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- Tue May 28, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Angel Hernandez’s Career
- Replies: 10
- Views: 147
Re: Angel Hernandez’s Career
In a very VERY weird coincidence... At the small non-profit I worked at prior to this job, the office manager/accountant/chief of staff was ALSO the lead counsel for the MLB umpire union. He didn't talk about his role much, but the few times I coaxed anything out of him the one takeaway I pulled was...
- Tue May 28, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
- Replies: 929
- Views: 75001
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
This is probably slightly embarrassing, but...
We had a package delivered to our house and via the return address I learned that REI stands for Recreational Equipment, Inc.
We had a package delivered to our house and via the return address I learned that REI stands for Recreational Equipment, Inc.
- Tue May 28, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Angel Hernandez’s Career
- Replies: 10
- Views: 147
Re: Angel Hernandez’s Career
Yeah, I don't know if there's much to this other than BOTH parties are just tired of all the noise around him. The long article from last week details that when you just look at his overall stats, he's a less than average umpire but from an accuracy standpoint (especially behind the plate) he's lowe...
- Tue May 28, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Major League (1989), Thursday, April 3 9 PM ET
- Replies: 191
- Views: 1219
Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Major League (1989), Thursday, April 3 9 PM ET
- The noise they have Snipes make when he realizes he hasn't been cut, but can't react in front of players who have, is an all-time great sound effect. - One of the most important non-fuckups here is Sheen having a convincing motion. Its not perfect, but its not embarrassing and if it were, it woul...
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Angel Hernandez’s Career
- Replies: 10
- Views: 147
Re: Angel Hernandez’s Career
Interesting timing. Article is out on May 24 and he retires 3 days later. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5513075/2024/05/24/mlb-umpire-angel-hernandez-reputation/ ETA: Just to put a finer point on this... He hasn't called a game since May 9 and has been negotiating his retirement ("severance&...
- Sat May 25, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Car buying
- Replies: 612
- Views: 32935
Re: Car buying
Like most folks, I just hate all the bullshit that old school car dealerships pull. I've read the articles and listened to various podcasts... I know what they are up to and I just don't want to play the stupid, timewasting, soul-sucking game. Carmax cuts out all that crap. The price is the price. T...
- Fri May 24, 2024 1:22 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: A non-majors Golf Thread for 2023 and beyond
- Replies: 211
- Views: 3797
Re: A non-majors Golf Thread for 2023 and beyond
I'm also calling bullshit on this being some "cuh-RAZY" situation because someone got run over. Not trying to be a total prick, but cops deal with accidents and death fairly regularly. This guy was directing traffic. He wasn't in the middle of an active shooter situation. Just kind of anno...
Re: MLB 2024
I should modify that to say worst call in a completely context free situation. Like, not calling an easy bang-bang play an out in a World Series or when a perfect game is on the line is a lot "worse."
But from a straight-up, objective WTF stand point? Woof.
But from a straight-up, objective WTF stand point? Woof.
Re: MLB 2024
That's gotta be one of the worst calls in MLB history.
- Fri May 24, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: USMNT - 2026 Cycle - "Early Days"
- Replies: 755
- Views: 19768
Re: USMNT - 2026 Cycle - "Early Days"
Um... That's a story from 2022?
- Fri May 24, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Car buying
- Replies: 612
- Views: 32935
Re: Car buying
I would travel for a CarMax deal, other than that... I ain't letting the dealership know I'm traveling.
- Fri May 24, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Car buying
- Replies: 612
- Views: 32935
Re: Car buying
The biggest thing with haggling is leverage. They fuck with you by keeping you there for hours because they are asserting dominance over you with all the "let me go talk to my manager" bullshit. Don't give them leverage. The last 2 cars we have purchased: one was a Rav4 from a CarMax... ze...
- Fri May 24, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: A non-majors Golf Thread for 2023 and beyond
- Replies: 211
- Views: 3797
Re: A non-majors Golf Thread for 2023 and beyond
Maybe we're not seeing the total thing, but what I saw was so far from what was in the report (cop dragged, ruined his pants, etc etc)... It's really baffling the DA hasn't dropped the felony charges. What a fucking clown shop.
