Fashion Board 6-9-04 to 7-13-04

[the Spartan]

Originally posted by taxwonk
only fifty dollars!

American?!?

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by the Spartan
American?!?

No, the exchange rate went up. Euros.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'd love it if baseball became a home run derby after the 9th. Home runs are about the only thing I've ever really loved in baseball. When they started making smaller stadiums and juiced the ball a few years back, they really fucked the game up. Guys like Luzinski, Rice, Stargell, Kingman, Schmidt, etc... used to be great to watch because at any moment they might launch a moonshot. Cats like that used to tag the ball over the center field fence in the Astrodome. Now you have all these short fields and roid nuts nailing what would have been long flies in the old days out of mini-fields.

I'm confused. Do you like the home run or not? And you might want to check your facts, because if I'm not mistaken, when Luzinski, Rice, et. al. played, 25-30 HR's in a season was considered a "basher". Or are you saying a moonshot isn't a moonshot in a bandbox park?

[the Spartan]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Funny, that's how I feel when I think of you.

I sensed as much. I had a feeling that my new found lesbianism would provoke a wide spectrum of reaction and in light of the same and with altered perceptions as my reality, I will take that as a compliment and carry on. in due fashion. fashionably.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by taxwonk
It was an Ann Klein II. She got it at Marshall's for only fifty dollars!

I think you're missing the point. I love a good bargain. I enjoy on sale. If someone says "I bought Tod's loafers for 50% off" I say "Congrats! that's excellent, good for you" To pay full price is to be a fool.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by spookyfish
I'm confused. Do you like the home run or not? And you might want to check your facts, because if I'm not mistaken, when Luzinski, Rice, et. al. played, 25-30 HR's in a season was considered a "basher". Or are you saying a moonshot isn't a moonshot in a bandbox park?

You're missing the point: Things were better when we were kids, but now they've gone to hell.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by spookyfish
I'm confused. Do you like the home run or not? And you might want to check your facts, because if I'm not mistaken, when Luzinski, Rice, et. al. played, 25-30 HR's in a season was considered a "basher". Or are you saying a moonshot isn't a moonshot in a bandbox park?

I'm saying I liked the old monster shots, like when Stargell hit the ball out of Dodger stadium into the swimming pool next door. Or when Schmidt hit the roof of the Astrodome. Or when Luzinski cranked it over the roof of Comiskey.

I don't need to see 8 mil homeruns hit by shortstops and 2d baseman. I liked the old days where your 1st baseman, catcher, maybe 3d baseman and maybe one or two outfielders were the only guys who'd really launch homeruns. Homers were more rare and more spectacular. Now, you see dingers all the time. Cheapens the moment. You don't get the same "Damn, the Phila are playing the Pirates tonight... Parker and Schmidt may hit some shit into the upper deck of the Vet.." type games anymore. Home runs are like doubles now.

My suggestion is to lengthen the shorter fields and then have a 9th inning derby. Put a little supense and surprise back in things.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I attribute it to the lacerations. I thought about playing in college. Then I was watching a match on TV. Guy comes running to the sideline with his forehead split open. They slap some tape on it, and he runs back in. Um, no thanks.

Rugby is an incredible game (disclosure: I played for many years, so I am unabashedly biased), and I have no idea why it hasn't caught on beyond some colleges and clubs. It's got more violence and (generally) more scoring than football, and the players aren't nancy-boys all dressed up in padding and armour.

I found that it was a great way to release the stress of having to deal with dickwad opposing counsel all day. Nothing says fuck you better than planting your boots squarely between the shoulder blades of your opponent as you run over him.

Yeah, the lacerations can be extreme, but it's no different that hockey. Then again, you are not likely to lose an ear in hockey. I stopped playing because I got 2 concussions and a broken nose in a 6-month span: I took it as a sign.

I didn't want something like what happend to this guy happen to me:

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by baltassoc
I think you mean ESPN realized it could broadcast repeats of SportCenter (and the sport specific variations thereof like Baseball Tonight) 20 times a day.

Not sure you've got the timing right there. Early on (like 1981), ESPN ran sportscenter in the morning (Tom Mees and Chris Berman) repeatedly. Then they cut out most of the sportscenter reruns from 7-9 am and put in some business show (like Investor's Business Review). I think, in my impetuous youth, wrote in to remind them that the show was neither entertainment nor sports and therefore didn't qualify under their network's name. So, they screwed me, and put on Body Shaping by Gilead. It got mildly better, but not much, when they put on Denise Austin instead (or before, bumping Gilead to the housewife hour of 10am). Finally, they returned to their roots with the ad nauseum reruns of sportscenter sometime in the late 80s/early 90s.

Aussie rules, meanwhile, was on at various times including, IIRC, saturday mornings. But it didn't get bumped for sportscenter. It got bumped for real sports.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I attribute it to the lacerations. I thought about playing in college. Then I was watching a match on TV. Guy comes running to the sideline with his forehead split open. They slap some tape on it, and he runs back in. Um, no thanks.

chicks dig the lacerations, though. At least this chick does.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Yeah, but we're Americans. The rest of the world doesn't seem to have a problem with it.

Okay. I guess it was understood that I'm American. To say that all other countries find it sublime really doesn't mean much.

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
And the BCS BS is funfamentally flawed - it's not stopping us from watching.

The system is flawed. The game is not. People like to watch the game. So, I don't see the point of your comparison.

TM

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Homers were more rare and more spectacular. Now, you see dingers all the time. Cheapens the moment.

Yet a home-run derby to decide games would not cheapen anything? Egad. Why not string up a tire behind home plate and trot in relievers to see who can get more through?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
I didn't want something like what happend to this guy happen to me:

Reading this Sporting Life in HS made me careful not to play in college clubs etc.

It sounds very ugly.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
chicks dig the lacerations, though. At least this chick does.

But how do you whisper sweet nothings to a guy with no ear?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Okay. I guess it was understood that I'm American. To say that all other countries find it sublime really doesn't mean much.

TM

My point was that the majority of world-wide fans don't have a problem with it. Which means that there might not be that "fundamental problem" that you mentioned.

And I agree. The BCS thing was a shitty comparison. I just wanted to bitch about the BCS.