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re: Went Snow Skiing again this weekend - an observation
Posted by McVick on 1/5/26 at 2:46 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
Where did you go skiing this past weekend?
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Or, one could argue, that WW2 had a large impact on modern scifi
Rod Serling seems to have been greatly impacted by his time in the Pacific during WWII. I don't know if The Twilight Zone is considered modern Sci Fi but the show (and Serling) moved the genre forward into television.
re: Why does ABC News consider cold weather in the NE in December “breaking news”?
Posted by McVick on 12/9/25 at 8:41 pm to Boomdaddy65201
Why is she barefoot in that image? It seems not necessary.
re: Trump Appears to Approve Kei Cars (mini truck) for the U.S.A.
Posted by McVick on 12/4/25 at 4:30 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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Probably already asked but I'm curious what current regulations prevent them from being sold here.
Kei cars and trucks? Maybe safety regulations. It needs to pass certain crash safety tests.
Hilux? Chicken tax.
re: I was offered a job to work at the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Posted by McVick on 12/3/25 at 5:42 am to Boston Bean Maker
Congratulations! The NBHOF notoriously offers low pay for their librarian and archivist positions and they almost always seem to have open positions.
Syracuse seems way too far away to live if you're required to work on-site every day. Even Utica would be a haul, especially in the winter. Living in Cooperstown would seem to be the best option.
On another note, I came across a job posting for a team historian and archivist with the Tennessee Titans. It's only a three year contract position so there's a small chance of long-term employment. They better pay well if living in Nashville is expected.
Syracuse seems way too far away to live if you're required to work on-site every day. Even Utica would be a haul, especially in the winter. Living in Cooperstown would seem to be the best option.
On another note, I came across a job posting for a team historian and archivist with the Tennessee Titans. It's only a three year contract position so there's a small chance of long-term employment. They better pay well if living in Nashville is expected.
re: Tesla in shambles; Toyota debuts electric Hilux with 140 mile range
Posted by McVick on 11/19/25 at 10:04 am to Turnblad85
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At one point I was such a fan that I made TM 8% of my IRA.
After these last 5 years I'm considering baling. They have made some bad choices.
If I'm interpreting the numbers correctly, TM is up 39% over five years and 58% over 10 years. Seems pretty safe to me.
Also consider this. He'd need to create content five days a week. Late night can be a grind for the host, and a strong writing room is critical to its success. I ask for evidence that Nate has successfully demonstrated his ability to create content on that level and work with people who will be writing his jokes. Plus, any network would need to give him a LONG leash to be able find his footing in a new, untested arena where sponsor dollars and corporate promotion remain supreme.
I understand he's a professional comedian. Late night is a different ball game.
I understand he's a professional comedian. Late night is a different ball game.
re: Niagara Falls and fingerlakes region
Posted by McVick on 9/2/25 at 6:01 am to YorkRoadAG
I'm about 1-1.5 hours from the area. I went to the duck egg ice cream place a couple of summers ago when spending a weekend in Watkins Glen.
People in here trying to argue this is a Herschel Walker situation.
I'm over here looking at this as a Reggie White situation.
Only time will tell who is right.
I'm over here looking at this as a Reggie White situation.
Only time will tell who is right.
re: Remembering our Louisiana history
Posted by McVick on 8/26/25 at 9:54 am to Mike da Tigah
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You’ve heard it said that those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it? I would argue that those who shite on their own history are doomed to live in shite.
Oddly enough, the first time I remember visiting Lee Circle I encountered human feces on its steps. It didn't appear to have been in protest, just some place a passerby decided to drop a deuce.
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The older millennials are thinking about retirement. You are probably dealing with Y or Z
Um, Gen Y was the original label for Millennials.
re: Fall Break Ideas within USA (9 to 10 Nights)?
Posted by McVick on 8/14/25 at 5:10 pm to TheJunction
You could design a really good 9-10 day trip through Upstate NY.
Adirondacks/Lake Placid for foliage and the Winter Olympic site.
Saratoga will be off-season by that time. You have the Revolutionary War battlefield site, horseracing, and plenty of parks to explore.
Cooperstown, if baseball is your thing.
Rochester has the Strong Museum of Play, a fantastic museum for kids tour age and great nostalgia for adults. The city is a little bigger than Baton Rouge but easy to get around and traffic isn't bad. Letchworth State Park, the Grand Canyon of the East, is nearby
Watkins Glen has some great hikes through gorges and at the bottom of Seneca Lake. Corning (CMOG), Elmira, and Ithaca are all nearby.
Niagara Falls- yes the Canadian side is more built up but the American side is fine enough and probably something the kids will enjoy.
You can even consider popping over to Vermont if you travel along the eastern area of NY.
Adirondacks/Lake Placid for foliage and the Winter Olympic site.
Saratoga will be off-season by that time. You have the Revolutionary War battlefield site, horseracing, and plenty of parks to explore.
Cooperstown, if baseball is your thing.
