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Snake Diggity

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  1. Whose projections are those? I would expect Whitley to be in the opening day bullpen over Sousa or Blanco, although that’s not certain. I would like to see a move that improves the pitching staff but overall I’m cool with running out that opening day roster. There’s as much upside as downside, with potential level-ups from Meyers, Pena, and Diaz countering age/injury risk from Abreu, Altuve, and Yordan. Theres more upside than downside in the bullpen given the depth of guys with elite stuff who just haven’t harnessed it consistently. Theres significant risk in the rotation but again the downside of injury/age with Framber/JV is countered by potential break outs from Javier and Brown.
  2. Cracked pipe 6 months ago, $5k to repair. Now the pool is leaking again. It’s leaking so fast that I can’t keep enough water in it to keep the pumps running during the freeze. The leak seems to be underground because no water comes out where anything is exposed and the ground is wet where the pipe runs. I’ve known this was coming because my pool is easily over 30 years old, but right now is the first time that I have ever been like “fuck having a pool”.
  3. If we’re gonna bitch about bad contracts, the Astros are gonna spend $51M on 4 pitchers, NONE of whom will be in the opening day starting rotation. I have been pretty surprised that Houston has not been able to find a single great homegrown late inning RP except Abreu in the last half decade.
  4. If you think spending less than 1.5% of one season’s payroll on a utility player is in any way going to “kill a dynasty”, lmfao at you.
  5. Dubon would be the best SS on the roster for 9-10 teams and the starting 2B for another 3-4 teams. Pena is barely better. It’s not ideal if Dubon is your everyday CF, which is how he was used a lot last season. But he’s a good player.
  6. I recently watched Coco with my sweet, sensitive 5 year old daughter. This part came on and I look over at her and she had tears streaming down her face. Now I cry every time I hear it. I don’t think I’ve ever cried just from a song before.
  7. My wife’s need/desire to nag the fuck out of me is so strong, she came into the bathroom just now while I was having loud putrid diarrhea and stood there for a solid 5 minutes bitching about how the fucking robot vacuum couldn’t finish its job because I left my jeans on the bedroom floor. Fml.
  8. Do not at all understand any Dubon hate. A guy they acquired in exchange for…checks notes…Mike Papierski, plays 7 positions well, almost never strikes out, and ran into double digit homers last season. He also seems like a genuinely good kid who is well liked by his veteran/star teammates. How the hell you think that’s not worth a measly $3M is beyond me, especially considering how old and/or injury prone the Astros will be at 2B, 1B, 3B, and CF.
  9. Winning Iowa doesnt correlate well with winning the nomination, but I wouldn’t say it’s “irrelevant”. Trump’s 2nd place finish in Iowa in 2016 was shocking and the first sign that he was a legitimate threat. The winner may not mean all that much, but there’s certainly something to be gleaned from the overall results.
  10. There’s just way too much unknown to predict anything other than a Trump nomination, but if Haley and DeSantis combine for over 40% of the Iowa vote, that will be pretty big sign to me that Trump is losing his grip.
  11. He looks like Maggie from Northern Exposure.
  12. Yep. Hell, she probably could’ve negotiated a plea from outside the country that just pays back some of the money and been able to keep millions and live phat as hell in Bali or wherever the fuck for the rest of her days. She had to at least have some snap to be able to pull of the scam in the first place, sad to be so stupid in the end.
  13. Brooks, Mukuba, Barron, Holmes, Muhammad, Williams, Filsaime, and Black is 8 dudes I feel like will be able to play at a very high level next season. And that doesn’t include Taaffe, McDonald, Guilbeau, and Jordan, all of whom played in almost every game this year. 2024 Secondary should be significantly improved over 2023.
  14. I predict turnout will be lower on both sides. Trump will receive less than 72M votes this November. Biden will receive less than 80M.
