“How ’bout them Cowboys?”

Reminds me that, before DC’s NFL team became the “Commanders” (presumably because “Generals” had already been reserved as a prop for a Harlem basketball entity), Buckley actually made written reference to the “Dallas Redskins”.

Jeffrey Hart was the English professor at Dartmouth, no?

I recall his having written some account of a WFB-organized gathering in the NYC apartment in honor of Rush; this must have been in the early-to-mid 1990s, with the conservative old guard agog over how successful Rush had become.

Hart was concerned that, were the corpulent Limbaugh to seat himself in one of Mrs. Buckley’s fragile wicker chairs, it’d be the end of the chair.

I can tell you the scariest pitchers aren’t the hard throwers with great control but rather the ones who are wild. There’s nothing worse than stepping into the batters box against a wild flamethrower, because you have no idea where the next pitch is going and neither does he… these guys don’t typically get anywhere close to the HOF though.

Dock Ellis, throwing his no-hitter … sky-high on LSD … no idea whether the batter was left-handed or right-handed …

“… tied for Nicest are Sandy Koufax and Lee Smith.”

Lee was listed at 6’5″ 220 lbs; size matters. Also mattering but unfortunately unavailable are pitch speeds from the 20th century — I surmise that I’d prefer getting plunked by a Niekro knuckleball than by anything Smith threw. Koufax broke Lou Brock’s shoulder blade with that single intentional beaning, so credit both to Koufax for yet another exemplar of his on-mound efficiency, and to Brock for recovering to build his incredibly ballsy .391 World Series batting average over close to 100 WS plate appearances.

This discussion always evokes surprise over how few hitters Bob Gibson HBP’d. Gibson’s surliness was primarily made manifest through his refusal to be friendly with opposing hitters during spring training games, All-Star games, and the like — he dreaded giving away any edge. He used to love talking about how then-Cardinal-previous-Giant Orlando Cepeda would go to dinner with Giant great Juan Marichal to open every STL-SF series … and then fatten his batting average upon facing Marichal that series.

Is Steve writing more on a Substack and less here these days?

I hadn’t been to Takimag for so long that I missed their cutover to a subscription-only format. Nevertheless, congratulations upon your return to wider distribution.

For those who prefer Ted Williams, with that vaunted .406 BA in ’41, six batting titles, and .344 career BA, how many seasons did Ted have 200+ H’s in a season??

No 200+hit seasons? A stat to go with his career World Series batting average of .200. Although, as has been noted, he did lead the league in walks eight times, so that has its skew effect.

Artificial intelligence, through the prism of a woke west-coast Polack, is neither.

It’s a Hall of Fame, not a hall of sustained greatness.

And that’s fair. Having watched a lot of Brock in flyover country, I too cringed at some of his defensive play. But in the pre-WAR early 1980s, Brock’s membership in the then-more-exclusive 3000-hit club was likely enough on its own to gain him Hall entry. All-time leadership (at election time) in categories such as career and season stolen bases didn’t hurt, either. Nor did his arrival in St. Louis as part of the “greatest trade in Cardinals history”. The irony, though, is that Brock’s greatest stat was hitting .391 in 92 World Series plate appearances — true performance under maximum pressure (one recalls fine Cardinals utilityman Steve Braun, who walked with the bases loaded for the game-winning RBI of 1982 World Series Game 2, admitting in later interviews that he was too scared to swing the bat under the pressure). While others have hit over .400 in ~60 WS PAs (egs. Pepper Martin, Papi Ortiz), I don’t know if anyone other than Brock approached both .400 and 100 WS PAs. That’s some ballsy play, even if others have done it as well.

… conservatives in many ways exaggerate the impact of race and gender issues, which leads them to focus too much on DEI and ignore topics that are potentially much more important.

One does wonder if the inspectors who were supposed to have inspected that Alaska Airlines 737-9 which lost its door panel were Working From Home on inspection day. This “Working From Home” farce, a COVID-19 lockdown legacy, might I suppose be characterized as a separate issue from DEI (although perhaps that $600k/yr do-nothing DEI czar at Johns Hopkins might argue that Working From Home brings Equity to selection of work location). Whatever the case, the airline industry will now be getting more than its share of scrutiny in the coming months and years.

This is why the Republicans are worthless. This c*nt Bellows pulls an exclusion ruling out of her ass, and the Republicans keep following the rules to no effect whatsoever. How about knocking over some tables?