Rochester has the Strong Museum of Play, a fantastic museum for kids tour age and great nostalgia for adults. The city is a little bigger than Baton Rouge but easy to get around and traffic isn't bad. Letchworth State Park, the Grand Canyon of the East, is nearby
Watkins Glen has some great hikes through gorges and at the bottom of Seneca Lake. Corning (CMOG), Elmira, and Ithaca are all nearby.
Niagara Falls- yes the Canadian side is more built up but the American side is fine enough and probably something the kids will enjoy.
You can even consider popping over to Vermont if you travel along the eastern area of NY.
re: Driving through the Las Vegas Strip in 1972
Posted by McVick on 8/10/25 at 12:19 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant....
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshite, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket... booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change)... but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that...
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda.... You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning....
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave....
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
re: Ricky Jay Appreciation Thread
Posted by McVick on 8/10/25 at 5:40 am to redstick13
re: Writer for The Athletic: MLB salary cap would be ‘insult to Curt Flood’s legacy’
Posted by McVick on 7/30/25 at 6:25 pm to InkStainedWretch
"No one has the right to tell you what your God-given talent is worth; that’s between you and God."
-Curt Flood
“If I say my talent is valued at this astronomical amount, then so be it. If you can’t afford it, that’s respected. But don’t say this team over here doesn’t have the right to value players at that amount of money.”
-Curt Flood
-Curt Flood
“If I say my talent is valued at this astronomical amount, then so be it. If you can’t afford it, that’s respected. But don’t say this team over here doesn’t have the right to value players at that amount of money.”
-Curt Flood
re: Writer for The Athletic: MLB salary cap would be ‘insult to Curt Flood’s legacy’
Posted by McVick on 7/30/25 at 5:37 pm to InkStainedWretch
Since 2000 MLB has seen more teams win a championship (15) than the NFL (14), NBA (12), and NHL (12). Simple argument here is that parity is demonstrably best represented by the league without a salary cap.
So why is a salary cap better for the league? Because it will introduce a floor?
So why is a salary cap better for the league? Because it will introduce a floor?
I have to assume your line of thinking here, which is that a salary cap is better for the players than the current situation. The players can collectively decide if that's something they want. However, the union isn't there to make sure everyone gets big paydays. It's there to get fair compensation for the players based on their perceived value to the owners. A salary cap and floor is much more beneficial to the owners (and more importantly ownership valuation) than it is to the players.
The NFL owners and Commissioner Goodell were caught conversing about how guaranteed contracts like the one Deshaun Watson signed was going to be bad for the NFL. The NFLPA was made aware of this and agreed to keep it quiet from the same players they represent. All of this came to light this month and both the Executive Director and the Chief Strategist Officer/Former President decided to resign. Oh, and the Executive Director was caught submitting reimbursement requests for strip club expenses onto the Union's account.
MLBPA is doing a much better job of representing their players' employment interests than the NFLPA is doing at this moment.
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In this regard, the NFL is doing a better job.
The NFL owners and Commissioner Goodell were caught conversing about how guaranteed contracts like the one Deshaun Watson signed was going to be bad for the NFL. The NFLPA was made aware of this and agreed to keep it quiet from the same players they represent. All of this came to light this month and both the Executive Director and the Chief Strategist Officer/Former President decided to resign. Oh, and the Executive Director was caught submitting reimbursement requests for strip club expenses onto the Union's account.
MLBPA is doing a much better job of representing their players' employment interests than the NFLPA is doing at this moment.
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The MLB Players Union is the exact opposite of what a union should be.
Most unions care about the lowest or at least the majority of employees. Meanwhile, the MLB Players Union seems to more about the stars.
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A union should represent the rank and file and not just the superstars.
Can you please explain, with specific examples, how the MLBPA is the exact opposite of what a union should be? Keep in mind that they represent almost 7,000 players (1,200 major leaguers and 5,500 minor leaguers) and focus on issues like salary arbitration, minimum salaries, drug testing, safe work conditions, and protecting the players they represent in case there's a work stoppage.
If the criticism is that the union doesn't seem to care about the majority of the players they represent, then consider the leverage to which they have over the matter. Owners can threaten to close more minor league teams like they did a couple of years ago this reducing the number of eligible union members. Or the owners can threaten to reduce roster spots, which would likely increase average salary numbers but decrease their total payroll numbers.
Yes, the player's union could do more. But they could be doing far worse- see the NFLPA as an example.
re: Niagara Falls and fingerlakes region
Posted by McVick on 7/21/25 at 6:54 pm to tigerbaiter
Any place you're thinking about in the Finger Lakes region? There's Watkins Glen, Ithaca, Auburn, Geneva, Penn Yann, Skaneateles, Corning and more to explore in that area.
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Tell that to John Wick. John Wick is often cited as a prime example of a sigma male archetype in popular culture.
I'd imagine Pete Mitchell fits the sigma male archetype.
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