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On 3/11/2017 at 8:28 PM, Shumway said:
To be honest, I haven't visited these places often either (I went to the Hustler for a bachelor party once), but I drive down Baltimore Street every time I leave the city to get back on to route 83.
Sometimes it's quicker to drive up Charles Street to hit I-83 by Penn Station because Baltimore Street always seem to crawl . . . but your route is much more colorful.
My one and only trip to the fine establishments of The Block (which was about 3-4 blocks long in its heyday) was some time in the mid 80s, when I was probably 18 or 19. I don't feel like I've been missing out.
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11 minutes ago, GeauxColonels said:
But Hank is actually a "septopus."
Are you suggesting he wouldn't be able to drive if he still had his eighth tentacle?
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On 3/6/2017 at 1:51 PM, Discogod said:
Pre-1996 NBA throwback games:
2 December 1993, Supersonics at Bullets:
How do you throw back to these and manage to forget a column of stars on the shorts?
I will have to check out your article. Orange seems dark as a home jersey, but the Univ. of Illinois has worn orange at home too.
On 3/7/2017 at 11:21 AM, kimball said:Interesting piece on the Baltimore Bullets' 1968-69 home orange jersey. I didn't know that their orange jersey was designated as the home jersey. Makes sense with all of the color vs. color photos I've seen featuring the Bullets.
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18 hours ago, B-Rich said:
Butch was partial to crew neck sweaters when he coached at Lafayette during my time there in the 80s. That was his second stint as head coach at Lafayette, the first being from 1951-55 (with Pete Carril playing as a senior the first year). He also had two head coaching stints at Hofstra . . . both immediately following his stints at Lafayette.
15 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:I don't think I've ever seen/noticed that NY/Apple logo before.
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18 hours ago, kimball said:
I wasn't sure where to put all of these, so I figured I'd start a new thread of small little finds I found while browsing the 'net -- and specifically, right now -- Getty Images. Most of these are small oddities, difficult finds and what not.
I was going to open this up to stuff I found in other sports, but basketball and NBA history in the 70s and 80s has recently captured my attention.
Anyways ... some of my finds:
GORGEOUS Color vs. Color in Baltimore against the Bullets and Warriors (also note it's Ladies Night!)
Interesting font and styling of Tom McMillen's name on this Hawks' jersey. Not sure why the underline?
Notice the name on the back of Dave Stallworth of the Bullets. The name was pretty long so the "st" of Stallworth is white to not clash with the blue stripe.
From the top:
1. Until I see pictures like this, I sometimes forget that basketball socks were often worn like football socks (i.e., colored knee-high socks with white crew socks over them). It would be interesting to see someone replicate that look (at least on a throwback).
2. Interesting (to me, at least) tidbit on the Tom McMillen picture -- He was playing on the visiting team within the Congressional district he would later represent.
3. I've said in other threads that when I was a kid it was hard to tell if the Baltimore Bullets wore black and orange or blue and orange. This pretty clearly shows it was blue . . . and shows the ridiculous design of the Baltimore Civic Center/Baltimore Arena/Royal Farms Arena with a permanent stage at one end of the building.
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They're both bad logos, but at least the Tornados logos reads as Tornados. The W completely disappears on the Towers logo.
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No, it's not. I'd just never noticed it before in this case, even though it should have been fairly obvious since the primary is also the helmet logo.
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Apparently, I've become desensitized. My first reaction was, "Hey, that name isn't so bad."
I think that is the definition of "damning with faint praise."
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25 minutes ago, Waffles said:
OK, I SWEAR that I never saw that.
Plus, that guy doesn't look angry.
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16 hours ago, RyanMcD29 said:
Still waiting for the Brooklyn Cyclones to be renamed the Brooklyn Hamiltons based on the play and then we'll finally hit the breaking point from Brandoise
Nah, they'd wind up as the Brooklyn Red Hots with an angry Coney Island hot dog swinging a ketchup bottle as the primary logo.
