The Roundup: Tom Hanks Dancing During the Weather Report on Univision, Young Rory McIlroy on TV & NFL Lockout to End by July 15?
Laura Vandervoort … I’m all for carry permits, but open carry seems kind of weird … non-Florida: “Drunk man tried to operate on his dog” … why wouldn’t a media organization call someone for comment before publishing? … confessions of an AOL content slave … re-posting an entire article is Fair Use? … enjoy these new cigarette warning labels … sad: she died protecting a toddler from a cow … Kelly Brook is sexy … alleged sex on the beach in front of 50 people (with a nice mugshot) … headline that will rattle you: “Amish Sexter Sought Buggy Sex With Girl, 12” … jumbo jets barely avert disaster on the runaway …
Spero Dedes, a 31-year-old rising star in the announcing world, goes from calling Lakers’ games last year to Knicks’ games next season. [Farther Off the Wall]
It’s official: WAR has declared Brett Gardner is an elite player. [Fangraphs]
Did basketball nerds have as much fun with the Ultimate Draft as I did? Here’s a breakdown, team-by-team. [SI]
NFL lockout to end on or by July 15? [Yahoo Sports]
Duke’s 2011-2012 backcourt: Tyler Thornton at point, and Austin Rivers at 2? [CBS Sports]
Marine Colonel jokes about killing Roy Halladay. [Crossing Broad]
Obviously we’ll have more later, but there’s a huge soccer match tonight in Houston: USA vs. Panama in the Gold Cup, and the winner likely plays Mexico in the Finals. [Wash Post]
Kenny Britt – my Facebook was hacked! [Tennessean]
Police finally nab naked man in downtown Scottsdale who had allegedly exposed himself to 15 females in 10 months. [AZ Family.com]
Remember when “personal woes” were supposedly affecting Rafael Nadal? If you scroll down here, it appears his parents have reconciled. [Love Means Nothing via Jon Wertheim]
Jon Scheyer is off to Israel to play basketball. [Big Duke Balls]
Even at the age of nine, Rory McIlroy had crazy skills. [via Devil Ball Golf]
Here’s Tom Hanks dancing during a weather report on Univision. He opens with the White Man’s Overbite and it only gets better from there.
He can silence a baby, but can he reduce the national deficit? [via Traina]
Are you following Rick Perry on “tweeter?” [via ABC News]
- Gregg Popovich and His Two Word “Turnover” Interview [Video]
- Angel Pagan Hit a Walk-Off Inside-the-Park Home Run Today vs. the Rockies [Video]
- Rich Rodriguez’s 50th Birthday Featured a Mariachi Band [Video]
- The Evolution of Chris ‘Birdman’ Andersen is the Craziest Set of Photos You’ll See This Week
- Champions League Final: Arjen Robben’s Late Goal Wins it for Bayern Munich [Video]
- Monster is Meth on Rich Rodriguez's 50th Birthday Featured a Mariachi Band [Video]
- Some Random Old Dude on Rich Rodriguez's 50th Birthday Featured a Mariachi Band [Video]
- A.P. on Gregg Popovich and His Two Word "Turnover" Interview [Video]
- Monster is Meth on Rich Rodriguez's 50th Birthday Featured a Mariachi Band [Video]
- A.P. on Angel Pagan Hit a Walk-Off Inside-the-Park Home Run Today vs. the Rockies [Video]
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June 22nd, 2011 at 8:07 AM
Derek Jeter, leadoff hitter, will hurt the Yankees until they wake up.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:09 AM
Ahhhh stats have the ability to speak now? I for one welcome our new equation overlords.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:09 AM
Tom Hanks seems to have a lot of fun. He was part of a parody piece on NPR yesterday, pretending to be upset The Onion hadn’t received a Pulitzer.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:10 AM
I miss the days where Johnny Damon was in left field for the yankees. Gardner has taken away at least 6 extra base hits from the Red Sox this year. He’s so good in the field. I cannot hate on him. If he could develop a more consistent game at the plate, he’d be more highly regarded by the general baseball audience
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:13 AM
I hope Spiro Dedes knows he just sold his soul to the devil aka James Dolan.
Is this week’s roundup solely girls from a network that very few people watch?
The AOL content article was very interesting but I am not surprised that a big media entity pressured their writers to bullshit a lot of content
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:13 AM
when do we get pictures of cirrhosis of the liver on alcohol packaging?
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:15 AM
w00t! happy autoplay Wednesday to everybody!
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:15 AM
2 things:
1. Univision chicks are always hot.
2. Tom Hanks seems like a dude you could hang out with.
/well done on the roundup pic
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:16 AM
speaking of autoplay, ESPN’s MLB Gamecast features commercials with audio between innings. That’s annoying when you have your iTunes playing.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:17 AM
A lot of Gardner’s WAR contribution is from his awesome defense. If he could raise his OBP up to a .370-.380 range, he will be quite good.
/picked up Gardner yesterday in my fantasy league
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:17 AM
This was on full display at Miller Park yesterday. Worst case was Damon had the ball in his glove and a runner from 2nd had not even reached third base. The third base coach sent him home and he scored. All in all, I think Damon’s weak arm cost them an three runs yesterday in a 5-1 loss.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:18 AM
His OBP last year was .383, .371 this year.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:18 AM
yeah, there’s a reason Johnny Damon is just a DH 95% of the year
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:19 AM
My bad…quoting numbers before looking them up. Considering I have Fangraphs almost always open in a seperate tab, really bad on my part.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:20 AM
when people start getting cirrhosis of the liver from secondary drinking.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:21 AM
Tyler Duffy, we’re looking at you
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:23 AM
That content farm article is a pretty good read. I’m infinitely happy Google finally put out an extension that lets me screen out content farms when I search their site.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:25 AM
There’s no way Gardner’s defense is as good as it’s made out to be in that article. He’s great, but honestly no one is as good as those numbers (+33).
