Not since the North vs. the South in the Civil War has a debate grown so heated as “Wiffle-Gate” 2007. The argument rages on today with no relief in sight, but hey, at least we have a cheerleading offer.
Other topics include the SoCal inferno, the land of the ugly people, rugby vs. footall, big foot’s nut sack, and old grumpy people uniting. I think I hit her vagina with my thumb.
Email: Brian Mollica brian@notiowa.com and Tommy Dutch tom@notiowa.com Give us a call 206-203-Iowa
1st plane off the runway
2nd lineman off the pile
3rd poster to aggrevate BMO
Once again I’m behind Slash at #4.
I think I’m beginning to enjoy it…
If you’re 5,5,5…
…I’m 6,6,6
Too good to pass up…
Dutch,
Just got back in my house this morning. The fires didn’t get very close to our neighborhood, but they evacuated everyone in the path Monday morning. Fortunately, the Santa Ana winds died down earlier than forecast, so the fires stopped short of getting all the way to the coast.
The golf club where I teach is still closed. The fire got within a 1/2 mile of the course, and all the roads are still shut down.
Still pretty ugly out there in some places though.
So I have an idea for the wiffle ball game, turn it into a 2 game event, the highest total number of runs per team wins. The first day, you play by Brian’s rules and the second day play by Tommy’s. And I don’t think I will be in the cheer outfit, but I am thinking of taking Mofobes up on his offer to get me one in case I need it. I am leaning toward the green tank, which will of course say TAI on the front and then something about embracing degenerates 3 times a week on the back.
And while there is a 99% chance I will be there for these events, there is about a 1% chance that the little one will be with me, she was with me last year for this holiday, so she will most likely be with her dad this year. But if she is with me, I am sure that she will hold her own, trust me, she isn’t what you think of when you think 5 year old girl. She charmed the hell out of Grey Fox, Ozzy and their old roommate, and spent more time than one would think playing with the pet snakes. She is just about 40 in a 5 year old body.
And the fire situation is improving, but is still far from great.
You all forgot the UCSC (Santa Cruz)Banana Slugs.
Guys, what was the name of the strip club that had both a topless / booze section and a fully-nude / no-booze section?
My buddy’s heading down for a bachelor party this weekend and is in desperate need of suggestions.
Thanks!
Number 11 yeah get in there.
me no understand wiffle
Just quietly, from a long time participant of the message board – the numbering stuff has gotten completely out of hand – and while no longer the least bit humorous has had the added advantage of making the board unreadable for me.
By the way – the site is in desperate need of some organized forums – your success has caused you to outgrow the podcast comment thread.
The way Bmo wants to play whiffle ball is weak. It takes absolutly no athletic ability. I’ve played the real whiffle ball on the beaches of Michigan and in the back of Dennis White’s parents house. Bmo style of whiffle ball seems like it is for retards and self-contained middle school kids.
Brian, I am 6’1 200lbs and I am one of the smaller guys on my rugby team. We have a few guys in our pack that are over 300lbs. Pro rugby players can get up to 6’7 and and a lot of players weigh in well over 275lbs. Just wanted to put that out there, otherwise I thought you guys were correct in your rugby vs football debate.
I agree with Trainfan, we need orangized forums. I don’t know if this site supports forums, but I’m sure there are plenty of free forum sites.
bmo you are getting a stutter when talking about your job.
your new name shall be Mr Stutter Pants.
Just got some “square” bets down with my friend who’s chillin’ in Vegas right now. Got the rockies in 6 and the rockies in 7.
Since no-one really knows how to play or what version of the game you’re going to play can I vote that you have a stripper be the pitcher! Since I don’t know how to play I should fit right in.
That way you’ll have six drunk guys and a stripper and I will even find T.A.I. @ least one cheerleader for your boys to oggle @.
Then we can have a Thanksgiving in the cabana
ok first of all I own two cars, one is a two seater little sports car and the other is the trans am.
my wife is not aloud to drive either one she has her own tank.
does that answer your question.
second point I think that men are only branded to be worse drivers than our lady friends because of the low life dickhead boy racers.
men are far more superior drivers than woman if you cut out the young little pricks.
I agree – requiring a stripper to be pitcher SHOULD be an official Whiffle ball regulation.
Helmet – needing athletic ability to play Whiffle ball is perhaps the biggest oxymoron I have ever heard. Whiffle ball is about driking at bat – not after the game… no physical activity should ever be required on a Whiffle ball field….