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10 minutes ago, B-Rich said:
Also, a lot bigger than a doughnut-- they are, as hjwii says, more like a larger, glorified cinnamon roll in terms of consistency and taste. You don't pick it up; you cut and eat a piece, like cake. Some-- the more traditional ones -- have a glaze with colored sugar ( #1 below); some others now have way too much thick icing and colored sprinkles (# 2 below, which I don't like). And rarely are they round anymore; most are oblong:
I will have a long rant ( and plan of action) about this after I go give blood at lunchtime...
No. 1 is what I remember. The company I worked for from 1998-2003 used to get 10-15 shipped to us every year at Mardi Gras from outside counsel in New Orleans. I had never heard of them before then . . . for what that's worth on the "no one outside New Orleans knows what they are" topic.
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Cinnamon roll doesn't sound right to me. The one's I've had always resembled raised donuts with lots of colored sugar on them.
Then, again, I'm not in New Orleans . . . and it's been about 14 years since I've seen/had one.
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39 minutes ago, the admiral said:
I apparently have some reading to do.
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On 10/11/2016 at 4:31 PM, 2001mark said:
I've rather enjoyed Ernie Johnson doing play by play for TBS this post-season. His is a quieter yet entertaining voice all the same. Not always the sharpest baseball eye, yet it's his lack of hijacking the game with boastful announcing which makes that tolerable. He tends to sound like his priority is enjoying the game he's calling. That's a very welcome trait.
I'll second this. When Chris Tillman was taken out of the AL Wildcard Game, Ernie didn't even mention that Buck Showalter had left the dugout . . . not to mention the TBS cameras/feed also failed to show the mound visit. The first sign that Tillman was coming out of the game that I recall was a shot of him walking to the dugout.
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With Army and Navy, I don't think there is any great interest in upgrading their other sports to upper level Division I standards . . . and I doubt the rest of the Big XII schools have any interest in adding schools with 5,000 +/- seat basketball arenas.
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Just saw that. I remember him from his days doing local sports in Baltimore . . . back in the early 80s.
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17 minutes ago, 2001mark said:
si.com has updated their site... so far so good.
They've done what seems to be the new -agile for mobile- updates, & yet desktop appreciation hasn't been ignored unlike most.
Thanks for the heads up. It took me about 15 seconds to decide that it is infinitely better than before. The old version was a cluster____.
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The whole series is very well done. My wife and I got sucked in a few weeks ago.
The jury certainly could have justified an acquittal on the basis of reasonable doubt. To me, that is actually an example of the system working as it was intended (which is what I told my wife the day of the verdict). What was frustrating (bordering on infuriating) was to hear one juror say it was revenge for Rodney King and another say it was (in part) because they had been sequestered for nine months.
As you said, the series showed that O.J. was as far removed from the black community as was probably possible in 1994. For him to be acquitted as a message on behalf of the black community is beyond ironic.
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Barnwell has the rare gift of being able to rely on analytics without talking over everyone's head. I may not always get the numbers (or even care to), but I can still follow his points.
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13 hours ago, the admiral said:
Analytics don't interest most white people, either. It's a niche that's wildly over-represented in blogs, often most vociferously by erstwhile humanities students who were allergic to math their whole lives but want something to lord over the normies. Even in hockey, which has the narrowest diehard-to-casual ratio of the four leagues, most fans couldn't tell you crap about Corsi or PDO and wouldn't want to anyway because it doesn't matter as much as grit and effort and knowing how to do all the little things. (The worst part is they're half-right.)
I also think analytics haven't served basketball terribly well, owing to the fluidity and intensely personal nature of the game. The Warriors are allegedly an analytics-based team, but there's not a lot of advanced math to the idea that if you have a once-in-a-generation guy who can drain threes from all over the floor, you should let him. Then there's Daryl Morey, who has been flailing around for years with precious little to show for it.
I agree wholeheartedly. I understand and pay attention to some stats beyond the traditional biggies in baseball, like WHIP. The rest eventually make my eyes glaze over and compel me to turn the page. When you start talking about OPS+, FIP, Defensive WAR and UZR, you've generally jumped the shark.
Maybe this is because I'm 48 years old and none of that stuff existed when I was growing up. However, I can't be the only one who gets bored with the stathead articles.
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I will say that she didn't have the "announcer voice" in college.
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I vaguely remember something about this, but it's mostly escaping me.