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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Sunday Open Thread: The Boss and The President

Sunday Open Thread: The Boss and The President

by TaMara|  July 24, 202212:07 pm| 99 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Something Good

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I have yet to listen to their podcast, I keep meaning to, but life gets in the way.  I have a long trip next week, maybe I’ll download it.

As a lifelong suffering (really BoSox…28-5?) Red Sox fan, today’s induction of Big Papi is thrilling. This story, on the other, long overdue inductees, is even better.

If you’re on Twitter, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and Bob Kendrick are great follows, full of history and hope, and baseball, so much baseball! Love me some baseball (winding back to Barack and Bruce, it’s all about time with my dad).

We’ve always known it, but now it’s official.

Buck O’Neil is Forever Legendary.

Congrats to our late Chairman John Jordan Buck O’Neil on his well-deserved and long overdue induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame! pic.twitter.com/CU8qFHLJu3

— Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (@NLBMuseumKC) December 5, 2021

Great clip from our friends at @CBSSunday as part of a feature on Buck O’Neil’s induction into the @baseballhall. @NLBMuseumKC @vgregorian @VisitKC @JPosnanski @QuintonLucasKC @KansasCity @Royals @KCTV5 @CBSSports pic.twitter.com/GlCbaVdA5C

— Bob Kendrick (@nlbmprez) July 24, 2022

This is…an open thread.

 

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  1. 1.

    Doug R

    July 24, 2022 at 12:12 pm

    28-5…nowhere the Soxs to go but up!

  2. 2.

    Dangerman

    July 24, 2022 at 12:19 pm

    I’m old enough to remember Bucky Dent. Bucky Fucking Dent. He in the Hall of Fame yet?

  3. 3.

    Nelle

    July 24, 2022 at 12:22 pm

    I’m not a sports fan but am the mother of one.  My son insisted on taking me to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City (https://www.nlbm.com/ ).  I found it one of the best museum visits ever.  The website is good, if you can’t get to Kansas City.  (That’s where I learned about the game between one of the teams and the KKK in my hometown of Wichita.)

  4. 4.

    Mike in NC

    July 24, 2022 at 12:24 pm

    Last night we caught a bit of news about somebody selling Springsteen tickets for as much as $5000 apiece.

  5. 5.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 24, 2022 at 12:31 pm

    The Obama/Springsteen clip was great

  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    July 24, 2022 at 12:33 pm

    I listened to their podcast once, but it didn’t grab me the way I thought it would.  Maybe I need to give it another shot!

  7. 7.

    Dangerman

    July 24, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    @Mike in NC: Ticketmaster and Dynamic Pricing.

  8. 8.

    Honus

    July 24, 2022 at 12:44 pm

    Of course the Red Sox never would have signed or let Buck O’Niel take the field. The Boston Red Sox were the last major league team to integrate, holding out until 1959, a few months after the Detroit Tigers.

  9. 9.

    Cmorenc

    July 24, 2022 at 12:47 pm

    While I am not a baseball fan (game is frankly too slow to hold my interest) nevertheless IMHO the US would have a much better culture if baseball was still the prime national sports pastime rather than pointy variety football (everywhere else in the world, “football” is presumptively soccer unless otherwise qualified).

  10. 10.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    July 24, 2022 at 1:03 pm

    When the media likes you steroids is not an issue.  Right, big papi?

  11. 11.

    H.E.Wolf

    July 24, 2022 at 1:13 pm

    @Honus: Buck O’Neil was the reason I watched the Ken Burns baseball documentary. (You were in it too, as I recall!)

    Link is to a few of Buck O’Neil’s stories from the documentary. Most are humorous and I enjoy them, but the one that has always stayed with me is the “Drum Island” clip, which recounts Buck and Satchel’s visit to a site in South Carolina where slaves had been auctioned.

    https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/unum/playlist/satchel-paige#satchel-paige

  12. 12.

    raven

    July 24, 2022 at 1:14 pm

    @Cmorenc: Oh really? I never knew that! /s

  13. 13.

    NutmegAgain

    July 24, 2022 at 1:18 pm

    Springsteen looks really ill. Is that just my imagination?

    (have not watched clip yet–because being American means I can comment with zero information, right? //s Also have the news on …)

  14. 14.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 24, 2022 at 1:27 pm

    @NutmegAgain: Don’t you be ragging on Bruce!

