Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[notJaco]

Well,

I do enjoy this thread and am rarely online, so when I come in after weeks away, I'm looking for context.



Hello context!

Yes, the demise of the "Random Thoughts Megathread" has given its subscribership little reason to live anymore.

 

[Winslow]

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Not quite that old yet. Besides, I make sure I get my REM sleep.

It’s now deemed too dangerous for fans to bring a glove and catch out of bounds balls.

Forget that. If I'm to sit in line-drive foul territory, I'm bringing my glove. Better to have and not need, etc.

Yes, I see that's precisely how it works out on teevee
/snark

Somebody's a little extra grumpy today, I see.

 

[Charlie Tango]

This is the first I learned of major league baseball ball girls. Always seemed to me a major selling point in baseball for young boys includes putting out windows.

I had an older female cousin who was a "bat boy" for the St. Louis Cardinals for at least part of a summer back in the 60s. She was a tomboy until she went to college. Her mother, my aunt by marriage, was known for going Christmas "shopping" in the attic or basement. We used get get shipped a box of usually very odd presents every year. One year I unwrapped a large shoe box crammed to bursting with my cousin's baseball cards. Some were even signed. Almost every team. I was instantly the envy of my friends. I used to pore over those cards by the hour. Then I moved out of the house, leaving the cards and other stuff behind for my parents to store for me. Then my parents moved to Florida in the late 70s and the shoe box didn't make the trip. Sigh.

 

[notJaco]

I had an older female cousin who was a "bat boy" for the St. Louis Cardinals for at least part of a summer back in the 60s. She was a tomboy until she went to college. Her mother, my aunt by marriage, was known for going Christmas "shopping" in the attic or basement. We used get get shipped a box off usually very odd presents every year. One year I unwrapped a large shoe box crammed to bursting with my cousin's baseball cards. Some were even signed. Almost every team. I was instantly the envy of my friends. I used to pore over those cards by the hour. Then I moved out of the house, leaving the cards and other stuff behind for my parents to store for me. Then my parents moved to Florida in the late 70s and the shoe box didn't make the trip. Sigh.

At the time, who would have thought that those cardboard pictures wrapped with a 5 cent piece of bubble gum would amount to a retirement plan 60 years later?

 

[GwenOnBass]

That's a lot of stale bubble gum.

 

[beans-on-toast]

These Dear Kitten vids are great!

Effective advertising. I want to go buy a tin of delicious Friskies and I don’t even have a kitty.

 

[notJaco]

That's a lot of stale bubble gum.

Just a couple of the right ones would be enough:

What is the most valuable baseball card in the world?
A 1914 Babe Ruth baseball card valued at $6m (£4.3m) has smashed records to become the most expensive baseball card ever sold. CNBC reported that the pre-rookie card was the first to feature the Major League Baseball (MLB) icon as a player at 19 years old.
Jun 3, 2021

 

[gtmalone]

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I had an older female cousin who was a "bat boy" for the St. Louis Cardinals for at least part of a summer back in the 60s. She was a tomboy until she went to college. Her mother, my aunt by marriage, was known for going Christmas "shopping" in the attic or basement. We used get get shipped a box off usually very odd presents every year. One year I unwrapped a large shoe box crammed to bursting with my cousin's baseball cards. Some were even signed. Almost every team. I was instantly the envy of my friends. I used to pore over those cards by the hour. Then I moved out of the house, leaving the cards and other stuff behind for my parents to store for me. Then my parents moved to Florida in the late 70s and the shoe box didn't make the trip. Sigh.

We had something of an Xmas tradition that started with my dad's parents. You would get a gift along with a pair of socks with some trinket like a pocket knife or a dollar bill stuffed inside. That morphed into just something silly. My folks got us a coin sorter one year and it didn't work. Next year they got it back, next year we got it back, ad infinitum. It's still in the original box so that adds value, right? lol.

 

[notJaco]

That's a lot of stale bubble gum.

It looks like Topps had quit putting gum in with the cards in 1992.
People were complaining that the gum stained the cards and killed their value.

 

[GwenOnBass]

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[gtmalone]

Just a couple of the right ones would be enough:

What is the most valuable baseball card in the world?
A 1914 Babe Ruth baseball card valued at $6m (£4.3m) has smashed records to become the most expensive baseball card ever sold. CNBC reported that the pre-rookie card was the first to feature the Major League Baseball (MLB) icon as a player at 19 years old.
Jun 3, 2021

When I put baseball cards in the spokes of the scooter, I found I liked the Honus Wagner over the Babe Ruth. The Carl Yastrzemski and Ted Williams cards are pretty good, too. Those seem to last longer but you can't beat the sound of the Honus Wagner. That's probably why the Honus is so expensive.

 

[RodRy]

And now for something completely different.

Dear Friskies,
Sorry to say, all three of our cats prefer the dried cat food over canned, regardless of brand or flavor profile.
Best of luck

 

[beans-on-toast]

Dear Friskies,
Sorry to say, all three of our cats prefer the dried cat food over canned, regardless of brand or flavor profile.
Best of luck

Maybe your cats would change their minds if they watched the videos.

 

[gtmalone]

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Maybe your cats would change their minds if they watched the videos.

A cat changing it's mind. That's funny right there I don't care who you are.

 

[5StringBlues]

Yes, the demise of the "Random Thoughts Megathread" has given its subscribership little reason to live anymore.

It's really cut back on my ability to indulge in jackassery.

 

[notJaco]

It's really cut back on my ability to indulge in jackassery.

Yeah...I miss it, too.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

Yeah...I miss it, too.

Nobody likes this.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Courtesy of David Crosby's feed:

 

[GwenOnBass]

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A cat changing it's mind. That's funny right there I don't care who you are.

 

[beans-on-toast]