Agreed and Thanks, OP. I comment too infrequently to warrant use of the corresponding buttons. And speaking of them: Unz should broaden their applicability from just the comments to the original post as well … I’d have used Troll on this one.

Ambiguous comment on my part. Supposedly the music queen has been dating the tight end of the NFL team in Kansas City (MO), which is concurrently experiencing its worst win-loss record in several seasons. Thus the Swift:Chiefs::Ono:Beatles notion.

Don’t worry, It’s not Jeff.

Per family on the west coast of the state: The Yoko Ono of the NFL.

“She did not invite anyone, they just showed the F up.”

Did she not postulate that since Germans were aging and failing to reproduce themselves, the imported young Muslims could fill the vacant jobs? The woman has a doctorate in physical chemistry; I thus find it rather unlikely that her actions lacked ample motive (such as it was).

The ultimate American sports name would be D’Brickashaw van Breda Kolff. Biletnikoff a close second.

From the Indy racing circuit: Will Power. (An Aussie, I believe.)

I got to see Manute Bol play in person for the then-mediocre Warriors in Oakland around 1990. They put him in for a short spell in the second quarter. The 7’7″ alone wasn’t as noteworthy as that only 210-225 lbs was spread across it. It was as if a walking stick had learned from a grizzly bear how to perambulate on the hind limbs. He could have starred in a Save The Children commercial had he not been so freakishly tall. I don’t recall if the 3pt shot existed in the NBA around 1990, but if it did, every one of his shots would have been from that range. Not once was he close to the paint, let alone the basket. But the applause for his short stint in the game was loud and sustained. Akin to watching an Animal Planet documentary come to life. Too bad that he died so young.

Awaiting for these Zoom debates the AI-driven appearance masking (darkened skin hue, Oscar Gambled afro) to level the 2020ish debate playing field.

“DEI is not just about hiring ethnic minorities, it’s about embracing all talent.”

As measured by hiring more ethnic minorities.

Verily.

OT: It appears as though the team of the Global American Empire, the soccer women, have just suffered a most humiliating earliest-ever ouster from their quadrennial tournament (or some such).

My scheme had been to enlist a cadre of futbol-playing young men from the Central African Republic or the like to declare I Am Woman and roar through the tourney, particularly against the GAE harpies. Turned out to be unnecessary.

The temptation to the most delicious of schadenfreude is almost irresistible.

We need about 1/3 to 1/2 of U.S. colleges to close.

Steve, are you still pondering a book?

This latest chart of yours suggests an Edward Tufte-style collection, liberally annotated with your related writings, all themed toward the major points of your career. An anthology of sorts, as it were.

They just hate this guy–for everything. His gauche behavior. His much younger wife. His combover.

Those are pretty bad things, but isn’t he the same guy who wants to replace old-style democratic elections with paramilitary coups and wants to bring the state election machinery under the direct command of the White House so that blocks of votes can be “found” and entered into the official record without the need for people to actually vote?

And the reason is quite clearly that Trump is a threat to her daddy’s reputation and to the source of the family’s wealth, the military-industrial complex.

The numbers I’ve seen indicate that the Dwarf Lizard herself entered Congress with a $7M net worth and left it with a $50M net worth. Surprised that in her January 6th report she didn’t deem Trump unworthy of the presidency because his own net worth fell during his administration. Perhaps her own fledgling 2024 presidential run will hammer him on that key plank. In the interim: What’s a five-letter word that rhymes with “drift”?

Now that the “sensible Republicans” have voted for this nightmare omnibus, all babble about Trump ought to begin with a proof that the Republican party exists. Why the hell should I volunteer, donate, and vote for a party that does what the Democrats want them to do?

…his miscues like his goofy NFT issue.

The price and trade volume for the Trump Cards are a live, 24 hour-a-day public poll, tracking sentiment for everything Trump says and does. Genius.

Interestingly, Rick DeSantis …

Interestingly, your professed lack of interest in Trump has interesting ways of making itself known when you do broach the topic.

Play to your considerable strengths.

If he gets rid of the 3-10% forceful 401K plan and the Gig Tax of Paypal over 600 bucks

Not start any wars

Become friends with President Xi. Let Putin have half of Ukraine (deserved) and wrap the Ukraine b.s. up.

Oh yeah, I want All of my Taxpayer dollars back from Ukraine.

