In case you’ve never met me before, that’s my go-to when it’s time to change the subject.
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In case you’ve never met me before, that’s my go-to when it’s time to change the subject.
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Baud
Oh God. Them winning the World Series is what caused all this mess.
debbie
Took you longer than I expected. ;)
Alison Rose
I like sport.
Elizabelle
I’m just relieved there are not animals in this thread. Seriously.
JPL
When first grand imp was a few months old, I discovered the one song that would soothe him, and now grand imp two enjoys it..
Hate me if you must but it works. Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog from The Muppet Movie – YouTube
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud:
This is true. That, and the deaths of Bowie and Prince.
JPL
@Elizabelle: Sorry.. I just linked to a frog.
WaterGirl
@debbie: Not sure if that’s a dig or a compliment.
Omnes Omnibus
@Alison Rose:
I am not sure how convincing that was.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Right. Real fans fall it sportsball.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
More of a gentle jibe.
frosty
@Baud: That was my first thought, too. I haven’t been paying attention but PLEASE don’t let them be winning a playoff game!
@WaterGirl: Local variant: “How ’bout dem O’s?” [imagine O pronounced with at least 3 vowel sounds]. It used to be more fun to follow the Orioles. I can’t believe how bad they’ve gotten.
scav
@JPL: I’m not sure a critter-free thread on BJ is actually possible, even theoretically.
bbleh
@JPL: Oh no, my sister plays that for HER grandson, over and over AND over. And she runs a Montessori with toddlers, so she knows what she’s doing. Just kill me now.
Benw
Braves-Brewers is coming down to the wire.
Baud
@frosty:
Cubs aren’t in it. White Socks are.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud:
All the side-eyes!
debbie
@Alison Rose:
I love how the BBC refers to their athletic coverage as sport. “And now here’s Niles with all the sport.”
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: *Sox
mrmoshpotato
@Benw: Go Braves!
WaterGirl
@scav: I must have missed something When did we stop liking animals?
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
Socksball.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I’m actually a White Sox fan.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: I am sure it happened in the last thread.
mrmoshpotato
@frosty:
Cubs decided not to play the second half of the season, ie. decided to suck.
And most of the team is gone. Free agency I think.
JPL
@bbleh: Ha, What ever it takes.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
So is Obama.
scav
@WaterGirl: Never! That’s why I was slightly confused about @Elizabelle:
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Mexican potato in my belly – soon.
Time for an Aldi run.
WaterGirl
I added a video up top in case anyone is in the mood for an argument.
Yutsano
@WaterGirl:
They know what they did.
cope
@Elizabelle: According to a promoted Google response to my query, a cub is “…a young carnivorous mammal such as a lion, tiger or bear.” There’s your critter content.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: What’s a mexican potato?
Omnes Omnibus
FWIW I think I am getting my mom a Rowdy Tellez shirt for her birthday.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I knew I liked that guy!
Baud
@WaterGirl:
He’s alright.
laura
Let’s go Giants! Beat LA!
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: At least you aren’t a Cards fan like my godparents who live about 20 miles from Saint Louis – but in Illinois!
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I didn’t know what that was, so I googled.
He is apparently an athlete. Baseball, I take it?
sdhays
@WaterGirl: I used to like white socks, but anymore I prefer black or gray.
My son likes socks with trains on them.
WaterGirl
@sdhays: Either your son is a character, or you are younger than I would have guessed!
TheflipPsyD
Thanks for the change of subject :-) I wrote this long comment for the thread below and it got borked on my tablet. So, I will be much briefer here, and just say that I am so grateful for having all of you in my (virtual) life. This place has gotten me through some really rough times in the past almost 20 years.
Today, I had such a horrendous bout of acid indigestion after reading about 5 articles on a variety of horrible things happening in our country, that I honestly thought I was going to have to go to the hospital or was going to die from the pain. Luckily, neither happened. I am a natural pessimist, and so my dissertation included a whole section on learned optimism. I need occasional reminders to follow the steps to being optimistic. And so, I did my usual roundup when things get bad.
I work with kids in the system — both the juvenile delinquency and child protective services. These kids have been through so much trauma, and often when they are feeling depressed and stressed, we’ll brainstorm ways to help them feel better. Invariably, I will make a challenge to them — and generally, the challenge is not refused — because they really want to prove me wrong. I’ve done this with kids 5 through college age — about 20/21. I admit I’ve never challenged an adult and had them actually do it in the office with me. I challenge them to skip across the room without cracking a smile. Each has done it — multiple times — to prove me wrong. So far, I have won the challenge every time, because how can you not smile doing something so ridiculous?
So, I challenge all my fellow BJers to skip across the room and try not to crack even the tiniest of smiles (probably best in privacy, and since this is the place of naked mopping, clothes are optional). And once you start smiling, it is really hard no to start laughing, and then it’s hard not to feel better.