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:25 AM
okay, we can put pictures of little kids who died as a result of a drunk driver instead. point is that smoking is bad for you. no shit. don’t need pictures. they aren’t going to curb anyone’s addiction to them, or keep them from starting. waste of money put into the research and enforcement of this new procedure.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:27 AM
hilarious.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:27 AM
I put orange juice in my frosted mini wheats this morning. So yeah, no worries.
I really wish the Yankees would put Gardner at the top of the lineup every day. All indications are this guy is a really good player, the sort of player who is exactly what you want at the top of the order. The only real question is whether he’ll do it year after year with 600 PAs.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:28 AM
this has nothing to do with cirrhosis of the liver from secondary drinking. try to stay on topic.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:28 AM
I’m amazed I made it in to work this morning. That Dispatch concert was incredible.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:29 AM
Is drinking a shot off a stripper considered secondary drinking?
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:29 AM
i refuse to stay in your bubble.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:30 AM
Why would you wish for the Yankees to do something that would benefit themselves? That’s unAmerican.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:31 AM
In addition to this, you’ll have the hysterical Yankee writers saying that if he gets in a slump to put Jeter back into the leadoff spot.
Yankees are eventually going to need to replace a lot of positions on their team and have no positional depth in their minors outside of C.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:32 AM
eduardo nunez!!!!!!!!!! it’s hysterical to listen to the announcers on YES talk him up despite his shittiness.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:33 AM
I mean, yes, you’re right. But I do really enjoy watching Gardner play. He is stupid fast.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:34 AM
I am amazed at the number of young people who continue to pick up smoking.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:34 AM
but yet a shitty baserunner.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:35 AM
I plan on testing this possibility this weekend, starting at around 3 pm when I leave for the airport to head to Vegas for a long weekend.
/god I need this vacation
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:36 AM
While our son was in the NICU for 3 weeks, we went to the hospital everyday and my wife and I were always amazed at the number of health care professionals and pregnant women smoking at the curb outside the hospital.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:36 AM
why do I keep saying “secondary drinking?” I mean “second hand drinking.” my jubilation over autoplay Wednesday has me off kilter.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:36 AM
I really think it’s a socio-economic thing as well. Most of my friends don’t smoke, but the few that do came from families that were a little lower on the economic totem.
/social smoked in college in bars only
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:37 AM
Oh yeah, I forgot how often he’s been caught stealing this year. I was less thinking about that than watching him beat the ball to first or when he puts on the afterburners for a triple.
But yeah, the stealing thing is something he could/should get better at.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:38 AM
Philly – how was Hawaii? I’m sure you summed up earlier – work/travel has kept me from checking the site with my usual frequency.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:38 AM
While our son was in the NICU for 3 weeks,
did you get a look at that hospital bill yet? I have some curious questions, if you did, and don’t mind me prying.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:38 AM
tell them to stop smoking and they can move up. how anyone smokes a pack a day at 7 bucks a pop amazes me.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:39 AM
Awesome, played some golf, did parasailing, did the volcano sunrise tour and some of the road to Hana. We ate at soo many good restaurants in Maui as well. And of course honeymoon duties.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:40 AM
what is “stupid fast”?
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:40 AM
agreed. I pack my lunch and notice the change in extra spending money. I can’t imagine the cost of smoking a pack or two every day.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:41 AM
/shakes head
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:41 AM
not eating for long periods of time becuase you’re too stupid to remember to eat.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:42 AM
what is “stupid fast”?
I’ll handle this one fellas.
It’s what happens to a college football article directly under the byline TyDuffy.
It gets stupidfast.
/it’s a joke. Feel free to delete it if it makes you angry
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:42 AM
this is weird because of the missouri trash profiled.
im as pro-gun as it gets, but open carry is not necessary or appropriate.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:43 AM
Gardner’s awesome. I’ve long had a mancrush on him. I think he slept with Girardi’s wife, because Joe treats him like shit.
/get rid of Andruw Jones, pls
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:43 AM
a notch below ludicrous speed.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:44 AM
agreed!
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:45 AM
two notches below EEEEES EEEEY SEEEEE SPEEEEEED?
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:45 AM
actually, if im as “pro-gun as it gets” i probably should be for open carry. i guess i have room to get pro-gunnier.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:45 AM
I’d let her do my weather anytime.
ludicrous speed > SEC Speed > stupid fast > wicked fahhst
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:45 AM
Secure all animals in the zoo. Cancel the three ring circus.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:46 AM
Yes, everything came in. $3.5k for my wife for the delivery, $14k for the air transport to the NICU in PGH (he was born at the regional hospital), and $117k for the NICU bill.
We paid our family deductible ($1k), and got about $8k paid to us from AFLAC – insurance covered the rest.
So, I netted about $7k on the deal.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:46 AM
Looks like I don’t have to answer that question. Well done, all.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:46 AM
I was at a cousin’s wedding, and looked around and another cousin’s wife was proudly smoking a cigarette at 8 months pregnant.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:46 AM
This
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:47 AM
I think I would prefer mandatory open carry to concealed carry
I’d like to know which assholes have guns at all times, rather than try to guess.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:48 AM
They’ve gone to plaid!
