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We went very quickly from both LCS looking like sweeps to both needing seven games. Baseball is funny like that.
NLCS Game 7 tonight is a coin toss - there's no picking a sure winner. You hit or you don't; you throw strikes or you don't; your bullpen collapse is simultaneously the other team's "these guys never quit" heartwarming comeback. It's all random and all relative. I've seen the Phillies hit 11 dingers this postseason in person, and felt the stadium shake.
I adore my ragtag millionaires Philadelphian ball club, and I have my World Series tickets for Game 3; the only question left is whether I'll be using them on Monday, or if I'll be receiving a refund of said purchase instead.
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I have a soft spot for Moyer; it’s impressive to pitch that well across four different decades. I wish there was a Curiosities wing at the Hall of Fame for outliers like him and John.
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2 hours ago, Technico Support said:
Hitting the tilt-a-whirl in Wrestlefest was always a highlight.
"CRUSH - BACKBREAKER!"
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There's tattoos, and then there's that one guy:
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Last night's game in Philadelphia was worth every penny that I paid, and then some. And I'm glad that I wear earplugs, because the noise app on my watch registered 108 dB.
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I’m glad that the catcher interference run turned out to be irrelevant to the outcome; this was a huge victory for the Phillies.
And holy shit, Arizona just curbstomped Kershaw out of the game in 0.1 innings with 6 runs.
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I can’t really put into words how fun it was to rent a Betamax of “Best of the WWF Vol. 1/2/3/etc.” and hear the opening music kick in:
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Can confirm first-hand that Stott’s Slam resulted in the second-loudest reaction I’ve ever personally experienced in a baseball stadium (2022 NLDS Game 3 Hoskins HR/spike tops it slightly). My Apple watch spent the first hour of the game noting 100 dB measurements and warnings of my hearing loss; as I had worn earplugs, I was good to go, thankfully.
5 hours ago, Greggulator said:I think I am remembering that sound travels more at night?
5 hours ago, odessasteps said:Explosions/gunfire "noise pollution" travel much farther on overcast days.
My favorite atmospheric quirk is that AM radio travels farther during the night because its waves reflect off the ionosphere, so stations have to power down their transmitters’ strength at night to avoid interfering with each other’s broadcasts.
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8 hours ago, Greggulator said:
I think I sat for a total of one half inning the entire game. It is so wild to be at a baseball game where you get scolded for sitting.
My ancient carcass will be at tonight’s game, doing the polar opposite by remaining seated - row 1 for the win!
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Not too many players left who debuted during the aughts decade, either.
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14 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
“I gave my love a chicken…”
Dammit - you beat me to the joke.
I feel obliged to mention that the aforementioned “The Riddle Song” is quite lovely when not played for Animal House laughs; here is a Sam Cooke live version that is a mournful lullaby (this is also shortly after he lost his young son, which makes it hit heavier):
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Has anyone done a Fighting Spirit Eye Poke Exchange?
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20 hours ago, (BP) said:
They can’t legally stop him from bringing out a fridge on a dolly to the ring every week.
I for one welcome Punk bringing Schrödinger's belt with him each week and the quantum mechanics it leads us to ponder, until he finally opens the mini-fridge and sends us randomly into a multiverse wherein some have the belt in the fridge and in others the fridge is empty.
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Which Jade WWE debut idea is worse:
1. Once more interrupting Cody - “Yet again I’ve found you!” leading to a groan-inducing Brandi run-in.
2. 4-month 50/50 feud with Nia Jax.
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9 hours ago, Sparkleface said:
there are people who double dip on tickets by buying the cheapest possible ticket but then hitting the secondary market and getting a better seat at a cheaper price from someone who can no longer attend, because the double dip would still work out better price-wise than if they had bought the better seat at the initial value.
I am poised to do exactly this for Grand Slam, except that it won’t be the secondary market - I bought a $30 upper deck seat; the loge level was originally priced at $98, but they’ve now begun dropping it to $31.
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We watched WWF Championship Wrestling on a Philly UHF station, then held the rabbit ears antenna just so to re-watch it in half-snowy quality on WOR-9 to see the different house show interview inserts, and that’s the way it was and we LIKED it!
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10 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:
have any wrestlers ever ended up on the No Fly List
That’s only been in existence since 2001; much of the horrendous flight behavior pre-dated it.
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3 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
On a semi-punk related note, one of the best times I've ever had at a show was seeing the Rollins Band and having some dude drunkenly singing "Liar" in my face.
This reminded me that the only time I ever went into a mosh pit was during a Rollins Band show in 1992 in Florida while they were playing “Tearing”, which was the equivalent of throwing myself into a cement mixer.
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13 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
King Parsons and Keith Larson get interview time. Keith Larson tests the limits of letting literally anybody on the show get interview time (I can see the reason why they'd put almost anybody on TV to do interviews because how would you know which people are good at interviews if not). Parsons is very disappointed in Leroy Brown and he's better on the mic than Keith Larson.
I think the deal was that these jobber/JTTS interview segments were largely for the studio audience and would be replaced by insert ads for the local market house show.
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17 minutes ago, Octopus said:
Jungle Boy has to shave his head. I think that’s a fair punishment and future incident prevention.
They should use “Cry Me a River” as a jumping-off point for a punishment gimmick change for Perry to a moody 1950s-era torch song singer. Can he play a trumpet? Smash out his teeth, and baby you got a Chet Baker 2100 AD stew going.
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A bronzed Inoki towel awkwardly hung around the neck of the winner > cup/trophy
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1 hour ago, EVA said:
Emi doing her Freddie thing and bumping Karen Jarrett would’ve popped me, and probably 80,000 people.
Emi braining Karen with the Freddie Mercury broken mic stand would work nicely here.
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Terry Funk on Shotgun Saturday Night, challenging Todd Pettingill to a fight and telling him that his mother is a whore:
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