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Started by jimmy olsen, December 12, 2012, 12:36:36 AM

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Caliga

#465
August 01, 2013, 08:24:18 PM
Is it actually this weekend? :hmm:

btw Cubs game didn't actually get rained out.  I got bored and left and like ten minutes later it resumed. :blush: :blush: :blush:
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derspiess

#466
August 01, 2013, 08:28:36 PM
Yep. Let me know if you can make it up. Should be lots of good beer there. Some new breweries in town to visit as well.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

sbr

#467
August 01, 2013, 09:39:38 PM
Cards aren't back in St Louis until after I leave. :(

derspiess

#468
August 01, 2013, 09:42:04 PM
Quote from: sbr on August 01, 2013, 09:39:38 PM
Cards aren't back in St Louis until after I leave. :(

I'll be there the week of 8/11 :)
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

sbr

#469
August 01, 2013, 09:44:31 PM
Quote from: derspiess on August 01, 2013, 09:42:04 PM
Quote from: sbr on August 01, 2013, 09:39:38 PM
Cards aren't back in St Louis until after I leave. :(

I'll be there the week of 8/11 :)

I go home on Sunday the 4th. :)

Razgovory

#470
August 01, 2013, 10:23:23 PM
Quote from: derspiess on July 29, 2013, 11:30:18 PM
Piecing together a pilgrimage to St. Louis in a couple weeks.  I'm thinking we'll stay at the Hilton right next to the stadium, catch a Cubs game on Sunday, do non-baseball stuff Monday, then a Pirates game on Tuesday, driving home on Wednesday.  Wife seems willing to go along with it, and Tommy is all in-- though I think he has some idea that we're going to hang out at Yadier Molina's house or something.

You can take him up in the arch, which is near by.  He might get a kick out of that.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

CountDeMoney

#471
August 01, 2013, 10:46:34 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 01, 2013, 10:23:23 PM
You can take him up in the arch, which is near by.  He might get a kick out of that.

I dunno, he doesn't strike me as that kinky.

derspiess

#472
August 02, 2013, 09:55:47 AM
Prevert.

Anyway, my itinerary has us doing 1 game with just Tommy & me and one with the whole fan-damily.  We'll go up in the Gateway Arch and do the other touristy crap (Magic House, City Museum, etc.) the Monday that there is no game.  And I will try to get out to Schlafly's taproom and Alpha Brewing.

I keep telling the wife I got us a great rate on a hotel in East St. Louis.  She doesn't think that's funny.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

The Minsky Moment

#473
August 02, 2013, 10:10:04 AM Last Edit: August 02, 2013, 10:12:55 AM by The Minsky Moment
Quote from: Valmy on July 29, 2013, 11:47:42 PM
The original 1869 Reds are today's Atlanta Braves.  The Braves fans probably neither know nor care their team is the oldest major professional sports team in the US (if not this entire hemisphere but I could be wrong about that).

Sort of . . .
The Cinci team wasn't really a franchise at all in the way we understand it.  It was more like a "club" in the true sense of that word.  It was located in Cincinatti in part because even as late as 1869, the amateur ethos was still strong on the east coast.

The only real connection between that team and the Boston team in the NA is that Harry Wright was the organizer of the 1869 club and was the general manager of the Boston team, and he managed to convince a few stars from the Cinci club to join the Boston team.

The Braves are still the oldest continually operating franchise in the game, either way.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

derspiess

#474
August 02, 2013, 10:23:16 AM
I really, really regret my choice of words from my post a few days ago.  Had I remembered I was on Languish, I wouldn't have used the word "franchise".
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Valmy

#475
August 02, 2013, 10:47:13 AM
Quote from: derspiess on August 02, 2013, 10:23:16 AM
I really, really regret my choice of words from my post a few days ago.  Had I remembered I was on Languish, I wouldn't have used the word "franchise".

Oh for godsake.  I just thought it was an interesting factoid and I thought started an interesting little discussion on baseball history.  Does that really annoy you on a baseball thread?
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

derspiess

#476
August 02, 2013, 10:55:18 AM
Quote from: Valmy on August 02, 2013, 10:47:13 AM
Quote from: derspiess on August 02, 2013, 10:23:16 AM
I really, really regret my choice of words from my post a few days ago.  Had I remembered I was on Languish, I wouldn't have used the word "franchise".

Oh for godsake.  I just thought it was an interesting factoid and I thought started an interesting little discussion on baseball history.  Does that really annoy you on a baseball thread?

Never mind.  I just realized I didn't actually use the word "franchise" in the first place :D
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Valmy

#477
August 02, 2013, 11:11:34 AM
Quote from: derspiess on August 02, 2013, 10:55:18 AM
Quote from: Valmy on August 02, 2013, 10:47:13 AM
Quote from: derspiess on August 02, 2013, 10:23:16 AM
I really, really regret my choice of words from my post a few days ago.  Had I remembered I was on Languish, I wouldn't have used the word "franchise".

Oh for godsake.  I just thought it was an interesting factoid and I thought started an interesting little discussion on baseball history.  Does that really annoy you on a baseball thread?

Never mind.  I just realized I didn't actually use the word "franchise" in the first place :D

Yeah I wasn't being pedantic there intentionally I just thought it was interesting and stuff.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

derspiess

#478
August 02, 2013, 01:57:34 PM
And we're confirmed for the Cardinals pilgrimage.  Got cheap-ish seats for both games, as the kids will not want to stay in them when they realize there is kids stuff for them to do.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Syt

#479
August 02, 2013, 11:50:27 PM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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