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29 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
just absurd. In the same vein, I hate these Thursday (and now Friday!) games, plus the double header MNF games. The oversaturation dilutes the value of the product.Not even Christmas is sacred any longer. From 72 through 88, due to the "longest game ever" between the Chiefs and Dolphins messing up a lot of Christmas dinners, the NFL totally avoided games on Christmas. As an aside, in spite of game going 5-1/2 quarters, the actual run time was just over 3 hours 20 minutes. And the clock stopped on every out of bounds and incomplete pass. Commercials ran when there was a break in the action, they didn't break the action to run commercials. From 1989 to 2019, there were games on Christmas if it fell on Saturday, Sunday, or Monday. Since 2020, Christmas day games are the norm.
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33 minutes ago, Augie said:
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m still pretty hot under the collar about our 4th round pick in 2011. I am almoooost so done with this team!
So we had two 4th round picks in 2011. Are you upset about Hairston or Searcy? Both had decent careers for 4th rounders. Maybe it's this year's first round pick of the same last name as Hairston that has you so upset?
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Hated the Cardinals and by extension their ace Bob Gibson growing up. Or maybe it was Bob Gibson I hated and by extension the Cardinals. No matter, as the years passed I gained a whole new respect for the man. Best story I ever heard was the the second last batter he ever faced, Pete LaCock hit a grand slam off him. Gibson retired the next batter and never pitched again. 10 years later, in an old timers game, Gibson was in the dugout when LaCock came to the plate. Gibson ran to the mound and started warming up, telling Bob Feller to take a seat. He drills LaCock with the first pitch and shouts that he's been waiting 10 years to do that. The two went on to be Cardinals coaches at the same time, and never spoke a word to each other.
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On 8/18/2025 at 1:03 AM, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
very cool! Neat timing— I just went whale watching in Alaska and got to see over a dozen humpbacks!Don't suppose you have any pictures you can post here?
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24 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
You: we could have used our military might and rallied our allies
Me: wasn’t that the responsibility of whoever was running the last administration?
You: John Prine
Sigh
I beg of you, for the sake of all that's holy, please confine the mentioning of John Prine to music threads!
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68, outside of a few years in college and a year in Austin I've spent my entire life in the suburb of Irondequoit. Front yard is the Northern border of the United States. As Teef says, outside of sporting or cultural events it's best to avoid the city... I drive 20 miles around it rather than 4 miles through it. A friend was talking to a cop parked outside a Walmart last week. Cop said Walmart pays him to be there. If a thief is 17 or under he can't detain them, can just relieve him of the stolen merchandise and release him. This Walmart is at the southern end or Irondequoit near the city border. If I need to go to Walmart I go to Webster. They say life is worth living there.
As OB says, Rochester is a great minor league sports town. Red Wings, Amerks, and Nighthawks are all mainstays. Soccer is sporadic, every few years a team appears for a while.
No shortage of neighborhood bars if that's your thing.
As BP12 says, we're also a great golf town. $475 will get you a season pass to all 3 county run courses. Also a good mix of semi-private and private clubs.
Fairport has the best utility rates as the municipality runs their own electric. They claim Fairport Electric uses no tax money, not sure if that's true or advanced bookkeeping.
Where in Ma do you currently live? My brother runs the O family farm in South Hadley (outside Holyoke, a little South of Hadley.)
Anyways sorry about the breakup, good luck wherever you end up.
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3 hours ago, Chandler#81 said:
In essence, it’s the training regiments players employ to be their fittest in the offseason. It’s to a level that that exceeds the understood limit of human development where soft tissue injuries WILL happen to those ‘skill player’ types vs the big fellas up front. Every team is dealing with it. A tad too much science in the diet.
Looks like Doug Whaley was right
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3 hours ago, Buffalo Boy said:
Bruce Smith
He and Reggie
SmithWhite were 1 and 1 a of ends you didn’t want to see staring at you as a QBFixed now
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1 hour ago, oldmanfan said:
Bruce
I guess 1997 and 2009 drunk driving convictions can be considered more mature than a 1988 cocaine suspension.
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1975, Freshman year in college, someone asked the philosophy professor if he required papers to be typed. His answer stuck with me. Said you're in college now. For the rest of your life everything you do has your name on it. My expectation is that you're proud of your work. So no, I do not require papers to be typed. I simply expect that they will be.
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6 hours ago, dcinmuncie said:
don't do it
the last two times i was looking forward to a celebrity 100th birthday was bob barker and betty white
both came up just short
My last two were Mom and Dad. Both made it.
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Lost interest in a couple preseason games. Gave up on a couple regular season games. But always look forward to every game regardless of how meaningless they might be.
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Arrested for DUI in West Virginia? Thought it was illegal to drive sober in West Virginia.
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27 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
sure, there was no dancing on graves by maga's or blaming Biden when Helene decimated Asheville. despicable.
