So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[GHT]

Every day is National Cat Day. Which is as it should be.

I'm also a big supporter of National Cheese Week. "Serve Cheese -- And Serve The Nation!"

Serve cheese, and serve a nation eh? OK, but you must promise never, ever, to export to our shores..........................

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Serve cheese, and serve a nation eh? OK, but you must promise never, ever, to export to our shores..........................
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I have to agree. The American notion of cheese differs considerably from that of other nations.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

I have to agree. The American notion of cheese differs considerably from that of other nations.

I think it's a form of color coding.

 

[tonyb]

Here it is the 15th and it wasn’t until this morning that I learned that this is National Car Care Month.

To think I missed out on 14 days of festivities! It’s a moral outrage!

 

[LizzieMaine]

There's still time to get your plugs gapped.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

Here it is the 15th and it wasn’t until this morning that I learned that this is National Car Care Month.

To think I missed out on 14 days of festivities! It’s a moral outrage!

There's nothing trivial about that! Ask my mother, the car.

 

[tonyb]

There's still time to get your plugs gapped.

I just love it when you talk dirty.

 

[Harp]

Joe pulled Darvish after five and a half innings last nite, instead of letting him go for another round.
The Cubs bullpen is a bit thin, Joseph no doubt wanted to rest Yu but the kid needs to go the distance
sooner or later.

 

[Artifex]

Joe pulled Darvish after five and a half innings last nite, instead of letting him go for another round.
The Cubs bullpen is a bit thin, Joseph no doubt wanted to rest Yu but the kid needs to go the distance
sooner or later.

If it wouldn't be awfully rude, may I add "The discussion of sports without any context whatsoever." to the little list of off-ticking trivialities?

 

[tonyb]

If it wouldn't be awfully rude, may I add "The discussion of sports without any context whatsoever." to the little list of off-ticking trivialities?

If I were to hazard a guess, it would be that most here require no more context than our friend Harp supplied.

 

[EngProf]

If I were to hazard a guess, it would be that most here require no more context than our friend Harp supplied.

And those of us who don't care very much about baseball can just let it go as other persons' interest.
No harm to me for not getting it...

 

[Lean'n'mean]

If it wouldn't be awfully rude, may I add "The discussion of sports without any context whatsoever." to the little list of off-ticking trivialities?

Harp often does it & sometimes in a dialect unknown to English speakers. I guess he just needs to get it off his chest which is the raison d'être of this thread, n'est pas ?

 

[Artifex]

Fair points, all.

Sometimes, a space to exercise the urge to be heard is exactly what one needs.

 

[LizzieMaine]

One of the interesting quirks of the Lounge is that eventually all discussions get around to the Game. Which reminds me, the Red Sox DFAing Swihart is the kind of move a desperate 6-12 team makes when it has no idea what kind of move to make.

 

[Bamaboots]

I always enjoy Harp's posts. This time of year he seems to always insert a Cubs reference, be it 'what's for breakfast' or here. Though admittedly I don't always get his references, especially when he's quoting case law but I even find those fun. Let's not forget he's a lawyer and having spent more time in courtrooms than I care to recount, I can assure you lawyers often speak in a language foreign to many.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

One of the interesting quirks of the Lounge is that eventually all discussions get around to the Game. Which reminds me, the Red Sox DFAing Swihart is the kind of move a desperate 6-12 team makes when it has no idea what kind of move to make.

Oh dear, looks like it's contagious. I have natural immunity but I fear there will be many victims.

 

[vitanola]

There's still time to get your plugs gapped.

I see that I have to tighten the bands on the Flivver.


Joy.

 

[Harp]

If it wouldn't be awfully rude, may I add "The discussion of sports without any context whatsoever." to the little list of off-ticking trivialities?

An excellent suggestion. To add some context, Q had an impressive outing last nite. Good stuff but I cannot
stop forgetting his cost to the team: Dylan Cease. Cease is now in triple A, doing a fantastic job, and the Sox
scored in the Q trade. Getting back to Darvish, he has the best arsenal in the pen but seems reluctant to throw
strikes, nibbling the plate corners and walking far too many batters.

 

[tonyb]

As to trivial annoyances vis-a-vis The Game ...

I rarely take in a game in person anymore. I live something like 13 miles from a major league ballpark. I’ve been in it only two or three times since I’ve lived in the area, and this is my fifth season here.

I lived about two miles from the stadium in Seattle, where I moved as a pimply-faced pubescent, for 20 of the 46 years I lived there. Some seasons I took in 20 or 30 games per. In the Kingdome days with those lousy Mariners teams you could buy a cheap seat and plop your rump down just about anywhere you wished. (The new stadium was a big improvement [baseball isn’t an indoor activity], the team got better, and the region got richer, all of which contributed to increased attendance.)

What keeps me away is all the hoopla — the team mascots and the flashing scoreboards and the blaring “music” and, and, and.

Yes, I know, the people in charge of such things know more about it than I ever will. I have little doubt that their research shows that all that stuff that has nothing to do with the game itself attracts more paying customers. Kids get fidgety after three or four innings in a low-scoring game, etc.

But it’s been a long time since I was an easily bored, fidgety kid. And all those loud and bright diversions designed to put more of those youngsters in the ballpark serve to keep me away.

My first full year in Seattle was 1969, which happened to be the first and only season of the Seattle Pilots, who the following year would be the Milwaukee Brewers. The Pilots played in Sick’s Seattle Stadium, a single-tier edifice that had a whole lot of outfield bleachers added ahead of the Pilots’ arrival. My family resided in a rental house a three or four mile bus ride to the south. The chain-link fence separating the stadium from the sidewalk on the Empire Way side presented but a small challenge to a youngster lacking the price of admission.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I loathe all the rock-n-roll hoopty-doo at Fenway, having grown up with John Kiley At The Organ and Sherm Feller in the PA booth, but about the fifth inning I get to where I can tune it out. What I do find distracting are the video screens suspended from the grandstand roof -- who pays $35 for a ticket so they can watch the game on TV?

I'm also irritated by the fact that the scorecard is now printed on a separate sheet of paper instead of bound into the centerspread of the game program. It gets all wrinkled up and mangled by the end of the game, making it hard to read when you review your notes later.

As for cheap seats there are none at Fenway, but I have fond memories of going to Montreal Expos games in the damp concrete vault they called "Olympic Stadium," where any random night of the season you could get any seat in the place for $5. And I'll say this for Expos fans, they could make 5000 people sound like 50,000 when they got excited. BRING BASEBALL BACK TO MONTREAL!