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I’ve never been a racing fan, but because of ABC’s Wide World of Sports, I could probably name a dozen NASCAR racers from the 70s offhand, plus guys like Chris Economaki and Dr. Jerry Punch. I know Nascar a little bit better, but this is kind of how I am with open-wheel racing. Indy might be the on...

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Does Indianapolis have a Jim Jones Museum? I feel like it should. He used to live there. Not too many homicidal cult leaders who used to be a door-to-door monkey salesman in our history. We also never watched it on TV. When they finally started broadcasting it live, we were blackedout. That was fine...

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One storyline I'm really not looking forward to following this year: anything virus-related. About half of the headlines that I'm reading are about COVID. Which buildings will be open full-capacity? Which player is an idiot on social media? Will this fourth-liner get cut because he's not vaccinated?...

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Okay, back to green-flag racing. By 1978, Salt Walther had recovered and was racing again. He drops out of the race early and has an amazing interview. He says that he drove 198 MPH in practice, then the chief mechanic, Tommy Smith, 'changed the entire throttle system the night before the race, and ...

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Jackie Stewart interlude. He was a fixture on ABC's broadcasts for years. He provided color for the races even when he was still winning championships in Formula 1. When I was a kid, he was the ABC broadcaster with a great Scottish accent who also did commercials for Ford. I wasn't a Formula 1 fan, ...

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I watch the Indy 500 every year, and I still believe in the romance of it. Back around Memorial Day, I watched/rewatched just about every race from 1966-1988. The early broadcasts are perfect, but they couldn't be replicated today. They were all aired on tape-delay in heavily edited versions. From 1...

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No One Is To Blame is one I always sing out loud in the car and mangle the fucking lyrics every time. 'Things Can Only Get Better' is pretty great, too. Seems like a lot of those old 80s English pop stars faded into the woodwork pretty quickly. That's what pop is designed for. But he's still out th...

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I mentioned being bummed out that Howard Jones got only one song at Live Aid. I've actually heard several of his songs in the wild recently. And a local writer mentioned him in a recent column. I thought I was the only fan, but I guess there are more like me out there. I'm realizing now that he migh...

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We're in the preseason now, which is the 'not a girl, not yet a woman' stage of the season. Definitely not the offseason, tho. Might be time for a new thread. Besides, I'm going to be on my computer all day and want to talk puck. I'll drop the puck with Bobby Orr's first contract with the Oshawa Gen...

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What's in the water that could make Brian's hair/beard grow that quickly? And turn grey? (His leg hair is exquisite, tho.)

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Zombie Dust. Three Floyds still doesn't distribute to Pittsburgh, but I'm lucky enough to have a generous friend who drives to Ohio occasionally. I've said before that I would have appreciated this more five or ten years ago, before I had so many dozens of great IPAs. This is still special, tho. Fee...

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Æ A-12?

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mister d wrote: ↑Sun Sep 26, 2021 4:01 pm I would pay a lot of money for 72 hours of this minus the cars and wrestling.

I'm only mildly interested in those. Maybe even less than that. The beer will help. Anyway, today has been exactly what I wanted.

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I'm with bapo! Rapture may not be a great song, but Debbie Harry slander is not to be tolerated. Blondie had many bad songs, but they also had many great songs. And, they all had Debbie Harry, which was a plus. Have I ever mentioned Lester Bangs' biography of Blondie? It's hilarious. Bangs' band ra...

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But no pressure bapo… Well, I mean, that is a lot of pressure. I just wanted people here to buy one copy. Or take it out of the library. If this goes badly...well, I'll just be hiding in the hockey threads. You'll never find me there. But if you need to buy 10 more books, I would recommend Paul The...

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and a good curb-stomping of the Buccos. GO FUCK YOURSELF, RASS. Several years ago, I would have taken offense to this. But now I just follow the Pirates for anthropological reasons. I don't feel anything anymore. I'm continually amazed at you people, how you go outside and do things and live your l...

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I can't get over DiS's story. How do you even process something like that at that age? I think a death would be easier to understand.

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Yeah. Even the Pirates gave me a few years of excitement, even if that feels like forever ago now. Is the other John Tavares still playing for the Bandits? Is St. Bonaventure any good this year?

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If this is the end, then I'm going to miss our yearly tradition: me sending an email sometime around the second week of November, along the lines of 'Uh, what's going on with the Sabres? I thought they would be better this year.' And you responding with many expletives and talking about how you're j...

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I don't know if its because I was all-in on rap back then, but his delivery on all the faster songs (I knew) sounded just as shit to me as Debbie Harry on "Rapture". I will not tolerate Debbie Harry slander in this or any other thread! Take that shit back to reddit! Syb, thanks for the Ru...

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My faith has been shattered. I don't believe in anything anymore.

