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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals
« on: April 08, 2024, 10:56:54 AM »
Small sample size but it appears our starting pitching is actually good.

Yeah, hopefully they get the bullpen straightened out before these guys regress a bit. I'm a bit skeptical that this group outside of Ragans is going to lead the league in ERA and quality starts. Really good start to the season though.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Current trends 101--- Help me Understand.
« on: April 08, 2024, 10:41:46 AM »
I honestly feel bad for people that need/crave that kind of attention. I just can't imagine even thinking of doing something like that. Their lives have to be exhausting.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: chum1's dumb job stories
« on: April 08, 2024, 09:58:56 AM »
I had been trying to get a different job for a while and when it finally opened and I got an offer, I went in to my immediate boss to put in my 2 weeks. In that meeting he learned 2 things.

1)how little I was being paid and he was actually really cool to me and pissed about it and promised he would remedy the situation if I stayed.

2)how much I hated being there and hated what they wanted me to do. They wanted me in more of a sales role and I rough ridin' hated sales. I told them this over and over and they just ignored me. I finally told him that if I was in a meeting and landed the biggest account in the company's history, I would still be miserable during said meeting. He just looked at me and said, "I really appreciate you telling me this". Ha

This manager sounds like a liar and/or an idiot. Probably a little of both.

Managers, know if your people are unhappy and reward good people before they leave or threaten to leave.

Possibly. I had only recently moved to his office so there is a decent chance he didn't know what I was being paid. I don't think the sales part is that weird. Sales people are different human beings and lots of them think they can change your mind no matter the situation. That is literally what they do all day. He was also probably a dumbass too though.  :dunno:

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I have seen Drew on Reddit a bunch. Other than winning, Drew seems like the exact opposite of a Kentucky coach to me.

Lots of Evangelicals there. The question is: if Drew goes to UK, does Tang go to Baylor?

I would imagine the answer to that question is 100%, give or take 0%.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Official Stand-Up Comedy Thread
« on: April 08, 2024, 09:07:02 AM »
Curious to see how his style holds up. I tried to watch skanks for the memories not too long ago, and I will just say it's not for me

I totally get that. He is def an old school club standup guy, but I think he's pretty great. I've always loved him, but I can totally see why some don't like his style much.

Pretty sure its on Netflix Spracs.

It was ok. Def not his best.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: chum1's dumb job stories
« on: April 08, 2024, 08:21:25 AM »
I had been trying to get a different job for a while and when it finally opened and I got an offer, I went in to my immediate boss to put in my 2 weeks. In that meeting he learned 2 things.

1)how little I was being paid and he was actually really cool to me and pissed about it and promised he would remedy the situation if I stayed.

2)how much I hated being there and hated what they wanted me to do. They wanted me in more of a sales role and I rough ridin' hated sales. I told them this over and over and they just ignored me. I finally told him that if I was in a meeting and landed the biggest account in the company's history, I would still be miserable during said meeting. He just looked at me and said, "I really appreciate you telling me this". Ha

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves
« on: April 06, 2024, 06:25:43 PM »
People that go through grocery stores and/or costco backwards.

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It’s pretty wild how much of our society sits around planning for that stuff. I have an aunt and uncle who do. They have an entire basement filled with jarred preserved chickens and weird preserved food.


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If I was a prepper, my plan for the apocalypse would probably be coming up with the most peaceful way possible to die instead of trying to scrape through existing and being lucky not to starve to death assuming my gun toting neighbors didn’t shoot me first in order to get some potable water from my toilet to drink.

Same, I'd prob get a bunch of peanut butter or something to last the family for at least a little while to see how it shakes out, but if I got the sense that it was going to drag on and be like a complete restart, no way i'm dealing with the MAGA nuts. That would be like the only time I had any interest whatsoever in visiting the Grand Canyon.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: chum1's dumb job stories
« on: April 05, 2024, 02:53:21 PM »
I got laid off from my original job on Wednesday. (The place with D2.) I kinda saw it coming. They were a little too conspicuous about having me train a junior person on what I was doing. When they broke the news to me, I immediately thought of all of the things that the junior person wouldn't be able to do or even figure out how to do on his own and how much of a bind they would truly be in on certain things.

