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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.

I hope there is enough of them left to matter.

And we would never have known about it. In fact we didn’t know about any of it until Trump decided to grift off it by playing victim. intent matters legally. Some people just insist on playing both sides and what about and “yeah but games and pretend they aren’t and I’m not going to participate anymore.

You are asking us why we didn’t react the same way to a situation where one guy rants about being “raided “ and another where one guy’s team notifies the archives that they have something that the archives apparently didn’t know even existed. Person A takes petty cash money that no longer applies to him as he doesn’t work there anymore, is asked numerous times to give it back, doesnt, then they show up to get it. Person B leaves a job and 5 years later discovers a box with petty cash in it, let’s them know he has it, sends it back and you want to say “well hold on now…. Why didn’t you give person A the same benefit of the doubt?”

The flip side is… what does it matter? Republicans are going to think what they want regardless of the facts.

At what point during the Trump document situation did we not know that the archives knew he had classified documents and he wasn’t returning them? That’s what prompted the “raid” and when Trump let the public know what was happening. There was not a single point in time that the publicly available information matched what happened with the President. The situations were never similar or in line.

of course having something where it shouldn't be is "irresponsible". Going 75 in a 65 zone and 95 in a 25 zone are both "speeding". That doesn't mean a person that drives 75 in a 65 zone can't be pissed off at a person who goes 95 in a 25 zone because they also once drove over the speed limit. It's almost like you are trying to both sides stuff.

I started a thing a few months ago where I watch a movie that everybody loves that I have never watched. I started with Shawshank Redemption, which shockingly I never got around to seeing. It got to a point where I would avoid it as a joke, I wanted to be known as the only guy who never saw it. Totally loved it and immediately told my son to watch. Last week I hit up Chinatown. Loved that one as well. Next up is either The Sting or The Verdict.

Yes. It's no mystery that it followed him to Boston. My point is you don't build a bullpen in January. You acquire guys and let it play out in the spring and april and may. Guys surprise you and evolve.

Bullpens happen by accident