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It ain't the pitch clock, kids. It's trying to throw 130mph on every pitch.

6 hours ago, PittsburghSucks said:

Absolute gut punch.

Tough break for the Clevelands. In one week, Bieber goes from allowing no runs in two starts to done for the year.

Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2025 Sacramento AAA's.

3 hours ago, The_Admiral said:

Nice beard, DORK, you look like a guy who posts on reddit about how he's "a big bearded dude you wouldn't want to run into but not afraid to let my daughter paint my nails at her tea party"

 

I hope the Browns don't move again, though.

He's pitching a  because the Browns want to build a domed stadium by Hopkins Airport in Brook Park.  It's all of 15 minutes (if that) from downtown. People like beard dork and local sports radio hacks who need the topic are the only ones who give a single about this "move."

51 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

Other than for one week every summer, when the busiest airport in the world is located in Oshkosh, WI.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sponsor-story/eaa/2023/06/23/the-worlds-busiest-airport-each-july-its-oshkosh-wisconsin/70341839007/

A friend of mine used to fly to that event every year.

3 hours ago, BBTV said:

Isn't ATL the busiest airport in the US due to how it's a hub for multiple airlines?

According to Google, ATL is the busiest airport in the world.

Side note: Minneapolis Airport has a Prince store.

48 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

I’ve never been to the Atlanta airport, but that’s mostly because the furthest south I’ve been is St. Louis and I never fly Delta.

 

Pn the CCSLC airport rankings, how does Atlanta fare compared to Denver, O’Hare, and Sky Harbor (to name a few I’ve been to on layovers)?

Of the airports you mentioned, the only one I've been to is St. Louis and it was fine. No issues. I've been through Atlanta more times than I can remember and I've never had a problem. Hartfield-Jackson is big and it's busy, but it's very easy to navigate. If you have at least an hour between flights and you shouldn't have a problem. If you have more than an hour there is enough stuff to keep you from getting too bored.

On 4/2/2024 at 1:40 PM, Sport said:

Like if sports didn't exist I don't think I would need to know anything about Atlanta. 

You wouldn't be able to avoid the airport.

2 hours ago, BottomlessPitt said:

What are the odds the Texans win their first Super Bowl before the Cowboys win their 6th or even get there again?

50-50. 

9 minutes ago, The_Admiral said:

He wasn't going to take that sitting down.

6 minutes ago, BBTV said:

Or maybe it was a primitive form of Barry Bonds' "The Cream", administered anally for quick absorption. 

 

IDK, but I feel like I've thought way too much about George Brett's hall-of-fame butthole.

You didn't hear this from me, but that's exactly what it was. Why do you think he flipped out like he did over the pine tar HR? It was butt-roid rage.

Most definitely.

11 hours ago, McCall said:

I didn't know you played for the Mets in the 1980s.

80s Royals, but same idea.

3 hours ago, Sport said:

This is me with the designated hitter and interleague play. Used to have impassioned arguments about both and now I just cannot care. If you asked me now I would argue multiple points about how both are actually good. I've become less of a baseball purist as I've aged and less of a hard-ass sports fan all around.

 

I have some experiences now that I didn't have as a teenager/early 20's person and those have given me a healthy dose of perspective. When the Reds or Bengals lost when I was a kid my dad would laugh and move on instantly and it made me angry that he didn't care. I get it now. It's not that he didn't care, he just knew that it wasn't important enough to spend any time worrying about. His response was correct. It's just sports.

Same here.

Arizona lost the World Series and got the better looking ring.

3 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

I mean, I have thought about the Station to Station diet lately.

 

It's worth a shot.

The bigger question is did Bowie ever perfect telekinesis? He was Bowie so I can't rule it out entirely. Page was never a threat. His attempts to be the next Aleister Crowley were clumsy at best. I'd imagine the witches he hired reflected that.

46 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

Anybody else ever go through this kind of disconnect? Is there any way to get that feeling back?

Cocaine and steroids.

10 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

Yup, the false importance and “mystical Americana nature” really bugs me, if that makes sense. I’d rather emphasize what Ball Four or literally any pre-WWI baseball stories do, which is the wackiness and the often-rebellious nature of the players.

It’s so much more entertaining than the Norman Rockwell-like garbage.

Baseball is every bit of its "mystical Americana nature" and "Norman Rockwell-like garbage."  It's also all the other things that you'd prefer to talk about. It doesn't have to be one or the other. We don't need to tear it down just because tearing things down is all the rage these days.