Trump could do this.

Winner.

…his miscues like his goofy NFT issue.

He made $4.5 million from that in less than a day. I’ll take a “miscue” like that anytime!

I drove past a house today with two big “Trump” flags displayed on flag poles either side of the front door. I’m sorry to say, but I can’t call these people anything other than Trumptards.

I get it – you voted for him. I voted for him. Trump was the equivalent of a middle-finger raised up against the establishment (as Tucker Carlson described him). But he has a track record now. A track-record as a foolish, narcissistic blowhard. He’s a conman and an imbecile. You’re not voting for a President anymore. You’re just voting for an obscene gesture. Get over it. Dump him already.

Steve is probably right. The Democrats want him to run. They wanted him to run in 2016 because they were too clever by half. They want him to run in 2024 because they are just clever. They know he is poison. Moreover, they know that even were he to be elected, they could just roll him like they did before, aided by the GOP establishment. Don’t get fooled again. Trump is not on your side. He is not on anybody’s side but his own, and he’s not even any good at that. He’s a moron.

“I still wonder if you’ve been dealing with a single human being in this whole saga.”

The responses you’re getting from Twitter, Steve, do indeed seem to have a bot-ish flair to them. And for all the accomplishments DeepMind has achieved in defeating the GO champion et al, these customer-service bots (for want of a better term) are not ready for prime time. In this season of maximum commercialism profaning the birth of Our Lord, I’ve twice received emails from companies with which I’ve been trying to do business, containing illogical instructions — when I pointed out the lack of logic, I then received apologetic follow-up emails admitting that I had been previously dealing with bots.

All that said, I don’t know why you even bother with Twitter anyway.

With respect and admiration, I salute you, Steve Sailer.

Thank you for your very good work.

Merry Christmas.

Some key causes of violence against Black women in the task force’s findings included racism and other remnants of slavery, as well as harmful stereotypes and hypersexualization of Black people.

So “racism and other remnants of slavery” were a more nefarious cause in Year the First After George Floyd than they were in Year the First Before George Floyd? That makes absolutely no sense — not that that’s going to stop Drippy at Minnesota Public Radio.

While my whole life I had known and felt the pain of Black and brown people being killed by vigilantes or being murdered by police…

No, you haven’t. Not in this country. No black or brown person is in any danger of police or vigilantes. And you know that. You’re a mediocrity who can string words together half-ass effectively. And you know our garbage Establishment loves anti-white tripe of any kind, and will shower you with attention and more money than you deserve if you serve it up.

Agree. I have exceeded my Button quota. Thanks, too.

The question that, perhaps unfortunately perhaps necessarily, keeps coming up when I read stories like this is: Is this what almost all black people are like …

She differs considerably from workaday blacks dealing with the day-to-day and about whom John Derbyshire’s observations are well worth pondering. The workaday blacks lack, as a group, the megaphone and the scale of ego.

No, with her, what we’ve got is a combination of 1) Ivy League coddling of the poor put-upon pitiable person and 2) the unfortunate fact that the Finishing Medal in the running community (the “participation medal” of the sport) is distributed at each and every running event – it’s part of the entry fee. A brutal one-two punch in the DIE era.

The thing that infuriates me is how the “jogging” narrative was just taken as fact.

Your entire comment is spot-on, and underscores just how ludicrous our WebTubbie authoress is in citing Arbery as prime motivation for her running-racism concoction-in-print. Odds are good that it omits any reference to Ted Corbitt.

Had I the inclination and resources, I would like to find the source of the root description of Arbery as “jogger”. Runners from elite to hack regard jogger/jogging as San Franciscans regard Frisco – not kindly. Perhaps the originator was LeBron James … you know, the colored basketball player?

Arbery’s murderers were stupid hicks who tried to play policeman.

They went looking for trouble and found it.

Your point is reasonable. But consider how the buffer between the Arbery hicks and the St. Louis McCloskeys shrank to nothing in just months. All the latter did was to stand on their porch brandishing their guns in “move along!” gesturing while a throng of BLM “peaceful protesters” milled in the street planning who knows what to who knows whom. While Mark McCloskey is one of those narcissistic lawyers for whom any attention is good attention, the fact was that St. Louis City generated far too much legal strife for the McCloskeys just for warning against invading their property. The Arbery hicks may have gone looking for trouble and found it; the McCloskeys were not looking for trouble but trouble found them anyway.

