Robert Benchley explains how certain facial characteristics are related to criminal traits.
He also tells the story of various criminals. One man who burned down his house just for the pleasure of watching it burn. Another man, a doctor, (“Dr. Death”) who shot his patients as they walked into his office.
Less than two weeks after evading the Tamarack fire, a 25-pound bear cub escaped again — this time using his bandaged limbs to paw out of a rescue center, officials said.
The Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care reported Tuesday that Tamarack, the 6-month-old cub named after the fire that nearly killed him, escaped his enclosure and tunneled under an electric fence meant to contain him.
“He got out of the room and into the outdoor area and basically found a 6-inch-square of dirt that he dug into and squished himself out of the fence — all with burned paws and bandages,” said Greg Erfani, a Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care board member and the center’s spokesman.
Neither the bear, nor his representative, could be reached for comment.
9.
Ken
@Paul in St. Augustine: Does anyone have any idea what Ron DeSantis is hoping to accomplish in Flori-duh?
Fulfill his bargain with the Dread Lord Nyarlathotep by delivering 100,000 souls by midnight December 31?
10.
Starfish
@Paul in St. Augustine: He is hoping to be President so he does not have to deal with climate change in Florida.
@Rob: I’m from Chicago. That’s what you say when you want to change the subject: “How about those cubs?”
You can even say that in the middle of the winter. Just a polite but obvious way to say “I’m changing the subject.”
*I guess it’s not all that obvious if I have to explain it. :-)
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mrmoshpotato
Well, they aren’t losing – yet.
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skerry
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Sure Lurkalot
@Baud: And I was so looking forward to my dinner of doom and gloom.
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Rob
@WaterGirl: Thanks for the explanation! I’m obviously not from Chicago and I don’t follow baseball (or really, any sports aside from international soccer).
Does anyone have any idea what Ron DeSantis is hoping to accomplish in Flori-duh?
Political power for himself, no matter the cost to anyone else. He’s gambling the MAGAts will be motivated enough by his pandering, and numerous enough, to get him reelected and make him the next TFG. He may also be dumb enough to believe his own bullshit, I have to idea
Currently, the reaction it provokes is “oh shit, they sold the batboy, didn’t they ?”
ROFLMAO!!!
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Darkrose
@WaterGirl: Clearly you are a person of taste and discernment.
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laura
@mrmoshpotato: Take heart comrade- the season is not over and the team is having a bit of fatigue and they’ve had a doozy of a slump in past years to come roaring back playing like a well oiled machine and won the World Series. Hang in there – let’s root root root for the Gigantes and hope for an outcome like 2014.
@laura: I was just noting the worst team beating the best team.
It would be nice if the Cubs realized there are still two months of ball games left.
(And if the Brewers, Reds and Cards all imploded now.)
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frosty
@Ken: Speaking of which, someone posted a joke about DeSantis and Satan earlier this week with a play on the names and a punch line that Satan wasn’t as evil. Does anyone remember it?
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mrmoshpotato
Who else is “enjoying” the cicadas’ racket?
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frosty
@WaterGirl:
Or in the local vernacular: How ’bout dem O’s. With O pronounced something like AO.
And about dem O’s, they may be at the bottom but they beat the Yankees this week. I was a rabid fan in the 80s until they moved to Camden Yards and I couldn’t walk to the games at Memorial Stadium any more.
43.
Benw
@WaterGirl: I was living in Chicago (southside, so naturally adopted the Sox) when the White Sox won the series! We took our 1 year old son to the parade and he was fascinated by the shredded paper flying everywhere and then fell asleep. :)
@Gin & Tonic:
When did Vasily Alekseyev move to Georgia?
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brantl
My mom was a Cubs fan, (we lived near Chicago, for a while) and she became a Cubs fan for life, and thought Earnie Banks was one of the greatest ball players to ever play the game, and that Ron Santo was an asshole. She was right, in both cases. I can always remember Steve Goodman singing about the Cubs.
Back in the day, we had season tix and knew all the cops who moonlighted as security at Comiskey. Old Comiskey, the next stadium is terrible. Moved to CO in disgust.
