Rock band starts a new thread every now and then, so they probably won't.

EDIT: I see what you mean though, the current thread is almost at 6000. If you want to be real sneaky-like, just go ahead and start a new Rock Band Thread saying "Since the old one was almost up to 6000 posts, I figured it was time to start a new thread"

"Pens" must be part of some sort of sporting games.

Maybe another way to do this is set up something in-advance that we can try to plan on as a community.

Pittsburgh Penguins NHL team. I would guess, being from Minnesota you would have heard a little about hockey growing up, like the former North Stars and now the Wild.

Yeah, I went to one of their last games and some guy got the crowd riled up to shout, "NORM SUCKS! NORM SUCKS!" because the owner was moving the North Stars. The Wild's a completely different team, actually; the North Stars moved to Texas and became the Dallas Stars in the early-1990s and The Wild started up in like 2000, I think.

I played football in middle/high school for a while and I appreciate the skill it takes to play that game well (even watch a Sunday afternoon game, from time to time, if my wife already has it on TV when I come home from work) and I was into hockey a little bit in middle school (I think I just liked wearing a socially-acceptable hat with a shark on it), but sports were just never my thing. The closest I come to enjoying a sport is watching a great game of baseball on TV or in the stadium... though I'm always fascinated by how often rougher contact sport fans of football or hockey or whatever roll their eyes and say baseball is boring or isn't that much of a sport.

I see teenagers get more pressure from their coaches to commit, commit, commit and win, win, win to the point they're scared to miss even one practice because the coach threatens to bench them the entire season. This emphasis on single-minded focus above everything else (let's face it - even academics, for some coaches) and competition over participation or even having fun just really turns me off. When I see that happening at the middle/high school years, it doesn't make me all that enthusiastic watching professional sports, either. I know there's not necessarily a causation between the two sporting worlds but it still bugs me.

I know the Wild is a completely different team Just mentioned them because they are the NHL team in Minnesota these days.

A lot more people than I would have thought seem to be pretty enthusiastic that the Lynx won it all, I'll tell you that!

That has to be the first pro sports title for Minnesota since the Twins, right? Even if it is the WNBA.

Was wondering what the hell "the Lynx" was...LOL.

Football... women's basketball.. and here I was thinking this thread couldn't get anymore boring.

My arguement to those that say baseball isn't a sport is usually to do 2 things. Try and hit a ball off of a pitcher who throws a good curve and some heat. Hardest thing in sports to do. Then take some heat high and inside and tell me it doesn't scare the pants off of you or hurt if it hits you. I pitched, played infield and was a catcher. - As a matter of fact I was the only guy on the team who could catch for our hardest throwing pitcher he threw 90-95 on the radar but was wild and eventually broke his leg.
There's good coaches and bad coaches. I had both. My High School baseball coach was a redneck douche who hated me and definitely played favorites. My two high school football head coaches and my track coach were great guys who helped guys use their talents to get great opportunities to move on in life.

So he wasn't all bad then?

I get along with lotsa rednecks - He was a doucheb......





He probably would have fitted in with our group now that I think about it.

Show me on the doll where he touched you.

lol

Fuck. I could hit anyone's fastball. But as soon as you threw a decent curve up there, you got in my head and that fastball seemed like it came at me at 100+.


I had more than my share of bad coaches. This is also attributable to being raised on baseball and knowing more about the game than a number of my coaches. These were also the belligerent assholes that cared more about asserting their authority than listening to the voices of their players. I got blackballed from my high school team even though I started in centerfield and hit 2nd or 5th for the same school district's summer travel/all-star team. I had to switch schools in order to play. After I'd gone on to college this particular coach was fired for the same verbal and physical abuse against his players I'd witnessed with regularity five years prior. Then at college I found myself faced with a carbon copy of that guy. I had to make a decision to endure someone that would probably make me hate the game or quit. I quit. And I still regret it even though that asshole was fired during my junior year for throwing his shortstop against the fence. There's just too many of these "instructors" who think that the best way to assert their authority is with the latent threat of verbal or physical abuse.

So which kind of coaches are those two fellas at the end of the football game yesterday?...

Who's on this week, October 18? We doing this? Also...

My brother just bought a PS3 (you may remember him as the guy who, while visiting my pad last spring, nabbed chess's dogtags in BFBC2 within his five minutes of his first time playing the game) and I think he picked up a copy of Warhawk, too. If we're on this week and he can join us, is it possible we could please play without the DLC map packs so he can play, too?

After watching this video I am really digging Starhawk

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Nic, is that you with the TOW missile at the :40 second mark?

God damn right you are!

That's a platform...in motherfucking space!

Any pre-order deals / premiums for Starhawk yet?

Did you see the part where he destroyed the dunebuggy...with his fucking mind?

May as well tell your brother to return that copy of Warhawk before he opens it. I think this group is pretty much dead.

He probably bought it for $10 or less. Not too much of a cost. Guarantee there will be at least one last hurrah after Friz is back.

Just a heads up...I haven't been around at all for the last couple months, but that doesn't mean I'm out forever.

In the last few weeks of August, there was a big push at work where I was doing paperwork all night to get everything in, then I started classes in the fall...one of which was online. I have never taken an online class before, but it has been brutal, I should have just taken the in person option, but I figured, how hard could a class in the Sociology of Education be?

Fuck that...for the last 6-weeks, all I do is read thick, post-constructionalist theory on education...which I barely understand and then have to answer questions and discuss with people who are in that program and are super passionate about it...it is fucking killing me. I can't relax enough to set a night aside to play right now.

Once classes are done, I’ll be back. I’m not taking classes in the spring at all, because my wife is pregnant and due in March…I guess we will see how that affects my VG time, but if I have a night (or nights) set aside, my wife will be cool with it.

I’m still planning on buying BF3 and MW3 and I’ll definitely be down for Warhawk when people play, but I’m going to wait on Starhawk to see if it catches on.