Posted on 02/04/2022 1:01:38 AM PST by FreedomForce
New series on Amazon.
Lou on the right, fraternal twin brother Ed on the left. Ed also won gold in the 1984 Olympics in the 198-lb freestyle class. Five NCAA wrestling national titles and two gold medals between them.
And both of them hated Jimmy Carter with three purple passions because he kept them out of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
You mean how they "deduced" that the 9mm slug was fired subsonically because it weighed 90 grains, when in truth 90-gr bullets usually are screamers, and subsonic 9-millies usually are heavy for the cartridge, 147 grains or more?
Yeah, I picked up on that, too.
Aquaman from ‘Smallville’...
There's also a documentary on Assholeazon titled, "Shane," about Shane Warne. Shane (I address him in the familiar because that is the general habit) was a leg-spin bowler, which is half way between a curve ball specialist and a knuckleballer, a cross between Sandy Kaufax and Phil Niekro.
And he was a magician. A once-in-a-generation talent. You don't have to be a cricket fan to appreciate how stupendous he was.
The documentary is titled, simply, "Shane." If you're a sports fan, even if you have no taste for cricket, watch the first eight minutes and you'll be hooked. That's when they talk about Shane's performance in the 1994 Ashes.
His first appearance in a major international competition and it also happened to be the world's highest-profile cricket match. And the first ball he threw shocked the entire cricket world.
Cricket and baseball have far more differences than similarities and one MAJOR difference is that if the cricket batsman (batter) gets hit by a pitch, it's not the bowler's (pitcher's) fault, it's the batsman's fault for getting in the ball's way. If you think batters were afraid to "dig in" when facing The Big Unit or Bob Gibson, they got nuthin' on Warne. Intimidation became his stock in trade.
By the peak of his career, he pulled Babe Ruth's famous "called shot" dozens of times. In a heated contest he would tell the batsman, "Aw'right, mate, gunnah bowl you out next ball." And he very rarely failed to deliver.
I liked Wheel of Time. Then I read the first book Eye of the World. The two have very little in common. Butchers mess is right.
bezos is not in charge of amazon, he would rather play with his giant wang rocket!!
It was everything I hoped it would be and more!
Thanks!
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