Jamie Moyer was the last active major leaguer who was older than I, so seeing him referred to as a youngster in the zine reprint has me feeling my age.
I deep sixed mine in...January 2019. You can download all of your data to keep pictures and such. It's a pain not to be able to keep track of events/venues and such on there, but I signed up for more mailing lists/followed on twitter to try to make up for it. ymmv.
As is normally the case, Manfred is totally out of touch with public sentiment. He said there's more of a split opinion on the Manfred Man than 7 inning doubleheaders, when the opposite is actually true.
re: dumping facebook, I got rid of mine I think three or four years ago after having been on it since it launched when I was in college. As you note, it's a cesspool of internet-illiterate old people posting unhinged Dan Bongino articles and digital chain letters, plus a dash of Let's Remember Some Guys You Went To High School With. I realised there was nothing on there for me and paired with Facebook's myriad scummy business practices, it was an easy call to click the delete button. I don't miss it a lick and don't feel like I'm any less connected to any of my friends or family with whom I actually want to have a connection.
Dubya is right that leaving Afghanistan will have bad consequences, but what's the alternative? Stay there forever? The consequences are going to be bad whenever the U.S. leaves, be that now, 10 years from now, or if we left 10 years ago.
I can't endorse deactivating Facebook more highly. As a self-employed journalist myself, I found that any negligible benefit I was getting – either personal or professional – was far outweighed by the soul-crushing feeling of supporting one of the evilest entities ever and the constant exposure to how horrible and moronic the miasma of our species is. I get that for some organizations, it's where their customer base lives. However, that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you ever get an urge to enjoy some good old-fashioned self-flagellation, you can still find harrowing examples of terrible things on Twitter. Also, the kids these days aren't using it. Like Manfred, if your only interest is in turning the product into an embodiment of Steve Buscemi carrying a skateboard on his shoulder because you're convinced you have to work fervently to make sure Gen Z thinks it's rad, then there's no reason to waste time on the platform.
The cruise lines just need to be better than Florida on the transmission of communicable diseases for them taking a role to be an improvement, and that's not a high bar. And in their defense, at this point is clearly in their own self-interest to minimize Covid cases as much as possible. Enhancing the notion that cruises are a Covid petri dish or having more shutdowns isn't something they can really afford.
I was NEVER on Facebook; never had an account, never will. I never even had an urge to monitor it. Therefore, I never had the problem that friends did have trying to unsubscribe. A few years ago, I was told that it was very hard and frustrating to quit. Good luck.
Bold move by the Angels to Suttonly fire their other broadcaster after they already cast Vasgersians on their fans’ asparagus. Let’s see how it works out for them.
Nancy was a much better editor than whoever you’re paying now. The lack of typos in today’s blast-from-the-past was a little disorienting. (Or would it be orienting?)
Sutton wasn’t very good, no. Seems nice enough but went on strange tangents and made the kind of goofball-sequel Mark Gubizca eeem like the adult in the room. Just a lot of weird energy. I would often turn the sound off, myself. Some commenters at the Athletic also noted he seemed to refer to his faith a lot, too, which seems odd for a baseball broadcast.
Keeping a national voice like Vasgersian on while filling in the gaps with someone else seems like the Platonic ideal of Moreno’s style, though. Find something shiny that doesn’t work all that great instead of the real best answer.
I deleted my Facebook account last year and really haven’t missed it. I have a little less ambient awareness of what some casual acquaintances are up to but honestly that’s fine. I really hope Facebook has some meaningful regulation in their future.
I have Facebook for keeping up with a tiny number of friends and interest groups. I never post. And I still get annoyed with it. (There is at least one person who friended me who links to some awful right wing nonsense on occasion.) But my wife doesn’t use it at all and I often have to fill her in on stuff she needs to know. So I keep going.
Two semi-related comments. Facebook is garbage, and I know I should delete my account but I mainly use it to monitor my boomer parents to make sure they're not getting radicalized any more than the standard "angry fox news viewing" boomer. My mother especially has never been good about determining what's real and what's fake news online. And I have a few other family members who, while they did not go whole hog on qanon, I suspect they are at least q-curious.
A couple weeks ago I was talking to my mother and she started telling me about this great book she had read called "Hillbilly Elegy" and it was just such a great book and the author was so interesting and he had such a great story and it was so informative and on and on and on. Thought my eyes were going to roll out of my head.
Jamie Moyer was the last active major leaguer who was older than I, so seeing him referred to as a youngster in the zine reprint has me feeling my age.
