Correa has a home, Comerica Park shrinks, A.I. is trying to steal my bit, chip butties, bad school board members, amnesiac mystery men, moderation, WWE and whether the smell of weed is "unserious"
There will be no greater hell for Aubrey Huff than if his children grow up to be progressive rally-attending activists whose favorite sport is soccer. Fingers crossed.
He seems the kind of controlling my-children-are-my-property obedience-is-their-duty parent who starts the pipeline directly to "my adult children never talk to me anymore" land.
I understand the sentiment and used to wish the same on these people - but then I thought about what a tough road it must be for the kids when their lives unfold outside the box of what parents like Aubrey Huff expect of them.
I hope there’s a sane relative in that family who can guide them. He is lost. My fear is his kids will be too far gone and indoctrinated by his hate mongering and inane commentary.
Haven't been in Manhattan lately, but I am definitely smelling a bit more weed in the air even in Queens. Not hugely a fan of it, but yeah, it beats tobacco. (It does eventually give me a headache, though. One reason among many that I am not likely to try the stuff.)
Rumor of the day in MetsLand: Andrew McCutcheon. Who would apparently replace Darin Ruf.
I was there in mid-December with family and friends to see Santa at Macys and stuff, and we smelled weed a few different times. Some of the younger kids with us asked what it was, so we told them. But honestly, most of the kids' take on the day was how HORRIBLE and varied the smells were throughout the city. The lingering pot smell as we approached Bryant Park was, if not the least of them, at least the least gross.
I did not see that marijuana tweet yesterday, but I was walking down a street in Arlington that likewise had a strong marijuana odor, and I thought to myself “the first person who finds a way to make marijuana odorless is going to get Warren Buffett rich.“
I feel like we may have already had this discussion, but am I incorrect that marijuana smells much different (and worse) than it used to? It seems much skunkier now – has it actually changed, or is my sense of smell another one that is deteriorating as I age?
PS If I had been running the Twins’ social media, I would’ve gone with a GIF of Hannibal Smith from the A-Team saying “I love it when a plan comes together.“ That feels more apt than Stringer Bell.
PPS Do we think Huff deleted that Tweet because it was mean to Belt, or because it suggested that women might someday play in MLB? My vote is for the latter.
I'm not the world's biggest weed expert, but it has gotten much, much more potent in the past 20-30 years or so and I presume that the smell goes hand-in-hand with that.
It's also a practicality thing. Edibles can take 30-45 minute to get into the bloodstream and it lasts longer. Also, if you're not mindful of the dose, edibles can knock you on your ass for hours. Smoking is a way quicker high that likewise dissipates faster. If you're wanting a quicker, lower-level thing, smoking/vaping is a more manageable thing.
Just two comments from “I’m not the world’s biggest weed expert” to Professor Calcarerra rolling (heh) out the white board and taking (toking?) us to SCHOOL this morning. We see you, son. We see you.
I had the same thought but decided I brought it up so I should just zip it.
TBH the observation about the unpredictable strength of edibles is - other than being a big ol' chicken square - a big reason that I haven't tried them. [And don't anyone feel the need to make suggestions ... unless I am in serious pain or having trouble sleeping I'm likely not going to try them anytime soon.]
I never really enjoyed it when I did it in high school and college - I usually just wanted to go to bed after sharing a joint with friends. I have to assume with the weed being so much more potent, I'll just want to go to bed that much quicker if I use it today.
For someone who claims they aren't the world's biggest weed expert, you sure have nailed this. Lemme guess. You picked up this knowledge by watching a documentary?
you probably got a little of column A and a little of column B re: the "in my day" part but yeah there used to be a lot more "lower grade" weed or stuff mixed with other stuff, you'd also have hashish more commonly, etc now you get a lot more pure stuff in big joints that burn longer
fwiw I tried some of the Delta 8 stuff for the first time (the legal everywhere THC knock off) and that was the worst tasting, skunkiest, nastiest stuff I've ever smoked. and it was pointless to boot
I've had a few buddies try to tell (convince) me that Delta 8 shit "isn't bad" and "works pretty well." No way I'm falling for that nonsense. I had my share of headache week back in the day. No thanks. I will conserve what I have until I wait for another buddy to return from Michigan.
