Series Talk: MERRY XMAS!

Let's settle this

  • Ham

    Votes: 18 46.2%
  • Turkey

    Votes: 21 53.8%

  • Total voters
    39

Gumballhead

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Love hearing all the variations of the same stuff from different places. Makes me feel like I belong.

Gotta teach the next generation how to have fun with their imagination again.
That same friend I played every real and made up sport with ended up moving a ways away so it made it harder to play sports 16 hours a day but their new house did have a good sized back yard with retaining walls abutting an alley and a neighbor’s yard so we created a form of one on one baseball played with baseballs made of rolled masking or cloth tape and wooden dowels as bats. We played an abbreviated season playing as a handful of teams we liked and you’d have to imitate the batting stance of the player, bat from the correct side of the plate, and we had different sized dowels for the type of hitter, so the sluggers got a thicker bat. Pitchers had to use this short piece of thick hollow metal pipe that made it almost impossible to hit the ball in the air. We kept stats and had playoffs and a world series, we even put up red white and blue crepe ribbons on the fences for that hahaha. That might have just been one spring summer and fall but we played it religiously. It was called Tapeball, naturally. Once those tape balls got smacked a few times they’d get funky shapes and you could really get some weird action on them as a pitcher. There might still be some on his neighbors roofs to this day…
 

Snow Arc

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Aug 14, 2020
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I’m fkn tired.

Opened presents with the wife and 4 kids at my house 7-10 AM. My parents house 10-12. In-laws 12-2. Back home now. Was hoping to get in a nap but my kids have me putting together their kitchen sets and other shit.

Christmas dinner with guests in 3 hours. I’m going to be a grumpy prick for this dinner.

f***.
Have you tried chocolate?
 

CobraAcesS

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Just wanted to wish you all happy holidays and Merry Christmas!

Eat way too much, drink not too much and enjoy your time with your loved ones! :cheers:

I'm late, so Happy New Years lol




And the answer to the poll is Prime Rib by the way. Tonight will be the second dose, with stew made from the leftover bones a couple times in the following months. 🥳
 
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CobraAcesS

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Managed hotels for much of the single digit 00s. The bolded might be the most true statement I've ever read on this board. One of the games I had to break up was absoultely freaking epic. There was no way in hell I wanted to shut these kids down, but it was 1:30am on a Wednesday and it was a mostly business hotel. The phone system lit up like the Rockerfeller tower when they kicked off that game.

Kids had setup three nets. One on each end of the hallway one in the center. They were using four goalies. The two in the center were playing opposite sides of the net but it was like four teams on four teams and you could score on any net but your own. It was freaking hysterical but way too loud for the hour.

In Texas we played a game called slaughterball. It started out with a racketball or a tennis ball. But you throw it against a wall and everyone tries to catch it. If the ball touches you and you don't catch, you have to run and touch the wall. Everyone else is allowed to bean you with the ball until you become safe by touching the main wall. Penalties are given to hitting someone with a ball after they're "safe" or for hitting someone deliberately in the head (there is a reason for this.) Penalty shots....the guilty goes and stands facing the wall about three inches from it. The victim then gets to absolutely been him from 20' away with a free throw.

Absolutely fun game... Until you hit highschool... And it changes to a baseball. Played it once in highschool. Once. The small of my back has never felt the same.

We called it Wallball, ya'all were more original than California was lol.
 

Snow Arc

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Managed hotels for much of the single digit 00s. The bolded might be the most true statement I've ever read on this board. One of the games I had to break up was absoultely freaking epic. There was no way in hell I wanted to shut these kids down, but it was 1:30am on a Wednesday and it was a mostly business hotel. The phone system lit up like the Rockerfeller tower when they kicked off that game.

Kids had setup three nets. One on each end of the hallway one in the center. They were using four goalies. The two in the center were playing opposite sides of the net but it was like four teams on four teams and you could score on any net but your own. It was freaking hysterical but way too loud for the hour.

In Texas we played a game called slaughterball. It started out with a racketball or a tennis ball. But you throw it against a wall and everyone tries to catch it. If the ball touches you and you don't catch, you have to run and touch the wall. Everyone else is allowed to bean you with the ball until you become safe by touching the main wall. Penalties are given to hitting someone with a ball after they're "safe" or for hitting someone deliberately in the head (there is a reason for this.) Penalty shots....the guilty goes and stands facing the wall about three inches from it. The victim then gets to absolutely bean him from 20' away with a free throw.

Absolutely fun game... Until you hit highschool... And it changes to a baseball. Played it once in highschool. Once. The small of my back has never felt the same.
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