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Things that make me smile: Offensive linemen who mention mowing
Do you know how many people sent me the clip of Eagles offensive lineman Landon Dickerson saying he was going to get a mower with the money from his new contract?
I lost count.
Between my Sydney Sweeney campaign and the mowing league, I'm winning the war to restore sanity to this country. The crazy blue-haired lesbians are losing their grip by the day because Great Americans® are starting to hear from people just like them on the Internet thanks to OutKick.
If we puff out our chests, others will follow.
Help this guy with the best way to get into the stripe game
The readers want to see Barry's 1987 Cadillac Brougham
Barry, I had multiple people say you can't write in without showing off the Brougham.
• Ripcurl writes:
He HAS to roll with it!
• Greg B. in suburban Dayton, OH writes:
Regarding Barry and his 1987 Cadillac Brougham...
I'm a huge "anything with an ICE" guy. I love the sound, smell, and sensory delight that engines produce - particularly cars and motorcycles. I'm currently working on restoring a 1965 Cub Cadet 100 that my dad has used for the past 44 years. But in the end, time with family is really what matters. Vehicles come and go. Family, for better or for worse, is forever.
I suggest he auction it on Bring a Trailer and use the proceeds to take his family on a cool vacation. At the age his kids are, getting them all together at the same time at the same place will only become more and more difficult. Time is the #1 currency. Set the vacation destination based upon the auction price and net proceeds. Barry and family can pay tribute to his dad while on vacation for providing the family the time together.
Is Slate breast-phobic?
In case you missed my post where I go in on Slate for taking a shot at Sydney Sweeney's boobs, here it is.
• Gary E. writes:
So what does Slate think of Dylan Mulvaney, Lia Thomas, balian buschbaum figures???
(Initial caps of the names have been ignored because they should be.) Equity demands that an observation of the breast endowment (by comparison) of these high-profile individuals should be made in order to establish a base line standard of acceptable breast size.
Oh - Wait - that would be trans-phobic. I think slate should be accused of being breast-phobic.
• Gerard W. says:
https://www.outkick.com/culture/sydney-sweeneys-boobs-get-community-noted
Your readership will only continue to grow by staying on offense against these Woke Dipshits! You do a great job everyday. Keep it up!
Deep down, you're just jealous of parents who pay thousands for travel ball and spend Saturday nights in Hampton Inns
• Anonymous in TN writes:
1. New Screencaps star right now has to be Hannah Barron. Has she been featured before?
2. This is not me throwing punches...are you a bit jealous of parents/kids about travel ball? This morning's column seemed to be trying to shame those of us who did the travel ball circuit. For the record, my daughter in college is not spending spring break getting black out drunk at a beach, she's with her team as they are playing this week. And she has an international trip this summer for an exhibition series over in Asia. Life experiences due to NCAA sports do happen. Travel ball was worth it.
Again, not throwing punches, but if your kid went 4-5 every game with 2 homers, wouldn't you pursue the next level?
Kinsey:
1. Hannah Barron and her noodling photos have been featured on Screencaps many times before this past weekend's drama. I'd say she first popped up here in 2020 or 2021. There was also a time, I believe, when she had her IG embeds turned off so I couldn't feature her.
2. Jealous of travel ball parents and kids? Hahahahahahahaha.
Let me tell you a story from last spring. I showed up to the city park to conduct practice for my 9-10U rec ball team and there was a father-son holding a batting practice session on the field.
The father comes over and asks if we had the field at like 5:30 or whatever time it was.
I confirm we do have the slot.
He asks if this is for rec baseball.
I confirm it's rec ball.
This guy, unprovoked, makes sure to tell me that his son, probably 11U, plays travel ball. "Yeah, I play travel ball," the kid, provoked by his father, yells across the field.
"Nice. Have a great season," I said.
The father proceeds to unload his feelings right there in front of me on how the tournament season was starting that weekend and how his summer was officially over in April. He goes on and on and on about how he's about to spend all summer sitting at ball diamonds completely miserable.
I was standing there stunned. Pure silence out of me. He just keeps going and going about how his summer is over.
I think about that guy quite often. You think I'm jealous of his misery? You think I'm jealous of begging people to buy Super Bowl squares and running GoFundMes to pay for shit they should pay for themselves?
I'm out, dawg.
I think about the father of a boy on my rec ball team who came up to me last year and made sure to note that his son also plays travel ball and that he probably won't be at all the games because, he said it again, the boy plays travel ball.
Great.
He also mentioned how his son can pitch.
Great, we need pitchers.
By the end of the season, it was clear that his son couldn't play shortstop or pitch at the 10U rec ball level. Good luck in travel ball. Good luck to the guy's savings. Enjoy those Hampton Inn nights.
Am I trying to shame the travel ball circuit?
If you're panhandling for money to pay for your vacations, I am 100% going to shame such activity. This country has lost its damn mind, and I'm going to use this space to rail on it because someone has to say it, and I'm sure the people who are bombarded on Facebook are tired of the begging, but they won't tell their friends to stop being losers.
I have the space. I can say it.
• Travel Ball Hardo Chris B. in Houston writes:
I love it that you took a head coaching spot. Back when I was on the Board of our rec league I can't tell you how many times we had to send out the email saying we needed more head coaches or we would have less teams. Way to step up dude. I love it that you're championing rec ball so hard.
