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15 hours ago, scs787 said:
Happened twice last year. Both times it was after 1st base opened up after a wild pitch/stolen base, just like today.
You sure about that?
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15 hours ago, Big Hurtin said:
I was thinking more of things like these:
https://www.rd.com/list/funny-warning-labels/
You know these labels only exist because someone, somewhere tried it at least once.
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1 minute ago, Tony said:
Man, the 1-2 IBB then to have Muncy hit a 3 run HR might take the cake
Yea, that's absolutely on Tony. I mean the players have to execute but when you intentionally put them in bad spots you can't blame them when they don't.
How many times in the history of ever has a player been IBB on a 1-2 count?
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43 minutes ago, greg775 said:
This is the USA and people aren't dumb.
I beg to differ.
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17 minutes ago, Texsox said:
He's so powerful he's raised them in every country. Worldwide!
One call to Exxon, BP, Shell and we're at $2 a gallon. Why he allows those companies to earn such high profits is crazy.
Yea, I just read that gas in France (I think?) is like $7/gallon right now. But they don't have those little "I did that" stickers all over their pumps.
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12 hours ago, Tony said:
I'm going to ask (what I think) a stupid question but it's one I can't figure out.
I def. lean to the left with my politics, but at least try and understand some of the "crutches" the other side leans on when it comes to abortion, lack of gun control, etc. I disagree with them, but there are always a few talking points that boil down to philosophical differences that make it somewhat hard to argue.
What I simply don't understand is how a normal, everyday citizen can be "anti-electric vehicle" or just "anti-electric" in general. I fully understand why politicians want to protect the oil companies, Trump uses the same stupid line about windmills killing birds which gets a mild laugh from his cronies, but it's not a secret how much we depend on foreign oil and wars are fought over that oil. For a crowd that considers themselves "America First," I just don't understand what even the bullshit argument is for not supporting a hard push for more electric vehicles on the road and not relying so much on foreign oil.
Can someone give me an actual reason what the argument is to keep as many gas guzzlers on the road and just keep dumping fuel into our cars?
The biggest complaint I've heard is the range and the lack of charging stations. So if you want to take a long trip somewhere, there is always the worry that you'll get stuck somewhere with no place to charge the batteries.
Other than that, I've heard worry over the cost of replacing the batteries when the time comes.
I'm also part of an RVing forum and there's a lot of discussion over the actual towing capacities of the electric trucks.
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I'm of the belief that coaches and managers get too much credit when the team is good and too much blame when the team is bad. But that being said, I don't think they are completely useless either. Even at the professional level.
I know from when I played sports myself and having watched my daughter being coached for many years in bowling, sometimes you don't notice what you are doing wrong when you are doing it. Sometimes a good coach can make a small suggestion of something to change or an adjustment to make and it can make a big difference. I've also seen coaches that don't do anything at all and their players never improve.
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That's such a Dr. Seuss name.
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This is actually a pretty good video that explains why gas prices are what they are and why the guy sitting in the oval office has very little control over them despite what many seem to believe.
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1 hour ago, The Grinder said:
Like my cub loving friend once said "I just hope they win ONE world series in my liftetime then they can go back to sucking" well he got his wish
I absolutely wouldn't give up 2005 for anything but it's almost like... Come on guys. You figured it out once. Plenty of other teams have done it. Figure it out again.
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On 6/5/2022 at 12:02 PM, flavum said:
Start scoring runs and winning games.
You know... that's a pretty crazy idea... but it just might work!
I've been looking at stats and I've discovered that teams that score more runs than their opponents tend to win more games. I think the Sox should employ this strategy as well.
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21 hours ago, FoxForce2 said:
Around the country, the Sox were considered something of a fluke. They weren't, but that was a general impression.
They absolutely were. They hadn't won a post-season series in the 88 years prior and haven't won another one since then,
I mean it was fun as hell at the time and I'll never forget it but that's kinda the definition of a fluke.
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15 minutes ago, Texsox said:
I would not trust most teachers to carry on campus.
Thinking back to many of the teachers I had over the years, I agree.
I think there are probably a lot that wouldn't even want to either.
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3 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:
That's kinda interesting. I know some people put a lot of stock into this "stat" but the Yankees, Twins and Padres are showing that it doesn't really matter.
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I'm not sure losing games in May to division rivals to make sure players are healthy in October is the best plan.
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On 4/30/2022 at 4:54 PM, greg775 said:
I was in Chicago in March for five nights and stayed at the hampton inn theatre district by the chicago theatre by the palmer house. I'm surprised I was not in total fear of getting mugged, etc. I even walked alone down there a few nights. It actually wasn't that crowded down there plus it was that weekend where it was cold, cold cold and very very windy. I can honestly say my only emotion was "cold," Fear never gripped me this trip.
