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Post by inger on Apr 25, 2021 15:20:14 GMT -5
Bill Maher had a good take on Friday regarding the concepts of wisdom and experience vs. a generation that believes if an event didn’t occur within their lifetime, then it’s not worth knowing. All the while, not understanding that many of their generation’s “ideas” are not novel, but recycled and have been tried before and failed. For sure. It was a major failing of my own Boomer generation. At least that narcissistic portion of it that considered itself anointed. The author of Ecclesiastes had it figured out nearly 3,000 years ago. And even he probably wasn't the first. . I once heard that if you read Ecclesiastes first the entire Bible made more sense and you would be drawn into the story. It didn’t work for me, but that was indeed a great manual for common sense that ages well... |
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Post by sierchio on Apr 25, 2021 15:20:26 GMT -5
God this team sucks... wasted my Sunday listening/watching this crap.. A day watching baseball with your friends on the board is never wasted. True story... it just aint as good if we aint winnin |
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Post by chiyankee on Apr 25, 2021 15:20:43 GMT -5
good approach by Frazier, Stanton and Judge against a guy that throws this hard, but no luck.
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Post by sierchio on Apr 25, 2021 15:21:22 GMT -5
Joke is on me: Wrong Brewer... Remember Jim Brewer, the Cubs pitcher who had his jaw broken by Billy Martin? I remember Jim Brewer, the comedian, who had my jaw broken by making me laugh so damn much  |
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Post by kaybli on Apr 25, 2021 15:21:46 GMT -5
Gotta beat up on Baltimore and Detroit next.
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Post by chiyankee on Apr 25, 2021 15:22:11 GMT -5
God this team sucks... wasted my Sunday listening/watching this crap.. A day watching baseball with your friends on the board is never wasted. We are all still here during the worst pandemic in 100 years. That's a win! |
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Post by kaybli on Apr 25, 2021 15:22:53 GMT -5
A day watching baseball with your friends on the board is never wasted. We are all still here during the worst pandemic in 100 years. That's a win!  |
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Post by inger on Apr 25, 2021 15:24:18 GMT -5
Joke is on me: Wrong Brewer... Remember Jim Brewer, the Cubs pitcher who had his jaw broken by Billy Martin? One and the same with the Dodger pitcher I was thinking of, Pipps. Now I wonder if Billy Brewer ever existed... Did he really appear? |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 25, 2021 15:26:27 GMT -5
Even though it felt like the Yankees' offense broke out in this series-- and for sure there were signs of life with the long ball-- they still only scored a pedestrian 16 runs in four games.
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 25, 2021 15:27:01 GMT -5
Bill Maher had a good take on Friday regarding the concepts of wisdom and experience vs. a generation that believes if an event didn’t occur within their lifetime, then it’s not worth knowing. All the while, not understanding that many of their generation’s “ideas” are not novel, but recycled and have been tried before and failed. For sure. It was a major failing of my own Boomer generation. At least that narcissistic portion of it that considered itself anointed. The author of Ecclesiastes had it figured out nearly 3,000 years ago. And even he probably wasn't the first. Yep, Hemingway used it for a title: The Sun Also Rises. Remember the argument regarding melons in For Whom The Bell Tolls: “The melon of Castile is for self abuse. The melon of Valencia for eating.” |
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Post by inger on Apr 25, 2021 15:29:08 GMT -5
For sure. It was a major failing of my own Boomer generation. At least that narcissistic portion of it that considered itself anointed. The author of Ecclesiastes had it figured out nearly 3,000 years ago. And even he probably wasn't the first. Yep, Hemingway used it for a title: The Sun Also Rises. Remember the argument regarding melons in For Whom The Bell Tolls: “The melon of Castile is for self abuse. The melon of Valencia for eating.” Which surely was inspiration for the apple pie scene in that Apple Pie movie... |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 25, 2021 15:30:33 GMT -5
Remember Jim Brewer, the Cubs pitcher who had his jaw broken by Billy Martin? One and the same with the Dodger pitcher I was thinking of, Pipps. Now I wonder if Billy Brewer ever existed... Did he really appear? Had to look him up on baseballref, but yeah, he seems to be a real person. There was a Tom Brewer who pitched for Boston in my baseball card days. I have some memory of him allowing a mammoth home run to Mantle. Of course a lot of pitchers have that on their resume. |
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Post by sierchio on Apr 25, 2021 15:31:33 GMT -5
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 25, 2021 15:33:21 GMT -5
For sure. It was a major failing of my own Boomer generation. At least that narcissistic portion of it that considered itself anointed. The author of Ecclesiastes had it figured out nearly 3,000 years ago. And even he probably wasn't the first. Yep, Hemingway used it for a title: The Sun Also Rises. Remember the argument regarding melons in For Whom The Bell Tolls: “The melon of Castile is for self abuse. The melon of Valencia for eating.” Your ability to quote the masters is very impressive Rizz. I keep a few from Twain and Mencken in my arsenal, but I have to be careful how I use them. |
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Post by inger on Apr 25, 2021 15:36:39 GMT -5
Yep, Hemingway used it for a title: The Sun Also Rises. Remember the argument regarding melons in For Whom The Bell Tolls: “The melon of Castile is for self abuse. The melon of Valencia for eating.” Your ability to quote the masters is very impressive Rizz. I keep a few from Twain and Mencken in my arsenal, but I have to be careful how I use them. h Likewise me with Bouton and Woody Allen... 😂 |
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