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So Mom's surgery went great. So why this thread? Because after dinner, we got a call that a huge tree on our property had been blown over by high winds. Took out a fence and power lines but no houses or living things. Wife is flying back 3 days early to stay taking care of things. The good news is that Delta waived ask change fees for the flight so that was nice.

Nope, that dude doesn't deserve to be fired. Nope, not at all.

Roseanne is a show I never watched when t was on originally but caught in reruns and was stunned at how good it was. For most of its run, it was the most realistic sitcom of all-time and was flat out funny as hell.

Ebbets has already announced that they'll have Portland Mavericks stuff soon. However, since they only do flannels, they won't be doing jerseys for the Mavericks (who wore double knit).

Just get a shell replacement for Windows 8 and it'll behave exactly like Windows 7. That's what I did and it's worked out great.

In general, the unwritten rules are A-OK by me. But this one is just mystifying and stupid.

What motivated them to "report" you in the first place? Did they take your "novel idea" as some kind of legit threat? It just sounds so out of left field, especially with you being so blase about it.

WTF. What's the rest of the story that you're not telling us?

Soria has been pretty good this year. 2.67 ERA and 40k in 30 IP. Not bad at all. Not Huston Street but not bad. It sounds like they're planning to stick with Joe Nathan as the closer. Nathan HAS been better of late but still far from good. Even when he's not giving up runs, he has very few 1-2-3 saves. They're also supposedly looking at Joaquin Benoit who was with Detroit last year and was very good. He's been great this year. I'd be OK with him too. Or both guys.

Cross-posting from the movie forum because it applies here: The Battered Bastards of Baseball - Netflix-original documentary on the mid-70s minor league baseball team, the Portland Mavericks. The Mavs were founded and owned by Bing Russell, of Bonanza fame and father of Kurt Russell. Bing was a lifelong baseball fan who spent much of his childhood hanging out with the likes of Lefty Gomez, Joe Dimaggio and Lou Gehrig of the Yankees. After the 1972 season, the AAA Portland Beavers left Oregon for greener pastures elsewhere. A void was created and Bing created the Mavericks to fill it. The Mavericks would play in the short-season A Northwest League (home to my beloved Spokane Indians). Unlike every other team on the planet, they would be independent with no affiliation to any major league team. As a result, they grabbed players from wherever they could, including open tryouts. Their guys were older and (mostly) had no illusions about making a career out of it. So they were there to have fun. And they did. And their fans loved them for it. They were very successful, winning 4 division titles in 5 seasons while facing blowback from the major leagues. They do this against a backdrop of intrigue (major league teams sending higher-level players down for the playoffs against Portland to keep them from winning a championship) and controversy, all while having a blast. The whole movie is a good time and features interviews with several of the key figures (Bing Russell died in 2003, unfortunately), including Kurt Russell and Todd Field (director of 5-time Academy Award nominee, In the Bedroom). Field was the batboy for the Mavs. Anyway, this is great, and anybody who likes a good story in general, or sports specifically, should watch it. 9/10.

This showed up in an email from Netflix and, before I could even start watching it, my wife had already watched it twice and was yelling at me to watch it with her. So here goes: The Battered Bastards of Baseball - Netflix-original documentary on the mid-70s minor league baseball team, the Portland Mavericks. The Mavs were founded and owned by Bing Russell, of Bonanza fame and father of Kurt Russell. Bing was a lifelong baseball fan who spent much of his childhood hanging out with the likes of Lefty Gomez, Joe Dimaggio and Lou Gehrig of the Yankees. After the 1972 season, the AAA Portland Beavers left Oregon for greener pastures elsewhere. A void was created and Bing created the Mavericks to fill it. The Mavericks would play in the short-season A Northwest League (home to my beloved Spokane Indians). Unlike every other team on the planet, they would be independent with no affiliation to any major league team. As a result, they grabbed players from wherever they could, including open tryouts. Their guys were older and (mostly) had no illusions about making a career out of it. So they were there to have fun. And they did. And their fans loved them for it. They were very successful, winning 4 division titles in 5 seasons while facing blowback from the major leagues. They do this against a backdrop of intrigue (major league teams sending higher-level players down for the playoffs against Portland to keep them from winning a championship) and controversy, all while having a blast. The whole movie is a good time and features interviews with several of the key figures (Bing Russell died in 2003, unfortunately), including Kurt Russell and Todd Field (director of 5-time Academy Award nominee, In the Bedroom). Field was the batboy for the Mavs. Anyway, this is great, and anybody who likes a good story in general, or sports specifically, should watch it. 9/10.

Street has been excellent this year. He'd look good wearing the Olde English 'D'.

Might explain it but he still deserved to get canned.

Man, you gotta be really, really, really out of touch to not have heard "Happy". That song's only been...everywhere...for several months. And that's coming from a guy that never listens to the radio.

I'd fire the guy for the "drop dead" comment too.

I think the over/under has to be like...1. Bonus points for anybody posing wearing a bloody white suit.

And you also get the Red Zone channel, which is basically the NFL laced with crack and coated with chocolate. The IOS and console versions don't get you Red Zone.

The inevitable apology: If that guy worked for me, he would not even have gotten a chance to issue an apology. He'd be fired immediately. Substitute a racial slur in place of "bitch" - do you think the guy would still have a job?

Well yes and no You can only get the streaming service in you live somewhere that DirecTV can't be installed USA TODAY Boooooo. Not that I was going to subscribe anyway but the "no DirecTV" thing was appealing. Since I had DirecTV service just a month ago, I can't exactly claim I can't get it

So Erin Andrews has apparently gotten some flack for her interview of Adam Wainwright during the All-Star Game the other night. Apparently she was supposed to grill Wainwright for saying he grooved pitches to Derek Jeter instead of just asking him about it and accepting his explanation. This led to Kirk Minihane of NESN to say: Nothing sexist, or just plain subhuman, about that at all. Look, I get the blowback against Erin Andrews. But it's pretty safe to say Minihane wouldn't have said anything remotely similar if it was a guy interviewing Wainwright. Here's the full quote:

I just had that issue myself. Uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes did the trick.

Is that different than the SF2 Tribute table? Because that made it over.

Looks like a lipstick tube to me.

Not formally announced yet but still publicly available news: NFL Sunday Ticket will be available this year on iOS/Mac ($199.99) and game consoles ($239.99) without a DirecTV subscription.

I swear I did NOT write or contribute to that article. #possiblybeingtruthful Have I ever mentioned that I might have taught Jeter when he was in high school? Part of my training to be a teacher took place at Kalamazoo Central when Jeets was there.