2016 MLB Postseason Thread

That's ridiculously awesome.

 

LOL. That poor reporter.

So, did he pitch the story to the station, or did they stumble onto it?

And, they towed the car here!

Somebody in town has a similar car. Drive past it all the time on Van Buren, in the West Loop.

 

I assume he pitched it somehow. He's a total nut.

 

The younger brother of a high school classmate of mine is a professional Elwood Blues impersonator in Branson, Missouri. He's got the same ride.

 

My uncle in the news clip is a classic first adopter. I remember as a kid he was the first person I knew with a VCR. We all went to his house and "oohed and aahed." He had "The Blues Brothers" and "Star Wars," if I recall. Probably paid like $90 apiece for them.

 

Dick's uncle as a teenager:

 

It's just good investigative journalism ...

 

But, still, fuck the Cubs.

 

Was it a top-load model that weighed like 50 pounds? My girlfriend in college had one of those. It was a hand-me-down from her parents.

This one:

 

My grandfather bought one of those in the late 1970s ... from Sears, I think. He was the stereotypical read-the-instructions-later kind of guy. Had a blank tape, popped out the "protect" tab without knowing what it was, then tried to record something. When the record lever wouldn't work (prevented by the mechanical prevent) he simply pushed harder ... and harder ... ultimately wrecking the damn thing. He played dumb at Sears and they gave him another one.

 

That's what it looked like, yes.

He said he would now be able to tell as soon as he walked in the door whether he had been robbed during the day or not, because the first thing they would have taken was his VCR.

 

It's funny that he's a Cubs die-hard and my dad's a White Sox die-hard. Their dad - my grandfather - was a Cardinals die-hard, coming from the South, so they didn't have it passed down to them. My dad grew up in the '50s, and got hooked by the 1959 White Sox. My uncle grew up in the '60s, and got hooked by the 1969 Cubs. He credits my dad with passing along his general love of the game, though.