Would it be in bad taste if someone were to organize an Ahmaud Arberry Memorial Scavenger Hunt? We’d stage it in a neighborhood and there’d be clues to things hidden in garages and backyards.

The thing that infuriates me is how the “jogging” narrative was just taken as fact.

Did this guy regularly run for exercise? Did he regularly run through this neighborhood? How did he get there? Did he keep track of his running data somehow, like so many other exercisers? What time of day did he normally go for a run? Did he participate in turkey trots and the like? Are there photos and free t-shirts? Why was he wearing khaki shorts and a cotton t-shirt and boots and not actual running clothes? Was he wearing a stopwatch?

None of this us intended to express any opinion of the killing itself, but it is quite notable that a black thug with a criminal record was running through a random neighborhood far from his home… and was just automatically presumed to be innocently out exercising with no questions asked. And the “burglar” narrative is dismissed out of hand.

In contrast, the woman who was murdered in Memphis this fall was an “avid runner” and had all of the clothing and the videos and the participation trophies that come with it. Other runners had vigils for her. How come we haven’t seen any of Ahmaud’s paraphernalia or met any of his running buddies?

Maybe Alison needs to read about Ted Corbitt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Corbitt#Personal_and_professional_life
But she isn’t interested in facts.

It’s all so tiresome.

Indeed. The unbearable whiteness of whiteness.

At some point, white people just have to say: F**k you! We’re white. Deal with it.

I guess that’s why Ethiopians suck at long distance running.

LOL. True to some degree. Humans grow like trees, rings upon rings. (This truly is what I believe.) Europe remains inside the girl, even though there is an American (diamond) ring on the outside. In our case this is positive, because the European happens to be Hungarian.

“Hungarian beauty” contains a superfluous adjective. Here’s to good taste.

Yeah, but at least the European team won.

Who put the Mbap in the Mbap-mbap-mbap-mbap-mbappé,
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?

I subsequently noticed that #13 for France is Fofana. Where’s Shirley Ellis with “The Name Game” when you need her? Then again: Perhaps that’s what the attendees were singing in the stands for all I know.

I wish historians could or would tell us who brought the first slaves to America.

They brought themselves.

The first slaves brought to America were whites. They were slaves with an expiration date: indentured servants. For the majority of 17th and 18th century colonists, there was no way for them to finance the extremely expensive (by the standards of a 17th century commoner) voyage to North America other than selling themselves (or renting if one prefers). In the 1600’s, if you wanted someone to pay for your voyage to the New World and all you had to offer was your labor, then that’s what you sold.

The first blacks brought to Virginia (1619) were somewhat accidental – a privateer had captured a slaver enroute to Mexico/South America (I can’t recall which) who brought them to Jamestown. They too were sold as indentured servants.

If you’re looking for names, the concept of actual ownership of a person didn’t come about until 1655 when an indentured servant (named Casor) of, ironically, a black man named Anthony Johnson indentured himself to a 3rd party farmer. Johnson claimed that he had bought the servant without the servant having signed an indenture contract so the servant was simply his property, and thus the 3rd party farmer had no claim. Johnson won his court case.

In 1661 the Virginia House of Burgesses, citing the Casor case, enacted a law saying any free person (black, white, Indian) could own another person. IMO this was a colossal leap and mistake – there is an immense difference between someone owing you a certain number of years of labor vs you formally owning them.

As far as blacks versus whites as slaves, it really just came down to malaria and the blacks’ ability to withstand it (or withstand it better than whites anyway). Whites working in South Carolina’s rice growing regions died in droves. Had blacks died at similar rates to whites the trans-Atlantic slave trade likely wouldn’t have lasted long – it would have been too expensive to ship slaves all the way from Africa only to have them die of disease shortly after arriving.

The idea that blacks have some unique claim to historical victimhood due to slavery is silly. Slavery traces back almost 10,000 years, to the beginnings of agriculture. None of those slaves (mostly Asians, Slavs and other eastern Europeans) were black. Northwest Europeans and the British Isles diaspora were among the last groups to begin using slavery and the first to get rid of it. Blacks were simply in the wrong place (in Africa when it had been discovered by slave traders from the outside world) in the wrong time (when other target slave populations of Europe and Asia had achieved the organization and martial prowess to resist) and with the wrong genetic traits (the sickle blood cell).

