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by L-Jam3
Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:31 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Racism
Replies: 1519
Views: 80409

Re: Racism

Damn. That's "Vince Carter over Frederic Weis"-level shit.
by L-Jam3
Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:27 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Stuart Scott
Replies: 51
Views: 2005

Re: Stuart Scott

Magary earlier this week linked to this oral history of Stuart Scott that ran on The Ringer five years after he died. It hit all the points that it made me smile, choke up a little, and gave me a good appreciation of him. One anecdote that really made me smile was that when he met his girlfriend, h...
by L-Jam3
Fri Apr 23, 2021 11:30 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Stuart Scott
Replies: 51
Views: 2005

Re: Stuart Scott

Magary earlier this week linked to this oral history of Stuart Scott that ran on The Ringer five years after he died. It hit all the points that it made me smile, choke up a little, and gave me a good appreciation of him. One anecdote that really made me smile was that when he met his girlfriend, he...
by L-Jam3
Fri Apr 23, 2021 9:26 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
Replies: 1521
Views: 63580

Re: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread

I would have gotten it only because I remember where I was and I only worked out of that office for about a year. I remember it because he and Bowie both died early in 2016, which was a clue that something was very off. And then Muhammad Ali a couple weeks later. More harbingers of a 5-year period ...
by L-Jam3
Thu Apr 22, 2021 11:14 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Sweet Science
Replies: 419
Views: 36067

Re: The Sweet Science

If Mayweather was legitimately trying he could very likely kill Logan Paul. I mean this in the literal sense.
by L-Jam3
Thu Apr 22, 2021 11:02 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9211
Views: 463135

Re: Random Politics

Is there a single con commentator who isn’t an abject dipshit?
by L-Jam3
Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:04 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Draft 2021
Replies: 243
Views: 5759

Re: NFL Draft 2021

I got one dynasty FFL (Mahomes, Stafford, Hebert, Miles Sanders, Dobbins, Julio, and Lockett are the backbones), and maybe a second Swamp one if we reintroduce lower divisions, and I'll try to bring my kids to a game at the Linc when our schedules work out. But the 17 game season really left a bad t...
by L-Jam3
Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:31 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Draft 2021
Replies: 243
Views: 5759

Re: NFL Draft 2021

Fucking Rock Paper Scissors? Between that and the owners forcing the 17-game season without even giving the players the salary worth of an extra game, I'm ready to simply just take at least the next season off. It'd be nice to get some extra fall Sundays back.
by L-Jam3
Wed Apr 21, 2021 2:14 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2021 MLB Regular Season Thread
Replies: 946
Views: 21594

Re: 2021 MLB Regular Season Thread

Bryce Harper and the Phillies just pulled off the super common 9-6 force out at 2B.
by L-Jam3
Tue Apr 20, 2021 2:24 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Fritz Mondale
Replies: 21
Views: 404

Re: Fritz Mondale

Klobuchar seems to be continuing the trend, so long as you don't forget to bring her salad forks.
by L-Jam3
Tue Apr 20, 2021 10:38 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Not so funny real life Capt Trips thread
Replies: 5293
Views: 128537

Re: Not so funny real life Capt Trips thread

Seriously, though. I remember at some point after the election a friend of mine was complaining about black celebrities lining up to get support in the Georgia Senate runoff and he was complaining that no one gives a shit what celebrities say about politics. And I replied something along the lines o...
by L-Jam3
Tue Apr 20, 2021 10:32 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Not so funny real life Capt Trips thread
Replies: 5293
Views: 128537

Re: Not so funny real life Capt Trips thread

If there's anything that proves how fucking pathetic the right is, the deification of Ted Nugent is definitely up there. They're so starved for some pop culture figure to back them that they go all in on this guy, who had a total of one fucking song of note in his entire career. And it's barely fuck...
by L-Jam3
Mon Apr 19, 2021 4:29 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2021 MLB Regular Season Thread
Replies: 946
Views: 21594

Re: 2021 MLB Regular Season Thread

It appears the Phillies hung out with the Vancouver Canucks over the weekend. And I’m heading to the ballpark tonight too.

