This season focused way less on golf but still was entirely recognizable as Strapped, which I think speaks to what the show’s center has become. I don’t think that means there won’t be another golf heavy season, but it may take a while. I for one am open to and excited for change.
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@MerchCzar Don’t feel bad about believing the Brockmeyer thing actually happened in real life. My two best friends (who are brothers) did something similar where I essentially believed the entire plot of the old FOX show “The OC” happened at their high school. I felt like such an idiot and get my stones busted about it to this day.
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A proper Classic!
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Oddjob surrounded by prox mines, and probably rocking a double klobb to be a dick. Boris is a concerning choice. Helicopter pilot for life.
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Neil using the ball washer was quietly my favorite part of a great episode. Just a perfect Strapped moment.
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Where is that gen z translator?
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First off, can we talk about just how good @Randy and @MerchCzar made the baseball training video sendup look?!? I grew up watching those commercials, and the recreation was pitch perfect.
The 3rd episode also took me back more than 30 years. At the school my father taught at when I was growing up, there was (and still is) a program called “Winterim.” Winterim is a 2 week experiential learning program conceived as an elegant solution to the question “how do you work and learn at a New England boarding school in March without waking up screaming every morning.”
My father’s Winterim was “sports journalism,” where he would take 15 students down to Winter Haven Florida to attend Red Sox spring training. Every day the students would go to the ballpark, and every night they would have an article due. They were taught how to look at sports and how to communicate their observations each day and turn them into a coherent narrative over time.
The most thrilling day of the whole Winterim was the day the students would be issued press passes and a handler would meet them in the players area and bring players over to be interviewed. One of the years I went with my father, our handler didn’t show up, and we were allowed to run amuck in the players area. I got to meet Ted Williams, and one of our students was dragooned into feeding balls to Wade Boggs. I knew it was amazing, but I had no grasp of just how special it was at the time.
Thank you, gentlemen, for bringing back those memories!
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I’m a millennial, tyvm. I was just never allowed to have video games as a kid so I didn’t get into them until college, which coincided with the release of Destiny and one of my housemates had it on PS4. I had to stay on campus for a weeklong break for some reason one year and spent the whole week on it, got totally hooked.
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Apologies. I didn’t mean to perpetuate millennial on millennial violence. We have to stick together here with all the boomers and gen z-ers saying God knows what.
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All forgiven. I’m at the tail end of the millennial ranks but I still feel absolutely lost when it comes to Gen Z lingo.
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Living at the intersection of both games, I can assure you that holing up with prox mines in Goldeneye is way scummier. PvP map design wasn’t very good back then and there were definitely places you could go that had 1 way in, 1 way out. Which is very much unlike a modern game’s map design where there’s flanking routes all over the place if someone is glamping.
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You know Jason Benetti is operating on another level when he steps aside and gives the entire floor to @MerchCzar and @Randy on the Icarito Volcano-hole putt. CONFETTI FOR BENETTI!
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Also - was there anything better back in the day watching Jason Benetti call college hoops games with Bill Walton? A pairing that makes absolutely no sense at the outset but perfect sense in hindsight.
As an example: Redirecting...
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Get Benetti in the booth alongside Hueber for a Film Room.
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was a pitching coach for a short stint. Just dropping a quick note based on a literal 2 second video.
@MerchCzar your front side flies open. That high right miss is going to be in play, and if not you may mis-time it and yank it way low and way outside. Firm up the front side and you will be in business
@Randy gets through the ball nicely, but the backside is dead. Need to see you utilize the frame big fella!
enjoyed the look guys. Fun stuff as usual.
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Big budget increase with the Enter Sandman needle drop!
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The boys throwing it around the horn from first to third and turning inside has me all messed up. I vividly remember the Emanski vid emphasizing outside turns on the cutoff relays and then going third → first with easy inside turns from the right handers. Did anyone else catch this? Did Emanski have the kids turning to the inside in the full video (admittedly never watched the full tape)?
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I might be misremembering which closer it was, but I think Francisco Cordero came out to enter sandman during his reds stint.
Mariano Rivera is the most famous to come out to it
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As someone who lived in Chi for five or so years and had some intro to Benetti through college basketball, the guy is truly a pro’s pro. Not sure if there are any Orioles fans on here but listening to @Randy talk about getting close to announcers and learning their personalities has me really bummed that Gary Thorne is no longer doing the call. The O’s rotating cast of announcers just doesn’t build the same connection. Still makes me want to watch/listen to more ballgames.
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