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  1. On 3/29/2018 at 1:56 PM, Valmy77 said:

    Changing something to appeal to people who are not fans and taking for granted the support of the people who are is a dangerous game. It is likely to simply alienate your current fanbase and attract zero attention from people who are not. I see many industries kill themselves that way.

    Baseball at every level is less popular than it once was, there is little MLB can do about that short of some sort of general pro-baseball charm offensive. This is not about some scheduling or lack of gimmicks deal.

     

    Precisely. We see this shit - this pursuit of the casual fan for the benefit of the TV networks - ruining sport after sport after sport. 

     

    Fuck the casual fan. 

  2. 6 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    Pathetic pitching performances from start to finish tonight. 

    Indeed. Matched only by our ridiculous hitting tactics in the first 6-7 innings with an incredibly small zone.

  3. On 3/25/2018 at 8:54 PM, skittlebrau said:

    I feel like I also started this thread but I’m happy to jump in here. Think ABW might not have the scrilla to pull off kit sponsorship.

    I’m thinking Samsung, Dell, 3M? Who else has a big presence here and a national footprint that would benefit from MLS?

    AMD, 3M, IBM, Apple ...

  4. On 3/28/2018 at 10:00 AM, Mac8111 said:

    Earl is the reason I was a longhorn fan as a kid

    Yeah we moved here from Tennessee in '77. I was in 6th grade. Watching Earl wreck mfers that season turned my blood burnt orange for life.

    10 hours ago, HornPhD said:

    Favorite Longhorn. Met him once. 

    Later I was waiting tables at Jazz on 6th. Earl's sausage company office was upstairs. Earl would come in after our lunch rush and sit at the bar to eat lunch. Nobody in the place but Earl & all of us who worked there. He would chat us up all the time & was easily the most laid-back, chill pro athlete I've ever met & as nice a guy as you could ever hope to meet. 

  5. 17 minutes ago, Grimas said:

    Changed my booking tonight....  4 nights at Isla and then headed to Akumel for 5 nights... any easy car rentals near the ferry dock? On the the other thread on the other unnamed site, there was a suggestion of a good rental place that is all inclusive of coverage... Yes, my card covers insurance but I want an easy transition from ferry to car with the least hassle with wife and kids with bags in tow and price be dammed!  Suggestions?

    That's America car rental. They have 3 locations in Cancun, by the airport, downtown, and the hotel zone. The downtown location is probably close to the bus station, but one of the other guys might have a better idea if you should go there or the Hotel Zone. I just made a res yesterday with them for an SUV. /csb

  6. 32 minutes ago, Grimas said:

    Worried about my 12 year old twins getting bored with us staying 10 days there...  searched the old thread on the other site but didn't see anything about a day trip taking a car ferry back over to the Cancun hotel strip with bikes.  Worth doing? I'm assuming you can rent bikes on Isla and ferry them over.  Alternative is to take the ferry to the mainland, renting a car and doing a cenoyte trip down south. Do you have to go back to the airport (ferry then taxi) to rent a car for the day? I know you can also catch the bus and get off at Tulumn as I did that a few years ago from Puerto Advevturas...

    10 days on the island with kids, yeah, they'll probably run out of things to get excited about. That's one reason we've started splitting time between Playa and the Akumal/Tulum area., generally going down south for 3 or 4 days of cenotes & beaches with waves, and then 4 more days of chillin on Isla.

    Not sure about the car ferry. Never been on it. As for renting cars, there are rental locations all over Cancun, and some pretty near Gran Puerto. Re: the bus, yes, you can get a cab from Gran Puerto to the main downtown bus station and take a bus to PdC, Tulum, Akumal, or wherever. 

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