IF you could Turn Back Time...

[CaptainQuantum]

Game 6, 2003 NLCS.


Left field foul line stands.


'Nuff said.

You mean you were one of the people reaching for the ball (it was a lot more than Steve Bartman), or you mean you would've beaten the shit out of Bartman? 😛

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Here's another...

I'd like to go back, to this one night back in September 1981, where my best friend and I were at the house of another close friend. We were playing Quarters with him and his brother, with AC/DC and Ozzy Osborne playing as loud as we could make it without attracting the attention of the police. Now, after two or three hours of playing Quarters straight through's gonna get you to feeling no pain, of course, so, we stopped, and we went outside, and in some kind of silly, intoxicated ecstasy, plotted on how the three of us were gonna change the world (host's younger brother was fast asleep on the couch, despite the thumping of the drums of the late Keith Moon). We stood there, out on his front lawn, at three in the morning, with our arms around each other, telling ourselves most exuberantly that nothing would stop us in our quest to make the world a better place than it was.

The host of this ridiculous little party wound up dying in a car crash in Louisiana the following summer. He was eighteen. I'd love to go back and just tell him how great I thought he was, what a great impact he made on my life, and that, twenty three years on, I still miss him very much...

 

[steph]

That's sad Knox~I'm sorry to hear it.
I don't think, for me, I'd change anything. The good, the bad, the ugly are all the things that made me who I am I guess.
XOXO

 

[CaptainQuantum]

I'd like to go back to my early childhood and do those years over, knowing then what I know now. For one thing, I was extremely shy and timid, which made for some very unhappy school years with a lot of bullying. It would be so much fun to go back and do it over, with the social skills and confidence that I lacked then.

Also, my grandparents were alive then, and I wouldn't have been such a spoiled brat and took them for granted the way I did. Not only to be with them again, but to make sure they knew how much I loved them.

One more thing: there was a tv series (short lived I believe) where a guy got to go back in time and live his childhood years over. It was on sometime within the last 10-15 years. That's not much help I know. But just thought I'd ask since it's kind of the same idea as what this thread is about.

 

[jackmeister]

Id like to go back to middle school or high school. I would get better grades than i did by actually studying and being more motivated; so maybe i could figure out what i should do with my life. I would also want to be more social and less withdrawn and sad so id actually have some close friends. If not then i would just prevent myself from being born in the first place.

 

[steph]

I take it back~I'd change just one thing. I'd have valued my grandmother more. When we were kids, she'd try to teach us Italian and dreamed of taking us home to Sicily one day. I regret not taking advantage of that golden opportunity...
XOXO

 

[amk714]

Frankly I'm not sure what I'd do if I could turn back time (and I'm not talking about that damn Cher song). On the one hand, I could change my life, or even alter world events. The problem is that I wouldn't know how my actions would affect the outcome. Even good deeds can have negative consequences. If it's true that everything happens for a reason then maybe it's better we can't go back (or for that matter forward) in time. We have to accept that life isn't fair, learn from our mistakes, and deal with what comes our way.

 

[CaptainQuantum]

Frankly I'm not sure what I'd do if I could turn back time (and I'm not talking about that damn Cher song).

Don't quite remember the words but I think it goes something like this: *clears throat*

If I could turn back time
I'd give it all to you,
And then baby, baby, baby.....
You'll do.

Thank you, thank you....hey, Joe and Ethel are here all the way from Albuquerque, alright! Give 'em a hand folks. Remember to tip the bartender....

This may be off topic, but what do you all think of the possibility of time travel? From some of the stuff I've read, it may be possible in theory, although we would probably never have the technology to be able to actually do it.

 

[some1somewhere]

If I could go back in time to a certain point in my life, but at the age I am now, I'd go back to 1981. I was 3 then. I would like to get a audio recording of my mother's voice. I can't remember what she sounded like. I'd also like to see her, before her 4 year battle with cancer that ended her life in 1986. I would just like to know what kind of person she was, what she liked, and what where her dreams. It can be so frustrating that all you know about the woman who brought you into the world is what is told to you by family and what you see in pictures. Yeah, that is what I'd do.

 

[drew70]

The only time travel in which I'd be interested would be more as observance, rather than change history which Star Trek and Ray Bradbury have shown us is always dangerous. I'd like to walk through Haight-Ashbury in '67. Show up in the Ed Sullivan audience the night that The Beatles played there. Maybe tag along with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldron on Apollo 11. You know, basically do a Forest Gump.