Starman's Recent Activity
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Starman replied to the thread The Economy.
At my first full-time journalism job in 1986, i made something like $11,000 for the year as the SE on an 8-person newsroom staff. Our...
Dec 22, 2024 at 8:37 PM -
Starman replied to the thread NFL Week 16 -- Football overload.
Lions clowning the Bears with fake fumble plays.
Dec 22, 2024 at 3:05 PM -
Starman replied to the thread RIP Rickey Henderson.
Coleman was more in the mold of 60s leadoff guys like Wills and Brock: a lot of stolen bases, BA up around .300, but not really a lot...
Dec 22, 2024 at 2:34 PM -
Starman replied to the thread President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread.
More derp thoughts from Fred Fettstone. Prison camps, nothing to worry about
Dec 22, 2024 at 2:02 PM -
Starman replied to the thread President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread.
Exceedingly rare? He threatens to annex or conquer somebody about every other day.
Dec 22, 2024 at 9:50 AM -
Starman replied to the thread RIP Rickey Henderson.
Yeah, well, that was before the furious efforts by the right wing media screech machine and internet peanut gallery the last 15-20 years...
Dec 21, 2024 at 11:25 PM -
Starman replied to the thread Running CFB playoff thread.
It's 25 degrees. Up until the Nineties, this was perfectly normal November weather for anything north of the Mason-Dixon line.
Dec 21, 2024 at 10:31 PM -
Starman replied to the thread RIP Rickey Henderson.
Yeah, Ty Cobb -- who in retrospect was really not that great a leadoff hitter (didn't draw many walks, his SB percentage fell way off...
Dec 21, 2024 at 10:16 PM -
Starman replied to the thread RIP Rickey Henderson.
Well, the generation that was in its teens/twenties in the golden era of stolen bases and National League style turf baseball now pretty...
Dec 21, 2024 at 9:20 PM -
Starman replied to the thread RIP Rickey Henderson.
Well, the Sixties/Seventies were kind of a perfect storm for base running: -- construction of a whole generation of new stadiums with...
Dec 21, 2024 at 9:01 PM -
Starman replied to the thread RIP Rickey Henderson.
The amazing thing about Rickey is that it's been 35 years since he was in his prime, and there really haven't been any "new Rickey...
Dec 21, 2024 at 3:05 PM -
Starman replied to the thread President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread.
End it with Obama's inauguration. When I took American history in HS in 1972-76, they quit before the Korean War, and explained that...
Dec 21, 2024 at 2:06 PM -
Starman replied to the thread MLB 2024-25 Hot Stove Thread.
Best leadoff man, yes. Best offensive player, mo.
Dec 21, 2024 at 1:33 PM -
Starman replied to the thread MLB 2024-25 Hot Stove Thread.
Yeah, it looks as if there have been serious rumors floating for almost a day -- but still no normally credible source.
Dec 21, 2024 at 12:42 PM -
Starman replied to the thread President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread.
Although you could just be signing up for the enemies list.
Dec 21, 2024 at 11:54 AM -
Starman replied to the thread Greatest Movie Speeches.
It never could have made a Disney movie, but supposedly Brooks' greatest locker room speech came in the second intermission of the 1980...
Dec 20, 2024 at 10:14 PM -
Starman replied to the thread NFL Week 16 -- Football overload.
Expansion of NFL rosters into the 40s in the 1960s and the arrival of essentially free substitutions in HS and college in 1964 were also...
Dec 20, 2024 at 9:44 PM -
Starman replied to the thread NFL Week 16 -- Football overload.
Seriously the thing that I can't understand is the complete disappearance of backup quarterbacks from the role of placekick holder...
Dec 20, 2024 at 6:10 PM -
Starman replied to the thread NFL Week 16 -- Football overload.
I'm pretty sure I watched the previous one in 1976 but I may be Mandela-effecting it. I believe the Raiders had Janikowski try a...
Dec 20, 2024 at 4:42 PM -
Starman replied to the thread President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread.
They think Borys Epshsteyn is just hunky-dory, a card carrying member of a neo-Nazi group. Neo-Nazi. Seig Heil and all that. If...
Dec 20, 2024 at 4:36 PM -
Starman replied to the thread 2025 Basketball Hall of Fame Class.
Nope. A C-minus HOF prospect as a player, but A-plus as a WNBA coach. I imagine that'll eventually get him in.
Dec 20, 2024 at 9:56 AM -
Starman replied to the thread NFL Week 16 -- Football overload.
It used to be somewhat more common before 1974 when the goal posts had been located on the goal lines, but it was still very rare.
Dec 19, 2024 at 11:02 PM -
Starman replied to the thread President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread.
he'll leave when he's good and ready
Dec 19, 2024 at 1:44 AM -
Starman replied to the thread Ukraine Always Get What You Want.
HELP any? He's going to do the full heel turn, completely betray them in front of the whole world. He'll flip flop and put U.S. armed...
Dec 19, 2024 at 1:05 AM -
Starman replied to the thread President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread.
Why hasn't that been leaked and spewed all over the internet already??
Dec 18, 2024 at 10:53 AM