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this was the year the Sabres broke me. Fuck 'em. Go drill another well Terry, you piece of shit. I'm openly rooting for the Leafs and Jets. And maybe even the Panthers. This post makes me sad. So much of the MaxWebster mythos is built upon your fruitless devotion to this team. Without the Sabres, w...

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(i still don't like their music at all. but I suppose I would still take them over the Pixies - ha i missed these responses last week. Singing can be a right turnoff for me and Black Francis omg stopstopstop) Music is subjective, but...you're wrong. I was listening to The Pixies a few mornings ago,...

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One of the highlights of my life is searching for bapo’s self-proclaimed fantastic ass, and then subsequently locating said ass in a late-night Pittsburgh dive bar that I’ll never forgot. Those were the days. Yeah, I did have quite the ass back then. (And you or the almost-voiceless rass broke the ...

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Yes, like that.

Is this the year the Pens miss the playoffs? No Crosby to start the season. No Malkin for a long while, and then there's no telling how good he might be. Still big questions about goaltending. I don't feel good about this team.

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Suddenly a wild Ovi appears... Hockey kind of snuck up on me. Preseason games are just a few days away. And I see that the Eichel situation still hasn't been resolved. What a mess. I need to get reacclimated with the NHL. Learn which players moved where this summer, etc. Maybe I'll write a poem abou...

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I haven't made it up to the Arguello/Pryor fights yet. I did watch Aaron Pryor/Dujuan Johnson recently, tho. (Johnson was the Kronk fighter who was murdered when he was 24.) It was a weird fight. Pryor showed up late, so CBS' telecast was delayed. And then Pryor was just...manic. Constant motion, an...

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Here's Tyson's record. Yep, a lot of fights crammed in there in '85 and '86. Those early fights are electric. Wilfred Benitez/Matthew Hilton, 2/15/1986, Montreal, CBS I was a student in Montreal back then - that fight was massive. Benitez is complicated. He took a lot of abuse. He liked being again...

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Is quite impressive It's quite...something. If 'impressive' means 'obsessive' or 'cause for an intervention,' then yeah. Maybe it's just a sign of too much free time. Man, I miss The Unemployment Era. Whatever. I've still found time to watch a few GGG fights this week. (GGG means Gennady Golovkin, ...

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And this is why you are beloved. What's that? You want to see which 1986 fights I've watched recently? (Maybe I'm misinterpreting that.) I find this stuff interesting, if for the locations and broadcasters if nothing else. Don't get me wrong. I love that every fight now is in Las Vegas and features...

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(hey bapo!!) Happy birthday, Max! (Yeah, I know.) One of the drawbacks of watching these games is the YouTube search via Roku. YouTube is owned by Google, but its search isn't quite as user-friendly. There's a lot of nonsense to sift thru. So, whenever I try to find a game, I type '1989' and find a...

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Is there a particular channel on YouTube that you're watching these Bapo! or just googling games, or (perhaps more correctly) do you have an extensive paper record of all the games you have in your extensive VHS and Beta tape collection? It's mostly just blind-searching and seeing what I stumble up...

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I'm working my way thru the 1989 college football season. (Why 1989? I don't remember.) I just watched Rutgers/Syracuse, which is forgettable in just about every way. But it's a full broadcast of a Jefferson Pilot telecast, so there are a lot of Rolling Rock commercials. And then it's interrupted by...

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Hello, bourbon people. I have no business being in this thread, but I want to pass along a book recommendation. I'm finishing up Wright Thompson's 'Pappyland,' and it's fantastic. Thompson is 45, but he writes like he's much older. Obsessed with nostalgia and the passing of time. That colors the way...

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legit question about "influential" though - I know they were/are hugely popular but are they truly influential? Or were they the ones influenced *by* other bands like Sonic Youth / Pixies / etc (now that's a subgenre that i very much do not care for) and just took that loud/soft/loud styl...

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https://www.thevinyldistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/REM-GREEN-Cover-1000.jpg Here's another lazy Twombly painting. Just throw some text on a canvas and call it finished. I thought that I had complained about Twombly here before, but I couldn't find it. I'm sure rass will. I'm like Homer Sim...

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This reminds me of going to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and getting infuriated by a room half-full of Cy Twombly paintings.

I'm quite enjoying this. Thanks again, Mr. Wash.

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That Darnell Nurse contract is pretty steep. But the Seth Jones contract, and then Dougie Hamilton's, altered the market. This is the going rate for a top defenseman now, and Nurse is very, very good. And like all contracts like this, it might not look so bad a few years from now, after similar cont...

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I agree with Pruitt -- this is a very good group! I was tempted to vote for all of them, but that didn't feel right. I probably would have voted for Portugal and Ukraine in weaker weeks. (And it's possible that I did.) But I'm leaving them off my ballot. I also like Krygyzstan, but I'm penalizing it...

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I'm sorry to read this, DSafe. After watching my grandmother go thru something similar, my greatest fear is watching my mother go thru the same thing. So...yeah. I'm sorry that you have to deal with this.

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