The bulk of Mets fans I have seen online are kind of glad that Cano is out. They would rather have the money, and seem to have treated the trade for him and Diaz as a bad deal from a now deposed regime. Besides, McNeil is a natural second baseman. The most interesting thing is that there isn't much anger. It's more "what a moron" than "how dare he cheat!" The moral outrage of the typical sportswriter is elsewhere.
As I have made clear over the years, I am one of the few who doesn't find PEDs to be a bad thing. But rules are rules, and I don't have much sympathy for someone who knowingly breaks them. Still, I think that if his stats are Hall of Fame worthy, he should be in. Or are we going to kick known spitball pitcher Gaylord Perry out?
George Clooney seems like a guy who is just comfortable in his own skin and with his life. Pretty cool.
Giving away some of your money while you're still alive to the people who matter to you is a great idea. I wonder how he found out about the "undisclosed location."
I have a big yellow sign on the entrance to my store which reads, "MASKS ARE MANDATORY INSIDE THIS STORE." So I had a woman from Florida (I'm in Vermont) come in yesterday who proceeded to tell me it was the masks that were the problem. "We're rebreathing our own retrovirus" she said (exact quote). "Down in Florida we do whatever we want, bars and restaurants, not controlled by the government. My kid had it, and my neighbor said it was no big deal."
I stood there, mouth hanging open (under my mask). The volume of incorrect information out there is astounding. I fear we are past the point of no return, and wave after wave of unnecessary death is on the way. Darwin, man. Darwin.
I love the '80s Tigers road unis - in fact, for some reason, that's the uni that's lodged in my childhood memories growing up watching Tigers baseball. The current road unis are, I agree, fine, but I would love to see the old '80s one brought out on occasion.
As to Trump - you've got it right, and I've echoed a similar sentiment over the last two years: Trump is not the disease, he is a symptom. Americans need to recognize this, because the 2020 election is clear evidence that change is not going to come easy.
And in a similar vein, the lack of concern about COVID is just... is this peak American individualism, completely turned on itself like a ravenous ouroboros? I feel like this is related to the whole Trumpism thing, and I wonder if the American experiment went off the rails somewhere, or if this was always the inevitable outcome.
The '72 - '93 Tigers roadies are the best. The current roadies are second best. I loved me some Trammel/Whittaker too, but the color combo on that era's unis is awful.
How is the Tigers essay for the 2021 issue due tomorrow? Is it a retrospective? No one knows what the Tigers roster will look like in 2021!
Also, for the JD Vance file. From Wajahat Ali's piece in the Times about his unsuccessful attempts to "reach out" to Trump voters:
In 2017, I was invited by the Aspen Institute — which hosts a festival known for attracting the wealthy and powerful — to discuss racism in America. At a private dinner after the event, I was introduced to a donor who I learned was a Trump supporter. As soon as I said “white privilege,” she began shooting me passive aggressive quips about the virtues of meritocracy and hard work. She recommended I read “Hillbilly Elegy” — the best-selling book that has been criticized by those living in Appalachia as glorified poverty porn promoting simplistic stereotypes about a diverse region.
Hillbilly Elegy - every right-winger's favorite book about white people.
I agree with your conclusions about trump voters. With out reading any source on the 50% thinking it's rigged figure, I wonder.
I don't think Fla 2000 was rigged, but I do believe GOP intervention over came more than 537 votes, all front loaded disenfranchisement stuff. Combined with mistakes like the butterfly ballot and yes some heel digging by kooks like katherine harris, but do I accept the outcome? Sorta?
same with 2004 and ohio, I still have doubts about that, that I accepted more easily than 2000 which I absolutely accepted.
But how would I answer the "rigged" question for either in the immediate aftermath? I don't know. Maybe I say "yes, rigged."
Cano's suspension is just sad. Some people on twitter hate him, but for what? trying to be better at baseball? can we save that for TLR?