  15. I’ve seen rumors of losing addl guys at OL, DL, and LB. And there are rumors that Mitchell and Barron could return.
  16. Current expected 2024 vs 2023 Out/In Tally: QB (-1): Out: Murphy, Wright; In: Owens RB (0): Out: Robinson, Brooks; In: Gibson, Clark WR (0): Out: Worthy, Mitchell*, Whittington, Cain, Neyor; In: Golden, Wingo, Butler, Livingstone, Dubose TE (0): Out: Sanders; In: Washington OL (+1): Out: Jones, Gorman-Welch; In: Cruz, Kibble, Baker DL (+1): Out: Sweat, Murphy, Carter, Ross; In: Moore, Umeozulu, January, Hills, Robinson LB (0): Out: Ford, Bush; In: Simmons, Smith DB (-3): Out: catalon, Watts, Thompson, Allen, Crawford, Brice, Turner-Gooden, Barron*; In: Mukuba, Filsaime, Black, JJR, Mack, Wilson ST (0): Out: Sanborn; In: Kern
  17. Kiyosaki seems like a piece of shit, but I still think Rich Dad Poor Dad is good reading for young people who don’t understand wealth building. It certainly changed the way I thought about money when I read it in when I was 20. Ramsey is also very flawed, but again I think what he says is good for poor or lower middle class people struggling with debt. I stopped reading him awhile back when I got off twitter, but Morgan Housel had some good insights and posted interesting reads about finance/money. His book “The Psychology of Money” is pretty good. I wouldn’t necessarily call him a “financial guru”.
  18. I have failed to mention the primary reason I use a management company: I simply do not have the heart to directly throw somebody out in the street. A few times over the years I have asked my property managers to cut a tenant a break after learning of hard times and it has blown up in my face every single time. One tenant had paid on time for years and had actually never missed rent ever, but I found out she’d run into some hardship, so I proactively gave her a month’s free rent as an act of kindness. She never paid me another dime from that moment on, and I had plenty of proof that she had the money. It was heartbreaking. Using property managers removes me from those situations and keeps me ignorant of any suffering my investment might be causing. Similar to how I can own Lockheed Martin stock and not really feel a huge amount of guilt about innocent children getting bombed around the world vs how I’d feel if I worked actually assembling the bombs.
  19. I’ve had way more good tenants than bad. Several stayed for multiple years, always paid on time, and didn’t destroy my house. I’ve only had 2 really bad ones. The first was just a guy who didn’t pay and wouldn’t leave; he eventually left before LEO got involved and by that point I was happy to write off the thousands of dollars in back rent. I was just glad he didn’t destroy the place on his way out. The 2nd bad renter was a lady who signed all the papers then let some bums (I think they were like her nephews or family friends or some shit) move in. They had cats without litter boxes and had a fridge full of food that they didn’t empty when their power got shut off. Pretty sure drugs were involved. For some reason they ripped all the cabinets off the walls in the kitchen before the finally left. So thousands in back rent gone, thousands more in repairs. Cool. Tiers of renters: Great: pays in advance, stays for years, is proactive about reporting maintenance issues, but doesn’t demand anything and is super patient with contractors/management. Good: pays on time, stays thru their lease, does not ignore maintenance issues, does not pester landlord/management with complaints. Average: mostly pays on time, usually stays thru their lease, ignores some maintenance issues, kind of bitch about complaining. Bad: usually pays late, probably ends up breaking their lease, ignores maintenance issues, always complaining Horrible: doesn’t pay, breaks their lease, actively destroys your shit. My rentals in my “good” locations (North and South Austin) get almost entirely good renters with an occasional great or average. A property I had in a bad part of a smaller town got almost entirely bad or horrible renters.
  20. I think the Chinese, Turks, and Indians would determine how long any worldwide war would last if this conflict spreads. All 3 have no love for Russia/Iran, but they would all be tempted to foster/extend any conflict to further their own agendas. But I really don’t think any of them are stupid enough to take it far enough to ever have their militaries directly engaged against the West. It sure feels like there’s no way out for Putin/Russia. Thats the scary part. The ultimate outcome of this doesn’t really seem in question to me, but how long it takes to get there and how much damage is done along the way is what remains to be seen.
  21. The Rays adding Caballero from Seattle probably takes away the possibility of the Pena-for-Arozarena rumor that was posted here a few weeks ago.
  22. It kind of sounds like he did listen to y’all.
  23. I can promise you my wife will never make the “mistake” of accidentally saving $35,000. Yep, rage. Wife wants to be the boss but not pay any of the cost.
  24. It will be, at best, far less popular than it is now. At worst, it won’t exist. Theres a lot of unsustainable trends: NIL costs skyrocketing Injury fears skyrocketing Aging fanbase Transfer portal mercenaries Attendance costs skyrocketing (stadium construction/maintenance, concession staffing, etc. all passed on to fans) TV revenue declining If it does survive, there will only be between 20 and 65 teams actually competing, likely all in the SEC and B1G. Young people do not give a fuck about sports the way previous generations have.
  25. I talk to my boss once a week for about 20 minutes. It’s perfect.
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