….or would that be: requiring a pitcher to be a stripper??
Brian and Dutch: Badminton, baseball, cheerleading, dance, equestrion, handball, hiking, ice hockey, kendo, lacrosse, latin & ballroom dancing, sport TaeKwonDo, racquetball, squash, table tennis, triathlon, Ultimate frisbee and water polo are all sports that The Violets of NYU play.
They are called the Violets because of the hue of the purple in their uniform and in 1980 the Depart. of Athletics decided they needed a mascot for games and came up with Bobcat. But even that was choosen from something lame. Derived from the abbreviation being used by the Bobst Lirary computerized catalog- short Bobcat.
And yes, we suck at parking Dutch. So what!!!!!!!!!
re: team names. I won’t disagree with TD. But, I find it just a little ironic that Tommy dislikes both the greatest politically correct cop-out ever (Bullets to Wizards) since DC was known at the murder capital of the country at the time – and the least politically correct name in sports the ‘Skins.
BTW (and not that you care) Wizards is a reference to Wizard of Oz and it’s allegory for the emerald city as Washington DC (not gay boy wizards).
http://paws.wcu.edu/mulligan/www/oz.html
And I guess if I had a team worth $1,200,000,000.00 – I probably wouldn’t care what other people thought anyway
“Once upon a time, Americans admired models of self-control, people such as George Washington and Jackie Robinson, who mastered their anger rather than relishing being mastered by it”….
George Will – Conservative, Republican and Cal Ripkien admireer
Dutch, is Big City Matt they same guy that thought it would be funny to take his amish looking friend to a gay bar without telling him?
Poor Amish bastard, he thought the guy with the mustache just wanted to buy him beer and pizza because he was cool, not because he wanted to use his ass as a playground.
have only heard the first half of the show & that whiffleball discussion was one of the funniest things i’ve ever heard.
this whiffle ball match could shape up to be the happiest day of my life. whiffle ball, drinking, strippers/cheerleaders, cabana visiting, turkey dinner – i can’t think of a better combination of events. and i thought having thanksgiving dinner at sizzler my freshman year of college was a highpoint.
i am on tommy’s side regarding runners, i still thought we were playing with some athleticism. you run the bases until you run out of batters, then you use ghostrunners.
it’s on Fobes. The cabana X10…uh.uh.uh.
This one’s going down in the TAI history books
We used to play Dutch’s version of whiffle ball when I was younger. Usually, we’d only be playing 2 vs 2. Defense: one pitcher, one fielder. Offense: First player batted, got on base. Second person batted, got on base. Where ever the first batter was when the play halted, there would be a ghost runner on that base that advanced the exact number of bases that the second batter advanced. With teams of three, I don’t know if you’ll even need to worry about ghostrunners. How probable do you really think all three batters being on base at once is?
And the question shouldn’t be male vs female drivers, it should be young vs old vs elderly. Richie pointed out that if you got rid of young hot shot street racers then males would be far superior drivers. But what about all the young females who do make-up and text message while driving? That’s some scary shit right there. Again, the more appropriate question concerns age. Here’s the way I see it: typically younger drivers want to show off more, they speed, they multi-task, etc… I’ll put the age range from 16 – 25. The older drivers (age range from about 26 – 60) tend to be the best drivers, they’ve got more experience and they realize that speeding is only going to matter over long distances. If you’re travelling 10 miles to work every day, what does it matter if you get there in 10 minutes (60mph) or 7 and a half minutes (90mph). Does that extra 2 and a half minutes really matter to your day? And finally, the last age group (~61 to should-be-on-their-death-bed). Old people are by far the worst drivers of all. They tend to be too cautious, drive under the speed limit, make the craziest, unexpected manuevers. I truly feel that at a certain age, older people should be required to take yearly tests to see if they can drive at a level of performance that does not endanger anyone else on the road. Now I know that all age ranges have their really good and really bad drivers, but from what I’ve experienced, the best drivers are older, but not elderly, with the youngest age group somewhere in the middle.
And for the record, I wish I could be in Vegas for the Thanksgiving Day Whiffle Ball Extraveganza…
You’re right Paigow Pete, there’s nothing gay about the Wizard of Oz, just ask a gay guy.
If we have an all time pitcher (stripper or not) I will give in on the base running. When you hit the long ball like I do, you only have to be able to trot around the bags anyway. Not to mention, I’ll need to build up an appetite for the Thanksgiving gorge-a-thon I’ll be undergoing while you guys are smoking yourselves blind.