  15. 15.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 24, 2022 at 1:27 pm

    More Buck:

    Long overdue HOF induction for Buck O’Neil. Today is his day. No better man in baseball. Listen

  16. 16.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 24, 2022 at 1:28 pm

    @Cmorenc: AFL football, aka “footie” is pretty entertaining.

  17. 17.

    Steeplejack

    July 24, 2022 at 1:29 pm

    I am being badgered about listening to a certain podcast, so I’m looking for recommendations on pod-listening apps. Win10 and/​or Android. Thanks in advance.

  18. 18.

    Emma from Miami

    July 24, 2022 at 1:30 pm

    First thing that crossed my mind when I saw this story: “what the hell do you mean Buck O.Neill’s not in the Hall of Fame already?!”

    Sometimes I think I’m naive.

  19. 19.

    BlueGuitarist

    July 24, 2022 at 1:34 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Re The Wire

    you might find Alan Sepinwall’s episode by episode analysis, and reader comments, interesting. There are separate ones for each episode labeled as for newbies to avoid spoilers:


    https://uproxx.com/sepinwall/the-wire-links-for-reviews-to-every-episode/

  20. 20.

    ArchTeryx

    July 24, 2022 at 1:36 pm

    Nothing will compare to the sheer madness of Gaelic football, the unholy love child of rugby and soccer, and played strictly as amateurs in Ireland.

  21. 21.

    TaMara

    July 24, 2022 at 1:37 pm

    Love how you guys seem to relish taking two positive stories and turn an entire post into a cynical whine fest.

    Honest to fucking god, why do I even bother.  I’ll leave you to wallow in your negativity.

  22. 22.

    opiejeanne

    July 24, 2022 at 1:40 pm

    Regarding Buck O’Neill, it’s about damned time.

    We visited the Negro Leagues Museum in KC in the summer of 2019 and were glad we did. So much history and so well-presented.

  23. 23.

    trollhattan

    July 24, 2022 at 1:41 pm

    @TaMara: It’s “Being hit on the head lessons” here, “Arguments” is down the hall. :-)

  24. 24.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 24, 2022 at 1:47 pm

    @TaMara: I’ve read through this short thread three times and have no idea what you’re reacting to

  25. 25.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 24, 2022 at 1:49 pm

    Also, L. Louise Lucas need to be elevated to a national stage, she’s the single best communicator Democrats have.

    Many are asking what I have planned for Youngkin’s abortion bills this session. I shared my plans with the Goochland and Powhatan Democrats last night- let me know what you think!

  26. 26.

    no comment

    July 24, 2022 at 1:57 pm

    @Steeplejack: I’ve been using Stitcher (free with ads version; haven’t tried Stitcher Premium). I downloaded Spotify (free version again) a few years ago when one of my favorite podcasts moved there. I liked that Spotify had music as well, but I didn’t think the podcast function was as user friendly as Stitcher. Only used Spotify once since the Joe Rogan thing, but haven’t deleted the app from my phone

    Edited to add: I have a Samsung (Android) phone

  27. 27.

    Geminid

    July 24, 2022 at 2:05 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: Senator Lucas is great! Her Twitter account can be hilarious. She toys with Glenn Youngkin like a cat plays with a mouse.

    Democrats have been able to stymie Youngkin because Lucas leads a 21 seat majority in the state Senate. Next year’s General Assembly elections will be crucial. All 100 House of Delegates seats and all 40 Senate seats will be at stake.

    This election will be on a new, more neutral map. Republicans thought they locked up the General Assembly with a gerrymander in 2011, but they lost their majority in the 2019 election. They narrowly won back a two seat edge in the House last year, but Lucas’s “Brick Wall” in the Senate has stood firm.

  28. 28.

    Persistentillusion

    July 24, 2022 at 2:07 pm

    • @Steeplejack: stitcher is my fav.
  29. 29.

    Steeplejack

    July 24, 2022 at 2:17 pm

    @no comment, @Persistentillusion:

    Thanks! I don’t know much about the podcast zone—I am really visually oriented and much prefer reading to listening—but there are one or two that I am mildly interested in, enough to give it a go. Plus the nagging (for Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway’s “Pivot”).

    My main question relates to how “accessible” podcasts are. Are they platform-specific, or can you listen to them with any app? (I presume it’s some combination of the two.)

  30. 30.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 24, 2022 at 2:17 pm

    @ArchTeryx:

    Nothing will compare to the sheer madness of Gaelic football, the unholy love child of rugby and soccer, and played strictly as amateurs in Ireland. 

