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Gale Snoats

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  1. I think I noted it above but this is our first go-around in select and the tournaments are crazy. Every family has a cart full of a ton of shit. A bunch of tarps and boomboxes with pre-game and walk-up music. The parents (98% of whom are morbidly obese and shit-faced by late afternoon as they sell booze which is crazy to me) are nuts -- yelling at the umps, their own players, other players, other parents, their coaches, other coaches. This was our fourth tournament and last weekend I saw my first near fight. A bunch of country rednecks v a bunch of hispanic folks. I don't know what happened (was on the field next to us and wasn't paying attention) but a bunch of the parents (dads and moms too!) got into a shouting shoving match, screaming f-bombs, gonna kick your fucking ass, etc. Rednecks got tossed and promised to be waiting in the parking lot for the other group after the game. I'm not sure if that happened. A bunch of 11 and 12 year olds just standing the whole thing.
  2. How about not be a fucking pussy and just don’t respond. This just in players talk shit in sports. You can let it piss you off and react and try and fight the whole dugout and get kicked out of the game like a dumbass or you can ignore it and focus on trying to help your team win the game. The fact that the coach bitched and moaned about it says everything you need to know about him and his victim complex which the team has clearly adopted. Always some else’s fault - not your dumbass player who doesn’t have the discipline to walk away. He learned it from you, Coach.
  3. We spent a couple of weeks there a few years ago and went to several islands. My favorite were Fologandros, Paros, and Antiparos.
  4. Giovanni's in the chevron on S Lamar and Barton Skyway is our favorite for basic but really good cheap pizza. The owner, Julio, is a great guy. I think he was a chef at Sfuzzi next door to Sullivan's downtown back in the late 90's. I think they have another spot up off 183 in / near Leander.
  5. Fubo fucking sucks. I have YouTube TV and love it. The only reason I have Fubo is to watch the Astros and it is the most broke Dick shitty fucking service ever.
  6. All of those are spot on. We've been only LL up until this spring. I'm glad he's getting reps but this 'select' world is fucking bonkers.
  7. I am left-handed so the initial diagnosis wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been
  8. MIA -- I think you've already decided to head to MDA but here is my story -- I had a growth just above my collar bone on my right side in 05. I was told cancer is a spectrum and, while I didn't have risk of it spreading throughout my body, it was locally aggressive and 'cancer like' and they were concerned about it spreading to my spine and brachial plexus. My doctors in Austin wanted to go in and do very invasive surgery and remove the tumor and a bunch of healthy tissue around it. They told me the nerve damage would likely result it in my not being able to move my limbs on my right side. I went to MDA and they said that was bullshit. One of the top head and neck surgeons in the world (a longhorn) handled my surgery and I had no detrimental effects on my movement. After surgery one of the top radoncs in the world created a radiation plan for me. I did radiation (daily I think) for 6 weeks (at MDA) and then went back monthly, then 3 times a year, then 2 twice a year for the next 4 or 5 years. I have been fine since getting the call clear in 2011 or so.
  9. Pecan Square is an MML place right behind Clark's and is pretty easy to get into.
  10. Does anyone have a free? I’m in Mexico and it’s telling me I can’t watch. Feed not free
  11. Pretty sure my wife has appendicitis so going to take her to the ER. We’re close to the seton on 38th but curious about dell at UT. Anyone have any experience or thoughts? Are all ER’s the same?
  12. Got a bunch of venison back strap and would like to grill like a steak. Can I season like a reg steak or is it better to marinade? If marinade any recs for what / how long?
  13. Just arrived from Austin. Dry and no traffic. Very easy.
  14. Never been to jerryworld and looking at tickets. Field level stuff looks like it’d be cool bc your close but can’t see actual game so watching on monitor whole time. Is that correct?
  15. The dynamic bw E Hogan and his new sidekick is horrible. Hogan talks the whole the time and the other guy just interjects every 15 or 20 seconds and repeats one or two words Hogan just said. It reminds me of something I've seen in a movie but I can't put my finger on it. It's unlistenable. Are there any podcasts or streams that talk Texas sports? Is Babers going to go anywhere? I think he is really good.
  16. Great rec - we went to San Matteo’s and it was awesome. Re Keens - we called several times bf the trip and they said they were full. We got the concierge to call once we arrived and got a table for 12 at 9:30 one night so maybe go through your hotel. Or as PW said shoot for a later time as they stay open pretty late.
  17. Any thoughts on best pizza on upper east side?
  18. Oh no!! My son’s favorite and we’re going there this weekend. Hopefully they haven’t fucked it up yet. Maybe they won’t fuck it up. Vic and Anthony’s isn’t bad. On another note we get in town tomorrow morning and are staying at the Carlyle. Is there a fun place to watch the tx game close by? Will have our 11 and 13 yr olds.
  19. What's the best way to get to Port A from central Austin if you don't want to take 35 though SA?
  20. yesterday mid afternoon at city hall in downtown Austin. waited about 15 minutes.
  21. We’re fluent and rented a car in Escondido. On the way back to the airport our rental died in the middle of the busy street in the middle of town. I jumped out and told 3 or 4 guys working at a body shop right there that we were trying to catch a plane and asked them to help me push it off the road. My wife steered while we pushed it off to the side and the head guy at the shop gave us a ride to the airport in his truck. Was really nice of those guys to help us. I told the rental car guy what happened and told him where the car was and he said no problem they’d get it towed.
  22. We stayed in a house about 20KM's outside of town. We ate in town a few times and walked through the market a few times and didn't see any. We watched the surfers on the pipeline and there were a few gringos there. We went to a couple of beaches close to town that were more swimmable that had little beach clubs and chairs laid out and those places were packed but no gringos just us. We also went to a fancier beach and tennis club one day and no gringos there. All that said, I'm familiar with your posts and extensive knowledge of Mexico and defer to you -- just providing my anecdotal experience as, overall it definitely seemed less touristy and gringo infiltrated than the 5 or 6 other beach towns we've been to down there. My favorite part of the trip was watching those guys surf the pipeline. The break is really close to shore and it's crazy how big and powerful that wave is.
  23. We flew to Mexico City this summer and spent a few days there then flew to Puerto Escondido and spent a week there. We really enjoyed both. PE is much more off the beaten path compared to other Mexican beaches we've been to (including Sayulita). I think we saw one or two groups of white folks the whole time we were there.
  24. He came to practice for a team I was on several years ago and spoke to us. He referred to himself as 'hit king' throughout the talk which was basically 20 minutes of him telling us how much of a badass he was. He was wearing a white almost shiny warm up / track suit and shiny white baseball cap with 'hit king' on the front. He had on white tennis shoes that were some kind of animal skin and old lady reading glasses with a gold metal chain attached to them. He kind of looked (and was dressed) like Elton John.
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