@JCJ: Oh? Milwaukee’s taking after last year’s Cardinals?
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JML
My University announced on Tuesday a protocol for determining if they would have to institute a mask mandate indoors on campus, based on the transmission rates in the locality. Today, they announced the mask mandate would go into effect on Thurs because they tracked 4 consecutive days of transmission rates that were over the line. (The vaxx rates in the tri-county area the university is smack in the middle of are…not good. 50% or less)
Since they ended all telework arrangements it’s the only way to have a chance to keep people safe. Sadly, even at an institution of higher learning, we have people that are proudly refusing the get vaxx’d and won’t wear masks since “they don’t have to”. At least with the universal mandate it should sweep in these tools.
Unfortunately for me, I share an office with someone who is still among the un-vaxx’d. They’ve had some health issues, so I’ve been trying to be kind and understanding…but I’m reaching my limit. Especially when they declared that people just don’t know what effects these vaccines will have because they’re all so new and no one really knows what effect they’ll have. Said person wants to keep doing their own research. Said person is not a scientist and has no medical background at all. What are the odds they’ll seek out or understand credible research and information? (My only hope is I know they’re a committed lefty and hates Trump)
UGH. I hate humanity.
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Gravenstone
Why you gotta be so hurtful, WG?
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JCJ
@persistentillusion: Old Comiskey was amazing. I was 15 the first time I went there. I had been to Wrigley Field and Riverfront Stadium (Cincinnati) before that. I got hooked on the Sox.
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Gravenstone
@Shalimar: Anyone else remember when they fired the ball girl back in the mid-80s for appearing in Playboy?
*May get the collapse of the Condoes of Babel Libertarian Inspection or Noah’s Cruise 2.0 instead of Governing by rigid ideology.
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Jerzy Russian
I have been a Cubs fan since circa 1983 when we first got cable TV. Our package had WGN in Chicago and WTBS in Atlanta. Back then, the Cubs played a lot of day games, so I watched a lot of them.
It was sad to see the core players (Rizzo, Bryant, Baez, etc.). On the other hand, the team was in 4th place and going nowhere (relatively speaking). At some point, something had to change.
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H.E.Wolf
I’ve been using up old stamps on postcards (yep, writing for http://PostcardsToVoters.org again), and I found a bunch of old 33-cent stamps with baseball greats of yore.
Honus Wagner*, Christy Matthewsen, Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Walter Johnson, and the like.
The ricketts turned Wrigleyville into an overpriced Disneyland and used their money to make that anti-Hillary movie. I worked at Halsted and Waveland for over 20 years.
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Dan B
@Gin & Tonic: Sorry, but I’m imagining what it would be like if this weight lifting god got a charlie horse. 265 kilos is almost 600 pounds. A comment was that he lifted the equivalent of a small Camel over his head.
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L85NJGT
Charlie Watts isn’t touring.
Anybody remember The Rolling Stones? We have two of them!
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Peale
@mrmoshpotato: the brewers just paid cash to get John Axeford to be their closer, who started the year as a color analyst for the Blue Jays. He can still throw 98 they said. Don’t worry that Hader is on the COVID DL, they said. And he came into the game. Lumbered in greybearded to thunderous applause. Threw one pitch that reached 98. Injured his arm doing it and is now on the DL himself.
They thought they had a money printer, and spent way too much on an ancient stadium and muscling rooftop owners out.
A CableTV network like the Yankees. Brilliant!
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Jackmac
How about them White Sox! (Sorry, late to thread)
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Yutsano
Meh. Contact me when the Kraken drop the puck.
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Jim Appleton
OT:
Out here in Oregon, I’m hearing caws of fledgling crows. A special time of year for me.
Brings back memories of when I lived in downtown Portland twenty years ago. North Park blocks. The nest was on the north side of the old Customs House on Everet St.
A not quite fledged crow fell out of a nest across the street from me.
His/her parents were freaked out and very defensive of busy pedestrian and vehicle passersby.
They spent all their energy defending this one chick, who had no food from them.
I began feeding the parents. I heard less complaining from the chick, who was now known as Russel.