    That sounds like pure madness.

  31. 31.

    Cmorenc

    July 24, 2022 at 2:21 pm

    @raven: it took me over half of my adult life before i realized that “football” in most of the world presumptively means something quite different from what most folks in the US presume by default.

    As to baseball – i am old enough (73) to recall when baseball was still by far the national pastime and like most male kids of my generation, i was an ardent fan of baseball with a huge baseball card collection that had some now-valuable cards.  Alas, part of the reason these now-vintage cards are so valuable is because the mom of the vast majority of kid-owners of baseball card collections tossed them out as clutter without asking while they were away somewhere in their teens or early 20s.  And so with my mom.

    i did get to see Ted Williams play live at Boston’s Fenway Park at the very end of his career when i was about 8 or so years old – i treasure that privilige even though i later grew out of being more than a very casual, occasional fan with preferences for other sports.

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack

    July 24, 2022 at 2:23 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    “There’s a dog on the pitch!”

  33. 33.

    eclare

    July 24, 2022 at 2:25 pm

    @BlueGuitarist:   Those reviews look interesting!  And I have watched it through three times, so I’ll be reading the reviews with spoilers.  Great idea for two sets of reviews, one with spoilers and one without.

  34. 34.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 24, 2022 at 2:29 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Oddly enough, Kerry defeated Galway earlier today in the GAA Final. Kerry’s 38th title win.

  35. 35.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 24, 2022 at 2:33 pm

    @Steeplejack: That was insane even without a dog running around.  (I love how they didn’t stop playing.)

  36. 36.

    LeftCoastYankee

    July 24, 2022 at 2:36 pm

    @ArchTeryx:

    That other Irish sporting pastime, Curling, would be in the discussion.

    Sort of an insane hybrid of lacrosse ball, passed through the air with field hockey sticks, and rugby scoring rules (I think… I couldn’t tell).

    Saw a game in person in Boston once.  Player comes off the pitch, grabs a big jug of water, pours it over his head, and his white shirt turns very pink with watery blood.  Dropped the jug and ran right back in.

  37. 37.

    trollhattan

    July 24, 2022 at 2:38 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: ​Footy–Australian Rules Football may be similar. Utter chaos and to add intrigue, played on an oval field.

    Sam Kerr, the best striker the other-other football world has ever seen, played footy as a girl until she hit an age she was no longer allowed on the boys pitch, so switched sports. Her ability to score a dozen different ways from basically anywhere has no precedent in the women’s game.

    The Seahawks punter, Michael Dickson, came from footy. He, too, can do things with a football the league has never witnessed.

  38. 38.

    Dangerman

    July 24, 2022 at 2:42 pm

    @Emma from Miami: Me, too. I woulda bet the farm I don’t have on that one.

  39. 39.

    trollhattan

    July 24, 2022 at 2:43 pm

    @Steeplejack: Contest over–the bestest sports video ever.

    That JRT certainly knew what a ball is for.

  40. 40.

    Amir Khalid

    July 24, 2022 at 2:44 pm

    @NutmegAgain:

    As far as anyone knows, Bruce is healthy. To me, he looks in pretty good shape for 72. He’ll be touring with The E Street Band next year.

  41. 41.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 24, 2022 at 2:46 pm

    @LeftCoastYankee:

    Hurling.

  42. 42.

    trollhattan

    July 24, 2022 at 2:47 pm

    If chess is sport then Russia has found a way add injury to the intrigue.

    A robot broke a seven-year-old boy’s finger during a chess match in Moscow last week, Russian news outlets report.

    “The robot broke the child’s finger,” Sergey Lazarev, Moscow Chess Federation President, told Tass news agency. “This is of course bad.”

    A video shared on social media shows the robot taking one of the boy’s pieces. The boy then makes his own move, and the robot grabs his finger. Four adults rush to help the boy, who is eventually freed and ushered away.

    Mr Lazarev said the machine had played many previous matches without incident. The boy was able to finish the final days of the tournament in a cast, Tass reports.

  43. 43.

    no comment

    July 24, 2022 at 2:48 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    My main question relates to how “accessible” podcasts are. Are they platform-specific, or can you listen to them with any app? (I presume it’s some combination of the two.)

    Some combination. Many podcasts are on several platforms/apps. Others are exclusive to one app. Still others are only available on the premium (paid) version of one app. It really depends on the podcast. You could probably look online first & find out where to listen.

