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Are beaches overrated?
On Thursday, I presented readers with a message from an Auburn fan who was complaining about going to the beach and how he hates it and says it's overrated. The guy also complained about meals costing $120.
- Isaac L. speaks up on this topic:
I agree that this guy doesn't like the beach because he is not a planner.
We just went to the beach with some extended family and you have to plan accordingly to maximize beach time and keep food costs down. I only have 2 beach chairs and one umbrella and there were 8 of us. What I did was hit up from buddies and borrowed more gear so we could all have a chair and some shade to relax on the shore with cold ones in hand (helps that the chairs have built-in coolers and backpack straps for easy carrying).
Food is where the planning really kicks into gear. I smoked a pork shoulder and shredded it 3 days beforehand and froze it for the drive down. So a quick dinner was pulled pork sammies. My MIL pre-made a homemade lasagna for another dinner night. We also bought pre-made homemade tuna salad, pimento cheese, and of course the usual deli cuts for lunch sammies.
Lots of chips, crackers, and pickles were also brought along. We did plan to go out to dinner one night and you have to temper expectations that it will be expensive and you will be waiting, which both were true, but man is fresh seafood worth it!
- Chris A. sent in a great email:
The guy complaining about the beach is someone who hated the beach before he got there. You have to be in the right frame of mind to:
- Get up early to watch the sunrise (east coast version)
- Sit under shade, watch the water, take an occasional splash and revel in doing nothing
- Read an actual paper book
- Walk the beach until your legs hurt, then realize you now have to walk back
- Take the mid-day break at the house to refresh in the AC, grab lunch and something cold out of the fridge, say hello to the housemates who never seem to leave the house all week, and head back to the beach for the afternoon session
- Listen for the Mister Softee truck
- Embrace the 4:00 happy hour
- Stand by while some big dummy in the group attempts to make reservations for 16 at the last minute
Going on a beach trip requires a certain state of mind, and the entire crew has to buy into it too. Otherwise your trip is brought down because everyone tries to make that one unhappy person happy, and never succeeds. Better to leave them to play computer games all day.
- Dawgs fan Eddie from Acworth writes:
Hey Joe-
As a UGA grad, this is truly painful for me to write-I agree with an Auburn fan (I just threw up in my mouth a little):
The beach is absolutely overrated. When our boys were younger-it was absolute hell-and I am sure I am not alone in this:
Getting up at the crack of dawn ( I am on vacation I should be able to sleep in!!) dousing your kids in 50spf-getting them "beach" ready-lugging 400 lbs of crap to the beach-which is usually within walking distance, but at a minimum takes 30 minutes (and you are doing all of the carrying while your kids carry nothing)-setting up the tent/protectants so they don't get sunburned,-getting out all the toys (which they will play with about 2 of them)-re-applying spf50-watching them like hawks to make sure they aren't attacked or caught up in the surf (reading a book?? HA! forget it)-blowing up floating devices they won't use-setting up a kite they won't touch-having one of them have a meltdown and then lugging all that crap back to the house, in 100 degree weather that is muggy as hell-not to mention you are covered in sand (and the kids look like sand monsters)-trudging thru said sand as they scream because it is burning their feet-then doing it all over again later in the day because your wife wants to make more memories-and usually after that there is an evening picture on the beach-which only adds to the hell. The eating part also sucks as you cannot go out without waiting 2 hours for overpriced food that usually comes to about 300 bucks.
I will admit-now that my kids are grown, beach trips are much more relaxing (we only go because my wife loves the beach) but I will take a "cooler" mountain trip/lake trip to a cabin any day over the beach.
Enough with the solidarity. Screw War Damn Eagle-GO DAWGS!
- Grumpy Dean B. states:
Hey Joe, Screencaps grumpy old man Dean from Monroe Ga responding to the Beach controversy.
At one time I lived at Huntington Beach, early 20s. It was happening for a young man chasing split tail. I also grew up close to the beach in Boston.
