Preparing for the End of the World

[CpUltravox]

In an effort to get through the last month of the year without baseball, I've actually begun taping every game that will be on TV this week, and hopefully, by not reading Lee's reports, I'll be able to watch a game or 2 each week during September, without knowing what happened.

But what I'm really wondering is this - if it all blows up Friday, and baseball ends, what will you do to hold yourself over? Do the rest of sports just not exist in your mind, and will you replace it with family time? Will football hold your attention?

I've got my "Baseball contingency plan" in place. I follow pro football, but never get excited about it. Ohio State football keeps my attention.

But there's something about the daily security that a baseball season provides that no other sport can replace. And most certainly there will be a void when it ends prematurely.

[poorme]

I'll do more reading. I'll play more Diamond Mind Baseball. I'll survive. The tough part will be in spring if there's still no baseball in sight. I've already been through this twice. I think it gets easier each time. Of course my team wasn't going to the playoffs anyway.

[NCFella19]

We'll have our Traveling Browns Party from house to house each week here in NC watching our beloved Brownies on the satellite dish.

But like poorme said, if there's no resolution when spring training arrives....it could get VERY worrisome. Minor league games are swell, but no MLB spring training?????? Ugh.

[satchel]

It will make it easier for me to focus on starting my new job. I imagine it will just feel a lot like the offseason to me. But I haven't been a serious baseball fan for all that long, so it's easier for me to imagine life without it. Maybe I'll return to one of the hobbies I let fall by the wayside when I got interested in baseball.

[Max Power]

No BCP for me. I'm confident they will work it out. The framework is there - - it's just dollars now.

[SmedIndy]

I gots lots stuff I gots to do....

[soxfan121]

Five words: Chinese language lessons on tape.

After that, Japanese.

[JamesI]

I guess it will give me no excuse to prepare for the dreaded comprehensive exam if they strike.

[rcartman28]

NFL season starts for real in a week and a half.....I'll get by

[Craig S.]

I've got ESPN Gameplan and NHL Center Ice to go along with the NFL, so I'll get my sports fix. Besides that, I'm trying to learn a third language (Spanish), so maybe the lack of baseball will free up time for that.

[poorme]

Originally posted by soxfan121
Five words: Chinese language lessons on tape.

After that, Japanese.

:eek: wow, you are ready for the long haul.

[KCBOOMER]

Originally posted by CpUltravox
Ohio State football keeps my attention.


Your new freshman running back looks like a stud.

Went to the Florida State - Iowa State game in KC Saturday night. Very entertaining game though I don't care for either team. There is nothing quite like how young college girls dress for a football game during warm weather.

[Skip]

I'll be ok with college and pro football. It'll just seem like a normal time - rather than one of the two great sports overlap times of the year. It's easy to tune out the rest of the world March to early April, with ST, March Madness, and the NBA games starting to have at least some meaning (+ NHL if you care). Ditto to Sept and early October with baseball in the stretch run, and the two footballs getting rolling.

Perhaps I'll finish extending my deck and remodeling my basement.

Perhaps this will all be moot by Labor Day. :beg:

[Ytown Tribe fan]

1> I'll be taping "Zappa A to Z". That should keep me busy for qa while.

2> I'll be active in getting Link Wray into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.

3> GO BROWNS!

[sweaver]

Teaching, Ph.D. classes, family.....I'll keep busy.

WVU football goes in there too.

[Gosfgiants]

September and Ocotber has the nicest weather all year in SF. I'll be out riding my bike or hiking. Throw in some football watching as well. I'm looking to forward to the Madden-Michaels combo on MNF.

[SmedIndy]

Originally posted by Ytown Tribe fan
1> I'll be taping "Zappa A to Z". That should keep me busy for qa while.




I supplied a friend with 19 90-minute (some 100 minute) tapes of Zappa back when Katie was itty bitty and someone had to be up every 3 to 4 hours. It's arduous, and of course you can't get everything there (try to make room for "Billy the Mountain", twice, and decide which parts of "Lumpy Gravy" goes on...) Good luck!

[Allard]

Originally posted by NCFella19
We'll have our Traveling Browns Party from house to house each week here in NC watching our beloved Brownies on the satellite dish.


Where is your Panthers loyalty? :)

[TGwynn19]

I'll try to get my golf game back in shape and get my handicap back down to a 3.

[Craig S.]

Originally posted by sweaver
WVU football goes in there too.

You should enjoy the opener, because it's one of the few games they're likely to win this season. ;)

[qtlaw]

Hope ESPN Classics shows the '67, '68, '75, and '86 WS replays and that ESPN shows the Japan World Series (I remember, I think, that they showed on tape in 1994.) Get into the NFL and don't worry about it anymore.

[Ytown Tribe fan]

Smed, the thing is, I have so many boots that I have to decide which version of each song I want to tape. His live shows at the Palladium on Halloween are legendary.