Great question. Clove cigarettes are weird to me. The taste is weird. The smell is weird. The burn is weird. It's all weird. IMO though, the smell isn't offensive. Again, just weird.
Yeah - they struck me even then as a prop for people who wanted to look cool without actually smoking. But it wasn't unpleasant to stand with them like it was with regular cigarettes.
Clove cigarettes have been illegal since the Obungler administration, much to 19-year-old me's dismay.
I've never been a regular smoker, but did dip for a time in my 20s and like to keep a can on hand for the occasional pinch, but CA has banned flavored tobacco products, so that little indulgence is gone as well.
Love kreteks. Picked up the habit from a friend who brought them back from Bali in the 70s --along with a pair of gamelan instruments. Somehow by the time kreteks arrive stateside they're stale and nasty tho.
Being around someone smoking is gross, but I enjoy a faint whiff of cigarette smoke. It gives me a nostalgic feeling that I assume is a holdover from the 90s where if I was smelling cigarettes, it's because my parents were taking me to a restaurant or a ballgame or some other fun place.
My Father and Father in Law (both long time smokers who kicked the habit) stated numerous times they like the smell of smoke as soon as someone lights a cigarette but then it goes away immediately.
Taste is subjective but I'd put weed at the bottom of the list. Always though skunk was the most putrid smell and weed, or at least the weed they use around here, smells like skunk. In fact, sometime I'm sure it actually was a skunk not weed.
My reaction to cigarettes is "oh gross, someone is smoking" to weed it's "close the doors and windows and stay inside".
But I've been told that "GOOD weed" doesn't smell as much. Never smoked or been around regular smokers.
The better the herb, the more pungent the smell. Agreed on the skunky part. I have to keep it in a mason jar in our walk-in closet. When I remove the lid (with the bedroom door and closet door both closed), my Wife can still smell it throughout the house.
I have not been to New Tiger Stadium yet but am looking forward to seeing it someday. So grain of salt, etc.
I think it’s subjectively a very good thing to have ballparks that play very differently from one another. Baseball is helped by having eg Cincy & Detroit to highlight different types of players. I don’t exactly miss the faded and patchy green but I do miss how the fast turf of the 70s begat the Whiteyball of KC and StL.
Outfield walls in my obviously subjective but correct view either need to be a landmark - ie Boston or Chicago - or 8’. That is, I can handle seeing the monster or the plants but otherwise it should be high enough that a bit of a jump is needed while homer robbing catches are encouraged.
(Comerica ain’t paying me anything, I don’t need to be a free advertisement.)
Did the guy who washed up on the beach ever hear of Treadstone ?
Hey Billy, all those things uncle Craig said were right, but he left out that many employers won’t hire you if it shows up on your urine test.
Maybe the CC quote should have been - I’m glad I found someone to guarantee me all this $$. Instead of I’m happy to be back home with my extended family. Sometimes fans, including us Mets fans, need to realize it’s about the $$, almost always about the $$.
Do employers actually still drug test people? I had one for my first job out of college in 1989, but not since. My wife had to do one for a part time YMCA job last year, but we wrote that off as related to the C in YMCA.
As a software engineer, I have been drug tested for pre-employment screening for most jobs in the last 20+ years. However, the last few screenings have not included tests for THC. They mainly look for cocaine, opiates and barbiturates.
Every job I've ever had has given me a pre-employment drug screen. I started this one in 2009 which is ages ago in the legalization timeline, but my company still does. (We have a large contingent of employees who drive in the field and climb stuff.)
Buddy of mine works in paving (as a contracts manager)--and he gets tested randomly. More as an entire company policy. We are in the PNW, and the company is entirely PNW so legalization isn't the issue.
Lots of employers still do. My current employer never has. The owner is very conservative.
He considers drug use to be a morals thing. In his words..."you can't legislate morals." My previous employer drug tested. In construction, some projects require drug testing (hospitals, schools, etc...). When I ran a Union Glazing shop the guys had to get tested. I of course, always gave them the heads up so they had plenty of time to study.
I think mine does pre-employment screening still. Not sure about during employment (they might routinely or randomly test those required to have a CDL, or else have a policy of testing if there is an accident to check for impairment, which many employers have instead of routine testing.)
