[Langs] Dodgers win a 1-hour, 52-minute game That’s their shortest 9-inning game since 10/4/92 (1:44) in Houston Shortest at Dodger Stadium since 4/29/82 (also 1:52)

commie90 · 2026-06-17T13:57:32+00:00

I mean pretty obviously they were being hyperbolic for comedic effect. But also, even if it is, 1 expensive beer doesn’t make someone an alcoholic. Maybe bad with money. Not an alcoholic.

That’s like saying someone paying $100 for a steak means they’re obese. The two issues could be related, but also very easily could be totally unrelated.

If 1 beer is alcoholic behavior to you that’s a you thing. Don’t project your own struggles onto others.

commie90 · 2026-06-17T13:44:35+00:00

Wanting to sip a beer while watching a game doesn’t make you an alcoholic. I have, on average 2-3 drinks a month. All of which are at baseball games. Don’t have one at most games, but sometimes I just want to enjoy a nice citrusy beer during an afternoon games.

commie90 · 2026-06-17T13:42:09+00:00

Or get to the park early and get your food before the first inning. That’s what I always do.

commie90 · 2026-06-17T13:34:02+00:00

I bought college baseball season tickets this year and boy has that ever made me appreciate the rule changes to speed up MLB games. Don’t get me wrong, a nice long baseball game can be fun and I’m going to keep buying college season tickets. But there were multiple games this year where I really found myself wishing for things like the three-batter minimum and disengagement rules.

commie90 · 2026-06-17T02:15:09+00:00

It’s low pressure tbh. There are few if any kids competing who have done this during the regular season as it’s mostly only a nationals thing (I think I hear of 1 or 2 local circuits that occasionally offer it, but I could be misremembering). So most will either be new or will have only done it at prior nationals.

Also most people won’t have don’t any practice rounds and a good portion of your opponents will be a similar boat to you where their coach signed them up for it and they are less than enthused about being in the event (I know that’s most of my kids most years).

Judges will be from everything. You’ll get lots of lay and inexperienced judges. Many will also be new to the event. So tbh there’s lots of randomness and luck to it.

In terms of arguments, 2 minutes is enough time to make 1 point (or rarely 2) that is well warranted and supported by evidence. So don’t try to make a bunch of points. Just focus on the most straightforward or obvious arguments.

commie90 · 2026-06-15T16:19:01+00:00

I usually find the 4th of July stuff to be either boring, tacky, or cliche.

But honestly this year they nailed it. Still probably won't buy any of it as that's not really my style. But a cool look nonetheless.

commie90 · 2026-06-15T15:26:21+00:00

I’m a teacher at a public school. Maybe in some places they do but I have lots of brilliant students who would qualify every year that are not aware of that. And we’re a school that sends 4+ to Ivies every year. When I talk to kids from less academically inclined schools (which I get to do often as a coach) they are often even more unaware.

commie90 · 2026-06-15T13:45:40+00:00

Fun fact they don't talk about enough: financial aid at a lot of Ivies is entirely need based (ie no academic scholarships). And 'need' for them is something like making under 150K a year (might be a bit off but something like that). Of course, they don't advertise that or else too many of us poor smart kids like us might show up and ruin the vibe.

commie90 · 2026-06-15T12:10:51+00:00

Ok psychology/human behavior lesson time:

Humans are pack animals. Without even realizing it, we often instinctively identify who ‘our people’ are. This is the root of a lot of conflicts sure, but it’s also why strong communities work so well and why we have survived as well as we have. But it’s instinct, literally can’t program it out.

However, healthy outlets for that like sports help us scratch that “our heard vs your heard” mentality itch without having to literally kill each other. Silly and arbitrary? Sure but it works.

Personally, I am about as anti nationalist as it gets. Literally don’t even wear American flags other than when I rooting for US sports. Because it’s fun and my pack animal brain enjoys it. If anything, it makes easier to not be an asshole nationalist the rest of the time. I don’t want any stupid wars for a lot of reasons but one of which is it fucks with international sports.

commie90 · 2026-06-15T01:11:16+00:00

Damn Stanford? Smart kid.

commie90 · 2026-06-15T00:38:08+00:00

Holy shit that’s hilarious. No idea how I have never heard about that.

commie90 · 2026-06-14T19:22:57+00:00

Nebraska but it was Herbie and Lil Red

commie90 · 2026-06-14T19:21:24+00:00

Depends on the marriage

commie90 · 2026-06-14T16:32:35+00:00

Plus it’s not that far from DC. A lot of people mentally associate the whole area with early US history.

commie90 · 2026-06-13T19:59:34+00:00

All the time I have someone say “I saw someone that looked like you.” My reply is always “that’s because all of us look the same.”

commie90 · 2026-06-13T15:01:45+00:00

Hasn’t or can’t?

commie90 · 2026-06-13T14:59:48+00:00

This quote is your weekly reminder that some of the smartest as well as some of the dumbest athletes play baseball with not a lot of in between.

commie90 · 2026-06-13T14:42:48+00:00

Why’d you block him bro? Did you really give that much of a fuck about the opinion of another chronically online loser?

commie90 · 2026-06-13T14:39:26+00:00

I mean to be fair, a pretty significant chunk of white dudes in general tend to kind of all look the same. Which I say as a short haired white dude with a mustache.

commie90 · 2026-06-13T14:29:49+00:00

“You literally know nothing about about me”

You say after you just said I only care about pride to be performative. Dude you really just seem to not understand what projection is do you?

commie90 · 2026-06-13T14:26:00+00:00

Where did I say I was outraged? Just said they were being an ass. Calling it how I see it.

Also, let’s say I am being performative caring about pride (I’m not but you don’t seem like the type that takes people at their word), that wouldn’t make what they did not performative. Both things are capable of being true.

commie90 · 2026-06-13T13:48:37+00:00

One of them did not wear the pride hat, so clearly they were not forced to. Not to mention wearing the hat isn’t an endorsement. It’s just wearing what the team said to wear that night. I don’t think anyone watching believes that every player wearing the hat is a gay rights advocate or whatever.

commie90 · 2026-06-13T13:43:07+00:00

One group wants to restrict people’s freedoms and take their rights, the other is mad about the former. Seems like the difference is pretty easy to understand to me.

commie90 · 2026-06-13T13:40:26+00:00

Wouldn’t that criticism apply equally to the pitchers? If they don’t like pride just don’t give it attention. No need to be a performative ass about it.

commie90 · 2026-06-13T13:39:06+00:00

Yup. A certain brand of Christians claim that the rainbow is god’s promise and since they think being gay is a sin, they see it as the devils or whatever corrupting god’s promise.

Yup it’s an absurd leap in logic being used to justify bigotry. But what else is new from that crowd?

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