BMo – You’ve got the wrong activity with the wrong consequence. Chronic masturbators go blind. Didn’t your grandmother teach you that? Smokers just get cancer (and the munchies depending on what is being smoked).
I will just be cheering and cooking while you are all hiting up the cabana…I am not much of a cabana girl, but I once loved a cabana boy if that counts.
Hey and Mofobes, are you taking in any of the So Cal displaced? Just asking because as of 5pm or so I could see flames from my office window making their way over one of the hills we have around us…..
Wild Suck!!!
Wow – is it just me or is wiffle ball turning into the most complex game in the world.
I understand cricket and even I’m struggling with the whole virtual runner and cones thing.
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Few quick thoughts on wifflegate and all of the various ways we played baseball when I was a kid:
First, we taped the ball mostly because I’m old enough that the ball was two pieces of plastic molded together and would crack by the third inning – not being independently wealthy as a child – we taped the damn thing up and kept playing.
Wiffleball was our alley game – usually two on two and played nearly exactly the way Tommy explained it.
Pinners was our front of the house game – bounce a rubber ball off the front step as hard as you could and your opponent tried to catch it. We had various lines (gutter, street, across the street, etc) which signified hits. We also played a frisbee version of this game.
Fast Pitch – was a school yard game – two players – the batters box outlined on a brick wall – again certain lines determined what a particular hit was and it was all ghost runners.
Baseball – played at the park on a diamond – minimum of 8 guys to start – pitcher, 3B, SS, and LF – we played to the right of second was out. As more guys showed up we’d fill in the team.
Also – I wanted to say that I found this show to be one of your best ever – very enjoyable, informative, great sound quality and if you were recording in the new setup where you are both in the same room – the witty banter seemed much better. I’ll have to take another listen to see if I can point you to anything more specific…but after a hundred and some shows and a year – I thought you knocked this one out of the park. Great Job!
One more thing – I would really like to hear an interview with Mofobes about how the poker community is feeling about and reacting to the Absolute Poker cheating scandal.
The Rounders pod cast this past Sunday did a great interview on the whole thing with Serge Ravitch. Well worth a listen even if you only have a passing interest in online poker:
http://www.bigpoker.ca/resources/rounders/Rounders_The-Poker-Show_2007-10-21.mp3
The headline for this story was: Oz barmaid fined for crushing beer cans between jubs
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/25/barmaid_fined/
Strangely this has left me with equal amount of curiosity and fear. I don’t suppose any of the Aussies on here know the place?
Have just listened to the latest podcast of Rounders – The Poker Show as recommended by Trainfan John. It describes the Insider Cheating Scandal at Absolute Poker and is absolutely incredible and defies belief, it will undoubtably be made into a hollywood film in the very near future, its a must listen for anyone who is a poker fan and especially whose who play online. I think it is lightly to have a serious affect on the online poker industry and it will be interesting to see the out come.
Regarding Crushing beer cans between jubs – another woman was also fined for hanging spoons from the nipples of the beer can crushing tits of the first woman.
Regarding the Absolute scandal: I listen to Rounders regularly and that show was really informative about the whole scandal. Interestingly enough, it was mentioned that Absolutes numbers only dropped 10% since it all went down. I would get my money off there quick-smart if i indeed had any on there but seems as though not everyone thinks like me.
I really want to make a pun about Absolute power corrupting, but don’t think I’ll bother
It’s amazing how few people have left AP. If all the smart players are leaving, and the donks are staying, I may have to sign up for AP just to take advantage of bad play. But then again, I play on FT where bad play is everywhere and the donks get lucky more often than statistically correct. So either way, I’m not very likely to capitolize the way I should.
File this under ‘BORED AT WORK’ and not ‘STALKING BRIAN MOLLICA’
I was thinking about the start of the show where you guys were talking about the Chamber findoing out about TAI by googling you. So I googled you. And found this pic which, and im not sure why, amused me.
http://punchlinemagazine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mollica1.jpg
If there’s a topless stripper pitcher, then it may be hard to keep your eye on the whipple-ball, I mean whiffle-ball.
pmac, great picture, looks like someone right after they “accidently” thumbed a vagina
While I don’t want BMo to lose his job at the Chamber, if there’s any reason for dismissing him in the future, I hope it’s because of TAI and not because of another “accidental” vagina thumbing.