Spaceman Spiff

DC, right where it belongs.  

@Bang, do some yoga.  Surprised no one's mentioned it here.  You'd be surprised at what stretching can do for your back.

10+ years ago or so I did something to my back, I dunno what...but I couldn't get off the couch.  Couldn't bend over.  My mom kept bugging me to go to a doctor or at least a chiro but no ****ing way.  I was in my late 20s, just being stubborn and still thinking that I was invincible, despite what my back was telling me.

Had a friend tell me to do yoga.  I didn't want to go to a class and make an ass out of myself so I got some dvds and started doing it at home.  Back problems, gone.  Kept it up for 6, 7 months, never had any issues again.  

I don't do it as much as I should now, I should still make time for it.  But if my back is ever stiff or tight, some yoga poses do the trick.  

Here's a fun one.  I kinda believed it as a teenager.  

https://www.loudersound.com/features/who-killed-jimi-hendrix

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“I can remember this as if it were yesterday,” says Tappy today, sitting in London’s Groucho club, remembering the night that Jeffery apparently confessed to Hendrix’s murder. “As we are talking, Mike began to get very agitated and pale. ‘I had no bloody choice, I had to do it’. ‘What are you talking about?’ ‘You know exactly what I’m talking about. It was either that or I’d be broke or dead’. 

“I have to say that it did confirm suspicions that I had, that a lot of people had, only everybody was too scared to come forward and say anything. He was telling me, I didn’t ask and to be honest I really didn’t want to hear this.

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”Mike gave away few details and Tappy didn’t press him further: “All he said was he got a few of his friends – I don’t know who they were, just some villains that Mike knew from up north and it was just booze down the windpipe. Like in that film Get Carter.

Barely a month later, Mike Jeffery was dead. Flying back from Majorca, his Iberian Airways DC-9 flight was in a mid-air collision over France. There were no survivors. Mike was terrified of flying and was in the habit of making several reservations at once and then choosing his flight at the last minute to escape the fates. But on 5th March 1973 his luck ran out and the full story behind his shocking confession died with him.

 

Tappy admits he sought no corroborative evidence then or since for Mike’s story: “Whoever else was involved was still out there and they might have thought Mike told me everything. So I kept my mouth shut, although I did tell my close friend, Bob Levine who was part of Jimi’s management team in New York. He told me to disappear.”

31 minutes ago, Fergasun said:

OJ conspiracy?  Guess people didn't live through that.  Of course everyone knows he killed Ron Goldman and Nicole... in fact Goldman's dad won a civil suit.  

 

I am convinced based on other former conspiracy theorists that Oswald did act alone. All these people have looked into their concerns and do believe it is possible to take the shots he did.  Also, there are no breadcrumbs leading to anywhere else.  At this point someone would talk.  

Different times.  People could keep a secret back then, not so much these days.  Plus they took Oswald out with the quickness two days later.  

I suppose it's possible that Oswald could have acted alone and made those shots but he'd have to be having his best day as a marksman to do it. 

Just now, TD_washingtonredskins said:

I don't buy it, but I really love watching the moon landing conspiracy theories because there are some interesting coincidences...

 

The older I get, the more I think there was more to the Kennedy assassination than just a disgruntled guy killing him. I don't know what is needed for it to truly be a conspiracy, but I don't think Oswald acted alone. 

I tend to agree, the older I get I don't think he acted alone.  I don't think he was that good of a shot to begin with.  He tried to shoot a retired general in earlier 1963 from like 100 feet away through a window and the bullet hit the window frame and he missed the guy.  I don't get how someone who was average/below average shot in the Marines and can't shoot someone through a window 100 feet away all of a sudden was able to rip off the shots that he did and be successful on a moving target.  

Courtney killed Kurt. 

Red Sox wouldn't be as bad as they were in the opening series for long.  That lineup should be able to score a lot of runs.  Their pitching is pretty awful though.

Not as awful as ours.  

Maybe we can get two against Seattle.  

1 minute ago, TryTheBeal! said:

I know.  And then they’re gonna move the team to Seattle...maybe.

I think Seattle gets a team eventually.  But the owner of the Timberwolves made it a point to keep the team there.  I doubt he sells it to anyone that would move it to Seattle.  

12 hours ago, TryTheBeal! said:

Did he buy the Timberwolves?  Or did he buy the Seattle SuperSonics?

A-Rod is partnering with some dude to buy the Timberwolves.  Last year he was trying to buy the Mets.

When you're so damn desperate to own a sports team, you might **** around and wind up with the Timberwolves.

Last night's game was pretty intense in the later innings.  Glad to see us take 1 away in NYC.  Of the three games in the series I felt that the third one with Means vs. Taillon would be the one we'd have the best chance to win.  

3 minutes ago, Burgold said:

The whole Q thing has been about pedophilia and accusing dems of it. Somehow their crusade against pedophilia never made them question their support of Donald Trump despite his relationship with Epstein and tons of squalid accusations. Now, the question is how many of these moral and righteous right Q-berts will rally to defend Gaetz or stand by him?

