SinceThe70s

Yeah, hats off to whoever came up with the idea to honor #41 that way. Hopefully they'll have his statue ready for opening day next year (https://nypost.com/2020/09/03/mets-plan-to-unveil-tom-seaver-statue-for-2021-season/) And totally agreed on his dementia. I was probably more saddened by the announcement that he was stepping away from his public life due to dementia than I was by news of his passing.

West bound ride through Texas The sun here really burns Open up and try and beat the heat It still don't do much good Kick back and endure it, a 100 miles ta go Take a break, get some shade Before we start up again 117 degrees, 117 117, so I'm told I don't know

Mets players pay tribute to Seaver today with dirty right knees. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29804025/mets-honor-tom-seaver-iconic-drop-drive-delivery-dirty-knees

Right now on the front page of newsday.com the two headlines are almost side by side: SUNY Oneonta cancels in-person classes this fall Superintendents say their schools are safe to reopen I'll remain hopeful that local schools will have more success managing K-12 than colleges have, but I'll be surprised if K-12 aren't all back home by October.

Congrats. Not sure how it went behind the scenes, but from the outside it was seamless.

Just saw a headline that Tom Seaver passed away. Far and away the greatest Met of all time. I was fortunate enough to see him pitch live a few times in his prime and countless times on TV. RIP.

I need a lover that won't drive me crazySome girl that knows the meaning of, ah-Hey hit the highway!

I'm with either of those - and in particular I try my best to abide by the first - but some would perceive that dudes is inclusive. Horrors.

As a Mets fan I'm equal parts cynical and optimistic: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29762854/alex-rodriguez-group-withdraws-mets-offer-amid-report-steve-cohen-finalizing-deal

Someone else posted this in a similar thread. It's amazing a song written in 1965 is still relevant in 2020

Hope you and Shirls are maintaining proper social distance from your son, his sons and theirs. At your age you can't be too careful. And don't even think of getting close to Spags and his Covid-carrying Jersey Shore crew.

Brodie gets caught blasting Manfred and then backtracks and puts it on Jeff Wilpon. Maybe we won't have to wait until the sale to be rid of him. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29755297/brodie-van-wagenen-critical-rob-manfred-walkout-proposal-just-get-it

Upgrades/migrations suck. Good luck.

LOL, I was just about to post This Is The End. I think a subliminal synapse fired when I saw your Apocalypse post so I went looking for a youtube link and when I came back to post the another synapse fired reminding me that the opening scene of Apocalypse was This Is The End. Anyway, nice call.

I'm more interested in the sale of the team than the results on the field right now. My assumption is Brodie wouldn't survive a transfer of ownership.

It blowed up good, it blowed up real good. Reminds me of the story of a dead whale being transported through the streets of Taiwan that spontaneously combusted. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1078252/sperm-whale-exploded-in-street-taiwan

We recently got rid of a large entertainment center. It was probably 6 feet tall and too much for me and the family to move. Had a furniture delivery and threw the guys a few bucks to take it to the street. It was gone within an two hours - and I don't live on a busy street.

I'm a fool to do your dirty work Oh yeah

My mama told me, "You better shop around"

For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know Stiffened wounds test there their pride

Oo ee oo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang

1) Not sure, schedules haven't come out yet. The student body was split A-K, L-Z to keep siblings on the same daily schedule but it's a legit concern that they can't limit the interactions beyond that. The plexiglas attempts to mitigate that. Wearing masks in class came afterwards as an added precaution 2) #1 is there's half the number of students. Past that, they are supposed to wear face masks all day. Original plan was face masks when you're moving, no face masks in the classroom - but they backed off on that now it's facemasks all day - question is how well it will be enforced. There will be traffic patterns set up in the odd-shaped building and teachers monitoring traffic. To be honest, I think that's a joke and I'm putting my money on my kids in masks (and yeah I get the mask is for you not me - but personally I think it helps mitigate the risk )

I'm interested in thoughts on best practices for school re-opening. I live on Long Island with two high schoolers. At a high level, our school district is doing the following. They delayed opening by three days to September 10, so still time for refactoring. Half the kids are going Monday/Thursday, the other half Tuesday/Friday, Wednesday is a full online day with normal periods/teachers but also an overflow day when here's a holiday (i.e - Columbus Day). The other remote days are asynchronous learning. Every desk will have a plexiglas barrier in the front and on the right. Face masks are required all day (except lunch which will be social distanced). A lot more detail to the plan, but that's what stuck out for me. We're sending our kids, but we opted out of the bus. Wifey and I are fortunate enough to take on that burden since we'll be working from home for the foreseeable future. I think around 10-15% of parents are opting for 100% remote learning. By contrast my company had less than 10% willing to return to the office for less than 5 days/week and the stipulation we had to wear face masks all day.