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:48 AM
Lol. Stupid fast and SEC Speed.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:48 AM
At a baby shower last year, a pregnant women was smoking pot. She said that she did it on a regular basis to “self medicate”.
/she also was going to name her son River…so, yeah
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:49 AM
I really messed up this comment. To be clear, she wasn’t smoking at the party, but proudly shared that she does on a regular basis.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:50 AM
/signs up for AFLCA
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:50 AM
What’s a matter Col. Sanders, chicken?
Chicken cutlet?
/Chicken
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:50 AM
My mom smoked the entire time she was pregnant with me. But this was in the 70s when nobody gave a shit.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:51 AM
Is everyone as dumbfounded by this as I am? Holy shit. Well played, dude.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:51 AM
My grandmother and uncle claim that she was drinking fairly heavily when her water broke with my uncle back in the 60′s. Now those were the days…
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:51 AM
Go on..
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:52 AM
Nice.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:52 AM
I put orange juice in my frosted mini wheats this morning.
we can learn so much about efficiency from our comrade sportsdork!
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:52 AM
What I got out of this was – what were you doing at a baby shower?
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:53 AM
Same here.
/born with asthma
/almost died three times as a baby because of it
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:53 AM
//and AFLAC
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:53 AM
understandable, but it’s the less-rational thinking individuals open carry would incite a panic in. and if the whole idea of conceal and carry is self-protection, showing that you’re armed makes you a target from the get go.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:53 AM
Getting him to that Viper Room as fast as she can huh?
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:53 AM
Ha. Oh, I poured the whole thing out. Such a terrible waste.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:54 AM
He is stupid fast.
but yet a shitty baserunner.
nehemiah’d
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:55 AM
I’m all for carry permits, but open carry seems kind of weird
Why do you hate the Constitution, TBL?
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:55 AM
mi madre didn’t smoke cigs or weed, didn’t drink and ate organic foods and i bet now she wish she had smoked and drank the whole time based on how i turned out.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:56 AM
Awesome, played some golf, did parasailing, did the volcano sunrise tour and some of the road to Hana. We ate at soo many good restaurants in Maui as well. And of course honeymoon duties.
um, you forgot something. had to do with the parasailing
/i’m watching you wizowski, always watching
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:56 AM
Which I will promptly give back to the casinos this weekend.
/If I was in Roeth’s shoes
//Have fun in Vegas
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Ha. Oh, I poured the whole thing out. Such a terrible waste.
we can all learn a little about wastefulness from our late comrade sportsdork!
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:57 AM
The boat breaking down after my wife and I were done or the hot sisters?
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:58 AM
Anyone watch Tosh.0 last night? The Sex/Drugs/Rock and Roll web redemption was hillarious. After he had a guy throwing whiffle balls with all sorts of curve action.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:58 AM
i still think they only thing that works to a point is educating kids on the dangers of smoking. with some it sticks, some just don’t give a shit, because they think it looks cool. I first smoked because I thought it was cool.
someone that is already smoking isn’t going to change no matter what you tell them it could do to their body or others second-hand. if anything, it would be a very small percentage. I think when they realize how much money they are spending and/or what it HAS done to them, is when they usually quit.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:58 AM
Yes! Someone took the bait.
They were amazing. Every song sounded incredible. Also, the second it got dark, it became very clear that 75% of the individuals attending had weed on them.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:59 AM
pregnant women smoking at the curb outside the hospital.
/shakes head
stop being so judgmental. the human race exploded the past couple hundred years and only for the last 40 have people stressed the evils of smoking while pregnant.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:59 AM
It’s becoming the new thing now. People throw a large family BBQ as their shower, and the women gather and do the gifts while the men grill off to the side and watch the older kids.
I’ve been to 3 of these in the past 2 years.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:00 AM
You disagree with the Court’s decision, TBL? Righthaven can go to hell, along with all the other copyright litigation factories. Those assholes are worse than ambulance chasers.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Yes, absolutely, if you plan on having a child soon sign up for AFLAC’s hospitalization/sickness policies. The caveat is that you have to do this about 10 months before the child is born for all of your wife’s stuff to be covered. We actually lost out on an additional $2k or so because the child was premature and came before the full policy kicked in for her.
Most of the money we were paid came from the hospitalization policy – we got something like $200/day for each day he was in the NICU, plus they paid $1k toward the lifeflight.
My policy came through work, and costs me about $70/pay (every 2 weeks) pre-tax. So, technically, you’d have to subtract about $1200 or so in withdrawals from my total “profit” from when I signed up until when we had our son.
Plus, there’s all kinds of other stuff – you get $15/doctor visit (which washes my wife’s co-pay), if you need an MRI they pay you $250, etc.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:01 AM
Awesome, played some golf, did parasailing, did the volcano sunrise tour and some of the road to Hana. We ate at soo many good restaurants in Maui as well. And of course honeymoon duties.
Did you hit the Napali trail? that’s an awesome hike!
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:02 AM
I’d like to know which assholes have guns at all times, rather than try to guess
they wear long leeather coats into strip clubs
/axel foley’d
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:03 AM
To be clear, though — AFLAC is not in the business of giving away free money. These supplemental insurances can be beneficial in some circumstances, but for most people it’s not worth it.
