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MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Wed Apr 04, 2018 8:53 pm This picture was in the USA Today and they have won the Masters seven times between them. No big news today that they played a practice round on Tuesday. If the count goes to 8 after Sunday that will be huge news.
I'm not clever enough to play the meme game with the image.
Why are you worried that it will rain at a baseball game?. It is possible, but if it rains too hard they'll delay or call the game.Volante wrote: ↑Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:55 pm Bloody hell, I feel like I just won the freaking lottery.
I finally decided to see -exactly- where my Progressive Field seats are next Tue+Wed (I'm flying to Cleveland to watch the Cubs play amongst other things). They're -under- the second level. I won't be rained on during gameplay. SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
I really didn't want to sit in my poncho for any extended period. It. does. not. breathe. I honestly don't know how other people do it.clprez wrote: ↑Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:40 pmWhy are you worried that it will rain at a baseball game?. It is possible, but if it rains too hard they'll delay or call the game.Volante wrote: ↑Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:55 pm Bloody hell, I feel like I just won the freaking lottery.
I finally decided to see -exactly- where my Progressive Field seats are next Tue+Wed (I'm flying to Cleveland to watch the Cubs play amongst other things). They're -under- the second level. I won't be rained on during gameplay. SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
When I went to a Tiger's game last year, I saw that my seat was under the second level and I hoped they'd be in the shade. Admittedly that was in August and not April.
Hope your cubbies do well.
I was at that game. It was not pleasant. We started with a continuous mist that never became rain. We were wet and miserable by the time it turned into snow. Half of my group left before the seventh inning, causing the Royals to lose 5-3. Still, it was fun yelling, "Go back to Los Angeles of Anaheim!"
MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2018 10:36 pmFinished another box:MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2018 10:49 pm This is a first come, first serve type of thing as it won't work for the 2nd person. I finished a box of Wheaties and there is an offer of 3 free Jordan Spieth Titleist golf balls with purchase of 4 specially marked boxes. Jumping through the registration hoops and the marketing annoyances that go with it are not of interest to me. Not to mention the product itself.
In case anyone does care this is my code up for grabs:
Registration is at: wheaties.com/golfballs
The offer goes through the end of May, so I'm sure I'll go through a few more boxes of the cereal before then to have more codes to share.
Out of curiosity I checked eBay and sure enough there are sellers looking for buyers of one single ball or the set of three.
When a penguin is uncomfortable in the snow, you know it has to be bad!opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:54 amI was at that game. It was not pleasant. We started with a continuous mist that never became rain. We were wet and miserable by the time it turned into snow. Half of my group left before the seventh inning, causing the Royals to lose 5-3. Still, it was fun yelling, "Go back to Los Angeles of Anaheim!"
Thanks for this, Mark! (You do know how to get my attention!). I will say he’s not the first I heard of that has done this, I came across this video almost ten years ago (and this more recent follow up article while searching for a link of the video to share (because I just had a copy of the video in my collection of literally hundreds of anthem videos, so it wasn’t easily shareable).MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 11:17 pm For fans of National Anthems: This was an article in The San Francisco Chronicle:
This might be why he hasn’t got the Ellen call yet as these aren’t quite true. The Greek factoid is one of those trivia items that is commonly bandied about, but wrong (like “The Great Wall of China is the only man made structure to be seen from space”). The *poem* it’s based on has 158 verses but only the first two stanzas are the anthem. (Similar to Canada which officially has just the first verse of a four stanza poem. (Which is why you’ll also hear the factoid from conservative groups here about how we don’t sing the last. pro-religion verse anymore. The last verse never was the anthem.)) This is also the case with Argentina, it doesn’t take 27 minutes to sing; of the 24 versions of the Argentine anthem in my collection, the longest is five minutes one second. Before 1900 the Argentine used all nine original verses, but since then only the first two are official. (But if you multiply five minutes by 4.5 (nine divided by two) you get around 27 minutes). Five minutes is still long (though I have versions as short as one minute) because Argentina has what i term a Latin American epic anthem that tend to illustrate the country’s entire history and go on for some time, with sweeping orchestral scores.It’s been a journey of discovery, and among the things that Yathaarth has discovered is that the Greek anthem has 152 verses, the Argentine anthem takes 27 minutes to sing, and the Macedonian anthem cannot legally be sung after 6 p.m.
“I don’t know what happens if you sing it after 6 p.m.,” he said. “I don’t want to find out.”