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You were never even good enough to play

No I played football. Much tougher on the body. Do you know what the football version of a drill called bull pen is? Of course you don't cause there is nothing like it in baseball. One player gets inside a circle of all the other players on the team. Then the coach calls out a number and if your jersey is that number you better hit the guy in the middle of the circle with everything you got otherwise he will put you in the bull pen. Every number gets called and if you survive the bull pen you are tough. I got put in the bull pen once in 6 years of football for missing a practice. Most people quit before going to the bull pen. Me thinks you would be in that category Now hit the shower!

No I played football. Much tougher on the body. Do you know what the football version of a drill called bull pen is? Of course you don't cause there is nothing like it in baseball. One player gets inside a circle of all the other players on the team. Then the coach calls out a number and if your jersey is that number you better hit the guy in the middle of the circle with everything you got otherwise he will put you in the bull pen. Every number gets called and if you survive the bull pen you are tough. I got put in the bull pen once in 6 years of football for missing a practice. Most people quit before going to the bull pen. Me thinks you would be in that category Now hit the shower!

Just a little FYI
I had a half ride to NC State to play football (linebacker / tight end)
Football was my first love
My senior year I tear my achilles while wresting at districts
I get dropped from my football scholarship immediately
My brother (2 years older) was playing college baseball in Virginia (D-3)
I was going to go down and play with him
2 weeks before we take off I get a call from a college coach at Long Island University (D-1)
One of their players signed to play pro ball late in the summer
A half ride opens up, they come down and watch me play summer ball
Coach offers me the scholarship and sweetens the deal with a full ride (1/2 athletic 1/2 academic)
After my freshmen year they throw in room, food, and books
Long story short they pretty much paid me to go to school

We called it 'bull in the ring' and it wasn't that bad

Against our best interests regarding the environment, health, labor, guns, drugs, gender, civil rights ... you name it. We are all under fire to differnet degrees. Don't be thinking you're a special kind of martyr even if they want to snuff you faster.

I don't think Matt is trying to be a martyr. I think he is expressing how it feels to live in a society that is exclusive not inclusive. Society is changing but it is slow and people do suffer.

Just a little FYI
I had a half ride to NC State to play football (linebacker / tight end)
Football was my first love
My senior year I tear my achilles while wresting at districts
I get dropped from my football scholarship immediately
My brother (2 years older) was playing college baseball in Virginia (D-3)
I was going to go down and play with him
2 weeks before we take off I get a call from a college coach at Long Island University (D-1)
One of their players signed to play pro ball late in the summer
A half ride opens up, they come down and watch me play summer ball
Coach offers me the scholarship and sweetens the deal with a full ride (1/2 athletic 1/2 academic)
After my freshmen year they throw in room, food, and books
Long story short they pretty much paid me to go to school

We called it 'bull in the ring' and it wasn't that bad

Okay great! Now guess which of the last two Presidents played football and the other played hooky

If you think it was not that bad then you were never in the ring. I have three fractures in my back from that one time in the ring...

Okay great! Now guess which of the last two Presidents played football and the other played hooky

If you think it was not that bad then you were never in the ring. I have three fractures in my back from that one time in the ring...

We did 'bull in the ring' about 5-6 times a year and during the last practice of the year for the seniors (I'm sure you remember how emotional the last practice was for seniors)
When we did it you only took about 6-7 hits before they rotated someone new in
I don't remember doing it with the whole team because the circle would have been huge, I can't remember
I hated the 'Oklahoma' drill (no blocker or D linemen) defense started on his back, runner had to go backwards 2 steps to grab the ball, thats the drill I didn't like

We had an awesome wrestling program, the most fun was a takedown drill where it started at the lightest weight and worked it way up
Of all the sports I played wrestling was the hardest, someone famously said 'once you wrestle everything else is easy'

I didn't love baseball till I got to college, it was too boring when I was young

We did 'bull in the ring' about 5-6 times a year and during the last practice of the year for the seniors (I'm sure you remember how emotional the last practice was for seniors)
When we did it you only took about 6-7 hits before they rotated someone new in
I don't remember doing it with the whole team because the circle would have been huge, I can't remember
I hated the 'Oklahoma' drill (no blocker or D linemen) defense started on his back, runner had to go backwards 2 steps to grab the ball, thats the drill I didn't like

We had an awesome wrestling program, the most fun was a takedown drill where it started at the lightest weight and worked it way up
Of all the sports I played wrestling was the hardest, someone famously said 'once you wrestle everything else is easy'

I didn't love baseball till I got to college, it was too boring when I was young

Well we did the whole team and you could not breath which was worse than the pain in my back. It only happened about twice a season when the coach needed to shake us up. Back then the fractures were not diagnosed and you continued to play. We had to play both ways and during practice the coaches limited our water intake to 3 seconds at a spigot. The ignorance was off the charts but sports science was not a thing. Yet we had to have all our "shots" to play a sport and a full physical. What the hell changed people like you?

