[Who is to blame if there is not MLB baseball in 2020?]

1 hour ago, Philip said:

Yes exactly.

My brother is a lawyer, and he reminded me of an old anecdote:

“When the law is on your side, argue the law. When the facts are on your side, argue the facts. And when neither is on your side, yell and shake your fist a lot.”

And we are getting a lot of yelling and fist shaking.

Meanwhile, the old guys are ruining their final season, and the young guys are ruining their first season.

Who's higher on the totem pole:  Lawyers or used car dealers?

"Buy Here, Pay Here.  But if you ain't got the money, don't bother coming in."

[Keegan Akin likes violently racist tweet]

Just now, thiscat41 said:

I'm sorry to derail, but I'm dying over "twat"

Just in case:     

[Keegan Akin likes violently racist tweet]

I wouldn't be surprised if he saw the twat before his that said something about 'trucks ain't clean' or he meant to like the response to the original twat from the chick Marissa.  

Either way, whatever.  I have enough chit going on in my life that this is all garbage.  Anyone who spends their time on Twatter is just wasting it.

[How will history assess 2020 for individuals?]

22 hours ago, DrungoHazewood said:

So when 2043 rolls around and you're pondering the storied career of Renato Nunez, remember it should have been six wins total, not just five.

Funny that you mention 2043.  That is the year my service ends with Tracfone.

[Owners submit new economic plan to union : UPDATED]

I'm at the point where I don't care what they do.

[Owners submit new economic plan to union : UPDATED]

4 hours ago, atomic said:

I doubt we see any games. No plan yet. Players and Owners are far apart. Now there are riots across the country.  Baseball will take the year off.   Good time to check out other sports. Maybe some of you will become Women soccer fans.   

Women's soccer?  I'm game.

[Sorry sack of simulation losers fall for the 7th straight time]

8 hours ago, Tony-OH said:

After tonight's 14th straight loss, a 7-6 extra inning affair where the bullpen blew two separate leads, the team sits at an amazingly pitiful 15-42. I want to fire myself so I don't have to play this any more at this point.

 

That's much better than if it was the actual season.

 

[Corona Virus Talk]

3 hours ago, scOtt said:

That's freakin' great Rick!

 

 

[Owners submit new economic plan to union : UPDATED]

55 minutes ago, weams said:

Any relation?

 

[UGH! 64 HOURS!?!]

 

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-network-to-celebrate-derek-jeters-career-with-64-hours-of-consecutive-jeter-programming-171351991.html

[The Greatest Play in MLB History]

In Honor on this Memorial Day:  

Rick Monday saving the flag on 4/25/76

 

 

[Random Thoughts]

3 hours ago, scOtt said:

Sorry for the very long post...

Wast looking for a different .txt file on my harddrive. (for song lyrics... I have dozens) Ran across this old file.

ACURA
Another Crummy, Useless, Rotten Automobile
Asia's Curse Upon Rural America

AMC
All Makes Combined
A Major Cost
A Mutated Car
A Morons Car
Another Major Catastrophe

AUDI
Awfully Unsafe Designs Implemented
Accelerates Under Demonic Influence
Automobile Under Demonic Influence
Another Ugly Deutsche Invention
Always Undermining Deutsche Intelligence
Automobile Unsafe Designs, Inc.

BMW
Big Money Works
Bought My Wife
Brutal Money Waster
Break My Window
Break My Windshield
Babbling Mechanical Wench
Beastly Monstrous Wonder
Beautiful Masterpieces on Wheels
Beautiful Mechanical Wonder
Barely Moving Wreck
Big Money Waste
Big Money. Why?
Big Money Works
Born Moderately Wealthy
Breaks Most Wrenches
Bring More Wrenches
Brings Me Women
Brings More Women
Broken Money Waster
Broke My Wallet
Broken Monstrous Wonder
Bumbling Mechanical Wretch
Blasphemous Motorized Wreck

BUICK
Big Ugly Indestructible Car Killer
Big Ugly Imitation Chrome King

CHEVROLET
Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips
Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time
Cracked Heads, Every Valve Rattles, Oil Leaks Every Time
Constantly Having Every Vehicle Recalled Over Lousy Engineering Techniques

