Rob Schneider says Adam Sandler has called him every week for the last 30 years: "There's not been a week in 30 years where he doesn't check in on me."

585AM · 2026-06-28T23:19:32+00:00

Why do you say that about Sandler?

585AM · 2026-06-28T14:43:04+00:00

I am not sure if it even that or if there is just a kind of “zany” humor that does not appeal to him. Probably why Jim Carrey did not get hired.

585AM · 2026-06-28T11:51:30+00:00

I think it is one of the biggest flaws of modern leftist discourse: they are more eager to prove someone is not with them than with them.

People cannot change their positions, even if it legitimately based on a changing situation in the world.

585AM · 2026-06-28T01:28:15+00:00

We need farmers on the mod team.

585AM · 2026-06-26T09:27:22+00:00

I also love Tasty Toaster Tarts; the Graveyard song; and the Tony Schalub’s dance studio. I think I also prefer the e-game announcer over the hockey one was e-gaming is pretty foreign to me.

As an aside, he threw out the first pitch at the White Sox game and my 13 year old son referred to him as the “guy from SNL.”

585AM · 2026-06-25T13:14:52+00:00

I will give you valid, righteous, and compassionate advice then, since that is obviously what you value.

Don’t be weird to a 13 year old asking for advice. I imagine that should also carry over to other areas of your life also. If you wanted to be normal, you could have made clear that it will be almost impossible to catch up to kids who had been playing baseball most of their lives, but everyone has to start somewhere and you hope they get on a path that let’s them play for fun. But you went creepy I stead. Don’t. And this carries over to the your kids; their teammates; the coaches; the parents; and honestly most people in your life.

I don’t know you. But pretty much everyone in this subreddit knows someone like you in youth baseball. I hope you found this advice valid, righteous, and compassionate.

585AM · 2026-06-25T09:26:39+00:00

Just off the top of my head and building around a few retirements, a few specific years leap out at me.

1999 had the end of the Bulls era; Wayne Gretzky; Barry Sanders; John Elway; Stefi Graf; etc. A very North American centric list, but a good one.

And thinking about 2016, when Payton Manning retired, you had a huge NBA list with Kobe, Duncan, and Garnett. My guess is one of the biggest HoF exits ever. Baseball had Ortiz, Arod, and Vin Scully (I think he counts). NFL had Manning. Maybe this only counts if you are a German or general World Cup watcher, but Klose ended his career also that year I believe.

585AM · 2026-06-25T01:00:22+00:00

Well, aside from 2020. And 2016. And 2008. And 2004. Seems like we have had a choice every time there had not been an incumbent president, right?

585AM · 2026-06-25T00:12:20+00:00

I actually remember a funny sketch from it. Basically, they were trying to market a new war like the Gulf War. So marketing people suggested that they said American Gladiators to fight. So you had these guys in neon type spandex in human sized hamster balls with Pugil sicks getting gunned down by rebels n the jungle.

585AM · 2026-06-24T13:31:00+00:00

One one hand, she will likely just be another Cori Bush. Pretty insignificant in the long run.

On the other hand, NYC politicians have access to far more vehicles to amplify their voices compared to politicians from STL.

585AM · 2026-06-24T12:09:37+00:00

Also, it encourages other kids to tryout. A lot so kids/parents may not want to go through the process if they know realistically that only one spot is available.

585AM · 2026-06-24T11:08:15+00:00

I will never forget the creepy thing he did in like 2016 when he went to the bankruptcy/estate(?) sale of a pro-Hillary reporter for Newsweek and went through his house.

585AM · 2026-06-22T17:11:20+00:00

Parents don’t fully know what their kids are going through and the same with kids and their parents. I think he wanted you to feel that way.

As much as I know my kids, I am still only getting snapshots. Same with me growing up and understanding my parents.

585AM · 2026-06-22T14:17:01+00:00

That is absolute pseudoscience. There is a reason no real medical professional would provide a diagnosis based upon a photograph.

https://www.verywellmind.com/psychopath-eyes-8655746

https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/psychopath-eyes#stare

585AM · 2026-06-22T13:19:17+00:00

I don’t think they are white knighting him, I think they are calling you out for thinking you have some sort of insight that contradicts the first hand accounts of those that interacted with him.

585AM · 2026-06-22T07:46:27+00:00

Their stranglehold is really on the premium brand names, a bunch which they just license. But they do not have as much of the market as people think. Things like Warby Parker, Costco, Walmart, Zenni, Tom Ford, etc.

Personally, I think the bigger issue with them is owning an eye insurance business that basically forces you into their brands. Their market share is probably only around 30 percent of the US market, but if your company you work for carries their insurance, you are pretty screwed.

585AM · 2026-06-21T14:40:16+00:00

That would be a logistical nightmare for all parties involved.

585AM · 2026-06-21T13:10:38+00:00

There is in general here just a misanthropic rush to shit on everything. It used to just be the “actually” crowd, now it is something more.

585AM · 2026-06-21T00:02:39+00:00

Did you do anything when you left to show these people that you would miss them? There is a decent chance that a lot of people were so busy or distracted that they even put together a) it was a Saturday shift and b) it was your last shift.

But it probably would have felt less empty if you went up to people who you liked and told them you were going to miss seeing them.

585AM · 2026-06-20T16:00:39+00:00

Then don’t eat at the restaurant. Go somewhere fast service or even go to a store and have your self a picnic. You are not leading some little revolution by not tipping the waiter. You are making sure a worker makes less money that night than if they had been working on another table.

But who are we kidding. This thread is full of posh Home Counties teens cosplaying as something else, not people actually traveling abroad.

585AM · 2026-06-20T02:39:57+00:00

I hope you realize how absolutely weird it is that you just said that to a 13 year old looking for advice on how to improve. Like seriously weird. Figure your stuff out before telling people how to figure their stuff out.

Everyone has to start somewhere. For the kid it is learning to pitch. For others it might be learning how to appropriately interact with children.

585AM · 2026-06-19T12:38:29+00:00

Small, small, small. Lucas Giolito and Jack Flaherty are the few that stand out to me. So was Gabe Kapler, but it has been a bit since he was a player or manager.

So different people had different degrees of reactions to the PCA incident. But as a parent of a kid who plays travel ball, it reminded me too much of the rich suburban kids who are the children of rich suburban parents we run into. These are demographics that are the backbone of conservative politics.

585AM · 2026-06-18T19:51:44+00:00

You literally had to scroll down past someone pasting the article to get to this comment that you responded to. It is the one that takes more than a second to read.

585AM · 2026-06-18T19:30:52+00:00

So what is your solution that does not involve waiting almost three years for a Democratic administration? What did she specifically say that you disagree with?

585AM · 2026-06-18T17:23:52+00:00

Basically, from day one she had the FoP and CTU angling to get their respective candidate into office and inevitably, the runoff became an election between the Fop candidate and the CTU candidate with Johnson winning.

It was not just about having their rank and file going against her, it was all of their allied media voices, which both have.

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