Political Randomness

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 11:20 am

Curt Schilling is apparently considering a Congressional run in Arizona, supported (of course) by Hair Furor.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 11:24 am

Great pitcher and patriot? Why not include successful business owner that was supported by the tax payers of RI? That seems like a huge thing to leave off one's resume.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 11:31 am

And cheater?

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 11:36 am

Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 11:31 amAnd cheater?

That is a positive job qualification nowadays.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 11:56 am

The same Curt Shilling who went off on Terrorism and the evils of islam in 2015 after the nightclub shooting in Florida but hasn't mentioned anything about the white supremacist terrorism shooting after shooting after shooting since?

The one who thinks transgender equates to child rapist?

The steroid user?

The adulterer?

I have seen no signs that he has reformed from any of this. It's your business if that's who you are. It bigger than your business when you want to a legislator at the highest level.

What a patriot.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:06 pm

When you list it all out I think he has his sights too low. He could probably petition Trump to be the next Supreme Court Justice, given everything we know.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:06 pm

Schilling may not be as inept as I thought. This is a move to get a place at the feed trough and he doesn't really have much of a reputation to lose.

The high point of Schilling's career, to me, is when he did a Leroy Jenkins (before Leroy Jenkins was a thing) to Doug Glanville in EverQuest.

He's always been an outspoken Republican though so at least he's consistent.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:25 pm

Classic, the revenge of Bingbong!

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:47 pm

On the plus side, I'd love to see him get his fellow politicians to play Advanced Squad Leader during recesses.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:58 pm

Yeah, while I was confirming how much he fleeced the state of RI for, I was surprised to learn how much he loves ASL and that he bought into Multi-Man-Publishing to help keep it alive. I really had no idea.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 2:03 pm

Clueless journalist wrote:As Glanville remembers this poignant tale, he and Schilling were playing a computer game called "EverQuest" -- an online version of Dungeons and Dragons.

EverQuest is not an online version of Dungeons and Dragons. For fuck's sake, this is why you don't allow sports journalists to write about anything other than sports.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 2:05 pm

I especially loved his snide little asides when mentioning the characters the guys were playing in the game. He adds "whatever that is" to each mention. Way to be condescending, asshole.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 2:27 pm

Jayson Stark is an excellent baseball writer who relayed a fun story in a relatable way, even for those who don't play video games. "Online version of Dungeons and Dragons" is a perfectly cromulent shorthand for Everquest for an audience that may not be familiar with MMORPGs. Frankly, I think you're kind of looking to be offended if that piece offended you.

Plus Doug Glanville is awesome.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:10 pm

Frankly, I think you're kind of looking to be offended if that piece offended you.

This is the internet, man. Why else would any of us be here?

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:11 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:10 pm
Frankly, I think you're kind of looking to be offended if that piece offended you.
This is the internet, man. Why else would any of us be here?

Are you telling me I don't know this is the internet?

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:15 pm

Besides,a cleric would own a paladin.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:26 pm

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 2:27 pm Jayson Stark is an excellent baseball writer who relayed a fun story in a relatable way, even for those who don't play video games. "Online version of Dungeons and Dragons" is a perfectly cromulent shorthand for Everquest for an audience that may not be familiar with MMORPGs. Frankly, I think you're kind of looking to be offended if that piece offended you.

Plus Doug Glanville is awesome.

It's just a lifetime of ego being bruised that everything we've been passionately geek about for a past time for our entire lives has been reduced to "like Dungeons and Dragons". While it's cromulent, it hurts that it's cromulent. Or maybe it's a source of pride that it's cromulent and YK is offendedbragging or whatever version of humblebrag terminology you can fit here.

... And how can you have a name like Stark and reduce fantasy to D&D?... or spell Jason Jayson for that matter?

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 4:14 pm

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:26 pm
ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 2:27 pm Jayson Stark is an excellent baseball writer who relayed a fun story in a relatable way, even for those who don't play video games. "Online version of Dungeons and Dragons" is a perfectly cromulent shorthand for Everquest for an audience that may not be familiar with MMORPGs. Frankly, I think you're kind of looking to be offended if that piece offended you.

Plus Doug Glanville is awesome.
It's just a lifetime of ego being bruised that everything we've been passionately geek about for a past time for our entire lives has been reduced to "like Dungeons and Dragons". While it's cromulent, it hurts that it's cromulent. Or maybe it's a source of pride that it's cromulent and YK is offendedbragging or whatever version of humblebrag terminology you can fit here.

... And how can you have a name like Stark and reduce fantasy to D&D?... or spell Jason Jayson for that matter?

I've got no defense for the spelling of his name, but keep in mind that this article was written in 2001, well before Game of Thrones was a cultural touchpoint. And it's worth noting that this is an article for baseball fans. Those of us who are also gamers already know what Everquest is. He's not going to spend a lot of space describing Everquest and MMORPGs to his non-gamer audience, because it's not really the point of the story. (Plus he's obviously not a gamer either, so trying to provide more detail would probably only cause more inadequate comparisons.) A quick comparison to something more well known, even if it's not a perfect comparison, lets his audience know that we're in a sword and sorcery type of realm with players adventuring against monsters. It let's him get right to the funny parts.

