Right there with you Bert. Couldn't name one major leaguer, and don't care.
And up to the strike...went to many, many Reds games and then Braves when I moved to Atlanta. Haven't watched or paid attention since....like you.
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And up to the strike...went to many, many Reds games and then Braves when I moved to Atlanta. Haven't watched or paid attention since....like you.
When high school/college would go to a lot of minor league games. Moved to Atlanta and went to a bunch of Flames games before they moved to Calgary.
Entirely different game live vs. TV. Loved it live....hated it on TV back then and now.
Several of my friends have said the same thing about the NHL Nashville Predators hockey games. When hockey first came to TN, many were skeptical, but curious, about hockey. But now, after having gone to many games, they say it is very exciting and very worth following. Who would have ever thought about hockey being a "thing" in Tennessee? I've still never been to a game, but it's interesting to see the native Tennesseans become addicted and die-hard Predators fans.
I'm very disappointed in the MLB commissioner for that move, but I still enjoy watching the talented, once-in-a-generation talents that are out there in MLB now. I don't blame the individual players that I enjoy watching. But, yeah, lame move by the leader of MLB moving the all-star game/home run derby out of Atlanta and over to Denver? What a dope.....
Totally agree. Hockey is MUCH better in person. During my Seattle years I attended several Vancouver Canucks games. Either entertaining customers or just for fun.
All three of them, you mean?
I am too cheap to pay $3.79 for four kale plants.........and they are not the variety that I like.......we like certain varieties of veggies is the main reason for the work to grow plants and save heritage seeds.....I till the garden and plant......I make an effort to keep the weeds down until the garden has a chance to grow up........from that point on I have a sit on my butt garden........I got some weeder geese a few years ago.....something got into the yard and ate all three of them.........
The discoloration you see on your deck when you move something might be caused somewhat by the fertilizers and the water...........mainly it is the sunlight...
35,K steps indeed........bragger............the Director got her shot in Dec/Jan........I still haven't gotten mine yet.........and to be honest I don't even have a reason why..........I would rather lay down and some one kick me in the jewels than to go to a doctor.......I don't trust them.........none of them..........I have only ever put my faith in one of them and she passed a few years ago......I wouldn't trade a box of cracker jacks for a whole stadium of doctors.....
I tried the jogging thing one time.......by the time I got to the point where I could jog a mile.......it took three or four days before my knees let up.....so I read that walking burns the same calories it only takes longer.......I don't know if that is right or not......but I went with it........I dropped about 65 lbs by walking, one cup of black coffee and a package of porridge for breakfast......a hard boiled egg, slice of dry toast and a cup of black coffee for lunch....while on my walk I would stop and get an apple and a bottle of water......then for supper....I ate what ever my daughter fixed for the family.....and I limited my portions somewhat.......I was 245 and had hair that was waist length when I left here in Jan......when I came back home in late May I weighted 179 and had shaved my hair off.......I have only been home a few days when one of my neighbors came over and wanted to know if I had cancer since I had lost so much weight........I wish I had kept it off.....I have been at 215 for a few years.......
Without my doctors I would be on the other side of the grass.
Blown up appendix (at 29), gal stones in the common duct (at 34), heart attack (at 64) and a few other goodies, like artificial joints, cancer et.al.
My doctor and I are on a first name basis. I see him two times a year, scheduled, and something more than that on a non-scheduled basis.
My HS history teacher played hockey for a team here in Louisville.........he usually talked more about skating and hockey than he did US History.......Tony Fargnolli......he could swing a mean wooden paddle......he swung his lumber on my butt a few times.......
Dropping 65 lbs is amazing Awf and if you are still down a net 30 that’s not bad. I only need to lose about ten but that’s probably not going to happen. As I type this I’m smelling the lasagna my wife is cooking. I’m just too into eating. So I gotta keep walking.
No I never have. Same with soccer. Maybe it is because I don't know the rules. I am about 60 miles N of Tampa, It is three counties down
The Tampa team had a good following and are on local TV. I may give them a look
As I mentioned...love hockey live.
Soccer....hate it in all forms, live, TV, videotape, pictures, etc.
My oldest son when he was little had a traumatic head/brain injury and the doctor wouldn't let him play anything but soccer for two years. Standing outside in early March at practice/games watching a sport you hate.....what you'll do for your kids.
Soccer....hate it in all forms, live, TV, videotape, pictures, etc.