- Fri May 24, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Culinary Hot Takes
- Replies: 962
- Views: 51520
Re: Culinary Hot Takes
Fucking gross.
- Fri May 24, 2024 9:22 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Culinary Hot Takes
- Replies: 962
- Views: 51520
Re: Culinary Hot Takes
I'm not dipping a flavored chip. Doritos, Cheetos, Sour Cream and Onion, Bar-b-Que, etc, etc etc are wonderful... They are not for dipping.
- Fri May 24, 2024 9:21 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: A non-majors Golf Thread for 2023 and beyond
- Replies: 211
- Views: 3797
Re: A non-majors Golf Thread for 2023 and beyond
Wow. Just saw a piece of video from Louisville. The police report is a felony in terms of false reporting.
- Fri May 24, 2024 8:45 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Culinary Hot Takes
- Replies: 962
- Views: 51520
Re: Culinary Hot Takes
And this is why the Doritos taco at Taco Bell is/was disgusting.
- Fri May 24, 2024 8:39 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Doc: The Umentary Type
- Replies: 142
- Views: 2626
Re: Doc: The Umentary Type
Yeah, I hate that song too. Otherwise, I can take or leave Seger. Never did anything for me. But that song has always pissed me off. And of course, "Like a Rock" was also forever ruined by those truck commercials. I do like "Hollywood Nights" and "Turn the Page" though...
- Thu May 23, 2024 3:45 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Doc: The Umentary Type
- Replies: 142
- Views: 2626
Re: Doc: The Umentary Type
I freely admit to being a lifelong Seger fan. There's the Ann Arbor/Detroit/MI connection on top of being one of the first albums (my mom's) I listened to as a kid.
I fucking hate that song.
I fucking hate that song.
- Thu May 23, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Doc: The Umentary Type
- Replies: 142
- Views: 2626
Re: Doc: The Umentary Type
Wasn't The Outsiders kinda officially the start of that? Well, kinda... The connection with Penn, Cruise and Hutton was sparked with Taps (81). Then got further extended by The Outsiders (83) Which brings in other fringe Brat Packers like Ralph Macchio, C Thomas Howell and Matt Dillon... joining Cr...
- Thu May 23, 2024 1:57 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Doc: The Umentary Type
- Replies: 142
- Views: 2626
Re: Doc: The Umentary Type
I don't remember Cage being part of that scene at all. Didn't his career come a bit later? Cruise was definitely the right age and in some of the same movies, even if he wasn't part of the tight friend group. He's in the original article, but as I said, I found it really weird and almost jarring th...
- Thu May 23, 2024 1:41 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA FB 2023
- Replies: 1015
- Views: 18711
Re: NCAA FB 2023
File this under "knock me over with a feather" on a number of fronts. https://www.inquirer.com/college-sports/penn-state/penn-state-lawsuit-james-franklin-alleged-meddling-20240521.html Janklin being accused of pressuring team doctors to clear injured players against their recommended trea...
- Thu May 23, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Culinary Hot Takes
- Replies: 962
- Views: 51520
- Thu May 23, 2024 1:06 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Culinary Hot Takes
- Replies: 962
- Views: 51520
Re: Culinary Hot Takes
Learn something new!!mister d wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 1:04 pmMirepoix.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 1:03 pmTrinity is with carrots, no? (I have nothing against green peppers, mind you.)
Thanks... I'm going to annoy my wife with this new knowledge.
- Thu May 23, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Culinary Hot Takes
- Replies: 962
- Views: 51520
- Thu May 23, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Culinary Hot Takes
- Replies: 962
- Views: 51520
- Thu May 23, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Culinary Hot Takes
- Replies: 962
- Views: 51520
Re: Culinary Hot Takes
It's more the whole "white ppl fucking with a perfectly good (insert traditional southern/black dish)" This is somewhat of a staple for stand-up comedians from multiple perspectives. It's an exaggeration for comedic effect, as I'm getting up in years, have eaten all over the country, and I...
- Thu May 23, 2024 12:34 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Dead College Thread
- Replies: 13
- Views: 176
Re: Dead College Thread
On the nerd D3 soccer board I visit, there is a decent amount of chatter about various schools closing... And the pace is only going to pick up in the next 5 years. A lot of these places never really recovered from COVID (they didn't have a big old endowment to lean on) and there was already talk of...
