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The kids had their second game of the season last night. They played an awesome game against a good team, and it ended in a tie after 5 innings. The pitchers played really well, including Eli, who threw the first two innings again where he gave up zero runs. This group of kids, coaches, and parents is by far the favorite team I’ve coached in the 5 years I’ve been coaching, it’s going to be a really great year. We just need to keep developing the kids in all aspects of the game so they can have as much fun as possible. I love coaching baseball, I get more enjoyment from this than I do anything else, it keeps me young.
Team minicamps are starting next week. Hopefully we have no injuries to report, and it’ll sure be nice to see some real football stuff about which to write.
Vikings News
Here’s OTA practice number 6 from Vikings.com.
It sounds like the Vikings are planning to sign OC Wes Phillips to an extension, from VikingsWire.
Harrison Phillips sees the Vikings offseason moves as a continuation of the foundation they’ve been building upon, per Vikings.com.
NFL News
NFL.com reports that Aaron Rodgers will sign a one-year deal with Pittsburgh prior to team mini- camp. He’s allegedly flying in today to sign the deal. We’ll see.
Anthony Richards is injured……again. The Colts QB will miss minicamp after suffering a shoulder injury, per NFL.com.
The Ravens and Lamar Jackson are discussing an extension, per CBS Sports. I assume they mean a contract extension and not hair extensions, but they don’t really specify in the headline and I’m too lazy to read the article to find out. Let me know in the comments.
Media Selection
Here’s an enlightening, intellectual video to help you become more cultured and intelligent. Enjoy!
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Go Marchy, go Panthers. Oilers looked like ref’s darlings game 1. Disgusting.
The Contractor just left about the foundation repair.
He said that they could put a ‘sister joist’ in and repair it that way. He said he will contact the workman and have him deal with me directly and step back himself so he isn’t getting ‘a cut’ of the price.
He was former Army and his dad was law enforcement so we had a lot in common, lots of ‘war stories’. Nothing compared to WWII or Korean War Vets stories of course.
Now just waiting for the workman to get with us to schedule a visit to look at the job and get us an estimate.
Oh good, that’s not too big a deal.
That’ll be $500 sez the doc.
Plus the plumber work, plus any replacement of parts that could be fixed/replaced but doesn’t ‘need’ to be repaired/fixed.
The contractor stepping back and not getting a ‘consultation fee’ is a great deal as well.
That’s crazy, I refer people all the time & never ask for a cut. Seems like the right thing to do.
The plumber recommended the contractor.
The contractor passed it on to the guy doing the actual work.
No one else is taking an extra cut, just some work for the plumber and the guy putting in the ‘sister joist’.
Glad it wasn’t significant, that sounds like a reasonable repair.
On Monday the plumber changed the check valve in the well pump. Our water pressure was really low all week. We kind of figured it was because they stirred stuff up so our filter was plugged. Sure enough, we changed the filter last night and it was plugged and the filter holder was full of sludge. Now the water pressure is back to normal. I hate taking a shower and having to huddle around the shower head because the water is just dripping out. I prefer to be almost knocked over by the water pressure. Life is well again.
A VP shower……
That reminds me of an anecdote of my insular teenage years. When I was 11, we moved from Edmonton to Wainwright, our new home was where my parents lived until my dad passed 35 years later. The basement was almost completely unfinished save for a small room that had been cheaply built where we put a couch and TV which became a place where I could go to watch Dukes of Hazzard or whatever…and a shower stall that was small and seemed to be designed for a very skinny person (which I was). However, at no point in my upbringing had any of us ever used a shower at home (of course I used the showers at the pool and eventually when I played basketball at the gym).
After moving to college, instead of bathing in the evening my routine became an early morning shower…evening showers were risky as that was ripe time to have your clothes swiped, ice cold water dumped on you, or your room key used to do something unpleasant in your room.
