DL Open Thread Tuesday March 1st 2022
Nobody wants Putin’s murderous insanity rewarded, but can we “support” the people of Ukraine without sounding so much like they are an underdog football team playing well in the first quarter? Seriously.
Shell is exiting Russia, BP is also leaving. These are good things. Better yet – let’s get off fossil fuel altogether. It’s time.
I wonder if Biden will mention that in his SOTU address tonight. Who knows? will it be Joe Biden who is still thinking he can still treat Republicans like it is 1988? I hope not.
Welcome to March. Today is the meteorological beginning of spring. The March equinox on the 20 or 21 marks the astronomical beginning of spring. As for me and my family, we follow meteorological spring. Fuck the astronomical spring. Astronomical losers can eat me.
“Emily: Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it — every, every minute?”
― Our Town
I forgot to mention that MLB billionaires are still fighting with baseball Millionaires over an ever shrinking pool of money because nobody likes baseball.
I dunno, jason, but I like baseball. I also love it, irrationally of course, for reasons tied up in history and nostalgia and place that I won’t bore you with, boomer poser that you may consider me to be.
But basically I like baseball, from the crack of the bat to the peanuts and beer and the smell of the summer dust. One of the things I like best is its annual spring rebirth, in tune with nature, because it’s essentially an outdoor sport, as Joe Connor pointed out.
I also heartily agree that this contractual clusterfuck pisses me off no end, but sooner or later all the assholes involved will get their shit together and settle.
And then I’ll get to watch some baseball again.
Infamous Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich will take bids on Chelsea Football Club. West London club for sale. He’s out.
Initial reports are the price tag will be upwards of £2 billion.
If all DL and Highlands Bunker lurkers pony up, I think we have a shot.
Some of us like baseball. We regard it as a thinking man’s game, but we might be wrong. There’s not much scoring, but usually more than soccer. And no ties.
LOl. I almost said “nobody, aside from a handful of boomer posers, likes baseball.”
That will teach me to second guess myself.
Take a ride up and down the state late afternoon, early evening in a couple weeks and observe the number of kids on fields of all sizes and their coaches getting ready for Little League opening day and tell me again nobody likes baseball 🙂
And you would probably have been correct! But sometimes (only sometimes) I think professing a strong love of soccer might be partly a political statement because of its relative newness here compared with traditional U.S. sports and its international quality. But I realize I don’t really know much about soccer. I do like how the action never stops.
Cricket is superior to baseball. And talk about scoring!
I’ve followed Spurs since I was 11. 1985. Big 5th grade political statement.
I like the idea of cricket. But I saw a match in Bermuda once and didn’t understand much except that they batted with some kind of bat and fielded some kind of ball that the pitcher sort of rolled to the hitter. They did score a lot of runs. But I was mainly drinking beer and looking out at the ocean so it was probably my fault. I think I could learn to like cricket. I can definitely see how it would lead to baseball.
Drinking beer and getting sunburnt is 75% of it.
They call pitching bowling. They do “pitch” the ball on deliveries (make it bounce). Rest assured, it’s coming in at 85-90 mph. And if it hits you in the head…. too bad. Well bowled.
Plus you field bare handed. No gloves. If a line drive gets hit at you you just have to catch it. And you can field close in.
Very fun and a bit dangerous
Thanks for the info. Maybe I’d better go back to Bermuda and try again.
Go on YouTube and search fast short bowling. The West Indies had the best in the 70s and 80s. Great documentary about Windies teams juxtaposed against the politics of the 1970s called Fire in Babylon.