Spaceman Spiff

Good God, have any of you watched Tiger King yet? Watched it last weekend, thinking about watching it again.

Hey, whatever you two talk about on DM is between you two.

Videos or it didn't happen.

Who's that poster that can't stand it when someone speaks ill of hockey? Let's troll him.

Never been to a Texas Roadhouse before but will gladly go when this is over.

Agreed. Some our business clients are like "Yeah, when this is over in a few weeks we'll figure it out..." And I'm like...dude, part of your work is in LA, are you kidding? This just popped up in my Apple News: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74n8a/15-chilling-photos-of-la-as-a-ghost-town More at the link above.

I tried watching the Sopranos again last year. It looked like they recorded it with an 80s VHS tape recorder.

This is a good idea.

Tom Segura's new standup is hilarious. It's on Netflix.

That's funny, that's what the Scientology recruiter told me once when I was walking to the metro on the way home from high school. At least @Dan T. wants to let me in on the secret handshake, Hersh. Don't be so selfish.

I think they have, too. Also turning into a cult, the people obsessed with hating him.

I do the same with buffalo sauce and mustard at the store. "****, do I have any more wing sauce? Not sure. Might as well get some." And before you know it, 6 bottles of wing sauce.

Writing a story about Mantle being an alcoholic baseball God would be the story that everyone would want to hear. He will treat you to that sometimes, read the Rickey Henderson one. But he doesn't always write the obvious and he does it effortlessly...which is what makes him great. May or may not have busted out some of these dance moves around the house today: NSFW, language. And if you haven't watched Eastbound and Down, go watch.

**** Jared Polis, too.

@PleaseBlitz Joe Posnanski is the author, he's amazing and he's the only reason I subscribed to The Athletic. He was doing this rundown on his Patreon site when he started writing for The Athletic and his Patreon subscribers got their first year of The Athletic for free. He's actually the only worthwhile writer on there, to me. There are some other ones but the Baseball 100 is truly special. The Mickey Mantle one is fantastic, so is the one about Josh Gibson and Mike Schmidt.

Bezos has the bald head for it, too.

These people need to go get ****ed in the neck. Christianity, one of things they love to preach is to love thy neighbor. Well, loving thy neighbor isn't doing this. Loving thy neighbor is staying the **** home and not spreading a virus around. I believe Christianity teaches some good things, but let's be real here, this is a money grab. I'm sure the plate was passed around and these idiots put anywhere in from 5-25 bucks, maybe even more. On the low end, say everyone there put in 5 bucks, that's 9, 125 dollars in an hour or two, putting their parishioners health and safety at risk and everyone else they come into contact with at risk, too. Nice.

You know ****s bad when you actually want to go to the Stadium because there's more positive things to talk about. Kyle Allen, woop woop.

Not sure what happened to that 9/11 vs coronavirus thread that was posted a week or so ago, but after some rumination, it's this, for me. Hands down. Although 9/11 happened almost 20 years ago (yikes) it's kinda hard to go back to what the thoughts and feelings were at that time. More shocking? 9/11, for sure. Didn't know what was going to happen next, didn't know if there'd be more terrorist acts or not. But with super-heightened national security on watch, there felt like there was some semblance of protection. Dubya's approval rating, IIRC, went through the roof, I think he responded to it well. Rudy Giuliani (shut up, I know it's hard to think of him as anything else right now other than Trump's lapdog) showed leadership. 9/11, if you didn't have any friends or family in the towers, or at the Pentagon or on the flights...affected everyone emotionally, at least. This is going to affect everyone from an emotional standpoint, financial standpoint, and, of course, a lot of people from a health perspective, too. That, and we've got a complete doofus leading us right now. At least with Dubya, at that point in his presidency, he came across as a capable leader during a national tragedy. Trump is not that guy as we've seen time and time again.

Not sure what happened to El Zoony, but he's been gone for a long time. I think TK and Jumbo got all mafia like and did away with him, like he sleeps with the fishes. Cement shoes or something. Vanished without a trace. No one's heard from him since. Basically Zoony would get in your face (as much as you can get in someone's face on a message board) and accuse people of being snowflakes, etc. He was like a bully with a mod title and would throw his power around like a drunken elephant would swing his trunk. And like that, he's gone. Underground, no one's seen him since. He becomes a myth. A spook story that ES Tailgate old timers tell their kids at night.

I've seen this before. Watching it again now. Certainly wasn't around in these days but I don't believe it happened. There's no artifacts to suggest that it did happen. Even if Zeppelin was touring as "The New Yardbirds" that would have been enough to put on a poster. Led Zeppelin was an unknown but Jimmy Page wasn't unknown, there would have been news that he was coming through with his new group. This guy has The Who and Led Zeppelin from Merriweather and another one from Baltimore Civic Center and other stuff. They were at least able to track down photos from the first Led Zeppelin show in Denver opening up for Vanilla Fudge. No photos exist from them playing at Wheaton Youth Center. Not even a single, crappy out of focus photo. No posters. Just some memories of people who swear that they were there. IIRC, even the biggest Led Zeppelin fans out there can't confirm that it happened. Don't get me wrong, it'd be awesome if it were true.

In his own mind.

Coffy. Pam Grier. 70's blaxploitation flick. Amazing. So bad, it's great. A.