DODGE
Drips Oil & Drops Grease Everywhere
Damn Old Dirty Gas Eater
Dead Old Dog Going East
Dead On Day Guarantee Expires
Dead On Delivery, Go Easy
Dead On Delivery, Guarantee Expired
Dead Or Dying Garbage Emitter
Dear Old Dads Garage Experiment
Daily Overhauls Do Get Expensive

EDSEL
Every Day Something Else Leaks

FIAT
Failed Italian Automotive Technology
Fix It Again, Tony!
Feeble Italian Attempt at Transportation

FORD
Frigin' Old Rebuilt Dodge
Fix Or Repair Daily
Found On Road Dead
Fast Only Rolling Downhill
First On Race Day
First On Recall Day
Fabricated Of Refried Dung
Fails On Rainy Days
Fantastically Orgasmic Realistic Dream
Fatally Obese Redneck Driver
Fault Of R&D
Finally Obsolete Racing Device
Fireball On Rear Denting
First On Road to Dump
First On Rust and Deterioration
Fix Or Recycle Dilemma
Flipping Over Results in Death
Flipped Over Roadside Disaster
Follow Our Rusty Dogsled
Foot On Road Decelerates
Forced On Reluctant Drivers
Formed Of Rejected DNA
Forwarded Once; Return Denied
Forward Only; Reverse Defective
Forlorn, Old, Ratridden Dustbin
Fork Over Repair Dough
Fouled Out Re-done Dodge
Frequent Overhaul, Rapid Deterioration
Free Or Reduced Drastically
Frequent Opinion Really Disappointed
Fumes and Odors Readily Detectable
Funny Old Rattling Dump
(backwards) Driver Returns On Foot

GEO
Good Engineering Overlooked

GM
General Maintenance
Great Mistake
Garbage Motors
Generally Miserable
Grossly Misconceived
Gluteus Maximus

GMC
Garage Man's Companion
Gotta Mechanic Coming?
Generally Mediocre Cars
Get More Chicks
Gets Mechanics Crazy
Gods Mechanical Curse
Got More Crap
Great Mountain Climber
Great Motor Car

GTO
Gas, Tires, Oil

HONDA
Had One Never Did Again
Hang On, Not Done Accelerating
Hallmark Of Non-Descript Automobiles
Hallmark Of Non-Destructable Automobiles

HYUNDAI
Hope You Understand Nothing's Driveable And Inexpensive...

JEEP
Just Eats Every Part
Junk Engineering Executed Poorly
Just Empty Every Pocket

MAZDA
Most Always Zipping Dangerously Along

MG
Money Guzzler

MGB
Might Go Backwards

MGF
Might Go Forward

MIATA
My Intention Always To Accelerate

MOPAR
Many Odd Parts Arranged Randomly
Miscellaneous Oddball Parts Assembled Ridiculously
Most Often Passed At Races
Mostly Old Parts And Rust
Move Over People Are Racing
Move Over Plymouth Approaching Rapidly
My Old Pig Ain't Running
My Only Problems Are Repairs

MUSTANG
Motor Under Strain, Transmission Almost No Good

OLDSMOBILE
Overpriced, Leisurely Driven Sedan Made Of Buick's Irregular Leftover Equipment
old ladies driving slowly making other behind insanely late everyday

PINTO
Put In Nickel To Operate
Paid Inspector Nicely To Overlook

PLYMOUTH
Please Leave Your Money Out Under The Hood

PORSCHE
Proof Of Rich Spoiled Children Having Everything

SAAB
Send Another Automobile Back
Swedish Automobiles Always Breakdown
Sad Attempt At Beauty
Sorry Auto, Always Broken
Shape Appears Ass-Backwards

SUBARU
Screwed Up Beyond All Repair Usually

TOYOTA
Too Often Yankees Overprice This Auto
Torturous On Your Old Tired Ass
The One You Ought To Avoid

TRIUMPH
This Really Is Unreliable Man, Please Help!
Tried Repairing It Until My Parts Hurt!

VOLVO
Very Odd Looking Vehicular Object

VW
Virtually Worthless

And that is why I own a Lincoln.

[Who is to blame if there is not MLB baseball in 2020?]

The Confederation of European Baseball is starting.

http://baseballeurope.com/post/europe_s_first_games_in_2020_czech_baseball_extra

MLB are a bunch of poosies.

[Who is to blame if there is not MLB baseball in 2020?]

43 minutes ago, scOtt said:

 

And yes, quite INfamous. The stories it could tell from over the YEARS...

