theumpirestrikesback
TheUmpireStrikesBack
theumpirestrikesback

I dunno, man. Seems like, with the current pack of fuckwits in charge, we ALL only have about a 9-10 year life expectancy. So, why not go out in glory for our new liege?

I’m not naive enough to have convinced myself that we’ve lived up to all the lofty goals from the Founding Fathers and the documents they wrote, and all of that.  But I HAD figured that no American administration - and there HAVE been other administrations that wanted to curb immigration - would act the way this one

Don’t get out too far over your skis - most everyone on this site has at least double figures by now.

I can’t be the only one that got that.  That was brilliant.

I’d kinda forgotten about that Kuechly video until the fan comment section, and stupidly followed the link. After watching it, I realize it was less forgetting it than my brain deleting it in horror to protect me.  That shit was frighteningly awful.

I am genuinely impressed with your knowledge of this. You’ve clearly devoted a LOT of time to this sport.

So, wait. She wrote a shitty tweet, then claimed it was sarcasm, and then wrote like another 15-20 tweets (stopped reading and/or counting) to explain the “joke”?

See, I don’t follow the game beyond the Nats to barely recognize the name, so I probably wouldn’t notice or care.  And when I’m at a minor league game, my give-a-shit levels are barely registering - I’m just there taking in The Game.  (Besides, I would think having followed the Orioles as long as I did - until I

Yeah, minor league ball is usually a good time.  You’re not kidding about the weather - I’m sure I don’t need to tell you about August here.  I’m usually working games myself when the weather is better for sitting, as an umpire of amateur ball.  Oh, well.

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.

#NotAllGrays

I’m 54, and a white dude. You’d think that’d be right in the Trump demographic wheelhouse.

I never dreamed of a day where I’d have to Google a word I saw in a Deadspin comment. And yet, here we are.

I think what we all REALLY want to know is:  who do the Cardinals throw at, the next time these two teams play??

The “HEAR IT FROM” entry from Marc is haunting. The film version of it would be in black-and-white, and grainy, with dissonant sax music playing in the background, with him narrating as he walks though the rain.

We’ve had five pets in our household over time, and missed ALL of that. Our first pair of cats had the best names: Mookie and Gemma.  We didn’t have a lot of concerns with meeting ‘duplicates.’  We had more concerns with people pronouncing them correctly, shockingly.

I know we’re not finished with the league yet, but holy shit, it’s gonna take SOME doing for a fanbase to be as self-harming as this one. I noticed it seemed to be the longest so far of the “HEAR IT FROM” sections, and it was definitely the funniest, in a scarily-dark way.

I’ve made the same point on my (admittedly limited) FB feed - when we as a nation didn’t respond when it was first-graders, that’s when we told we world we didn’t give a shit.

Point of order, Mr Speaker.... You forgot the last line of your one-act play there:

but it’s highly unlikely spreading the name of the place will do anything but increase the hate and vitriol the internet is probably tossing at them.