Otto was a jokester. He proposed solving the “Irish problem” by an exchange of populations of
Holland and Ireland. The Dutch with their commercial expertise and freed of maintaining the dikes
would make Ireland a paradise. The Irish brought to Holland would drink, fight, drink, fornicate, drink and neglect the dikes. The sea would break in, problem solved. Bismarck thought this was funny, so do I.

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Messi strikes me as just about the greatest sports cognitive genius ever.

I have seen very little of Messi, so you may have a case.

My candidate for this title would be Wayne Gretzky. Careful analysis of his play reveals him to be the on-field/court/ice embodiment of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by von Neumann and Morgenstern. If Pete Rose never gave away a pitch, Wayne Gretzky never orchestrated an offensive zone entry without maximal goal probability. The pertinent statistics reflect as much. That Gretzky was the weakest player on his teams (much, I guess, as Messi is a little guy) speaks to the acuity of his mental game.

That second goal by Argentina vs France
was the most exciting soccer goal I think I’ve ever seen. And that’s saying so very little. 😜

Who put the Mbap in the Mbap-mbap-mbap-mbap-mbappé,
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?

But the only two things I can successfully do with my left hand are scratch my ass and paint.

Years ago a bunch of us were sitting around drinking and talking about being ambidextrous.

Bob W. said, “I’m so right handed I can’t drink or jerk off with anything but my right hand. And believe me, I’ve tried!”

True story.

I still remember into the late ’70s at my public high school there being those desks with the arm rest section on the right side. I write right-handed and throw left-handed; and, from what I’ve read somewhere – the rarest combination in baseball – throw left-handed and bat right-handed.

Did you always throw left bat right, or did you change in early youth?

Would love to see a study on that phenomenon. And on why the bats-left-throws-right MLB player is common, while the bats-right-throws-left player is rare (with Rickey Henderson the most noteworthy among that latter lot).

Batting favors lefties, statistically. Fielding favors righties. Thus, TR/BL is an advantage, and TL/BR a liability. (Pitchers have always fallen outside this math, especially after the DH.) The latter are winnowed out as you go up the ladder to the majors.

A tiny advantage eventually becomes overwhelming. John Elway’s left-handed batting gave him an advantage in football.

Someone has already ranked the top TL/BRs in major league history– there have been fewer than 60 regulars in total. The only ones you are likely to have heard of are Henderson (#1) and Cleon Jones (#4).

Bats right, throws left:  The best players in major league history

Jones learned on a Mobile sandlot (along with Tommie Agee) where left-handed batting was prohibited due to a sensitive neighbor of right field. Evan White started out in golf, where it was easier to go with the flow and swing right– the Paul Simon effect. (Few are aware that Simon is left-handed because he plays right.)

Evan White Is A Rare Type Of Prospect

I don’t think anybody living today can regret the slaves being freed by Lincoln.

Could anybody then or now regret that it took a war for it to happen, even though the war was not fought for that specific purpose? Of course. There’s always lots of reasons to regret a war. Wars are horrible, even when fought for the best of reasons like WWII.

I wish historians could or would tell us who brought the first slaves to America. Like a lot of people, I would like to know the names and all the specifics we could unearth about those people. I would curse them if I knew who they were. We could have developed the country without slaves. It would have been different, obviously, but the English and Europeans could have done it by themselves. Oh yeah, I should say this is not any kind of white purity statement, it is an anti-slavery and anti-necessity for the Civil War statement.

Cobb was right-handed. He only batted left, like Ted Williams and Yogi Berra after him.

To take this observation into the realm of the obscure, Tim McCarver also batted left and threw right. McCarver was the last catcher to lead the NL in triples.

Both a childhood friend and a boy in my family started out as lefties, but later began throwing right while continuing to bat left. Would love to see a study on that phenomenon. And on why the bats-left-throws-right MLB player is common, while the bats-right-throws-left player is rare (with Rickey Henderson the most noteworthy among that latter lot).

Also intriguing is how hockey players who are inherently right-handed shoot left but golf righty. The controlling hand must be the upper hand on both the hockey stick and at bat, in general.

Ah yes, our energy secretary, the woman who doesn’t know where oil comes from. Her autobiography has some very funny passages.

She had an autobiography written for her, did she? One suspects that what the reader found hilarious, the credited writer found insight-projective, and the ghost writer didn’t give a whit.