    ETA: Looks like “Pivot” is available on the free version of Stitcher.

  44. 44.

    trollhattan

    July 24, 2022 at 2:52 pm

    Infrared video of the Oak Fire outside Yosemite. Have not seen one before–looks like a very powerful tool for the firefight.

  45. 45.

    LeftCoastYankee

    July 24, 2022 at 2:52 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: ​
     

    Oops! My brain and fingers didn’t meet up on that one.

    Hurling is crazy Irish fun. Curling is none of those.

  46. 46.

    marklar

    July 24, 2022 at 2:58 pm

    @trollhattan: “The boy then makes his own move, and the robot grabs his finger.”

    Izvestia reported that “The robot wasn’t grabbing; it was simply a special operation on his finger.”

  47. 47.

    Ken

    July 24, 2022 at 2:59 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:  (I love how they didn’t stop playing.)

    I saw a game once where a player was injured and they sent out a stretcher crew, but didn’t stop play. Then when the stretcher crew was run over by the scrum, they had to send out a second stretcher crew to pick up the first.

  48. 48.

    CaseyL

    July 24, 2022 at 3:03 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    @LeftCoastYankee:

    Thank you for clearing that up!  I wondered if LeftCoastYankee was referring to a curling variant I’d never heard of before.  Passing a granite rock overhead using lacrosse sticks would be insane, even for the Irish.

  49. 49.

    Steeplejack

    July 24, 2022 at 3:05 pm

    @no comment:

    Thanks for the info.

    One podcast I am interested in is a history of the Roman Empire that I bookmarked  somewhere. Pretty sure that one is “free” (i.e., on multiple platforms).

  50. 50.

    Steeplejack

    July 24, 2022 at 3:08 pm

    @trollhattan:

    That page is gone. Account home page with several videos.

    ETA: Oh, it was a doubled link. Fixed here.

  51. 51.

    trollhattan

    July 24, 2022 at 3:11 pm

    @Steeplejack: ​Thanks–probably an issue with a retweet link.

  52. 52.

    trollhattan

    July 24, 2022 at 3:11 pm

    @marklar: “The Nazi finger knows what it did.”

  53. 53.

    trollhattan

    July 24, 2022 at 3:12 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: ​Hurling was a popular sport in the dorm when I was a freshman.

  54. 54.

    LeftCoastYankee

    July 24, 2022 at 3:13 pm

    FWIW the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was really good.   I visited it a while ago now, so I imagine it’s only gotten better.

  55. 55.

    Yutsano

    July 24, 2022 at 3:14 pm

    @trollhattan:  Boo! “This page doesn’t exist”. They must have deleted it.​

    EDIT: Saved by Steep! That was both amazing and terrifying.

  56. 56.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 24, 2022 at 3:16 pm

    @Ken: That’s just ridiculous.

  57. 57.

    Geminid

    July 24, 2022 at 3:18 pm

    @trollhattan: “This is of course bad.”

    Good rotating tag material!

  58. 58.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 24, 2022 at 3:23 pm

    Covid is not over.

    I’ve sworn an oath of solitude until the pestilence is purged from the lands

  59. 59.

    Montanareddog

    July 24, 2022 at 3:33 pm

    @Cmorenc:

     

    pointy variety football

    It was someone here, but I cannot remember who, that said it is not football but handegg. That struck me as correct so I now distinguish football (where a spherical ball is primarily kicked, officially Association Football) from Gaelic handball, from Australian handegg, from American handegg, from Rugby League handegg, from Rugby Union handegg, from Calcio Storico handball.

    I am a football chauvinist and pedant, I’m afraid.

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    July 24, 2022 at 3:38 pm

    @BlueGuitarist: What a great resource!  I was wishing there was a site like that but I hadn’t gotten around to hunting for it yet.

    Big thank you!

  61. 61.

    WaterGirl

    July 24, 2022 at 3:40 pm

    @Steeplejack: I use Stitcher if I can.  Some podcasts are only on certain sites, but I always try Stitcher first.

  62. 62.

    Cameron

    July 24, 2022 at 3:40 pm

    @trollhattan: IIRC, Brett Kavanaugh got an award for it, didn’t he?

  63. 63.

    Steeplejack

    July 24, 2022 at 3:45 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Thanks, good to know. If the podcast fails on Stitcher, do you typically get a message about where it’s available?

