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  1. I feel that baseball is a bit more fun, even though I grew up focusing on Basketball and Football. These days the market for baseball is still buzzing, and people are still collecting prospects years out from maturing. I bought some 2022 boxes and had a great time chasing guys like Bobby Witt, Jeremy Pena, Julio Rodriguez, and even Wander Franco (RIP) and Spencer Torkelson. Not all the guys pan out, but if you hit a big card it's rather easy to sell it for a year before the guy's market falls. Because basketball has smaller teams and less prospects, you're really only collecting a few rookies each year, and hoping to hit a superstar card otherwise. I bought a bit of basketball last year because Wemby. I haven't bought football in years. I don't think it's worth buying boxes when the only guys that keep their value are QBs and maybe WRs. Too hard to pull a valuable player. IMO. Oh, and it feels much more expensive these days. Most retail stores like Target do not seem to have very many "packs" these days, mostly boxes which will run you $30-40 for blaster boxes(4-6 packs) or $50-60 for Mega boxes. Targets in Austin seem to rarely have decent products. Apparently Barnes & Noble keep a decently stocked section.
  2. I saw some videos of that yesterday and I was very surprised they just put them on the patio and pointed the speakers outwards. Never seen that before. Glad I got to see them at Mohawk instead, that sidewalk didn't look like the best place to watch a set. I tried to see La Securite at Valhalla yesterday and didn't realize that stage/room was so small, it was backed up to the main door and people were just hanging out in the hallway. Couldn't get a good spot to listen but they seemed like they'd be worth a real shot tomorrow. Hopefully not all their shows are packed because they play 13th Floor tomorrow I believe. Saw Los Juanos out of San Antonio later on at night and the blew me away. I've been hooked on SXSW music for about a decade now and don't think I've ever heard Tejano being played. Can't remember the last time I saw a band with members under 50 playing Tejano either, but they were fun, and had a good crowd response over at Lambert's. A little energy does the genre well, kinda sounded punk how loud/fast they played it. For the first time in my life I heard them describe an attempt at a "Cumbia Rock Opera" and I was in. Only two bands left on my list for this weekend are "Ali" and "The Thing". Don't know if I can make a 1 am showcase these days though, my back and feet got a good 3 hours in them before I just want to go home.
  3. I don't know much about Langford other than he's the hottest Ranger in the hobby right now, but 2 low-run auto RCs, both chrome, of two budding stars, an a MM auto baseball? That seems like a great haul for a non-RC Witt. Oh and I love Stadium Club Chrome. Easily my favorite product of the post-covid resurgence, and I hate that they nixed it.
  4. I thought it was a short detour, but still keeps the rest of the story intact? Funny that others brought up Lindelof, because this episode immediately reminded me of The Leftovers. A character-focused episode that detours off the overall story line but weaves its way back into it by the end is exactly how Season 2 and 3 were functioning. And The Leftovers is one of my favorite all-timers, so this episode was completely fine to me. We learned more about her, more about Lumon and their roots and previous actions, some crumbs were left for the possibility of more story/arc-building, but ultimately it sets up Cobel to bring some heat to the corporation and possibly help Mark with pushing his story line forward.
  5. Excited to start music tomorrow. Got a handful of bands to check out so far, but Thursday is still under construction. Tomorrow will be cumbia at the Rivian day stage, attempt to get into Mohawk for a couple heavier bands (the important ones), then over the the Vegas patio for more cumbia. These hips don't lie. And I love that Hotel Vegas is the #1 proponent for cumbia in the city. Friday I gave in and bought Grupo Frontera tickets for the Moody Amphiteater. Never seen them live so I'll check that out.
  6. The most distracting big-screen experience I remember is seeing an early 2000s Halloween movie on a Friday night (so filled with teens) with my dad in Houston. There was a lot of hootin' & hollerin', a lot of screaming at the screen, but my 73-year old dad still brings it up yearly as the most fun he's ever had at a movie. I imagine I've had maybe 3 or 4 negative experiences (although I can't specifically remember a single one), out of the hundreds of movies I've seen between the AMC in Southeast Houston or the Cinemark in Harlingen. Either your neighborhoods suck or y'all or just some ornery fucks. I'm sure there's some nostalgia at play, but I still love the big-screen, dark theater experience.