Well we did the whole team and you could not breath which was worse than the pain in my back. It only happened about twice a season when the coach needed to shake us up. Back then the fractures were not diagnosed and you continued to play. We had to play both ways and during practice the coaches limited our water intake to 3 seconds at a spigot. The ignorance was off the charts but sports science was not a thing. Yet we had to have all our "shots" to play a sport and a full physical. What the hell changed people like you?

We were the same with water, looking back it was uber stupid but it wasn't open for debate
What do you mean 'What the hell changed people like you?'

We were the same with water, looking back it was uber stupid but it wasn't open for debate
What do you mean 'What the hell changed people like you?'

We had to have all our vaccines up to date or we could not play a sport. We did not fear things like that. They told us there could be side effects but you just did it for the greater good.

We had to have all our vaccines up to date or we could not play a sport. We did not fear things like that. They told us there could be side effects but you just did it for the greater good.

Back to politics
As for the vaccine I can only speak for myself
On a personal level for me my wife and the kid we still have at home we accessed the risk of getting covid and the possibility of dying (because that is the real determining factor)
I quickly noticed the only people dying were the old and sickly
I know from being on this earth for almost 5 decades that the best immunity we can have to a disease is to get it and let your body fight it off so the body can build a blueprint on how to fight it or fight similar disease in the future.
This is pretty much the process behind any vaccine
Once they started masking people I thought of dust masks
Having owned a wood shop I know how important filter size -vs- what you are filtering is to the efficiency of a mask
Once I researched the size of a covid particle I knew the masks were BS. Fauci wasn't saying to wear a mask to knock down spital he was saying it was to keep covid out which would not work. Then factor that in with the odd closures of some business's and not others made no sense to me.
Then I thought how long it takes to make and test a vaccine and I felt this vaccine was not ready (in my opinion)
I would have no problem taking the shot if I thought there was any benefit at all but I couldn't find one

I definitely wasn't going to allow my children to take it because they weren't at risk of dying and it wasn't tested long enough to know what affect it will have on future generations. I still fear we will see some very bad downstream effects from the vaccine but that is just my opinion.

It was odd and very scary to me how many just took a shot that had just come out without a second thought, merely because they were told to. Even people that were at no risk at all

I ended up getting covid and I took a day or 2 off, I ate a few oranges and some soup and got back to work. My body did what it was made to do and all is well.

Does that answer your question on my personal thought process?

Back to politics
As for the vaccine I can only speak for myself
On a personal level for me my wife and the kid we still have at home we accessed the risk of getting covid and the possibility of dying (because that is the real determining factor)
I quickly noticed the only people dying were the old and sickly
I know from being on this earth for almost 5 decades that the best immunity we can have to a disease is to get it and let your body fight it off so the body can build a blueprint on how to fight it or fight similar disease in the future.
This is pretty much the process behind any vaccine
Once they started masking people I thought of dust masks
Having owned a wood shop I know how important filter size -vs- what you are filtering is to the efficiency of a mask
Once I researched the size of a covid particle I knew the masks were BS. Fauci wasn't saying to wear a mask to knock down spital he was saying it was to keep covid out which would not work. Then factor that in with the odd closures of some business's and not others made no sense to me.
Then I thought how long it takes to make and test a vaccine and I felt this vaccine was not ready (in my opinion)
I would have no problem taking the shot if I thought there was any benefit at all but I couldn't find one

I definitely wasn't going to allow my children to take it because they weren't at risk of dying and it wasn't tested long enough to know what affect it will have on future generations. I still fear we will see some very bad downstream effects from the vaccine but that is just my opinion.

It was odd and very scary to me how many just took a shot that had just come out without a second thought, merely because they were told to. Even people that were at no risk at all

I ended up getting covid and I took a day or 2 off, I ate a few oranges and some soup and got back to work. My body did what it was made to do and all is well.

Does that answer your question on my personal thought process?

Now do polio

Now do polio

Julio's cousin?

Wrestling is gay. And so is the ACC.

I don't think Matt is trying to be a martyr. I think he is expressing how it feels to live in a society that is exclusive not inclusive. Society is changing but it is slow and people do suffer.