  64. 64.

    randomcitizen

    July 24, 2022 at 3:50 pm

    Minnie Minoso, who was awesome, also inducted today. Also long overdue.

    https://twitter.com/SoxMachine/status/1551214564624285696

  65. 65.

    James E Powell

    July 24, 2022 at 3:54 pm

    As a lifelong suffering (really BoSox…28-5?) Red Sox fan

    When are BoSox fans going to give up on the long suffering narrative? You got four world championships this century. More than any other team. 28-5? It was one game!

    You want to see suffering? Try Cleveland.

  66. 66.

    Amir Khalid

    July 24, 2022 at 3:57 pm

    @trollhattan:

    I hope the tournament’s disciplinary committee throws the book at the robot.

  67. 67.

    Alison Rose 💙🌻💛

    July 24, 2022 at 3:58 pm

    @trollhattan: “This is of course bad.”

    Wow, is that ever the most russian way to attempt to sound like you care about the safety of another human being.

  68. 68.

    LeftCoastYankee

    July 24, 2022 at 4:00 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    That warranted a loud “evil chortle”!  or LOL as they say.

  69. 69.

    Old School

    July 24, 2022 at 4:04 pm

    @James E Powell:

    When are BoSox fans going to give up on the long suffering narrative? You got four world championships this century. More than any other team.

    They compare themselves to New England Patriots fans.

  70. 70.

    LeftCoastYankee

    July 24, 2022 at 4:05 pm

    @James E Powell: ​
     

    As a Mariners fan, I concur Cleveland is the hardest luck baseball team. The M’s (and others) have just been bad, but the Guardians have come actually really close with really good teams.

  71. 71.

    WaterGirl

    July 24, 2022 at 4:06 pm

    @randomcitizen: Welcome!

  72. 72.

    WaterGirl

    July 24, 2022 at 4:07 pm

    @Steeplejack: No.  If I do a search on Stitcher so I can add the podcast to my list – but the search doesn’t find it – I ask Google where it is. :-)

  73. 73.

    Jay

    July 24, 2022 at 4:11 pm

    @LeftCoastYankee:

    Hurling is a much different sport than curling.

    It used to be played between villages, (and still is), over the rough ground between villages, courses kilometres long.

  74. 74.

    different-church-lady

    July 24, 2022 at 4:17 pm

    @Dangerman: No, but the guy who made the memory of Dent irrelevant is, as of this very afternoon.

  75. 75.

    Kathleen

    July 24, 2022 at 4:18 pm

    Thank you for sharing these stories, TaMara! Like you, I have fond childhood memories of going to baseball games with my dad and I still love the game and its history.

    I don’t know if this will work, but I tweeted “gift” WaPo post about a newly published book of columns written by Ira Berkow. I was not familiar with his work but I enjoyed the excerpts in the review. Here is the link to Tweet which I hope works:

    https://twitter.com/urbanmeemaw/status/1551247240869646336

  76. 76.

    different-church-lady

    July 24, 2022 at 4:19 pm

    @Emma from Miami: ​
      Yeah, I was brought up short by that too.

  77. 77.

    trollhattan

    July 24, 2022 at 4:23 pm

    @Amir Khalid: ​
    Robot throwink book right back!

  78. 78.

    different-church-lady

    July 24, 2022 at 4:24 pm

    @trollhattan:

    “This is of course bad.”

    RrrrrrrrrrrrROTATING TAG LINE!!!!

  79. 79.

    LeftCoastYankee

    July 24, 2022 at 4:24 pm

    @Jay: ​
     

    Very different indeed. I still can’t believe I brain-farted that one.

    Cuchulain never played ice shuffleboard!

  80. 80.

    Baud

    July 24, 2022 at 4:25 pm

    @trollhattan:

    They really shouldn’t have made any more sequels after Terminator 2.

  81. 81.

    trollhattan

    July 24, 2022 at 4:26 pm

    @Alison Rose 💙🌻💛:

    Right? Practically dripping with “Vye stoopid kid not getting finger out of way?”

  82. 82.

    Subsole

    July 24, 2022 at 4:26 pm

     

     

    @Amir Khalid: Ehhh…I dunno if I trust the book-throwing robot either, honestly…

  83. 83.

    Kathleen

    July 24, 2022 at 4:28 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: My daughter gave me the book “Renegades” for Christmas. Beautiful hardbound copy of their conversations, histories, and pictures.

