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yes and everyone was going to sue them. Conservatives were going to sue a private business because that private business didn't want to do business with another private business. Something about free speech which is odd because no governments got involved in restricting anyone's speech. It's almost like conservatives were full of shit.

yeah but Al Avila isn't a GM anymore 🙂

That's the one I was trying to think of a few weeks ago and couldn't remember it's name and wasn't motivated enough to look.... everyone was making a show of bailing to Parler. Then I think someone published their open source code.

There’s no way they are going to go from potentially 53 postseason games back to a max of 35. That’s like $50M in direct revenue alone. This is what the owners want. It’s what the players want. Why is more baseball games a bad thing? Because the Dodgers felt entitled? I have enjoyed this playoff season more than any other that didn’t involve the Tigers in a very long time.

In 1993 Ross would have been bitching that the 103 win Giants didn’t make the playoffs.

The weather and a 162 game schedule with no doubleheaders are also the enemies. Winner take alls are unfair. 3 game series with all games at the top seed produced 3 upsets this year. If Cleveland wins today the top seeds will be 2-2. I guess I will say that if a lower seed winning is a problem then why even have playoffs? You need a 7 or 9 game series to emulate any real advantage a 105 win team would have over 92 win team. Otherwise both teams are good and it can come down to a couple of plays per game.

The thing is any solution presents more problems. When top seeds get upset you try to give them a break with a bye and some time off. Then that is the reason they lose.

Remember in reservoir dogs when Mr Pink and Mr White are reviewing what happened? “Did you get anybody?” “Tagged a couple of cops”. “No real people?”

Was it Sutter or Jeff Reardon who had kind of a breakdown in a mall and we found out it was the result of his son dying?

Come on dude…. You know you want to do it. No hurricanes here.

"It's like an ad for a weight loss... before.... and way before!'

Is that the same scene or situation where we saw the guy who played Vito as a customer? When they shot the goodfellas scene Moltosanti cut his hand on the glass. They took him to the ER, still dressed up, and he had the blood from the scene all over his chest. When he walked in they threw him on the cart and started to rip his shirt off. "Take it easy, I'm an actor, it's just my hand This other stuff is fake". At least that's the story he told on the Talking Sopranos podcast.

Think about 2006. The reason the ending of the season sucked so much was because the collapse was going to potentially wipe it all away. After the great season full of so many special moments then all we get is a lame wild card and loss to the Yankees? Seemed that way after game 1. The team celebrated in KC when clinching a playoff berth but that was on the road. That would have been it. I suspect that's why the post game celebration after beating the Yankees played out the way it did. It was a makeup party. If the team had won the division title the final weekend they would have partied at home like they did after the Yankees.

Is that going to happen or just a fan wanting one?

Gretzky had some work done didn't he?

Yes. The subpoena is just something to put on the record. Unless the Dems keep the house and the committee going there’s no expectation he will ever comply. But at least now it’s done and history will record he fought it. Much like the impeachment in 2021.

Best response to a heckler was relayed by a comedian in a podcast.... it was Richard Belzer back in the day. Some woman was giving him a hard time so he says "Lady, the only time you should open your mouth is to switch cocks"

I believe nobody offered him more than 1 year. Tigers gave him 4 plus options. Then he was portrayed as some hero for daring to come here and rescue the franchise, while disrespecting his manager, a Tigers legend, and according to reports physically going after him after being denied time away from the team for a booty call. Because of that I reserve the name Pudge for Carlton Fisk.

I remember when he did that. I still have family that believe it. “Cops won’t go in certain portions of the city”.

absolutely. The meeting is 1/2 mile from my house and across the street from my old one. Religious fanatics of the Muslim and Christian faiths are raising hell. They claim it's about books that are explicit but pay attention to some of the signs you see and you'll just see blatant anti gay slurs having nothing to do with kids or books. You'll see the word "groomer". You'll see a sign that says "Homosexual is Sin". Some of the signs are in poor English. I might go Thursday to the rescheduled meeting but I'm afraid I will get into a fight. So ironic that so many people are now in bed with the same people who called them terrorists 20 years ago. For the record our Muslim mayor is against all of this. He's taking a lot of heat from "his people" as they said on his facebook post showing support for not banning books. He has no control over the schools as that's the superintendent and school board but said the city libraries will unequivocally not be banning books. Nothing has upset me more politically since Jan 6.

Speaking of dryer pet peeves.... in 2014 I moved a few blocks away. When I sold my house, to get the C of O, I needed to update my gas pipe for my dryer, copper was no good anymore. Ok. My HVAC friend who lives in the city didn't get it but went to the city, watched a video to get educated so he could serve other customers in the area. New house. Order washer and dryer. They won't hook up the dryer because it's copper fittings and pipe. Yeah, I had to do the same thing to the house I bought that I did to the house I sold. The seller got a C of O.

speaking of Isbel, here's a song I came across last week on Satellite radio.... this sounds like it could be Zeppelin.

I suspect James will finally get his win. Carl Marlinga? That's the definition of retread. When I hear that name I think of names like Bill Bonds and Joe Falls and Sonny Elliot.

This Kanye stuff.... we've gone from 2005 and "George Bush hates black people" to "Hey Tucker, how you doing big fella?"