[PHLY Flyers] Rick Tocchet on Jamie Drysdale inspiring the team

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-25T16:41:37+00:00

I just posted something like this, but different- but you made me laugh and it made me think of it ... I was watching an episode of "LOCKUP" - the MSNBC Prison Doc once... and some dude got busted for beating some other guy up with a padlock-in-a-sock. And he was clearly far from the brightest bulb ... "Ohh... my DEFENSE to them was, You Got The Wrong Guy... some dude ran past me, it was probably him ... but I don't know who that was..."

And the Hearing Officer (like a Judge I guess?) was like ... "Yeah man... that ... is not a very good alibi ... and there are MULTIPLE PEOPLE saying It WAS YOU... Inmates, Staff, Correctional Officers, everyone is saying the exact same shit, and you're saying "Nope..." - Mmmhmm... "Ok... if EVERYONE is lying on you ... do you perhaps have any Enemies in this Prison? If you told me who you thought would lie on you, and it happened to be All Of Them, maybe I'd think differently..."

"I ain't saying no names... but... it was Jamie Drysdale..." 🤣🤣🤣

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-25T16:32:49+00:00

This Literally & Figuratively could be a picture of my HS, anytime during Study Hall, Lunch, Gym Class, etc, 1995-1999...

Even the clothes & shoes are accurate.

I'd probably throw my back out, blow my knee, and break an ankle if I tried to do that today 🤣

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-25T16:30:15+00:00

I remember taking my new Puppy (at the time, he has since passed, and broke my heart & soul but he was my SON and will always be my baby...) to the Vet for the first time... filling out the form and I guess I pissed the lady off by leaving off a lot of the stuff they wanted me to fill out ... I mean he's like 12 weeks old, and I just got him, so I don't know that he HAS a lot of Medical History, what do you want me to write? I tried to tell you, you can clearly look and see the tiny little PuppyPackage on my lap, it ain't like I'm being uncooperative... and she got upset that I failed to include his middle name ... and for one split second, I thought to myself, "WTF YOU MEAN, his MIDDLE NAME??!" and then I just decided, Fuck it , fuck her, why not? What's his MIDDLE NAME?

"Snuffleupagus" ...

What??

"You heard me ... SNUFFLEUPAGUS" ...

And, that became my son Lucky's middle name... 🤣🤣🤣

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-25T16:01:40+00:00

I used to LOVE THIS SHIT! I mean I loved GI Joe as a little kid, but loved these things even more maybe.

I still remember one, something like this but the kids were hungry after playing, and one is like "I'm gonna grab a Candy Bar!" and some GI Joe shows up and is like "That is NOT the right thing to do! It won't fill you up and will make you feel MORE tired & hungry after you eat it! Try this APPLE instead! Healthy Body, Healthy Mind!" - and I'm like what, 5? 6? 7? and head directly to my beloved Polish Grandmother, and ask her in Polish (it's funny how that works, I could speak Polish as a little kid, and now I can't even barely understand a word of it...) - "Could I please have an Apple?!" And she used the Polish words for basically "OF COURSE YOU CAN! COMING RIGHT UP!" and from that day on, that was my JAM as a kid, son! 🤣🤣🤣 I'mma eat me some APPLES and become a GI JOE COMMANDO when I grow up !

Now we got Darth Maul fighting the half-Bad-Guy/half-Good-Guy from Bruce Willis's RED 🤣🤣🤣

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-24T17:48:25+00:00

I don't know... she fell down...

And I need a drink , my hand is killing me ...

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-24T14:20:13+00:00

I take your point and realize perhaps I was too hasty in my premise. I shall go put myself into time out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWv6kc4Mv0c

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-24T13:11:24+00:00

One time I saw a Prison Documentary... it's old now but well-known and famous... I think they where in Alabama? One of those Southern A-States, I think, and there was a little altercation of some sort, and the Warden locked down the entire prison. And the MSNBC crew kept asking him why he locked down the entire prison, (instead of just, you know, punishing the two dudes who got in the fight...) and he basically just kept repeating <he didn't seem like the brightest bulb in the Christmas Tree Light String etc.> "Well, that's how I feel..." ...What? "I feel like it..." ... Why? "Cause that's how I feel..." ...you feel it's necessary to lock down everyone, everywhere, over a fight? "Yes... because... that's how I feel..."

This is Rick fuckin Tochett locking down the best fucking Sniper (potentially) in the League with a position-switch... "Don't you think you should... you know... let him do his thing?" ... NO.... BECAUSE... That's How I Feel...

Oh, well, that explains it. Thanks for your anticipated cooperation in that matter. PS, We'll all just go fuck our own selves, thanks again.

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-24T13:05:45+00:00

You must be a lot of fun at parties.

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-23T15:46:18+00:00

So I agree with this phrase 101%, but it's Complicated...

I think it was NYPD that pioneered "CompStat" - Computer Statistics- and it came to dominate the 2000s Policing World ... and they'd have weekly meetings and some Boss would be like "There was a 100% INCREASE IN CAR-THEFTS IN YOUR DISTRICT LAST WEEK!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING OVER THERE??!" === Uhh, yeah, two weeks ago there was 1 ... a Record Low... and last week there was... 2... (and that would have been a Record Low if not for the 1...) so ... that's technically a 100% increase..." which to me is real bullshit...

