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From: haze - is having a bad day #251
Date: 04/24/26 @ 11:22 PM
Rachel ain't never did nothing wrong.
From: Space Cat - please delete this account #252
Date: 04/24/26 @ 11:39 PM
Rachels are generally good.

Megans though, hoo boy don't get me started. Ain't never been a good Megan.
From: bridbran - watch for notdeer #253
Date: 04/25/26 @ 8:41 AM
I knew a Maygun but I wouldn't say she was good either
From: idsaluteyoubub #254
Date: 04/25/26 @ 9:51 AM
Naked Maygun
From: Rob #255
Date: 04/25/26 @ 10:36 AM
Deedee megandoodoo
From: stile - is a man of wealth, and taste #256
Date: 04/25/26 @ 8:57 PM
are we talking about hairdos or sammiches
From: Heferito - Intentionally left blank #257
Date: 04/27/26 @ 3:59 PM
Reubens are so much better than Rachels.
From: stile - is a man of wealth, and taste #258
Date: 04/27/26 @ 7:28 PM
ok but what about a nice MLT
From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #259
Date: 04/28/26 @ 3:33 AM
The MLB schedule should be more unbalanced.
Make the NL Central just play each other.
Also put the Astros back in the Central.
Have fun playing the Cardinals thirty-two times a year.
From: haze - is having a bad day #260
Date: 04/28/26 @ 4:00 AM
The MLB should have a cap.
From: kontaz #261
Date: 04/28/26 @ 4:21 AM
The lil button thingy on top of the their caps is called a squatchee.
From: kontaz #262
Date: 04/28/26 @ 4:30 AM
Also, baseball is really fucking dumb. I love watching Jomboy videos and nearly every single one reminds me why I hate baseball. All the unwritten rules garbage and posturing and just all the worst people allowed to behave badly in front of crowds. Fuck em.

I tried, I really tried to give it a chance. For a few decades.

I can pinpoint the exact moment I really started to hate it. I even bookmarked it.

The way that dude ruuuuuuuns to kick someone's ass, and then hides behind the umpire and catcher and then acts like he did something. Like, that so embodies the entirety of baseball and baseball players. The absolute stupidity and weakness of those motherfuckers. Fuck em.

From: idsaluteyoubub #263
Date: 04/28/26 @ 8:36 AM
Bores the hell outta me, but fun to see live once in a while.
Football bores the hell outta me now, too. Basketball is cool, but not the NBA.

All about hockey baybeeeeee
From: Heferito - Intentionally left blank #264
Date: 04/28/26 @ 2:20 PM
Your first mistake was watching Jomboy.
From: butterknife - calcium depraved #265
Date: 04/28/26 @ 2:26 PM
i used to listen to jomboy n billy bigshow
From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #266
Date: 04/28/26 @ 2:50 PM
Jomboy is a psyop to make you hate baseball. There's no two ways about it.

Bub's right, though, baseball is second only to hockey to watch in person. Maybe boxing?
The NHL and WPHL whip ass. We're going to try to make it to a Barracuda (AHL) as soon as we can.

Couple things, though.

The MLB should have a cap.
Nop!e
Every dollar not spent on the roster (or operations) goes back into the owners' pocket.
With a few notable exceptions, the worst person walking the earth has been an owner since baseball began.
What the sport needs is a salary floor, or at least a threshold analogous to the luxury tax;
If you are below the average payroll of the bottom five teams, you should endure a penalty.
Lose a first round pick, forgo revenue sharing, miss the Rule 5 draft, whatever, but cheaping out on your fans should hurt.

Also, baseball is really fucking dumb.
I mean, obvs I can't convince you to like baseball, but when I was growing up I didn't understand it for shit, and the closest park was Angel Stadium back when it was still a concrete toilet.
But then I moved to SF, in the Cain-Lincecum era, and the tail end of the Bonds years, and I decided to throw myself headlong into it.
Stats, facts, history (especially labor and race history), and yeah, unwritten rules (which, poetically, you can read in Turbow's Baseball Codes (2010), which is basically an oral history of baseball culture).
I've read it maybe twelve times?
But I'm rereading Only The Ball Was White, a history of the Negro Leagues.
From: idsaluteyoubub #267
Date: 04/28/26 @ 3:08 PM
There's a good DS9 episode about baseball. So. There's that.
From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #268
Date: 04/28/26 @ 3:14 PM
I feel like there's a genetic relationship between Star Trek and baseball.
Like the whole premise is "We can and should do better".
From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #269
Date: 04/28/26 @ 8:35 PM
I believe in Death With Dignity/Physician-Assisted Death but I can't support it under the current system where a provider can be like okay yeah we could treat your chronic condition and cover your needs and quality of life but also what if we just killed you.
We have to kill insurance companies before we start ethically ending patients' lives.
From: slimwhitem #270
Date: 04/28/26 @ 9:02 PM
i wouldnt worry, they probably wont cover that either
From: slimwhitem #271
Date: 04/28/26 @ 9:03 PM
"what does my policy cover?"
"... how bout we just take your money and you leave us alone, eh?"
From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #272
Date: 04/29/26 @ 9:33 PM
I think it's actually a good practice to take extreme/radical/absolutist positions at first;
It lets you feel it out, see where it fails, and work your way to a reasonable, defensible position.
So when I see someone, especially a younger person, going off on whatever subject, it's like, okay, go ahead and work that out.

