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In the day, family always finished our trips back from Houston at the Sambos on Anderson. How that place existed - I have no idea - but I loved the cartoonish/late night breakfast experience. That’s the one I worked at. And where I met all the Yellow Rose dancers working the night shift.

I think the biggest question with Michigan is the extent to which their rampant cheating gave them unfair advantages over other teams. They were obviously still very good, because they still won after the scandal was exposed. However the Netflix special on it supposedly shows cheating so sophisticated and broad that they were able to call the exact plays of opponents before every snap. Without those cheating mf’rs having that to fall back on, maybe they lose quite a bit this year, including this week. Eff the cheaters.

Same, except Uverse. Can’t go back once you leave because the service is in the process of shutting down over the next few years.

Back in the day I was a waiter at Sambos in Austin, which changed its name to Seasons in order to be, you know, way less racist. We scoffed at Waffle House, in terms of being wheels off. Sambos was a spectacular train wreck in a class of its own.

Live sports is the key. Astros, Rangers, NBA teams, etc. it depends on where you live, which teams and sports you need. This thread covers some of the trade offs. Fubo could be an excellent choice if live sports is key.

Christ don’t make it paid. Immamac will hire hit men to knock everybody off.

Depends on what you watch, but in general you can save some money going to YTTV. You just will likely give up a few things that might or might not be important to you. Write down what you watch, what you could give up, and see if YTTV has it. Fill in with Max at $15, and/ or Ballys at $20.

Other posters offered helpful thoughts about how to save money. You went red zone and started calling people stupid, when they’ve explained to you multiple times that the services you describe aren’t the same as what they get today and want. Those features or services may not be important to you, but they are to other people. For some people $20, $50, $100 a month is a decimal point. Just because that amount of money is important enough to you to give up services, it may not be to someone else and doesn’t justify you calling people stupid. Fuck off

Let’s review. You started all this by calling everyone an idiot for not doing what you did. Then when I showed you in multiple posts that not everyone saves much money, you switched from calling everyone an idiot to saying you were saving money, and insulted me. Everyone wouldn’t know how poor you are right now if you’d just been a little nicer to everyone in this thread. So sad. It’s a lesson I’m sure you’ll take with you.

Still poor. So sad.

Sorry you are poor and $40 per month is the difference between you eating or not.

This is nonsense. Not worth trying to help you understand.

Spending $340/month does seem crazy to me. That I can’t justify in my mind. I can’t speak to that. But as I pointed out earlier, in most cases the financial difference between cable and streaming isn’t really as big as you guys are trying to make it sound like, especially when you compare functionality apples to apples. For example, Fubo and Max doesn’t include internet. Where I live, there’s one provider and it’s $90 per month if not bundled with cable. So that $90-$100 is now $190. I pay $240, have a bunch of movie channels, have the Astros, Rangers, Spurs, Mavs, Stars all under one remote/channel lineup. There are other advantages as well to Uverse. Adding Ballys still wouldn’t get everything and that’s another $20. Now we are up to $210-220. So you are making it sound like streaming is hundreds of dollars of difference vs cable but it’s really not. And it still is missing significant functionality vs cable. Streaming is cheaper because it’s got less functionality and/or content and/or ease of use. Now I’m switching to streaming in a few months after the baseball season, but the savings aren’t going to be massive. Stop making it sound like it’s utopia. It ain’t.

Public service announcement for any guy nearing ~55 or older. Roughly half of men get enlarged prostates. For a significant portion of those, it can interfere with your urinary flow. Pay attention to that. If it seems like you aren’t peeing right go see a urologist. Do not wait. If you treat early it’s not that difficult. If you wait, you could wake up one night and find yourself in the emergency room and months of hell. I got treated early and fast, but have seen scores of stories of dudes with a miserable several months trying to address the issue, with some bigger damage. Not something to eff around with. Seriously.

The line movement in this game has also been interesting. Started at 3.5 and shot up immediately to 7.5. That much movement so fast doesn’t happen a lot. On one hand that implies the smart money believes Texas wins, and potentially wins big. But there’s also the counter argument that dumb money got too enamored with week 1 results.

It’s always difficult projecting the performance of a power running offense like Michigan’s. Do they look pedestrian against lesser opponents because they aren’t as good, or is that just what comes with an offense that isn’t as dynamic as a school like Texas. For as long as I can remember in college football, even last year, it’s been impossible to assume that the team with the more pedestrian looking offense will lose to the high flying one. The more dynamic offense can break down more easily because of its complexity. It’s also more dependent on key players. The pedestrian offense just lines up and beats the other guys play after play like a bully.

For social security, I subtract it from my annual spending requirement, and the leftover amount is what has to be produced from investment funds. That is a better way to think about the impact of social security. And when you look at what percent of spending is covered by SS, if it’s a high percentage, it allows you to be more aggressive in allocation between stocks and bonds, with less downside risk of not being able to meet spending requirements.

@Gil Bang is the market in Soruhwrn California slowing? I saw a video saying it has finally. That is what I’ve been waiting to hear. If so, buckle up on stock holdings.

Like clockwork.

To be more accurate in my comment, when I say losing money I mean making less money on higher revenue. Espn revenues are up 3% in the quarter year over year, but operating income has dropped 9% YOY. That has nothing to do with the dispute. They are losing cable subs in general. It’s a long term trend that will continue until they find the right flip point to exit the linear tv market and go completely direct with streaming. To minimize the pain of that decline, they have to raise rates as much as they can to offset subscriber loss. That’s what is exacerbating the dispute. May get solved quickly, or it may not. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/07/disney-dis-earnings-q2-2024.html

Maybe. NBC was off AT&T for several months, and while espn is definitely way more important to AT&T/direct Tv, they have stated their business model now requires them to push back harder on content providers. And at the same time espn is losing money. So put those two together and it could end up being a protracted fight. Or not.

McConaughey is great and all, but we need some more celebrity blood around. I also realized after the press conference that I’m underestimating Michigan. Because they lost so much talent and their coach, I thought they would struggle. But 40-3 and a reminder that Larry Coker and Barry Switzer won a title with Jimmie’s players has me realizing Michigan is gong to be ready. Good news is that it’s clear Sark understands that.

Why am I able to watch this??

Westlake wonks were stunned at the recruiting ranking of Shanahan coming out of high school. Not only is the talent questionable, there is nothing between the ears, apparently. Should fit right in.

This was really interesting. Thanks for posting this. It also tells me I need to look for a different brand for me. I never pulled the trigger on their cherry alligator back when it was affordable. Now I’m trying to decide between western diamondback and alligator/crocs and the brand.