I always have had a soft spot for those 80s Dodgers teams and alongside Hersheiser he was my favorite but the tour gave me a new appreciation for him.
I was gutted when he passed.
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I always have had a soft spot for those 80s Dodgers teams and alongside Hersheiser he was my favorite but the tour gave me a new appreciation for him.
I was gutted when he passed.
Toss in some acknowledgement of the clearing out of Chavez Ravine when lionizing Fernando like Vin and you're on.
Also, interpreters. Especially since Dodger Stadium is now akin to Graceland for Asian tourists to LA.
(Yes. I am aware of where my PFP was taken. Was the only non-Asian of 20).
That the tour dances over the clearing out of Chavez Ravine while going on about 1937 Dodger Green for too long is A Decision.
I wonder if they've tried making Fernando tertiary Dodger Jesus after Jackie and Vin.
Yes, I am aware my PFP is of me on said tour.
The GenZ movers I hired this weekend has no idea who Wallace Shawn, Don Rickles, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, or Jim Varney* are but know their Toy Story roles.
* I'll grant Blake Clark from Toy Story 3 on a pass. He survived "Women in Prison" and a week of The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour.
He exploited our taste buds! π€£π
03.11.2025 05:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That game was cross flexed to Fox.
03.11.2025 02:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I feel Jealous with the LA being a logo.
02.11.2025 19:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0God,
We know you wanted a backup to Summerall and Madden and that Dick Enberg is lonely in heaven, but we weren't calling on you to take Bob Trumpy!
Maybe God got bored of the 1990s NFC too. /s
Unlike places like New York, Los Angeles cares about its sportsmen.
Remember how Southern California went into an extended state of mourning for Kobe, Vin, and Fernando? You've never seen that in New York.
Another relic found!
The 2022 NCBE Judicial Voter Guide. Not a peep from the Dem candidates for SCONC to vote for them in order to keep a Dem majority. You wouldn't see that today. #NorthCarolina #NCpol
This trade popped up in a dream last night:
LAD Gets:
Francisco Lindor
Juan Soto
NYM Gets:
About 7-8 current OKC/Tulsa/Mid Michigan guys.
Lindor/Soto deserve better & right now the first 162 for the Dodgers are a borderline Bananaball tour. The same is not true of the Mets. Do you make this deal?
Update: Wasps, not bees.
01.11.2025 20:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0That seems like too much work.
01.11.2025 18:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I bought a pair of Adirondack chairs several years ago which upon trying to clean them up for the move found a large bee nest under one of them?
Would you disrupt the bees and bring the chair with you or write off the chairs and leave them?
Republicans do not give Democrats the time of day.
A slap in the face might break them.
MTV is dead dead for real.
31.10.2025 20:16 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Inertia.
31.10.2025 20:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That whole thread forgets anything that happened before 2023. Like how her dad ran the Meck Dems, her now-ex ran the NC Dems, how who she replaced got indicted for bribery to get someone to switch parties.
Stuff like created the Dem fatigue that created 2010.
Everyone forgets that she got her original NCGA seat because of the Jim Black bribery scandal when he paid a Republican to switch parties for a deadlocked NCGA. Or that her then-husband, Jerry Meek, was NCDP chair as a surrogate for her dad.
31.10.2025 17:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Definition!
aespa's favorite Toronto Blue Jay.
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Who has a guess?
I meant by Democrats at Republicans.
31.10.2025 00:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is why I think that the only solution might be violence. Republicans already have cut Democrats out of everything and won't listen to them ever.
31.10.2025 00:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I remembered this being an @abreezeclayton.bsky.social factoid a while back, but on the @ place someone mentioned how much the Durham rolloff was: 2400 votes. 6 times the margin of error.
The rolloff in a place like Greenville or Hickory would've probably covered. Amazing. #NCpol
Why people voted for suffering breaks my brain.
30.10.2025 20:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Newby never gets anywhere if the NC Dems of 2020 made a big deal about ballot rolloff or if they didn't fall asleep at the wheel regarding the courts.
The total leadership vacuum of an overextended Wayne Goodwin & a clueless Bobbie Richardson didn't help. #NorthCarolina #NCPol
401 votes. The rolloff in Durham where otherwise Democratic voters forgot to fill the oval for Cheri Beasley was greater than the margin of victory.
What I want to know is how the Democrats fell short so close but good luck getting any answer.
The ballot rolloff in Durham, let alone Charlotte/Raleigh/Durham, in which otherwise Democratic voters left the bubble for Cheri Beasley blank, was greater than the 401 votes Newby won by.
The pre-2023 North Carolina Dems handed this race on a silver platter to the Rs. Thanks Wayne & Bobbie. #NCPol
Are you aware of how much of a mess the NC Dems were in the 2000s and how they ignored all warning signs about the Republicans?
2008 happened at the worst possible time for them long-term as it fueled a 2010 wipeout.
Is Matt Mercer the jerkass troll in real life that he portrays himself on Xitter as?
30.10.2025 18:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He defeated a black woman in her 50s by 401 votes. The ballot rolloff in Durham of people who voted Biden(/Cooper/Cunningham...) who left the Chief Justice bubble blank was beyond the margin of victory.
Heaven help what the rolloff in Charlotte and Raleigh was.