/just reviewed the same shit through Colonial at my job
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:04 AM
stop being so judgmental. the human race exploded the past couple hundred years and only for the last 40 have people stressed the evils of smoking while pregnant
I know right? I can’t believe they discontinued Thalidomide as a sedative. A few birth defects here and there, so what?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:04 AM
The boat breaking down after my wife and I were done or the hot sisters?
i didn;t know about the boat, let’s put it that way
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:05 AM
“In hindsight, calling Bernard Berrian re: the snitch line would’ve been a good idea.”
/from TBL’s forthcoming book
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:07 AM
Negatory, didn’t get around to much hiking, did a little bit while doing the Hana drive (Twin falls and some other parks).
Younger sister was hotter, the older was the semi-attractive softball player at Penn State
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:07 AM
someone that is already smoking isn’t going to change no matter what you tell them it could do to their body or others second-hand. if anything, it would be a very small percentage. I think when they realize how much money they are spending and/or what it HAS done to them, is when they usually quit.
has to be one of the world’s storngest addictions. folks with tracheotomies smoking through the hole in their neck, folks with parts of lungs removed and on oxygen tanks still smoking. un real
sorry about the asthma guiness, my point is that it’s easy to be outraged at such behavior when you should do everything you can to ensure a baby’s health–i would never let a wife smoke during a pregnancy–but let’s not pretend it stunted population growth. i got asthma when i was a kid but my mom was not a smoker
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:08 AM
It’s not a guarantee that a person will be messed up from the parent smoking during the pregnancy, but knowing what we know now it hardly seems worth the risk.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:10 AM
agreed cleet. i think that being judgmemntal is itself a pox on humanity. if you don;t agree with folks smoking during pregnancy, great, don;t allow it in your fammily. other people have their own decisions to make
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:11 AM
that’s around the same time that emphysema kicks in and they’re confined to oxygen and breathing treatments at the expense of the public, right?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:11 AM
Stupid fast = the time it will take Blake Lively to go from appearing in box office hits to starring in straight-to-DVD American Pie sequels.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:11 AM
Agree completely – we only signed up because we knew we were trying to have a kid.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:13 AM
Missouri trash is a little redundant isn’t it?
I agree with you on the open carry, but I would think that even if it is legal, you are still going to only have the fringe population, like the ones outlined in the article, that actually feel the need to use it.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:13 AM
Theres a young couple in my office who have 2 kids no.. both take constant smoke breaks and never stopped during the pregnancies. Both babies were premies, the first one had so many breathing complications and was honestly close to death. I’m not a judgemental person but that is fucked up to watch your first born go through that and continue your same behavior during the 2nd pregnancy, sorry.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:14 AM
ignorance and selfishness (if you smoke during pregnancy knowing what we know now, you’re defintely both) are a much greater pox than being a judgemental asshole.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:15 AM
I’m not out there smacking the cigarettes out of their mouths. I just find it sad.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:16 AM
ignorance and selfishness (if you smoke during pregnancy knowing what we know now, you’re defintely both) are a much greater pox than being a judgemental asshole.
+1
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:17 AM
Yeah you should feel free to judge these people.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:23 AM
I highly enjoyed this video even though I hate kids. The mom of the baby is crazy. Her daughter is clearly super scared and crying but she’s like, “keep holding her so I can get a picture!”
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:25 AM
To be clear, though — AFLAC is not in the business of giving away free money. These supplemental insurances can be beneficial in some circumstances, but for most people it’s not worth it.
Yeah, the AFLAC guy came by our office a few weeks ago. I don’t envy his job, which basically seemed to be him selling the idea “Cancer will get you and your insurance won’t pay.” Seems like it paid off for Roeth, but I can’t see giving them $10 a week when I’m a healthy (knocks on wood) 26 year old who rarely visits the doctor.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:25 AM
Much better than his dancing display atop the piano in Bachelor Party.
/pours one out for Adrian Zamhed.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:26 AM
Also, I like Tom Hanks as much as the next guy but that Larry Crowne movie looks like an absolute smushmortion. How high do you have to be to cast Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts as a sexy, fun couple?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:26 AM
If the reports this morning (Nick Kypreos) are accurate and the Flyers have a deal in place with Bryzgalov that would result in an annual cap hit of $7M they are bigger idiots than I originally thought.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:26 AM
So I watched Marley and Me for the first time last night. On a related note, my tear ducts are bone dry this morning.
/not afraid to admit it got a little dusty watching that with my dog
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:27 AM
Doesn’t count if you’re drunk.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:27 AM
considering hollywood’s been stuffing golem-with-a-wig in awful movies for like three fucking decades now, methinks hollywood is bat country.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:27 AM
You’re not exactly the target audience.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:28 AM
How high do you have to be to cast Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts as a sexy, fun couple?
High enough to realize that those to names alone guarantee lots and lots of people (especially older people) will go see it, regardless of whether or not it’s good.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:28 AM
Ed Snider is an idiot if this is true. Ugh. He’s already selling the Sixers, why can’t he get rid of the Flyers as well?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:30 AM
+ 1 Eat Pray Love
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:30 AM
considering hollywood’s been stuffing golem-with-a-wig in awful movies for like three fucking decades now, methinks hollywood is bat country.
the frau loves julia.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:30 AM
one of my dogs (pictured on the left) is 11.5 y.o. and getting real old. I have avoided that movie like the plague. I still remember the first time I watched “Old Yeller” and “Where the Red Fern Grows” as a kid and balling my eyes out.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:31 AM
i flat out refuse to see this movie.
you’d have to fix me up in something like phillip seymour hoffman in red dragon to get me to watch that…YOU LOOK BUT YOU DO NOT SEE.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:32 AM
Is that $10/week going to change your lifestyle?
