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There’s lots of money out there. Some teams have clarity on the tv money now, some teams have new ownership who don’t care about turning profit. The FA market is very thin for position players and they’re all represented by the same guy. It wouldn’t shock me if Bregman ended up with $230M now. Astros need to stay away unless Crane is going to be willing to consistently field $275M+ payrolls until Altuve retires. The Astros will be good without Bregman and could even be great if they pivot to the right guys. There may not be “bargains” anymore but there are guys who will produce nearly what Bregman does over the next 2-3 seasons who will be a fraction of the cost.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Snake Diggity replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Trump’s America is going to be chaotic. That’s why he was elected. People didn’t want progress. They want entertaining chaos. Trump is Mojo from the X-Men comics. The unemployment rate, GDP growth, and the stock market should have meant Biden/Harris cruised to election. If anything policy-related led to Trump’s election, it was prices (not inflation) and border security. It’ll be interesting to see how those 2 things change over the next 4 years, while also keeping track of the unemployment rate and GDP growth. I would wager extremely heavily that over the course of the next 4 years, prices will not generally go down and unemployment will go up. I do think it’s possible the amount of drugs and illegal immigrants coming over the southern border will go down, but not dramatically. One irony is that the BBB and CHIPS funding Biden passed will continue to stimulate the economy and improve our infrastructure and security over the next 4 years, preventing things from being as bad as Trump would otherwise make them. Meanwhile, a whole bunch of shit people weren’t really voting for is going to go down. Cuts to Medicare and SSI, cuts to public education, restrictions on women’s healthcare, increased deficits, and alienation of our allies. -
I think the 2 worst deals (Montero and Abreu) were the result of Crane thinking he could execute an offseason plan that had already been put together by the outgoing GM. I think Click would have targeted Abreu and Montero, but not for the deals Crane ended up giving them (Click likely would have held at 2 guaranteed years for both guys). The McCullers and Javier deals were fair extensions at the time and both could still end up not being terrible (although McCullers is looking unlikely).
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$60M in dead money and they are still projected as the 4th best team in the league. Imagine how badass they would be if they had that money to spend this offseason (or just if Abreu, McCullers, Montero, and Javier were healthy and productive to their career averages).
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Get an invitation to a birthday party for one of my kid’s classmates named Townes. Wife: “What a stupid name.” Me: “Why, because he was a druggie?” Wife: “What the fuck are you talking about?” Me: “Where do you think they got that name?” Wife: “They clearly wanted to name the kid ‘Towns’ after like a place to live, but wanted to get fancy with the spelling.” My wife didn’t know who Townes Van Zandt was.
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Not really about schools, although I am relatively happy with the AISD school my kids are in. More about giving the kids stability to develop deep relationships with neighbors and classmates but mainly staying close enough to family to have support when needed and let my kids get to know their grandparents and other extended family.
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I’m a puss but Boise average high in Dec/Jan (38) is over 20 degrees colder than Dec/Jan in Austin (62). That’s pretty damn cold. But tolerable, especially if I was able to get out of it for 2-3 weeks around the holidays. And you’re right, only ~6 days of snowfall each month is no big deal.
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I’ve always assumed Boise was cold af. I actually edited my comment to change it to Billings. But would visit both before deciding.
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I think it heavily depends on your personality (and of course, the therapist). I’ve had both and had better luck with women (no pics). I tend to be more defensive and guarded with men because I want to be “right” whereas with women I tend to want to try to please them more (by talking more openly and being more engaged). But I think the therapist’s intellect, style, background, annd personality are more important than their gender.
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Youngest kid graduates in 11 years. Only potential complication is if my parents are still around and need me to care for them. Short list: Charlotte San Diego Denver Billings (would keep a place in TX to live Dec-Feb) Seattle
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
Snake Diggity replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
It’s embarrassing to say but DeSantis is more qualified than Hegseth by leaps and bounds. -
I have resolved to spend 2025 embracing the ignorance and distraction so pervasive among everybody else in society. Being informed and engaged has only made me angry and sad. I intend to eliminate my time spent on social media (including this site) and dramatically reduce my time online. I will watch sports and movies on tv, and spend more time outside and offline. The weapons the bad guys have at their disposal are too powerful. It’s hopeless.