Those Tigers home whites are perfection. And what really strikes me is how they would never be proposed by any team looking to redesign its uni set today. You can’t consciously create an iconic look like that.
Also, thank you for pretending the late 90s, tiger-crawling-through-the-D era never happened.
I'm about your age, and I've been watching Conan's talk show all along. Once I got out of college and got a 9-to-5 job, I did it by watching the next day with the aid of a VCR and then a DVR - and then, once he moved to TBS, I could once again watch the same night because I live on the West Coast and get the East Coast feed via DirecTV.
Anyway, back in the early days of Conan on "Late Night," when there was a whole group in my college dorm that watched every night, the consensus was that the comedy bits were hilarious, and they did a great job of booking musical acts, but the interviews were the weak link... so some in the group suggested they change the format of the show and turn it into "The Conan O'Brien Variety Hour." All these years, and that has finally come to pass!
Disagree about the modern baseball fabrics looking better. I'm sure they're functionally a lot better, but those old flannels had a beautiful texture that today's unis can't match. Behold:
Ahh, the Circle Jerks. Officially the first band to put out a proper "hardcore" punk album out from the LA scene - they called it Group Sex, it's great if you dig that stuff, and I do! - but at the same time some of their peers gave them crap for stealing half their songs from Black Flag when their singer Keith Morris left that band, in order to be able to rush their album out and claim distinction of *first*. My take? Listen to "Wasted" by the Circle Jerks, then go listen to "Wasted" by Black Flag, and then make up your own mind. My introduction to this band was watching Beavis and Butthead watch their music video for their 90's cover of Robyn Hitchcock's "I Wanna Destroy You". Now, THERE'S a song to be reckoned with.
The bulk of Mets fans I have seen online are kind of glad that Cano is out. They would rather have the money, and seem to have treated the trade for him and Diaz as a bad deal from a now deposed regime. Besides, McNeil is a natural second baseman. The most interesting thing is that there isn't much anger. It's more "what a moron" than "how dare he cheat!" The moral outrage of the typical sportswriter is elsewhere.
As I have made clear over the years, I am one of the few who doesn't find PEDs to be a bad thing. But rules are rules, and I don't have much sympathy for someone who knowingly breaks them. Still, I think that if his stats are Hall of Fame worthy, he should be in. Or are we going to kick known spitball pitcher Gaylord Perry out?
You definitely were and are still procrastinating.
Sorry, but if you’re going to link to a “shit hitting the fan” clip, this is the only acceptable option: https://youtu.be/aZdp46Jen_w
George Clooney seems like a guy who is just comfortable in his own skin and with his life. Pretty cool.
Giving away some of your money while you're still alive to the people who matter to you is a great idea. I wonder how he found out about the "undisclosed location."
I have a big yellow sign on the entrance to my store which reads, "MASKS ARE MANDATORY INSIDE THIS STORE." So I had a woman from Florida (I'm in Vermont) come in yesterday who proceeded to tell me it was the masks that were the problem. "We're rebreathing our own retrovirus" she said (exact quote). "Down in Florida we do whatever we want, bars and restaurants, not controlled by the government. My kid had it, and my neighbor said it was no big deal."
I stood there, mouth hanging open (under my mask). The volume of incorrect information out there is astounding. I fear we are past the point of no return, and wave after wave of unnecessary death is on the way. Darwin, man. Darwin.
I love the '80s Tigers road unis - in fact, for some reason, that's the uni that's lodged in my childhood memories growing up watching Tigers baseball. The current road unis are, I agree, fine, but I would love to see the old '80s one brought out on occasion.
As to Trump - you've got it right, and I've echoed a similar sentiment over the last two years: Trump is not the disease, he is a symptom. Americans need to recognize this, because the 2020 election is clear evidence that change is not going to come easy.
And in a similar vein, the lack of concern about COVID is just... is this peak American individualism, completely turned on itself like a ravenous ouroboros? I feel like this is related to the whole Trumpism thing, and I wonder if the American experiment went off the rails somewhere, or if this was always the inevitable outcome.
