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  1. 2 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

    And this is actually a pretty big issue because the cost to fix the roof is gonna be into the 9 figures apparently. Which of course, with a new stadium coming, the Rays really, really, REALLY don't want to spend.

    And without a drainage system the Trop is unusable. So the Rays might just be really screwed here 

    play in Buffalo.

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  2. Commissioner Kevin Hart is on the case he will launch an official investigation into how this one bad apple could find his way into MLB.

    Also get $500 free with your first bet on Draftkings.com

    AI Joe Dimaggio (a subsidiary of  freeloansrussia.ru) says: "There's good people on both sides....wait, what...oh yeah...I love this product!"

    MLB!!!!! "It's all that's left in about a week!"

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  3. 5 hours ago, Kevin Wilson said:

    I couldn't help but laugh at this line, this can't be right, can it? Like statistically it just feels unlikely unless he was doing 90% massive parlays.  

    "Marcano bet almost exclusively on the outcomes of games and lost all of his parlay bets involving the Pirates, winning just 4.3% of all of his MLB-related bets, according to the league."

    He'll be fine. Nate Silver will hire him to forecast the presidential race.

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  4. 4 hours ago, Travis Sheldon said:

    I volunteer to show him how to download Uber and Lyft.

    Can't imagine being around him for hours.

    Wait for Lenny to be left stranded because his drivers gave up.

    I'm amazed no one is volunteering specifically just so they can drive him to an empty field and leave him there.

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  5. Has anyone ever had the miserable experience of sitting through a sporting event watching on t.v. with a bunch of people while that one guy has money riding on the game and suddenly he's sitting there like Jake LaMotta the whole time?

    It's not fun. Sports gamblers are among the least fun people to watch anything with. It's tense and kind of ugly and sucks the joy out of the room.

    So yeah let's bring that to every social space we possible can.

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  6. On 6/2/2024 at 11:44 AM, zendragon said:

    May be an image of 1 person and hat

    Can we get a fashion watch?

     

    We have a special request for a make-a-wish from a very special message board poster. If John goddamn Cena can put on the old jorts to do a make-a-wish then goddammit I can pretend it is 2013 again too.

    SO IT IS..

     

    BATISTA FASHION WAAAAAAAAAAAAÂSATCHHHHHH

    Spoiler

    Cosplaying as Lewis Dodgson who has been waiting in Venice to meet Dennis Nedry and collect that fucking Barbasol can for 30 years now. So far no one has recognized him, largely because as a great man once told him "See, nobody cares."

     

    a woman calls out annoyed, calling out from a cafe a few steps away: "Dave, are you pretending to be Dodgson again? Can we take one vacation without this."

    Dave: "What? Dodgwhat? I don't know what you're talking about. I'm just taking int the sights. Hey, if you see a guy in a really loud Hawaiian shirt let me know."

    "Why, Dave? Does he have something for you?"

    "Huh? No, I just thought I saw a guy I knew that's all."

    [she reaches out and takes Dave's hand. He takes off the hat] "You're not him, Dave. Nobody is. If I'm okay with that, then you should be too. No woman expects their man to be him. I mean, we think about it sure."

    "You're the best, babe." [puts his Dodgson hat back on] "But you shouldn't use my name. Not until all 15 species are off this island."

    [whispering to herself] "Why couldn't you just be a jock?"

     

     

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  7. This feels like the official end of what is probably my favorite cultural era of any kind in any art: the drvie-in/B-movie era of American cinema from around 1950 to, well I guess, to yesterday.

    I mean there are still cheap direct to tubi movies today I guess. But I don't think they are an extension of what he represented. With Roger's death, I think it's now a "historic genre."

     

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  8. 5 hours ago, Robert S said:

    That reminds me of a guy asking me in 1999 if he should invest in Amazon stock (he was older than me and knew that I was relatively tech-savvy) and I was "no way, who would ever trust the internet enough to buy stuff there?" (well, besides 5th generation wrestling tapes, I guess). To be fair, the Amazon stock prize fell significantly when the dot-com bubble burst and only started to really pick up a decade later, but still.

    Literally in 2001 at a party had a guy trying to convince me to buy apple stock the day the Ipod dropped by showing me a goddamned Ipod and I was so impressed with my new "MP3-CD player" that I had bought the week before that I told him he was an idiot and that this was the future.

     

    Gadgets of days gone by: iRiver SlimX MP3-CD player | TechCrunchThis is it.

     

    Man the more I remember these things the more miserable I get. But my SLimX is still working and hooked up and about 7 ipods of various sizes and types are stacked away somewhere...but that's what they call a "Pyrrhic" victory I think.

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  9. On 4/26/2024 at 8:38 AM, Zakk_Sabbath said:

    I thought HD-DVD was going to take off because it had Xbox support and Blu-ray players were prohibitively expensive (until PS3 came out) -  we've all been there

    I stayed out of the stock market after 2008 because “the big meltdown is coming.”  Then I finally gave up and got back in, in early Feb 2020…

     

     

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  10. 17 hours ago, odessasteps said:

    There are plenty of stories nowadays about fishy games in the lower levels of sports around the world, just not the major leagues. If Asian betting syndicates can make their money fixing third tier Canadian or Malaysian soccer, which goes almost everyone’s radar but Declan Hill and company, why try and fix the Premier League or nfl? 

    Grigor Sargysan sees some dark potential in you, steps.

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