Absolutely unserious and as predictable from someone who is 'not one of us' as the Republican with the acquired accent. Twins' fans would love a 40* January day.
RE the Twins. Agreed, there was very little hope or reason for optimism is Twinsland before CC re-signed. As it has been for a few years now, the rotation is comprised of #3-4 guys with big question marks above their heads. Lots of close your eyes and cross your fingers with this group. There are some interesting young arms in the bullpen. Just as many question marks in the lineup. Who knows if Royce Lewis will be back, who knows if Buxton play 100 games? Kyle Farmer as your SS? Will Larnach or Kirillof play 100 games? Arraez? Bringing CC back into the lineup has a very positive domino effect that takes them from having no chance to even win the division (unless a lot of the question marks are answered) to having as good a shot as anyone.
I'm so happy to could see some games when Comerica first opened. I LOVED that huge expanse from left-center to right-center. I know the hitters hated it too much, but it was GREAT...wish they could have kept it that way but it would have been a turn-off to FA hitters.
i can deeply un-unseriously say that I do agree having recently walked around Manhattan, holy crap it does smell like weed everywhere. More so than when I used to work there. But i'd prefer that to nearly any other Manhattan Smell other than famously unseriously unoriginal Ray's UnPizza.
As far as WWE/WWF/WWG or whatnot, I went thru a spell where I'd watch, but i outgrew it. I honestly can't tell if the whole "Stephanie/Paul/Vince" family thing/running "the family business" and selling to Saudis is even real or part of a show storyline. I honestly don't care much either. But there are 12 year olds out there, hopefully, that might, and are being entertained, so good for them. Hopefully they are enjoying chip buttys and meat pie sandwiches while watching grown men give each other ladder wedgies.
Why is Cup of Coffee not all over the (finally!!!) eastward ho colonization of In-N-Out? Tennessee now, everywhere else later. If famously trumpy Chic-fil-a has triple drive thru lines, won't we need a highway for the I-N-O drive-thru line once it gets north of dixie into Biden Country?
The Mystery Man sounds like a 70's show subplot. Will Dr. David Banner be able to help restore the man's identity without getting angry? Will Special Guest Stars Willie Ames and Dana Plato be able to help jog their dad's memory in Puerto Vallarta this Saturday at 8 pm on the Looooove Boat?
Yes, the family is pretty SoCal white Evangelical. They were stridently anti-vax and have made several contributions to the RNC that drew attention. They definitely align with the frustratingly loud corner of christendom that thinks Jesus' calls to care for the poor, the captive, and the stranger are best encapsulated by the prosperity gospel.
The only thing I ask for anyone who smokes or vapes anything is that they don't do it around me and if I'm in public there is room for me to move upwind to clearer air. Nothing to do with any moral judgement but the smells give me a splitting headache and make me feel like vomiting.
Out of range, you do you, however seriously or unseriously you desire.
Cruz is one of two guys left (The Immortal Rich Hill the other) who is older than me. I remember when Frankie Rodriguez debuted for the Angels and I found out he was a few months younger, the first time a player was born after me (that I was aware of, Wilson Betemit actually wins that dumb contest).
It’s a weird thing to think in 21 years, 1981 went from “wow, thats so young” to “wow, i cant believe this guy is still active”.
I can tell you that Bartolo was the last baseball player older than me, Phil Dawson was the last NFL player and Andre Miller and I had the same birthday, so I count him for the NBA.
Can't stand the smell of weed (personally it, along with the smell of stale beer, reminds me of my freshman dorm back in college) but if it overpowers the smell of the subways in the summer I'll take that trade.
I was in Chicago a few weeks ago, and for some reason, the Red Line had a continual and exhausting weed smell but the Blue Line didn't. I did not enjoy it.
Way back in the day (the interwebs tell me 2008), there was a brilliant blog called Stuff White People Like. It's bit on The Wire was 100% spot on. The Twins need to let Gen Z, not Gen X, run its Twitter account.
The thing I find the most entertaining about the Twins Stringer Bell tweet is did the social media person never finish the series or forget that halfway through season 3, things start going really poorly for Stringer and the Barksdale organization in general? Using that particular scene is predicting your team will be out of it by the trade deadline, which fair!
