pfife Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share Posted October 13, 2021 Is Gruden going to run for office? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motown Bombers Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 Tommy Tuberville is in the senate so why not? Gruden is originally from Ohio. Could challenge Sherrod Brown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfife Posted October 14, 2021 Author Share Posted October 14, 2021 No sir, they will not. They're the based media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 I had forgotten that Vic Tanny Sports was a Sinclair outfit... https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2021/10/13/tigers-red-wings-stick-bally-sports-detroit-ilitches-rsn-plan-dead/8443049002/ Here is hoping that the casino interests are the sleaziest beneficiaries of my Tiger fandom and not Trump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microline133 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 On 10/13/2021 at 2:47 PM, pfife said: I reserve the right to change my mind later and haven't heard anything about this except for the words in that tweet, but in a way I can see it being ok. I think it is common for journos to send subjects of their writing a manuscript and ask for comment. Whether "ask for comment" = "additions, changes, tweaks" is definitely debatable.... but I guess I'm saying I can see a path where this isn't as sketchy as it looks. Is it his way of saying "is this all factually correct?" I'm 99% sure Trump is given the opportunity to consume woodwards manuscripts and whatnot and asked for comment before they go out. I think Michael Wolff said the same him his books too. So maybe is similar to that but his word usage wasn't ideal? Or it's sketch AF, obviously totally possible. I've done that once....a minor league player (may or may not have been a service academy graduate) laid some shit bare when it came to treatment of soldiers in Iraq and the leadership they were receiving. It was all part of a discussion about why he left baseball to deploy to Iraq....I was factual, quoted him honestly, but also knew he had the potential to get in a bunch of trouble from the article. I asked him to review the article and give me his blessing because it was his ass on the line. He made one minor tweak to the article, actually making a two sentence sequence more critical of the situation and was adamant I publish the piece immediately. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 On 10/14/2021 at 5:35 AM, romad1 said: I had forgotten that Vic Tanny Sports was a Sinclair outfit... https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2021/10/13/tigers-red-wings-stick-bally-sports-detroit-ilitches-rsn-plan-dead/8443049002/ Here is hoping that the casino interests are the sleaziest beneficiaries of my Tiger fandom and not Trump. "Vic Tanny". Funny. I still remember Bally as a pinball machine. In fact our euphemism for the numbers match at the end of a game was "bally", as in, "Hey, got a bally! Free game!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 (edited) You gotta see this to believe it. Edited October 20, 2021 by chasfh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigerbomb13 Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 Fox News Mad Libs (pun maybe intended). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 11 minutes ago, chasfh said: "Vic Tanny". Funny. I still remember Bally as a pinball machine. In fact our euphemism for the numbers match at the end of a game was "bally", as in, "Hey, got a bally! Free game!" Thats not a romad original. I think i'll give credit to either Bert or Cowan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Cowan Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 4 hours ago, romad1 said: Thats not a romad original. I think i'll give credit to either Bert or Cowan Not me although we did have a Vic Tanny's in St. Catharines Ontario, right next door to Thorold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 A friend had a membership and roped me to with him because he had a free pass. They cornered me and talked me into a 2 year deal. It was a nice facility, a pool, sauna, etc. with plenty of machines and a track. But then after i paid it off they tried to hit me up with an $84 "Dues" fee. To hell with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, oblong said: A friend had a membership and roped me to with him because he had a free pass. They cornered me and talked me into a 2 year deal. It was a nice facility, a pool, sauna, etc. with plenty of machines and a track. But then after i paid it off they tried to hit me up with an $84 "Dues" fee. To hell with that. I signed up for Vic Tanny (the one on Van Dyke in Warren) in February 1989 because of Cher. No, really. I had made a New Year's resolution to get in shape. A month later I'm sitting on my couch drinking beer and chomping on shelled peanuts. Not a good getting-in-shape regimen. I was flipping through the newspaper and I saw a big ad for Vic Tanny, featuring Cher in her sexy workout togs, pouting at me and intoning, through the headline: "You promised." Stopped me dead in my tracks. She was right. I did promise, and here I am getting fat on peanuts and beer, with shell crumbs falling all over me and the couch. I felt disgusted. Well, that was it. That's all I needed to go to Vic Tanny the very next day and sign right up. Anyhow, as I remember, the deal was I pay a chunk upfront, maybe $200 or so, and if I remember correctly, $72 a year for life. I was making under $20,000 at the time, so this wasn't nothing, but I thought, well, this is an investment in me, in my life, so I'm gonna go for it. Best part is, the deal was transferable to any Bally club in the US, so when I moved to a bunch of different states over the next few years, my membership still applied. And every year, the invoice for $72 would come, and I would pay it. It was great. At least until one year, after I had just moved to Chicago, and I got a bill for $99. I called into customer service to tell them they made a mistake. No they didn't, they replied; the $72 annual deal had a six-year cap on it, and now they were allowed to raise rates as they saw fit. But I was told when I signed up that it was $72 a year for life, and I'm not dead yet. Shrug, they replied, we don't remember telling you anything like that. Of course I had long since misplaced my copy of the contract. D'oh. I kept it anyway because $99 was still a good deal. Then it became $149 the following year. Then $199 after that. Finally it got to $299. Eff this, I thought, I own a house now, so I'm getting my own equipment. Which I am still using to this day. Edited October 20, 2021 by chasfh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 I went maybe 20 times in two years. I got a $30 membership for a month at powerhouse. Went twice. In 2003 we got a membership to our city Rec center. Went a few times here and there when I would be in my latest “I gotta get in shape phase”. My wife started to go regularly once both kids went to school all day. Then she took up running. I got a herniated disc when I was 39 and the PT said it was due to my hamstrings. Then and there I made the call. The pain I went thru was bad and I know not as bad as it could have been. No surgery. I considered that luck. Been doing classes and running ever since. Dropped 30 the right way. I’m not sure I was in this good of shape in HS. I couldn’t run 1/4 mile without feeling like I was having a heart attack. Now I wake up every Sunday and do 7-9 miles and so 3 miles a few other times in the week. And do a kettlebell class once and a boot camp style twice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 I guess the Vic Tanney thing was in the other place which has been replaced by a self-help website for people who have excess cash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 How about newspapers.com! I went in to search for the Cher ad and darned if I didn't find it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 17 minutes ago, chasfh said: How about newspapers.com! I went in to search for the Cher ad and darned if I didn't find it! I remember that David Letterman had a feud with Cher which seems inexplicable now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 That's what can happen when hard-headed people are thrown together into a situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Chers 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Oh Jesus, you can't unsee that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 The body.... isn't.... even... cold.... yet. Christ Almighty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 2 hours ago, mtutiger said: The body.... isn't.... even... cold.... yet. Christ Almighty. Its all about entertainment. SNL has made fun of many serious situations including Cheney shooting his hunting partner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 12 minutes ago, Archie said: Its all about entertainment. Well, so long as you're entertained, that's what's important here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 (edited) 33 minutes ago, Archie said: SNL has made fun of many serious situations including Cheney shooting his hunting partner. I'll take your whataboutism as a signal that you believe it is a-OK to crack jokes about a situation that left a woman dead and a family devastated. Edited October 22, 2021 by mtutiger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 39 minutes ago, Archie said: Its all about entertainment. SNL has made fun of many serious situations including Cheney shooting his hunting partner. the one that didn't die? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 30 minutes ago, mtutiger said: I'll take your whataboutism as a signal that you believe it is a-OK to crack jokes about a situation that left a woman dead and a family devastated. You misunderstand me. I didn't say it was ok. I said they've made fun of serious siuations before because they think its entertainment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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