Ahhh, Burgy.  You believed it was really about pedophilia and sex trafficking?  

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/qanon-matt-gaetz-sex-trafficking-investigation-1149484/

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But alas, the QAnon community doesn’t seem to be calling for Gaetz to be removed from Congress, arrested, or worse, as they have for countless other politicians who are not under investigation for sex trafficking. Instead, the QAnon crowd appears to be defending Gaetz by alleging that the media and the Justice Department are persecuting one of former President Trump’s most fervent supporters.

https://theweek.com/articles/974951/matt-gaetz-allegations-show-how-qanon-corrupts-followers

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Despite this uncertainty, QAnon followers have already reached a verdict: innocent. That's a curious and revealing thing. The Gaetz story, in broad strokes, seems like it would be huge news for the QAnon crowd, touted everywhere as "proof" that elite pedophiles have become so brazen even the deep state had to bestir itself to intervene. Its genesis under the Trump administration should make that explanation an easy fit. That's exactly how the Jeffrey Epstein story is used.

But Gaetz is a Trump ally, and QAnon is nothing if not tribal. The group's grand narrative — namely, that our government is run by a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles being exposed by a pseudonymous intelligence official called "Q" — holds Trump as a messianic figure, and in-group loyalty is incredibly strong. Thus did QAnon community discussions in the Telegram app immediately jump to Gaetz's defense, dubbing the Times report yet another "SMEARING of MAGA Patriots."

"Typical Narcissitic [sic] Flying Monkey, projectionist, gas lighting, smear campaign playbook," wrote one user, employing a pop psychology term to describe The New York Times as an enabler of abuse. The journalists are "evil ... ****s [who] hate [Gaetz] because he fights back and calls them out!" said another. Some highlighted that the girl allegedly involved was 17 years old. (Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet, so QAnon adherents sometimes think incidences of the number, like the 17 flags that stood behind Trump during his farewell address, are coded messages telling them to keep the faith.) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.), who has promoted QAnon in the past, backed Gaetz promptly, warning the story would become a "witch hunt."

It wasn't about any of those things.  It was all about smearing libs and protecting/turning a blind eye to Republicans. 

33 minutes ago, Destino said:

Im watching it now.  It’s amazing how massive corruption becomes when drug money shows up.  Makes you wonder just how bad things remain today, because those millions and billions of dollars are still floating around the streets of every major US city.  

Yes. And it's scary to think how many stories like this don't/haven't been reported and/or covered up.  

The fun thing about that documentary is that I didn't know Axel Foley's foul mouthed police chief in Beverly Hills Cop was a real life cop/bad guy.  

1 hour ago, TryTheBeal! said:

When he landed on our planet/timeline, he stole the clothes of the first person he encountered.

Ahhh. unfortunately he landed in Baltimore, I guess.  Ya know, where Under Armour is considered formalwear.  

He's wearing an Under Armour shirt.  Is he from Baltimore?  

@d0ublestr0ker0llYou should do some Santeria **** on your porch.  Sacrifice a goat or a chicken or something.  Leave blood everywhere.  Let him know you're the crazy one.  Comes at you with a hammer?  Walk around with a severed goat head and do some chanting.  He'll never bother you again.

Speaking of crazy ones, prayers up to DMX.  Pull through man.

Didn't hit a homer all series and swept the Sox.  

White Boy.  Documentary on Netflix about a teenage drug dealer in 80s Detroit.  It's not what I thought it was going into it and I don't want to ruin it for anyone but the story isn't that straightforward.  It's a few years old and I've always wanted to see it.  If you like Cocaine Cowboys, The Seven Five and other things that revolve around the 80s drug trade, you'll like this.

Gets an A from me.  

4 minutes ago, spjunkies said:

Man, I am so damn proud of MLB right now for doing the right thing. 

I understand the intent, but if you're taking away opportunities from stadium workers who are minorities to make some money over All-Star break, it seems like some of the people you're proclaiming to support are getting caught in the crossfire.  

****ing bull**** ass weather.  

Kevin Durant vs. Michael Rapaport.  I didn't know I needed this in my life.

7 minutes ago, LadySkinsFan said:

 

 

Gaetz is ****ed.

I hope he is.  You hope he is.

We'll see what actually happens though.  I mean, he might lose his seat or something but whatever.  He'll wind up on Fox News and be just fine.  

I've got nothing to add except this:

12 hours ago, abdcskins said:

Just for the hell of it. They gotta get at least 65 wins, right?

Man, I dunno.  That starting rotation is rough.  65 wins would be the best case scenario for these guys, IMO.

3 hours ago, Chew said:

 

Men who put their hands on a woman should get the fire extinguisher treatment from "Irreversible."  If anyone doesn't get the reference, DO NOT go looking for it.  

 

Weren't -5 bats banned at some point?  I used to have an Easton Reflex 34-29, thing was a ****ing LOG.  My senior year playing American Legion, coach told me -5s were banned and I had to get a new one.  Or maybe it was -7? I can't remember  🤔

-7 got banned.  I had a sweet 32-25 that was great.