Saint Tacky

My son started selling bags of mulch and compost on Nextdoor as part of his Boy Scout Troop's effort to help Scout's raise money for themselves to pay for Philmont, etc. His first year he sold 800+ bags and this year he sold over 2,000. Took us an entire weekend to deliver it all and he'll keep about $1.50 a bag. It is the only thing I have found Nextdoor to be useful for.

I wouldn't go so far as to call him "delusional." Overconfident for certain. I do find it amusing that ten-months after the fact and he still can't put together a coherent or believable CYA

Going to miss Libby. She was very easy on the eyes. She should have worked harder to save herself instead of whining about getting votes at prior tribal councils. Back to Chris Noble, here is his answer from his exit interview on RHAP about not playing his idol; "I don't play that idol because for me to win the game I needed to get more out of it than just that tribal. And, I have to have faith in all the work I put in for 22-days creating bonds and relationships to protect me from a possible blindside. Unfortunately, that was not the case and I got blindsided. I knew Dom was going to vote for me, so... and Wendell, so that was not a surprise. I went in thinking that if Dom and Wendell- especially if he had an idol- if they both had idols, I was playing mine. If neither of them played anything I was playing my idol and it was really just a tossup whether I was going to play it if Dom played, you know an advantage or an idol. So, I took the risk because if I take that risk and I don't get voted out, I have that idol with the power of [?] finally, next time around, and who knows what happens there." I get the first part about building relationships and relying on them, but he loses me quickly thereafter. My interpretation of his thought process is that if either Dom or Wendell, or both, played an idol or advantage Chris would play his. If neither played an idol or advantage, Chris would play his- but it was a tossup if Dom played his. I can only surmise that it boiled down to Wendell and whether Wendell played his idol (if he had one, which he did). For whatever reason, had Wendell played his idol that would have have been the trigger for Chris to play his. Based upon his statement regarding relationships, he must have thought that he could out-muscle Wendell in a head-to-head vote among the tribe. Oh, and production took his idol from him. Snatched it up right away. He didn't get to keep it.

Let them fill up on bread or something like that. f'em

Dave Smith

I threw up on Pete Rose once. If that's my "15-minutes," I can live with it.

Yep. An entire half inning. Watching games from behind the last row until the third out. The first time I can recall seeing it was in the lower boxes at Camden Yards when it first opened.

This drives me nuts too. I don't recall if they do it now, but Minute Maid should have the attendants hold people returning to seats at the top of the stairs until the teams are switching sides. I've seen it done at Pac Bell, Comerica, and CitiField. It cuts down on foot traffic during an inning, both up and down

My kids LOVE it. They are all into Splatoon 2 and counting the days until Smash Bros. Personally, I can't stand the small Joy-cons cuz I struggle with them and they level the playing field

Named my first son after this character. Wife dug her heels in on "Edwards" as his middle name. Wanted to name the next one "Aaron" but thought it might be bad luck.

Hang Dai!

You mean where the NL had more teams than the AL? That "proper." Just move the Astros back to the NL. Done. Now go get your shine box.

Negged for not rubbing both of your brain cells together and coming up with the notion of realigning the leagues to their numbers before interleague play began, genius.

Again

He gone already. Schwarber didn't do him any favors, but I believe you may be right

Get rid of interleague play. Most of the games are meaningless. For every interleauge game against the Cubs, Dodgers, Yankees and Red Sox, there' are twice as many yawners. Those are games that should be played against teams in their respective leagues. I miss the days when the American and National Leagues were distinct rivals and not this homogeneous collection of teams.

Stay healthy and what round he went in will be irrelevant to Poona Ford in three or four years. He'll rake in $$$ on his second contract.

80 at TPC Craig Ranch. It was my first round coming off of shoulder surgery and I stayed in my shoes and swung so deliberately that I kept everything long, straight, and out of the deep stuff.

Signed up yesterday for our Philmont Trek this summer. The new format made it much easier and we were able to nail down our first choice. For grins here is the link to the 2018 Philmont Trek Book

Is this the new Backpacking Thread?