by L-Jam3
Mon Apr 19, 2021 3:10 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9211
Views: 463135

Re: Random Politics

That's the law that removes civil liability for running a protestor over with your car, is it not?
by L-Jam3
Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:58 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9211
Views: 463135

Re: Random Politics

I'm not particularly surprised or even disappointed that Manchin leans right; that's the only way he could possibly win in West Virginia. I'm much more disappointed in Sinema. I naively thought that a nutty, LGBT woman would've been more progressive instead of being so beholden to bipartisanship. ET...
by L-Jam3
Fri Apr 16, 2021 6:51 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2021 NFL Black Sunday Night, Etc.
Replies: 662
Views: 14171

Re: 2021 NFL Black Sunday Night, Etc.

Or, he couldn’t get on the field the first four years because he wasn’t good enough.
by L-Jam3
Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:43 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9211
Views: 463135

Re: Random Politics

Was it Delaware who defined a pundit as "a dipshit with a microphone"? Because I don't remember where I heard it and I want to give proper credit.
by L-Jam3
Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:00 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: A Nasty Stiffarm
Replies: 446
Views: 10605

Re: A Nasty Stiffarm

Um, where's the fear-mongering? Yeah am I reading that headline wrong or something? If the headline read "Only 1 out of over eleven thousand, 3 times less likely than drawing four of a kind on five cards", it could've been more pro-science. Anyway, I get my 2nd Pfizer next Friday at the S...
by L-Jam3
Thu Apr 15, 2021 10:09 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The 2020 And Mostly 2021 NBA Season
Replies: 134
Views: 3691

Re: The 2020 And Mostly 2021 NBA Season

That's scary, but I'm happy to hear he got it diagnosed.
by L-Jam3
Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:19 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2021 NFL Black Sunday Night, Etc.
Replies: 662
Views: 14171

Re: 2021 NFL Black Sunday Night, Etc.

This much digital ink wasn't spilled when Steve Smith retired, who is frankly a borderline case (I'd personally say yes) despite: * Having considerably better career and peak numbers across the board than Edelman, * Won the Receiving Triple Crown once, in a season where peakish Moss, Harrison, TO, F...
by L-Jam3
Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:12 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2021 NFL Black Sunday Night, Etc.
Replies: 662
Views: 14171

Re: 2021 NFL Black Sunday Night, Etc.

I guess if the JSHOF has a much more lenient view towards PEDs, then Edelman and Ryan Braun can enter the same year.
by L-Jam3
Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:02 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2021 MLB Regular Season Thread
Replies: 946
Views: 21594

Re: 2021 MLB Regular Season Thread

Are the Braves wearing their 1974 unis at home all year? Because if so, that’s a great decision.
by L-Jam3
Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:02 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2021 Masters (the Golf One)
Replies: 100
Views: 2084

Re: 2021 Masters (the Golf One)

Totally forgot Ben Wyatt won the Masters.
by L-Jam3
Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:56 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2021 Masters (the Golf One)
Replies: 100
Views: 2084

Re: 2021 Masters (the Golf One)

Are you counting Fiji (Vijay Singh) as part of Greater Oceania?
by L-Jam3
Fri Apr 09, 2021 4:22 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
Replies: 1521
Views: 63580

Re: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread

Well, the Braves are one of the two extant teams from the first season of the National League in 1876, so they got some time before that.

That, and they haven’t been in Atlanta proper since 2016, because they needed their stadium away from the darks.
by L-Jam3
Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:47 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
Replies: 1521
Views: 63580

Re: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread

Here’s one. We’re a year way from the Athletics spending as many season in Oakland as they have in Philadlephia. They already spent seven more years at the Coliseum than they had at Shibe Park, which opened in 1909.
by L-Jam3
Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:33 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: DMX
Replies: 33
Views: 828

Re: DMX

It's official now. Sucks.
by L-Jam3
Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:59 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
Replies: 1521
Views: 63580

Re: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread

He was my favorite AL player from the 80s.

