Old Man's Corners

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[AZ_HighCountry]

72 years on 9th February.

Congrats!

 

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[AZ_HighCountry]

More progress on the shed today. Besides the back wall as shown in the photo below, have the framing for the wall closest to me framed as well. My permit allows me to build up to 8x8' with a 10'H roof peak. The 7x8 is going to work out better. The top of the wall framing it at 75" so will adjust the rood pitch to be a max of 96" to the top of ridgeline.

The reason the shed sits higher than the one behind it are:

• think the shed on the other side is sitting right on the ground. Mine is about 7" off the ground.
• the lot behind me is about 1' lower in elevation per the development plan for the subdivision

Hopefully, by end of day tomorrow I should have the other 2 walls framed and ready to start setting rafters. Then the sheathing can be finished and ready for roofing.

 

[Davey Crockett]

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Doing my best to avoid nitwit Okies.

Past two days, off from work, stayed home.

Then I see my name plastered all over the local FB group accusing me of running people off the road this morning, going on people's front porches banging on doors.

The perp's car is white, mine is black. But no matter to the inbred retards around here.

Never trust an Okie, they all lie.

 

[Fatman17]

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Rise of the 49ers.
This brought back great memories living in the Bay area.

 

[Davey Crockett]

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Bob Probert - Even the Heat Of the KRONK Gym could not melt The Baddest Man On Ice

Bob Probert - Even the Heat Of the KRONK Gym could not melt The Baddest Man On Ice By John Lepak *Originally published on Undisputed Champions Network The KRONK Gym was hotter than ever in the later part of the 1980's, literally and figuratively! With dozens of top ranked contenders, a handful of fo

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Will never be another hockey team like the Detroit Redwings of the late 1980s. They took fighting on ice to the next level, training at the world famous Kronk Gym.

LOL! Remember watching the TV news before a Redwings' home game, the visiting head coach being interviewed admitted his team didn't want to go on the ice that evening and face the Bruiser Brothers.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Mickey Lolich, Detroit Tigers 1968 World Series hero, dies at 85​

Mickey Lolich, Detroit Tigers 1968 World Series hero, dies at 85

Legendary Detroit Tigers pitcher Mickey Lolich, who had three complete game victories in the 1968 World Series to earn MVP honors, has died at age 85.

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In Game 2, Lolich pitched a six-hit, complete-game victory to tie the series at a game apiece. He helped his own cause by hitting the only home run of his career in the 8-1 win.

 

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Of course it happened against my Padres.

 

[Davey Crockett]

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Mickey Lolich, Detroit Tigers 1968 World Series hero, dies at 85​

Mickey Lolich, Detroit Tigers 1968 World Series hero, dies at 85

Legendary Detroit Tigers pitcher Mickey Lolich, who had three complete game victories in the 1968 World Series to earn MVP honors, has died at age 85.

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In Game 2, Lolich pitched a six-hit, complete-game victory to tie the series at a game apiece. He helped his own cause by hitting the only home run of his career in the 8-1 win.

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Down three games to one in the Series, Lolich pitched another complete game, helping the Tigers in a come-from-behind 5-3 win at Tiger Stadium.

During Game 6, when the Tigers pulled away for a 13-1 victory, manager Mayo Smith had begun to seriously think about who was to pitch the deciding seventh game.

“I was at the far end of the bench when Mayo came up to me and asked if I could pitch the next day,” Lolich said. “I knew it was (loser of Game 3) Earl Wilson’s turn to start and I told him that if he needed me for a couple of innings out of the bullpen, I could do that. He said, ‘No, I want you to start, can you give me five?’ I did the math and knew I averaged about 15 pitches an inning and realized I could probably give him that.”

Smith then ordered Lolich to go back to the hotel to rest and avoid reporters.

When Lolich entered the dugout after setting down the side in the bottom of the fifth inning of a scoreless tie in Game 7 on just two days' rest, he assumed his day was done, but Smith asked him if he could give him one more inning. The man with the rubber arm agreed.

In the bottom of the sixth, Lolich’s heroics continued when he ended a potential Cardinals rally by deftly pulling off the improbable — picking off speedsters Brock and Flood at first base.

After the Tigers took a 3-0 lead in the top of the seventh, highlighted by Jim Northrup’s two-run triple over Flood’s head, Lolich delivered a message to Smith.

“I tapped him on the shoulder and said, ‘Now I’ll finish it for you.’ Mayo said, ‘That’s exactly what I wanted to hear.’ ”

Relying largely on his sinking fastball as he had done all day, Lolich completed his trifecta when Tim McCarver popped out to Bill Freehan, who immediately lifted his batterymate off the ground in a celebratory embrace that was captured in what became one of the most famous images in Tigers history.

 

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Down three games to one in the Series, Lolich pitched another complete game, helping the Tigers in a come-from-behind 5-3 win at Tiger Stadium.

During Game 6, when the Tigers pulled away for a 13-1 victory, manager Mayo Smith had begun to seriously think about who was to pitch the deciding seventh game.

“I was at the far end of the bench when Mayo came up to me and asked if I could pitch the next day,” Lolich said. “I knew it was (loser of Game 3) Earl Wilson’s turn to start and I told him that if he needed me for a couple of innings out of the bullpen, I could do that. He said, ‘No, I want you to start, can you give me five?’ I did the math and knew I averaged about 15 pitches an inning and realized I could probably give him that.”

Smith then ordered Lolich to go back to the hotel to rest and avoid reporters.

When Lolich entered the dugout after setting down the side in the bottom of the fifth inning of a scoreless tie in Game 7 on just two days' rest, he assumed his day was done, but Smith asked him if he could give him one more inning. The man with the rubber arm agreed.

In the bottom of the sixth, Lolich’s heroics continued when he ended a potential Cardinals rally by deftly pulling off the improbable — picking off speedsters Brock and Flood at first base.

After the Tigers took a 3-0 lead in the top of the seventh, highlighted by Jim Northrup’s two-run triple over Flood’s head, Lolich delivered a message to Smith.

“I tapped him on the shoulder and said, ‘Now I’ll finish it for you.’ Mayo said, ‘That’s exactly what I wanted to hear.’ ”

Relying largely on his sinking fastball as he had done all day, Lolich completed his trifecta when Tim McCarver popped out to Bill Freehan, who immediately lifted his batterymate off the ground in a celebratory embrace that was captured in what became one of the most famous images in Tigers history.

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Brilliant