Thursday, August 25, 2016

Springsteen August 23. 2016

Bruce, obviously in a good mood, pulled out NYC Serenade, Jungleland and Rosalita and allows the crowd to request Santa Claus and Growin' Up.

I'd expect Thunder Road tonight

  1. New York City Serenade  
Wrecking Ball

  1. Badlands  



  2. (Harry Reser and His Orchestra cover) (sign request)
     



  3. (sign request)
     


  4. (solo acoustic with Patti Scialfa on vocals)
  5. (with string section; tour debut)






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  7. (with “People Get Ready” outro)
     
  8. Encore:

  9. Play Video

  10.  Dancing in the Dark



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  12. (Tom Waits cover) (sign request)
     
Note: Clocking in at 3:52:01 from the start of the first song to the end of the encores, this is widely being considered Bruce's longest concert ever performed in the United States and his third longest show ever.

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Players With 40,000 or more "Points + Rebounds + Assists"

21 guys (3 get in because of their ABA stats)


21. Robert Parish -- 40,229 total points plus rebounds plus assists in his career.

20. Bill Russell -- 40,242  (the only guy not a top 50 all-time scorer to get over 40,000)

19. John Havlicek -- 40,516

18. Charles Barkley -- 40,568

17.  LeBron James -- 40,715

16.  Dan Issel - 41,522 (ABA guy - could have given you 100 guesses and you would not have guessed Dan Issel)

15.  Dirk Nowitzki - 43,445

14.  Hakeem Olajuwon -- 43,752

13.  Artis Gilmore -- 44,321 (ABA guy)

12.  Oscar Robertson - 44,401

11.  Michael Jordan -- 44,597

10.  Shaq -- 44,721

9.  Dr. J -- 45, 727 (ABA guy)

8.  Tim Duncan -- 45,812

7.  Elvin Hayes -- 45,990

6.   Kevin Garnett -- 46,178

5.  Kobe Bryant -- 46,996

4.  Moses Malone -- 49,350 (has ABA stats, but does not need them to qualify)

3.  Karl Malone -- 57,144

2.  Wilt Chamberlain -- 59,986

1.   Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -- 61,487 (only guy on list in top 50 in career points, rebounds and assists)

Guys like Clyde, Gary Payton and Paul Pierce have come close.  Pierce, in fact, only needs less than 1,600 total in the 3 categories to join the list. 

Small guys really need not apply.  The list includes

6'4" and under -- none.
6'5" to 6'8" -- 7 guys

6'9 and above -- 14 guys.




Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Trump's Bogus Medical Letter

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-gunter/im-a-doctor-heres-concerning-trumps-medical-letter_b_11565838.html

Honest to God?  Trump et al just basically drafts up a bullshit letter and puts it on some doctor's letterhead and signs it for him? 

This is the same crew who managed to steal verbatim from a Michelle Obama speech and their fall woman said, "Melania told me to use parts of Michelle's speech, but I had no idea it was Michelle's speech."  Huh?

Trump is a guy who wants to be President.  What has he established about his ability to do (or delegate people to do) very basic tasks?  Can't write a doctor's letter, can't write a speech, doesn't understand that "get out the vote" is necessary, etc.

Imagine how horrific his tax returns must be!   I mean, let's take Trump at his word and say that this doctor's letter actually came from a licensed medical doctor.  If this is who he selects as his personal physician, imagine who he selects as his accountant.  I guess we see now why his returns are said to be audited every year.  I mean, I envision a tax return with handwritten notes and attached statements about how something is "all positive" or "the best" and the IRS people just saying, "WTF is this?  OK, audit the guy every year."

And yet, Marco Rubio and John McCain -- "We fully support the guy."  Republicans must be SUPER proud of the fact that 75% of all Republicans say this guy is qualified to be President. 

Tuesday, August 09, 2016

500 Foot Home Runs

In honor of Prince Fielder's retirements, I submit these 500+ foot HR's.