[Who is to blame if there is not MLB baseball in 2020?]

1 hour ago, DrungoHazewood said:

If people want to debate about the owners and players debating about how much who should get paid and who's losing more money, go for it.  I find it tiresome, I'll go do something else.  Maybe it that's I'm done with most debates on the internet, which usually devolve into warring factions shouting past one another.

Or, maybe, one could just throw them in a ring.

[Who is to blame if there is not MLB baseball in 2020?]

10 hours ago, scOtt said:

That's my biggest fear. I've never said it on here before but I live at home with my mother. In the house with the famous balcony. She's 82 and has chronic breathing problems among other things. I'm 57, almost 58. My weight and BP and cholesterol is down but I'm far from healthy. I eat processed crap mostly, drink way too much and smoke two packs a day. I am highly at risk and fear that when I go out for groceries or tobacco or beer or whatever that I will pick up on something and bring it home and infect mom. And she will NOT survive this.

So I glove up and mask up religiously. I go out to 3 stores? I use 3 pairs of gloves. I wash my masks with anti-bacterial periodically. I'm as careful as careful can be. I take this crap serious af!

 

The "famous" balcony.

Totally understand about your fear of the virus.  But, you could also fall off your "famous" balcony.  (Or would it be "infamous"?  Always get those two confused) 

Or you could even get sucked into a sink drain.

 

 

[Who is to blame if there is not MLB baseball in 2020?]

8 hours ago, scOtt said:

groceries yes. Beer no, not in PA. Anyways, I'm safe enough. I worry but I do what I have to do to stay safe.

When I'm working I do only smoke a pack a day. Little more.

 

 

 

[Who is to blame if there is not MLB baseball in 2020?]

9 hours ago, scOtt said:

That's the worst fear in this! And people slam the CDC like they change their minds every day so I'm just going the do whatever the F I want to do.

That's STUPID. They change their minds because NOBODY understands this confounded virus yet! Data and our (collective) SLIM knowledge of this virus changes daily, weekly. So until we get a handle on it we need to do the best and simplest things we can to slow it down. Which is is WEAR A GD MASK when you're out! Stay tf home. Don't be out at bars and baseball games and bowling and haircuts where you are either spreading or picking up this virus. Ignore politicians. Listen to medical professionals who are trying their best to combat this.

It's hard to listen to them when Youboob, Fakebook, and Gurgle remove any dissenting opinions from their own.

[Who is to blame if there is not MLB baseball in 2020?]

1 hour ago, Yossarian said:

Where would you say they have "made" money?  They get no revenue from ticket sales?  They are paying out player salaries.  I would venture a guess that they have lost money on stock holdings.  Are they getting income from TV rights for games that are not being played?  I'm not sure.  I would bet that they really are "losing" money during this whole thing.  Just like the rest of us.

Billionaires (millionaires) have their hand in more than 1 business.  It's like when investing in the stock market.  You diversify.  They do not have all of their eggs in one basket.  Some owners may also be treating their teams as a business write off.  Not all of them are like Kennedys where the money was just passed down. They didn't become billionaires by making bad decisions.   I'm also pretty sure they are insured against this sort of thing. 

[Who is to blame if there is not MLB baseball in 2020?]

3 hours ago, Redskins Rick said:

Agreed. I think both sides are greedy, and yet, the owners have lost money this season, and major leaguers have not, just the poor minor leaguers, that can least afford to lose money.

 

 

Billionaires don't 'lose money'.  They just won't make as much as they normally would.

[Ride 'em Hard]

1 hour ago, Redskins Rick said:

 

 

[It's a rocking cover Friday!]

8 hours ago, scOtt said:

HEY! It's actually Friday!

 

Is it?  Days all role together when there isn't anything to do.

Except...GRAB THE GEEE-TAH!

 

 

 

[Ride 'em Hard]

Ride 'em hard

 

 

 

 

[Who is to blame if there is not MLB baseball in 2020?]

1 hour ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Half of everything the internet:

"See that guy over there?  He's an idiot, and you're all morons because you love him.  Why am I the only one who sees the truth?!?!?!?"

[Sorry sack of simulation losers fall for the 7th straight time]

14 hours ago, BRobinsonfan said:

I don't know... 15 and 35... that's pretty dismal.  Tony, we appreciate your service to the organization but we may have to head in a different direction.  

I know.  We can talk politics.