As real as COVID 19 and Safe And Effective, the energy budget was woefully incomplete and non comprehensive.

Obvious hoax is obviousness.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11527307/Ex-Navy-SEAL-transitioned-male-female-says-hes-transitioning-BACK.html?ito=native_share_article-top

I’ve gone from genuine tolerance of these creatures to a profound aversion to them. This has less to do with the physical aspects of their transition, ridiculous and unseemly though they are, than it does with disgust at their arrogance. You don’t get to become whoever or whatever you want to be merely by deciding that’s who or what you are. And you don’t get to demand that others kowtow to you by treating your laughable delusions as if they were facts.

I don’t wish any of these self-mutilating freaks well.

But, from today’s Financial Post

Financial Times. The pink ‘un. Quite timely for Gaudete Sunday.

The Financial Post is in Canada. As easy to confuse as fusion and fission, I guess.

When political parties cross-endorse a candidate, as in New York, this is called fusion. Fission would be the opposite, as in 1912.

As an oil man who will be professionally destroyed by this technological development…

Goddamn this is a great country. The people, the land, the resources, the self concept- we really lucked out. What a blessing to be born in West Virginia, USA. I just hope I can contribute enough to deserve such providence.

“God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.”

-Otto von Bismarck

The purported breakthrough does beg for replication; forgive my skepticism in the interim.

OT: The NHL-lauded trans-hockey tournament in Wisconsin results in a male-to-female tranny laying out his her its their female-to-male opponent for 17 minutes with a check (or perhaps something much less – see the video), and the female-to-male goaltender subsequently having a crying fit along the corner boards to delay the game further. Reminds one of Michael Sam, the openly homosexual outside linebacker for the University of Missouri: Drafted by the St. Louis Rams (taking one for the NFL in exchange for their departure for L.A.), cut by the Rams and signed by the Cowboys, cut by the Cowboys and signed by the CFL Montreal Alouettes, and left the game due to “emotional problems”.

https://quillette.com/blog/2022/12/09/ignoring-biological-reality-puts-female-hockey-players-at-risk/

Probably the most expensive 0.4 megajoules of energy ever produced. It’s a long, long way from being the cheap and abundant source everybody is dreaming about.

and like Croatia, they don’t fuck around with the woke garbage.

I think it just landed on Mars.

I’d have his bank accounts checked for a few years too.

Nice to see that GPT does not capitalize “black” mid-sentence, as modern journalists are wont to do these days just before a session of onanism.

Here is actual ChatGPT output, from https://chat.openai.com/chat (for access, you have to create a free OpenAI account).

“Free” includes providing your smartphone number; draw the appropriate conclusions.

Sorry about not much posting lately. I’ll probably be scarce until the second half of this week.

All good, old son.

OT — Three anonymous comments from Canadians, replying to a story about the Canadian government bringing in more people to respond to the “labor shortage” (because god forbid people get paid for their work).
…Anonymous (ID: nNWUAoc8)
12/05/22(Mon)18:32:57 No.407226962
>Gov: “we have a labor shortage and need to bring in more healthcare workers!”
>*also brings in millions of older people through family reunification policies who also need healthcare and continue to drain resources*
>*Healthcare continues to become worse*
>Government: “We have a bigger labor shortage so we need to bring even more immigrants into Canada to meet those needs!”

So now they also want to get rid of certification so “doctors” with a fraudulent degree can work immediately.

It’s a [Biden]ing joke at this point. But I’m leaving Canada in a year or two anyway so it doesn’t matter to me anymore. Still, what a [Biden]ing waste of a country. It’s tough to say people don’t deserve it though. Liberals here are extraordinarily subverted and straight up braindead. But as long as they can live in their upper middle class homes, insulated from Indians and other undesirables, they’ll continue to vote to ruin the country, because “its the right thing to do”.
…Anonymous (ID: b8vDCJmU)
12/05/22(Mon)18:33:51 No.407227059
>>407226454 #
I’ve been to Ontario and all I can say is if you kidnapped me and took me to Ontario but told me it was actually Iran or India I would believe you without a shadow of a doubt. I went shopping and saw not one white person in the parking lot. Not 1 single [Biden]ing white person. NOT ONE SINGLE WHITE PERSON. I guess it makes sense though, based on those demographics they probably would try to escape from [I]ndia to [O]ntario only to then escape further to somewhere other than [O]ntario.
…Anonymous (ID: +KDAOfgD)
12/05/22(Mon)18:33:51 No.407227062
>>407226585 #
Those people don’t build [Biden]ing houses retard. The solution is to boot all those useless [Biden]s out so we have housing. Wages are in the [Biden]ing toilet, we need LESS people but the WEF owned [Biden]head Laurentians want to destroy this country.

