Ok maybe my bad...thought you were making fun of yinzers like the Elites....including some who grew up Yinzer but now because they live in the Cit-TEE and ride in bike lanes they are better than Yinzers...
I actually remember that skit from HBO during my youth. Yeah, certainly politically incorrect and would not fly today. Interestingly, I listen to the DVE morning show and they are all stand up comedy guys and obviously liberal. They don’t hide their politics. But it is bothersome to them that comedians are targets for the PC police. Part of comedy, I guess for those within that world, is to insult, push the envelope, and take things to a level of discomfort.
I own a bike for recreation and exercise OUTSIDE the city! I hate bike lanes, they are a waste. I really don't fit neatly into any of the "ideologies".
As Babe Ruth put it....
That was 100 years ago. I agree with you totally, but today, I don't buy it, especially for younger people.
Baseball Apple pie and Chevrolet’s
one of the espn channels had some rocket ball tournament on tv late night so I watch it cause I have no idea what rocket ball is.. this is a gaming tournament where 5 or 6 people have these gaming helmets on, controllers and they are playing some video game.. so ESPN televised a bunch of people playing a video game. it was truly a low point for television.
bike lanes in city are dumb, still very dangerous and never used. I live in south park and they actually put a bike lane thru the main drag here but that makes sense, it's a 25mph drag thru a park where people walk/run regularly.
Mememers......go figure.
I refuse to accept that anyone, ever, has played a pickup game of baseball as a kid.. no generation, ever, in the US anyays, has a childhood where they and 17 other neighborhood kids all met on an empty baseball field, picked teams and proceeded to play a pickup game of baseball without some sort of parental / organized assistance..
We also played all sports with whatever number we could get, like tackle football 4 on 4, if we had a 9th guy, maybe one guy would be QB for both teams. We'd have 3 on 3 touch football on the street, 3 on 3 wiffle ball, 2 on 2 basketball on 9 foot rims in the alley, etc. I was tall, took down a 9 foot rim on a friends garage with a ''send it in Jerome'' moment in high school, we always played pickup sports.
Sometimes it was based on the height of the garage, the modern hoops with the adjustable height weren't invented yet. One kid in the neighborhood had one that couldn't of been more than 8 feet, his dad would get so pissed at me because by age 13 I could dunk on it easily and it would rattle the whole garage, he was scared I was going to bring it down. But that wasn't the one I destroyed, My CYO basketball jersey was #53, I chose it because of Darryl Dawkins, so playing on the backyard rims, I'd be purposely bringing the "thunder" and the parents where always scared I'd break their kids hoop.
my post got deleted, go figure. i'll try again, you said the same thing I said, all kids played these games, football, basketball, whiffle ball. I was referring to these mythical 9 on 9 pickup baseball games..
No, in my childhood, we as kids, with no adults involved arranged some 9 on 9 baseball games sometimes, unless you don't count that? We'd have neighborhood teams, like Liberty Avenue vs. Cherry Street, no adults involved, meet at the school.
How many unions did you belong to dude, proud to have been a brother.Ahhh yes, I always knew you were a closet commie pinko!!!
That’s crazy to me. Seriously, to get they many kids coordinated in one place, to actually play a game. Go thru batting order, have a couple kids who actuelly have a catchers mitt.
This is sarcasm right? My fondest memories as a kid was spending every day of summer vacation playing baseball from morning until night, only taking breaks for lunch and dinner. And we hated the kids whose parents made them rest for a half hour to let their food digest. And then we disliked the dreadful screams from everyone’s parents when it was getting dark, yelling for their kid to come home.
As usual you’re confused.
do they? I work in north shore, next bike rider I see at 7am in city will be my first.
We didn't really have all the gear, like the correct mitts or catchers gear all the time, we didn't call balls and strikes- 3 swings and you where out, there where arguments because usually no umpires. the catcher was usually the worse player who just stood at the back of the backstop to retrieve the pitch. But we did go through a batting order and play 9 innings, etc. But like I said, back then there where a lot more kids and in the summer all we did was wander the streets unsupervised all day long until the street lights came on in small town Western PA.
Agree with all this, and true, 9 on 9 baseball was rare, but sometimes we'd get a big game together, usually 2 neighborhoods squaring off against each other. But the normal days game where 4 on 4 or 5 on 5, with modified rules. We had a little league field near us, so we did have an actual place with an outfield fence and infield with backstop to use often enough, unless some older guys took it over LOL.
This is funny. And actually quite accurate. I am often in the city in the early morning until late in the evening. And my job has me on the city streets at various times of the day. I know the east end streets of oakland, Shadyside, east Liberty, lawrenceville, Squirrel Hill, etc like the back of my hand. Rarely do I ever see a biker, and actually it’s more accurate for me to describe it as I see them almost never.
There is beautiful trails all over the city and suburbs.. walking running, and biking trails, no cars. if you are riding your bike on a major road in the city for exercise, you are an idiot. I could see college kids in shadyside or Oakland riding their bikes to pitt, cmu etc that makes sense..
I’m sure there are students/professors riding bikes to class here and there. And perhaps there are waiters/waitresses/baristas/google employees, etc doing the same. But you NEVER see them because they are few and far between.
the funny thing about where I live is, they put in bike lanes on main drag so bike riders have a lane so people can walk/job on the walk way on Corrigan dr in south park. good plan, works on paper.