Seems like there should be some sort of lesson learned here...
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14 hours ago, greg775 said:
I hear you about umping. Your plate is already full. I wonder if our LL just made sure the coaches who had to ump games made sure if they couldn't do it, they'd get some other adult to fill in for them. Not sure. ... I was thinking about this even before reading your post. Bak in the day, I can think of only one of our LL and Babe Ruth teams that had a dad of a kid coach his kid's team. I realize the past many years parents almost exclusively coach teams with their own kid or kids on it. That's fine. I'm not blasting you. You obviously from your posts are a stellar individual. It's just curious back in the day at least on the south side coaches rarely if ever had a kid on their own team. I can remmeber one team, the Larks, had a dad/son combo of coach/player and u know how kids are, that poor kid got teased a lot. Times have changed.
I do think in your instance it'd be too much if you had to ump two nights a week in addition to all your coaching duties. But perhaps you could make sure a representative of your team umped. Hassle, for sure.
I think parents who have a clue such as yourself should be welcome to coach their own kids' teams, but I can also see the value of way back when having parents involved NOT AT ALL. I tell u, it made for a stellar childhood. I remember my team, the Bears, made the Mt.Greenwood world series and my dad got wind of it, maybe I told him (dads didn't talk to kids much back then) and wanted to go to our "World Series" Game One. We lost a low scoring well played game and I remember driving home my dad the grump said, 'You played a good game (at 3B). That was a good game." Of course it wasn't good nuff for him to come to Game Two of the three game set the next night, LOL. I don't even know if he asked me if we tied up the series at 1-1. We didn't. Lost 2-0 in best of 3.
You must be older than me. When I played, every single team I was on or played against had a dad (or in at least one instance a mom) coaching and their son was on their team. I went through 3 coaches myself. When the son decided he didn't want to play anymore, another dad would step up and take the duties. My final 3 or 4 years I had my own dad coaching. This was in the 80's thru the early 90's.
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Funny enough this came up in my recommended videos on Youtube. I guess I've always sort of known this. When people ask me how I learn I've always said it kinds depends on what I'm trying to learn.
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On 4/8/2022 at 5:57 PM, greg775 said:
Our education in high school and college consisted of memorizing everything imaginable so you could pass or ace tests and forget everything a few week after the memorization. There was little "learning," just figure out rote memorization was the best way to an A. ... I'm not talking about math (algebra, geometry, physics, etc.) classes however. Those for us dummies was somehow getting a passing grade despite having no mathematical ability and just taking the bare minimum math/science classes as required by a liberal arts type major. ... We never had teachers address stuff that would have been nice to know like how to invest, how to buy a house, how to fix a car, how to cook, some of the things u've mentioned.
I find it hard to believe most HS don't have consumer education classes (where you learn how to invest and buy a hose) auto shop classes (where you learn how to fix a car) or home economics classes (where you learn how to cook).
Mine had all 3.
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On 4/8/2022 at 10:40 PM, greg775 said:
I pray the shortages don't empty the shelves. I'm not that resourceful in terms of standing in long lines for food and/or surviving after being spoiled so many years.
On 4/9/2022 at 9:47 AM, greg775 said:I have to imagine that this the image that Greg got in his head as soon as he read these articles.
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21 hours ago, Texsox said:
We were looking at that on one of the RV forums and several of the posters called b.s. because too many cameras are all filming. Seemed staged.
Hard to believe the restaurant would agree to something like that.
Here's the trailer afterwards:
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This guy really, really wanted a Blizzard.
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4 minutes ago, Chisoxfn said:
I think Joe is only gone starting this next season right (so he was in all of them so far but than the first season without Joe starts this summer)? But yeah - pretty much every night I've watched whatever ones I randomly one (all seasons) and my wife and I are literally in tears laughing. Sometimes its at the bit sometimes its at the friends cracking up hard at their buddy - but the chemistry of the guys is just stellar.
They played the first episode without Joe last night. They had Eric Andre in as a special guest but only for the final punishment. I figured they would just have a different celebrity come in for every episode so they always have 4 guys but apparently not.
The episodes with Joey Fatone are really good too.
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59 minutes ago, Chisoxfn said:
I had never seen impractical jokers until I stumbled on it following an NCAA game. That show is hillarious.
How this that possible? They've been on for years and play marathons of the show pretty much daily on TBS.
Also, watch the old episodes when Joe was still with them. They are indeed hilarious.
Sorry to Soxtalk.
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