  7. As an (at least) 4th generation (proud?) Tejano/Texan, this sums up my lukewarm acceptance of the Independence day. It's so wrapped up in the same mythology that the rest of Texas history has been served in since 7th grade Texas history class, that it doesn't do much but garner an eye-roll from me. Everyone was a hero, all their causes noble, the founding history was exemplary, and justice and freedom for all at the end of the day.......... If you say so. (And that goes for the Texas Rangers lore too). I've read the 7th grade and High School curriculum passed by TEA to ensure patriotic, state-loving, red-blooded Texans. I've taken the courses from UT's History department. I've read the "alternative" books on the state's founding and Alamo's history from various scholars (surprisingly some of them aggy). The history is a lot less glamorous and heroic, but yet somehow that state pride still grips me. This is still the land my abuelos and abuelas were born in, and their parents as well, from Shiner, to Kingsville to the RGV. I'm more of a Texan than a lot of its leaders I despise, and I'll never let them make me hate it.
  8. You're describing my brother. 2 tours in Iraq, now 100% disabled (PTSD) but able to work when he wants. He's a middle school coach when he wants to be, but frequently takes a year or two off and just hops to another school when he's tired of being an at-home dad. The checks keep clearing....
  9. My older sister left her RN hospital job after 25 years and now works for a VA program to help pregnant veterans get support and resources they may need entering motherhood. I don't know if her job will be safe, I haven't talked to her about her thoughts, but I can't imagine it's the safest. She also voted for Trump because her and her husband (USPS worker) swore their retirement accounts only lose money under blue presidents and print money under red ....... so..... whatever. I have a suspicion they did fine the last 4 years and only talk about the wins when it suits their vote. Definitely not because her husband is a raging bigot and would have never voted for a black person, they swear it's only because of the retirement money. Not the "The Cowboys will never win a super bowl with a (hard R) at quarterback" at Thanksgiving style bigotry. If Kamala had a plan to personally make them wealthy in retirement they would have voted for her I'm sure. /s ....I love my sister, and realize there's a growing chance they have fucked around plenty and are entering the next phase, but at least I know she will be fine because she can always go back to delivering babies, even if she was done with it after a couple decades.
  10. Smart? They are in survival mode now and are continuing to fall in line after years of threats from the authoritarian. What media outlets exactly do you think are big enough, and willing, to reach Trump's eyeballs and affect him? Twitter blew up so elmo bought it. The same mega corporations own all the TV outlets. The media will not be our savior.
  11. I'll be there tomorrow, looking forward to a win, but also seeing KD's homecoming should be fun. I made the first 2 years in Austin with some family, so we're trying to make it a little tradition, should they keep visiting the city. Hoping somebody offloads some cheap tickets before Friday's game so maybe I can sneak that one in too. GSG.
  12. I agree Tim Robinson has a punchable face, and because of that I didn't want to give in. But I sat through ITYSL and it got me. Obviously not every sketch, but it's worth watching every episode. Also, Detroiters is more sane and maybe even more enjoyable to me. He's hilarious, teaming up with Paul Rudd seems like a no-brainer, and I will watch this movie.
  13. Zach Collins really fucked us. He looked like he was maybe salvaging his career for a minute there, but completely disappeared this year and now we're left with Charles Bassey. Hopefully by next year we're done cleaning up the shit mess we made from extending Collins last year. Oh, and Vassell.......... the clock is ticking. It's the all-star break and people are still making excuses that you were injured to start the year. That you haven't found your rhythm yet. 3 months is not "rhythm" territory.
  14. A March on Washington will end in a LOT of bloodshed. It will be the war Trump has been readying his uneducated stooges for for years now. They already fought their supposed "good guys" in Blue at the Capitol. Imagine the restraint they'll show against the evil leftists they've been seething over for a decade. That's why he's releasing them all. He may just need them again. Have fun with all that. I'll think of another way to survive this. This country has exploited mine and others for long enough. My tíos and pops fed into all that model minority bullshit serving the country to prove their patriotism. Look where they got us. Right back around to Project 2025, 50 years later.
  15. This is framed as a passive action being taken by many, when it is very much an active push out since he bought it. Flooded with bots, flooded with right-wing shit sniffers, the ads and algorithms are flooded with shit. He took the shit hose and started spraying shit all over the walls, and changed the algorithms so that new, fresh shit gets pumped in every week. I don't blame people for leaving the house.
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