It’s doubly worse when women’s World Cup soccer is on.

All those bug men and fakely-overly-excited women pretending that a bunch of American-hating dykes and a handful of likeable athletic women playing a game worse than high school boys can are somehow thrilling viewing. Its pathetic, tryhard, and laughable.

I had the misfortune a few years ago to duck into a large hipster bar on a Sunday afternoon to use the bathroom, and the entire bar was tensely quiet, acting like a bomb was in the room and they were watching to see if the room was going to explode or the correct wire would be cut. They all (maybe 50 or more folks) looked at me as I walked in and then quickly reverted to the TV screens plastered about — which was showing the U.S. women’s world cup game (I think it was the finals or semi-finals).

Then they all cheered like it was V-E day and downed their IPAs and through their beards and flannel when the purple haired America-hater scored or something in such a clumsy way I’m pretty sure I could have done it better.

These people are so sad.

Let me check…hold on…there it is…

…with flying colors!!!

Reg, your history is accurate, and at best, the STL MLS entity should indeed be leveraging that history much as the NHL Minnesota Wild strives to leverage Minnesota’s “state of hockey” history (the Wild team historian was a remote acquaintance).

The city has a genuine soccer history of which to be proud. As does Seattle– and Portland– in hockey. That few today want to take advantage of this is a sign of something.

That said, I’m not sure that STL ever was a great town for watching soccer. Its NASL team quietly came and went. Someone in this comment thread asserted that the higher the caliber of soccer play, the more difficult it is to watch. If that is accurate, then perhaps MLS has a better chance of entertaining its STL attendees. Still, soccer being soccer, one suspects that in a burg accustomed to the pace of winter hockey, summer baseball, and entering/fleeing downtown safely, boredom will be frequent. I would expect much in-game song-singing … if not also the aforementioned altered states …

Is it of note that Missouri voted to legalize recreational pot last month, just months before the St Louis entry in the inaptly-named “Major League Soccer” debuts?

St Louis was once a soccer capital. Yogi and best friend Joe played the game in a vacant lot near their home on the Hill, long before ruining their legs catching in the majors. The core of our 1950 team came from there. (Kearny, NJ supplied others.) The only US reporter at Belo Horizonte, or in Brazil at all, for the Cup was from the St Louis Post-Dispatch, there on his own dime. (Of the upset over England*, he compared it to “if Oxford University sent a baseball team over here and it beat the Yankees.”)

St Louis U’s Billikens still hold the NCAA record for most championship titles, despite not having won since 1973. Their current squad is ⅞ American by FIFA rules.

The city has a genuine soccer history of which to be proud. As does Seattle– and Portland– in hockey. That few today want to take advantage of this is a sign of something.

*The same day, England lost to West Indies in cricket at home for the first time. A dark day in Blighty, it was.

Calling the Netherlands “Holland” is like calling the United Kingdom “England.” Common mistake, but it’s mostly Scottish nationalists who still get excited about it.

And the Pennsylvania Dutch are of German descent. The Dutch of the Netherlands are called Dutch because in the old proto-Germanic language from which both languages evolved, “dutch” meant people, or of the people. For a time, the Netherlands was known as Nederduytsch, neder (nether, 0r lower) and people. We English speakers mixed all of this up.

I know some of you were wondering.

One of the most annoying things about the World Cup coverage is how Lalas and all the other American commentators treat the country team names as plurals instead of singular nouns e.g. they say “England have scored”, “France have won”, etc. It’s apparently the policy to adopt UK style in soccer coverage.

Legendary hockey announcer Dan Kelly (Canada-born) would do likewise with NHL city names: “Montreal clear their zone” … “Chicago get the puck”… much to the merriment of Kelly’s colleague Jack Buck, who would analyze the practice from the dais of fund-raising dinners Buck was MC’ing.

Given that American Football is dying in California – USC and UCLA are fleeing the PAC-12 for the Midwest dominated Big Ten – California has the chance to make the state a mecca for world class soccer.

