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  1. KidSilverhair

    ***2023-24 MLB Off-Season Thread***

    Well, maybe a salary cap plus a solid floor on spending by owners. There are too many clubs where the owners pinch pennies and run their payrolls on the cheap while pocketing the cash inflows from TV/MLB. Make every owner spend at least a certain percentage of their cash flow on salaries...
  2. KidSilverhair

    Transfer Portal Tracker

    Hmm, I never thought about service academy guys and the transfer portal, but when you enter a military academy you are pledging to serve in that branch.
  3. KidSilverhair

    Random Thoughts 17: Here we go again.

    He was, different. I got along with him okay, but I didn’t always agree with his methods of supervision or how he dealt with people. He had been married and divorced by the time he came to CR, and had a young son who I believe was living in Texas with his mom. He would have almost daily phone...
  4. KidSilverhair

    Random Thoughts 17: Here we go again.

    Lol, no, not in Cedar Rapids. I have heard that story, though. We didn’t get a whole lot of military traffic, an occasional visit from some fighters or transport aircraft doing practice approaches. Getting visits from Air Force 1 was always an event (usually a big hassle, since it shuts down...
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    Random Thoughts 17: Here we go again.

    Man, I can’t tell you how many times we had to deal with this in the control tower …
  6. KidSilverhair

    Random Thoughts 17: Here we go again.

    He’s just making sure they put every light they‘ve got on that runway.
  7. KidSilverhair

    Random Thoughts 17: Here we go again.

    I don’t need that kind of stress in my life any more, Mr. Pilot Man. :D
  8. KidSilverhair

    What movies have the greatest casts?

    And there’s even more in The Marvels. IYKYK. ”Memories, all alone in the moon-light …”
  9. KidSilverhair

    Brighter headlights today

    I’m ashamed to admit several years ago I drove home from work multiple times in the dark with just my daytime running lights on. They provided enough light (especially in town) that I didn’t realize I didn’t actually have my headlights on, and I’m sure that meant my taillights weren’t on...
  10. KidSilverhair

    49ers - Brock Purdy - Still and Always #1

    Aaron Rodgers? Doesn’t it take more than four plays to be considered a “comeback”?
  11. KidSilverhair

    Brighter headlights today

    I am with ya, my friend. It‘s bad enough that my older eyes have a harder time dealing with the normal glare - now folks have to buy aftermarket headlamps that can illuminate the surface of Mars as they’re tooling down Highway 30. This certainly seems like a safety issue the government ought to...
  12. KidSilverhair

    Feedback: Please report new forum bugs here

    Yep. Blank space saying “This tweet is unavailable” but if you click on the link you go right to it. Also, can’t help but think how desperately Elon has been trying to rebrand as X, yet so much of the behind-the-scenes stuff still includes redirects to “Twitter.com” or gives you messages like...
  13. KidSilverhair

    MOVIE: Leave The World Behind

    Don’t get this former air traffic controller started on the hilarious impossibilities of the villain’s plan in Die Hard 2. Or the chances of every controller working furiously on a bad-weather night at Dulles suddenly stopping what they’re doing to listen to Fred Thompson give a solemn “stack...
  14. KidSilverhair

    Commercials that need to be shot into the sun

    Well, they don’t even have mustaches, so …
  15. KidSilverhair

    ***Official 2023 Weather Thread***

    Just have them come to eastern Iowa. All the creeks and rivers are very, very, very low - some of them nearly dry. I‘d say our drought condition category is accurate.
  16. KidSilverhair

    Worst Movies Ever

    And Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy? It may be slow, but it’s a good movie with some outstanding performances.
  17. KidSilverhair

    Worst Movies Ever

    Ah, yes, Pistachio Disguisey.
  18. KidSilverhair

    NFL: Kansas City Chiefs Thread

    I think if the lineman’s head is in front of the hips of the lineman next to him he’s considered on the line/not in the backfield. Obviously line/backfield criteria is a little bit more flexible than across-the-line-of/scrimmage criteria.
  19. KidSilverhair

    49ers - Brock Purdy - Still and Always #1

    Cowherd is just an egotistical numbskull with bad takes to drive engagement. And his takes are always “big brands are good, we all root for the blue bloods, upsets and Cinderellas suck, that’s not real sports.” Of course he’d pump up the numbers of a Dallas Cowboys QB over everybody else, the...
  20. KidSilverhair

    Should Florida State skip the Orange Bowl?

    This is true … but before that decision the NCAA controlled the TV rights for college football, and there was literally only one or two games broadcast each Saturday. The bonanza of college football games we get each week is a direct result of that case. (I think there was a short period where...
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