2024 MLB Thread

[papalawrence]

I always wanted Wile E Coyote to catch the roadrunner, just once.

[IdahoBert]

Max Scherzer can sit on a tack as far as I’m concerned. I’m glad I got that off my chest. 

[Tigermojo]

17 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Max Scherzer can sit on a tack as far as I’m concerned. I’m glad I got that off my chest. 

I would never want to get on Bert's bad side. Things are getting heated!

[papalawrence]

Sitting on a tack. Not fun.

[Arlington]

On 1/20/2025 at 9:08 PM, monkeytargets39 said:

I remember the Detroit media being so excited that we signed a free agent when we got Paquette….

And I remember DD referencing it among others in his infamous what can I do with this contract and that contract speech shortly after he took over. 

[IdahoBert]

7 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Yeah - that has just moved from animation to live action - How many kids do you suppose have seen a John Wick before they are out of grade school?

A distant relative of mine and I mean really distant she’s married to a third cousin reminisced about how much fun it was when she was a child and she would watch the Saw movies with her parents. 

[gehringer_2]

50 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

A distant relative of mine and I mean really distant she’s married to a third cousin reminisced about how much fun it was when she was a child and she would watch the Saw movies with her parents. 

to me, horror movies are a "two kinds of people" kind of thing. If they are someone's else's thing, I get that I don't get it.

🙈🙉

[chasfh]

8 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Yeah - that has just moved from animation to live action - How many kids do you suppose have seen a John Wick before they are out of grade school?

Not relevant. John Wick is not a children's program.

Children are socialized differently today and do not act out violently in public, even in groups (or "gangs", if you prefer).

[chasfh]

4 hours ago, papalawrence said:

I always wanted Wile E Coyote to catch the roadrunner, just once.

[gehringer_2]

2 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Not relevant. John Wick is not a children's program.

Children are socialized differently today and do not act out violently in public, even in groups (or "gangs", if you prefer).

the question is not what is directed at children, it's what do they actually see. 

[gehringer_2]

3 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Not relevant. John Wick is not a children's program.

Children are socialized differently today and do not act out violently in public, even in groups (or "gangs", if you prefer).

You haven't seen the jr/sr high tic-tok fight video craze?

[chasfh]

Just now, gehringer_2 said:

the question is not what is directed at children, it's what do they actually see. 

I don't believe the majority of children watch John Wick and that it should be considered a dangerous anti-socialization tool of children. Unless it is. Otherwise, not relevant.

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

You haven't seen the jr/sr high tic-tok fight video craze?

Nice anecdote.

[gehringer_2]

9 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I don't believe the majority of children watch John Wick and that it should be considered a dangerous anti-socialization tool of children. Unless it is. Otherwise, not relevant.

You do know that the majority of young people in the US have a television in their bedroom or a video enabled phone and that the majority of American parents have zero knowledge of how to implement any kind of audit or control on their home IT service.  I sincerely doubt anyone has any kind of good handle on what American young people are watching. If it's on the mid tier cable/streaming packages, young people are seeing it.

Edited Friday at 10:50 PM by gehringer_2

[gehringer_2]

26 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Nice anecdote.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/technology/school-fight-videos-student-phones.html

[chasfh]

14 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

You do know that the majority of young people in the US have a television in their bedroom or a video enabled phone and that the majority of American parents have zero knowledge of how to implement any kind of audit or control on their home IT service.  I sincerely doubt anyone has any kind of good handle on what American young people are watching. If it's on the mid tier cable/streaming packages, young people are seeing it.

I would bet money they are watching something other than John Wick, certainly not in numbers enough to form gangs and cause mayhem. If I had to guess, I’d guess they’re watching TikTok and YouTube videos.

[chasfh]

14 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/technology/school-fight-videos-student-phones.html

Thanks for sharing this, very interesting. I wonder how many fights per 1,000 students there are today versus when we were in high school? Too bad we didn’t have phones back then so we could video them. I’ll bet there are fewer, probably far fewer, which I base on the personal observation that I see far less fighting out in the wild than I used to, and I see far fewer stories of teenage gangs terrorizing cities than I did when we were kids.

[chasfh]

 

[casimir]

On 2/1/2025 at 8:49 AM, chasfh said:

 

6 tool player?

[papalawrence]

33 minutes ago, casimir said:

6 tool player?

He also plays the Alp Horn. 7 tools

[Tenacious D]

1 hour ago, casimir said:

6 tool player?

Thinks he is the Japanese Miguel Cabrera, who was underrated funny.