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UpperWestside

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  1. The Cubs seem like they may not be real good at baseball this year if you let Kiner-Falefa and Gallo get two RBI’s each in the opening frame. Not to mention dropping the infield pop-up as well which was just a brilliant lesson on communication. Shocking observation I know.

  2. 13 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

     What's Dad supposed to do?  Beat the fucking older one senseless and end up in jail himself, and for a lot longer than 21 days?

    I was going to say something similar to this. If the father beats them then he goes to jail and his two sons possibly wind up in the foster system. That ends up badly as well.

    It is clear the two boys have no respect for authority or their father and are going down a path of violence that will end up in a life being in and out of prison. I would need to hear far more details though about the boys and their lives to better understand how they arrived at being who they are thus far.

  3. 2 hours ago, Helobious said:

    Cubs pitchers tossing BP tonight. Stanton ties his own record for hardest hit ball in the MLB this season. 
     

     

    I was going to go to this game, but I was so tired when I got home from work that I am just going to attempt to go later on today, weather permitting. 

  4. 1 hour ago, bluto said:

    Lol at acting like this era is fleeting or even putting a past tense on it. 

    There is no implied past tense in that statement, but yes this will eventually end. How it ends no one knows for certain, but the study of everything that has happened will make for some really interesting case studies and books. 
     

    I’m not going to spend a great deal of time worrying about this stuff because there are people who have situations in their part of the world that are far more dire than this three ring circus we get to witness.

  5. On 6/5/2022 at 6:39 AM, TwiceHorn said:

    Like their stupidity, it's a focused and aggressive insanity.

    Absolutely this right here. All it took to flick the switch was someone who fed them a reality that fit their construct of how life should be. Psychologists will be studying what transpired in this country during the GQP-era for decades.

  6. This was such an awesome movie to watch. I made sure to watch it in a full theatre on Monday afternoon. I will watch it again. The flight scenes were just ridiculously cool.

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  7. On 5/28/2022 at 3:52 PM, Hank Scorpio said:

    Won’t someone please protect all these persecuted Christians! 

    It’s hard being a Christian. Why just the other day I was walking down the street and out of nowhere I was being pelted with Qurans from every direction. 

  8. 9 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    He's 34.  He's not going to change.  

    Perhaps not. Someone needs to challenge him to a fight in Temecula and get him to post pictures that he actually went.

  9. 19 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said:

    I’m pretty sure we’ve got enough information to make a ruling that Tommy Pham is the Helo of mlb. Total dumbass and not half as important as he thinks he is.

    So he’s a high roller who routinely challenges other players to fights. Good Lord this guy has some delusions of grandeur and a MASSIVE anger issue. As ridiculous and humorous as his quotes are, someone in the league office needs to mandate that he gets weekly counseling or he cannot play until he does. 

  10. 13 minutes ago, Scraps said:


     

     


    "Best" huh

     

    I would personally rather hear that than see beers being flung onto the field with fans cheering a guy who may have had a severe concussion. It’s just a game. Most days in right field are like that and not like what I heard at Game 4 in the 2017 ALDS against Cleveland. Jay Bruce heard things said about his family, wife and himself that were quite frankly disturbing and he wouldn’t even repeat them after the game.

  11. On 5/25/2022 at 10:31 PM, shadow_operative said:

    hey Teoscar Hernandez is on my fantasy team and is in a pretty big slump, can you please talk some shit about him now?

    I was at the Yanks-Jays game when Vlad Jr broke the bat after striking out recently. I was sitting in 203 in right field and Hernandez was out there that day. The best trash talk that day was the guy who shouted out “Hey Hernandez your wife….SHE’S HOT!!!!” Google confirmed that to be true!

    If you’ve sat in 203 before you know that if the drunk 20-something bros show up that could’ve gone completely off the rails. Thank God it was a mid-week day game.

  12. 3 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    If you're in the 60-70% of the left leaning side of politics, I don't see how you could set foot in an average protestant church. Either the message or the crowd would be impossible to tolerate due to their hypocrisy in almost everything.

