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Murfdogg21

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  1. Will this impact his terrible YouTube podcast?
  2. They already got our Maldonado?!
  3. John Singleton and we have to stock their soda machine for 3 years.
  4. Correa (age 30) is batting 0.267 and 0.720 OPS in 93 games played. Loved playing in Houston. 3 years, $92M left + some avoidable vesting years. Arenado (age 34) is batting 0.235 and 0.662 OPS in 95 games played. Blocked trade to Houston. 2 years, $31M left on contract. Suarez (age 34) is batting 0.248 and 0.898 OPS in 105 games played. Hit by fastball in hand/wrist and status is unknown. UFA after this season. I'd say advantage Correa unless you can get one of the other two for significantly cheaper. But I'm still Team Sell since I'm doubtful Yordan comes back, that Pena hits as well as he had been whenever he comes back, or that any of our old pitchers can be counted on when/if they return.
  5. How about a compromise of shooting him in the nuts and simultaneously disarming him and removing him from the gene pool?
  6. After Covid and the first PE sell out (and inflation which has occurred across the donut market), prices crept up (>$1.25 per donut) and quality went down (smaller meat/more bread in ‘kolaches’, less filling and icing on donuts, jelly donuts seem smaller). They used to send out email coupons and birthday rewards, then they introduced an app where the rewards get sent. “Oh nice, maybe it adds convenience like other restaurants’ apps!?” Nope, their app blows. It’s like finding your specific Shipleys location is dealing with a subcontractor and they charge you a fee to use the app. “Free glazed donut for your birthday” (less a $2.50 convenience fee). And they still haven’t figured out how to make decent regular coffee. I’m certain this new PE owner will accelerate the enshitening. That being said, Shipleys glazed are still the gold standard. How the fuck do Southern Maid franchises stay in business? Their donuts are more stale and worse tasting than trucked in Dunkin Donuts, and their kolaches are $5 each.
  7. I'd trade Framber and tell him he can resign with us in the winter. Would a team give a real asset up for Hader? This group of rag tags may hang on for a division if Mariners and Rangers keep playing worse than us, or maybe luck into a wild card spot, but this team is unlikely to win a playoff series. 2024 team got mowed down by the Tigers and we still had Tucker, Bregman, and Yordan. Let's see how it works better with Trammell, Hummel, Short, Whitcomb, et al.
  8. It would be funny if his name was Dick Kurtz.
  9. Staying at Conrad this weekend and doing 80% of our eating/drinking at Resorts World. I come to Vegas every 4-6 months, and the price jump in food and alcohol since January seems like the biggest between visits since I started coming regularly. I need to take Sydney Carton’s advice and stop being poor, but $22 beers at the Sphere good lord. Conrad is nice though.
  10. Fenway allows you to bring in outside food and unopened water bottles. You can buy an Italian sausage and peppers on a roll from a street vendor and just stroll right in. The main food stand behind home plate behind section 20 or so gets wicked long lines. I think it’s often faster to find stairs and go down to the food kiosks in the subterranean level.
  11. Wife wanted to see Backstreet Boys at the Sphere. It was an entertaining experience.
  12. He is from Dorne, so that makes sense.
  13. I figured. I once did a refi with Phil and took a few tenths higher rate to pay no closing costs on the refi, so there is some monetary value to rate differences just like buying down a rate. I didn't know if there was a way to monetize a rate increase mid-mortgage.
  14. Very ignorant question: If you are sitting at 2.5% mortgage, presumably the loan holder would prefer to have you at or closer to today's rate. Is there a mechanism to increase your rate and get paid out? The context is a homeowner looking to sell and move, and trying to get some value out of their current low rate before buying another house at today's rates. My wife is always passively interested in moving out of state for family reasons, but we are the stereotype for the stagnant real estate market. New house would be +$50-100k over what we sell, buying into a region where sellers are still listing at 2021-2023 prices. Can't justify moving to a higher cost of living state, adding to the mortgage principal, and flipping a <3% for >6.5% and doubling our monthly note.
  15. Were there not better, ring-chasing veterans that can hit 3's willing to sign low dollar contracts than the scrap heap guys we signed with the last of our money?
  16. The classic yellow and green Ducks? 😂
  17. The great poet and scholar Cardale Jones was ahead of his time when he told us they "ain't come here to play school."
  18. And yet you enjoy frolicking with whales.
  19. Pato’s response in the middle quote was the answer. Businesses have to recover overhead and operating expenses. The more profitable a league is, the higher the % will go to the players. WNBA has been losing money at their current salary range and they want more???
  20. Superstar athletes don’t need keyboard warriors white knighting for them, but “professional athletes” are mostly the non-superstars. Leagues like the NFL and NBA collectively bargain with players associations for percent of revenue and profit sharing, minimum salaries, maximum salaries (NBA), team salary caps and salary floors, and other benefits. The other 90% who aren’t LeBron James, Patrick Mahomes, etc. benefit by more money being spread around and other non-paycheck benefits. Since the superstars are a minority of the membership, I’m surprised the rank and file hasn’t pushed for lowering the max salary in the NBA or imposing max salaries in the NFL. Teams spend their cap money, so the players as a whole collectively get more. The converse is MLB, as sbb brought up. You have teams in LA, NY, etc. paying absurd money to the superstar free agents. That doesn’t do much for the hundreds of mid level types. No salary cap means no salary floor, so you get the A’s, Pirates, etc. The talent discrepancy (or rather competitive imbalance) and the fact the most hate-able teams are always the good ones are turn offs to fans outside of those major markets, which reduces revenue from tv, marketing, merchandise, endorsements, etc. which trickles down to reducing what the players collectively earn. The MLB model is great if you are Shohei, Judge, Juan Soto, Gerrit Cole, the Yankees, Dodgers, Mets, or their fans. It’s not ideal for everyone else, players and fans. The NFL is the most popular sport in the world, partially due to competitive balance, and the players collectively make the most of any sport. For college football, the MLB model certainly favors the blue bloods like us and will keep the championship competition between a dozen or fewer programs. The NFL model would result in blue bloods spending less (capped), everyone else spending more to be competitive, better league products = more revenue = more money available to future players via direct pay and indirect benefits. Better for fans of the bottom 90%. I enjoy Texas playing championship level football, but I also enjoy(ed) college football when upsets were weekly and lots of random teams in and out of the top 25. I think the blue bloods would still dominate in the NFL model due to better coaches, facilities, NFL odds, legitimate NIL endorsement opportunities etc.
  21. Then pay them what they are owed after the owners are made whole for keeping the league running at a loss forever. Did they add WNBA to the NBA2k games as an excuse to divert some of the profits to women? I can’t imagine more than 5 people bought those games to play WNBA mode.
  22. Trade Framber, Hader, anyone they can get top prospects for; give Yordan, Peña, Paredes, and the other starting pitchers 9 months to heal and Christian Walker to get his shit together.
  23. T-shirts for the WNBA owners (or do they use the bullshit term “governors” as well?)
  24. When I hear “Gage”, my brain envisions the name of a boy whose ancestry includes a trailer park.
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