I have no moral objections to marijuana. In fact I’m a fan of it, but it does bother me that I can smell it all over the place anytime I take the family to DC. Not only smell it but at times have to walk through other people’s happy clouds on the street. That is so weird to me since it was taboo for so long and my friends and I used to have to scour for a “kosher” spot to smoke in our youth. My kids are unfazed by the smell and the happy clouds though. They say it’s like being in their high school bathrooms.
There will be no greater hell for Aubrey Huff than if his children grow up to be progressive rally-attending activists whose favorite sport is soccer. Fingers crossed.
He seems the kind of controlling my-children-are-my-property obedience-is-their-duty parent who starts the pipeline directly to "my adult children never talk to me anymore" land.
I understand the sentiment and used to wish the same on these people - but then I thought about what a tough road it must be for the kids when their lives unfold outside the box of what parents like Aubrey Huff expect of them.
I hope there’s a sane relative in that family who can guide them. He is lost. My fear is his kids will be too far gone and indoctrinated by his hate mongering and inane commentary.
Haven't been in Manhattan lately, but I am definitely smelling a bit more weed in the air even in Queens. Not hugely a fan of it, but yeah, it beats tobacco. (It does eventually give me a headache, though. One reason among many that I am not likely to try the stuff.)
Rumor of the day in MetsLand: Andrew McCutcheon. Who would apparently replace Darin Ruf.
I was there in mid-December with family and friends to see Santa at Macys and stuff, and we smelled weed a few different times. Some of the younger kids with us asked what it was, so we told them. But honestly, most of the kids' take on the day was how HORRIBLE and varied the smells were throughout the city. The lingering pot smell as we approached Bryant Park was, if not the least of them, at least the least gross.
I did not see that marijuana tweet yesterday, but I was walking down a street in Arlington that likewise had a strong marijuana odor, and I thought to myself “the first person who finds a way to make marijuana odorless is going to get Warren Buffett rich.“
I feel like we may have already had this discussion, but am I incorrect that marijuana smells much different (and worse) than it used to? It seems much skunkier now – has it actually changed, or is my sense of smell another one that is deteriorating as I age?
PS If I had been running the Twins’ social media, I would’ve gone with a GIF of Hannibal Smith from the A-Team saying “I love it when a plan comes together.“ That feels more apt than Stringer Bell.
PPS Do we think Huff deleted that Tweet because it was mean to Belt, or because it suggested that women might someday play in MLB? My vote is for the latter.
I'm not the world's biggest weed expert, but it has gotten much, much more potent in the past 20-30 years or so and I presume that the smell goes hand-in-hand with that.
It’s been decades since it was my mind altering substance of choice but aren’t edibles the odorless solution?
Yes, but I think there is a significant portion of the market for whom smoking is a central part of the experience.
It's also a practicality thing. Edibles can take 30-45 minute to get into the bloodstream and it lasts longer. Also, if you're not mindful of the dose, edibles can knock you on your ass for hours. Smoking is a way quicker high that likewise dissipates faster. If you're wanting a quicker, lower-level thing, smoking/vaping is a more manageable thing.
And since you mentioned vaping, don’t give me any of this cloying sugary stuff that smells like someone farted through a pack of Bubble Yum.
(Did I mention that I am almost 59 years old?)
Just two comments from “I’m not the world’s biggest weed expert” to Professor Calcarerra rolling (heh) out the white board and taking (toking?) us to SCHOOL this morning. We see you, son. We see you.
I, um, read a lot.
“FROM YOU, ALRIGHT! I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU!”
I had the same thought but decided I brought it up so I should just zip it.
TBH the observation about the unpredictable strength of edibles is - other than being a big ol' chicken square - a big reason that I haven't tried them. [And don't anyone feel the need to make suggestions ... unless I am in serious pain or having trouble sleeping I'm likely not going to try them anytime soon.]
I never really enjoyed it when I did it in high school and college - I usually just wanted to go to bed after sharing a joint with friends. I have to assume with the weed being so much more potent, I'll just want to go to bed that much quicker if I use it today.
I’m not advocating for you to try, but edibles have been a Godsend to me as after 5 surgeries in the last 12 months, my appetite has been spotty.
Edibles have helped me gain that back. In illinois edibles from a dispensary are pretty reliably the same consistency.
