumn to trap all the leaves. It was removable so the soccer field could also exist. One of the slats was split in two and I ran into it, I caught the ball though. It was a foul ball so I didn't save a HR. Sustained a serious gash on my wrist but I wouldn't get it stitched because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to participate in the postseason. 34 years later this is what's on my wrist still.

It's not directed at you in particular. Just society in general. People are upset they can't be mean and make fun of other people anymore so they just become "anti woke".

His guests matter a great deal. If he's got Bill Burr on it's fine because Bill will throw it back at him. And I like it with other comedians because that's what they'll talk about. I like listening to history of stand up comedy discussions. But after a few years I burned through it all and now I have no interest in any of his guests. Someone with that reach needs to be more responsible with the misinformation. You can't just spout off shit like you are sitting with old men in a barber shop.

Burr's take on The Boys are Back in Town is great.... I listen to it every few months.

I saw an ad for a documentary or series about yacht rock. I cannot remember what service it was going to be on.

This is what Warren wrote: I’m devastated. People ask me a lot “who’s your favorite living guitarist?” and the answer would always have to be Jeff Beck. So much so that I’ve always made a point of being careful not to listen to him too much for fear of wanting to imitate him. I was lucky, thanks to my older brothers, to have discovered Beck at a very early age, even before I started playing guitar. He was ferocious — not just inventive but totally unique. Nobody played like that. I loved everything he did. All the “guitar heroes” back then were thrust into recording at an early age so we could hear tremendous growth in a lot of cases from album to album, year to year, but with Jeff Beck even more so. Every time he released something new we all waited with anticipation to hear what new direction or directions he would take. It was uncanny. He seemed to not want to define himself with what he had already done so each new venture just added to an already broad scope of not only “influences" but also the uniqueness that was there from the start. No matter what direction he chose he approached it in a way that only he could. As someone who started singing before I started playing guitar I always loved the vocalists that he worked with in addition to the great musicians so I was a bit surprised, as were a lot of people, when Jeff released Blow By Blow in 1975 which turned out to be his first all instrumental album. It came at a good time for me as I had been playing guitar for 3 or 4 years at that point and was just starting to discover a lot of instrumental music but none of us were prepared for the huge stylistic leap we were about to hear in Jeff’s playing. His last studio recording prior was the collaborative Beck, Bogert & Appice which was great like all his previous works but gave no indication as to what doors would be opened up with Blow By Blow. Every guitar player I knew was mesmerized. This changed everything. We were all dropping back the needle incessantly to try to learn anything we could from Blow By Blow. And then along comes Wired, a year later, which took his playing to even greater heights. I think the most remarkable thing about Jeff Beck as a guitarist however is the way he continued to grow and expand his own style year after year, album after album, in a way that I can’t recall anyone else ever doing — EVER! He didn’t record or tour nearly as much for quite a while after the release of Wired but every time he did there was some new chapter that came with the new music. Thankfully in recent years he appeared to have been on a mission and was incredibly prolific. But again the most amazing thing was his playing that somehow continued to get better. I saw him perform quite a few times over the last fifteen years or so and I have to say that every time he played even better than the time before. I’ve never seen anything like it. Jeff Beck changed music in a very profound way but unless you’re a guitar player you may not understand. He changed our lives. He created a style of playing that was instantly recognizable and almost impossible to replicate. I made the decision a long time ago not to try to copy him — what’s the point? Any of us would only wind up sounding like a bad Jeff Beck imitator. For over fifty years however I have studied him and learned from him and a large part of my style and vocabulary came from him. So, now when someone asks me “Who’s your favorite guitarist — living or dead?” I will say what I always say: “I can’t answer that.” But my very short list will include Jeff. There will never be another Jeff Beck.- WH

This person, Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule and ABB fame, said he would not listen to him very often because he was afraid he'd copy him and didn't want to do that.

A well known guitarist I follow wrote about Jeff yesterday and said that Jeff was one of the best but it's possible, probable even, that you have to play guitar to understand why. I think that's true. I don't play. He doesn't do anything for me but I am not going to tell all of these great guitar players and all of you that you are wrong. That would be ignorant.

Who would have more Cy Youngs? Michael Fulmer or Daniel Norris? How many gold gloves would Jacoby have?

Joe Rogan is a piece of shit. He's Tucker Carlson for people under the age of 60.

with regard to "woke"..... it just means people are pissed off they can't use the N word or make fun of gays anymore and the bitch about "woke" as a placeholder.

Imagine what a list from 20016 that someone made up about the 2023 Tigers would look like.

I get an email every time the ISS flies over my area.

I like it because it seems to reserve status as still being a deep park but not to the extreme. I still maintain that it affects the home team psychologically. Visiting players not so much because they know they'll be in a new park in a few days. I think this will alleviate that.

where do you get this crazy idea that nobody is going to "yell at him"? It's been turned over to a prosecutor to investigate. You are just making shit up.