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Up next on my 80's Fest Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 marathon...Dream A Little Dream (1989) on classic DVD 📀! #Movie #movies #comedy #teenmovie #dreamalittledream #coreyfeldman #coreyhaim #RIPCoreyHaim #PiperLaurie #meredithsalenger #rippiperlaurie #JasonRobards #ripjasonrobards #harrydeanstanton #RIPHarryDeanStanton #lalasloatman #williamMcNamara #MattAdler #alexrocco #ripalexrocco #victoriajackson #JohnFordColey #MickeyThomas #dvd #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas6thannual80sfest

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War Of The Worlds 2019 Night 3 - 5/11/2019; RIP Silver King (1/9/1968 - 5/11/2019)

Tragic news coming from London today, as luchador Silver King ( César Cuauhtémoc González Barrón) died of first a stroke, then a heart attack, in the midst of a match with Juventud Guerrera, at the far too young age of 51. Silver King was one of the sons of the original Dr. Wagner, and the brother of Dr. Wagner Jr., and was a featured star in CMLL, AAA and WCW during his career.

Silver King also worked in NJPW in 2001 and 2002, first under his original name, where he competed in Best of the Super Juniors VIII. This changed in 11/2001, where he became the third person to be Black Tiger in NJPW, after Mark Rocco and Eddie Guerrero. As Black Tiger III, he first fought against, then joined, TEAM2000, and would be part of Best of the Super Juniors IX under this gimmick. He would continue as Black Tiger III well into 2006, even after his stints in NJPW ended. He also has worked AJPW, where he was a 1-time World Junior Heavyweight champion, and was recently in Japan this past March working a STARDOM/Tokyo Gurentai joint-produced show.

Silver King is probably best known in the USA both for being a regularly featured luchador on WCW Monday Nitro in the late 90s, as well as his role as the evil Ramses in Jack Black’s Nacho Libre movie. There is video of his suffering the stroke going around the internet, I would really appreciate it if you didn’t put it in my or anyone else’s feed.

Que en pas descanse, Silver King.

Meanwhile, the third of the War of the Worlds shows for 2019 just wrapped up a little bit ago. You can see it now on ROH’s Honor Club streaming service.

- 5/11/2019, DeltaPlex, Grand Rapids, MI

Shaheem Ali & LSG d. Alex Coughlin & Karl Fredericks (Ali > Coughlin)

WOH World Championship: Kelly Klein © d. Stacy Shadows - Klein succeeds her ?th defense

Dalton Castle d. Cheeseburger and Clark Connors (Castle > Cheeseburger)

Matt Taven, TK O’Ryan & Vinny Marseglia d. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Hikuleo [Bullet Club] (Marseglia > Hikuleo)

Flip Gordon d. Rhett Titus

EVIL & SANADA [Los Ingobernables] d. Beer City Bruiser & Brian Milonas (EVIL > Brusier, Magic Killer)

Four Corner Survival Match: Tracy Williams [Lifeblood] d. Eli Isom, Rush [Los Ingobernables] and PJ Black (Williams > Isom)

ROH World Championship: Matt Taven (c) d. Mark Haskins [Lifeblood] - Taven succeeds his 2nd defense

Jay Lethal, Jeff Cobb, Hirooki Goto [CHAOS], Yuji Nagata & Satoshi Kojima d. Jay Briscoe, Mark Briscoe, Bully Ray, Silas Young & Shane Taylor (Kojima > Ray)

Despite a surprise ROH World Title match, sounds like a nothing show. And that World Title match came through a PCO injury angle, but PCO showed up post-match A-OK or something. I don’t know. The match had a fuck finish too. Yay ROH booking. The Bouncers gave EVIL & SANADA beer, who used the beer a s mist. Herb Flip Gordon was added to the card as, well, he’s not on a plane to BOSJ. They ran an angle with Guerrillas of Destiny being ejected from the venue post-match as they and the Briscoes got into it ringside. Dalton Castle wrestled in street clothes and inserted himself into the match between Cheeseburger v. NJPW LA Dojo trainee Clark Connors. It’s Ring of Honor. You roll the dice, you take your chances.

Tomorrow’s show wraps up the tour and is a TV taping, so could be a long one. I doubt I’ll be posting on that one before Monday. In the meantime, the next episode of the podcast will go live sometime tomorrow, so stay tuned for that.

[annoyingtidalwavesalad]

The Cannonball Run 2 (1984).mp4 from Patrice De Bruyne on Vimeo.

