WTF Role Models of Generation X?
 

Sitting here watching the LA Dodgers play Tampa Bay.
The announcer is promoting a week day game at Dodger Stadium.
I'll quote him, " yank the kids out of school, come to the game, dont tell their teachers". You have to be kidding me? No wonder are youth is so f'ed up.

Its not the great Vin Scully calling the game. Have not caught his name yet

I skipped school senior year to caddy. Another time, very late in the year, my friend and I took the morning off to play golf.

Pot, meet kettle...

25 years ago my grade school teachers would've said the same thing - kids learn more out of school than they do in school, assuming it's educational/family things they're doing, and within reason.

I just read on CNN that a purported Jimi Hendrix sex tape surfaced. Now there's a role model. Glad the boomers were buying records from a guy who OD'd at 20 and had sex with more women than I can count. Muchbetter role model than someone who suggests skipping out of school to watch a ballgame.

I have no idea how anyone could come up with the notion that you can cut school to go to a ballgame. It must me something new.

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What's the score?

Nuthin, nuthin.

Who's winning?

The Bears.

Funny! Classic movie. It ended up really bad, though. Wrecked Dad's Ferrari California Spyder......................Karma

ur kidding, right?

I remember watching the world series in elementary school (when they used to play games during the day like god intended). And missing the occasional school day to see a game in person? I'm all for it. My son missed a day of school driving with me up to Infineon for my club races. You learn things on the road and at the ballpark with dad that you can't in the classroom.

Just stirring a little trouble. I must admit, when I was 10 years old my Mom let me fake being sick so I could watch the Detroit Tigers beat the Cardinals in game 7 in 1968.
Remember Mickey Lolich? I think the Tigers were way behind in the series and came back. I wasn't even a tigers fan. I lived in LA

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that children are actually doing something of value in school.

You want to know why kids are F-ed up? Go play the video game Grand Theft Auto for about 15 minutes.

FYI, 1968 my eighth grade math teacher took 3 of us out of school to a ball game, minor league at that !

The new one just came out. It is expected to break the all time opening weekend take of ANY entertainment related event, ever.

The current record holder is the last Pirates movie, which did $400ish M in it's opening 'six day weekend'.

Kids were effed up LONG before GTA came about. Just look at all the free loving freedom hatin' totally doped out nutjob socialist kids from the 60s and 70s.

Given how screwed-up the schools in L.A. are, the kids might actually learn more at the game.

Another role model is in the news - Albert Hoffman. Now there was a guy who gave good advice to kids - Turn on, tune in, drop out. Or was that Timothy Leery? Compared to that, skipping school to hit the ballpark seems so 1950s.

Exactly. I see no problem with a driven kid with a good head on their shoulders to cut loose from school and have a long weekend with their family at the ballpark. They will certainly remember it longer than whatever garbage they were supposed to do at their government school.

Albert Hoffman was the chemist that discovered LSD- I believe he was working in medical reasearch, and accidentally ingested some of the drug. He hoped it would have uses in mental illness.
Timothy Leery was the turn on, tune in and drop out advocate. Harvard at its finest.
Gary

I blame James Dean, and Elvis, and that wicked bootleggers brew... and yankees, with their high-falutin' ways

I take my family to opening day Cardinal baseball every year. I personally have not missed one in at least 15 years.

It's a higher ranking tradition in my mind than Christmas.

Although my kids are only 1 and 4 - they have been to opening day 2 and 5 times respectively.


I told my daughter this year that even when she goes to college - she has to come home for opening day with dad. Pulling them out of school will be no problem for me.

What is a day or two a year when the children will attend schooling most days of the year for over 16 years?

And the Raiders.. and their fans. C'mon guys it's a football team, not a f'ing "Nation"

get your age correct he died at the age of 28

Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Hendrix is considered one of the greatest and most influential guitarists in rock music history.[1] After initial success in Europe, he achieved fame in the USA following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival.

Hendrix helped develop the technique of guitar feedback with overdriven amplifiers.[2] He was influenced by blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Albert King, and Elmore James,[3][4][5][6] rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper, as well as by some modern jazz.[7]

Carlos Santana has suggested that Hendrix's music may have been influenced by his Native American heritage.[8] As a record producer, Hendrix also broke new ground in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas; he was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic and phasing effects during recording.

Hendrix won many of the most prestigious rock music awards in his lifetime and has been posthumously awarded many more, including being inducted into the USA's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. An English Heritage "Blue plaque" was erected in his name on his former residence at Brook Street, London in September 1997 and his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6627 Hollywood Blvd.) was dedicated in 1994. In 2006, his debut USA album, Are You Experienced, was inducted into the United States National Recording Registry and Rolling Stone named Hendrix number 1 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003.[9]

get your age correct he died at the age of 28

Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Hendrix is considered one of the greatest and most influential guitarists in rock music history.[1] After initial success in Europe, he achieved fame in the USA following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival.

Hendrix helped develop the technique of guitar feedback with overdriven amplifiers.[2] He was influenced by blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Albert King, and Elmore James,[3][4][5][6] rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper, as well as by some modern jazz.[7]

Carlos Santana has suggested that Hendrix's music may have been influenced by his Native American heritage.[8] As a record producer, Hendrix also broke new ground in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas; he was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic and phasing effects during recording.

Hendrix won many of the most prestigious rock music awards in his lifetime and has been posthumously awarded many more, including being inducted into the USA's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. An English Heritage "Blue plaque" was erected in his name on his former residence at Brook Street, London in September 1997 and his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6627 Hollywood Blvd.) was dedicated in 1994. In 2006, his debut USA album, Are You Experienced, was inducted into the United States National Recording Registry and Rolling Stone named Hendrix number 1 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003.[9]

some of you guys sound like your parents...

gall durn whippersnappers!

I didn't say he wasn't a great talent. I said he was a poor role model. I believe both are true. You want to go for double points and explain to me the difference between Abbie Hoffman and Albert Hofmann?

You forgot to mention that he was a junkie who OD'd after one of his countless all night drug and sex binges.

actually he didn't OD, but never mind the details.

I hear Pat Boone is swell!

Ah, what then, natural causes?

I have never had the affliction of others that requires me to know all the details of my favorite musicians lives. I just listen to their music, and leave it at that.

If i got to know any of these people, they would probably disgust me...

Didn't Hendrix die from choking on his own puke while sleeping? Such a lovely way to go...

Yes. He passed out and vomited. The people with him didn't have the sense or the presence of mind to roll him over on his side.