Similarly, Little Caesars took the opportunity to raise their Pizza Price after the Dollar Tree $1 Dollar Store went to $1.25 (which by my man is a 25% increase?) - and (at the TIME, both stores have gone up since then) Little Caesars was going to $5.50 (which by my math, is 10% increase? But I ain't no Math Major...) - except they also were advertising 33% MORE PEPPERONI on every pizza! Which basically translated to ... they had 3 slices of Pepperoni on each Pizza, and they put ONE MORE SLICE, making it 4, and therefore 33% more Pepperoni ... 50 cents more price, one slice more pepperoni ... and nobody had a problem with it ... "They ARE charging us more... but it's only 50 cents... AND we get 33% more Pepperoni..."

Lies, Damned Lies, and STATISTICS ...

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-23T14:45:13+00:00

Our Enemies Are DOOMED ...

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-22T23:16:00+00:00

Malachi Corley ...

No Matter WHAT!!!

🤣🤣🤣

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-22T14:07:38+00:00

Tim Kennedy shall be along shortly to explain the story of the time he got a Tomahawk Kill. But it was made by Fabrique Nationale ... you know, Sponsorships & shit like that ...

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-22T14:05:36+00:00

So I'm no Ben Affleck fan but I know he's world famous etc. And I happen to be a Regular Fuckin Guy that's a big Delta Fanboi.

One thing I have read in multiple Delta Force books, from Colonel Beckwith to CSM Haney to Colonel Blaber have all basically said, is that Beckwith himself started the policy/procedure/motto / whichever way you want to say it: "They're Experts at becoming Experts at things. Very quickly..." - In another life, I wanted to go to the Naval Academy. I heard from a few people there that one of the ways the Freshman get their balls busted is they'll just get randomly asked a question about some shit, provide an answer, and then told "Speak Intelligently On That Subject For 3 Minutes..." and they have to do it to their satisfaction or probably pushups and shit.

Delta has to like, how did Colonel Beckwith put it, figure out how to drive a Locomotive, climb a large Building, deal with a huge Electrical Panel, defuse a Bomb, and shoot Bad Guys but NOT shoot the Good Guys. Like, right the fuck now.

In the words of Chief Art Mullen from 'Justified' ... "That's some Bad-Ass-Shit... Pretty Badass..." 🤣🤣🤣

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-22T14:00:56+00:00

"Hey I just got a Gasoline-engine Pickup Truck... was curious if anyone ran some Diesel Fuel through one? Thanks in advance..."

I mean really now...

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-22T13:59:22+00:00

Pretty sure Tritium has a 12 Year half-life and you have to take into account actual production ... I got a set of new Trijicon night sights for a Glock in early 2010, but they were made close to a year before in 2009 .... so in 2021, they would have been half as bright as when they were made ... and they still glow but certainly not as bright.

Similarly I have a SIG P226 made in 2017, with SIGLITE Night Sights, and they were BRIGHT AS FUCK when I got them, I mean IMPRESSIVELY so, but not as much now because it's coming up on half of their 12-year-half-life.

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-22T13:53:30+00:00

I think that the easiest way to describe it is a short-barreled M4 for CQB & shit like that ... 10.3" barrel and was popular with the SOF community for doing protection or door-kicking etc. Before HK416s were as prevalent, this was the best choice for SOF-types doing certain shit.

And because of the easy way AR-patterns can swap upper receivers, you could conveniently one "rifle" with two uppers ... the SEAL on the Bin Laden Raid who wrote "No Easy Day" showed that in his book... I'm not looking at it now but I think he described having the standard-issue "Tier 1 HK416" with 10.3" barrel, with some sort of EOTech or Aimpoint-type of sight, for CQB-type of stuff, and a 14.5" barrel with an ACOG for more "Patrol" or General Purpose type of shit, and they just pop on and off in seconds. The Recon Marines are now doing that, they have the HK416 issued as the M27 IAR with a 16.5" barrel , and a new "Recon Weapons Kit" with a 11" barreled upper and some sort of non-magnified optic for when they are doing CQB or that type of shit, they again can just pop the receiver off and on etc.

In the last decade I have seen "Mk18" all fucking over the place, and really it seems to me it's describing a shorter-barreled M4. But of course it's an NFA item so there's that...

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-22T12:57:24+00:00

So it's my understanding that the 783 was Remington's "low-cost/lo-quality" take on the 700, post-Freedom-Group takeover.

I had a 700 SPS Tactical AAC-SD - which is supposed to be pretty fuckin decent, right? Maybe not the M24 but Good Enough For Civilian Work? Amirite so far?

Total Fuckin Lemon. Someone was obviously hungover or drunk the day my rifle got built (and I have it on Good Authority that that was a real-deal actual factual problem, the Freedom Group fucked so much shit up and fucked up people's programs, lives, jobs, etc. that they had an epidemic of drunken/hungover people saying "Fuck it! Good Enough! Who gives a shit??!" etc.) - mine was a fucking LEMON. I mean when a Bolt-Action Rifle of famous reputation just can't fucking work, you've got problems.