For someone who claims they aren't the world's biggest weed expert, you sure have nailed this. Lemme guess. You picked up this knowledge by watching a documentary?
Overheard some "cool" kids talking and then ran away.
The current strains are far more pungent because the herb is way...waaay stronger than the weed of old.
you probably got a little of column A and a little of column B re: the "in my day" part but yeah there used to be a lot more "lower grade" weed or stuff mixed with other stuff, you'd also have hashish more commonly, etc now you get a lot more pure stuff in big joints that burn longer
fwiw I tried some of the Delta 8 stuff for the first time (the legal everywhere THC knock off) and that was the worst tasting, skunkiest, nastiest stuff I've ever smoked. and it was pointless to boot
I've had a few buddies try to tell (convince) me that Delta 8 shit "isn't bad" and "works pretty well." No way I'm falling for that nonsense. I had my share of headache week back in the day. No thanks. I will conserve what I have until I wait for another buddy to return from Michigan.
As a tangent, the correct order of smoking aromas in descending order of pleasantness:
1. Pipes
2. Good cigars
3. Weed
4. Bad cigars
5. Cigarettes
3-5 are generally unpleasant unless you’re the one doing the smoking. Menthol cigarettes, being so awful, are their own category.
no lie detected
You think menthol cigarettes smell worse than the others?
By an order of magnitude, yes.
Asking not arguing - where would you put clove cigarettes? I had contemporaries in college who loved them.
Also, allow me to suggest that 2.5 is "a blunt made with a Swisher Sweet" - based on the smell in the parking lot at my high school.
Great question. Clove cigarettes are weird to me. The taste is weird. The smell is weird. The burn is weird. It's all weird. IMO though, the smell isn't offensive. Again, just weird.
Yeah - they struck me even then as a prop for people who wanted to look cool without actually smoking. But it wasn't unpleasant to stand with them like it was with regular cigarettes.
Clove cigarettes have been illegal since the Obungler administration, much to 19-year-old me's dismay.
I've never been a regular smoker, but did dip for a time in my 20s and like to keep a can on hand for the occasional pinch, but CA has banned flavored tobacco products, so that little indulgence is gone as well.
"Clove cigarettes have been illegal"
::Johnny Carson 'I did not know that' dot GIF::
Yeah, they now sell them as cigarillos and I think come 8 to a pack instead of 20.
Love kreteks. Picked up the habit from a friend who brought them back from Bali in the 70s --along with a pair of gamelan instruments. Somehow by the time kreteks arrive stateside they're stale and nasty tho.
Oooh, the existence of Swisher Sweets might disprove my whole “bad cigar” ranking. Because they are in no way a good cigar, but they smell nice.
Hadn’t considered cloves. I’d definitely put them above regular cigarettes though.
Wow. I don't think I've thought about clove cigs since I was in college. 20 some odd years ago.
Being around someone smoking is gross, but I enjoy a faint whiff of cigarette smoke. It gives me a nostalgic feeling that I assume is a holdover from the 90s where if I was smelling cigarettes, it's because my parents were taking me to a restaurant or a ballgame or some other fun place.
My Father and Father in Law (both long time smokers who kicked the habit) stated numerous times they like the smell of smoke as soon as someone lights a cigarette but then it goes away immediately.
Taste is subjective but I'd put weed at the bottom of the list. Always though skunk was the most putrid smell and weed, or at least the weed they use around here, smells like skunk. In fact, sometime I'm sure it actually was a skunk not weed.
My reaction to cigarettes is "oh gross, someone is smoking" to weed it's "close the doors and windows and stay inside".
But I've been told that "GOOD weed" doesn't smell as much. Never smoked or been around regular smokers.
The better the herb, the more pungent the smell. Agreed on the skunky part. I have to keep it in a mason jar in our walk-in closet. When I remove the lid (with the bedroom door and closet door both closed), my Wife can still smell it throughout the house.
I have not been to New Tiger Stadium yet but am looking forward to seeing it someday. So grain of salt, etc.
I think it’s subjectively a very good thing to have ballparks that play very differently from one another. Baseball is helped by having eg Cincy & Detroit to highlight different types of players. I don’t exactly miss the faded and patchy green but I do miss how the fast turf of the 70s begat the Whiteyball of KC and StL.
