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  1. On 5/9/2019 at 11:34 PM, F250 said:

    My kid's High School team was recently eliminated from the HS playoffs. Lost 1-0 to Lake Travis in game 3. He is already over it, besides he has another year of high school left. Lake Travis has some serious talent. That Baty kid is a Texas commit and a potential 1st rounder in the MLB draft. Really would love to see him make it to campus in the Fall.

    Brett Baty was the 12th overall pick in the MLB draft and looking at a 4.7 million dollar contract with the Mets. I don't think he will be playing for us next season. Lake Travis also had Jimmy Lewis picked up at #78 in the second round by the Dodgers.

    Lake Travis will be playing in the State tournament this Friday at Dell Diamond against Southlake Carroll. They will be entering the tournament with two MLB draft picks taking the mound plus a TCU commit.

    What the hell are you guys in Lake Travis putting in the water?

     

  2. I finished Goliath season 2 last week. I don't know what the hell I was watching, its like it switched genres midseason and a high school drama teacher wrote the last 2 episodes. It was terrible.

    Started up with Good Omens over the weekend and its been great so far.

  3. 30 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Don’t forget when the select team owners / coaches demand the parents buy them diamond encrusted tournament rings and help cover expenses related to escorts / strip club trips 

    Ray had some issues.

  4. 35 minutes ago, Lat22 said:

    So familiar. Now try doing that every day for a week in Ft Myers or BFE Georgia.

    We played against a couple of Adam Dunn coached teams. That’s a guy you want on your side in a fight.

    The life of a PO in Summer Ball. :)

    Was your son a PO in high school too? My friend's kid played first and pitched in 9th grade on JV and then decided to tryout for varsity as a PO in 10th grade. He made varsity as a PO then the team attended the Border Olympics down in Laredo for the weekend which is a great tournament featuring over 50 teams from south and central Texas. Anyways, my friends kid pitched 1 inning at the tournament. Dad wasn't used to traveling out of town for the weekend to see his kid pitch a single inning and then spend the rest of the time watching other kids play. That was a bit of culture shock for dad.

     

  5. The travel is where the cost occurs but that's determined by your location and level of play. I remember in 12U Majors there were only a handful of teams between Austin and San Antonio that were competitive and the Houston teams rarely traveled to the area. So we would visit Houston for tournaments and occasionally DFW.

    The greater Houston area has so much talent and local tournaments they really don't need to travel much since so many teams visit Houston from all over the place.

    If you are in any metropolitan area and are AAA or below then you probably don't need to travel as much. Really, if you are AA and below there is no reason to travel at all. It makes no sense to travel until the local competition is no longer competitive.

     

  6. It's like the people in charge lack a basic understanding of history and economics. Australia was excluded from Trump's previous tarrifs on steel and aluminum but due to a basic concept known as trade diversion, imports for steel and aluminum increased from Australia. An unintended consequence of Trump's tarrifs made Australian imports cheaper. This should have been fucking obvious to any nitwit not wearing a MAGA hat.

    So Trump and his advisors discover the increase and decide to slap tarrifs on Australia but the actual educated folks in the DoD and State Department fight it. Australia is one of our closest allies and we have a 29 Billion dollar trade surplus with them, they have supported us in every war we fought. Australia and New Zealand actually fought with the U.S. in fucking Vietnam! Obviously they are a critical ally in the Pacific in both trade and defense against China.

    Why the fuck are these people so stupid? It blows my mind at how stupid this administration is when it comes to everything.

     

  7. 24 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    That reminds me, while we're providing the homeless with housing, we also need public toilets.

    San Antonio installed a couple of these downtown. The city claims that its cheaper to pay for these than cleanup the poo/pee all day every day. The Police department claims there was a significant drop in citations for public urination near the new restrooms.

     

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  8. 37 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    The trolls are active today. Apparently the theme today is that people take shits in cities while out in the sticks, people just shit in the woods. They prefer shitting in the woods apparently. 

    To be fair, I prefer shitting in the woods as long as its done responsibly. Having seen a homeless man take a dump in a downtown parking lot, I will say the woods are definitely preferable.

     

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  9. 3 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    In San Francisco $75k a year qualifies you for housing assistance. It’s no wonder everyone lives paycheck to paycheck regardless of salary. They price their own citizens out of child birth  teachers can’t afford to live and teach in the city  and often live with parents to survive.  It is a completely self created problem   

    This is primarily a Supply/Demand issue. San Francisco and Silicon Valley experienced gentrification on East German steroids. San Francisco is a victim of it's success.

    4 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    This is government not allowing capitalist rules to work.  They prop up the underpaying jobs instead of letting the market correct itself to the proper level of need vs cost.  It exacerbated the problem

    This isn't the case. The median income in San Francisco is around $100k and the minimum wage increase was well below the price floor, there is a decrease in low wage workers because even with the new minimum wage it doesn't meet the required income for the high cost of living. The market forces are what's driving the cost of living up and creating a lot of winners, the problem is what to do with the losers being priced out of the area. The world needs ditch diggers but even ditch diggers need to sleep and eat.

    4 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    Urbanization was a way for liberal elites in large cities to gain more power.  It’s also why the electoral college is so important and works.  2600 vs 480 counties voted Republican vs Democrat.  Urbanization allowed a few cities to control the majority of the vote   

     

    Sadly, it is being proven out that sprawl is a much better policy than Urban density which causes massive inequality.  

    The situation is the opposite in San Francisco. The city is landlocked and doesn't have the space to expand and has local regulations that discourage urban density. San Francisco needs to go the NYC route with urban density in order to increase the supply of real estate to meet the demand.

  10. 1 minute ago, Bama Chick said:

    And to really cap my night, we just had a shooting tonight in my small city at our local water park $5 night.

    This is why I always avoid all events on $1, $2, $5 night. Shit is always unruly on those nights.

     

     

  11. 35 minutes ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

    Have y'all looked at the folks who live on the street? Addiction and mental illness out the ass. Not at all capable of holding jobs. Jesus. If only the world was as simple as "lazy fuckers don't want to work." 

    This is a very important distinction. SDG is conflating the homeless with those that abuse the welfare system. Anyone who has spent a decent amount of time in a downtown area of a major city can tell the homeless tend to have some serious mental problems. These people are not acting within the normal boundaries of reason. Laziness is not what is driving their behavior.

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  12. 14 hours ago, Hate said:

    To help everyone get the taste of last night out of their mouths, may I present the Memorial Day Miracle? 20 years ago today.

     

    As a Spurs fan, this was the moment that changed everything. It was like a having sex for the first time with your high school girlfriend. This sensation is amazing, I need more of it, I expect more of it and I know there will be more of it.

     

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