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Official Bitch about your Family Thread 2024: Holiday Edition
Snake Diggity replied to usmc0331horn's topic in Lulz
Spent Thanksgiving with my mom’s side of the family. She has an absurd number of siblings and they all live near each other in a shithole on the coast. Ultra-conservative, ultra-ultra catholic. All my like-minded people who are anti-Trump and/or agnostic were either at their other family’s or just bailed altogether. So I spent the weekend feeling very lonely. These people make the characters from Hillbilly Elegy look guilded. They all make such poor life decisions that are very difficult to look past. The main house has 2 slushy machines and 3 ice cream dispensers that are always running. My kids had more sugar Th-Sat than they had in the previous month combined. All the kids except mine are walking around like zombies streaming YouTube or video games on their iPhones. There were 3 cups with bleeding-ear Trump pictures (“Fight! Fight! Fight!”) on them at the table where I ate my Thanksgiving dinner. Had to listen to my cousin’s wife yap about how great RFK Jr was gonna be and how dangerous vaccines are while everybody else yepped along like fucking Boomhauer from King of the Hill. There really wasn’t much drama. And I had a good time watching us beat the Aggies with my dad. But all in all I’d be just fine never celebrating Thanksgiving there again. -
We stop at the one in Lockhart often and it’s solid. We have eaten at the one on the highway in/near Austwell-Tivoli and it was also solid. The one in dripping springs was a total shitshow before it closed.
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Not that anybody should be counting on it, but a Charlie Morton-esque late career stint of health and performance is not outside the realm of possibility for McCullers. He’s only 31.
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Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Snake Diggity replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
One of my favorite scenes in The Big Short is where the guy realizes there’s a mortgage bubble when the strippers are talking about how they’re invested in real estate. Saturday before the game we were eating at El Chile and my cousin mentioned bitcoin (as part of a larger conversation not really about crypto). Our waiter, a 20 year old pothead type, comes running over and is like “you guys into bitcoin? Great investment, I’m all in.” Dude was frothing at the mouth to talk about this thing he was invested in that he had no fucking clue about how it actually works. Bubble. Who knows how long it will take to burst. But it’s a bubble. -
Dems need a young male version of Ann Richards. Maybe Chris “The Rock” Johnson? Sadly, I’m fucking serious. Although he probably wouldn’t win because he’s not white. Find a young white dude who talks like Ann Richards did. Eliminate all talk about gender. If it comes up, immediately respond with an angry, expletive-laced tirade about rich Republicans fucking over working class people. Turn every discussion about race into a discussion about income/wealth inequality across all races. Promise immediate cash payments to everyone with a job, paid for by an increase in taxes on the 1%. Talk about it in simple terms: if you elect me, I will send you money as long as you are working. PAWs: Payments for American Workers. Promise a balanced budget amendment. Adopt James Talarico’s message about Christianity and how the GOP are anti-Christian. Promise free universal healthcare, paid for by tough negotiations with healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies that will result in everyone paying less than they were thru private insurers. Bumper stickers that say “Candidate Name 2028: FUCK INSURANCE COMPANIES” would be effective. Outflank the GOP on border security: promise that you will roll out a program to legalize all immigrants who have full time work lined up, and that minors who have been here for 10+ years can get citizenship, but that outside of that you will be cruel to illegals (building a wall, patrolling the border, shooting people who refuse to go thru official checkpoints, sanctioning countries who allow migrants to pass thru to get here).
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The non-tenders of Romano and Finnegan don’t bode well for Houston being able to dump all of Pressly’s contract. Doesn’t really make sense for Houston to trade him if they have to eat money, since the point of trading him is to clear payroll.
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I am admittedly a helicopter parent. Part of that is just my personality, but I was definitely affected by an experience I had early in my parenthood. When my first kid was 3 months old, she got rsv and was really sick, so we took her to Dell Children’s. While in the ER exam room waiting to see the dr, there was some scuttlebutt out in the hall. Directly across from our exam room was another room, where I watched thru the window as a doctor and social worker pulled a young woman in to tell her that her child was dead. The scream she let loose is something I will never ever forget, and I will also never forget seeing the woman sitting on a bench outside the hospital sobbing when we left, with an empty stroller next to her. I found out she was coming out of a Home Depot in south Austin and the child walked out into the parking lot and was run over by a truck. The driver had to be chased down because he didn’t even know he’d hit anything. Anyway, ever since that experience I’m a total fucking freak when it comes to my kids walking by themselves, especially in busy areas. My 9 year old has always been super responsible and I’ve trusted her since she was 5, although I have never left her alone, mostly because of her younger sister. My 6 year old has the personality of a butterfly and still does not ever look before walking somewhere; I doubt she will be allowed to go anywhere alone until she’s a teenager. I think it’s ridiculous to arrest a mother for leaving a 10 year old unattended for a short time. A poster above nailed it: 5-12 is when it’s acceptable to start leaving a kid unattended or “free range”, but context should always be considered.
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That med took a long time to get approved due to having difficulty showing effectiveness in trials (13 trials showed it was not effective before it got the 2 positive trials required for approval). That’s not to say it’s not worth trying if other things aren’t working, but I wouldn’t hold out much hope that it will be the answer. I 2nd Troph’s recommendation for ketamine for treatment resistant depression, especially if there’s suicidal ideation involved; the feedback on that has been very encouraging, and if my depression/suicidal ideation flares up again, that is what I will try. (I am not a doctor and everyone should consult their doctor instead of getting medical advice from the internet.)
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