FWIW, Stark is also a geek - he's just a geek about baseball.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 4:21 pm

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 4:14 pm I've got no defense for the spelling of his name, but keep in mind that this article was written in 2001, well before Game of Thrones was a cultural touchpoint.

FWIW, Stark is also a geek - he's just a geek about baseball.

That's where I'm coming from. Everyone's got their thing and our thing is to have had a life time of "Oh, so it's like D&D?"

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 4:35 pm

Baseball is the bat version of tennis.

I'm pretty sure I originally saw that EverQuest story in Baseball America, back when it was a printed weekly. Total baseball geekdom. I think it was before the Stark column but I can't be sure.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 7:12 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:10 pm
Frankly, I think you're kind of looking to be offended if that piece offended you.
This is the internet, man. Why else would any of us be here?

Porn.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 7:26 pm

pr0ner wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 7:12 pm
hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:10 pm
Frankly, I think you're kind of looking to be offended if that piece offended you.
This is the internet, man. Why else would any of us be here?
Porn.

Pr0n in your case

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 8:02 pm

I stand corrected.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:42 pm

I wasn't offended, I just didn't care for the guy's tone. I had enough of the jocks ridiculing the geeks in high school for one lifetime, thanks.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:57 pm

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 7:26 pm
pr0ner wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 7:12 pm
hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:10 pm
Frankly, I think you're kind of looking to be offended if that piece offended you.
This is the internet, man. Why else would any of us be here?
Porn.
Pr0n in your case

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Tue Aug 13, 2019 11:39 pm

YellowKing wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:42 pm I wasn't offended, I just didn't care for the guy's tone. I had enough of the jocks ridiculing the geeks in high school for one lifetime, thanks.

Jayson Stark is far, far from a jock.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Wed Aug 14, 2019 7:52 am

ImLawBoy wrote:
YellowKing wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:42 pm I wasn't offended, I just didn't care for the guy's tone. I had enough of the jocks ridiculing the geeks in high school for one lifetime, thanks.
Jayson Stark is far, far from a jock.

But YK wants his outrage! Don't stifle him!

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:04 am

YellowKing wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:42 pm I wasn't offended, I just didn't care for the guy's tone. I had enough of the jocks ridiculing the geeks in high school for one lifetime, thanks.

Would you PLEASE just let Lawboy be offended by your offense!?!?

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:35 am

Hey, if I don't defend Jayson Stark, who will? I'm tired of all these gaming/computer bullies taking out their frustrations on nerdy sportswriters.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Aug 14, 2019 12:50 pm

You REALLY wanna see heads explode? Have him write Dr. Who instead of Doctor Who.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:09 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 12:50 pm You REALLY wanna see heads explode? Have him write Dr. Who instead of Doctor Who.

Even worse, call himthem Doctor Who instead of The Doctor.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:16 pm

Dear Iowa. Make this idiot irrelevant. Your Country needs you:

U.S. Rep. Steve King told the Westside Conservative Club Wednesday that humanity might not exist if not for rape and incest throughout human history.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:58 pm

Attention Steve: Civilization is calling. The Mexicans know about this.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:59 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:58 pm Attention Steve: Civilization is calling. The Mexicans know about this.

I mean is Mexico was sending us their best they'd be sending their rapists.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Wed Aug 14, 2019 2:41 pm

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:16 pm Dear Iowa. Make this idiot irrelevant. Your Country needs you:

U.S. Rep. Steve King told the Westside Conservative Club Wednesday that humanity might not exist if not for rape and incest throughout human history.

But evolution is just tooooo much to accept.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Aug 14, 2019 2:45 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 2:41 pm
Pyperkub wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:16 pm Dear Iowa. Make this idiot irrelevant. Your Country needs you:

U.S. Rep. Steve King told the Westside Conservative Club Wednesday that humanity might not exist if not for rape and incest throughout human history.

But evolution is just tooooo much to accept.

That's not the one he wants to do.

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Thu Aug 15, 2019 12:29 am

His position is consistent even if his reasoning is bat shit crazy. If you're against murdering babies, why would you murder one because someone committed a violent crime against the mother?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Aug 15, 2019 7:25 am

Folks don’t usually get upset with King because of consistency. They get upset with him because he’s a shitty human being.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Thu Aug 15, 2019 8:47 am

Alefroth wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 12:29 am His position is consistent even if his reasoning is bat shit crazy. If you're against murdering babies, why would you murder one because someone committed a violent crime against the mother?

But rather than stopping at internal consistency, he went on to stupid.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Thu Aug 15, 2019 11:05 am

LawBeefaroni wrote:
Alefroth wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 12:29 am His position is consistent even if his reasoning is bat shit crazy. If you're against murdering babies, why would you murder one because someone committed a violent crime against the mother?
But rather than stopping at internal consistency, he went on to stupid.

Nah, he's been at stupid for life.