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Post by inger on Aug 3, 2023 20:01:51 GMT -5
One of these days, Pipps, I'll actually do it. Likely when I'm retired. There was a story that my great grandfather Arsene Louis Arpin was once relaxing after a Sunday dinner, when someone began talking about the Olympics. After a few minutes, my grandfather stood and began walking toward the door. Someone said, "Grandpa, where are you going?" As he walked out the door, he said, "Thought I might go see the Olympic Games." And, he did. The games in the year 1912 were in Stockholm. I like your grandfather. That was the Jim Thorpe Olympics I believe. But seriously no reason not to pursue the things you want to do. My great uncle dropped out of college in 1918 because he heard rumors of a new gold strike in Alaska. There wasn't one, of course, but the adventure he had was far beyond anything he would have done in school. Tune up that flivver and hit the road! Take it from me You’ll learn more From your accidents Than anything that You could ever learn in school (Billy Joel) <You’re only Human> Don’t forget your second wind Sooner or later you’ll Feel that emotion kick in… |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Aug 3, 2023 20:02:21 GMT -5
Freaking Jinx announcers
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Post by inger on Aug 3, 2023 20:02:46 GMT -5
We had a kid in our town that sold it. He was an older kid with red hair. They’d let him sit in the vestibule with the gum ball machines in the Acme store. It must have been a decent gig, his younger brother took it over after the big brother moved on to more adult things… The older boy was a bit odd. He carried about a yard long stick and would try to intimidate the younger kids with it while he sold the papers. I knew the manager very well (even at 9-10 years old). I had the power to get him tossed, but I never really cared. He didn’t hit people with it. He’d just point it and maybe take a jab here and there. When I first started playing ball I used a very small light bat. This red-head kid shows up at a game we’re playing once. He’s probably 14 and we’re 9-10. He decides he wants to bat once and of course he picks my bat and breaks it. I didn’t care. I still brought it to games and hit rocks with it sometimes but it wasn’t my game bat anymore. I taped the handle and continued to use it to hit rocks. That was how I taught myself to switch hit… Was it a pointed stick?  More like a tiny pool cue without a tip… |
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 3, 2023 20:03:25 GMT -5
Kay, how was your birthday dinner? Awesome! Went to a local Thai place. Had coconut soup, seared beef, green curry chicken, duck salad, drunken noodles, pineapple shrimp, just to name a few. Gonna go have the leftovers right now! The real prize is when I visit my best friend in a couple weeks. He's going to take me out to a Two Star Michelin restaurant in the city:
Theres also an Italian catered party at my parents house on Sunday.  Sounds wonderful. I love drunken noodles. |
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Post by inger on Aug 3, 2023 20:03:53 GMT -5
See? Tucker is not a Yankee. Therefore his home run was legit and the short porch was NOT an issue…
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 3, 2023 20:04:20 GMT -5
Old mother Tucker's boy ties the game.
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Post by inger on Aug 3, 2023 20:06:32 GMT -5
We’d best start hitting again… Sigh…
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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 3, 2023 20:06:58 GMT -5
Old mother Tucker's boy ties the game. He's a solid unheralded player. |
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Post by Renfield on Aug 3, 2023 20:08:31 GMT -5
See? Tucker is not a Yankee. Therefore his home run was legit and the short porch was NOT an issue… Funny how they didn't even nention it. |
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Post by inger on Aug 3, 2023 20:10:20 GMT -5
McKinney has had a couple embarrassing moments in the OF, but he’s pretty solid out there overall…
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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 3, 2023 20:10:35 GMT -5
See? Tucker is not a Yankee. Therefore his home run was legit and the short porch was NOT an issue… Funny how they didn't even nention it. The fences are only short when the Yankees are batting. They move them back when the visiting team comes to bat. |
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Post by inger on Aug 3, 2023 20:11:16 GMT -5
See? Tucker is not a Yankee. Therefore his home run was legit and the short porch was NOT an issue… Funny how they didn't even nention it. It only exists if a Yankee homers. It exists in spades ♠️ if that Yankee is a RHH… |
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Post by inger on Aug 3, 2023 20:18:10 GMT -5
Bader walks after being down 0-2. Rarity…
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 3, 2023 20:18:50 GMT -5
One of these days, Pipps, I'll actually do it. Likely when I'm retired. There was a story that my great grandfather Arsene Louis Arpin was once relaxing after a Sunday dinner, when someone began talking about the Olympics. After a few minutes, my grandfather stood and began walking toward the door. Someone said, "Grandpa, where are you going?" As he walked out the door, he said, "Thought I might go see the Olympic Games." And, he did. The games in the year 1912 were in Stockholm. I like your grandfather. That was the Jim Thorpe Olympics I believe. But seriously no reason not to pursue the things you want to do. My great uncle dropped out of college in 1918 because he heard rumors of a new gold strike in Alaska. There wasn't one, of course, but the adventure he had was far beyond anything he would have done in school. Tune up that flivver and hit the road! By all accounts, he was quite a guy. Made millions, lost them in The Depression, make them back again. His first wife, my great grandmother, had tuberculosis. On the way from Wisconsin to try the arid climate of Arizona, she died. With two toddlers in tow, my godmother and my grandfather, he laid her down in the back of the covered wagon, and drove back across the country to their home in Wisconsin. From a young man in a covered wagon, he lived to see Sputnik. He died in 1960 at 90 years old of food poisoning. |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Aug 3, 2023 20:19:07 GMT -5
Speed Wins !
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