April 2022: "Robinson Cano excited to start 'new chapter' as Astros' DH".
I saw Substack Navel-Gazer open for Industrial Shithouse at Wembley.
The '72 - '93 Tigers roadies are the best. The current roadies are second best. I loved me some Trammel/Whittaker too, but the color combo on that era's unis is awful.
How is the Tigers essay for the 2021 issue due tomorrow? Is it a retrospective? No one knows what the Tigers roster will look like in 2021!
Also, for the JD Vance file. From Wajahat Ali's piece in the Times about his unsuccessful attempts to "reach out" to Trump voters:
In 2017, I was invited by the Aspen Institute — which hosts a festival known for attracting the wealthy and powerful — to discuss racism in America. At a private dinner after the event, I was introduced to a donor who I learned was a Trump supporter. As soon as I said “white privilege,” she began shooting me passive aggressive quips about the virtues of meritocracy and hard work. She recommended I read “Hillbilly Elegy” — the best-selling book that has been criticized by those living in Appalachia as glorified poverty porn promoting simplistic stereotypes about a diverse region.
Hillbilly Elegy - every right-winger's favorite book about white people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/opinion/trump-supporters.html
I agree with your conclusions about trump voters. With out reading any source on the 50% thinking it's rigged figure, I wonder.
I don't think Fla 2000 was rigged, but I do believe GOP intervention over came more than 537 votes, all front loaded disenfranchisement stuff. Combined with mistakes like the butterfly ballot and yes some heel digging by kooks like katherine harris, but do I accept the outcome? Sorta?
same with 2004 and ohio, I still have doubts about that, that I accepted more easily than 2000 which I absolutely accepted.
But how would I answer the "rigged" question for either in the immediate aftermath? I don't know. Maybe I say "yes, rigged."
Cano's suspension is just sad. Some people on twitter hate him, but for what? trying to be better at baseball? can we save that for TLR?
Those Tigers home whites are perfection. And what really strikes me is how they would never be proposed by any team looking to redesign its uni set today. You can’t consciously create an iconic look like that.
Also, thank you for pretending the late 90s, tiger-crawling-through-the-D era never happened.
I'm about your age, and I've been watching Conan's talk show all along. Once I got out of college and got a 9-to-5 job, I did it by watching the next day with the aid of a VCR and then a DVR - and then, once he moved to TBS, I could once again watch the same night because I live on the West Coast and get the East Coast feed via DirecTV.
Anyway, back in the early days of Conan on "Late Night," when there was a whole group in my college dorm that watched every night, the consensus was that the comedy bits were hilarious, and they did a great job of booking musical acts, but the interviews were the weak link... so some in the group suggested they change the format of the show and turn it into "The Conan O'Brien Variety Hour." All these years, and that has finally come to pass!
"the whites with the English D are perfect."
Whooaaaa. Craig went full Proud Boy on us over night.
Disagree about the modern baseball fabrics looking better. I'm sure they're functionally a lot better, but those old flannels had a beautiful texture that today's unis can't match. Behold:
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cb765119aa846fc333a9561ef9778614502d1eec/0_148_2646_1587/master/2646.jpg?width=1200&height=1200&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=3802fd251fe4a41267f8583301a5975e
Ahh, the Circle Jerks. Officially the first band to put out a proper "hardcore" punk album out from the LA scene - they called it Group Sex, it's great if you dig that stuff, and I do! - but at the same time some of their peers gave them crap for stealing half their songs from Black Flag when their singer Keith Morris left that band, in order to be able to rush their album out and claim distinction of *first*. My take? Listen to "Wasted" by the Circle Jerks, then go listen to "Wasted" by Black Flag, and then make up your own mind. My introduction to this band was watching Beavis and Butthead watch their music video for their 90's cover of Robyn Hitchcock's "I Wanna Destroy You". Now, THERE'S a song to be reckoned with.