After a few days s/he was continent and well fed in the park across from my condo.
Then flying.
Then I was walking across the street when a cop car crushed Russel. I stopped the cop, who shrugged and said shit happens.
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Dan B
@Yutsano: There’s something very strange with the Kraken playing at Climate Change Arena.
Aren’t the Kraken supposed to be one of the curses that arises from climate change?
FYI: Happy for the name of the arena.
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persistentillusion
@JCJ:
New Comiskey, not so much. No soul, fewer amenities, parking was extractive.
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persistentillusion
@Benw: Screaming, and I haven’t been much of a bball fan since. (CO, the the Rockies, who make the Cubs look like a real team). Switched to hockey as both collegiate and pro are great or semi-great here.
75.
persistentillusion
@persistentillusion:
ETA, double “the the” a sure sign that a sign-off is in order.
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Tehanu
@H.E.Wolf: Walter Johnson is my man, since I noticed that he looked exactly like a character in a Popeye cartoon when he threw the ball.
As for the Cubs, jeez, talk about a fire sale. However, Anthony Rizzo seems to be thriving in Da Bronx.
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Yutsano
@Dan B: It all ties in with each other. The Kraken arise from Climate Change arena. The circle completes.
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Ken
@Dan B: Aren’t the Kraken supposed to be one of the curses that arises from climate change?
One shows up in Good Omens, but it’s angry about overfishing, not climate change per se.
Although, if global warming causes the methane clathrates on the seabeds to start bubbling up from the deep, we’ll wish all we had to deal with was a giant tentacled sea monster. Hell’s own positive feedback loop….
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BigJimSlade
@Rob: Well, it’s just a saying to change the (or introduce a new) topic, but they have done newsworthy things recently: trade all their stars away.
I do not understand the love for the old stadiums. Been to Comisky, Wrigley, Fenway, Yankee Stadium, Municipal. Yeah, the ones in the 60s and 70s were sterile. But sheesh, Comisky was the worst of those.
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CaseyL
@Ken: Interesting observation. I don’t think there are any DeSantis-like characters in the LaundryVerse; he’s evil, but a boring kind of evil.
I’m from Chicago, and just once before I go to meet my maker I want to hear someone say “How about those (first place!) White Sox” instead of “How about those Cubs”! Greetings fellow Sox fans!
He’s the one about whom one baseball scout said (paraphrased), “He knows where he’s sending the ball, otherwise there’d be dead guys all over the league” because his fastball was soooo fast.
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Ken
@James E Powell: I think [DeSantis] wants to get everyone to talk about something other than COVID.
Then he should do something to get it under control, instead of the opposite.
That’s Hans Wagner, dagnabit! That’s what his contemporaries called him, as anyone who has read Pitching In A Pinch or You Know Me, Al would know. I really want to know when they changed his nickname from Hans to Honus. And yes, this is the tiniest hill I will die on.
Walter Johnson is my man, since I noticed that he looked exactly like a character in a Popeye cartoon when he threw the ball.
Johnson is a personal favorite of mine, too. He has the rare distinction of reaching and staying in the majors without playing in the minors* and spending his entire major league career with one team.
*Technically speaking, he did play in the minors, but it was as a player-manager after his major league career was over. The next season he was back in the majors as manager of the Nationals.
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lol chikinburd
LaRussa notwithstanding: go motherfucking Sox.
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Darkrose
@mrmoshpotato: Bum won the game, but he’s still going to be sitting on his couch in October.
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Darkrose
@jalcirrus: Born and raised South Sider here. I wasn’t really that into baseball in 2005, so this year has been especially exciting, especially since my NL team is the Giants.
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Darkrose
@Peale: I never went to Comiskey, but I rode past there every day on my way to school. It was a dump. The problem was that US Cellular/Guaranteed Rate was built right before the retro park trend, so it’s just boring and has zero character.
My favorite non-Oracle ballpark so far is Petco; it’s clean and comfortable, and I love the Western Metal Supply Building.
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Darkrose
@Jerzy Russian: I’m happy the Giants got Bryant, but I do feel bad for Cubs fans. Your GM is a dick, and with the way he threw the players under the bus, I would be surprised to see any of them back as free agents.