Cannonball Run II est un film américano-hong-kongais réalisé par Hal Needham, sorti en 1984. Il s'agit de la suite de "The Cannonball Run 1" réalisée trois ans auparavant. L'histoire est toute aussi basique : Humilié d'avoir échoué au fameux Cannonball de l'année précédente, le père du cheikh ordonne à son fils d'organiser une nouvelle course automobile et de la remporter. Les fidèles cannonbalers et cannonbaleuses ainsi que de nouveaux concurrents répondent présent à l'appel de la prestigieuse chevauchée où tous les coups sont permis et qui peut rapporter un joli magot d'un million de dollars (ce que touche Burt Reynold par jour de tournage, tout comme pour le Cannonball 1). La séquence d'introduction est calquée sur le film précédent et quasi la même brochette d'actrices et d'acteurs est de retour... Burt Reynolds, J.J. McClure, Dom DeLuise, Victor Prinzim, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Morris Fenderbaum, Shirley MacLaine, Marilu Henner, Jamie Farr, Telly Savalas, Jack Elam, Richard Kiel, Arnold Charles Nelson Reilly, Don Canneloni, Alex Rocco, Tony Henry Silva, Slin Susan Anton, Jill Catherine Bach, Abe Vigoda, Jackie Chan, Tony Danza, Doug Mc Clure, Mel Tillis, Ricardo Montalbán, Frank Sinatra, George Lindsey, Tim Conway, Sid Caesar, Foster Brooks, Louis Nye, Don Knotts et Fred Dryer. Dernière apparition au cinéma pour Frank Sinatra et Dean Martin. RIP ! Pourtant de nouveau convié à participer au second volet, Roger Moore justifia son absence en affirmant qu'il ne trouverait plus aussi amusant d'incarner ce personnage parodique, néanmoins, le comédien avouera bien plus tard avoir regretté sa décision sachant que Frank Sinatra apparaissait dans le film. Contractuellement lié avec le studio Warner Bros, Jackie Chan fut contraint d'apparaître dans le second volet de la saga... Cannonball Baker a établi le premier record de New York à Los Angeles dans les années '20 avec un temps de 60 heures pour les 3000 miles. Lorsque le Congrès a castré les muscle cars à gros moteurs des années '60 avec des lois sur les émissions de smog et une limite de vitesse générale de 55 mph, Brock Yates a inauguré le très illégal "Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash" en 1971. La star du Grand Prix des États-Unis Dan Gurney a ramené le temps de 60 heures à 35 heures 54 minutes et le cascadeur hollywoodien Needham qui avait déjà pris part à un Cannonball avec une ambulance sur vitaminée, a continué à faire les Cannonball Run et beaucoup d’argent ! Puis avec cette suite, dans laquelle l’ancien Hollywood 'Rat Pack' constitué de Sinatra, Martin, Davis et MacLaine sont réunis pour la première fois depuis Ocean Eleven (celui de 1960). Dans ce second opus, il y a toujours des blagues religieuses, des blagues mafieuses, des blagues sur les gros seins, des blagues de karaté, des blagues jaws et des blagues sur les flics... Il existe un troisième opus (le 3) à la série, mais c'est un total navet indigeste... Pour résumer, disons que c’est un long trajet assez court...

[mrs-jake-blues]

This might be a bit of a strange question, and I don’t know if you’re a person who makes their own original stories as a hobby or something, but let’s say you have the ability to cast Al Pacino in a movie/show/whatever of your own creation, what would it be and what would he be doing? It’s ok if you’ve got nothing, I was just curious.

Hhahaa I’ve never thought about it much....Al Pacino in a Fallout movie if they ever make one? @Todd Howard, make him an overseer? I think he’d have played a kick ass vampire back in the day (no not the Twilight kind please no, the Dracula kinda). I also don’t think they necessarily looked alike but I would’ve liked to see how Al would’ve handled a Charlie Luciano biopic a few decades ago.

In all seriousness, I can see Al maybe eventually doing voiceover for a Bethesda game down the line (Elder Scrolls 6...tell me lies Todd) since they usually get at least one huge name for the games like Liam Neeson as James in 3, Kris Kristofferson in New Vegas, Matthew Perry as the love of my life Benjamin Gecko in New Vegas, Alex Rocco (Moe Greene) in New Vegas, Wayne Newton in New Vegas, Max Von Sydow (RIP) in Skyrim, Christopher Plummer in Skyrim, Patrick Stewart in Oblivion, Sean Bean in Oblivion, etc etc.

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It’s an Investment, Yes. But for One Day, It’s a Time Machine.

Fred Baumann stepped outside to look for the truck. It was nearing noon, which meant that collectors across the city would soon be heading to the Upper East Side on their lunch breaks.