Gotta say it, WTF do u do at the beach as an older person? Sit there?Feel like an old perv lookin at young women?im baffled... I dont get it. I'm all for gettin some sun and browning the fat, but to just sit there n cook, not this old fella.
You also hav to deal w crowds, not a fan of that either.
So somebody tell me what u do at the beach. Don't say seafood, cause u can do that without the beach.I hav 8 siblings and they all go to the beach, I ask them what they do there n don't get solid answers from them. Relax, chill.
Traffic, people... that ain't chillin. I am retired so my idea of chillin doesn't involve thousands of other people.
Now get off my lawn!
Detroit sports fans and Lou Whitaker's HOF credentials
- Yankee fan David W. writes :
Not my intention to further inflame the Detroit fan base but...
Willie Randolph was a superior 2nd baseman.
Though Lou did have a nice clothing store in the Lakeland Mall.
- John in Milford, MI is still hammering me on Lou's behalf:
That Google search image you put up about why Lou Whitaker isn’t in the HOF proves my point exactly. He got no respect when he played or after he retired.
I have no idea how they calculate WAR, but I can tell you the following:
Lou Whitaker has a WAR of 75.1
That ties him with Johnny Bench at #51 on the all-time list for position players.
That puts him at #8 all-time for second basemen.
The only modern era second basemen with a higher WAR are Joe Morgan and Rod Carew.
Ryne Sandberg had a WAR of 46.9.
John emailed back:
Last thing - I had Sandberg WAR wrong in my first message. It was 67.9. Still lower than Lou’s.
Kinsey:
John, if you can't figure out WAR, then we can't use it as a barometer for someone making the hall of fame. We've allowed the nerds to get away with too many things in baseball.
Do I want Ryne Sandberg hitting dingers at 3:35 when I just got off the school bus or do I want to have some no-name Triple-A guy popping out to short right as Ryno's replacement because the guy gets like 1-2 more walks per game.
These NERDS HAVE PUSHED MY BUTTONS FOR TOO LONG.
SCREW THE WAR BASEBALL NERDS WHO HAVE RUINED THE GAME. Also, screw the nerds who have devalued starting pitchers and have suggested to 9U players to throw out of their shoes – I saw a Facebook video this week where a 9U kid is throwing like a maniac and just asking for Tommy John surgery.
Sad times.
Now, do I think Lou Whitaker deserves to be in the Hall of Fame? I don't. Nice player. I'm sure he was a great teammate. Hall of Famer? No.
He hit over .300 over a full season just ONCE. Lou had one helluva career, with all of it in Detroit, but it wasn't a hall of fame career.
Do I remember the Fabulous Sports Babe?
- Chris B. in Florida writes:
Hi, Joe — Are you old enough to remember the Fabulous Sports Babe on the radio (hell, are you old enough to remember radio?)? She used to say something like "If you want to complain about the refs, score more points."
Side note: in rec ball some time in the 90’s I got called for defending the low post by bringing my arms down on the shooter (don’t worry, he lived). When I asked the ref why the call, he said "You Laimbeered him" and I understood immediately.
Bonus side note: being ridiculously tall and wide at the shoulder, I've had trouble side-sleeping without my neck tightening up. I discovered the cheap-ass solution: two Walmart-special (#notsponsored, go to Ollie’s if you prefer. Just not Target.) pillows stuffed together in one of those hypoallergenic cases.
The case keeps them tight enough that they don’t sag in the middle, and by using the inner case, you don’t have to wrestle two pillows into a single regular case every time you change the sheets.
Kinsey:
I'm insulted by that Sports Babe question. Of course, I remember the Sports Babe and the Sports Babe ESPN show. Yes, I listened in the car and watched Babe's show. She was one of the guys.
This is about as insulting as baseball nerds coming up with some stupid stat to devalue Ryne Sandberg when he was the best thing on TV when I got off that school bus.