What entertains you might not entertain someone else. Sometimes we don't get our way and we have to live with being bugged about it. 

1 hour ago, SFGiants58 said:

Let’s be real here: Hall of Fames are mostly pointless.

It's Halls of Fame, but your point remains.

1 hour ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

Well, the players from the 1960s would definitely disagree with you about amphetamines. Those players were convinced that "greenies" helped them recover from injuries and deal with fatigue. Jim Bouton wrote about this.

 

While I have not used cocaine, plenty of people whom I know have used it. And they say that that drug gave them the ability to overlook certain types of pain. So it is safe to say that the use of that drug allowed ballplayers to play when they otherwise would not have been able to play.

I've read Ball Four more times than I can remember, where did Bouton say that greenies added 5mph to his fastball or helped Steve Hovely hit an extra 20 home runs? Cocaine didn't do all to enhance anyone's performance.

With all due respect, your argument is ridiculous.

1 hour ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

Note that there are legal things that are best avoided, most notably tobacco.

 

Thanks for reminding me.  I also used tobacco when I played.

8 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

I didn't say that steroids didn't help those players. They certainly did help them.

 

And there's nothing wrong with that.  If those players' performances had been enhanced by taking vitamins, or by excersise and a good diet, no one would complain. There is no fundamental difference between those things and the use of steroids.

 

And before anyone claims that the difference is down to natural versus artificial, consider the absurdity that athletes in other sports have been banned for re-injecting their own blood, with no foreign substances involved.

 

Also, let's remember that Willie Mays used amphetamines, and that Babe Ruth almost certainly used cocaine. This does not diminish their accomplishments one bit, just as the greatness of Bonds and Clemens and the others is undiminished.

Having used vitamins, amphetamines, and cocaine (as well as a few other illegal substances) when I was playing, I can tell you from experience that those things do not enhance your ability in any appreciable way. Having used steroids when I was playing, I can tell you from experience that they enhance your ability in pretty much every appreciable way. That's the difference.

Just now, FiddySicks said:

One of the problems is that Southern California politics (specifically, Orange County politics) are just as much of a snake pit as Bay Area politics. Something is going to eventually have to give with Angels Stadium, as it’s the same age as the Oakland Coliseum. When that time comes, then what? Do they think it’s going to be any easier to find the land and bilk the tax payers for a new park? And you can talk about how So Cal potentially has more of a pool of big money to pull from when the time comes (I find that claim to be dubious at best), but… Why? Like, for what reason would anyone want to fund a project with the Angels at the main tenant? Who does that work for other than whoever owns the Angels? 
 

I’m just starting to see a future where both parts of the state give off the shocked pikachu meme look as both of their AL teams set up shop somewhere dumb because they couldn’t extort more taxpayer money from here. 

Wasn't Angels Stadium renovated not that long ago?

48 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

Bonds beat his pregnant wife and maybe held a guy prisoner, Clemens has the horrible Mindy McCready situation, and Pete Rose transported a minor across state lines with intent to fornicate. There are more visceral moral reasons beyond roids or betting to keep them out.

No argument here, but my point was about steroids. That said, I'm certainly open to a broader discussion on morality. 

1 hour ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

Well, the steroids guys are another matter entirely. That's where the writers have really gotten it wrong. Here is something worth being upset about.

 

All those guys — Palmeiro, McGwire, Sosa, Clemens, and especially Bonds — not only deserve enshrinement, but they also deserve a formal apology. I can only hope that a committee will come along one day to right that wrong.

Of the players you mentioned, only Bonds was in the HOF discussion before he started juicing. Palmeiro, McGwire, and Sosa were created in a lab. So was the second half of Clemens' career.

A lot of apologists believe that steroids weren't a big deal and didn't make all that much difference in a player's ability, but I know from personal playing experience how much they help. I was prescribed steroids for about a month when I was still playing in 1996. I had more power at the plate, my reflexes were faster, and I had the same amount of energy in the 9th inning that I had in the 1st inning. The steroids made a big difference. I was just some out of shape guy playing in a local league and the roids I was on weren't even the good stuff.

Your boys cheated, their stats benefited a whole lot from their cheating, and now they're paying the price. It is what it is.

2 hours ago, LMU said:

Most of us civilians aren't aspiring to enter the halls of fame of our respective professions.

That's the problem with America today. Back in my day, making the Convenience Store Cashier HOF was something we aspired to.