My partial point is that we are all martyrs to some degree under this cockamamie congress. Some more than others to be sure. But start with the millions who need life or death help with food, homes, Healthcare... Then move on to the severely and chronically oppressed minorities and immigrants...

Wrestling is gay. And so is the ACC.

Cool opinion man

Now do polio

You are literally making my point

You are literally making my point

Right because millions of kids should have gotten polio instead of being sheeple and receive the vaccine.

Back to politics
As for the vaccine I can only speak for myself
On a personal level for me my wife and the kid we still have at home we accessed the risk of getting covid and the possibility of dying (because that is the real determining factor)
I quickly noticed the only people dying were the old and sickly
I know from being on this earth for almost 5 decades that the best immunity we can have to a disease is to get it and let your body fight it off so the body can build a blueprint on how to fight it or fight similar disease in the future.
This is pretty much the process behind any vaccine
Once they started masking people I thought of dust masks
Having owned a wood shop I know how important filter size -vs- what you are filtering is to the efficiency of a mask
Once I researched the size of a covid particle I knew the masks were BS. Fauci wasn't saying to wear a mask to knock down spital he was saying it was to keep covid out which would not work. Then factor that in with the odd closures of some business's and not others made no sense to me.
Then I thought how long it takes to make and test a vaccine and I felt this vaccine was not ready (in my opinion)
I would have no problem taking the shot if I thought there was any benefit at all but I couldn't find one

I definitely wasn't going to allow my children to take it because they weren't at risk of dying and it wasn't tested long enough to know what affect it will have on future generations. I still fear we will see some very bad downstream effects from the vaccine but that is just my opinion.

It was odd and very scary to me how many just took a shot that had just come out without a second thought, merely because they were told to. Even people that were at no risk at all

I ended up getting covid and I took a day or 2 off, I ate a few oranges and some soup and got back to work. My body did what it was made to do and all is well.

Does that answer your question on my personal thought process?

No it does not answer the question. You completely dismissed a large number of people that you might have infected by not getting the vaccine. I am in the category that you dismissed. I never got Covid because I got the vaccines. I am disappointed that you did not care enough to think about a doing a simple thing as rolling up your shirt sleeve to get a little tiny shot so that it helps not just you but millions of people like me. Covid is a rapidly mutating virus and you can make that point that the vaccines don’t work as well as a whole…unless everyone gets the vaccine. Your point has no purpose other than yourself. Look around at your beautiful family and this beautiful planet. We have a greater purpose than just ourselves…

Lou, your opinions about the vaccine and mask is a symptom of a new pandemic. It is called politics made me do it disease. You follow people who tell you they care about you and then they don’t! You spread this disease purposely. You are dangerous to me, to your family and everyone on this planet including the planet. You take and take and then convince yourself you give only to justify the take. You are not someone I would enjoy sharing my life with even though there is common ground. I have very good friends that have your disease but still got the vaccines for the greater good. I would rather listen to them than you. I am 66 yo and I am still working as hard as I can work. You are not a good person and I am not a fan of anything you feel you have accomplished in this life. Adios Amigo!

My partial point is that we are all martyrs to some degree under this cockamamie congress. Some more than others to be sure. But start with the millions who need life or death help with food, homes, Healthcare... Then move on to the severely and chronically oppressed minorities and immigrants...

Yes Congress is no longer representing us (we the people). Some are trying but many have gotten a taste of power and it destroys their purpose.

Yes Congress is no longer representing us (we the people). Some are trying but many have gotten a taste of power and it destroys their purpose.

They are the last ones who should be telling us how to live our personal lives.

They are the last ones who should be telling us how to live our personal lives.

Our Democracy is the only thing that stands between them telling us how to live and think and our personal quality of life!

I'll bet he's laughing all the way to the Federal Penitentiary.

Swalwell says former NFL player threatened to execute him

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that a former NFL player threatened him with execution on Twitter. “Who is this guy threatening to execute me? And how does he have so many followers?” …

thehill.com

I'll bet he's laughing all the way to the Federal Penitentiary.

Isn't swalwell the guy that sat on the intelligence committee why he was sleeping with a Chinese spy?

Isn't swalwell the guy that sat on the intelligence committee why he was sleeping with a Chinese spy?

Lou will be pissed you’re off topic but the FBI said when Swalwell was briefed on concerns about Fang in 2015, he immediately cut off contact and cooperated with the bureau’s probe.

An FBI official has previously defended Swalwell, telling outlets in December that Swalwell was “completely cooperative” and “under no suspicion of wrongdoing,”

Now do trump’s traitor tot’s when meeting with Russians for dirt on Hillary.

Why is it you never have anything real?