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UpperWestside

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  1. A 100 years ago. Ohtani has already passed him on the list of greatest players. Like it, don’t like it. Doesn’t matter. I’m not even a Dodgers fan. The guy is simply the best to ever play the game.
  2. That one guy, as great as he was, was not this guy. I thoroughly enjoy reading about Ruth and the stories. This is the guy that every single player will be measured against though once he is done playing. He is as complete a baseball player as has ever existed and we’re all lucky we get to watch his career play out on a real MLB team instead of Anaheim.
  3. How many of those teams had Ohtani on it? Everything gets thrown out when it comes to facing this group of Dodgers. Also the American League was trash again this year just like last year. Dodgers win 2 in a row. Get ready to see them win several more titles after this. I can tell you that most baseball gear you see here is for Ohtani and now Yamamoto. Sure it won’t be long until Sasaki starts selling a decent amount of jerseys as well. You can ask people here from Japan that do not follow the sport that well how the Dodgers are doing and they can tell you solely because of Ohtani. The Dodgers have money to burn, a once-in-a-lifetime talent and more great players around him than anyone else has. I think it’s cool that LA will win again. I hope they keep winning because Ohtani is so much fun to watch and he is, by far, the best ambassador this sport has.
  4. I actually was having a conversation over the weekend with a professor that teaches at UH Manoa from Germany. She got her PhD in Electrical Engineering in Finland and I told her what I'm doing for a masters. We talked about the nazis and her grandfather was a party member if I remember right. She finds America to be a pretty odd place overall right now.
  5. Did you bring along some Japanese tourists to clean up after you?
  6. We’ve hit the rainy season here and the temps are going to really go down. I may see some high temperatures in the 70’s soon. It’s hard living in a place that gets so cold like this.
  7. The Art Briles Family Rape Palace.
  8. No kidding on that. This is a huge deal. I have been to games there (Was at the 2008 game when Daingerfield ended their 10 year home winning streak with a team full of sophomores.) Coach Elliott is built like Sgt. Slaughter. I mean this is a pretty big thing for that town to deal with. Almost nothing shocks me about people, but this is something that has to be dealt with harshly. Dad can get the benefit of the doubt unless evidence shows he knew and did nothing. You just cannot have people like this around kids.
  9. Awesome man! I also like the John Wick inspired sign from the person beside y'all. Tik Tok TFG.
  10. I am a non-violent person, but if someone told me I could hit that guy upside the head with a tire iron, well, Ted would have to get some reconstructive surgery on that ghoulish looking face of his.
  11. The hurdle is mental. I have no doubt about that. I have never been a big defender of coaches. When it happens during one game over and over I will say it’s the coach. When it happens throughout the season it’s the players because you know these issues are addressed in practice. Dillingham is a really, really good coach and I would not trade him for anyone. The offensive line has had issues this year and Leavitt, who at times can be flat out amazing like the 4th down conversion, can also still make some really dumb decisions the closer we get to the end zone. Players just have to make plays. Leavitt made enough plays today, but it’d be nice to win a game by double digits because your offense is putting up 7 every trip instead of 3. We have the best QB, WR and I’d argue the best groups of DE’s in the conference yet every single big game is a rock fight because of not finishing drives.
  12. It's not got a whole lot to do with the play calling in the red zone. This is on the guys on the field to figure it out. It's been a season long issue, but it's on the players to make some big plays in those situations. Last year you could just give it to Skattebo and he did his thing. Brown is good, but not that level of good.
  13. I never bought a new TV once I moved. I watch everything on my laptop. Kinda got used to it and found I don’t miss a TV. You are probably correct though about how these apps would work better on a TV.
  14. Love Defector! Best subscription I have ever had. Used to go to their birthday celebrations and live podcasts they did when I lived in NYC. Great group of writers. There has never, ever been a player even remotely like this guy. There is really not enough superlatives to adequately say just how good he is.
  15. My guys will win against Tech IF Leavitt has a big game and can make 4 or 5 good plays on the run. Big ask from a guy whose wheels aren't at 100 percent, but do what you gotta do I guess. I don't blame the defense for last week's rout and I think Dillingham punted that game since he knew he had no QB. If Leavitt has a big game then that means Tyson does as well. If the ground game can just hit 150 overall that'll be enough to win as well. We also owe them for last year's loss. If we lose we lose, but I feel that our defense will hopefully get enough pressure from the ends to keep it close going into the 4th quarter. @Iceman good luck and Fork'em!
  16. Israeli Nazis. What a time to be alive.
  17. I think what we’re figuring out is that many of these stories are impossible to tell if they aren’t done in the form of mini-series/season. This is especially so when it’s a story about someone most of us know very little about.
  18. I never had any of these apps, but I would have done the same thing you did if I had been. I only have Britbox, AcornTV and PBS Masterpiece. Those apps are all worth it to have.
  19. It’s almost as if this guy is not on the up and up.
  20. This is someone I met back in 2002 at a Sunday morning service at a Church of Christ up in Gainesville. Coach Robinson was there singing and with his family. He was a mountain of a man when I met him that day. I have been friends with members of his family for almost 25 years now. Seeing him battle when he could just give up is who I have known him to be. He’s a good human being that tries to do right by people, but his diagnosis is pure hell to deal with. https://www.dallasnews.com/high-school-sports/football/2025/10/08/mike-robinson-desoto-football-head-coach-health-issues-battle/
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  21. This one nailed America in 2025. Really I could say it got modern society in any developed nation right as well. Keanu was great in this and I enjoyed Rogen’s character as well as the one played by Ansari. It was funny at times, but it had moments I think everyone here can relate to in your own life. This was one of those movies that should make you smile once it’s over.
  22. Josh Johnson is really good in my opinion. I also like Sarah Cooper. They just have styles that I like. I have not seen near as much of Shane Gillis as others here like Derka have, but I like him too. Roy Wood Jr. would be another favorite. I have met him in-person twice and he’s as cool as he seems. Just a good guy trying to make someone’s day better with laughter. I also have a friend that is a comedian back in NYC named Calise Hawkins. She has no filter on what she’ll say to the audience and it was fun to go see her in-person at the NYCC when she’d perform.
  23. Those statues are one of the wonders of the world. The carvings are just stunning and we can now know that the way they got them into place was by using timber. I am certain you already know this, but the archaeological record shows that they made fires on the island. This is one they were forced to leave because they used up all the wood available to them. I will not call them great conservationists.
  24. One of the things that irks me when Polynesians seafarers are mentioned is that they went island hopping only out of necessity. This is fundamentally not true, but the ā€œhistoryā€ of this culture was largely written by Europeans until the 20th century. They were explorers as well. They wanted to find new places beyond the horizon. They understood how to travel the world’s most beautiful yet harshest ocean. I would imagine that they lost many great navigators in their attempts to explore and find new places, but they kept going. They spread Polynesian civilization across the widest swath that anyone ever has in human civilization history. It is why I hold them and their sailing feats above anyone else that took to the world’s oceans in search of what was out there. That they can still use these ancient methods to accurately travel is, to me, incredible. I have watched up close for the last year what Polynesian culture is like and one thing that stands out is their love of the Pacific Ocean. Everywhere you go on the Windward side of Oahu you will see people out on the water in canoes. It’s still an integral part of life here on these islands as well as every other island group in the Pacific. I still have to marvel that the Polynesians who left the Marquesas Islands a millenia or so ago were able to find the Hawaiian Islands. The seamanship and expertise with this ocean to pull that off has no equal.
  25. I'm an American and I'm glad that Charlie Kirk is burning in hell. I'm also glad that that moron woman that got killed on January 6th is there too.
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