Outfield walls in my obviously subjective but correct view either need to be a landmark - ie Boston or Chicago - or 8’. That is, I can handle seeing the monster or the plants but otherwise it should be high enough that a bit of a jump is needed while homer robbing catches are encouraged.
(Comerica ain’t paying me anything, I don’t need to be a free advertisement.)
Maybe the Tigers figure their lineup is so bad nobody will be able to hit it out of the park unless the fences are moved in.
Too bad, I liked Copa being a weird giant ballpark where homers in other ballparks go to die.
Did the guy who washed up on the beach ever hear of Treadstone ?
Hey Billy, all those things uncle Craig said were right, but he left out that many employers won’t hire you if it shows up on your urine test.
Maybe the CC quote should have been - I’m glad I found someone to guarantee me all this $$. Instead of I’m happy to be back home with my extended family. Sometimes fans, including us Mets fans, need to realize it’s about the $$, almost always about the $$.
Considering that this seems like a solo excursion, it's all the weirder that no one has claimed him.
Do employers actually still drug test people? I had one for my first job out of college in 1989, but not since. My wife had to do one for a part time YMCA job last year, but we wrote that off as related to the C in YMCA.
They absolutely do, depending on the industry.
Government and civil service I believe do as well as the bigger investment banks on Wall Street. Not sure who else, but it closes some doors.
Hospitals and nuclear power plants.
As a software engineer, I have been drug tested for pre-employment screening for most jobs in the last 20+ years. However, the last few screenings have not included tests for THC. They mainly look for cocaine, opiates and barbiturates.
Interesting, I'm also in software (on the sales side) and have never been drug tested.
Every job I've ever had has given me a pre-employment drug screen. I started this one in 2009 which is ages ago in the legalization timeline, but my company still does. (We have a large contingent of employees who drive in the field and climb stuff.)
Maybe drug lords don’t test their employees.
Buddy of mine works in paving (as a contracts manager)--and he gets tested randomly. More as an entire company policy. We are in the PNW, and the company is entirely PNW so legalization isn't the issue.
Transit authority employees, plus any contractors who will/might be working on the rails or in the railcars out on the right of way.
Lots of employers still do. My current employer never has. The owner is very conservative.
He considers drug use to be a morals thing. In his words..."you can't legislate morals." My previous employer drug tested. In construction, some projects require drug testing (hospitals, schools, etc...). When I ran a Union Glazing shop the guys had to get tested. I of course, always gave them the heads up so they had plenty of time to study.
I think mine does pre-employment screening still. Not sure about during employment (they might routinely or randomly test those required to have a CDL, or else have a policy of testing if there is an accident to check for impairment, which many employers have instead of routine testing.)
Yep, I believe we do tests in cases of accidents as well.
it will be illegal to test for THC in California as of January 2024.
Finally, something the State of California did that I can get behind.
The 40 degree bit is the hackiest Bill Simmons level culture reference I’ve been waiting on for 15 hours? Ok.
I mean, it kinda is.
Absolutely unserious and as predictable from someone who is 'not one of us' as the Republican with the acquired accent. Twins' fans would love a 40* January day.
RE the Twins. Agreed, there was very little hope or reason for optimism is Twinsland before CC re-signed. As it has been for a few years now, the rotation is comprised of #3-4 guys with big question marks above their heads. Lots of close your eyes and cross your fingers with this group. There are some interesting young arms in the bullpen. Just as many question marks in the lineup. Who knows if Royce Lewis will be back, who knows if Buxton play 100 games? Kyle Farmer as your SS? Will Larnach or Kirillof play 100 games? Arraez? Bringing CC back into the lineup has a very positive domino effect that takes them from having no chance to even win the division (unless a lot of the question marks are answered) to having as good a shot as anyone.
I'm so happy to could see some games when Comerica first opened. I LOVED that huge expanse from left-center to right-center. I know the hitters hated it too much, but it was GREAT...wish they could have kept it that way but it would have been a turn-off to FA hitters.
i can deeply un-unseriously say that I do agree having recently walked around Manhattan, holy crap it does smell like weed everywhere. More so than when I used to work there. But i'd prefer that to nearly any other Manhattan Smell other than famously unseriously unoriginal Ray's UnPizza.