Would not being able to earn a paycheck change your lifestyle?
It’s insurance, you’re betting that you’ll get sick, and AFLAC is betting that you won’t. It may not be appropriate for everyone, but it’s worthy of serious consideration.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:34 AM
“Old Yeller” and “Where the Red Fern Grows” as a kid and balling my eyes out.
where the red fern grows absolutely slayed 10 year old me.
and i will not watch marley and me either. no way. i will enjoy my world with my GSP in it, thank you
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:34 AM
one of my dogs (pictured on the left) is 11.5 y.o. and getting real old. I have avoided that movie like the plague. I still remember the first time I watched “Old Yeller” and “Where the Red Fern Grows” as a kid and balling my eyes out.
I actually read the book (really good) a few years ago so I knew what was coming, but that didn’t stop me. What’s really a mind fuck is that I cried during a movie that starred Jennifer Anniston and Owen Wilson. In any other instance I should have to turn in my man card. But this movie just kinda hit really close to home, even though my dog isn’t nearly as bat-shit crazy as Marley.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:35 AM
sounds like one less Willy’s burrito + queso + large drink per week to me.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:35 AM
I read Marley and Me (and bawled) so there is absolutely no way in hell I will ever see that movie unless you’re forcing me ala Clockwork Orange.
Dude, fuck Where the Red Fern Grows. We had to watch that at a giant assembly in elementary school. By the end about 75% of the entire school was bawling and saying they wanted to go home. Fucking awful.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:37 AM
Well done.
Well-er done.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:37 AM
Marley and Me stars Owen Wilson, seeing it was never an option
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:37 AM
/co-signed
I had to take my dog in and be there when they put it down. I lived that shit I don’t need to relive it via the wooden acting of Jennifer Aniston.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:37 AM
Alright, now things are starting to make sense…
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:37 AM
I think I cried harder and the of the movie than the book.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:37 AM
great minds and all that, spencely.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:37 AM
It’s insurance, you’re betting that you’ll get sick, and AFLAC is betting that you won’t. It may not be appropriate for everyone, but it’s worthy of serious consideration.
Hence my “It worked out for Roeth, but I’m a single, healthy 26 year old who doesn’t have meds and rarely has a need to visit a doctor and already has health insurance.”
Also $10 a week is $520 bucks a year that I’d basically be giving away. That’s a couple of round trip domestic plane tickets. If I were making more money than I am right now I’d be more inclined to consider it.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:39 AM
Yeah, I don’t get all the emotion over this movie either. I wanted them to put Marley down 10 mins. into the movie.
Where The Red Fern Grows is excellent. Watched the 70′s version with my kids a few months ago. They thought it would suck but wound up liking it.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:41 AM
Quote fail.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:42 AM
enjoy these new cigarette warning labels
Could be that I’m used to seeing the ones up here, but those don’t seem that bad.
/non-smoker
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:43 AM
I had to take my dog in and be there when they put it down. I lived that shit I don’t need to relive it via the wooden acting of Jennifer Aniston
Funny you say that… they didn’t have Anniston in the room. Apparently Owen Wilson was the only “actor” of the two that could pull that scene off, so they just left her at home with the kids. It was just Owen and Marley in the vets office.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:43 AM
Any time a dog dies it is very sad – a book, a movie, real life.
Let’s move on, mmkay?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:44 AM
I’m not a judgemental person but that is fucked up to watch your first born go through that and continue your same behavior during the 2nd pregnancy, sorry
agreed, it’s fucked up. and so be glad that you would never do it and move on. i understand you are not actually saying your thoughts to the couple. i guess i’m mostly railing against any outrage directed at folks who do things you would never do (not picking out you cj). what’s the sense of calling folks names or being holier than thou? just take care of your own biz and be happy that the healthy folks will eventually survive and pass on the genes
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:44 AM
Oh I don’t know, maybe it’s because Marley was their first pet and there were lots of great times with the dog and not just the crazy stories the author put in there to sell books? Or how about the time the dog comforted his wife after she had a miscarriage?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:44 AM
enjoy these new cigarette warning labels
The cost of a pack of cigarettes is enough of a warning label for me.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:45 AM
Julia Roberts
hard to look at
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:45 AM
The Philadelphia Flyers are complete morons. 7 years and $50M for a goalie? HA!
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:46 AM
damn I dread this day. I almost want to come home to my dog being dead than to have to do that. my dad had to take their dog to the vet for that a couple years ago and when he got home he promptly told my mom that they would never have another dog.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:47 AM
Yup, not disagreeing here at all. Ed Snider needs to sell now.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:47 AM
The last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:47 AM
Any time a dog dies it is very sad – a book, a movie, real life.
Let’s move on, mmkay?
you cried at the end of Cujo?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:48 AM
Why don’t insurance companies start charging smokers a higher premium? Seems to me that would be a pretty good way to reduce smoking.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:49 AM
my dad had to take their dog to the vet for that a couple years ago and when he got home he promptly told my mom that they would never have another dog.