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Geminid
Go Dodgers? I never thought I’d say it, but now that Max Scherzer is a Dodger, I guess I will every five days or so. Scherzer made his first start for LA last night and gave up two runs while striking out ten Astros, a particular target of animosity in LA. The fans really loved it when Scherzer fanned Jose Altuve three times.
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Mo MacArbie
Shit, I missed the White Sox thread? Well, thanks for the bullpen help, Cubbies. Enjoy Elk Grove’s own (no, the one in CA) Nicky Two-Strikes.
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Gin & Tonic
This afternoon I watched a guy from Georgia lift 265 kilograms over his head. It didn’t look like he had that much difficulty with it.
Thanks for the open thread.
Rob
What did the Cubs do?
Paul in St. Augustine
Does anyone have any idea what Ron DeSantis is hoping to accomplish in Flori-duh?
Princess Leia
Thank you for the palate cleanser!
germy
“How To Be A Detective” (1936)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-vWOCCN_DE
Robert Benchley explains how certain facial characteristics are related to criminal traits.
He also tells the story of various criminals. One man who burned down his house just for the pleasure of watching it burn. Another man, a doctor, (“Dr. Death”) who shot his patients as they walked into his office.
Catherine D.
@Rob: Suck?
japa21
@Rob:
They haven’t lost yet today. Of course game hasn’t started yet.
dmsilev
Bear Cub on the lam:
Ken
Fulfill his bargain with the Dread Lord Nyarlathotep by delivering 100,000 souls by midnight December 31?
Starfish
@Paul in St. Augustine: He is hoping to be President so he does not have to deal with climate change in Florida.
Rob
@Catherine D.: That’s their normal state?
Rob
@japa21:
:-)
Catherine D.
@Rob: Well, yes, but perhaps trying for new levels?
Rob
@Catherine D.: They are trying harder then?
(I don’t follow baseball fwiw)
Baud
You’re the best, WaterGirl.
PaulWartenberg
GO RAYS!
WaterGirl
@Rob: I’m from Chicago. That’s what you say when you want to change the subject: “How about those cubs?”
You can even say that in the middle of the winter. Just a polite but obvious way to say “I’m changing the subject.”
*I guess it’s not all that obvious if I have to explain it. :-)
mrmoshpotato
Well, they aren’t losing – yet.
skerry
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Sure Lurkalot
@Baud: And I was so looking forward to my dinner of doom and gloom.
Rob
@WaterGirl: Thanks for the explanation! I’m obviously not from Chicago and I don’t follow baseball (or really, any sports aside from international soccer).
Redshift
@Paul in St. Augustine:
Political power for himself, no matter the cost to anyone else. He’s gambling the MAGAts will be motivated enough by his pandering, and numerous enough, to get him reelected and make him the next TFG. He may also be dumb enough to believe his own bullshit, I have to idea
mrmoshpotato
Damn, the D’Backs beat the Giants last night.
Daaaammmmmnnnnn!!!!!
WaterGirl
@Baud: That’s why I’m your *favorite. :-)
*except for all the others
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Dear god….
WaterGirl
@Rob: I say it even though I’m a White Sox girl!
Princess Leia
Speaking of Bears and Cubs- checkout the Bear cams from Katami NP on explore.org. Cutest cubs ever!
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Sorry!
edit: did you say that because you could sense that I was about to say that I am a White Sox fan?
Shalimar
@WaterGirl: Currently, the reaction it provokes is “oh shit, they sold the batboy, didn’t they ?”
PsiFighter37
Glad the Yankees got Anthony Rizzo from the Cubbies. Dude is raking right now.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: I have no part in the intramural Chicago baseball wars. It’s the resurfacing of the intra-Baudette rivalries that stuck in my craw.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I was actually referring to the fact that Baud sometimes tells Anne Laurie that she’s the best. Or TaMara.
But I can see why you assumed what you did.
mrmoshpotato
Bring back the Federal League!
GO WHALES!
mrmoshpotato
@Shalimar:
ROFLMAO!!!
