We actually get a long really well. Like I am a huge disappointment to my parents, I just don't care.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
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We actually get a long really well. Like I am a huge disappointment to my parents, I just don't care.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Today is my wife’s birthday. She’s pretty great.
Yay!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Happy birthday to her!Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
You gonna, you know, put on your Viking outfit for her?Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Enjoy her special day!
I assume he walks around like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Big Papi in the Hall of Fame!!
I cared more about this Hall of Fame vote than any other.
I'm hoping Scott Rolen makes it in next year adding to the the list of Hall of Famers I got to see in person.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
You don’t WALK in that outfit, you STRUT like you’re returning to the halls of Valhalla a conqueror!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Phew.
I like there early games...
“Don’t call what you’re wearing an outfit ….”Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
— Jason Isbell / DBT
Fair.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Rolen was a good player, but I don't think he sniffs the HOF.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Had a cousin who was a trucker for a bit. Weird sub-culture that.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Scott RolenQuote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Rolen took a huge leap forward for the third straight voting cycle last year, up to 52.9 percent. He's not going to make it this time, but he's getting there. He's tracking at 70.1 percent on public ballots and has gained a net of 11 votes from returning voters. He lost 7.6 percent last year from the tracker once every vote was counted. If something similar happens again, he'll still have gained close to 10 percent and will be within striking range for next year, especially with Bonds, Clemens, Schilling, Sammy Sosa and maybe Ortiz coming off the ballot when Carlos Beltrán is the only strong first-time candidate in 2023.
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/b...ns-likely-out/
Rolen was at 63.2 this year with 5 more years to make it.
That was my dream job, kinda, growing up in the 70’s. Folks my age would get that.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Six days on the road, and I’m gonna make it home tonight. 10-4, good buddy. We got a big ‘ole convoy trucking’ through the night. Bandit, this is Snowman. I’ve been from Tucson to Tucumcari, Tehachapi to Tonopah. Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made. Driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed….
Lately it occurs to me, what a long, strange trip it’s been.
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Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
The idea of a free and easy open road, at least in the trucking profession, is mostly a dream, from what I understand. They're on pretty tight shifts. Maybe the long-haulers have more flexibility, I don't know. My cousin used to do New Orleans to Dallas and back overnight 5 days a week. It sounded awful.
Edit: Hmmm. Maybe it was Baton Rouge to Dallas, now that I look at a map. Or maybe it was a staggered schedule. It was definitely an overnight out and back whatever it was.
“My cousin Roscoe, Slaton's oldest boyQuote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
From his second marriage up in Illinois
He's raised in east St. Louis by his mamma's people
Where they do things different, thought he'd just come on down
He's goin' to Dallas, Texas in a semi truck
Caught from that big McDonald's
You know that one that's built up on that
Great big old bridge across the Will Rogers turnpike
Took the big cabin exit, stopped and bought a carton of cigarettes
At that Indian smoke shop with the big neon smoke rings
In the Cherokee nation, hit Muskogee late that night
Somebody ran the stoplight at the Shawnee Bypass
Roscoe tried to miss 'em but he didn't quite…”
— James McMurtry
Anything about lot lizards in there? Apparently they’re a thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap