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Lived about a mile from there during college. Loved sitting out there with a beer when the weather was nice. Sad to hear it's closing.

I’ll be there in early December as well. It’s a great time to go because the island is nice and green, great weather, and it’s before high season officially starts. The Carl Gustaf seems like a great hotel. I haven’t stayed there but I have eaten dinner twice at their restaurant (Fouquet’s) since they reopened the hotel and it’s phenomenal. The hotel decor is great and the views of Gustavia are amazing too. Rent a car. Get something small like a Mini Cooper because the roads are narrow and parking spaces are small. You will want the car to explore during the day, and yes, driving in St. Barth can be fun. From your hotel you can walk to many restaurants around Gustavia - Bonito, Isola, Shellona, Bagatelle, plus all the more casual places in town. If you are uncomfortable driving at night, your hotel can easily get you a taxi for dinner to anywhere you can’t walk. I recommend dinner reservations at most places. Email your concierge about a week in advance and they should be able to help, or ask us here. Lunch reservations aren’t as important unless you want a weekend table at a popular beach club like Nikki or Gypsea. PM me if you have any specific questions.

Sucks to lose. I had everything lined up to attend games 3-4 next weekend. Congrats to Atlanta fans. Y’all played a great series. Freddie Freeman looks like a bible salesman. Please beat the cheaters.

What a terrible story. On the one hand, it was an accident. On the other hand, Alec Baldwin was holding a gun when it fired and killed someone. Which means he was pointing the gun at someone and very likely pulled the trigger, thinking it was safe. So it was an accident but it was the result of complete stupidity. If that happened to an average person at home, not a celebrity on a movie set, wouldn’t they be charged with involuntary manslaughter?

I’m intrigued by the Vegas Loop concept. From some quick internet searches, it seems the LVCC loop is a single car lane wide and has a fleet of ~65 Teslas that are not autonomous. Each car currently has a human driver which limits max passenger occupancy to 4 people. So that’s ~260 total people max on a 1.7 mile loop that takes 3 minutes to transit. How much capacity will the Vegas Loop have if it’s built the same way? Suppose it ends up being 10 miles total and 350 Teslas at a time. That’s still only a maximum of 1400 people (and that assumes every car is completely full which obviously won’t be the case) which would be very low for certain situations, like the end of a Raiders game or any other major event. I would be interested to see it happen, but I hope it ends up being a practical alternative to current transportation methods and not just a novelty theme park ride.

Especially for a high profile case where he strangled his girlfriend.

Giving up grand slams is more of a Houston thing.

Buehler should’ve been out of this inning with 0 runs allowed. He’s gotta be frustrated but he also can’t throw a 4 pitch walk with the bases loaded.

Man, a missed play on a fly ball and a missed strike 3 call have cost 2 runs.

I kept hearing great things about Brix so finally tried it a few weeks ago and was not impressed. In fact, I didn’t finish eating and went straight to Dayne’s to finish lunch. Maybe I caught Brix on an off day. Panther City and Dayne’s are my go-to places. I clearly need to try Goldee’s.

I guess it all depends on where you need to go, but for me, Southwest has not been the cheaper option for at least 5 years.

Would anyone be interested in a Surly FW happy hour? Wednesdays and Thursdays usually work well for me and it’s nice weather right now for an outdoor spot.

Given that the Dodgers pitching allowed 1 run and won the game, I don’t think anything was pointless.

Hey, even I agree that it was a bad call. Probably a lot of Dodgers fans would agree with that and no one wants the series to end like that. Just pointing out that the Giants had ample opportunity to win this series without it ever coming down to an 0-2 count against one of the best pitchers in baseball.

Here's an idea for the Giants. Perhaps don't put yourself in a situation where you are down 2-1 at home in a winner-take-all game, with 2 outs, and Wilmer Fulmer against Max Scherzer with the count already 0-2, depending on Wilmer Fulmer to check his swing to keep the season alive. Perhaps try averaging more than 2 runs a game if you expect to win a best-of-5 series against the team with the second best record in baseball.

Pretty weird to look at the stats and see: Win: K. Jansen Save: M. Scherzer

Love that the Dodgers won but I wish that wasn't called a swing. I don't want to hear people whining about that 1 pitch forever in a game that we had all but won anyways.

I saw a couple people discussing this earlier in the thread. I thought it was good and entertaining but not as good as The Martian. I do love the way Andy Weir can weave science lessons into the chapters of a novel and it amazes me the random shit he thinks up. Worth reading for that part alone.

I've had this book laying around the house for a while now but I thought it would be too cliché or cheesy so I put off reading it. Finally picked it up and I liked it way more than I expected to. It was a quick and easy read. It looks like the movie comes out next summer and will feature Daisy Edgar-Jones (who by the way, gets naked a lot in the Normal People TV show I mentioned upthread).

I was fairly disappointed by this one. I kept seeing it in bookstores and on book lists but the description didn't draw me in. Once I saw it won the Pulitzer, I finally thought it was worth reading. It felt like the plot was pretty boring and just meandered along without much development. I was happy to have it end and move on to something else.

Bought this on a whim in an airport bookstore and ended up liking it quite a bit. It's a relationship drama about a couple of young people in Ireland, which I thought did a pretty good job of depicting people struggling to get through their early 20s. It was also made into a TV show which I also thought was great and started a thread about.

Technically didn't read this but listened to the audio book (narrated by MM). I think that's the best way to do it because he's very good at telling his own stories. I really enjoyed it. Learned a lot about MM that I didn't know previously. He's had a very interesting life.

I liked it but thought it dragged a little bit in places. Pretty insightful and sad overview of the Osage tribe.

Trevor Bauer, is that you?

Brand loyalty to a major domestic airline of all things is pretty baffling to me. If you fly them enough, they will screw you over for the most inexplicable things. All of them.