Darkrose
@WaterGirl: Clearly you are a person of taste and discernment.
laura
@mrmoshpotato: Take heart comrade- the season is not over and the team is having a bit of fatigue and they’ve had a doozy of a slump in past years to come roaring back playing like a well oiled machine and won the World Series. Hang in there – let’s root root root for the Gigantes and hope for an outcome like 2014.
mrmoshpotato
M. Bouffant
@germy: Thanks. Benchley rules.
mrmoshpotato
@laura: I was just noting the worst team beating the best team.
It would be nice if the Cubs realized there are still two months of ball games left.
(And if the Brewers, Reds and Cards all imploded now.)
frosty
@Ken: Speaking of which, someone posted a joke about DeSantis and Satan earlier this week with a play on the names and a punch line that Satan wasn’t as evil. Does anyone remember it?
mrmoshpotato
Who else is “enjoying” the cicadas’ racket?
frosty
@WaterGirl:
Or in the local vernacular: How ’bout dem O’s. With O pronounced something like AO.
And about dem O’s, they may be at the bottom but they beat the Yankees this week. I was a rabid fan in the 80s until they moved to Camden Yards and I couldn’t walk to the games at Memorial Stadium any more.
Benw
@WaterGirl: I was living in Chicago (southside, so naturally adopted the Sox) when the White Sox won the series! We took our 1 year old son to the parade and he was fascinated by the shredded paper flying everywhere and then fell asleep. :)
persistentillusion
@WaterGirl:
Go White Sox! //former soutsider
persistentillusion
@WaterGirl: Yay! Another Sox fan!
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Gin & Tonic:
When did Vasily Alekseyev move to Georgia?
brantl
My mom was a Cubs fan, (we lived near Chicago, for a while) and she became a Cubs fan for life, and thought Earnie Banks was one of the greatest ball players to ever play the game, and that Ron Santo was an asshole. She was right, in both cases. I can always remember Steve Goodman singing about the Cubs.
persistentillusion
@Benw:
Back in the day, we had season tix and knew all the cops who moonlighted as security at Comiskey. Old Comiskey, the next stadium is terrible. Moved to CO in disgust.
WaterGirl
@Benw: Nice!
WaterGirl
@brantl: Love Steve Goodman. Got to see him live a coupe of times.
JCJ
@mrmoshpotato: As it is going the Brew Crew will get done in by COVID with so many players on the injured list due to positive tests.
raven
@brantl: Sweet Swingin Billy Williams . .
mrmoshpotato
@JCJ: Oh? Milwaukee’s taking after last year’s Cardinals?
JML
My University announced on Tuesday a protocol for determining if they would have to institute a mask mandate indoors on campus, based on the transmission rates in the locality. Today, they announced the mask mandate would go into effect on Thurs because they tracked 4 consecutive days of transmission rates that were over the line. (The vaxx rates in the tri-county area the university is smack in the middle of are…not good. 50% or less)
Since they ended all telework arrangements it’s the only way to have a chance to keep people safe. Sadly, even at an institution of higher learning, we have people that are proudly refusing the get vaxx’d and won’t wear masks since “they don’t have to”. At least with the universal mandate it should sweep in these tools.
Unfortunately for me, I share an office with someone who is still among the un-vaxx’d. They’ve had some health issues, so I’ve been trying to be kind and understanding…but I’m reaching my limit. Especially when they declared that people just don’t know what effects these vaccines will have because they’re all so new and no one really knows what effect they’ll have. Said person wants to keep doing their own research. Said person is not a scientist and has no medical background at all. What are the odds they’ll seek out or understand credible research and information? (My only hope is I know they’re a committed lefty and hates Trump)
UGH. I hate humanity.
Gravenstone
Why you gotta be so hurtful, WG?
JCJ
@persistentillusion: Old Comiskey was amazing. I was 15 the first time I went there. I had been to Wrigley Field and Riverfront Stadium (Cincinnati) before that. I got hooked on the Sox.
Gravenstone
@Shalimar: Anyone else remember when they fired the ball girl back in the mid-80s for appearing in Playboy?
