The 10,000 Post thread V3

[Larks2242 251]

1861.

 

1850

 

The laptop I currently use is perfectly sufficient for my needs. I bought it in 2011. It seems that the current trend is moving towards tablets but I definitely prefer a proper laptop over a tablet. That being said, I would say the same old rules still apply. If money is no issue, simply get the laptop best suited for your needs. If on a budget, prioritize.

 

Larks; Looks like both our teams couldn't hang for the long haul. However, should they meet in the post season, we should definitely make a wager of some kind.

 

Here's to the Pittsburgh Pirates for a season that was not to be forgotten.

 

And in the spirit of things, a pic of my best friend and I having a catch in the outfield of PNC Park. Pic was taken this season in May (I'm on the right). Best season ever.

 

 

How did you get out there?

 

And if your going to pretend your an outfielder, at least throw to a baseman or catcher

[Duke87 1,070]

(1862)

 

I was on the field at Shea Stadium once years ago. They used to have events where after the game they'd let all the kids run around the bases.

 

And if anyone cares about tennis, I've been in the locker rooms at Arthur Ashe Stadium, where the US Open is held. I have a picture of Serena Williams' locker. Woo?

[Mr Saturn64 742]

1863

I've been on the field at Citizens Bank Park before, as when I was a kid they had kids run he bases day, and I did that all the time, which was good. I was never at that many games at the Vet, but who wants to see that dump of a stadium anyway

(Named worst NFL stadium 2000- until demolition)

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

1864

 

Hahahah!  Veterans' Stadium!  Making us Vikings fan feel good about the Metrodome until the ceiling caved in two (three??) years ago!

 

I've played flag football and soccer on the astroturf in the Superior Dome, NMU's football stadium (also the largest wooden dome in the world).  I'm sure that would make a most excellent BAT.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

1865: I've been on the Altona Ballpark and the Melbourne Showgrounds where they have the Australian Baseball League, is that good?

But who wants ice cream when it's cold out? It's a summer thing.

I think you're forgetting my place, or rather hemisphere of residence.

[Duke87 1,070]

(1866)

 

 

But who wants ice cream when it's cold out? It's a summer thing.

I think you're forgetting my place, or rather hemisphere of residence.

 

 

Nope, I'm not. Guess what? It's actually slightly colder in Melbourne this week than it is in New York. Seriously, look up the forecasts. You're in the 50's while we're in the 60's.

 

In the southern hemisphere October essentially equals April, and April is not ice cream weather here, either. Of course this varies based on latitude and local climate as well as by hemisphere. Closer to the equator ice cream can make sense year round.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

1867

 

We were up around 90F today, it was certainly an ice cream type of day.  I guess it hasn't been this warm in Tokyo in something like 150 years.

[timmie 988]

1868

 

What is this barbary?! Every day is an ice cream type of day!

[Muck308 55]

1869

 

 

How did you get out there?

 

 

And if your going to pretend your an outfielder, at least throw to a baseman or catcher

 

The Pirates allow small groups of season ticket holders onto the field after a game a few times a year. This past May my number came up. If you bring a mitt, they provide a ball and you can have a catch. There were about 25 people that day, which makes for a more intimate experience. Everyone was hanging around right field but Ted and I just kept migrating towards left and nobody stopped us so it looks like we are all alone out there, but we weren't.

 

I can assure you that i can't throw to home plate from that outfield. I'm sure PNC Park has kid days where tons of kids are allowed on the field. I participated in a couple of days like that when I was young at Three Rivers Stadium. That day at PNC (that is pictured) was also mostly children but Ted and I couldn't care less. We are just a couple of big kids.

 

I keep ice cream in the house year round but I wouldn't be so inclined to go to an ice cream parlor in the winter.

[Larks2242 251]

1870.

 

1864

 

Hahahah!  Veterans' Stadium!  Making us Vikings fan feel good about the Metrodome until the ceiling caved in two (three??) years ago!

 

I've played flag football and soccer on the astroturf in the Superior Dome, NMU's football stadium (also the largest wooden dome in the world).  I'm sure that would make a most excellent BAT.

