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Teams lose players to injuries all the time. 2018 Dodgers were without Clayton Kershaw for half the season and Corey Seager for the entire season. Their pitching staff dealt with injuries to not only Kershaw, but also Maeda, Hill, Urias, and Ryu. They overcame it and went to the World Series, but then again, they didn’t have to carry the burden of being cheaters on their backs.

Go Dodgers!!! What an emotional roller coaster this past week has been. Went to game 1 (sucked) and game 3 (awesome). Felt defeated after game 4, only to watch them grind back the last 3 games. Amazing effort all around. I think this about sums it up:

https://sports.yahoo.com/the-astros-past-finally-catches-up-to-them-one-game-shy-of-a-return-to-the-world-series-075736089.html

I've been with AT&T for a long time on an unlimited plan with 3 lines. I don't plan to switch providers anytime soon so it seems like a reasonable trade-in offer unless they are forcing me onto a newer unlimited plan that ends up costing more on a monthly basis to offset the trade-in credit.

I saw this mentioned on slickdeals but I can’t figure out how it works. The Apple website has an area to calculate trade-in value based on your phone model and provider and it says $140 for an iPhone 8 on ATT. How do you get the higher trade-in value?

Thanks a lot, Tampa Bay. Baseball fans everywhere outside of Houston appreciate you closing this one out.

Sick catch Mookie.

My heart can’t take this. Let’s go Dodgers.

Every professional sports team tries to spend their way to championships. Some are just better at it than others.

I have a road bike that I ride 2-3 times a month. Why not more? Because I feel like I need to ride 20+ miles for it to even be considered a workout and I consider that a pain in the ass that takes too much time and prep work. I can get the same amount of cardio running 5 miles in 40 minutes. Last winter I bought a trainer for my road bike to use indoors. Used it less than 5 times and sold it because it’s boring as hell and there is nothing to make me commit to any length of ride. Easy to get bored and simply stop. I got a Peloton 2 weeks ago and love it so far because I can do a 30 minute ride on my lunch break that’s actually a good workout without using much time. Or I can do a workout while watching sports in the evening when I would normally just sit on the couch. And yes, I could’ve done that with the trainer, but I personally get a lot more motivation and excitement from the interactive nature of the Peloton classes. But that’s just me.

It looks like 11 runs in a half inning is a MLB postseason record.

I don’t see how Disney buying up theater chains benefits anyone except Disney. It could give them a monopoly on distribution and make it financially more difficult for non-Disney studios to deliver high quality blockbusters to movie goers. This seems somewhat similar to the current problems surrounding Apple’s app store or Amazon’s marketplace. I would much rather live in a world of AMC, Cinemark, Regal, Alamo Drafthouse, Movie Tavern, etc. Individual companies competing for entertainment dollars is much better than one massive company shoving their version of the ideal movie experience down our throats.

Interesting. We drove through the Crockett Row area on Friday night around 10 pm on our way home from dinner. I was mainly curious to see if anything was open. It looked like pre-Covid normal from what I could see. Every bar appeared to be open, tons of college-aged people, no masks.

What specifically made you decide on an 11 Pro Max? Do you think you would miss the lack of 5G? I ask because I have an iPhone 8 that I’m ready to upgrade. My battery life is fading and I would always like a better camera and faster connectivity. I’m not sure I would truly appreciate a 120 Hz screen or a lot of the other spec upgrades. I think the iPhone 12 Mini will be good for me. It’s slightly smaller than my iPhone 8 yet still increases my screen size from 4.7” to 5.4”, better cameras, more storage, faster chip, and 5G.