It was the first day of baseball card season, and Mr. Baumann, one of the owners of Alex’s MVP Cards and Comics, still remembers the time a shipment was accidentally delivered to a nearby restaurant and sat undiscovered for a week, provoking a near meltdown for a small group of adult men.

Running one of the last sports-card stores in the city means constantly disappointing people. Most often it’s the guys who think the baseball cards collecting dust in their closets might be worth big money. Mr. Baumann gently deflates the expectations of about 20 would-be sellers every day, having to tell them that only about four cards from their childhoods are worth anything now.

“People think if it’s old, then it must be worth money,” Mr. Baumann said. “I try to explain it to them, but they just don’t stop talking. That’s the painful part.”

For most of the year, the baseball card market today is a highly esoteric and high-tech affair. But on the opening day of a new trading season, when baseball card companies like Topps release the new cards, the hobby becomes pure again. It’s the one moment that no one knows what any single card is worth, and collectors get to experience the simple pleasure of ripping open a pack of cards.

The Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide, started by a statistician in the 80s, first codified the price of trading cards. A 1909 Honus Wagner (shortstop, Pittsburgh Pirates) sold for $100,000 in 1988, and by the time independent grading agencies started to spring up in the ’90s, people were treating vintage cards like blue-chip stocks.

Memorabilia companies rushed to capitalize on the demand. They flooded the market with new products, and thus today almost none of them are worth much more than the cardboard they were printed on.

As a way to re-inject scarcity into the market, card companies came up with the concept of “hit cards.” These cards might feature embedded bits of memorabilia — a splinter of a player’s bat, say, or a swatch of a game-worn jersey.

True completists, then, must rely on baseball-card brokers to track them down. Mr. Baumann would prefer not to sell the few packs he has on hand to someone who’s just looking at them as an investment. At least not until the actual fans have had their chance to get their hands on some.

“I don’t want to have to explain to some kid that a guy I’ve never seen came in and cleaned me out,” he said. “Some of those kids might be 35 years old, but I still don’t want to have to break it to them.”

As it turned out, Mr. Baumann’s fears were unfounded. The cards arrived at the tail end of the lunch hour and no professional speculators showed up.

“I don’t know what any of this stuff is,” said 32-year-old Daniel Rocco of his two new jumbo boxes. “Beckett’s guide has nothing on these cards, so you have nothing to compare them to. It makes you feel like a kid again.”

The phone rang again, and Mr. Baumann picked it up.

“When you say old, what years are you talking about?” he asked. Then he said that he would have to pass on any cards from the ’90s unless they were the rookie cards of Derek Jeter or Ken Griffey Jr. The guy on the other end pleaded his case.

“They don’t listen,” Mr. Baumann said after hanging up. “They’re like 5-year-olds.”

Ralph Schneider is a typical customer. He already pays for two storage units to house his 50,000 baseball cards and probably shouldn’t be buying more of them at all; he can barely afford to keep up with the hobby on his teacher’s salary.

But the beginning of the baseball card season is his favorite day of the year.

“Teaching’s not an easy profession,” he said, “and big release days keep me going.”

A native of Marine Park, Brooklyn, his eventual goal is to collect every player who has ever played for his beloved minor-league Cyclones.

Mr. Schneider also runs a YouTube channel where he opens cards on camera, what is known as “breaking.” As he waited for Mr. Baumann to ring him up, the 24-year-old explained that he’ll start filming as soon as he gets home.

Videos of people breaking new packs of cards helps speculators set prices on the secondary market, because it lets them know who has already found what. But Mr. Schneider, who is also an aspiring actor and Frank Sinatra impersonator, just likes being on camera.

Before Mr. Baumann gave him his $4 in change, he pointed out to that $4 would also get Mr. Schneider another single pack of baseball cards.

The young collector paused, thought about it, accepted. The videos could wait, but he couldn’t. “This one’s just for me,” he said, tearing open the pack right at the counter.

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Rodríguez, Purple Sox recuperate from 17-inning loss, beat Twins

