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  1. FUCK Cancer!
    Sad to hear that he is gone. He was great with his song support, but also his visits to the troops deployed around the world.
    RIP Toby Keith 
    I saw him in Balad, Iraq. Put on a great show and the base had to shut him down because it was getting so late.
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  2. If you want true set and forget capability, just add a fan controller to the WSM.
    Nothing but truth there. I did get a BBQ Guru for mine and it is fantastic. I did a couple of cooks before the Guru arrived and that was great, but the Guru is amazing. I will throw a brisket on around 7:00 PM and wrap in butcher paper around midnight. I go to bed without any concern about temps and sleep like a baby.
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  3. On 8/19/2023 at 11:52 AM, Dbeasy said:

    So, I was about to pull the trigger on a Recteq smoker but then ran across several articles about charcoal gravity smokers. People are raving about the flavor vs. pellet grills. There are patents held by Masterbuilt and Char Griller that keep others from introducing them.  Anyone been able to compare foods between the two?

    Our biggest food smoke would be, in order: chicken, turkey, brisket, ribs

    Also, for those with gravity charcoal smokers (South Austin, etc), are you still happy with it?

    I have come pretty close to pulling the trigger on one of the gravity fed smokers, but ultimately decided not to.  I've seen some videos showing how the seals in the charcoal chute don't last.  There also seems to be a hot spot right in the center where the fan blows the heat/smoke in.  

    I took the advice of a long time poster here and got a WSM 22.  I've had a pellet smoker and liked the convenience, but the taste us just lacking.  In the WSM I get the best of both worlds.  They are about as close as set and forget as a pellet and the taste is worlds better.

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  4. 1 minute ago, ztejas said:

    Well you know what they say. It's always in the first place you don't look. 

    I just don't understand how they lose shit all the time.  I have one drawer in the kitchen that is mine and mine alone.  That's where I put all of my stuff.  My keys and wallet are in there when I'm at home.  My phone, on the other hand, is next to the couch on the end table charging.  If I forget anything when leaving the house, it's my phone.  I don't have this natural ability to remember everything that keeps me from losing shit.  I don't lose shit simply because I recognize my limitations and know that if I put something where it doesn't belong, I'm going to lose it.

    My wife has lost her license a few times.  Social Security card?  Yep, she's had to get more than a few replaced.  Keys?  All the fucking time.  Debit/credit cards?  Yep, I'm surprised the bank doesn't just automatically cancel it and send her a new one every 6 months or so.

  5. I work from home and the wife does not.  She called me about 45 minutes after leaving the house and asked me to look for the master key from her work.  She insisted it was in the upstairs office, which is hers.  I went up to check and it was nowhere to be found.  She insisted that it had to be there because it couldn't possibly be anywhere else.  I just told her "I don't know what to tell you, but it isn't here".  When she got home that night, she looked in the upstairs office, pretty much taking everything out of drawers in her search.  Her search expanded to the kitchen and other places that she randomly leaves shit.  Every so often I'd ask her "Any luck?" with just a touch of snark.  She could not find the key anywhere in the house.  The next morning she found the key, AT HER WORK.  So, instead of thinking that I could have possibly been right about the key not being in the upstairs office and looking at work for it, she waited all day to come home and look for herself in order to prove me wrong.

     

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  6. Fair enough.  I don't agree with everything you wrote, but I definitely agree that if the ump had issued warnings after the pitch that was high and tight, Mikolas almost certainly wouldn't have hit Happ with the next pitch.  Fortunately, it looks like Contreras isn't too much the worse for wear -- I see he's back in the lineup.
    Yeah, bottom line for me is that the umpires fucked it up. I will also concede that the Cardinals' announcers sounded like morons on that call. Chip has irritated me a bit more each broadcast. I normally like Brad Thompson, but he got just a tad over emotional when Mikolas was tossed.
  7. Wow.  If it had been intentional, I could understand plunking him.  But it was clearly unintentional.  A little chin music on the next pitch?  Fine.  But it should have been left at that.  
    That said, I tend to agree that the umps should have issued warnings instead of running Mikolas.  But when the plunking is clearly intentional, the umps have the right to give him the heave with no prior warning, so they were within the rules to do what they did.    
     
    Payback for a HBP, even unintentional, was part of baseball from the very beginning.

    I am not saying that they weren't operating within the rules. I guess what I am saying is that it really wasn't that big of a deal. He didn't hit Happ in the head. He didn't throw at his head. He hit him on the ass. Happ wasn't going to miss any time because of that. Contreras, on the other hand, very well could have missed more than a day or two after getting hit by Happ's long ass swing. The umpires just handled the entire situation shitty, as usual. If they had done the right thing, both benches would have been warned after the first inside pitch. If they had done that, I highly doubt that Mikolas would have hit Happ.

    Yeah, I am old school about baseball. The game has changed a lot.

    ETA: Who really gives a shit? Meaningless game for the Cardinals. They just suck. Probably some frustration bubbling to the surface for Mikolas.
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