Damn. Personally, I’m one of those people that thinks that getting a new puppy a few months later would help out a great deal. Gets your mind off the loss and all. But, to each their own.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:49 AM
Where are you even seeing this?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:49 AM
you’re joking right? or do you mean a higher premium than they already charge tobacco users?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:50 AM
If you ignore the sort of injustice their children have suffered you aren’t doing the world any favors.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:50 AM
Julia Roberts
hard to look at
The last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it
but would still like to see a sextape from the 80s/90s.
/ok, the 80s
//no i don’t know that there is one
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:51 AM
I thought the meth was confined to Western PA? Where’s Spencer? He’s the PA meth expert. Maybe the Pittsburgians are moving a meth cartel into Philly?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:51 AM
Why don’t insurance companies start charging smokers a higher premium? Seems to me that would be a pretty good way to reduce smoking.
If paying $10 a pack (or whatever absurd amount it is) when you’re making 25K a year isn’t stopping them, jacking up the insurance premiums won’t either. The only way to stop people from smoking is to prevent them from starting. Unfortunately, our government is in bed with the tobacco companies, so they have free reign (relative to the harm their product causes) to produce and market cancer sticks.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:51 AM
/high five SG!
//gratuitous puppy link
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:51 AM
Goddamnit.
During our annual health care renewal, my company asks if you’re a smoker. That obviously raises your costs, but of course persons can say they aren’t when they really are. There’s no way for my company to actually check on every person.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:52 AM
Walter White is responsible for much of the best product in the greater southwest United States.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:52 AM
If you ignore the sort of injustice their children have suffered you aren’t doing the world any favors.
Exactly. I always point out to those who say drugs are a victim-less crime that they aren’t if the drug user has or is having kids.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:52 AM
Will never see Marley and Me. I cried my eyes out at the end of Super 8–so no way I’d make it with the dog…
Saw the trailer at said Super 8 showing–I like the idea of an odd pairing. The hot and sexy people aren’t the only folks in the world looking for love.
/I love Tom Hanks
/Team Bosom Buddies
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Where are you even seeing this?
Nick Kypreos reported this morning that the Flyers and Bryzgalov have a deal in principle, can’t announce until July 1 as they would have to clear out some salary. He noted that Bryzgalov’s asking price was $50M over 7 years.
If it’s in the same vicinity as that, it will be one of the worst contracts in the league since the lockout.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:53 AM
That may have been true at one point, but it’s hardly the case any more. Unless you live in the Carolinas, maybe.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Those little shits are adorable.
/Return puppy link
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:54 AM
http://www.broadstreethockey.com/2011/6/22/2236951/ilya-bryzgalov-contract-philadelphia-flyers
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:54 AM
and the insurance company can deny that claim.
ive had a lot of animals (dogs and cats) that ive wanted to throw in a garbage disposal, so im not just being a homer but i really don’t think i could get another dog that was as perfect for me as my old one was. she was the best.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:54 AM
OH MY GOD. ROFL
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:55 AM
That may have been true at one point, but it’s hardly the case any more. Unless you live in the Carolinas, maybe.
No… if any other product caused as much harm as cigarettes do, the companies that produced it would immediately be shut down or forced to put out a product that doesn’t cause harm. The government just got its panties in a bunch over BPL’s in plastic containers… but selling cancer is completely cool because tobacco companies have been around forever?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:56 AM
Whatever, I wont believe it till I hear the official announcement July 1st. If 7 million is what Ilya was asking for, I doubt thats gonna be the final number.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:56 AM
Plus, that’s group insurance, were the actuaries take into account a certain % of people lying, and spread the risk over a large # of people.
With private insurance, they’re going to test your peepee for tobacco (and other drugs).
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:57 AM
alcohol is just as bad, if not worse.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:57 AM
If you ignore the sort of injustice their children have suffered you aren’t doing the world any favors.
ok, let’s not pretend that i’m saying if i saw someone beating a child i would move on. obviously not what i’m saying. i’m more about actually making a difference not taking about it later. what would you recommend upon seeing a pregnant lady smoking? walk up to her and lecture her?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:57 AM
I was thinking more like 4-5 yrs at 20-25 million max. Let the Jeff Carter sweepstakes begin!
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:57 AM
Higher premium to tobacco users only. And yes, you can lie, but since insurance can deny your claim and possibly go after you for still more money, you might not want to do that.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:59 AM
No. The only way to stop smoking is to stop smoking. On your own. You can do it.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:59 AM
OMG the ears!! The floppy, adorable ears!
V4L – I just think Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks have no sexual chemistry whatsoever. They seem a better pairing as brother/sister than boyfriend/girlfriend.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:59 AM
lecture won’t get it done…you have to say something REALLY hurtful to make the impact felt.
something like…”your husband never should’ve squirted that spawn into your belly.”
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:59 AM
Whatever, I wont believe it till I hear the official announcement July 1st. If 7 million is what Ilya was asking for, I doubt thats gonna be the final number.