Thanks for being my sanity, especially during the Bush and Trump years.
ETA fixed typo
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: He is a player for the Brewers. My mom originally couldn’t stand him when the team acquired him. But he keeps hitting home runs.
mrmoshpotato
The Astros should have to dodge rolling trash cans while playing – Donkey Kong-style!
Old Man Shadow
@WaterGirl: No, you didn’t.
ArchTeryx
There are times I just need to retreat to different worlds. So splitting some time between working on my alien Storm City and reading the last of the Griffin Ranger trilogy, which appears to be a cross between the building of their Earth’s Panama Canal and the Shaka Zulu story, with our horribly broken hero Harrell White-Shoulders stuck in the middle as per usual.
gene108
@debbie:
For them, athletics is track. It’s strange.
Omnes Omnibus
@TheflipPsyD:
My right knee is sore and I need to run tomorrow. I hope you don’t mind if I skip skipping.
sdhays
@WaterGirl: How old do you think I am?
Steeplejack
Some soothing jazz: John Basile, “Stop, Look, Listen (to Your Heart).”
Alison Rose
@Omnes Omnibus: TBH I’m not the biggest fanatic but I like soccer and baseball is fun, too. I was just trying to sound as bland and inoffensive as possible. The blog could use that sometimes.
Baud
@TheflipPsyD:
Holy shit! That’s your brief comment!
And you’re welcome.
Omnes Omnibus
Woohoo! Brewers win!
WaterGirl
@TheflipPsyD: I had never pronounced your name out loud (in my head) before. I like it!
Glad you are here and that you were able to distract yourself from your tummy woes.
WaterGirl
@Old Man Shadow: Nicely done! You almost caught me. I thought “yes, I did” and started to scroll up to make sure. :-)
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Congrats!
TheflipPsyD
@Baud: I write 20 page psych evals for a living — that’s just cocktail chatter for me ;-)
WaterGirl
@sdhays: I would have said 50+, but I am apparently wrong.
In my defense, 50+ isn’t a bad guess around here. I am always grateful for the people who talk of their young or youngish kids. It’s a good reminder that there’s more to life than what is wrong with politics.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I used to work for a fellow who liked to say:
“Why use a word when a paragraph will do?”
TheflipPsyD
@WaterGirl: Thanks Watergirl — it was the name of the newsletter for my psych program
Baud
@TheflipPsyD:
Oooh. Do me!
Baud
@WaterGirl:
You worked with Tony Jay in real life?
TheflipPsyD
@WaterGirl: He supervised me as an intern
Benw
@Omnes Omnibus: oof, congrats. I’m bummed for the Braves, but it came down to 90 ft at the end, so it was a fun game
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Twenty pages would be insufficient.
japa21
@Omnes Omnibus:
Hader did what he usually does when he hasn’t pitched for a while. Makes it interesting. And yes, Rowdy, Rowdy, Rowdy.
Omnes Omnibus
@Benw:
Thanks. I want a sweep of the championships by WI teams this year. Pro, of course. UW is so, so out of it.
Omnes Omnibus
@japa21: Making it interesting is fine. Making it exciting is bad.
frosty
@WaterGirl:
Whew! American League all the way (except for that verdammt DH). And the FTFYs of course. And the Red Sox too, now that I think about it.
TheflipPsyD
@Omnes Omnibus: :-) See — that’s what I love about here. Everyone is so quick and witty
frosty
@mrmoshpotato: Well, I’m a Ravens and Orioles fan in PA a couple miles north of the Mason-Dixon line … but then south central has always been more Baltimore-centric. Pittsburgh is too far away and Philly is on the wrong side of the river. Seriously, I see Steelers flags in my neighborhood but I’ve never seen anything indicating there are Eagles fans around.
stacib
@mrmoshpotato: TRUTH! As a diehard Cubs fan who wallows in all things about the boys in blue, I got tricked by the headline . :-)
Sure Lurkalot
@TheflipPsyD: Good advice…on the bike path today, I saw a guy, he wasn’t jogging, walking or blading, he was skipping, so it’s good exercise too.
I used to do research for a crazy lady and spent some time looking into Laughter Yoga and the power of laughter generally. Apparently, even faking laughter releases the same pleasure chemicals as the real deal.
sdhays
@WaterGirl: I still have a ways to go before I reach that milestone.
A few years ago, my wife and I were hosting a 13 year old for a weekend and then dropped him off a camp for a week. I signed him in and the counselor referred to me as the kid’s dad. I laughed and said I’m not old enough to be his father. And then I did the math, and if my wife and I had had a kid after we graduated from college, we could have had a kid that age.
It was very sobering. But we still didn’t have a kid for a couple more years.