 

 

Wow, was Detroit that bad that you had to jump on the Farve train?

 

After all Detroit is known as the city that killed Dante Culpepper's career. 

[Mr Saturn64 742]

1871

 

Hahahah!  Veterans' Stadium!  Making us Vikings fan feel good about the Metrodome until the ceiling caved in two (three??) years ago!
 
I've played flag football and soccer on the astroturf in the Superior Dome, NMU's football stadium (also the largest wooden dome in the world).  I'm sure that would make a most excellent BAT.

Eh. He Metrodome was bad on its own. 3 Rivers, Atlanta Fulton County, Riverfront, and RFK were bad alongside Veterans.

[astronelson 339]

1872

 

 

But who wants ice cream when it's cold out? It's a summer thing.

I think you're forgetting my place, or rather hemisphere of residence.

 

 

Nope, I'm not. Guess what? It's actually slightly colder in Melbourne this week than it is in New York. Seriously, look up the forecasts. You're in the 50's while we're in the 60's.

 

In the southern hemisphere October essentially equals April, and April is not ice cream weather here, either. Of course this varies based on latitude and local climate as well as by hemisphere. Closer to the equator ice cream can make sense year round.

 

If it was 50 or 60 here I wouldn't eat icecream, I'd be too busy dying from heat exhaustion.

[Muck308 55]

1873

 

 

 

 

But who wants ice cream when it's cold out? It's a summer thing.

I think you're forgetting my place, or rather hemisphere of residence.

 

 

Nope, I'm not. Guess what? It's actually slightly colder in Melbourne this week than it is in New York. Seriously, look up the forecasts. You're in the 50's while we're in the 60's.

 

In the southern hemisphere October essentially equals April, and April is not ice cream weather here, either. Of course this varies based on latitude and local climate as well as by hemisphere. Closer to the equator ice cream can make sense year round.

 

If it was 50 or 60 here I wouldn't eat icecream, I'd be too busy dying from heat exhaustion.

 

I'd still eat the ice cream at 50C!

[Duke87 1,070]

(1874)

Eh, I was in a hurry and too lazy to convert it. The point about one number being larger than the other is effective either way.

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

1875

 

I like those times when us SC4 players 'misuse' the Origin name system as a response to the epic failure of SC13.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

1876

1870.

 

Wow, was Detroit that bad that you had to jump on the Farve train?

 

After all Detroit is known as the city that killed Dante Culpepper's career. 

 

Heh, more likely, his devastating knee injury in Minnesota killed his career, with Detroit being a more or less posthumous stop.

 

 

 

Eh. He Metrodome was bad on its own. 3 Rivers, Atlanta Fulton County, Riverfront, and RFK were bad alongside Veterans.

 

 

The Vikings should never have been moved indoors.  Honestly, a football team in Minnesota named the Vikings playing inside?  Something feels vaguely dishonest or disappointing about that.

[Duke87 1,070]

(1877)

There is something super legit about football in the snow. But being in the stands in that weather is no fun, and since it's about making money...

[Mr Saturn64 742]

1878

I was at a Nationals-Phillies game in DC where it rained and we were stuck in the Nationals concourse for a hour or two and the only guy in the stands was a guy dressed as a lizard.

[timmie 988]

1879

 

The Belgian national football team qualified for the 2014 World Cup! Now at place 4 in the FIFA ranking, possibly even third place. The last time there was such a craze about the national team was in 1986, when we went to the semi finals of the World Cup.

 

Incidentally, a poll was released on the day they qualified and it showed the lowest score for the Flemish nationalists since the elections in 2010 (the first time they score worse than 28% since 2010). A coincidence, but a funny one.

[Muck308 55]

1880

 

I find it odd that soccer is so unpopular here in the US while so many people play it as kids. I've probably said this before. I don't ponder the sport enough to have developed and new opinions about it.

[Meg 368]

1881

 

1880

 

I find it odd that soccer is so unpopular here in the US while so many people play it as kids. I've probably said this before. I don't ponder the sport enough to have developed and new opinions about it.