As far as WWE/WWF/WWG or whatnot, I went thru a spell where I'd watch, but i outgrew it. I honestly can't tell if the whole "Stephanie/Paul/Vince" family thing/running "the family business" and selling to Saudis is even real or part of a show storyline. I honestly don't care much either. But there are 12 year olds out there, hopefully, that might, and are being entertained, so good for them. Hopefully they are enjoying chip buttys and meat pie sandwiches while watching grown men give each other ladder wedgies.
Why is Cup of Coffee not all over the (finally!!!) eastward ho colonization of In-N-Out? Tennessee now, everywhere else later. If famously trumpy Chic-fil-a has triple drive thru lines, won't we need a highway for the I-N-O drive-thru line once it gets north of dixie into Biden Country?
The Mystery Man sounds like a 70's show subplot. Will Dr. David Banner be able to help restore the man's identity without getting angry? Will Special Guest Stars Willie Ames and Dana Plato be able to help jog their dad's memory in Puerto Vallarta this Saturday at 8 pm on the Looooove Boat?
Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought the in and out owners were quite religious too…
Yes, the family is pretty SoCal white Evangelical. They were stridently anti-vax and have made several contributions to the RNC that drew attention. They definitely align with the frustratingly loud corner of christendom that thinks Jesus' calls to care for the poor, the captive, and the stranger are best encapsulated by the prosperity gospel.
Yeah, they do a better job of keeping it on the downlow than say Chick-File-A does. But at least one of the In n Out family is a big bible thumper.
I try to avoid both of them. But I am a weak man.
The only thing I ask for anyone who smokes or vapes anything is that they don't do it around me and if I'm in public there is room for me to move upwind to clearer air. Nothing to do with any moral judgement but the smells give me a splitting headache and make me feel like vomiting.
Out of range, you do you, however seriously or unseriously you desire.
Cruz is one of two guys left (The Immortal Rich Hill the other) who is older than me. I remember when Frankie Rodriguez debuted for the Angels and I found out he was a few months younger, the first time a player was born after me (that I was aware of, Wilson Betemit actually wins that dumb contest).
It’s a weird thing to think in 21 years, 1981 went from “wow, thats so young” to “wow, i cant believe this guy is still active”.
Time remains undefeated.
I can tell you that Bartolo was the last baseball player older than me, Phil Dawson was the last NFL player and Andre Miller and I had the same birthday, so I count him for the NBA.
Yep, Bartolo was mine as well.
Can't stand the smell of weed (personally it, along with the smell of stale beer, reminds me of my freshman dorm back in college) but if it overpowers the smell of the subways in the summer I'll take that trade.
I was in Chicago a few weeks ago, and for some reason, the Red Line had a continual and exhausting weed smell but the Blue Line didn't. I did not enjoy it.
Well at least we know the mystery beach man isn't Jason Bourne because he looks nothing at all like Matt Damon. 😄
More likely it's Dominic Purcell's character in the short lived show John Doe.
Maybe he looked a bit like Schwarzenegger and kept muttering "get your ass to Mars"?
Way back in the day (the interwebs tell me 2008), there was a brilliant blog called Stuff White People Like. It's bit on The Wire was 100% spot on. The Twins need to let Gen Z, not Gen X, run its Twitter account.
https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/09/85-the-wire/
That blog was GOLD. Funny as can be. Wish it was still up and running. Thanks for the link!
The thing I find the most entertaining about the Twins Stringer Bell tweet is did the social media person never finish the series or forget that halfway through season 3, things start going really poorly for Stringer and the Barksdale organization in general? Using that particular scene is predicting your team will be out of it by the trade deadline, which fair!
I have no moral objections to marijuana. In fact I’m a fan of it, but it does bother me that I can smell it all over the place anytime I take the family to DC. Not only smell it but at times have to walk through other people’s happy clouds on the street. That is so weird to me since it was taboo for so long and my friends and I used to have to scour for a “kosher” spot to smoke in our youth. My kids are unfazed by the smell and the happy clouds though. They say it’s like being in their high school bathrooms.
Interesting - I teach high school and our bathrooms just smell like fruity vape cartridges. I think I'd actually prefer the smell of weed, tbh.