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TheBryMan81

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  1. Anytime! Hope you have a great trip. It was around 100 yen per dollar when I was there. Made the conversion in my head easy when I was trying to figure out how much I was spending. If you need cheap and easy souvenirs, hit up a Daiso; it's basically a Japanese Dollar Store. If no price on it, then it's 100 yen, some things will be 200 or 300 yen. We bought Japanese fans, chopsticks, coloring/sticker books, all sorts of stuff. Now everything will be cheaper than a dollar given the conversion rate. Also, don't convert money at the airport. They will not give you the best conversation rate. If you want the cheapest rate, take American cash and use the exchange machines at 7 eleven/Lawson's/Family Mart.
  2. Gosh this makes me miss Japan. For dinner, Hiroshima style Okonomiyaki is my favorite food of all time. If it's baseball season, definitely catch a Carps game. The energy around Japanese baseball is DIFFERENT. Tickets can be hard to find, but if you plan far enough in advance, can maybe buy some online. This might be tough because when I did this, they mailed the tickets, so might need a Japanese address to mail these to. The baseball stadium is walkable from Hiroshima station. If you want the history, Hiroshima peace memorial Park, the atomic bomb dome, and the museum. Very well done and somber museum about the atomic bomb from the Japanese point of view. Think Holocaust museum. Can easily take up a full morning or afternoon. When I took my wife to Hiroshima for the first time, this was a must. One stop down from Hiroshima station, but maybe a 30-45 minute walk instead if it's a nice day For shopping/souvenirs, Hondori area is a must. Massive shopping area with multiple malls and souvenir shops. The PARCO mall there has a Shonen Jump Store and a Pokemon store for the kids or anime nerds in your life. This area is right next to the Peace Memorial Park and Hiroshima Castle. Took my wife shopping here after the museum. Mazda museum is in Hiroshima as well. Never had a chance to go, but I've heard really great things. Definitely had my fair number of days going to the castle/memorial Park, followed by Hondori, then night baseball game, just in time to catch the train back to Iwakuni. Spoilered for length, but here's a list of restaurants in the area a friend and I put together (includes Sake breweries in Saijo and things to do on Miyajima Island)
  3. Agreed, I think having all of the rankings would clutter up what you're trying to do. But I agree with @BornOrange, I like having a national player rank and a position rank, maybe under "Status: Committed"?
  4. I think this would be a cool thing to use in commit threads. Adding the Twitter/Instagram is a nice touch so that people can go follow if they want to. Maybe just needs to add the player's recruit grade/position rank? I like the way 247 has that in theirs.
  5. Harris did indeed commit I can't find the other post, but saw something about her being the #1 setter recruit. Haven't seen anything from Anderson yet.
  6. Looch wants two things: to keep his subscribers high on hope, and to be respected by/friends with famous people and national reporters. He knows whatever he writes can be on MBG or Pawl or Pate or whatever, so every now and then, he presents a very normal opinion. In this case, he straight up said that Quinn has been better than Klubnik and Weigman (no shit, even though no 98% aggy would ever say that out loud). That's the "normal" opinion, but because he's aggy, he needs to hide that behind all of the other ridiculous shit he vomited into that post.
  7. Certainly doesn't look like she's planning to transfer anytime soon
  8. If Port Arthur is Houston area then shouldn't Brenham be in the Austin area?
  9. Tex is just fucking with you guys at this point 😂
  10. We've been talking about it in the softball thread too. It was 7-3 entering the 7th. Waco Midway hit 2 HRs in the top half to make it 9-3. Then the comeback. So proud of these girls. I went to high school with many of their parents, including the grand slam hitter Andrea Ortiz, and my dad is still on the school board in Weslaco. First girls team in RGV history and first team in school history to win state. And I'm pretty sure we don't even have any D1 recruits on the team. Every Valley athlete has heard how we're not good enough or big/fast/strong enough to hang with the "real" athletes up north... These girls just proved to everyone in the valley that yeah, we can hang. They are already RGV legends and I'm willing to bet that the entire team will be inducted into the RGV Sports Hall of Fame in the next few years. It might be the crowning accomplishment in modern RGV sports history. They fought hard and I certainly thought the game was over. It's heartbreaking to lose in that fashion, but they definitely don't have anything to be ashamed of.
  11. This is idiotic. This team wins a title, maybe 2 with Canady pitching for the number 1 offensive team in the country. Let her stomp around wearing burnt orange. Or sure, boo hoo I don't want her on my team because she celebrates too hard, so she can go to OU or OSU or somewhere else and be in our way again. Miranda Elish used to do that all the time wearing burnt orange and I'm pretty sure no one on this board complained.
  12. For you scholarship counters Bert Auburn on scholarship
  13. When has that ever stopped them from doing something?
  14. Forgot that Trey Faltine's mom is from Weslaco. She caught this on this morning's sportscenter!
  15. Forgot that Trey Faltine's mom is from Weslaco. She caught this clip from this morning's sportscenter!
  16. There are different POY awards. Canady won one that doesn't separate pitchers from hitters. Atwood won 2 other national POY awards
  17. Was waiting until after the game to post this; my Weslaco Panthers are bringing home a state championship to the RGV! After playing 13 innings last night and beating #1 Denton Guyer, they come back in the bottom of the 7th and win it with a grand slam (at McCombs Field!)! I believe it's the first ever Girls team sport State championship for the RGV and I'm pretty sure first ever state championship for Weslaco High. Weslaco was down 7-3, gave up two HR in the top 7th to go down 9-3, then came all the way back. I'm pretty sure we don't have any D-1 recruits, Waco has a Texas A&M signee (#13 ranked player in the country) and a Baylor signee. Way to go Weslaco!! #Puropinche956!
  18. I posted a little about the semi final game over on the softball board. 5-3 in 13 innings last night over #1 Denton Guyer! Down 7-3...Waco hits two home runs in top 7 to go up 9-3. Weslaco rallies for 8 runs and a walk off grand slam to win the state championship. What a game. Weslaco doesn't have any D-1 recruits that I know of, Waco has an A&M signee (ranked #13 player in the country) and a Baylor signee. But Weslaco is bringing it home to the RGV! #PuroPinche956!
  19. Probably cheaper and easier to build a natatorium rather than finding space for a softball stadium
  20. I might be wrong. Or maybe it's just for high school athletes that I'm thinking of. Because why would they have to sign an NLI if the financial aid agreement ties both to each other? Currently, high schoolers sign both an NLI and a financial aid agreement.
  21. Just wanted to give a quick shout out to RGV softball...2 RGV schools are heading to the State Championship game! 5A Harlingen South beat Aledo 1-0 and 6A my alma mater Weslaco High beat (#1) Denton Guyer 5-3 in 13 innings! They are the first two valley softball teams to ever make it to the state final. Let's go ladies! #Puro pinche 956
  22. Financial aid agreements only tie the school, not the player. So even if he signed a financial aid agreement, that doesn't tie him down unless he's already been accepted and attending classes
  23. Given that he said "in Knoxville", I'm assuming he was talking about the other UT.
  24. I was overseas. Couldn't exactly make it to any of the events. Some of us aren't lucky enough to have work trips to Austin.
  25. I think my favorite was "I committed 3 days after I was offered in my English class because I was bored and didn't want to read the great Gatsby" lol
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