- Thu May 23, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Doc: The Umentary Type
- Replies: 142
- Views: 2626
Re: Doc: The Umentary Type
I don't think I'd be super interested in this if wasn't McCarthy driving it and conducting the interviews. Well, who am I kidding, I'm watching a doc on the Brat Pack regardless. But the trailer really got me. That article, man... I had forgotten just how shitty it was. Calling Timothy Hutton and hi...
- Thu May 23, 2024 9:22 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Doc: The Umentary Type
- Replies: 142
- Views: 2626
Re: Doc: The Umentary Type
I'm giddy for this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxVNQkRM5Qw Brat Pack doc, produced by Andrew McCarthy, which means he was able to interview just about all of them. For those that may not remember, sometime in the mid-80s, New York Magazine put out a cover story featuring Lowe, Ringwald, She...
- Thu May 23, 2024 8:47 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Netflix Suggestions?
- Replies: 1398
- Views: 92522
Re: Netflix Suggestions?
Just finished the seventh and last episode of Bodkin , starring Will Forte. Pretty fun watch, though not great or anything. Funny, when this thread popped up I was thinking of posting about this show. I really like Forte and I'm also a podcast nerd, so I liked it just fine. Like you said, it's note...
- Wed May 22, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Politics
- Replies: 9400
- Views: 513578
Re: Random Politics
My junior year of HS I had the best teacher I've ever had for World Studies. He would make us pull out a blank piece of paper and you had to draw the continent we were focused on at the time. Just an incredible way to learn and remember regions and their borders.
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:37 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Fontly Speaking
- Replies: 31
- Views: 495
Re: Fontly Speaking
The fad I was really hoping was going to vanish is the whole "pants hanging almost below your ass, with your underwear fully out there" look. Just looking at that makes me... unsettled.
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Fontly Speaking
- Replies: 31
- Views: 495
Re: Fontly Speaking
For work and actually anytime I'm wearing long pants, I'm sporting my Mack Weldon socks that come up above my calves. I actually hate the feeling of dress socks spooled down at my ankles, so I'm pretty particular about it. When I'm in shorts, I'm wearing those socks that barely come out of the shoe....
- Wed May 22, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Fontly Speaking
- Replies: 31
- Views: 495
Re: Fontly Speaking
I like Garamond, Arial and Calibri.
- Wed May 22, 2024 10:41 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: USMNT - 2026 Cycle - "Early Days"
- Replies: 755
- Views: 19768
Re: USMNT - 2026 Cycle - "Early Days"
Related, I think: Why is Miles Robinson still in MLS? Choice? Skillset? Sure am glad he is as an FC Cincinnati fan. He's been absolutely excellent as a part of a really good backline. If he balls out at Copa, I doubt he stays much longer. I posted the article above but didn't comment that I'm very ...
- Wed May 22, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Politics
- Replies: 9400
- Views: 513578
Re: Random Politics
Dumb isn't the problem. It's dumb + 'I have a strong opinion regardless'. This. The same people that bitch and moan about immigration at the southern border and have, literally, no idea where the border is... Say nothing of the "why" of the people struggling/dying during the migration. Th...
- Wed May 22, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Politics
- Replies: 9400
- Views: 513578
Re: Random Politics
I think my issue is that I'm a geography person so I have a really difficult time with people that just have no interest in understanding, like... where the fuck they are at any given moment.
Not being able to identify the country you are in is just incredible to me.
Not being able to identify the country you are in is just incredible to me.
- Tue May 21, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Politics
- Replies: 9400
- Views: 513578
Re: Random Politics
That's astounding.
- Tue May 21, 2024 3:08 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: USMNT - 2026 Cycle - "Early Days"
- Replies: 755
- Views: 19768
Re: USMNT - 2026 Cycle - "Early Days"
I was thinking a little more about the roster and, man, the guy that must really be kicking himself is Zendejas. Flips over to a very crowded midfield pool and despite having a very good FML season... no dice. I don't claim to know the MEX player pool all that well, but I'm pretty sure he'd be in th...