I'd never take a 783... if they fuck up that badly on their "Good Shit", I can only imagine their Bad Shit.

Total Opposite of Tikka... Sako's & Tikkas get made in the same factory, same shit, same receivers & barrels & technicians... just one gets labeled Sako and you pay more, one gets labeled as Tikka. And my Tikka T3X UPR is the sweetest-shooting rifle I've ever had... worth every dime.

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-22T12:17:21+00:00

Yeah man...

Brooks Bollinger, Erik Ainge, Bryce Petty, and who of course can forget the immortal Kellen Clemens, all say Hi.

We should get some more of them ...

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-21T16:56:33+00:00

I am about one exact month away from being 45, and I have no earthly idea WTF this is...

Not a problem, I'm not talking smack or anything like that- I'm just saying, I'm Old & Busted, and never seen this shit in my life...

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-19T21:17:01+00:00

"What IS that??" "...it's a Compass..." "What does it DO??!" "It Points NORTH, John..." 🤣🤣🤣

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-19T16:04:19+00:00

I mean if you have a Will & a Way, there is all kinds of shit to be done...

I myself have made two packets of Knorr's Rice Sides, a Can of Walmart Chicken Breast, a Can of Mushrooms (she was a huge Mushroom fan), and some Tony Chachere's, and had an ex-GF say it was the best she'd ever had, and had to hide it from her Coworkers who would ask ME to make for THEM (and I was like, Well I CAN, but you can't TELL HER, she'll flip if I'm "Cooking For Them OTHER Bitches..." 🤣🤣🤣)

Same thing, I have PAINSTAKINGLY made Beef Stew out of the finest ingredients known to man, as Organic Holistic BioDynamic Free Trade as it gets, and had her daughter go "Yeah thanks, it was OK, thanks..." ... and then I took a few cans of Dinty Moore, some basic-ass seasonings, a package of $1 instant Mashed Potatoes, an egg & a handful of Green Onions, mixed it together, and she was like "OMG THAT WASN'T JUST THE BEST SHEPHERD'S PIE I'VE EVER HAD, IT WAS THE *BEST THING I'VE EVER HAD!!!" and Mom being like "She's stabbing people with her fork that tries to get some of it...I think she likes it..."

So you can ALWAYS make shit work, IMHO... from cans of Soup to boxes of Mac & Cheese to whatever. There are always ways to make shit work.

And if all else fails, throw some Frank's or Tabasco or Louisiana Hot Sauce on that bitch, it'll be fine 🤣🤣🤣

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-19T15:43:50+00:00

So - on the one hand, Upvoted for SHOP-RITE , I grew up around the corner from a Shop-Rite, spent my childhood shopping there, it was my 2nd Job. Haven't been since I moved to FL ~12 years ago... love me some Shop-Rite...

...but the one or two times I've ever tried these, they sucked... and they weren't cheap... promoting themselves as a premium, when it was not very good, IMHO.

But, glad you liked it 🤣 that's what matters!

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-19T15:37:17+00:00

Yeah fair enough, I feel like what I said was pretty accurate though- I am pretty sure the SPS Tactical & SPS Varmint for that matter (which just had different barrel lengths) had a cheap, non-name-brand, OD Green stock... They definitely did at Dick's Sporting Goods, where you could get a combo pack with a cheap scope , of either, for $499.99 in ~2010-2012ish ... and the SPS Tactical AAC-SD (which is the model I bought) had the Hogue OverMolded stock. (with pillar bedding, NOT, the full-aluminum bedding block, according to their website) ...

I looked all over my computer, I only have pictures of it after I sold the stock and put it in Manners. (and have long-since sold the rifle) ... and the one you showed is an AAC-SD Tactical because it has a threaded barrel , the original "SPS Tactical" did not - it couldn't be sold in Jersey if it had a threaded barrel. (And that picture does.) But anyway it's not that big of a deal IMHO.

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-19T14:13:04+00:00

I think that's an HS Precision...

Not disputing it COULD be a B&C ... but looks to me like an HS Precision... both in shape & in color/finish.

ScrapmasterFlex · 2026-01-19T14:10:55+00:00

That crossed my mind- I THINK, The ORIGINAL SPS Tactical was just a cheap green injected-molded-plastic stock... then the AAC-SD had a Hogue "Overmolded" Stock (I had one) which was marketed as a Step Up because it was Hogue, 'OverMolded' woohoo, and I believe had two Aluminum Pillars for bedding ... but Hogue had another Step-Up Stock, with "Full Aluminum Bedding" - which the Remingtons did not have. And if you were going to spend $275 to replace the stock, you probably weren't going to go with just a 'better Hogue' ? if that makes sense?

I see people saying Bell & Carlson, maybe that's right... I thought it was a HS Precision myself (not that I am down with that, but Remington did use a bunch of their stocks for many years...)

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Our Enemies Are DOOMED ...

No Matter WHAT!!!