    I go to a Baptist church in The Bronx. My pastor is a woman who put in 20 years with NYPD. The church accepts anyone no matter your sexual orientation or race or anything else that seems to divide society. She encourages people to vote. She preached a couple of Sundays ago wearing a shirt that simply says vote on it. Anytime II Corinthians is a part of her message she asks everyone to open up their Bibles to “TWO Corinthians like 45 would.” 
     

    She preached about abortion recently and said even if you do not agree with it that it is not anyone’s place to take that right away from women to choose. This is a pretty progressive church for Baptists, but it still has the old school things like ushers and church mothers. I like it and I am not someone that grew up in church nor was it ever pushed onto me as Sunday mornings for my family as a kid were reserved for eating copious amounts of pancakes or French toast at the table.

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  13. 1 minute ago, Hmbre97 said:

    This whole mental health argument is bullshit with respect to this incident anyway because the shooter had no history of mental health issues. 

    No documented history, but the picture being painted is one of a person who needed help long ago. I am completely in favor of everyone from the age of 8 on up having access to a therapist at least twice a month or more if the person’s situation or mindset warrants it. 
     

    What he did was evil so do not think I am excusing away mass murder of the most precious members of society. We have to eventually though start taking people’s mental health seriously and give people an outlet for their pain that doesn’t end like this. This has to end and whatever legislation needs to be put forth to end it needs to get advanced yesterday. 

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  14. 20 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

    If you haven’t “lost it” at this point, you never had “it”.
     

     


    “It” being your humanity.

     

    Millions of guns matter more than the life of a human being people have allowed our country to go completely off the rails. I have contemplated living abroad for reasons completely unrelated to this, but seeing how cold and uncaring that millions upon millions of people in this country are really reinforces to me that going elsewhere to live would be the best choice.

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  15. 23 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Global pandemic. Violent insurrection. Collapsing grid infrastructure. Massive land war in Europe involving a nuclear superpower. Battle raging at a nuclear plant. The vast majority of the GQP want TFG to run again, and he’ll win.

    Y’all ready for the ledge yet?

    I trust the rational people in this to stave off a world war.
     

    Also if he wants to run again I’ll happily vote against him again and so will enough other Americans who do not want him in the Oval Office again. 

  16. 1 minute ago, wildcat09 said:

    To the extent there was still any question about whether Putin is still a rational actor who just badly miscalculated or is he insane, I think we have our answer.

    This seems like the kind of thing that the international community might have to step in on if this plant blows up. This is just all so sad to witness. 

  17. 15 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

    What Irwin said.  

    What thing should he be doing that he's not?

    I agree with what we have done thus far. I hope we keep letting other nations in Europe make the public decisions while we stay in the background doing work behind the scenes to aid the Ukrainians. I believe there is a lot we are doing to help the cause that we are not broadcasting and I am good with that. 

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  18. 15 minutes ago, Chopper said:

    They somehow ended up in a small town not too far from Pittsburgh. I got to Texas on my own in the '90s, thanks to some friends.

    BTW here's an interesting thread about why the russians are having so much trouble driving in northern UKR winter weather - they apparently suck at maintenance, particularly in this case, tires.

     

    Fantastic link man. This is the rare time that social media is doing good in connecting us as a world and educating us about seemingly mundane things that are actually a big deal. 

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  19. 1 hour ago, Deej said:

    Some dogs are meant for you. My dad passed in 2002. 2003 a friend came by the house and told me another friend had a puppy he needed to find a home for. Went to meet the dog and my friend mentioned the day the dog was born, which happened to be my dad's birthday.

    Maggie, the Heeler/Rottweiler mix. She was a great dog. 

     

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    Oh my gosh that’s a great story and man the adventures you must have had with her! What a great mix as well with heeler/rottweiler. 
     

    Reading stories about dogs, and pet family members in general, are the best. Everyone has at least one really cool story to share about their best friend. Thanks for sharing that one Deej.

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