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[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 81°F and partly cloudy. Rain chances increasing later this morning. Expect 93°F for today's high.

Local news this morning showing road range incident and shooting. Drivers got out of vehicles. One shot another. Killed him. Yikes! Be careful out there.

Wishing y'all a great day.

Ran into these little buddies around 10 km from Geysir Geothermal area. Very friendly. Once they leave Iceland they may never return. Reason is maintain breed purity. From my understanding, Vikings brought them there around 1,000 years ago from Norway and Denmark.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks.

Last day this week downtown. Another hot, muggy one in the east. We had rain last night and it looks like we might today.

I was lamenting with a buddy how sad it is to be at the point that the All Star game doesn’t interest me anymore. For one thing, I can’t look at the ugly-ass uniforms they dreamed up as a marketing gimmick. Does anyone really buy those things? Why? But I also just don’t follow the game closely enough to know the players.

Man, I loved the all-star game as a kid. A chance to see Aaron and Clemente and Bench and Rose and Perez throw down with Reggie and Yastrzemski and the Robinsons…I can name most all the guys selected to the AS game from about 66-70, even the obscure American Leaguers like Don Mincher or Bobby Knoop. I studied the rosters in the paper. Now, maybe I could name half the starters with a gun to my head.

May go to National's park this weekend to see the Reds. That could be fun.

Have a good one folks.

 

[BBUK]

Good morning all,

Still here, "God willing and the river don't rise." I may make it through this work week...

Have a goodun....

 

[BBUK]

 

[vhcat70]

San Diego weather in NKy today - 75, sunny, & dew point in 50's.

 

[BBUK]

Chicken of the Vat anyone? Bill loves humanity...

 

[warrior-cat]

Good morning folks.

Last day this week downtown. Another hot, muggy one in the east. We had rain last night and it looks like we might today.

I was lamenting with a buddy how sad it is to be at the point that the All Star game doesn’t interest me anymore. For one thing, I can’t look at the ugly-ass uniforms they dreamed up as a marketing gimmick. Does anyone really buy those things? Why? But I also just don’t follow the game closely enough to know the players.

Man, I loved the all-star game as a kid. A chance to see Aaron and Clemente and Bench and Rose and Perez throw down with Reggie and Yastrzemski and the Robinsons…I can name most all the guys selected to the AS game from about 66-70, even the obscure American Leaguers like Don Mincher or Bobby Knoop. I studied the rosters in the paper. Now, maybe I could name half the starters with a gun to my head.

May go to National's park this weekend to see the Reds. That could be fun.

Have a good one folks.

Wife ask me Tuesday night if there was a game on because she wanted to watch a movie with me. I said yes but it was the all-star game, and I was not going to watch it. She also asked about the home run derby which I almost always watch, and I told her it was the night before. She looked at me and asked what was wrong and I told her nothing other than I had lost interest in both of them. I still watch Reds games and have seen a good portion of them so far this year, but that is all I am interested in now.

 

[berniecarbo]

Wife ask me Tuesday night if there was a game on because she wanted to watch a movie with me. I said yes but it was the all-star game, and I was not going to watch it. She also asked about the home run derby which I almost always watch, and I told her it was the night before. She looked at me and asked what was wrong and I told her nothing other than I had lost interest in both of them. I still watch Reds games and have seen a good portion of them so far this year, but that is all I am interested in now.

Everyone going for strike outs and home runs wears on me. Watching a nice defensive play is much more fun than watching a strikeout.

 

[BBUK]

Everyone going for strike outs and home runs wears on me. Watching a nice defensive play is much more fun than watching a strikeout.

The nuances of the game was what it was about for me. Stop a guy from doing what he was trying to do by a hair. The expertise of truly elite players. The ability to sacrifice for the greater good of the game. To take away someone's power or cause them to make mistakes. Get's me thinking about baseball again and why I loved it to the point of being obsessed.

When I was in my teens, I'd wrap black tap on a baseball so I could see it in the snow. I hit my own self pop-ups, grabbed my glove and caught the ball. Hit bottle caps like Hank but mostly hit rocks with a broom stick on the railroad tracks. Played rope ball in the alley behind my house. Just hours and hours of sessions like that. Drew a strike box on a concrete block wall of a building on a seldom used street near my house on Dwight street in River Rouge Michigan (Real close to the tracks.) and threw a rubber coated baseball pitching so many games pitch by pitch for nine innings. Yeah, those were the days of baseball for me...

The game got watered down. Maybe it came back after expansion but I doubt it...

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

One more day on friends houseboat at Lake Cumberland. Known him for over 60 years. Hope this won’t be the last time before they head back to Florida in September.

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

4 low flying over Lake Cumberland. Guessing they were Air National Guard out of Louisville.

 

[berniecarbo]

The nuances of the game was what it was about for me. Stop a guy from doing what he was trying to do by a hair. The expertise of truly elite players. The ability to sacrifice for the greater good of the game. To take away someone's power or cause them to make mistakes. Get's me thinking about baseball again and why I loved it to the point of being obsessed.

When I was in my teens, I'd wrap black tap on a baseball so I could see it in the snow. I hit my own self pop-ups, grabbed my glove and caught the ball. Hit bottle caps like Hank but mostly hit rocks with a broom stick on the railroad tracks. Played rope ball in the alley behind my house. Just hours and hours of sessions like that. Drew a strike box on a concrete block wall of a building on a seldom used street near my house on Dwight street in River Rouge Michigan (Real close to the tracks.) and threw a rubber coated baseball pitching so many games pitch by pitch for nine innings. Yeah, those were the days of baseball for me...

The game got watered down. Maybe it came back after expansion but I doubt it...

Our house and garage was made of rock blocks. I would take a golf ball and throw it against the wall to get ground ball practice. I made it aerobic as I tried to go as fast as possible and it also helped with learning a quick transfer from glove to throwing hand. I would go an hour at a time. On non schools days, I might go as much as 5 or 6 rounds in a day. we didn't get a lot of snow, but I'd clean off a spot on snow days. Golf balls come at you pretty hard, so hard hit balls never bothered me.