The only way to reduce the cap hit is to increase the term of the contract, which would be a worse move than paying $7M per. My guess is that the cap hit will be in the range of $6M, which is still way too much.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:00 AM
I think the same thing about my old dog now, but I will still get another one once she dies (actually probably after my younger one dies too). I think that would be part of the fun, and it’s not like you are trying to replace your old dog. when I get a new dog I want to train it to be a duck dog but sending off a puppy for 4-6 month kind of ruins the point of getting a puppy.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:00 AM
alcohol is just as bad, if not worse
disagree. I can go out and have a few beers a few nights a month and there’s relatively little chance I’m going to become an alcoholic and or permanently damage my liver. Even if I’m only a “social” smoker, you stand an exponentially higher chance of becoming addicted, and any smoke inhaled into your lungs is causing some harm. Sure, some people can smoke all their lives and live to be 90, but there are plenty that smoked 5 years when they were younger and die of lung cancer at 56.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:00 AM
am i the only one who’s never seen this? glad i’m not the only man who bawled at marley and me.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Unfortunately, our government is in bed with the tobacco companies, so they have free reign (relative to the harm their product causes) to produce and market cancer sticks.
not as free a rein as it used to be. used to ads on TV, and ‘lights’ cannot be on packs anymore. they can;t use cartoon characters. philip morris actually was on the side of anti-smoking regs because it figured better to help make the regs than suffer comepletely. plus, once the ad restrictions are in place their status as market leader is more secure
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:01 AM
By the logic of you stopping someone from beating a kid, you should also stop said pregnant woman from smoking. She’s pretty much pumping poison to her baby.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:02 AM
I’ve never dealt with it, but if you lie about being a tobacco user and then die from something else and they find out you were a user can it not void out the insurance?
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:03 AM
No. The only way to stop smoking is to stop smoking. On your own. You can do it.
Shocked! Shocked! to hear this coming form MikeNYC.
You can say the same thing about heroin addicts. Should the government allow companies to form and mass produce that shit too? Free market capitalism and all.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:03 AM
good for you but what about the hundreds of thousands of alcoholics that have a quick walk down to the liquor store to feed their habit completely legally?
if you’re a social drinker, you can still get behind a wheel when you think you’re cool to drive and kill someone. not YOU personally, but someone. second hand smoke aint got shit on killing someone else when you’re hammered.
and both are equally extreme cases.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:04 AM
german shorthair puppies are the best.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:04 AM
You’re body has a physiological method of processing and getting rid of alcohol. There is no such method for smoke.
/oversimplification
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:04 AM
That was 5 years ago for me this August and I still haven’t gotten another one and don’t see myself getting one anytime soon. I have some friends with dogs and that is fine for me right now. I dogsit for them quite often and I’m moving to a new place next week with roommate that has a dog. It’s all the fun of the dog but they have the ultimate responsibility.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:04 AM
If you ignore the sort of injustice their children have suffered you aren’t doing the world any favors.
Exactly. I always point out to those who say drugs are a victim-less crime that they aren’t if the drug user has or is having kids.
ok fellow neanderthals, just so we’re clear. i never said smoking during pregnancy isn;t bad, so yes i agree the poor kid may suffer through no choice of his own, which is also something you can say about any kid with any bad parent behavior until they leave the home. what i said was lots and lots of kids of smoking/drinking parents came out just fine, so being outraged with a broad brush made me bristle
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:05 AM
no clue. Have to ask an insurance guy.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:05 AM
But how far could you take that line of thinking? When the kid is born they will proceed to pump it full of McDonald happy meals and continue to create the most obese/unhealthy generation in history.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:06 AM
what would you recommend upon seeing a pregnant lady smoking? walk up to her and lecture her?
I was a bartender in school, and I had no problem telling the pregnant women in the smokey bar I worked in that they needed to leave after they tried ordering a drink.
/It was in WI, so that wasn’t too surprising
//They all (about 3 or 4 in 3 years) asked that I make it a very “weak” drink
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:06 AM
It is illegal to sell them to minors. The restrictions on where they can put ads are pretty incredible (not saying it’s wrong). They are taxed like crazy (not saying that is wrong).
This isn’t food. It’s not toys. At some point the government is doing enough.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:06 AM
You could say the same thing, if they were even remotely close to being the same. But since they’re not, you’re left with a nice little false equivalency fallacy and that’s about it.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:06 AM
it’s too bad they are total freaks until they are about 5 y.o. at least the couple I have met. so much energy.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:06 AM
Let’s be honest – if you love smoking and drinking and not even knowing this stuff would poison your unborn child can get you to stop, you shouldn’t be having kids.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:07 AM
I see what you did there
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:08 AM
http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20101005/light-drinking-during-pregnancy-no-harm-to-baby
But why take the risk?
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:08 AM
We’re comparing processed shit food to cigarette ingredients? Bit of a stretch. Again, cigarettes are direct poison. And I was only pointing out that by his own logic, he should also be stopping the woman from hurting her baby.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:08 AM
what are nick kypreous’s reporting credentials?
nick kypreous? this makes me wonder, what ex-athlete has turned into a solid media member? i’m not talaking jock analysis, i’m talking story breaker
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:09 AM
Surprised your employer let you refuse service. Every place that I’ve worked said if the customer orders a drink, you serve them unless they are overserved.
I’ve poured many a drink for pregnant women. It’s not fun.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:09 AM
Not to mention the government (I think both federal and state) pays for TV time for anti-smoking ads (I believe the tobacco companies actually pay for these).
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:09 AM
Because sometimes you just really need a drink to take the edge off? Because you’re tired of getting colds or having allergies and not being able to take anything to make yourself feel better?
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:09 AM
And the food isn’t?
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:10 AM
if you buy a policy, go thru underwriting, and then start flying a plane/smoking crack/eating babies, the company would still pay it out. it’s at the time of the policy’s issue, but after that, you can do whatever, for the most part.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:10 AM
By the logic of you stopping someone from beating a kid, you should also stop said pregnant woman from smoking.
so, you would?
one is illegal, one is not. that’s not my justification, just a fact when i look for differences. perhaps it should be illegal
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:10 AM
Oh did anyone catch Bryant Gumbel shit on the USGA last night at the end of Real Sports?