Some of you seem to be rooting for the theaters to fail. I don't really understand why there is so much hate directed towards them. Of course it costs more money to go to the theater and of course the food and drinks are marked up. Isn't that true with everything in life? Do you expect to attend a UT football game for the same price you pay at home? Do you expect to order a bottle of wine in a restaurant for the same price you pay in the grocery store? I've always liked seeing movies in the theaters. When my wife and I were dating at UT and poor af, we would get the discount movie tickets from the counter in the basement of the Co-op and have a $12 date night. We probably did that 10-15 times a year. When we got older and had more money and could actually drink alcohol, we upgraded to Alamo Drafthouse but would still go fairly regularly. Currently, the best theater near us is a fairly new AMC, which I know gets a lot of hate on here, but it's actually a really nice theater with nice seats, nice screens and sound, and good beverage options. I'm not much into superhero movies or Star Wars, which comprise a lot of the blockbusters these days, so we go less often. But I still get really excited about the release of a new Bond movie, Christopher Nolan film, Mission Impossible, or a one-off war movie like 1917. I have a nice home theater setup at home but it would suck if the only option was to watch these types of movies in my living room. And as for the quality of direct-to-streaming movies, what are the best movies that were actually produced with this plan in mind? At least in the realm of big blockbuster action movies, the ones I've seen are definitely a caliber below the traditional box office film. I know TV series have improved significantly and I agree with the comments on things like Game of Thrones being movie quality production, but I also saw comments about The Expanse which I feel has embarrassingly poor CGI and acting at times. I love TV as well and appreciate the full range of streaming TV options, but it's just a different product that delivers a different form of entertainment. I hope they figure this shit out but agree the outlook is bleak at this point. I would personally be pretty bummed to lose the option of seeing a great new release in the theaters.

Well, shit. Dodgers bats will need to come alive tonight.

Sucks to lose game 1 but I still have a pretty good feeling about the series. I was not impressed by Globe Life Field. The exterior looks fine when looking at the large side that faces north with lots of glass windows. The exterior is also kind of ugly when viewed from either end with a huge angular sheet metal roof. The interior is fine I suppose but it seemed entirely generic. Not one single feature that stood out as being unique. Concessions were terrible and beer selection was crappy. It seems that modern sports stadiums offer better food and drink options but the only things I saw tonight were basic concession stand food. I paid $12 for a brisket sandwich that looked like it belonged on a kids’ menu. Tried to follow that up with a personal pizza but they were out of those by the 5th inning. Tried to get a second Karbach IPA but they were out of those too. Hopefully this is a day 1 Covid problem and they’ll improve it for normal times. Social distancing seemed mostly fine. There were the occasional oblivious assholes but most people seem to respect boundaries and the seats were adequately spaced.

What I want to happen: Fire Herman this week Hire Urban within 2 weeks What I think will happen: Herman stays on through the end of season We go 5-5 with 3 ugly wins against teams we should easily dominate Herman fired end of season Coaching search results in a lackluster hire that we try to get excited about Lackluster new coach hires his mediocre buddies to fill out the staff 2023 rinse and repeat The last 10 years have conditioned me to expect the worst, until the powers that be prove otherwise. I hope I’m one day wrong.

Tom Herman is a WAP

I’m a dude who loves the shit out of this university as well. I’m on video at the age of 2 doing Hook’em Horns, which is a couple years younger than Sam was. I want to win. None of that makes me or anyone else a good candidate for QB of the football team. When the best thing people say about Sam is that he loves this team, all that means is that he’s a great fan. His on field performance is underwhelming. His accuracy leaves a lot to be desired and he frequently throws into double coverage, which was fine when LJH was catching everything but not fine when our best receiver is Josh Moore. Sam only looks good at first glance because he’s better than Case McCoy and Jerrod Heard and because he’s started 4 years which allows him to develop cumulative stats.

Close call there in the 9th. Hopefully close it out tonight. I got tickets to NLCS game 1. This will be my first Dodgers postseason game since 2016 NLCS game 2 when the Dodgers beat the Cubs 1-0 at Wrigley. That was a tense game.

As I mentioned, that trip got canceled due to riots, curfews, etc. A couple of friends recently asked us to go to Napa but we pointed out that it's on fire, so we pitched Charleston instead and now it's booked for Nov 12-15. Pretty pumped and hoping the October 2020 Epic Disaster of the Month doesn't find a way to nix it again. Instead of a hotel, we booked a house this time. It's right off King St near the Marion Square, which looks like it will give easy access to a lot of places. Only dinner reservation so far is for Husk. Trying to figure out the others. Not sure if we need brunch reservations or not? We also booked a ghost tour pub crawl which sounds interesting.

Do you have to actively pick numbers each week or do your picks get automatically generated on your behalf? In other words, can you deposit $25k and let your 1,000 weekly picks continue on autopilot without actually doing anything?