So when I came home for the first time, I decided to use this mysterious shower stall in the basement. The drawback was that the water pressure and showerhead plus the small size of the stall conspired to rake your skin like a cat o’ nine tails. However, I got used to it over time, and after my folks had the basement finished that year I moved into the basement and that became “my” bathroom, now with a toilet (which by the way had only 16 inches of clearance in front so your knees had to be tucked up when you sat) and a sink/mirror. Fancy.
My dad ended up trying it out and I guess he preferred the shower as he started using it. The drawback there was that two people showering in a bathroom with no fan made it humid and musky in there when I lived at home my first two summers of college. Also, I should mention that he had no “man” skills whatsoever and the task of changing the showerhead would be beyond him.
Anyhow, fast forward years and my fiancee and I are staying downstairs in my old room over Christmas. Needless to say, she was not impressed by the flaying in the shower. Having gradually acquired man skills, I offered to my parents to buy a new showerhead and install it for them.
That was a big NO. My dad was nothing but rigid as a pipe.
‘My dad was nothing but rigid as a pipe’
TMI.
I knew someone would ping on that.
Glad I was able to assist with that.
#grin
June 6 1944. 4,413 men died so freedom wouldn’t.
(but hey, don’t forget gay pride month}
“But if you want to go on fighting
go take some young chap, flaccid & a half-wit
to give him a bit of courage and some brains”
– Ezra Pound, Canto LXXII
6•6•44
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LOL, Minnesota.
https://x.com/gragedustin/status/1931018920447692993?s=46
A guy dresses up as a girl to pitch in softball, and they win a championship. Friggin yay.
@something for them to be proud of@
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/transgender-cadet-graduates-1.7553621
$400,000 tuition. Eek. Air Force Academy is expensive.
It didn’t cost the Tranny anything. That is the ‘estimated cost’ of ‘their/thems’ training and education. I don’t believe for a second that it will be required to pay that back since they/them didn’t choose not to serve.
He/she/it has a couple of degrees and lots of specialized training, it will be fine. Getting thru a service academy shows that he/she/it has a lot going for ‘them’. Just not a good fit for the military.
Pride !!
so now that Rodgers signed with the Steelers (WHICH EVERYONE KNEW WAS GOING TO HAPPEN)
what is dianna russini going to try to get going next, kirk to the vikes?
i’m gonna be in bloomfield in a few days
Awesome! Please bring some rain with you.
Don’t forget your Pride flag……
What are your plans?
That clickbait story is about all that they have left now.
I expect to hear if until the season starts and again if we have an injury at QB, heaven forbid.
Kirk’s only hope is if some QB gets hurt.
And KAM passed on him and traded down for Lewis Cine……
But he managed to get Ingram with the extra draft pick from the trade back.
Yeah that first years draft for KAM really, really sucked.
All those Super Bowl wins by those guys…1, AWjr.
Yep, the major blemish on KAM’s record. it was his first year, I’ll give him a pass.
Yeah.
But it still kinda hurts.
Sure does.
June 10-12.
SKOL !!
Happy Friday to anyone who shows up today.
We have a contractor coming today who is going to look at our house’s foundation . It appears that when it was build 19 years ago the drain to the upstairs shower was stubbed off and then covered by insulation and never tied into anything. Over the years the water just drained to the sub flooring. So we have some water damage/dry rot that needs to be addressed. Not to mention fixing the original drain.
The Teacher an I have never used that shower so we didn’t know about about it. Seems like no one else did either. Found it yesterday when a plumber went in the crawlspace to check mysterious dripping sounds (never located).
Oh the joys of home ownership.
Sounds expensive.
Yeah just the plumbing part will be several hundred dollars.
I expect the foundation fix to be several thousands.
Or we could just ignore it, no even noticed it before.
Never know what you’re going to find in the walls of older houses. Our house in Rochester, I always swore 90% of the outlets and lights were supplied by the same 20 amp circuit. Clearly the previous owner had decided to just piggyback more wire on the same circuit rather than fish in a new circuit. So whenever I wanted to replace a fixture, etc, I had to switch off the breaker for what seemed to supply more than half the house. Now, did I take the time and effort to rewire the place? Hell no.
