Scott Dolan

Scored a beauty of a set off Ebay last night.

I hear you, Goodz. For me, I just love being out in the woods playing the game. If I shoot 90, I'm as happy as could be. If I shoot a 135, I'm as happy as could be. I love just playing the game. If I suck, so what? If I dominate, so what? I'm telling you, it's like yoga for me. Whether I do it right, or I do it wrong, I'm completely relaxed just by doing it.

Ohhhhhhhh...

Aren't all players...um, players?

Being a Royals fan, this is the first season I can remember where not only myself, but most Royals fas, feel incredibly optimistic. The addition of Shields and Davis from the Myers trade should really help us turn our rotation around. I'm not high on Santana bouncing back, but I hope he does. And if Guthrie can continue to pitch the way he did the second half of last season this team could be far more dangerous than it looks. Still a ton of question marks offensively, especially since it seems as though Hosmer still hasn't corrected his swing. And if we're going to have a winning season he and Moustakas are going to have to hit. Still, I'm feeling really good about our season.

Excellent responses, guys! Larry, I hear you on the tendonitis thing. Something I experienced for the first time last year was "trigger finger". I don't know if any of you have experienced it before, but it is mondo painful. I got it from gripping the club too tightly. Which I came to find out was a common rookie mistake. Now I barely have a grip on it at all, and it has truly improved my game. I was far too tense from head to toe before, which is a perfect recipe for injury. Jim, thanks brother! I think that putter is a thing of beauty as well. I'll post some pics of it when it comes in. As far as it doing the trick, eh, I really don't care if it improves my putting or not. I'll just thoroughly enjoy the beauty and sound of it. There is no sweeter sound than wood making contact with a golf ball, IMO. Hey, why spend triple digits on a metal clone of what everyone else and their brother are using when you can spend a hundred on a hand-crafted piece of art? If you can sink a 9ft putt with a $30 putter, that $300 putter ain't gonna help much... BTW, you mentioned watching the pros. Let me ask you this: do you get a slight twitch in your eye watching fans lined up on both sides of the tee box leading into the fairway? Brother, if that were me on the tee somebody may wind up in the hospital standing that close! Oh, and we have a 9 hole course here that is absolutely brutal. It's all elevated tee to elevated green par 3. Miss the green and your day just got really, really bad... That pretty much summed up my game for a couple of years. I can occasionally par and birdie these days, but my game can still be ugly at times. Bogey golf is still 90. I'll take that any day of the week! BTW, the ultimate quote that still sums up my game? "It takes a lot of balls to play golf like I do."

Yeah, my first set of clubs was a cheap (under $100) set I bought from a local sports store. The head flew off the driver at the range one evening, so I was driving with my 3 wood for over a year until a buddy gave me his old Firesteel driver (10.5). Last year my dad asked me if I wanted his old set that he'd bought back in the late 80's after his full Persimmon set had been stolen. I gladly accepted and he sent me the set. Well, it still had his Persimmon driver (9 degree) in it, and I simply fell in love with using a wood club over the rinky dink oil can driver. So that's why I'm going to completely convert to it. It just feels and sounds wonderful. If nothing else, I'll have the most unique set on the golf course. BTW, here is the putter I ordered today. https://www.louisvillegolf.com/ProductDetail/tabid/83/rvdsfpid/stimp-acc-putter-16/rvdsfcatid/closeouts-specials-52/Default.aspx Sorry you don't get to play much anymore, Jim. My father is in the same boat which is why he gave me his clubs. Like you, he also doesn't miss it much.

My son and I started playing almost four years ago. I had always avoided the game like the plague because of my addictive personality, and fiercely competitive nature. Not to mention my classic Irish temper (though that has slipped away with the years). What's most odd is that I'm not competitive at all when it comes to golf. I normally want to destroy my opponent and laugh mercilessly at the lamentations of his wife and children, but with golf I honestly don't care. A game most people find infuriating, and one they approach with a burning intensity, is one that I personally find incredibly relaxing. If I play well, I have the time of my life. If I play poorly, I have the time of my life. I'm not even big on cutting edge technology to make my game better. Matter of fact, I'm in the process of changing my entire bag of clubs over to wood. Well, except for the 9-iron and pitching wedge for which there are no true wooden replacements. Just ordered a custom, hand-built Persimmon wood putter which I hope to receive in a few weeks. So does anyone else share in my obsession?

And too much golf will give you tennis elbow. Do the math on that one!

I don't think the default search works very well, period.

It's simply bringing up threads where those keywords appear in a post, and has the most recent last post. That's the way almost all basic message board search engines are designed. It's not a flaw, it's default setting. And a reason why I always use advanced search. Especially when looking for a specific thread title.

The political forum here has been on life support for quite some time. And long before I started posting recently.

Oddly enough...

Because when I get on here first thing in the morning there are usually 30+ threads active. Most of which do not interest me, but even if they did I wouldn't have time to read through them all. So, I like to read the ones I'm interested in and mark the rest of them read so that when I check for new content later in the day all those old threads don't come up in the search. It's just a streamlining process.

Are you using Dropbox?

That's your first mistake, Beefy...

Tom, how did the file transfer finally work out? Get it to work?

Good lord... Thank you, gentlemen. Did I mention I'm a natural blond...

Where? :?

But there is nothing on the main forums page, right? That's what I'm really looking for.

The only thing I can think of is that it hasn't been responded to recently enough? That would keep it low on both pages. If that's the case, it probably isn't an IPB problem because that's how the software is set up. To keep the most recent threads at the top. I dunno...

I'm sure someone will post a "duh" answer, because I know I'm simply missing what is right in front of my face. But, on the mobile version of this site the menu navigation has a "mark all read" option. On the full version of this site I can't find the same feature. Can somebody tell me how this is done, and make me feel like a complete idiot?

I just did a search and it popped up at the very top. Are you doing an advanced search and choosing thread titles only?

Or simply do it like this: https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=grateful+dead+organissimo&oq=grateful+dead+organissimo&gs_l=hp.3...1042.5412.0.5637.25.20.0.5.5.0.139.1888.16j4.20.0...0.0...1c.1.7.psy-ab.p9LctEnH0EQ&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44442042,d.b2U&fp=6f4d7d717d0f18a0&biw=1918&bih=903

Just reading through the names on this thread reminds me just how long it's been since I was in the Avant Garde loop. Just lost my ear for it... It is nice to see that the genre is still going strong, though. Nothing quite like it to open the ears and the mind.