• Steve from Baton Rouge is all in on my Alyssa Milano rage:
No Christmas creep pictures this time but had a few thoughts on your upcoming season of rec league ball. First off, as coach you must wear a team jersey with "I'm the Boss" on the back. Suggestions for team name include The Charmed 9, Glory Daze, Melrose Plate, Poisin Ivy or any other bastardization of one of her fine projects. (Thanks IMDB. Now please stop recommending Alyssa Milano movies!) Good luck with the evaluations and pace yourself with the Capri Suns. Unless someone brings the cherry flavor, those are awesome.
Thanks again for a great start to my mornings!
• Anonymous in Arkansas writes:
Here's a take on travel ball. My son played rec league ball all the way up through the 13-14 year old division. He could have played travel ball, but it just didn't make sense to do financially or time-wise. He tried out for his high school team and made it as one of the nine freshmen to make the team that year - six played travel ball, three didn't. By his senior year, there were three of those nine freshmen left - two of the three remaining didn't play travel ball, the other one did.
My son started on varsity his junior and senior years, and in fact, between those two seasons, played every position on the field in a varsity game. (The kicker was his game at catcher - one of the catchers was out with a broken arm, another was out with elbow surgery, and there was only one catcher left. So he started working my son at catcher, just so he had another body for behind the plate. The coach had a simple rule - if you drop an f-bomb on the field, he's pulling you - didn't matter if you were 5 for 5 with 5 bombs or pitching a perfect game - you were out. Well, the catcher struck out, slammed his bat, and uttered the f-bomb. Coach told my son to gear up for catching the next inning, and he did. Probably the first game he caught since he was ten years old.)
Anyway, he made all-conference his senior year. He could have played D2 or maybe D3 baseball but wanted to go to a school with the program he wanted and didn't want to worry about baseball. (Although, he did play club baseball in college, which is a pretty cool deal.) All that said, play rec ball. Take SOME of the money you would spend on travel ball and get your kid some private hitting or pitching lessons, that is money well spent and will pay off way more than traveling 200 miles to play a team that is 10 miles away from your home.
So many of you are business travelers. Have you ever done this during your career?
This is a question I've always wondered: Do these people actually get work done?
Food pantry fundraising
• Clay W. writes:
With all of the smart people reading Screencaps I figured this might be the place to ask. I am part of a large free food pantry serving out community. We feed over 750 families per week and offer clothing and household good as well. Our increase in client population as been insane and we are seriously looking for easy ideas to implement raising funds to keep up th operations. We spend over $7000 a month on just the food not to mention crazy utility bills etc.
Any of you TNML buds and other screencaps fans have ideas???
Ethics in sports
• Mike N. emails:
Fun question regarding "the right thing to do" regarding the "miscalled" buzzer beater. My philosophical answer is: Kids get involved in sports primarily for enjoyment. Parents encourage sports for fun and to prepare them with qualities needed to be successful in life (teamwork, perseverance, sportsmanship (hopefully), how to win, how to lose, leadership, working hard, etc).
This is a classic lesson in "life is not always fair" and how you respond in a loss shows the world who you are vs. how you respond to a win. My practical answer is: even if the winning team decides not to play, the losing team doesn't advance, the next game is just forfeited. The bad calls on the last shot, the last out in a missed perfect game, the last missed pass interference are not worth more points compared to all the missed calls up to that point for both teams. You cannot go back and replay every play that had a questionable call.
The only unquestionable aspect of sports is the Screencaps audience is the GOAT... (and The Master of Global Content is not too shabby either...)
• Jim T. in Sandy Eggo says:
Was already chewing on our observation about the high school hoops player taunting the other team's fans, and then saw AD Mark's question about the school in New Jersey that got hosed on a bad call.
My reaction to both is that we expend way too much energy and emotions on sports. It's entertainment, a diversion, something to take our mind off a bad day at work.
Having said that, I'd answer AD Mark's question with the same response I had to the losing school's lawsuit seeking to overturn the call (the court rejected it, btw): Sometimes life isn't fair. It sucks, but that's just how it is, how it's always been, how it will always be. All you can do is chalk it up to the fates and move on. Both schools. The winning coach should acknowledge to his team that they benefitted from a lucky break, and let's go take advantage of an opportunity we might not have had otherwise.
But no need to agonize over it - again, life is unfair. This time, it went our way. Next time, it may not.
As far as Joe's observation about the taunting high school student, I don't think that is the new norm. About 15 months ago, my alma mater in Dayton traveled to my current hometown of San Diego to play in the Holiday Classic high school basketball tournament. There were teams from even further afield, playing in 5 divisions at 5 sites. There were teams from inner-city LA, teams from tony suburbs in Arizona, teams from the wrong side of the tracks in San Diego. I attended all four of the games my school played in, and saw a couple others before or after as well. And what I saw, whenever things got chippy - when players were getting hot - the coaches acted like adults and went to cool things down. Pulled a kid out of the game, sat him down but also talked to him, or had an assistant coach talk to him. Wait a few minutes, then put him back in.
It reaffirmed my belief that most coaches are good men (and women) who do what they do for all the right reasons.
Prom expenses and should people donate a bunch of money to make it cheaper for families and the kids?
• Dave in Edgewood, KY says:
Even as an anti-travel ball supporter, I may be in the minority but I am in favor of helping the kids out for one of their last "great" experiences of their youth, especially if public school funded.
This is supporting school spirit, camaraderie, and "clean" fun.
That said, some of these schools go over the top. I’m not paying for limos, steak dinners or hotel suites.