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Beau Vine

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  1. 3 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

    Where the hell is the game?   Not showing up on WatchESPN.  Don't want to download some ESPNPhagget app.

    I just download the app to my computer, and when it opened, it said "This app will no longer be supported on Windows after July 1, 2017."

    This is some bullshit.

  2. The Rockies just intentionally walked Jeff Mathis. 

    Jeff.  Mathis.

    Zack Greinke then hit an RBI single.

     

    Mathis has a .564 career OPS.

    Greinke has a .574 career OPS.

     

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  3. On ‎4‎/‎20‎/‎2018 at 1:17 PM, gecko said:

    Wait....did I read on post #43 that Frontier Airlines will begin nonstop service between Austin and Buffalo, NY?  For reals...?

    I tried to book my flight to Omaha on the new Frontier nonstop service.  They have two flights per week -- Monday and Friday.

  4. I forgot to post about my last ABIA parking experience....

    I dropped the wife off and went to park in the poors' lots.  I drive by several blocked entrances even though I see plenty of open spots.  I drive by more blocked entrances.  And more.  And more.  Finally, I'm nearly in Bastrop and the road dead-ends.  There was a guy behind me, so as I'm doing a multi-turn Uwie, I roll down my window and he's shaking his head and says, "What the fuck??"  

    Literally every lot was closed even though every one clearly had open spaces.

    So I head back the other way, hoping that there's something I missed.  An airport truck is coming my way and the guy stops and rolls down the window.

    "Are you looking for parking?"

    "Yeah, no shit."

    "Follow me!"

    He had about five other cars behind him, I had the guy behind me, it was getting late, and I didn't feel like doing another Uwie right there with cars behind me.  So I started looking at the nearby lot's exit gate and thinking that hey, that bar doesn't cover the whole exit.  I could hop that curb and squeeze through it.  So I start to hop the curb and the gate comes up!  And I have filed this experience away for the next time I need to park at ABIA.

  5. Oh yeah, this is believable.

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    Troubled Mets great Lenny Dykstra claimed Friday he was a victim in last month’s incident involving an Uber driver that led to his arrest – and he intends to seek damages against the ride-share app.

    “I mean, look, they don’t call me ‘Nails,’ because I’m like, you know, soft. I mean, look, I was literally in fear of my life and I called 911 and I was screaming that this man is crazy, he had kidnapped me,” Dykstra, wearing sunglasses and a Mets baseball hat, said alongside his lawyers at a Manhattan press conference.

    Dykstra, 55, was charged with third-degree making of terroristic threats and drug offenses in connection to the 3:30 a.m. May 23 incident in New Jersey in which the hothead baseball legend allegedly put a weapon to his Uber driver’s head and threatened to kill him.

    Cops did not recover any weapon, but authorities did find cocaine, MDMA and marijuana among Dykstra’s belongings, according to the Linden Police Department.

    Dykstra’s attorney’s called the Friday press conference to give Dykstra’s side of the story and “set the record straight of what happened that night.”

    Lawyers for the three-time All-Star claim that chaos sparked after Dykstra asked his Uber driver, identified as 47-year-old Brian Lutty, to take a specific route to Staten Island after the driver went the wrong way.

    “There has been a lot of Uber nonsense out there, and we are here today to clear it up,” attorney Matthew Blit said. “That morning, Lenny Dysktra was the victim.”

    Blit added that after Dykstra asked the driver to take a certain route “the driver then began to argue loudly with Lenny, yelling and screaming at him, going ballistic.”

    “Lenny asked the driver to pull over and wanted to get out of the car. The driver sped up, locked the doors and engaged the child locks so that Lenny could not exit the vehicle,” Blit claimed, charging that the driver sped and weaved in and out of traffic.

    Blit continued: “Lenny, scared for his life as every one of us would be, frantically grabs his cell phone and dials 911. Lenny is swerving back and forth in the cab because the car is going side to side. He loses 911. 911 calls him back, twice, as Lenny is in the back of the car fearing for his safety.”

    The lawyer produced Dykstra’s phone records appearing to show the calls.

    “Lenny was a victim. He was entrapped, false imprisoned, kidnapped, held hostage in the back of an Uber, trying to get out,” Blit claimed. “The police finally come to the scene and the driver panics and start screaming, ‘He tried to kill me.’ If someone is trying to kill you or plans to kill you, do you lock them in a car? Or do you open the doors and let him out?”

    During the ordeal, Dykstra claims he said to the Uber driver: “What are you doing? You gonna’ kill me. What are you doing?”

    “I mean all I asked him to do is go to the right destination,” said Dykstra. “He went crazy and, again, I literally thought this guy was going to kill me, okay.”

    According to police reports obtained through an Open Public Records Act by website MyCentralJersey, the Uber driver told police that the ex-MLBer threatened “take me to Staten Island or I’ll blow your f—king head off.”

    According to the documents, Dykstra “placed a black pill bag with an object [the driver] believed to be a gun to his head” as he made the alleged threat.

    The Uber driver was “in fear for his life and stated that he believed Dykstra was going to kill him,” according to the documents, MyCentralJersey reported.

    But Dykstra’s lawyers deny the allegations.

    “There was no threats from Lenny. Lenny had a cellphone. Is anybody afraid of a cellphone?” lawyer Michael Brucki said. “We believe he [the driver] didn’t want to go to Staten Island.”

    Meanwhile, Dykstra’s lawyers plan to seek damages against Uber and have already filed false imprisonment charges against the Uber driver in Linden Municipal Court.

    “You hear every day….there is problems with Uber,” Brucki said. “You have an unregulated industry, that has no backgrounds, no checks, no licenses — anybody with a driver’s license can be your driver.”

    An Uber spokesperson said in a statement to The Post regarding Dykstra’s allegations: “What’s been detailed has no place on our app and we’re reviewing the matter.”

    Both Dykstra and the driver’s access to the Uber app has been removed while police investigate the incident.

     

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