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some people can't leave. I saw some over head video of where we stayed in July in Ft. Myers Beach. It's devastated. Gone. The condo in the upper right on the after photo is where we were. From the over head shot it's the lower one on the left side, where the pink icon is. You can see 3 houses as you pull into the driveway are gone as well as the 4 houses across the street. I've circled them. The whole island is like that. For giggles when we got back from there I went on zillow to check those houses and they last sold for $1.7M. That's for a 1 BR 600 sq foot. But it's on the water! If you've been there and know... the Times Square area is gone. The pier there is gone as is the restaurant out there. I think Estero Island is toast. They're building a Margaritaville right next to the bridge... The causeway to Sanibel Island is, for lack a better word, broke. As in collapsed in some places.

I just finished Astronaut John Young's book and he devoted some time to the work one of the Shuttle missions did to salvage Hubble. It was a good book but very technical and a lot of it flew over my head. But it is neat to read about a guy who's active career spanned from Gemini to the Shuttle program.

And while we’re apologizing, we’re really sorry about our governor’s recent habit of calling President Biden names, such as “President Brandon” or “The American Nero.” If DeSantis only knew that Biden’s immediate response to the Florida-bound storm would be magnanimous — “We’ll be there every step of the way,” Biden said — our governor may have been less petty and juvenile in his Fox News performances. Oh, and Massachusetts, thanks for sending us whatever you can in storm relief. I know, we’ve recently sent you some desperate asylum seekers from Venezuela, unceremoniously dropping them on Martha's Vineyard. Looking back on it, we behaved like a bunch of delinquents playing a game of ding-dong-dash but with people’s lives. That’s not us anymore. Not since Hurricane Ian. Now we have newfound appreciation for displaced people in need of help. And we don’t think it’s funny anymore to abuse them. So, we appreciate anything you can give us. Hey, and while you’re at it, you can start by sending back those migrants we gave you. We’re going to need a lot of workers to clean up the storm rubble. And the snowbirds surely aren’t going to do it. When the going gets tough, they’ll just stay up north this winter and start looking at real estate in western North Carolina. So, please give us back those migrants. There were a lot of able-bodied workers in that bunch. And we need lots of people with good backs and strong arms now. In fact, we can use all the Central American labor — documented or undocumented — the rest of America can spare. And we promise, as long as they’re here, working and putting our state back together again, we will not to cast them as evil drug mules, pedophiles and terrorists. We’ll just find some other marginalized group to pick on.

I will watch the games but my heart rate or blood pressure or pulse is really unmoved by football. Yes I want the lions to win but even on Sunday it didn’t even move me. I don’t have that gene in my system. It could disappear tomorrow and I wouldn’t even flinch. I wish it were otherwise because my son loves football and I would like to bond over it. I get the chance to go to MIchigan games all the time and when I go I am so bored. I appreciate the atmosphere and passion but the seats are uncomfortable and I can’t get a beer.

I’ve been to a few of the games and going tomorrow. They’ve been good games to watch.

was listening on the radio while working and can forever remember Champion's call.... "Look out Sharpe wide op-touchdown"

I think the Snowden thing, not him, but his situation, is an enigma for many because they have to think about what "side" they are on and who agrees with him and who doesn't before knowing what to say. There's a little bit for everyone there. Who wants to grind whose ax?

Unless he does something very drastic like go vegan I don't see it happening. When you get to 40 you have to make substantial changes to do what he is saying. He already doesn't drink, I presume, so unless he's just pigging out on fast food and junk food it will take something like that.... to lose weight at this point you need diet and exercise. Not just one or the other and I assume he's getting a decent dose of both. I suspect during the off season he's a good boy because it's training time. You can control your day. Spend a lot of time at the gym. Once the season starts, you get the long days and odd hours and time on the road. He's probably predisposed to just being a big fella.

Is the 60 a procedural thing for flexibility or indicative of the injury? Edman is probably too busy dealing with Ian to get around to this.

also many people in that demo want to be close to their parents as they age or for support when they have kids.

Here's more bullshit.

Didn’t Fergie do coke? Wonder if that enhanced his performance.

They are there to learn reading and writing and arithmatic. Not to eat. You can't eat unless you pray and schools banned God.

are the Castro boys the modern equivalent of the Infantiago duo? Will harold come back for a swan song in 2025 when the team is contending for a WS title?

I remember wearing shorts to a few playoff games in 2011.... of course I also remember the 2006 ALCS being the coldest I have ever been at a game. I guess that's the midwest in Sept/Oct. It can be 70. It can be 40. Last week it was almost 90 here. The thing that hurt last night was the wind. Luckily in our seats we didn't feel it but going out to the concourse was tough. Used our remote start for the first time since spring.

Surprised MI wasn't there already

that's how I feel... I have this dark belief that this will come back to bite us. Of course even without it when the dems tried they'll just "both sides" it anyway and half the country will just say "They're all crooked" That's the thing that makes me the saddest about all of this. Our elections going forward are at risk of being comrpomised and we'll always have fraudulent people in there mucking it up. We need a 2 year cycle from 2023-2025 to reset things. Those 2 years could determine our republic's fate.

We were at the game sitting in the "Dogs" section. It was cold. Last time I was cold at a game was probably opening day. These are the kinds of games I stay home in April and May but with the final week of the season I want to get my kicks in. I like the 6:40 start times. That extra half hour means a lot during the week.

well my 21 year old son was pissed last weekend when they cut into the college football game he was watching.

What’s “offensive” for lack of a better word isn’t people talking about it. It’s the idea it’s breaking news and deserves to be something you would interrupt another game, even for another sport.

why is a franchise record worth cutting into not only other national MLB games but football games? Frankly it's not national news. Great for Yankee fans to celebrate, I'm happy for them, but if Spencer Torkelson is sitting on 57 HR next year with 12 games left will they be doing the same thing and why not?

I have some laying around when I tried to squeeze every ounce out of my iphone 6. One year the Tigers gave us one since they went to digital tickets, I figured that was their way of getting around having to use our phones to get in?

agree.

combined with his high pitched voice.... not sure that will fully translate for MAGA. and I can definitely see a rift coming as the kids won't want their gravy train and grift interrupted. Money going to him is not money going to them.