The Idiocracy of Donald J. Trump

[chasfh]

  On 6/3/2023 at 2:38 PM, Archie said:

I deleted the post and edited the other.  My apologies that it sounded too much like a person attack which was not my intention. 

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Thanks for taking care of that.

And you’re wrong on everything else. 😁

[Tiger337]

  On 6/3/2023 at 2:01 PM, Archie said:

If he has such a great team then why does he have so few accomplishments if any at all?  The country is the worst place its ever been. With inflation, open borders, crime, on the verge of WWIII and the overall moral decline of this nation thanks to his anti-American policies.  

If Biden and his team's goal was to bring America to its knees he is an overwhelming success.  Biden has the lowest polling numbers of any POTUS. 

His party knew he was a terrible candidate that's why they made him bulletproof in office.  As bad as Slo Joe is, Harris is even more worthless.  Nobody would ever consider impeaching Biden with that dolt as a successor.

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I don't if he's doing a "good job" compared to other past presidents, but anybody would look good following delusional anti-American foreign dictator loving Trump.   

Edited June 3, 2023 by Tiger337

[pfife]

  On 6/3/2023 at 8:44 PM, Tiger337 said:

I don't if he's doing a "good job" compared to other past presidents,

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He is

[chasfh]

  On 6/3/2023 at 8:44 PM, Tiger337 said:

I don't if he's doing a "good job" compared to other past presidents, but anybody would look good following delusional anti-American foreign dictator loving Trump.   

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Even Rick Rizzs?

Edited June 4, 2023 by chasfh

[Tiger337]

  On 6/4/2023 at 3:20 AM, chasfh said:

Even Rick Rizzs?

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Rizzs or Rathbun?  Couldn't tell them apart?

[Motor City Sonics]

One of the Judges that Dump appointed struck down Tennessee's anti-drag law.    Oh, the irony, sweetie.  

[Edman85]

  On 6/4/2023 at 11:55 AM, Motor City Sonics said:

One of the Judges that Dump appointed struck down Tennessee's anti-drag law.    Oh, the irony, sweetie.  

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More than anything, goes to show what we all expected, just how terrible and antithetical to our constitution those laws are.

[CMRivdogs]

  On 6/4/2023 at 3:28 AM, Tiger337 said:

Rizzs or Rathbun?  Couldn't tell them apart?

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Actually they both went on to decent careers. Rizzs with the Mariners and Rathbun with Atlanta’s Hawks and some college basketball on the side. The both happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. 
 

As an aside, Rathbun also worked a bit with Gary Cohen, they shared sports reporting duties briefly. Cohen was just inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame

 

[Tiger337]

  On 6/4/2023 at 6:37 PM, CMRivdogs said:

Actually they both went on to decent careers. Rizzs with the Mariners and Rathbun with Atlanta’s Hawks and some college basketball on the side. The both happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. 
 

As an aside, Rathbun also worked a bit with Gary Cohen, they shared sports reporting duties briefly. Cohen was just inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame

 

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they probably weren't as bat as I remember, but they were five step downs from Harwell and they no hope of ever being embraced by Tigers fans.  

[CMRivdogs]

For Rathbun it was also probably a giant cultural leap from SE Virginia to Metro Detroit. I knew his wife before they married (I worked briefly with her) and I've read she had an extremely tough time. I think she lost a parent as well during the time they were in Detroit.

For youngish broadcasters if you are not from Michigan or Detroit it's hard to adjust to the market.

[romad1]

  On 6/4/2023 at 8:23 PM, CMRivdogs said:

For Rathbun it was also probably a giant cultural leap from SE Virginia to Metro Detroit. I knew his wife before they married (I worked briefly with her) and I've read she had an extremely tough time. I think she lost a parent as well during the time they were in Detroit.

For youngish broadcasters if you are not from Michigan or Detroit it's hard to adjust to the market.

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The same leap that a certain Michigan football coach tried to make 

[CMRivdogs]

It's not just Detroit, I've seen it in other cities as well (caugh, Chicago) Sports fans and media can be very tough and critical of outsiders. Anyone who replaced Harwell in that situation was bound to fail.

 

[gehringer_2]

  On 6/4/2023 at 6:43 PM, Tiger337 said:

they probably weren't as bat as I remember, but they were five step downs from Harwell and they no hope of ever being embraced by Tigers fans.  