Dan B
@Paul in St. Augustine: The Rapture? *
He is a Krazy Kristian as I understand.
*May get the collapse of the Condoes of
BabelLibertarian Inspection or Noah’s Cruise 2.0 instead of Governing by rigid ideology.Jerzy Russian
I have been a Cubs fan since circa 1983 when we first got cable TV. Our package had WGN in Chicago and WTBS in Atlanta. Back then, the Cubs played a lot of day games, so I watched a lot of them.
It was sad to see the core players (Rizzo, Bryant, Baez, etc.). On the other hand, the team was in 4th place and going nowhere (relatively speaking). At some point, something had to change.
H.E.Wolf
I’ve been using up old stamps on postcards (yep, writing for http://PostcardsToVoters.org again), and I found a bunch of old 33-cent stamps with baseball greats of yore.
Honus Wagner*, Christy Matthewsen, Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Walter Johnson, and the like.
*upon whom I have a crush
Gin & Tonic
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Alekseyev isn’t going anywhere, seeing as he’s been dead for 10 years.
Benw
@persistentillusion: a ballpark drove you out!
Delk
The ricketts turned Wrigleyville into an overpriced Disneyland and used their money to make that anti-Hillary movie. I worked at Halsted and Waveland for over 20 years.
Dan B
@Gin & Tonic: Sorry, but I’m imagining what it would be like if this weight lifting god got a charlie horse. 265 kilos is almost 600 pounds. A comment was that he lifted the equivalent of a small Camel over his head.
L85NJGT
Charlie Watts isn’t touring.
Anybody remember The Rolling Stones? We have two of them!
Peale
@mrmoshpotato: the brewers just paid cash to get John Axeford to be their closer, who started the year as a color analyst for the Blue Jays. He can still throw 98 they said. Don’t worry that Hader is on the COVID DL, they said. And he came into the game. Lumbered in greybearded to thunderous applause. Threw one pitch that reached 98. Injured his arm doing it and is now on the DL himself.
WaterGirl
@Gravenstone: What did I say?
L85NJGT
@Delk:
They thought they had a money printer, and spent way too much on an ancient stadium and muscling rooftop owners out.
A CableTV network like the Yankees. Brilliant!
Jackmac
How about them White Sox! (Sorry, late to thread)
Yutsano
Meh. Contact me when the Kraken drop the puck.
Jim Appleton
OT:
Out here in Oregon, I’m hearing caws of fledgling crows. A special time of year for me.
Brings back memories of when I lived in downtown Portland twenty years ago. North Park blocks. The nest was on the north side of the old Customs House on Everet St.
A not quite fledged crow fell out of a nest across the street from me.
His/her parents were freaked out and very defensive of busy pedestrian and vehicle passersby.
They spent all their energy defending this one chick, who had no food from them.
I began feeding the parents. I heard less complaining from the chick, who was now known as Russel.
After a few days s/he was continent and well fed in the park across from my condo.
Then flying.
Then I was walking across the street when a cop car crushed Russel. I stopped the cop, who shrugged and said shit happens.
Dan B
@Yutsano: There’s something very strange with the Kraken playing at Climate Change Arena.
Aren’t the Kraken supposed to be one of the curses that arises from climate change?
FYI: Happy for the name of the arena.
persistentillusion
@JCJ:
New Comiskey, not so much. No soul, fewer amenities, parking was extractive.
persistentillusion
@Benw: Screaming, and I haven’t been much of a bball fan since. (CO, the the Rockies, who make the Cubs look like a real team). Switched to hockey as both collegiate and pro are great or semi-great here.
persistentillusion
@persistentillusion:
ETA, double “the the” a sure sign that a sign-off is in order.
Tehanu
@H.E.Wolf: Walter Johnson is my man, since I noticed that he looked exactly like a character in a Popeye cartoon when he threw the ball.
As for the Cubs, jeez, talk about a fire sale. However, Anthony Rizzo seems to be thriving in Da Bronx.
Yutsano
@Dan B: It all ties in with each other. The Kraken arise from Climate Change arena. The circle completes.