 

Soccer has no natural commercial breaks so networks don't want to carry it.

 

Meanwhile, I am out of radio range so I'm pondering the following dilemma.  Do I:

 

a)  Watch TV with the sound up, listening to Al Michael's biased calling of a Washington / Dallas game

b)  Watch TV but listen to the internet radio which is a full 60 seconds behind the TV

c)  Watch TV without sound

d)  Turn off the TV and listen to the internet radio

 

So far, I'm going with option C

[Duke87 1,070]

(1882)

 

I don't find that odd at all. Everyone plays kickball as kids too, but no one is interesting in a professional league. Playing a game as kids is a distinctly different experience from watching other people play it competitively and the former does not necessarily breed interest in the latter.

 

There are a couple things that hold soccer in the US back: 1) we already have four big popular professional sports (football, baseball, basketball, hockey) and there isn't really room in the market for a fifth. 2) Soccer is a huge international thing (world cup, etc.) and lots of countries have their interest in it fueled by that. But in the US this is actually a barrier to interest because we really don't care to deal with other countries (except Canada, which most Americans don't think of as "foreign") in our professional sports.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

 

 

I don't find that odd at all. Everyone plays kickball as kids too, but no one is interesting in a professional league. Playing a game as kids is a distinctly different experience from watching other people play it competitively and the former does not necessarily breed interest in the latter.

 

There are a couple things that hold soccer in the US back: 1) we already have four big popular professional sports (football, baseball, basketball, hockey) and there isn't really room in the market for a fifth. 2) Soccer is a huge international thing (world cup, etc.) and lots of countries have their interest in it fueled by that. But in the US this is actually a barrier to interest because we really don't care to deal with other countries (except Canada, which most Americans don't think of as "foreign") in our professional sports.

1883: the same thing happens here. Although there is a professional association league in Australia and interest spikes sharply around World Cup time (this is the 3rd consecutive cup we have qualified for), people here prefer to be interested in Australian Rules football or rugby in the winter (depending on which part of the country you live in), and cricket in the summer. Although as a kid I remember playing soccer at lunchtimes, although once again this was often superseded by a game of footy or "marks up". 

Also on a side note, would New Zealand be to Australia what Canada is to the US? We have several domestic leagues that have teams in New Zealand, in the way MLB/NHL/NBA does.

[astronelson 339]

1884.

 

Also on a side note, would New Zealand be to Australia what Canada is to the US? We have several domestic leagues that have teams in New Zealand, in the way MLB/NHL/NBA does.

 

I'd consider it such. Would that make Papua New Guinea somewhat analogous to Mexico?

[Haljackey 17,332]

1,885

 

I watched a funny video today that showed a US Football coach trying to run a English football team:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izN9Ylh7k0c

[Huston 5,798]

1886

 

Seeeeeeeeeeeems Legit XD

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

1887

 

Still better than our local team's coach.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

1888

 

Sometimes people here are shocked when I tell them we don't watch soccer back in America.  They're like, "WHY SOCCER RULES BLAH BLAH BLAH!" and I usually tell them soccer is a horrid foreign game and Americans like American stuff because WE'RE NUMBER ONE!  USA! USA! USA! and then the kids join the chant and the Stars and Stripes unfurl overhead, complete with a flyby by the USAF's F22s and I jump in my Jeep and run off to do something SUPER American.  Like eat a hot dog and complain about the TSA.

 

EDIT: numbers check!

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

1888

 

Sometimes people here are shocked when I tell them we don't watch soccer back in America.  They're like, "WHY SOCCER RULES BLAH BLAH BLAH!" and I usually tell them soccer is a horrid foreign game and Americans like American stuff because WE'RE NUMBER ONE!  USA! USA! USA! and then the kids join the chant and the Stars and Stripes unfurl overhead, complete with a flyby by the USAF's F22s and I jump in my Jeep and run off to do something SUPER American.  Like eat a hot dog and complain about the TSA.

 

EDIT: numbers check!

1889: You forgot your freedoms.

[astronelson 339]

1890

 

Jeep's a division of Chrysler, which is a subsidiary of Fiat, which is Italian.