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Watch out Babe!
exactly what i meant....If you can afford it, you don't need to let others know.
And shouldn't want to...
Watch out Babe!
It's illuminating to watch old baseball telecasts and see what happens when a player hits a home run. He runs the bases at a brisk trot with his head down, accepts a handshake or two from his teammates and disappears into the dugout. He doesn't stand to admire the flight of the ball, he doesn't flip the bat, he doesn't make eye contact with any member of the opposing team. There are occasional exceptions -- Carlton Fisk in Game 6 of the '75 Series, Ted Williams in the 1941 All Star Game -- but the fact that these exceptions are so well known proves the rule. It was considered strictly bush to show yourself up as bigger than your own team or the other team -- and if you did do it, you were likely to get the ball in your ear the next time you came up to bad.
Nobody, but nobody beat Ali in trash talking! The best part, even if you hated the man you were still laughing at the end of his interview.Truth be told, everyone that’s in the public view
no matter what arena or forum, likes to brag.
Some are better at doing it in a way that others
will admire them for it.
I wasn’t around when & if Ruth made that “called shot”.
If he was treated as has been mentioned,
all I can say is he probably didn’t have the knack of
doing it so that the fans would’ve cheered him for it.
Is that some kind of Freudian slip there?all about being seen and showing it off.
Is that some kind of Freudian slip there?
Wearing camo in the woods up here in the fall is a good way to get yourself shot. We have a lot of hunters with quick trigger fingers and not a lot of sense. Some farmers even paint their horses safety orange.
These days, it feels like you're made a pariah if you don't wear your Christianity on your sleeve, shouting God bless you, me, and the American way. Junior sits down for Pledge of Allegiance? How dare you, you Commy! Sometimes I doubt if 1950s McCarthyism has ever truly been left behind.I also hate the chest thumping and pointing to the sky to give a shoutout to the Big Guy. 1) God doesn't need you pimping for him, 2) He probably has more important things to attend, and 3) it's just laughable to think He's a Cubs fan.
These days, it feels like you're made a pariah if you don't wear your Christianity on your sleeve, shouting God bless you, me, and the American way. Junior sits down for Pledge of Allegiance? How dare you, you Commy! Sometimes I doubt if 1950s McCarthyism has ever truly been left behind.
I would suppose it is. I like on the edge of rural Illinois, right on the edge of God and Guns Country where to question the Good Ole Boys status quo is like questioning the very fabric of the Republic itself.Spend a little time in secular NYC and you'll feel the opposite where - overall, there are many exceptions - the religious keep quiet so as not to offend the secular. I am agnostic, but have sincere respect for both points of views. A good friend of ours is a practicing Catholic - goes to Mass regularly - and we only learned that several years after we knew her as she didn't know if it would "put us off."
She says she keeps very quiet about it as it "freaks" many New Yorkers out that she is an active church goer. While that's anecdotal, it is consistent with other experiences I've seen which is that people at work who actively practice religion keep quiet about it as the majority in this city doesn't.
I guess its a regional thing now.
I also hate...... and 3) it's just laughable to think He's a Cubs fan.
Are you quite sure?
This makes me think of the price tag hanging off of Minnie Pearl's hat....And I see some guys with suit jackets or overcoats who leave on the little white sleeve tag with the brand name, apparently not knowing that you're supposed to remove it.