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:10 AM
Re: Larry Crowne
I love Tom Hanks. He’s America’s cool uncle. But this Larry Crowne shit is just some execs saying, “Let’s throw Hanks and Julia on the screen together and watch the chemistry happen!” “But what about a plot? Or a story? Shouldn’t they exchange AOL emails or something?” “We don’t need a plot or a story!!! We have Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts!”
Re: Dogs
My wife and I watched Marley & Me right after we got our first dog together. He was just four months old and I already started thinking about “the end.” I can’t go a week without playing that scenario out in my head. And the wife wants us to keep getting Catahoulas over the years. I told her we are NOT getting a Catahoula immediately after Doc moves on, otherwise I’d wind up resenting the new dog. “You’re not Doc!” I’d tell it. I’m going to be inconsolable when our retriever dies, but I can’t imagine what’ll happen when the Catahoula goes. I may take a vow of silence or something.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:10 AM
this.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:11 AM
no…what about it?
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:11 AM
no
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:11 AM
I’ve poured many a drink for pregnant women. It’s not fun.
The owner of the place I worked at was cool shit and had a functioning brain, so I had no fear that he would reprimand me. I also simply didn’t want that on my conscious.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:12 AM
what are nick kypreous’s reporting credentials?
He’s solid, if he’s saying it, there is likely something to it. Note that he didn’t say the deal was for $7M per year, but rather that a deal was done (but couldn’t be announced) and the latest he had heard on the asking price was $50M over 7 years.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:12 AM
No, we just put heroin addicts in jail, creating the largest prison population in the world instead of treating them costing billions of tax payer dollars. But the right wing never wants you to think of that. War of Drugs = government welfare for the defense industry.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:13 AM
it’s too bad they are total freaks until they are about 5 y.o. at least the couple I have met. so much energy.
i have a 3 YO, and she is about perfect. my wife and i will take her running, or i just let her out in the yard for 10 minutes to get the energy out, and she is a slug for the next day. perfect blend of energy and chill for me.
but, i have heard of males that are out of control.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:14 AM
He basically said the course was a joke and they should be ashamed. Doesn’t believe in conspiracy theories, but firmly believes they made that course easy (pin locations, rough etc) because they wanted to compensate for the loss of viewers without Tiger. Said karma is a bitch basically cause the ratings were still 20-30% down. Major paraphrase but you get the gist.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:15 AM
not sure what I would do. I would probably do the same as you to be honest- stop someone from beating a kid, but not stop them from smoking while pregnant. I just think it’s funny because that logic dictates that I should also stop the smoker.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:15 AM
He basically said the course was a joke and they should be ashamed. Doesn’t believe in conspiracy theories, but firmly believes they made that course easy (pin locations, rough etc) because they wanted to compensate for the loss of viewers without Tiger.
TBL? Is that you?
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:18 AM
How can you say that? You are almost assured of being a fat shit with a high risk of heart disease, cholesterol issues, et al, if you eat a ton of fast food. There’s a better chance of that happening than you getting lung cancer from second hand cigarette smoke.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:24 AM
I wasn’t talking about second hand smoke. I was talking about smoking yourself, and forcing your baby to absorb some of those toxins.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:26 AM
There’s just no comparison between cigarettes and fast food as far as “poisons” go.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:27 AM
In-laws coming this weekend.
A smoker conundrum… pick 2:
- pork butt
- beef ribs
- brisket
- chicken
My WSM is gonna be packed to the gills.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:27 AM
Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks have no sexual chemistry whatsoever.
neither one is sexy, sg, that’s why there’s no chemistry
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:29 AM
Tom Hanks gets a squishy face every time he kisses in movies. I find it strange. It’s like he’s kissing extra hard or something.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:32 AM
eating babies
this is a health risk?
/i know, to the babies it sure is
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:32 AM
I’m already tired of hearing all this bitching. Rory was so much better than everyone else last weekend do they honestly think that the course would have mattered? sorry that I enjoy seeing players make quality shots instead of having to hack through rough up to their knees or question whether something is a bunker or not. I guess I see where they are coming from being traditionalists, but in my opinion 96% of people aren’t tuning in to see the course (although put me in the 4%). the constant bitching about Congressional is quite tiresome.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:32 AM
I would go brisket and pork butt with ribs as the third option.
/start the BBQ discussion
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:34 AM
but, i have heard of males that are out of control. fault
i was bit in the face by a rhodesian ridgeback, but it was my fault. been bit on the face by a pit/terrier mix too. again my
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:34 AM
The last time I tried that combo (8# butt, 11# brisket) my WSM was going to 14 hours and neither was quite “there” yet.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:34 AM
fault.
/pork chop face
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:36 AM
dogshit.
rebuttal from someone who actually knows what they’re talking about.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:37 AM
been fun. gotta take brood to park
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:45 AM
You’re right, fast food is worse.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:48 AM
i know, right? one’s heroin, the other’s cocaine. only if the fast food equivalent was advertised nauseatingly often and available for next to no money compared to food that actually provides a nutritional benefit without all the garbage added.
i guess that makes fast food crack, not coke or heroin.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:52 AM
Love how only non-golfers are complaining about the U.S. Open
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:58 AM
and they’re the same ones that wonder why golf is so exclusionary…BECAUSE WE DON’T WANT YOU RUINING OUR GOLF, DAMNIT.