Darkrose
@Baud: Thank you! I’d said for years that if the Cubs ever won the World Series, it would start the apocalpyse, and look what happened.
japa21
@Omnes Omnibus: The wife, who is a die hard Cub fan, but supports my Brewer habit, couldn’t watch the last pitch. That’s not exciting, that’s terrifying.
WaterGirl
@Baud: hahahahaha
Darkrose
@mrmoshpotato: They traded the core of the 2016 team before they hit free agency.
japa21
@frosty:
Don’t worry, the Rays appear to be effing the Red Sox just fine.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: What do you think of the (basically) strike by hispanics that is set for Monday in Wisconsin?
No school, no work, no shopping, no spending, etc.
In protest because of those who want the Dems to ditch citizenship, etc in the BIF.
edit: I don’t know if it’s all of Wisconsin, or just the areas that Voces de la Frontera works in.
WaterGirl
@sdhays: So you’re 30?
Benw
@Omnes Omnibus:
Don’t get cocky. kid!
japa21
@Benw: Not cocky. Fairly realistic.
mrmoshpotato
@Darkrose:
You get to share all the side-eyes with Baud! ??
JPL
@WaterGirl: hah Only if they graduated from college at seventeen or something. I assume they are thirty five or thirty six
I only hope that we find out..
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I said that at the time.
Ruviana
So no one’s answered the question about the Mexican potato yet?
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl:
@Ruviana: Didn’t see it.
Giant baked potato from Buffalo Joe’s in Evanston, IL.
Chili, cheese, sour cream, jalapeno peppers, and tortilla chips!
Off to get some chili, chips and jalapenos.
MagdaInBlack
@Ruviana: No. And I’ve been waiting so patiently
Eta: nm, he appeared with our answer ?
dnfree
At our house it’s frustration over the White Sox.
Geminid
@WaterGirl: Are you sure it’s the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill people are upset about? I thought Democrats proposed to add immigration reform to the Reconciliation bill.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Took me over an hour to get my flu vax, I’m for single payer now.
The Pale Scot
@JPL:
It’s Friday, how about something more upbeat?
Pöpcørn, Recipes with The Swedish Chef
Put Down the Duckie (All-Star Assemble)
Wakeshift
@Darkrose:
My family is watching Back to the Future II right now, and the Cubs winning the series was one of the “surprising future events”
In 2015
?
?
I’m convinced you’re right, is what I’m saying.
The Pale Scot
@Baud:
Ha, “It’s in the whole”
Persistent Illusion
@mrmoshpotato: Thank you mrmoshpotato, as a former season ticket holder ( a very long time ago, during both the time when they sucked and that brief and shining moment when they didn’t).
The Pale Scot
@Ruviana:
Peeled and boiled in Dos Equis Amber
JPL
@The Pale Scot: I love that.
Hildebrand
So glad to see the Brewers win. My hope is that they make it all the way so I can listen to Bob Uecker call one more World Series.
zhena gogolia
YouTube offered me this nice video of Andy Williams singing Scarborough Fair with Simon and Garfunkel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_T7HgZKZjo
Weapon X
@frosty: We’re here. It’s just that the Steelers fans are so obnoxious we get drowned out.
w
Sports go sports! I promise I totally care who wins! (Garfunkel and Oates reference)
Peale
I guess I’d be a bad manager. I’d have sat Tellez so that Urias could start at 3rd. And then Tellez turns into a gold glove first baseman and power hitting stud.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: I think it makes a point.
Omnes Omnibus
@Benw:
No other state’s teams have a chance.
Omnes Omnibus
@Peale:
I wouldn’t second guess Counsell this year.
frosty
@Hildebrand:
Uecker, on going back to call the games in 2020:
debbie
@frosty:
It’s great to know he’s still around!
Another Scott
As expected, …
Grrr…
(via CharlesPPierce)
Cheers,
Scott.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@frosty: Dude still thinks his seats are in the front row.
Alison Rose
@Wakeshift: The Tr*mp stand-in in that one sure hits different now, don’t it? Oy…
trollhattan
@Baud:
Phrasing!
VeniceRiley
The fiancé is an expert at changing the subject and distracting. She is professionally trained. Just today she got someone off their oppositional defiance just by asking a prisoner what his first name is and then asking if he needs bags to pack his things.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: LOL!
frosty
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Uecker was one of the best things about the movie “Major League”.
oatler
@frosty:
…and leads the league in nostril hair. Guy sneezes and he looks like a party favor !
Tony Jay
@Baud:
Brevity don’t drain no bile ducts.
Also, your 2024 acceptance speech is now going to run to 18000 pages and will include no less than three anecdotal digressions into the wacky world of lint-weaving.
WaterGirl
@Geminid: You are correct. It was the reconciliation bill. Either way, they are mad as hell and they aren’t going to take it anymore
And rightfully so.