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Joe Falls also said a groundskeeper paced it off at 420. You would think that would break some kind of MLB role, no?

That’s a great way to put it.

I thougth Swaggert was already dead. There's a funny history when SNL began parodying Bakker and Swaggert and introducing the Church Lady. They actually started doing sketches before Bakker and Swaggert's scandals. Initially many of the NY based writers on the show didn't get the humor and didn't think it would sell but Jan Hooks was from the south and was very familair with the religious TV programming that went on down there. So they tried it then the scandal hit and mainstream america was introduced in mass scale the scamming that went on with TV preachers. The Church Lady was the first sketch put on SNL when the "new" cast started in Lorne's second year back, after the disaster of the previous year which had people like Downey Jr, Anthony Michael Hall, etc. on the cast. It was a last minute decision to start with Church Lady but it set the stage for that group and made a good first impression.

a cult. Members of cults will die for their leader.

that came across my feed last night and I watched.

yeah that area so desolate. Even before the Bridge. You'd have city blocks with a single house in the middle of nowhere. I like to look at cities like Wyandotte and imagine that's what a place like Delray used to look like in the 20s-50s. When I need to get out and go for a drive I often go down that way.

I'm at the point where it's easy to predict who will like and not like certain things about baseball. And I find myself rejecting what my age group peers feel. Like the City Connect jersesy. At first I was resisting them. But now I like them and appreciate their impact on the youth. I see the hats everywhere. It doesn't hurt anybody if they don't wear tehir home whites every single game. And besides once they changed the D on the jersey then the tradition went out the window anyway. Just seems like in my feed the people who rant against Benetti the most are old white guys who hate any change and also lament they "got rid of the real stats, like RBI and AVG"

Until this I had forgotten about Rhonda. Wasn’t it like 2.5 years ago he was assumed to be the next president?

Grabbed this off a Detroit Photo FB group. Went up on 75 today.

Here it is if you want to listen to it. Leave it to a comedian to summarize so well. This should be our newscasters. A Cronkite. The first 6 minutes or so.

Bill Burr opened his podcast on Thursday with a rant that even for him was harsh. Basically with all the **** going on in the country... why this? We're going after "little people". Laborers. The people who pick our food and build our stuff. Who are they hurting? Isn't there other problems that could be addressed? What happens now when all these people are gone? Nobody objects to going after criminals. I don't mean the "they are here illegally so they are by default criminal" people. Yes the gangsters and rapists, etc. But the guy who builds fences and puts on roofs and picks cucumbers and paves our roads? The lady working in a diner for 25 years? The kid graduating high school? It's not about fighting crime it's about being cruel to brown people.

a friend and I have a running gag, going back over 20 years, of taking events and talking about them in an out of context but factual way. Like for 9/11 "Traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge was heavier than normal today due to an incident requiring response from multiple fire houses" "Colin Powell, the first Jamaican Secretary of State, died today..."

I wouldnt have my hopes up but I'm glad Rick Moranis is involved. He's a legend and his story is great.

There is a train of thought that the reason a baby cries when being born is because they realize they are forgetting everything and everyone they knew in their previous life. Kind of haunting.... Personally I like the meme that says "Screw that, I'm not going thru all of this again." Seriously... I'm gonna have to sit through more school days if reincarnation is a thing?

This was in Chicago.

I didn’t go to the one here in Dearborn because the locals are turning it into a Gaza /anti Zionist rally so I want no part of that.

Does Cora read scouting reports? You’d think it would be an important part of the job.

They both died.

I liked Hawk too. His audience was Sox fans. His voice was similar to George Kells.

And she’s at the game now. Still there.

My first date with my wife was a Tiger game in September 1990. I was 16 and she was 17. It rained and we cuddled in the bleachers under the scoreboard that had a bit of cover. I figured if she can’t handle that then what’s the point.

This rain was supposed to be south of us. All day it said that. Wife is there tonight with a friend.

I guess I'm confused as to what we expect from a TV play by play guy? We can all see what is going on. I want to be entertained a little bit. I like the concept of watching "with" someone. Like MST3K in a smaller sense.

yes. The game has changed and the Democrats need to adjust to that change. The problem they face though is the hard left will not fall in line so what the D's gain the center or whatever is lost on the left.

This clip leaves out a good part after this... Hamilton says something like "You'd do well sir to remember how you became President... by 3 votes"