All of the work is under the house, no finish work.
I am hoping for a rough repair instead of a major rebuild.
Making sure the load bearing walls have the support that they need. Otherwise nothing is really effected, heck it wasn’t even noticed for almost 20 years.
Plumbing has to be done though or we can never use that shower when we have guests.
Holy s***
Sue the builder?
20 years after the fact?
Doubt that it is possible.
As folks have noted. today never much represents the accomplishments of the Greatest Generation.
I was lucky enough to have parents from this generation, as well as all my Little League coaches, Boy Scout Troop Masters, etc.
I was was in the Army at a time when there was still veterans of WW11 on active duty.
I look around now at our society and wonder what would those people think of us now.
My dad was in the Korean War and was part of the Frozen Chosin. He never talked about his experiences which is true for most war vets.
We have to learn about their experiences from other means. The things those men did was extraordinary, as in most wars.
Great book on the Korean War called “The Coldest Winter.”
I once walked the hill at Gettysburg emulating Pickett’s Charge. They may have not been the bravest men to have ever lived, but they’re in the ring of honor for bravery.
So many courageous men.
I never made it to any Civil War Sites but I have visited Waterloo. They are all impressive, the sites and the men who fought at those sites.
I haven’t visited Gettysburg (on my bucket list), but I have visited Vicksburg. The eye opening part of the long tour around the battlefield is how much larger and more elaborate the memorials are on the Union (richer) side than on the Confederate (poorer) side.
I always wanted to visit the Bloody Angle in Spotsylvania.
Soldiers on both sides climbed over piles of bodies to get to each other. I cannot imagine doing such a thing.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/unions-bloody-miscue-spotsylvanias-muleshoe
One can only imagine the lifelong emotional trauma after doing that. How horrific.
I’m reading a novel called Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen…she did extensive research including reading the papers published on MAD and the problem with the Launch on Warning approach to an incoming ballistic missile. Quite graphic in how quickly the northern hemisphere would be turned into a slag heap, as in minutes to a few hours.
My Great Uncle, Nana’s brother, was always a ‘bit off’, lived alone, only rode a bicycle, only saw him at family events.
I learned when he passed that he had won a Bronze Star at the Battle Of The Bulge. Never heard anything about it before then even when I joined the Army.
PTSD was called Battle Fatigue back then i believe and not well understood.
Saw that one, too. Erie.
I walked the Vicksburg battlefield.
My dad also served in the Korean War.
He was in the Navy.
I’m sure there is some Navy joke teed up for you.
No jokes about War Vets.
Those are reserved for peace time and are more like family teasing.
Went to the Academy for Prison Guards and there was a lot of joking and teasing between the vets of the different services. One female cadet asked me why we all hated each other. I said ‘Hate? Those are my brothers and I love them, We joke and tease each other accordingly’.
My dad was a WWII & Korean War vet, great man. He died 41 years ago from next Saturday (13th).
regarding the media selection today….Kids, this is why you shouldn’t do drugs.
The only difference between medicine/recreational drugs and poison is the dosage.
Enlightening, isn’t it?
But did you at least look at his potato?
Happy Friday,
FTP
Skol
Normandy. 1944.
It is crazy, what we asked these men to do. There is no way this would fly in todays military. Greatest generation.
Yep. Pains me to watch Private Ryan and what those men did.
The soldiers on the first boat landings knew they were the sacrifice.
The ones who survived the landing, then climbed up a cliff knowing they likely wouldn’t make it up that cliff.
Yes, none of them expected to make it home after the invasion, but they still did it.
Every landing the Marines. did in the Pacific was basically. the same thing.
At the time I believe the military used a factor – like if there was 1000 troops defending, you needed 5000 to land knowing half would be killed or wounded.
Very brave men in those days.
Amen!
Absolute dudes…truly the greatest generation.
greatest generation and bravest generation BY FAR.
started band of brothers this week