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that's what I met by "accident". If you have a good system and coaching then you'll get your bullpen but it will change from year to year and you won't be able to predict who those gems will be consistently. I didn't mean to suggest that just any old team will churn out a good bullpen. You still have to do the good work. But the strength is in numbers so that the law of averages is in your favor. Don't bank on a defined 3 guys panning out. Have 10 in the mix and see who rises.

The thing with going to school in the dark is it depends I think on where you are in that zone.... Do kids really walk to school anymore? We once left a quick game at Comerica Park in the first week of July and it was broad daylight. Like 9:15 pm. It worked out because I was with my brother in law from TX and he wanted to see 8 Mile road and felt better about it while daylight. So off we went. I had no idea it was such a tourist thing.

Good bullpens happen by accident. You don't develop one. Strength in numbers and coaching and you'll find a couple of good ones, milk them, then discard. Short shelf life.

Who here is doing it?

That’s what they said about blacks moving into the suburbs. “It’s about crime not race”. Wrong then. Wrong now.

racists supported him because he talked bad about mexicans and sexists loved him because he talked bad about women and the religious nuts will vote for Satan if he promises to nominate "pro life" judges or deliver a tax cut.

if I was a rich dude that flew helicopters in that area I would fly around them.... or maybe some people get one of those banner planes with a clever slogan?

So oil is down over 30% per barrel.... when will the price at the pump go down? I kid.....

Why didn't they sanction former Presidents?

Greg Gutfeld on his show suggested the media was hyping up the bad news by showing the same thing over and over. He was corrected by his correspondent, who later was injured.

I'm stunned at their low levels of vax rates among that group. China's locking down a couple of major cities and we could start to see supply issues again. They have an inferior vaccine and didn't go through their omicron wave.

I'm ok with that because that's when you get into issues with pitcher usage. I'm pretty sure both teams would rather just go home and keep things on schedule. But i work with production schedules and whenever there's an blip I just favor doing what we can to get over that and get back online. Otherwise you are dealing with it indefinitely. Take the L and pound those budweisers.

ballpark figure how much does that insulation cost? our back bedrooms get cold and are at the end of the "line" of our system. I think our room used to have a window in one location based on the brick discoloration outside.

Given that we're now pretty much wide open and Omicron's features this isn't a shock. The real metric will be hospitalizations. Think about how many cases were detected just because people either had to be tested for work or whatever or because they followed CDC guidelines on close contacts getting tested? That's gone now. And with the rise of home tests being available how many are tested but not reported? The low case numbers that are published won't tell the whole story but the hospital situations will. I just hope our leaders are proactive with vaccination boosters to stay ahead of things.

It’s dumb for two reasons. One is just the integrity thing of having a gimmick. Second I think it’s shown to not really do anything to end the game quicker.

I’m thinking of the foam kind. Does it solidify like the stuff I’ve used for cracks and such? I’m thinking if you ever needed to get to the pipes or access the cables you would have a mess to dig out.

I get this insulation ad all the time on social media with the foam where they show it filling up in the walls..... it's fascinating to watch. But in the video they show it going over the plumbing and electrical.... is that a good idea? Doesn't seem like it to my non handy man eyes.

I think our method of having the faucet half open instead of closed shut, or wide open, was the correct one. Omicron was a steady load on our hospitals here, never reaching the stresses they saw in 2020 and early 2021, but it wasn't a cakewalk either. Could have been a lot worse.

The importance of vaccines and the effectiveness of those vaccines. Imagine of Omicron had been 6-9 months earlier in the US?

I think this insight is so spot on.... The sacrifice of the Ukranian people might save the US.

I think the EC vote and January 6 is a good example of this. Something we took for granted as just a formality and paperwork was exploited, even if it was a futile attempt based on the law, but it's clear there needs to be stronger emphasis on "Look, this is what this actually means!". Sometimes you have to underline things.

The guy I share my tickets with is kind of an old school person. No smartphone. Barely uses his computer. He moved from a desk job to one on the counter, he's 63 and done with stress, he loves this. He has had multiple heart attacks over the years nad finally quit smoking before the pandemic. He uses his smokes money on gambling. Wagers about $100 a day over several bets. He loves it. He says it gives him purpose and something to look forward to. last time I talked he said he's up about 10K overall in the time he's been doing it, about a year. He documents and does everything properly for tax purposes.

Very high. By doing that you are going against the word of god. Their version of course.