http://tinyurl.com/y6cmhy96 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Eduardo Rodriguez knew his job was to pile up innings after the Boston Red Sox needed to go 17 innings in Tuesday’s loss at Minnesota. Even after giving up runs early Wednesday evening, Rodriguez wasn’t going to be taken out. He needed to deal with the workload, no matter outcomes. The Boston left-hander picked up the workforce’s bullpen, Brock Holt drove in three runs and the Purple Sox beat the Twins 9-Four on Wednesday evening. ”It was a matter of him giving us an opportunity to win or giving (up) loads of runs and going deep within the sport regardless,” Boston supervisor Alex Cora mentioned. ”So, I feel he appreciated giving us an opportunity to win and get that ‘W.’ He is been good.” Rodriguez (8-4) allowed 4 runs and eight hits, however extra essential, he lasted seven innings after the Purple Sox used eight relievers in Tuesday’s marathon. Rodriguez has gone at the very least seven in his previous two begins, relying extra on his fastball and changeup combine, and has given the workforce much-needed innings in every outing. ”It means loads to avoid wasting the bullpen, go on the market and provides seven innings,” Rodriguez mentioned. ”I feel for me, it is one thing I’ve tried to do a very long time. I had an opportunity the final two begins to assist the bullpen and really feel actually good with that.” Boston scored three runs within the second, fifth and eighth innings to win for the seventh time in eight video games. The AL Central-leading Twins have dropped three of 4 and misplaced a house sequence for simply the second time this season. Kyle Gibson (7-4) could not lighten the load on Minnesota’s bullpen. He tied a profession excessive with 5 walks and threw 94 pitches in Four 1/Three innings, permitting six runs on seven hits. ”Which may have been a number of the worst stuff I’ve had in fairly some time,” Gibson mentioned. ”Irritating evening realizing that something that appeared like a high quality begin was a win, sadly, however I did not get it accomplished.” Eddie Rosario’s RBI single put Minnesota forward within the first, however Holt, Michael Chavis and Mookie Betts every had RBI singles within the second. Willians Astudillo and Max Kepler homered within the fourth to present the Twins a 4-Three lead, however Boston rallied once more. Xander Bogaerts ripped an RBI double to left. Holt plated one other run with a sacrifice fly and Chavis chased Gibson together with his second hit. ”Final evening, you begin taking part in that many innings, guys get a bit antsy, perhaps attempt to do some bit an excessive amount of,” Holt mentioned. ”I really feel like our situational hitting was fairly stable tonight. We acquired a man on third, we acquired him in, for probably the most half. Simply higher approaches tonight, I feel.” Rodriguez settled in and retired 11 of the ultimate 12 batters he confronted after Kepler’s homer. ”In the end, he was in a position to persevere via some innings the place he needed to work a bit bit,” Minnesota supervisor Rocco Baldelli mentioned of Rodriguez. ”Early on, we thought perhaps we would have the chance to get to him with the sorts of at-bats we have been having. In the end, he did a pleasant job. DEVERS HURT Boston’s Rafael Devers left in fifth inning with tightness in his proper hamstring. He was injured operating out an infield single. Cora mentioned Devers would seemingly be out of the lineup Friday, however known as his third baseman day after day. ”I simply felt that it was a bit bit tight,” Devers mentioned via an interpreter. ”It is not as unhealthy as what I handled final yr. Hopefully, I can go on the market and play, nevertheless it’s as much as the coaches to see in the event that they let me play on Friday.” ROSTER MOVES The Purple Sox positioned Hector Velazquez on the injured listing with a decrease again pressure and recalled right-hander Josh Smith from Triple-A Pawtucket. Velazquez pitched 4 innings in Tuesday’s sport, however had a recurrence of the again harm that compelled him to the injured listing earlier than he returned Tuesday. Minnesota positioned Marwin Gonzalez on the injured listing with a proper hamstring pressure. The Twins additionally positioned reliever Blake Parker on the household medical emergency listing. Astudillo was recalled from Triple-A Rochester, and the workforce chosen the contract of right-hander Sean Poppen from Triple-A. Poppen, a 19th-round draft alternative in 2016 out of Harvard, made his main league debut and allowed three runs in 4 innings. Baldelli mentioned after the sport that Poppen could be optioned again to Rochester. TRAINER’S ROOM Red Sox: Nathan Eovaldi (proper elbow) threw for the third straight day. Cora mentioned Eovaldi would take a time off and the workforce would map out his subsequent throwing session. … Heath Hembree (proper elbow extensor pressure) performed catch earlier than the sport. Story continues Twins: To make room on the 40-man roster for Poppen, Minnesota moved Adalberto Mejia to the 60-day disabled listing. Mejia has been out for the reason that begin of Might with a proper calf pressure. UP NEXT Purple Sox: Following an off day, Boston returns residence Friday in opposition to Toronto. Chris Sale (3-7, 3.49 ERA) takes the mound for the Purple Sox with the Jays beginning Trent Thornton (2-5, 4.36). Sale has allowed two complete runs over his previous three begins and has struck out at the very least 10 in 4 straight video games. Twins: Jake Odorizzi (10-2, 2.24) will attempt to preserve his run going as Minnesota opens a four-game sequence at Kansas Metropolis on Thursday. Odorizzi has received 10 straight choices and beat the Royals in his final begin. Kansas Metropolis will begin Glenn Sparkman (1-3, 4.01). — Extra AP MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports activities Source link

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Now showing on my 80's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon...Dream A Little Dream (1989) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #comedy #teenmovies #dreamalittledream #coreyfeldman #coreyhaim #RIPCoreyHaim #meredithsalenger #JasonRobards #ripjasonrobards #PiperLaurie #harrydeanstanton #alexrocco #victoriajackson #williamMcNamara #MattAdler #mickeythomas #dvd #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas5thannual80sfest

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It’s an Investment, Yes. But for One Day, It’s a Time Machine.