Of course, certain social ecosystems incentivize the opposite, but sometimes you just have to let people be dumb and hope it catches up to them.
From: haze - is having a bad day #273
Date: 05/03/26 @ 10:47 PM
I think the long, curly fake eyelash look is incredibly attractive.
From: GoonGoonington - Put some SPH 90 on that thing #274
Date: 05/03/26 @ 11:24 PM
fear7trembling said:

I believe in Death With Dignity/Physician-Assisted Death but I can't support it under the current system where a provider can be like okay yeah we could treat your chronic condition and cover your needs and quality of life but also what if we just killed you.
We have to kill insurance companies before we start ethically ending patients' lives.

The guy whose painful existence has been reduced to being shit, a piss factory, and awaits the sweet relief of death has noted your objection on principles.
From: Rob #275
Date: 05/03/26 @ 11:31 PM
I'm really not sure what business the state even has in it.
From: stile - is a man of wealth, and taste #276
Date: 05/04/26 @ 12:27 AM
i also think the state should allow it,
but they do have a legitimate interest in it
because they have an obligation to penalize murder.
so, the distinction between killing a person WITHOUT their consent,
and helping a person to die WITH their consent
is definitely something the state needs to establish in law
to govern how trials would go
From: Bearclaw - Master of the Obvious #277
Date: 05/04/26 @ 2:25 AM
haze said:

I think the long, curly fake eyelash look is incredibly attractive.

You're outta your fucking mind
From: butterknife - calcium depraved #278
Date: 05/04/26 @ 2:52 AM
and into my car
From: haze - is having a bad day #279
Date: 05/04/26 @ 3:00 AM
Woooooooooh. Wah! Hey
From: idsaluteyoubub #280
Date: 05/04/26 @ 4:21 AM
Bustin makes me FEEL good
From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #281
Date: 05/04/26 @ 3:15 PM
I like them when they're done poorly.
It's like, you didn't HAVE to do anything, but here you are.
From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #282
Date: 05/04/26 @ 3:49 PM
Rob said:

I'm really not sure what business the state even has in it.
I mean it seems like there should be some framework for it.
Otherwise you've just got a dead body and it's like, wonder what happened here.
From: stile - is a man of wealth, and taste #283
Date: 05/07/26 @ 5:20 AM
s'what i said
From: Redboxer #284
Date: 05/10/26 @ 2:58 PM
We need to move on from people holding tiny microphones.
From: Space Cat - please delete this account #285
Date: 05/10/26 @ 4:58 PM
Yes. Yes.
I want to see microphones bigger than ever.
From: slimwhitem #286
Date: 05/10/26 @ 6:06 PM
microphones as big as a person

tiny person yelling up as loud as they can
From: Space Cat - please delete this account #287
Date: 05/10/26 @ 8:56 PM
MACROPHONES
From: Sepharo #288
Date: 05/10/26 @ 9:00 PM
marco
From: kontaz #289
Date: 05/10/26 @ 10:01 PM
polo
From: slimwhitem #290
Date: 05/11/26 @ 1:05 AM
Space Cat said:

MACROPHONES

so… yeah, i considered this joke as well but like… microphones are as big as phone already and not that much smaller than megaphones compared to a person, so like how big does it have to go from micro to regular to macro to mega and wow i almost put myself to sleep
From: Space Cat - please delete this account #291
Date: 05/11/26 @ 1:28 AM
shut up nerd
From: haze - is having a bad day #292
Date: 05/11/26 @ 1:45 AM
At least he didn't call you honkey.
From: Space Cat - please delete this account #293
Date: 05/11/26 @ 2:22 AM
shut up honkey
From: haze - is having a bad day #294
Date: 05/11/26 @ 2:44 AM
OMG
From: idsaluteyoubub #295
Date: 05/11/26 @ 4:21 AM
Ice honkey
From: butterknife - calcium depraved #296
Date: 05/11/26 @ 4:42 AM
honky
From: idsaluteyoubub #297
Date: 05/11/26 @ 5:28 AM
Great the honky police is here aka the police
From: haze - is having a bad day #298
Date: 05/11/26 @ 5:34 AM
butterknife said:

honky
This guy doesn't get it.
From: Redboxer #299
Date: 05/11/26 @ 11:30 AM
It's just a bunch of big tiny microphone shills in here.
From: kontaz #300
Date: 05/11/26 @ 11:53 AM
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