I grew up in Maryland, and started my fandom during the great Oriole run through the 70s and into the early 80s. I currently live in San Antonio, and have yet to go to a Missions game.

So let me get this straight: The movie is about poor conservatives getting revenge on rich liberals, and the republicans misinterpreted it as poor liberals getting revenge on rich conservatives because even though the republicans rail against the “elites” they themselves know that they are actually the elites and so…

Yeah ... which means the movie basically construes East Coast Liberals (Democrats) as callous blood-thirsty douches who’s only care for Real Heartland Americans (Republicans) is to hunt them down like vermin .... heading in to an election year where Democrats are being marketed to heartland Americans as driven by pure…

Because she’s chained up in his basement 

This is the old man I strive to become.  Has empathy, but not without enjoying the absurdity of life. Also I would like to own a hat

Thanks for the input. If I was writing professionally and had the luxury of more time I think you’d have a point. As a fan of the movie responding in a comments box on my lunch break I did what I could. Sometimes the occasion calls for a spitball.

AND THE DISREGARD OF THE FUCKING MUTE BUTTON. I can’t think of the last time I was on a conference call and didn’t hear the ambient noises of an office/car/house fill the call bridge. I was recently at a board meeting where one of the directors (an Old) was home sick and joined by phone. The only times he would’ve…

Empire’s probably next on the list for me. I haven’t seen in it in a long time. But neither Mark Hamill (at that age) nor Carrie Fisher are spectacular actors and Harrison Ford was already in “don’t really give a shit” mode about halfway through A New Hope. The plot is fine but it’s not exactly complex and the only…

Texas Arlington Rangers Investigating Family’s Claims Of Racist Harassment At Ballpark

This is actually both a good point, and a great (really easy) way to see it in action. 

Their parent’s nickname for the older brother is “the first pancake”.

Why is “the 2010s era of the NBA” defined as 2009-10 through 2018-19, rather than 2010-11 through 2019-20? Because more of the season comes after the New Year than before?

As dumb as this all is, I LOVE that Ben Chapino decided to jump in and defend Kobe by noting that he had THREE pretty okay years. Even by Ben’s own metrics Kobe was still not even a top 10 player in those three fucking years!

And when they either:

“....Trump needs to hurry and build the wall and send all these illegals back so they won’t be kicking his seat.”

The MIL uses her phone in speakerphone mode almost exclusively. She’s also convinced Amazon and the CIA are spying on her. I think they, like the rest of us, can’t help but overhear her phone conversations. 

It’s been almost two years. I’ve watched the movie five or six times. I acknowledge some of its weaknesses (fuel being important for the first time ever, the casino sideplot being essentially useless busywork for Finn, etc) ... I still think it’s better than any other Star Wars movie, including the two…

It amazes me about that the people bitching the loudest about “dem furenners” don’t know a lick about USA history. And complaining about the Hispanics in Texas is just the cherry on top. My god, it was an Hispanic country once upon a time. They didn't jump the border, the border jumped them. Btw, 32% of the Rangers…

“The First Pancake.”

I love swearing. A properly placed “fuck this fucking fuck” is so satisfying as an emotional release, I say it regularly as a way to avoid therapy.

I will admit though that there is something so heinously hilarious about non-expletive insults when you’re insulting another person, that sometimes it’s the superior move…