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gyroprotagonist

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  1. peter millar has some Rangers WS Champions stuff if you are inclined for more stuff to wear while yachting. 

    Texas Live looked insane and fun as hell last night.  We strolled through there before Game2  and it was packed 4 hours before first pitch.

    John Smoltz trending on X last night was tremendous.  Seeing all the memes and hot takes on his disdain for the Rangers was awesome.

    If you did not catch Raymond on with the Musers this morning, he had a badass interaction with Boch after the game.  As the players were moving into the locker room for champagne fun, Raymond caught up with Boch and he said "finally got you that fucking ring, boy" (badly paraphrasing) 

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  2. 1 hour ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Somehow finding a way to scrape together a win tonight would be massive. Both teams will be using a collective bullpen effort. Ours has been used a little more, especially last night. 5-9 have to find a way to contribute. And then back up to the 1 spot in Semien. It's a black hole down there overall. 

    Rangers have a slight advantage given that some our relievers (assuming they aren't sucking) can go multiple innings and theirs cannot for most part.  I am parroting crap i head on Ticket with Dave Raymond saying that Dback bullpen is mostly comprised of 1 inning dudes.

    Yes, Sborz has been a cool customer just chewing away on that bubble gum.  Hope he is ok.

     

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  3. 12 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

     

    but who could have seen this coming?!?

    yeah, was this like a 'Make a Wish' bad ump edition?  some headscratchers for both teams

    yes, i know time is limited in all the SC highlights, but they don't show the pitch where Leclerc got squeezed but only the one where the batter was called back on strike 2 which was a little outside.

     

     

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  4. most snowboard rentals are absolute garbage; the bindings all suck.  i have had my own board and boots, but after getting the new step in bindings (and boots) they are a game changer for an old like me to not have to flop down then push up everytime out of the lift getting strapped in. 

  5. On 10/25/2023 at 12:09 PM, Mother mopar said:

     where meat comes from, etc.

    there were kids in my freshman class at Texas that just thought cattle were 'pets' for ranchers and not slaughtered for meat.  like legit surprised.

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  6. 6 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    I'm happy when people are paid what they are worth.  Why do I dislike unions?  I work for a union shop. Our management, of course, is not union. 

    I can only speak to heavy highway, PLCA, and welders unions, but almost to the rule the union employees are lazier, hilariously entitled, and overall just fucking dickheads. They don't care about your company (leave you in a bind in an instant) or its success, they don't care about their quality of work because it's an act of congress to be replaced, and in general are the types of people that NEED someone to make sure they have a good job because they'd never survive on their own merits.   There was a time and a place for them, we are long past that. 

    The BA's spend ALOT of energy trying to take money out of my pocket, damage the equity I have in my company, and generally make my life worse.  Turnabout is no longer fair play?  I would and now rely on my men to return that favor with fervor.  Afterall, you live by the agreement, you die by the agreement. 

    So we'll continue to pay 100k for a well equipped pickup truck, and some guy with a GED will get 135/hr to push a button so a robot can move it down the assembly line.  And we will like it because if they didn't have that given to them, I can only assume these fucking leaches would be on welfare, taking their blood from there. 

    answered my question, thanks

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  7. 1 hour ago, Incredulity said:

    To maintain the current business model the business will have to in some combination:

    1.) raise prices

    2.) increase productivity/efficiency

     

    The UAW got what they could get and good for them.  It puts Ford at a greater cost disadvantage to the foreign owned/US production/non-union manufacturers.  Unless Ford can sell the product for more or divine a game changing manufacturing efficiency they will be less profitable.

    right, but the 'current business model' started with Uncle Sam bailing out the automakers and having the workers acquiesce to lower or capped wages.  The automakers said thanks, then went on about the much mentioned stock buybacks etc.. to the tune of $25B of gross profit (Ford's #) this year.  So yes, if you pick this specific point in time and change nothing else, having to pay higher wages somewhat changes the equation for Ford, but it's not like they are teetering on the brink of going in the red and this in the tipping point that will doom them.  we only seem to care about keeping capitalism and free markets real when it benefits corporations.  

    again, it's a neat trick that seemingly unaffected Americans white-knight big corporations and feel sympathy about them having to pay their employees more (who are subsequently demonized as lazy and not worth the wages).  Like how a lot of Americans vote to give ultra wealthy tax breaks and against giving needy people 'handouts' or health insurance.  Let's make America great again by going back to the 70's tax policies that saw the top bracket pay something like 80%.

     

  8. maybe we get the 'backup QB catches fire' this week and mudhole them.  That will have to be enough to overcome 'shitty opponent offense sets multiple records' against us.  cannot wait to see which trueism prevails.

  9. 10 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    Fuck them. My absolute favorite thing is laying those lazy motherfuckers off at the end of each project. Hit the hall, fucking leaches. 

    where does the hate come from?  WTF do you care how much someone else makes?  please don't come back with "it raises the cost for everyone on cars".  That could be said for just about every industry and we pretty much know that corps are not going to pass on ANY savings to the consumer, but just use any declines in worker salary for profit boosting and stock buy backs.  Mfgs have milked the fuck out of 'supply chain' crisis and greedlflation to raise prices and keep them there.  

      

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  10. 1 hour ago, Vertigo said:

    That might be the goofiest looking hype photo I have ever seen. 

    getting too hyped, like caffeine, is a sin and is to be avoided so the SM team like to ride that line between somewhat hyped and goofy.

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