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Felix

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  1. 2 hours ago, Carl Spackler said:

    That's great.

    I forgot that I've also seen a wild pitch or two on occasions when pitchers were attempting to intentionally walk a batter.

    There are all sorts of ways that making 'em actually throw the pitches can affect the game.  I realize they changed the rule to speed up the game, but the old IBBs didn't take that much time.  They should go back to the way it used to be done.

    I looked but couldn't find exact stats, but the various quotes indicate that incidents like the ones you cited were "vanishingly small".  That makes the ones that did happen noticeable, but in the grand scheme they determined that the vast majority of the time the guy just walked as intended so why waste the time?  I don't really miss it.

  2. 2 minutes ago, WBT said:

    Cincinnati up 10-0 and driving again on Iowa State.  Their 5'8" running back just absolutely trucked someone.  The Clones may be in trouble.

    That poor kid's position meeting this week is going to be hell. He's going to see that clip 100 times. 

  3. 18 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


    I can absolutely BUY a firearm much faster than I can rent a car. Unless you’re a member of their “preferred” program (where you get to just get in your car and go), all car rental experiences are awful.

    It's free to join the rewards program so that's what I did. I probably travel once a year or less and it's still worth it to avoid the counter.

  4. Y'all count internet points and I'm the special one?  I've had Anastasis on ignore for years ever since he lost his mind.  I guess Derka didn't notice the pos rep I gave him too on several other threads, but then again, I'm not sure why I'm surprised considering the glaring lack of self awareness he exhibits at times.  

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  5. Just had mine. Five polyps. Doc says if only one or two are precancerous I'm on the 5 year plan.  Three were, so now I'm on the 3 year plan. Son of a...

     

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  6. 30 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

    the problem is the likelihood of recurrence and it seems like he's adamant about not doing surgery to fix whatever it is. this is going to shadow him even when/if he comes back.

    You don't have any idea what the root cause is, but you seem awfully confident in your statements about it.  Are you one of his doctors? Do you know something that no one else does, or do you just like running your mouth?

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  7. 16 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm not positing some new theory, but in what way are modern women "weak" and subject to being assimilated by another tribe?  Do they not have the capability of acquiring the same weapons men can acquire, and using them with the same skill?  We aren't slugging it out with fists, swords, and knives in close combat any more.  I'd much rather piss off some rando on MoPac than my wife.

    The first time my oldest daughter picked up a .22 rifle when she was 9 years old, she shot a bullseye group about a half inch across at 30 yards with open sights and about 10 minutes of instruction.  I promise you don't want to try to out shoot her even today. Sure you'd beat her in a fist fight, but she's too smart to engage you there.  You'd never see it coming.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Octopuses is correct. You don’t use a Latin plural for a Greek root word. 

     

    5 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    First off, Merlot is absolutely fucking trash. So is Chardonnay. 

    Second, who the FUCK says Octopuses? It's fucking octopi. Anyone saying Octopuses should be corrected and violently mocked. 

    From Miriam Webster:

    What to Know

    The three plurals for octopus come from the different ways the English language adopts plurals. Octopi is the oldest plural of octopus, coming from the belief that words of Latin origin should have Latin endings. Octopuses was the next plural, giving the word an English ending to match its adoption as an English word. Lastly, octopodes stemmed from the belief that because octopus is originally Greek, it should have a Greek ending.

     

    I'm very much enjoying the pedantic language discussion! 

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  9. 5 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

     

    Listen you fucking pedants and movie snobs, I said "farther" because I referred to taking steps. These steps were metaphorical, rather than physical, so further could have also been correct, but both are acceptable uses. That "rule" didn't even become a rule until the 1980's and before that the terms were used almost interchangeably.

    The purpose of that scene in Finding Forrester is to illustrate that the teacher is a pedant who had clearly misunderestimated the titular character, and I don't think Van Sant was being overly prescriptive about how those terms should be used. It's like merlot sales plummeting because of a throwaway line in Sideways. Giamatti's character didn't want to drink merlot because his ex wife drank merlot, not because merlot is low brow or something. But everyone who likes wine saw that movie and took it as a signal that merlot was for pleebs and stopped drinking it. Great, more for me. 

    I bet you assholes correct people when they say "octopuses" too. 

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    Very similar to the way Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd a real Nimrod (referring to the legendary hunter) and we all context clued out the sarcasm and assumed it meant "moron".  To this day most people think a Nimrod is a moron.

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  10. My 80 year old Dad, will be 81 in August still plays 4 games a week in the Austin Geezer Softball league.  Some of his happy hour friends came to watch them play and one of the ladies said it looked like little league with beards. He still runs the bases and plays outfield.  I'm pretty sure he's in better shape than I am.

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  11. I don't have a problem with it.  I heckle players on occasion but it's always about their play or maybe their appearance if they have stupid hair or something.  Going after someone's family is a no no in my book.

  12. One thing I remember is that up to that big chamber they are talking about with all the various passages coming off, there were multiple strings of twine that went off in various directions from people using that to find their way back. That's as far as I ever went and only the one time because the squeeze to get there was not pleasant.  I was 140 lbs back then and it was tight as fuck for me.  You had to go through with your arms in front of you and inch worm your way for at least 10 feet and it seemed like a mile.  Your clothes would hang on stuff and sometimes you'd feel like you were stuck and would have to shift your position to angle your shoulders right.  I'm in a cold sweat just remembering it 40 years later.  We had those cheap ass flashlights too that would just randomly dim out and you had to shake them.  In retrospect, like many of the things we did when young, it was pretty damned stupid based on our level of preparedness.  No foot, no water, one extra set of batteries, no helmets.  Dumb, dumb, dumb.

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  13. 6 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

    Airmen's Cave?  I was friends with one of the three that got stuck back there in '07.  Buddy was the guy who called it in around 5am.  Crazy enough of a story to ensure I'll never set foot in there.

    Yeah I think that's what it was called.  It was a short hike from the loop 360 entrance.  I remember that story too.  That was about 15 years after my last time in there.  I remember it was mostly low but large chambers back to around 150 yards in and then there was a truly terrifying squeeze that I seem to remember was around 10 or 12 feet of just inching along and then it opened up into a fairly big chamber but I only attempted that once.  We usually stopped in that last room before that which you could actually stand up in.  Those guys that got stuck were way back in there. I never trusted a flashlight that much.

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