Apparently, northern California high-school rugby teams are the standard-setter. A nephew’s Jesuit high school’s rugby team makes an annual pre-season trip out there to get pounded by the Calif teams, then returns to play dominant rugby in its league during its season, annually challenging for its state title. Excellent strategy, given how the deep-pocketed parents fund the trip.

Did you pass?

soccer: 89 minutes of boredom, one minute of “action”. No wonder the fans go out and riot afterward.

Is it of note that Missouri voted to legalize recreational pot last month, just months before the St Louis entry in the inaptly-named “Major League Soccer” debuts?

intellectual leaders of soccer for the last 60 years

Although much has been written pertaining to soccer’s intellectual leadership, my analysis shows this leadership to be very derivative. I’ve found it to traffic heavily of the well published and understood teachings of both “Chutes and Ladders” and “Go Fish”

What’s this sport? I played kickball in elementary school, but this doesn’t look like that. Do Europeans play this game? Europe is an American colony. We should teach them to play baseball. They’d be happier and less bored.

Fox Broadcast is now feverishly revising its ad campaign for the balance of the ’22 Cup …

I don’t know about that. She was a pretty nice looking girl.

Don’t forget, big hooters too. Always makes a girl look better:

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Christy McVie had a nicer voice than Stevie Nicks. Stevie Nicks was just prettier, so she was more popular.

Christy McVie’s best were Say You Love Me, Over My Head, and You Make Loving Fun.

They map pretty well actually.

E/I= high and low extroversion (duh).
N/S = high and low Openness
F/T = high and low Agreeableness
J/P = high and low Conscientiousness

Nothing maps to Neuroticism because, well, Myers Briggs is sunshine and rainbows.

Thanks for posting this. Has been years since I have watched Slap Shot, so will watch again tonight.

Had Lindsay Crouse in it.

Man, she was a nice looking woman:

Jack demonstrating semaphore in his boxer shorts and flat hat is pretty good.

Great movie that very few have seen: The Last Detail with Jack Nicholson. Hell of a good story and Nicholson inhabits his character. Language is very rough so you have to wait til after the kiddies are in bed.

Nicholson’s yodeling while the doomed Randy Quaid ascends the stairs with the prostitute was a career highlight.

She has it every way – she’s one of the guys with high status in a male profession, yet she’s got power skirted sexual allure, but she’s also above all the silliness of grown men chasing a ball around a field.

She’s probably Gary Bettman’s dream president of an NHL team. Or of all NHL teams. Exotic hue and/or dike-pluggery a plus

Hussey, 83, the widow of the former BBC chair Sir Marmaduke Hussey

Awaiting the professional wrestler who adopts this moniker.

The last good movie I saw was “Hell or High Water.” Unsurprisingly, it was written by the same guy who created “Yellowstone.”

Mine was “The Art of Racing in the Rain,” with the oft-cited-herein Kevin Costner providing the narration as the golden retriever. I also liked the Mel Gibson movie about the pacifist medic who saved all those lives in WWII.

This OCEAN is new to me, so I have difficulty relating to the study involving it. Had the study been based on that I/E S/N T/F J/P psychology categorization, I’d have been better able to relate (but just a little). So life goes.

I watched Draft Day when it came on a sports channel once. I’m surprised you didn’t mention the part where Kevin Costner divines that the black prospect who appeared to be hotheaded and have low impulse control in one incident during a game actually had a good reason for his behavior.

Every single day that I drive to/from work, I encounter some menace driving 10-20 MPH faster than surrounding traffic (20-30 MPH faster than the posted speed limit), and weaving in and out of various lanes with nary a turn signal activated.

The impaired driver who “falls prey” to the traffic stop will, as a matter of consequence, face many inconveniences regarding his license, bank account, and even freedom (depending upon the extent of the impairment). But at least such a traffic stop gets the impaired driver off the road for at least a short while, thus creating a safer environment for — among others — the impaired driver. The grievance industry complains about the inconveniences, but doesn’t acknowledge the enhanced safety. When the grievance industry succeeds in impairing the police, the average impaired driver suffers fewer expected inconveniences, but does not benefit from the enhanced safety, and thus becomes one of the statistics cited herein.

Well noticed, Steve.

Hey guys, you remember that time when Jews in the Ivy league held a quota on Asian admits steady at 17% (less than half of the WASP 1920’s quota for Jews), then put Lori Laughlin in jail for bribing her bimbo daughter into USC?