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You don't know me

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  1. Yeah, Mo should have been the first to get shitcanned.
  2. Yeah, the jokes were expected. For a little context and background: We are taking over a club that has been in existence for about 20 years or so. The person that ran it before us kind of let it go for the last 2 or 3 years. Registration numbers were very small pre-Covid and Covid certainly did not help. He let our tournament date get away from us, so we've had to work to get that back. I have had 2 boys wrestle for the high school (one graduated in 2020 and the second is in his senior year now) and I have another 2 that are interested in wrestling - one in 6th grade and the other is in 3rd. I've been kind of involved helping the high school coach with keeping score, running tables for tournaments, stuff like that for the last 5 years. I've seen that we do have decent numbers on the high school team, but the better programs in the state have much larger participation. One school in particular has over 100 kids in the wrestling room every year. We, on the other hand, have about 20-30. We typically have more kids on varsity than we do on JV. About this time last year, the high school coach asked if I would be interested in helping out with the youth program because he wanted to give it a re-boot. So, here we are. I know you guys are just messing around, but there really are no bad intentions. The high school coaches are going to be running the youth practices. This will get these kids familiar with the way they work and hopefully have them ready for high school wrestling as freshmen. He's just trying to build the program up from where it is now, which is not horrible, just not where it could be. He's been good to my boys and I feel an obligation to help as much as I can. He turned the older one into a 2 time state qualifier and the one that's a senior now is in a good position to wrestle in the final match on the last day of the state tournament this year. Neither of my boys that have wrestled for him started until 7th or 8th grade, so their success is entirely on him and how he developed them. So yeah, I kind of got roped into this, but I did say "sure" when asked.
  3. Hoping for an attorney to register their kid on Sunday. If not, then I'll be calling around town for someone really nice and willing to help us out.
  4. Not yet. Edit to add: I fully expected something similar to this as the first response, so kudos to you. What I should probably say is that we are working closely with the high school wrestling program. We're in Missouri, where high school wrestling is kind of a big deal, not quite to the same level as Iowa, but more so than when I left Texas. The very successful high school programs up here have very strong youth programs, which is why we are doing this. Good intentions, all that.
  5. Hopefully there is someone on here that has done this before. We recently started a youth wrestling club in town. I have registered the name with the state, got an EIN from the IRS and opened a bank account. I have also registered the club with AAU. My concern, however, is how to proceed. Do I need to register as a non-profit somehow? Also, how can I be certain that board members' personal assets will be protected if something were to happen?
  6. Did anyone NOT see that coming? Reyes in a pressure situation? Fuck.
  7. Yadi is just getting a few days of rest, right?
  8. You are exactly right. Matheny was stubborn. He also wasn't great with the press. Honestly reminded me a little bit of Mack.
  9. FIFY You're talking about Patterson. Get it right.
  10. That and he's WAY better than the last guy we had.
  11. Yeah, I didn't think that Shildt would be fired, but I do believe that he made a ton of bad decisions this entire season. Another issue was the amount of time that he gave Dejong before finally going with Sosa. I get it, Dejong is the guy with rime and a bigger contract, but he has been horrible this entire year. Also, the walks were pretty much the entire staff, not just the bullpen. But you are right, the issues weren't just Shildt, guys were simply not performing. He did make a lot of bad decisions, though. He stuck with Reyes as the closer for far too long.
  12. Great question. I still think that his handling of the bullpen prior to "the streak" was horrid, but he has done a great job since.
  13. 15! How the hell is this happening?
  14. Now it's over.
  15. I hope I didn't jinx this game. Posted that a bit early.
  16. Yeah, this is simply unreal. Longest winning streak since 1935, tied for longest in franchise history.
  17. This Goldschmidt guy is pretty good.
  18. I finished it up last night. It definitely kept me interested. Extremely violent.
  19. 1982 was such a fun season. We went to at least 20 games that year. My dad would come home from work and pick me up then head to Busch. Never had tickets, so he would just walk up to the ticket window and ask for the best 2 seats together on the 3rd base side. I was in awe watching young Willie McGee do his thing in the outfield, at the plate and running the bases. He was so fun to watch.
  20. I was 13. I watched game 7 at home while my parents went to the game.
  21. Just had a flashback to the 1982 Series when Tommy Herr knocked in 2 on a sac fly to center.
  22. He'd tell him to call Joel instead.
  23. Oh, it seems to be fairly common for players to leave the Cardinal organization and start hitting. Also common for players to come to the organization and forget how to hit.
  24. If they do hold onto the second wildcard spot, I fully expect Mo to use that as his reasoning for not making one big move in the off season. "We're already a really good team. We just need for our current players to stay healthy."
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