Fred Baumann stepped outside to look for the truck. It was nearing noon, which meant that collectors across the city would soon be heading to the Upper East Side on their lunch breaks.

It was the first day of baseball card season, and Mr. Baumann, one of the owners of Alex’s MVP Cards and Comics, still remembers the time a shipment was accidentally delivered to a nearby restaurant and sat undiscovered for a week, provoking a near meltdown for a small group of adult men.

Running one of the last sports-card stores in the city means constantly disappointing people. Most often it’s the guys who think the baseball cards collecting dust in their closets might be worth big money. Mr. Baumann gently deflates the expectations of about 20 would-be sellers every day, having to tell them that only about four cards from their childhoods are worth anything now.

“People think if it’s old, then it must be worth money,” Mr. Baumann said. “I try to explain it to them, but they just don’t stop talking. That’s the painful part.”

For most of the year, the baseball card market today is a highly esoteric and high-tech affair. But on the opening day of a new trading season, when baseball card companies like Topps release the new cards, the hobby becomes pure again. It’s the one moment that no one knows what any single card is worth, and collectors get to experience the simple pleasure of ripping open a pack of cards.

The Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide, started by a statistician in the 80s, first codified the price of trading cards. A 1909 Honus Wagner (shortstop, Pittsburgh Pirates) sold for $100,000 in 1988, and by the time independent grading agencies started to spring up in the ’90s, people were treating vintage cards like blue-chip stocks.

Memorabilia companies rushed to capitalize on the demand. They flooded the market with new products, and thus today almost none of them are worth much more than the cardboard they were printed on.

As a way to re-inject scarcity into the market, card companies came up with the concept of “hit cards.” These cards might feature embedded bits of memorabilia — a splinter of a player’s bat, say, or a swatch of a game-worn jersey.

True completists, then, must rely on baseball-card brokers to track them down. Mr. Baumann would prefer not to sell the few packs he has on hand to someone who’s just looking at them as an investment. At least not until the actual fans have had their chance to get their hands on some.

“I don’t want to have to explain to some kid that a guy I’ve never seen came in and cleaned me out,” he said. “Some of those kids might be 35 years old, but I still don’t want to have to break it to them.”

As it turned out, Mr. Baumann’s fears were unfounded. The cards arrived at the tail end of the lunch hour and no professional speculators showed up.

“I don’t know what any of this stuff is,” said 32-year-old Daniel Rocco of his two new jumbo boxes. “Beckett’s guide has nothing on these cards, so you have nothing to compare them to. It makes you feel like a kid again.”

The phone rang again, and Mr. Baumann picked it up.

“When you say old, what years are you talking about?” he asked. Then he said that he would have to pass on any cards from the ’90s unless they were the rookie cards of Derek Jeter or Ken Griffey Jr. The guy on the other end pleaded his case.

“They don’t listen,” Mr. Baumann said after hanging up. “They’re like 5-year-olds.”

Ralph Schneider is a typical customer. He already pays for two storage units to house his 50,000 baseball cards and probably shouldn’t be buying more of them at all; he can barely afford to keep up with the hobby on his teacher’s salary.

But the beginning of the baseball card season is his favorite day of the year.

“Teaching’s not an easy profession,” he said, “and big release days keep me going.”

A native of Marine Park, Brooklyn, his eventual goal is to collect every player who has ever played for his beloved minor-league Cyclones.

Mr. Schneider also runs a YouTube channel where he opens cards on camera, what is known as “breaking.” As he waited for Mr. Baumann to ring him up, the 24-year-old explained that he’ll start filming as soon as he gets home.

Videos of people breaking new packs of cards helps speculators set prices on the secondary market, because it lets them know who has already found what. But Mr. Schneider, who is also an aspiring actor and Frank Sinatra impersonator, just likes being on camera.

Before Mr. Baumann gave him his $4 in change, he pointed out to that $4 would also get Mr. Schneider another single pack of baseball cards.

The young collector paused, thought about it, accepted. The videos could wait, but he couldn’t. “This one’s just for me,” he said, tearing open the pack right at the counter.

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