My oldest son when he was little had a traumatic head/brain injury and the doctor wouldn't let him play anything but soccer for two years. Standing outside in early March at practice/games watching a sport you hate.....what you'll do for your kids.
Soccer may be the worst sport invented. The only purpose it serves is to produce football place kickers
Quit watching so far this year because of that and the BLM crap they had day one against the Cards. I hope they sink and lose every penny they have. Build a new league.
Baseball and softball are fun to play and entertaining to watch and I was 100% against a public subsidized business, including the Arizona Diamondbacks. Then Maricopa Co. (Phoenix metro area) developed a plan to create a temporary tax to be removed once the ballpark funding was paid for then put it on the ballot. I voted NO, and it passed without my assistance. The ballpark was built and tax went away. OK fine, I still wasn't convinced. Then one day went I got home from work and there were 5 ten year old boys gathered around the TV watching the snakes vs the dodgers. 2 white, 2 latino and 1 black having Big Reds and I thought to myself. "Self your grinchy heart is too small. This is happening across the state and well worth the cost of a large pizza it actually cost me after they removed a tax the citizens voted for." So I ordered one for the boys.
We can learn, figure things out and make good decisions. Organized sport teaches the lessons of teamwork interactions required to succeed in the tasks of life people innately need to build a society without the paralysis of conformity. All sports are being impacted by this deceit of truth. The silliness is contrary to the nature of man and won't last because it's based on falsehoods and the truth will eventually prevail. The sooner the better for me as I turn it off at the first mention of BLM as I reject the entire premise of critical race theory bs of intuitional racism. Any decision based on race is by definition racism. My thoughts are running in circles now so I'll stop the rant.
We can learn, figure things out and make good decisions. Organized sport teaches the lessons of teamwork interactions required to succeed in the tasks of life people innately need to build a society without the paralysis of conformity. All sports are being impacted by this deceit of truth. The silliness is contrary to the nature of man and won't last because it's based on falsehoods and the truth will eventually prevail. The sooner the better for me as I turn it off at the first mention of BLM as I reject the entire premise of critical race theory bs of intuitional racism. Any decision based on race is by definition racism. My thoughts are running in circles now so I'll stop the rant.
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Agree! I see little redeeming value of the barbarism represented by kicking the skull.
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Sorry to hear that Sir. I caught the Chicken pox back when I lived in Kentucky, I was mid to early thirty's when I caught them. My brother who is nine years and fifty-one weeks older than me who lives in Michigan caught them the same month/ time I did. We hadn't seen each other in four or five years at that time. He caught the shingles from the chickenpox somehow and it about killed him too. He had recurring bouts with them at least a couple times. Just horrible the pain he had. He's a tough booger too. It wiped him out for weeks.
I was out again with my darling today foraging in the abundant forests here. Brought back a couple sacks of plant life. My darling is down in the kitchen prepping them to freeze. We had an enjoyable time.
We pulled off a road in Maryland I thought was government property. Come to find out it was private property. A man and his son pulled up to our car. I had just walked into the woods, I saw them and came back out to meet them. After they told me, I apologized expressing my sorrow for trespassing. The older man asked what I was looking for and I explained it to him (Just edible plants and things of that nature the wife likes to eat.) He asked how old I was and I told him 59, he told me he was 79 but could see I was truthful and not harmful. His son shook my hand and left (They were packing) but I talked with his Dad for about twenty minutes.
It ended up he gave me his phone number and I gave him mine. He told me to call him whenever I wanted and to come on his property any time I wanted. I told him it would probably be next spring as I was concerned about snakes. He stated that was smart as they had them. We shook hands and I headed into the woods and the wife and I had an enjoyable day. (He asked me to leave him some of the greens my wife was looking for, I could leave them on the steps of a trailer parked down the road. I did along with a note thanking him for being good to me.) I told him to come visit me and we'd eat supper together whenever he could. (He stated he had near 100 acres)
I did that in Kentucky I can't tell you how many times. I had keys to peoples ponds and permission to fish or hunt. There are good people in this world. All it takes to find them is a person who means them no harm. Just a real enjoyable day.
(I had to type that out. It meant something to me.)(I know it was a lot.)
Oh, may God bring you all to someone else who will welcome you as a friend. It is a feeling beyond good. God Bless you all...