And we're three years away from the Brewers spending as much time in the NL as the AL.
by L-Jam3
Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:54 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Racism
Replies: 1519
Views: 80409

Re: Racism

I haven't heart much chatter if any here. What are your guys thoughts on the Derek Chauvin case? Do you think he's getting off? Normally, I would say he probably would be acquitted. But in the change over the last few years, coupled with that one conviction when the female cop entered the wrong apar...
by L-Jam3
Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:04 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2021 NFL Black Sunday Night, Etc.
Replies: 662
Views: 14171

Re: 2021 NFL Black Sunday Night, Etc.

HaulCitgo wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:39 pm Ok. You win. You're not justifying just giving a rationale. Mine is that the guy is a piece of shit. Coulda killed himself first.
Or, you know, get some therapy and not kill anyone. That could've helped too.
by L-Jam3
Tue Apr 06, 2021 7:08 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2021 NCAA Tournament
Replies: 305
Views: 4869

Re: 2021 NCAA Tournament

In the Bliss case, yes. In the Briles case, no. Anyway, I'm going to bow out of this convo. I'm way too emotionally invested in Baylor currently, basketball in particular, because of what my family has gone through the last 11 months. So I'll relish elsewhere this amazing team and what they accompl...
by L-Jam3
Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:51 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2021 NCAA Tournament
Replies: 305
Views: 4869

Re: 2021 NCAA Tournament

I really wish the people in charge of the university and the athletic department didn't employ utter shitheads in the past, because that Baylor team was really something special and would've been fun to fully commit to rooting for. That was as declarative a statement as '18 Nova, '09 Carolina, and '...
by L-Jam3
Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:48 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Replies: 2005
Views: 43373

Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years

This whole thing with Trump predictably scamming his supporters... I'm ultimately happy I got off Facebook when I did for a multitude of reasons, but things like that scam, and when he got COVID, and when he got fired, and when he lied about the votes when he got fired, and when he went 1-60 in cour...
by L-Jam3
Mon Apr 05, 2021 2:24 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Not so funny real life Capt Trips thread
Replies: 5293
Views: 128537

Re: Not so funny real life Capt Trips thread

Ah... I gotcha now. I was thinking the difference between J-Lo (bubble) compared to Nikki Minaj (shelf) would be an Ass/Off, but I see where you were going now.
by L-Jam3
Mon Apr 05, 2021 2:00 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Not so funny real life Capt Trips thread
Replies: 5293
Views: 128537

Re: Not so funny real life Capt Trips thread

I nearly made it through this without having to be tested, but that ends this afternoon due to a colonoscopy I have scheduled for Friday. They apparently don't care yet if you've been vaccinated. Just ask them to do the Chinese anal swap test while they are already up in there. Good lord. Don't do ...
by L-Jam3
Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:27 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2021 MLB Regular Season Thread
Replies: 946
Views: 21594

Re: 2021 MLB Regular Season Thread

Phils gave up 3 runs in this series. With this bullpen. And swept the Bravos who was a team who could come back from 15 runs down against the Phil’s last season even if they were up by 3. Sure, it’s been a cool few day and there’s 159 games left, but this Phanatic is gonna enjoy this weekend. The P...
by L-Jam3
Mon Apr 05, 2021 9:52 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: A Nasty Stiffarm
Replies: 446
Views: 10605

Re: A Nasty Stiffarm

My asthma was a little more pronounced this past Saturday, a day after my first jab. I don't know whether it's a slight side-effect or simply because I was outside all afternoon during a season change.
by L-Jam3
Sat Apr 03, 2021 10:16 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2021 NCAA Tournament
Replies: 305
Views: 4869

Re: 2021 NCAA Tournament

Tell you what, men. These two teams get together in March and they put up some fucking barnburners.
by L-Jam3
Sat Apr 03, 2021 10:11 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2021 NCAA Tournament
Replies: 305
Views: 4869

Re: 2021 NCAA Tournament

Holy fuck.
by L-Jam3
Fri Apr 02, 2021 4:40 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: A Nasty Stiffarm
Replies: 446
Views: 10605

Re: A Nasty Stiffarm

NJ must’ve opened up a bunch, because I got an email this afternoon to register, and the big site in South Jersey had availability today.