Ken
One shows up in Good Omens, but it’s angry about overfishing, not climate change per se.
Although, if global warming causes the methane clathrates on the seabeds to start bubbling up from the deep, we’ll wish all we had to deal with was a giant tentacled sea monster. Hell’s own positive feedback loop….
BigJimSlade
@Rob: Well, it’s just a saying to change the (or introduce a new) topic, but they have done newsworthy things recently: trade all their stars away.
NotMax
L85NJGT
You mean when they were the beach boys?
:)
Peale
I do not understand the love for the old stadiums. Been to Comisky, Wrigley, Fenway, Yankee Stadium, Municipal. Yeah, the ones in the 60s and 70s were sterile. But sheesh, Comisky was the worst of those.
CaseyL
@Ken: Interesting observation. I don’t think there are any DeSantis-like characters in the LaundryVerse; he’s evil, but a boring kind of evil.
L85NJGT
@NotMax
Yikes, but look at the rest of them – you just gotta say no when your publicist recommends a beach photo shoot.
cain
@Jim Appleton:
Dammit, please add a warning that there would be a sad ending!!! :( :(
James E Powell
@Paul in St. Augustine:
I’m guessing a guy in St. Augustine would know better than me in SoCal, but I think he wants to get everyone to talk about something other than COVID.
James E Powell
@PsiFighter37:
Fuck the fucking Yankees and Fuck Anthony Rizzo.
-a bitter Cleveland
IndiansGuardians fan.Benw
@persistentillusion: cool, nice you enjoy hockey!
jalcirrus
I’m from Chicago, and just once before I go to meet my maker I want to hear someone say “How about those (first place!) White Sox” instead of “How about those Cubs”! Greetings fellow Sox fans!
H.E.Wolf
“Big Train”! :) I have a crush on him too.
He’s the one about whom one baseball scout said (paraphrased), “He knows where he’s sending the ball, otherwise there’d be dead guys all over the league” because his fastball was soooo fast.
Ken
Then he should do something to get it under control, instead of the opposite.
Roger Moore
@mrmoshpotato:
Go Terrapins!
Roger Moore
@H.E.Wolf:
That’s Hans Wagner, dagnabit! That’s what his contemporaries called him, as anyone who has read Pitching In A Pinch or You Know Me, Al would know. I really want to know when they changed his nickname from Hans to Honus. And yes, this is the tiniest hill I will die on.
Roger Moore
@Tehanu:
Johnson is a personal favorite of mine, too. He has the rare distinction of reaching and staying in the majors without playing in the minors* and spending his entire major league career with one team.
*Technically speaking, he did play in the minors, but it was as a player-manager after his major league career was over. The next season he was back in the majors as manager of the Nationals.
lol chikinburd
LaRussa notwithstanding: go motherfucking Sox.
Darkrose
@mrmoshpotato: Bum won the game, but he’s still going to be sitting on his couch in October.
Darkrose
@jalcirrus: Born and raised South Sider here. I wasn’t really that into baseball in 2005, so this year has been especially exciting, especially since my NL team is the Giants.
Darkrose
@Peale: I never went to Comiskey, but I rode past there every day on my way to school. It was a dump. The problem was that US Cellular/Guaranteed Rate was built right before the retro park trend, so it’s just boring and has zero character.
My favorite non-Oracle ballpark so far is Petco; it’s clean and comfortable, and I love the Western Metal Supply Building.
Darkrose
@Jerzy Russian: I’m happy the Giants got Bryant, but I do feel bad for Cubs fans. Your GM is a dick, and with the way he threw the players under the bus, I would be surprised to see any of them back as free agents.
Geminid
Go Dodgers? I never thought I’d say it, but now that Max Scherzer is a Dodger, I guess I will every five days or so. Scherzer made his first start for LA last night and gave up two runs while striking out ten Astros, a particular target of animosity in LA. The fans really loved it when Scherzer fanned Jose Altuve three times.
Mo MacArbie
Shit, I missed the White Sox thread? Well, thanks for the bullpen help, Cubbies. Enjoy Elk Grove’s own (no, the one in CA) Nicky Two-Strikes.