Same thing with Beefheart -- most of his best stuff was live and bootlegged, like "Wasp Man had Metal Wings".

Maybe I'll try to complete my Link Wray collection.

Meanwhile, my dad is doing the complete Mozart. THAT'S an undertaking!

[sweaver]

Originally posted by Craig S.
You should enjoy the opener, because it's one of the few games they're likely to win this season. ;)
Gee, thanks, Craigy party-pooper.

I'm hoping to go to that one, if there are tickets still available.

[pathogan]

...at twilight, eat ice cream cones in the park, fly my kite, read,more poetry, write more poetry,start baking bread again,go to MOMa in queens,watch even less TV, try to perfect the chocolate chip cookie,teach my young dog old tricks...

[SmedIndy]

Originally posted by Ytown Tribe fan
Smed, the thing is, I have so many boots that I have to decide which version of each song I want to tape. His live shows at the Palladium on Halloween are legendary.

Same thing with Beefheart -- most of his best stuff was live and bootlegged, like "Wasp Man had Metal Wings".

Maybe I'll try to complete my Link Wray collection.

Meanwhile, my dad is doing the complete Mozart. THAT'S an undertaking!

Do you have CD boots or album boots for Zappa? I have a few of the Beat the Boots stuff, but can't seem to win a bid on Ebay for the entire set. Foo-eee!

I think some Beefheart live stuff is going to come out. Rhino Handmade has a fab show out from the Shiny Beast / Bat Chain Puller band, and the Revenant set had some live stuff, and I see on CDNOW another set is coming out. They released a quasi-bootleg of a London show that was pretty good. I'd love to get my hands on a full show from the band circa 1971 or so (after Decals) or perhaps in the hazy era after Safe as Milk when they were fighting about Mirror Man / Strictly Personal.

That'd take the edge off the strike if I had all that stuff. But I think Liz'd move to Montana with Katie until my Beefheart phase ended. :D

[VNV Nation]

Eleven months ago, I thought the world really was coming to an end. I'm not gonna get excited about missing two months of baseball.

[sweaver]

Amen.

[spitball]

Link Wray should be in the hall.
The Rumble is a guitar classic.

As for what I'll do with no baseball??.... How 'bout playing some ball?
How 'bout hanging with my wife and daughter?

Next ...we need to get Peter Green into the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame. His ground breaking work with the original Fleetwood Mac seems to be all but forgotten.
He got to play rhythm guitar with Santana on Black Magic Woman when they were inducted but that's it.
He WROTE Black Magic Woman for cryin out loud!!!

[SmedIndy]

Spit - For the song "Oh, Well", I support your cause for Peter Green if you support Captain Beefheart. He changed rock and roll forever, too!

I guess we can spend time on line writing pithy, witty, posts about thus and so if baseball goes on strike. Be a big change, eh?:p

[spitball]

Of course Beefheart changed the pallet. Tom Waits = the Captain with more song structure( in a conventional sense at least).
For that matter where would a band like The Butthole Surfers be if there hadn't been a Beefheart?
So I guess , yeah we can carry on all winter about this.
Music and baseball are almost the same thing to me anyway.

[Ytown Tribe fan]

I figure that either,

A) the human race becomes extinct before time-travel is developed; or,

B) they're awfully good at covering their tracks; or,

C) humans from the future live openly among us; or,

D) the human race lives on and on and time travel is never developed.

[poorme]

you guys better get back on the subject or I'm going to tell on you.:mad:

[SmedIndy]

Originally posted by Ytown Tribe fan
I figure that either,

A) the human race becomes extinct before time-travel is developed; or,

B) they're awfully good at covering their tracks; or,

C) humans from the future live openly among us; or,

D) the human race lives on and on and time travel is never developed.

So this is relevant to the end of the world how?

Sounds like a bad MST3K movie...

[spitball]

Originally posted by SmedIndy


So this is relevant to the end of the world how?

Sounds like a bad MST3K movie...
" Dream Stealer!!!"
" The Girl With The Golden Boots"

[Ytown Tribe fan]

Well, the topic WAS "Preparing for the End of the World", so I was simply speculating on the actual end of the world or at least our involvement in it.

Cleveland's radio station 107.9 FM used to be "The End" before going to a rap/hip-hop format. On the last day of the old format, the DJ's played REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)" over and over for about half a day.

What the hell -- it beats "Wango Tango"!

Right now I'm re-reading "World's End and other stories" by Paul Theroux. Not bad, not bad!

[TGwynn19]

Originally posted by SmedIndy

So this is relevant to the end of the world how?


It is as relevant as lobbying for Captain Beefhart for the rock and roll HOF.:rolleyes:

[Skip]

Dead thread, Ed.

[satchel]

Originally posted by Skip
Dead thread, Ed.

I'm afraid so. Thanks, all, for offering suggestions on what to do in the event the worst comes to pass this week ...