  84. 84.

    Alison Rose 💙🌻💛

    July 24, 2022 at 4:37 pm

    @trollhattan: The robot was just reclaiming the land of the child’s finger.

  85. 85.

    StringOnAStick

    July 24, 2022 at 4:44 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: Covid is raging here in Central Oregon.  We know of 5 people who are careful and got it in the last two weeks.  I’ve been wearing an N95 for all shopping and only participated in outdoor events, but I’m pretty sure I’ve got it now.  Yesterday’s test was negative but the 5 we know who had it all said they had several days of feeling bad with negative tests until they then tested positive.  Once I can summon some energy I’ll go dig out a test to take today after yesterday ‘s negative one.

  86. 86.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 24, 2022 at 5:02 pm

    @Kathleen: Your daughter rocks!

  87. 87.

    JPL

    July 24, 2022 at 5:04 pm

    @StringOnAStick: I did read that it’s possible not to show as positive for a few days, because the immune system is still fighting it off.    One person said that you can swab the tonsils also.

    Several weeks ago, I had a sore throat, runny nose, slight cough and low grade fever.   Although I tested negative two days in a row, I’m pretty sure that was it.   I’m double boosted.

  88. 88.

    Old School

    July 24, 2022 at 5:04 pm

    @Baud:

    They really shouldn’t have made any more sequels after Terminator 2.

    I’ll be black.

  89. 89.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 24, 2022 at 5:05 pm

    Go Rockies!  (Not that anyone has a chance but the Brewers and Cards)

  90. 90.

    JPL

    July 24, 2022 at 5:06 pm

    Still love Big Papi’s best speech.   The first time it was aired, it wasn’t bleeped which only added to the speech.   Red Sox 

  91. 91.

    Baud

    July 24, 2022 at 5:08 pm

    @Old School:

    Haha.

  92. 92.

    Steeplejack

    July 24, 2022 at 5:11 pm

    Perennial Balloon Juice favorite The Lion in Winter coming up shortly on TCM—5:30 p.m. EDT.

  93. 93.

    columbusqueen

    July 24, 2022 at 5:16 pm

    @LeftCoastYankee: If I end up in hell, I’m going to be forced to watch game 7 of the ’97 Series over and over again. Two outs away from the win & freaking Jose Mesa blows the save, God help us.

  94. 94.

    Ohio Mom

    July 24, 2022 at 5:21 pm

    @NutmegAgain: Does Springsteen look ill, I don’t know. I don’t follow him particularly. I watched the video and he looked tense to me, and a little too tan. I looked up his age, he’s 71, which isn’t young anymore, though he doesn’t look it.

  95. 95.

    Steeplejack

    July 24, 2022 at 5:24 pm

    @StringOnAStick:

    I have been trying to stay strong, but I find I have to remind myself more and more to put on a mask when I go in someplace. “Oh, it’s just a quick pickup.” “What are the odds?” Etc. 🙄 Stupid.

    I was around my seven-year-old niece last Tuesday and Wednesday. She had a sore throat, and it didn’t even occur to me until later that she might have COVID. I texted my brother a day later to ask if she had been tested, and he said she had and that the test was negative. I am mildly embarrassed to admit that I’m not sure I believe my brother about her getting tested. The Sighthound Hall mob definitely seems to be in the “we’re over COVID” camp.

    The niece and her brother are doing various summer day camp things in Rehoboth Beach, and I wonder what the mask policy (if any) is at those venues. Oh, well. I’m not likely to see any of them again until mid-August, when—drum roll!—the RWNJ brother is arriving for a visit in Rehoboth. (Think Randy Quaid in the Vacation movies.)

  96. 96.

    Liminal Owl

    July 24, 2022 at 5:55 pm

    @Steeplejack: Thank you. That is the best sports moment I’ve ever seen.

  97. 97.

    Steeplejack

    July 24, 2022 at 7:21 pm

    @Liminal Owl:

    The pooch had the right energy for the game, and the players were unfazed, like “Muck in, doggo!”

  98. 98.

    MinuteMan

    July 24, 2022 at 10:13 pm

    @trollhattan: ​
     

    Reminds me of Han Solo’s warning to c3po about wookies being sore losers. New strategy R2: let the wookies win.

  99. 99.

    MinuteMan

    July 24, 2022 at 10:15 pm

    @marklar: ​
      And the boy was a Nazi and broke his own fingers to discredit the robot.

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