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OT: 30 years and 30,000+ posts. Question for the board on OUR history here.

For unofficial #30k I'm feeling nostalgic. I recall finding and starting to post on whatever site this was called back in the mid-90's. The site changed and the counter was reset in Aug 2001 like many of you. I was JohnnyRingoes but changed because I kept getting confused with a guy named RingoesJim who liked to give big football practice reports. Then I decided to put my name on my posts and 1984 was gone.

I'm just having a hard time remembering exactly when this thing got started, how John O. got involved, etc. I remember folks talking about something called Exit 9?..edit:109. (which I never participated in).

Seen some people come and go but man has this thing grown under Richie. So what's the history fellas and what's your story?

OT: Winter Storm Thursday 2/20: Very Likely Somewhere Between A Non-Event and a Minor Event (oof)

2018 we got smoked the week of the Big East / ACC Tournaments
Had a training and the cab ride back to the hotel was a doozy
Walking up the subway to Barclays to watch VT lose to ND saw a bunch of people slipping

Called my wife to ask how our abervartie trees were holding up
Naturally she told me they were fine, and to enjoy the games
Fast forward to the next day when I got home, and the branches were all bent over lol
That was a bad one if I remember correctly. Heavy, wet snow and wind. A lot of power lines down in my town after that one.

OT: WOW… Pete Rose has died at the age of 83

I do. Attitude-wise, Rose is just built different. He'd cut his arm off before he'd lose a game. This is the guy who hurt someone in a home plate collision in an All-Star game. Nowadays, if you have a blister, you sit out of the All-Star game. I believe he bet on tons of other games (in just about every sport), but when he bet on his games, he bet on his team to win.



Well ... you could bet on over/unders in MLB games, but there weren't all kinds of prop bets available. Like, it wasn't an available option for him to bet on how long his starting pitcher lasted and then just pull him to win the bet.


I can think of a few reasons:

1. Maybe he actually knew Rose and still feels bad for him,
2. Maybe he just knows his most-devoted voters still feel bad for Rose, or
3. Maybe he's got a vendetta against the MLB League Office for some reason.

I think its mostly #2.


I think he's just applying pressure to the MLB League Office. It's not much more different than when he hammered the NFL in the press over players kneeling for the anthem.
Number 2 - my question is- was Rose actually convicted of a crime in regard to his gambling?
Number 3 - don’t get me started on the kneeling. Just another grand stand on part of the political groups to change the narrative to fit agendas that had nothing to do with what was actually being protested.

OT: Winter Storm Thursday 2/20: Very Likely Somewhere Between A Non-Event and a Minor Event (oof)

Bac's way too young to remember but in the 1982, the NYC metro got 10" on Apr 6.

I remember as a kid. It was low 60s just a few days before..big storm

Also there was a nasty cold windy one. I think March 30 or so 6-inches or so maybe 97 or 98
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OT: Winter Storm Thursday 2/20: Very Likely Somewhere Between A Non-Event and a Minor Event (oof)

April 7, 2003, you got about 6" of snow in most of Somerset County; we got 7" in Metuchen. I remember having a blast making snowmen with the wet heavy snow and sledding across the street with our then 9-year old son. We got about 4" on April 2nd 2018, but iirc, not much accumulated on the roads. And I don't think you were plowing in 1982 when we got our biggest ever April snowstorm on 4/6/82 with a foot in NB my sophomore year.

https://climate.rutgers.edu/stateclim_v1/winter/20022003/04072003/04072003snowfall.html
The April 1982 storm was my sophomore year in HS. Our baseball season was delayed about a week. First game back we played on a field that was not groomed. I was lead off hitter and got a single. As I am stealing 2nd (diving headfirst), I see nothing but rocks and pebbles around the base. I had scars for about 10-20 years after that. 😀 Will never forgot the storm due to that.
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