Do I know what sports radio is? Come on, Chris B.! I spent like 6-7 years getting my ass up every Friday to appear on sports-talk radio and causing chaos. I'm incredibly proud of the run I had (unpaid, by the way, because I loved what I was doing, and the show host, AC Bellino, was broke) on Toledo sports radio.
Those Friday shows around these parts are legendary.
I made an NFL WR catch Chick fil A chicken biscuits that I threw at him to show us his hands. I had the famous Lisa Ann give sex advice to men and women. There was a show where a current NFL QB threw passes to us over four lanes of traffic. We had Instagram models picking NCAA brackets.
We had fun.
Now, Bellino is the sports director at WJR in Detroit. He's become a big deal across Michigan.
Questions to ponder on the final Friday of mid-July 2024
- Phillip in Middle TN writes:
Hi Joe, enjoy your work and it's been a while since I wrote, but I've got so many questions for our Screencaps Family, so straight into it.
- Have we heard from the guy who had his yard torn up for access by his pool building neighbors? He got paid, but is it fixed? I don't think I missed it.
- Set up: 1st day of school for your 2nd grader. You walk down to the bus stop, the school bus pulls up and Joe Biden is the bus driver. Do you put your kid on the bus or drive him to school yourself?
- What ever happened to the Neutron Bomb? Is it outlawed?
- Story: 1992 Vacation to the Alamo, got down to Laredo, TX. Paid 25 cents to walk across bridge into Mexico and look at the tourist trap stores. Cost 50 cents to cross bridge back into U.S.A. (worth the extra $). A few years later, paid $1 to drive across Ben Franklin(?) bridge from Pennsylvania into New Jersey and $2 to drive out of New Jersey back into Pennsylvania. (I had to laugh)
Are there other spots in the U.S. where it's double to get out of a place?
- Are Carbon Credits the modern day version of Indulgences?
- The government mandated putting ethanol in our gas in 2005ish. Isn't it time someone reviewed whether it has reached its stated goals, and if not the program be discontinued? (Save us $ and get better performance.)
- Was our Hallmark movie writer pleased with his movies ratings? Is he writing another movie for this year? Can I email him?
- Last one for this go-around. Set up: Your neighbor has an emergency and calls you for help. But your son's business is on the verge of imploding and he needs you to see the client with him that day. Do you go to Palestine, PA or the Ukraine? Oops, I mean who do you help?
Kinsey:
So many questions, so little time on this beautiful July morning with the temps supposed to reach a beautiful 80 degrees without a cloud in the the sky.
Let's start with the question about our resident Hallmark Christmas movie screenwriter, Steve B., who made his debut during the 2023 Christmas season. This is a good time to remind Screencaps readers that Steve B.'s movie was a smash hit.
Don't take my word for it. Look at the ratings. Hallmark stuck Steve with an October date and he delivered. I don't want to speak for Steve, but he had to be ecstatic over how his rookie debut went.
I've asked Steve B. for an update on if Hallmark came calling for another script. Does Steve B. have another banger in him? Do we get a Checkin' It Twice 2? Hopefully Steve lets us know.
Balloons of Europe
- Ripcurl is over in Europe letting us know about his summer. I can't remember exactly where he's at, but I'm thinking it's France:
Hope all is well. Seeing sunsets again on screencaps I thought I would share what we see here at the house near sunset periodically. Caught one going by this week around 8:30 at night. The video got messed up a little because I pulled the audio off of my voice yelling to the balloon. There may or may not have been some beer involved… Seemed like it was just a few met..um, yards from the house.
Here we go again with corn on the cob cooked with milk
- Jim M. is ready to test this:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dad-corn-farmer-secret-best-150000694.html
Another article with milk!, I'm gonna have to try this now. The farm stand where we go doesn't have corn yet, should be any day now
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It's FRIDAY! Let's go get after it, fellas, and ladies. There's sunshine to soak up. There are bird chirps to consume. There are patio margs calling your name.
Go ahead and skip out of work after lunch today. You have my permission.
Go attack another day of life.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com