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Whoever put the two of them in the same booth with such similar sound was a sonic moron. When you can't identify the two sides of a conversation it's very disorienting to listen to, even if the conversation might have made sense. So that was one strike. And of course the other was that there had been no reason to make the change. Either of them might have succeeded as a member of a new team here if Ernie had retired voluntarily, because we recognized we couldn't replace him. But for someone else to be there when Ernie was still available and still perfectly capable was completely unacceptable. That strike two was so big that you didn't need a strike three.

[romad1]

Paul Carey and Ernie are probably still bouncing around in the ionosphere given the quality of their pipes. Paul Carey's voice will be the one I hear if I make it to the pearly gates.  

[Motor City Sonics]

  On 6/4/2023 at 8:51 PM, romad1 said:

Paul Carey and Ernie are probably still bouncing around in the ionosphere given the quality of their pipes. Paul Carey's voice will be the one I hear if I make it to the pearly gates.  

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What if it's Fran Drescher's ? 

[Jim Cowan]

  On 6/4/2023 at 8:51 PM, romad1 said:

Paul Carey and Ernie are probably still bouncing around in the ionosphere given the quality of their pipes. Paul Carey's voice will be the one I hear if I make it to the pearly gates.  

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Yes Paul was one of those Voice of God guys.  Lorne Greene was another.

[romad1]

  On 6/5/2023 at 12:00 AM, Jim Cowan said:

Yes Paul was one of those Voice of God guys.  Lorne Greene was another.

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there was this bizarre youtube video I ran across yesterday narrated by Lorne Greene which was a US Army tv program called The Big Picture made in the 60s.   Yes, he was a man with golden pipes.

[romad1]

  On 6/4/2023 at 9:40 PM, Motor City Sonics said:

What if it's Fran Drescher's ? 

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Maybe you haven't heard generic lower-middle class Michigan woman talk after being away from Michigan for a while.  Fran Drescher sounds like Julie f'n Andrews in comparison.

[chasfh]

  On 6/4/2023 at 6:37 PM, CMRivdogs said:

Actually they both went on to decent careers. Rizzs with the Mariners and Rathbun with Atlanta’s Hawks and some college basketball on the side. The both happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. 

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Rick Rizzs has an outside shot at making the broadcaster’s wing of the Hall of Fame. I kid you not.

[Tiger337]

  On 6/5/2023 at 1:49 AM, chasfh said:

Rick Rizzs has an outside shot at making the broadcaster’s wing of the Hall of Fame. I kid you not.

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Right there with Harold Baines!

[gehringer_2]

  On 6/5/2023 at 12:00 AM, Jim Cowan said:

Yes Paul was one of those Voice of God guys.  Lorne Greene was another.

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Years ago I was surrounded by older men men who had initially reached adulthood as tinny tenors but had smoked their way to a dulcent baritone. Bad trade off of course.

[Motor City Sonics]

Rick Rizz is good. He had the misfortune of following a legend who was forced out by some dirty dealing by someone at WJR, who was smart enough to wait a couple years before taking the gig because the one who followed Ernie would be unfairly treated.    

[Jim Cowan]

  On 6/5/2023 at 1:03 AM, romad1 said:

there was this bizarre youtube video I ran across yesterday narrated by Lorne Greene which was a US Army tv program called The Big Picture made in the 60s.   Yes, he was a man with golden pipes.

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I have heard people try to put John Facenda from the original NFL Films in this category but he doesn't have the richness.

[oblong]

  On 6/5/2023 at 1:49 AM, chasfh said:

Rick Rizzs has an outside shot at making the broadcaster’s wing of the Hall of Fame. I kid you not.

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He does. They love him there.

One year about 15 years ago we had the free preview of whatever the precursor to MLB Extra Innings.  I had a random game on while cooking and thought to myself "This broadcaster is good...".  It was Rizzs.  I didn't know it was Seattle or him.  

Rathbun lived in a gated community in Dearborn where a lot of other young TIgers, and Sparky, lived.  I delivered pizza to him.  Nice guy.

[romad1]

  On 6/5/2023 at 12:10 PM, oblong said:

He does. They love him there.

One year about 15 years ago we had the free preview of whatever the precursor to MLB Extra Innings.  I had a random game on while cooking and thought to myself "This broadcaster is good...".  It was Rizzs.  I didn't know it was Seattle or him.  

Rathbun lived in a gated community in Dearborn where a lot of other young TIgers, and Sparky, lived.  I delivered pizza to him.  Nice guy.

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Just on the off chance.  I had buddies who worked at Monroe Street pizza in Dearborn.  I use that as my phone greeting here in DC when I get a call I don't recognize at my desk.