I deep sixed mine in...January 2019. You can download all of your data to keep pictures and such. It's a pain not to be able to keep track of events/venues and such on there, but I signed up for more mailing lists/followed on twitter to try to make up for it. ymmv.
As is normally the case, Manfred is totally out of touch with public sentiment. He said there's more of a split opinion on the Manfred Man than 7 inning doubleheaders, when the opposite is actually true.
re: dumping facebook, I got rid of mine I think three or four years ago after having been on it since it launched when I was in college. As you note, it's a cesspool of internet-illiterate old people posting unhinged Dan Bongino articles and digital chain letters, plus a dash of Let's Remember Some Guys You Went To High School With. I realised there was nothing on there for me and paired with Facebook's myriad scummy business practices, it was an easy call to click the delete button. I don't miss it a lick and don't feel like I'm any less connected to any of my friends or family with whom I actually want to have a connection.
Dubya is right that leaving Afghanistan will have bad consequences, but what's the alternative? Stay there forever? The consequences are going to be bad whenever the U.S. leaves, be that now, 10 years from now, or if we left 10 years ago.
I can't endorse deactivating Facebook more highly. As a self-employed journalist myself, I found that any negligible benefit I was getting – either personal or professional – was far outweighed by the soul-crushing feeling of supporting one of the evilest entities ever and the constant exposure to how horrible and moronic the miasma of our species is. I get that for some organizations, it's where their customer base lives. However, that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you ever get an urge to enjoy some good old-fashioned self-flagellation, you can still find harrowing examples of terrible things on Twitter. Also, the kids these days aren't using it. Like Manfred, if your only interest is in turning the product into an embodiment of Steve Buscemi carrying a skateboard on his shoulder because you're convinced you have to work fervently to make sure Gen Z thinks it's rad, then there's no reason to waste time on the platform.
The cruise lines just need to be better than Florida on the transmission of communicable diseases for them taking a role to be an improvement, and that's not a high bar. And in their defense, at this point is clearly in their own self-interest to minimize Covid cases as much as possible. Enhancing the notion that cruises are a Covid petri dish or having more shutdowns isn't something they can really afford.
I was NEVER on Facebook; never had an account, never will. I never even had an urge to monitor it. Therefore, I never had the problem that friends did have trying to unsubscribe. A few years ago, I was told that it was very hard and frustrating to quit. Good luck.
Bold move by the Angels to Suttonly fire their other broadcaster after they already cast Vasgersians on their fans’ asparagus. Let’s see how it works out for them.
I might... might? pay for an additional subscription if you broke down a past season in a parallel And That Happened in a separate mailing.
Nancy was a much better editor than whoever you’re paying now. The lack of typos in today’s blast-from-the-past was a little disorienting. (Or would it be orienting?)
Sutton wasn’t very good, no. Seems nice enough but went on strange tangents and made the kind of goofball-sequel Mark Gubizca eeem like the adult in the room. Just a lot of weird energy. I would often turn the sound off, myself. Some commenters at the Athletic also noted he seemed to refer to his faith a lot, too, which seems odd for a baseball broadcast.
Keeping a national voice like Vasgersian on while filling in the gaps with someone else seems like the Platonic ideal of Moreno’s style, though. Find something shiny that doesn’t work all that great instead of the real best answer.
Goodnight Miss Wilderotter, wherever you are.
I deleted my Facebook account last year and really haven’t missed it. I have a little less ambient awareness of what some casual acquaintances are up to but honestly that’s fine. I really hope Facebook has some meaningful regulation in their future.
I have Facebook for keeping up with a tiny number of friends and interest groups. I never post. And I still get annoyed with it. (There is at least one person who friended me who links to some awful right wing nonsense on occasion.) But my wife doesn’t use it at all and I often have to fill her in on stuff she needs to know. So I keep going.
Two semi-related comments. Facebook is garbage, and I know I should delete my account but I mainly use it to monitor my boomer parents to make sure they're not getting radicalized any more than the standard "angry fox news viewing" boomer. My mother especially has never been good about determining what's real and what's fake news online. And I have a few other family members who, while they did not go whole hog on qanon, I suspect they are at least q-curious.
A couple weeks ago I was talking to my mother and she started telling me about this great book she had read called "Hillbilly Elegy" and it was just such a great book and the author was so interesting and he had such a great story and it was so informative and on and on and on. Thought my eyes were going to roll out of my head.