MD you make me sick! I shoot for 10k and rarely make that anymore. I was in the woods for three hours walking and walking and only logged about 6k steps. (It was hilly) I thought I had actually had a good day of exercise. Thanks....
Get into small amounts of 90% or better dark chocolate and watch your cravings disappear. It doesn't take much. That sugar will kill you. Worst thing you can eat. Yeah I had the sweet tooth for sure.
Hockey's not woke. May be the only sport left.
We used to have a minor league team here, and I loved watching their games in person. Like someone else all ready stated, it was non-stop action. As for watching on TV, it's hard to keep up with the puck, but I still occasionally watch a game.
Unlike NASCAR, they're smart enough to realize who the majority of their audience is.
Maybe not as woke....but still woke.
.....same for NASCAR
NASCAR: Addressing social justice is "right for our sport"
NASCAR President Steve Phelps said Friday “it was the right time” for the sport to address social justice and racism issues last year and the focus “will continue.”
www.motorsport.com
Maybe not as woke....but still woke.
.....same for NASCAR
NASCAR: Addressing social justice is "right for our sport"
NASCAR President Steve Phelps said Friday “it was the right time” for the sport to address social justice and racism issues last year and the focus “will continue.”
Thanks, Hockey's gone now. (The thanks was genuine.) I won't associate with "woke"...)
The word "woke" is officially banished from my vocabulary. No big deal. Never used it much anyway.
I'm pretty much in that boat, my opinion is not up for negotiation. I will change it given evidence but you can't just make crap up when you don't know the answer or worse lying to fit a false narrative. I still turn on the games just to turn them off. It's even more fun now that it's in the commercials too.
I use it to call out or bring light on the foolish. That's about it.
Okay that's a tool I should use. Now it's "semi-banished".
I can't watch it on tv much. Just isn't the same to see it on tv once you've seen it in person.
Soccer and hockey are fun to play. Watching hockey is more fun than soccer, imo.
Need to open my mixing bourbon then to mix with that beer.
I'm down with half of that. The last dog I had though I love dogs, broke my rib. Been over two years now and I am still having issues with my rib. I didn't and don't blame the dog but he's gone and the pain is still here. Yeah, it hurts... Oh well, Dalton once stated that pain don't hurt. I guess i can do it though.... it hurts...
I understand all of that but......why would you want to quit eating chocolate.........I have friend that sends me some from Belgium.......I refuse to give up one of my greatest pleasures.......I used a table spoon of sugar in every cup of coffee.....I drink 2-3 pots a day......I gave that sugar up.........I can't give it all up.........
You have to do all you can. When you go to basic training that is the first thing taken from you; Sugar. It is truly enjoyable and I still eat sweets but I don't crave them. I can eat a little now and am good. I really enjoy the dark chocolate. I savor it, it is something I have taken as my own. No one else eats it in my house. I can leave it in the open. It is mine...(Yeah selfish but I do now enjoy my time with a good piece of dark chocolate where previously I was eating any kind of cake or candy I could get.) I ate WAY TOO much. That is what I cut down...the too much part.
We watched Thunder Over Louisville, Bowman Field version from our deck. Through the neighbors trees. Nothing like the real thing but still fun. Parties everywhere and that's a good thing. America is still America.
Good Lord's Day to all. Sunny and cool in the Buckeye State. Just went thru last night's posts. Didn't see an update on @AustinTXCat ... pray his road trip went well.
Speaking of road trips...talked with my oldest a couple times yesterday. It was his moving day of getting all his stuff from Atlanta to N'ville. One thing I've always hated is moving. Don't know why. Maybe could/should be something to look forward to....new surroundings, new challenges, new people....but I never liked it.
Plus maybe a little melancholy of leaving a part of your life you'll never get back. Don't know.
Speaking of road trips...talked with my oldest a couple times yesterday. It was his moving day of getting all his stuff from Atlanta to N'ville. One thing I've always hated is moving. Don't know why. Maybe could/should be something to look forward to....new surroundings, new challenges, new people....but I never liked it.
Plus maybe a little melancholy of leaving a part of your life you'll never get back. Don't know.
I've seen where you mentioned from time to time how you were sore, etc....but don't recall you talking that it was caused by your dog. What happened?
I don't get the hate on soccer. If you enjoy give & go plays in hoops & long passes in FB, soccer has both. And they do it with feet skills vs. hands - much the tougher for accuracy. I watch more soccer on TV than anything. Will enjoy GS's game this pm immensely.
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