My brother and SIL live in Asheville. He's a centrist democrat, his wife makes AOC look like a conservative. Both of them admit more was done to clean up Asheville in the week following Trump's visit than in the 3 months following the Biden/Harris visit.
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On 6/14/2025 at 11:24 PM, Big Blitz said:
There isn't much that could get me to stay seated during the national anthem, not sure if this would or not. Fortunately I didn't have to make the choice.
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45 minutes ago, CookieG said:
As a blues enthusiast I've certainly had a number of sad songs in my favorites mix.
But this song I'm posting...ugh. Its not blues, its not really country either, but it has personal sentiments to me.
If you want the backstory, fine, here it is.
I've mentioned on here before, I lost my soulmate to cancer 5 1/2 years ago. Before she died, she wanted a celebration of life instead of a funeral.
One day, she gave me a list of about 5 or 6 songs to put on a mix to play at the COL. This song was on the list.
I knew the singer, but had never heard of the song. Joey Feek died of cancer a few years after recording this song.
I looked at the title and said to my wife, "you must really hate me, you don't think I'll be grieving enough without hearing that song?"
She said, "fine", crossed it off the list and added another.
And yes, I put in in the mix. When it played at her COL, the person I was talking to at the time, I asked that it person to talk a little louder so I didn't hear it.
It took me a year to be able to listen to it in its entirety. 5 + years later, I still can't hear it without shedding a tear or two.
So yeah, there it is.
Pretty hard to get happy after your story and this song. So sorry for your loss. This was my choice before listening to yours, never had heard it.
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14 hours ago, buffaloboyinATL said:
I’m an excellent driver.
Any tips? I'm excellent chipper and putter, but struggle off the tee.
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On 6/20/2025 at 8:33 AM, LewPort71 said:
I was dragged to see The Devil Wears Prada by wife and MIL. 2 hours later I was glad I went as I really enjoyed the movie.
and Mrs. Lew bought the popcorn.
Meh, I'd rather have the 2 hours back. But that's me. You do you.
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2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
Yea he played a playoff game for the Texans didn't he?
He had a summer here but I don't think he was ever on the roster during a season.
Correct on both counts. Won a playoff game against the Bengals in 2012. Placed on IR just before the season opener in 2017, released after reaching an injury settlement a week later.
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Ordinary People
Shawshank Redemption
Field of Dreams
Pulp Fiction
My Cousin VinnyGood Will HuntingEdit: No one mentioned Good Will Hunting, so I replaced My Cousin Vinny with it. Both are great.
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19 hours ago, Augie said:
Golf is more between the ears than on the club face. Everybody is up and down, that is the nature of the game and it always has been.
The new driver clearly is contributing to his recent struggles. Missing everything to the right. He'll be free all weekend to work things out, maybe try a few different drivers.
20 hours ago, Special K said:After the first round +1, 10 shots off the lead, tied for 119th place.........someone check if @Steve O is OK.🙂
His driver was not tested Masters' week, but it did pass in March. A third of the field is tested each week. Results are supposed to be confidential, he refused interviews PGA week because the press leaked confidential information. I'll make room for the possibility that missing the Memorial had more to do with letting things die down than not wanting to play 3 weeks in a row. What I won't make room for is your suggestion that he was suspended. This was a ticket for gong 42 in a 35, not 100.
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Charles Romes. 9 year starter at corner, 4th in team career interceptions. Not bad for a 12th rounder. Don't think his post NFL life has gone so well.
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On 5/31/2025 at 10:13 PM, EmotionallyUnstable said:
Never been to one so I don’t think I get a vote
Who cares? wasn't an option so I didn't vote either.
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21 hours ago, Special K said:
Is this a low-key suspension by the PGA Tour??
Just a little more "smoke" that gives my theory that his illegal driver was more than from "regular use" a little more juice.
I remember a few years back when Dustin Johnson "announced" that he was going to take a six month break from the Tour to recharge himself, and the PGA went along with it until it leaked that he was actually suspended for six months for failing two drug tests showing Cocaine use.
Whenever Rory does come back, if he is not playing as lights out as he was before this situation, you really have to start to wonder....
re Is this a low-key suspension by the PGA Tour?? - No. He likes to play the week before majors, he doesn't like to play 3 weeks in a row. He's playing at the Canadian Open next week.
re Just a little more "smoke" that gives my theory that his illegal driver was more than from "regular use" a little more juice. - It really doesn't.
re I remember a few years back when Dustin Johnson "announced" that he was going to take a six month break from the Tour to recharge himself, and the PGA went along with it until it leaked that he was actually suspended for six months for failing two drug tests showing Cocaine use. - I stand corrected. There you have it. Must be a one week suspension for Rory, nothing to do with his not wanting to play 3 weeks in a row.
re Whenever Rory does come back, if he is not playing as lights out as he was before this situation, you really have to start to wonder.... - Sounds like you've already made up your mind.
RIP Ken Dryden
in Off the Wall
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Kind of sucks when our childhood heroes turn out to be jerks.