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Shoxthemonkey

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  1. Bull Durham Field of Dreams Moneyball 42 Major League
  2. That's RoyalVision to you, Mister.
  3. Let Zack Hit! https://www.royalsreview.com/2023/9/29/23895239/let-zack-hit The Alex Gordon story is well known but it's the first time I have heard the Buddy Bell/Allard Baird story. Good stuff.
  4. I thought that was Gladly, the cross-eyed bear.
  5. I want some of what this guy is smoking. This Royals Rebuild hasn't even oh, whatever
  6. Today I learned that Wordle would not recognize Wordle 831 3/6 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  7. If that is important to him, and I'm not sure it is, there will probably be some team that would sign him as a reliever. Hell, I wouldn't mind if the Royals brought him back in any capacity. I'm not sure I really mean that.
  8. Zac has been penciled in to start the last game in KC against the Yankees. Guess I was premature with the postmortem.
  9. I’m hoping that they will let him play SS in the last game and let him hit. He could have been a star there, too.
  10. Greinke induced a weak grounder to first for the 3rd out in the 5th, asked for the ball and waved to his wife in the stands. Royals lead 2-0. I think he’s done. One of a kind.
  11. Greinke vs Miggy for the 44th time ever and maybe the last. Sharp lineout to the RF corner.
  12. Good luck to you and your wife. I wanted to rec you but there isn't an appropriate emoji for what you have faced and your life going forward.
  13. Dammit! I should have posted. I saw that you commented in the hurricane thread about Lee and figured that's where you were. I have done a lot of hiking in Maine and have yet to see a snake.
  14. The low level statin caused stiffness and near paralysis in my legs. Even after I stopped the statin, the side effects continued for several weeks. Same situation for me, old doc retired and the new, young doc wanted me to do the statin because I'm Type II Diabetic. If you are getting by without it, I would recommend that you don't start it. The Cialis? No idea. I'm old but I don't need any outside help for that stiffness.
  15. November 5, 1988, a Saturday. My 12 yr old son and I were back in the timber of our property cutting firewood. My wife has gone to town to pick up our 10 yr old daughter from her mother's house (my MIL). An hour later, my cousin roars through our pasture honking his horn trying to find us. We run out and wave him to us. He lets me know that my wife has been in an accident and it isn't good. I ask a lot of questions but he doesn't have any answers. I don't know if she had already picked up the daughter or not. My son and I jump in my cousins truck and head to my wife's sister's house so I can drop off my son. We get there and she and I take her car and head to town, 15 miles away. On the way, we pass the scene of the accident. My wife's 85 Dodge Charger is in the ditch with a 3/4 ton flatbed farm truck sitting on top of it. The roof of the car is completely collapsed. I see no way that she could survive. We get to our small town hospital just as LifeWatch is leaving the helipad. I run into the Emergency room and our doctor meets me just inside. My wife was a nurse and has worked closely with him for several years. He turns me around and he and I get in his car and head for Wichita. On the way he tells me that she was alone in the car, she is unconscious but has no broken bones or visible trauma. At least my daughter is safe. We get to the hospital and the first person that we encounter is a neurosurgeon who tells me that she is in a coma and might need immediate surgery to relieve brain swelling and I have to sign a mountain of paperwork. This begins a 3 week stay in ICU. They never have to do the surgery but she doesn't come out of the coma until almost Thanksgiving. Once she is conscious again, they are able to assess the level of TBI and set the wheels in motion for the rehab that will follow. She will spend the next 8 weeks in the rehab wing of the hospital learning to speak, walk, and feed herself. I wasn't given any set values for the functions that she would regain so I wasn't sure what our future was going to look like. I was fortunate that our kids were old enough to be able to take care of themselves and be very helpful. My folks lived in Wichita at the time so we set home away from home there. Amazingly, she was able to recover to a remarkable degree and last May we celebrated our Golden anniversary.
  16. https://welweb.org/ThenandNow/NAS Bases.html Scroll down to the story about NAS Richmond (Miami, FL). It was being used to store Navy and civilian aircraft prior to a hurricane in 1945. The hangers survived the wind but caught fire and burned to the ground. That picture might be a "before" picture. None of the other blimp hanger histories that I have found mention storing aircraft. ETA: NAS Weeksville in NC was also used to store aircraft post war. My west coast guess appears to be wrong.
  17. I was going to guess somewhere on the west coast. Folding wings and what I'm guessing is dark blue paint means Navy and I'm also going to guess that this is post war. I doubt that the Navy ever had a surplus of planes like this during the war. Could be wrong. San Diego or San Fransisco probably had blimp hangers too. Google, here I come.
  18. Did anybody else watch that and expect to see a "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" ending?
  19. That is some glorious slop that I would gladly eat. Well done, Lad. Your glass reminds me that I need some more Pearl Snap delivery. Nice looking dog, too.
  20. I'm going to be in your neighborhood at the end of the month. Do they have braunschweiger at all times or is it special order? Or I could follow the link you so graciously provided.
  21. It's the new market inefficiency. KC is gonna get all the players that can induce a balk and rule the AL Central.
  22. He was a founding member of Spooky Tooth. The album "Spooky Two" still gets a lot of play from me.
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