Today, TWO DAYS after my last day, I get a text from them asking me if I can call the junior person to tell him how to do something. ARE YOU rough ridin' KIDDING ME!?!? I knew I didn't want to help (and, really, it would have taken a lot more than a phone call). So, I signed and downloaded the severance agreement and then replied that if they decide they need help with the sorts of solutions that I'd been delivering, I might be open to working on a contract basis. Stay tuned for that, I guess.

Fortunately for me, I've been dual jobbing again for the past six months. Man, let me tell you something. The security of NGAF if you lose a job is like nothing else.
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Has to be a feeling like nothing else. Like, normally this would be soul crushing and you would be trying to figure out how to pay bills and feed the family, but Chum is like, thanks for the info, can we end this call early, I have like 3 more Zoom meetings today with people at my other jobs.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Official Stand-Up Comedy Thread
« on: April 05, 2024, 02:13:58 PM »
Curious to see how his style holds up. I tried to watch skanks for the memories not too long ago, and I will just say it's not for me

I totally get that. He is def an old school club standup guy, but I think he's pretty great. I've always loved him, but I can totally see why some don't like his style much.

Pretty sure its on Netflix Spracs.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Official Stand-Up Comedy Thread
« on: April 05, 2024, 02:05:34 PM »
Prob going to watch the new Dave Attell special tonight. He's probably one of the best stand up comics ever and I know most people probably haven't even heard of him. He's great.

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Like, I know why these guys go MAGA, but I always find it interesting when they dig in deeper when only like 38 people are listening to them. The whole point was to grift off of dummies, so why does he continue since it didn't catch on for him? People are just strange I guess.  :dunno:

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals
« on: April 05, 2024, 10:01:07 AM »
Lucas made a comment at some point recently about not wanting the East Village location because the Royals planned to build some kind of entertainment district adjacent to it. His point was that a new entertainment district would cannibalize some of the $$$ from Power and Light because they'd only be a few blocks away (separated by the interstate, but still not too far away). Given that Power and Light hasn't come close to revenue projections and the city has already spent $150+ million covering its debts, his point is understandable.

And, Sherman referencing the "creative" people at the city convincing them that the Crossroads was viable probably includes Lucas because the odds of this passing if Lucas wasn't in favor would have been even worse.

Regardless, there will probably need to be some major adjustments to the East Village plan for Lucas to get onboard.

either site doesn't need a ShiPaTown. They are both walkable to half empty P&L.

that's why I don't want it in Crossroads. It will end up just being a bunch of shitty chains that people only go to when games are on. Put it in the east and let Guy Fieri open up as many places as he wants around it.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports
« on: April 05, 2024, 09:49:02 AM »
Also he’s now admitted to Children’s with O2 levels of 88 and diminished lungs both sides. :-(


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Oh man, sorry SD.

Our best player will catch every once in a while. He is amazing wherever he plays which is mostly short, but I honestly think he is a better catcher even though he only does it once in a while. Our regular catcher is fine, but when the other kid is back there its a completely different story. Nothing gets by him and its just effortless. It makes little kid games so much better when the catcher is good. Pitching is obviously the most important, but even if he is throwing strikes, kids games completely suck ass when the catcher isn't great.

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Guys, I signed up for our work pickleball team, we had tryouts earlier before I was bedridden and, OMG.

OMG what? I dominate pickle ball and it's cousin, ping pong. The key is to put a little "English" on it, as they say (no racist).

that and hit it really hard right at peoples faces that get close to the net.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: 201* Concert Thread
« on: April 05, 2024, 09:41:20 AM »
Outlandia lineup is out




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Damn, good looking lineup.

Saturday looks fun. I've seen Revivalists and Head and Heard together twice and both are great. Would love to see Dino Jr.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves
« on: April 04, 2024, 03:46:38 PM »
"Tay Tay".

No idea why I hate it when people call her that so much. At the parade I saw an adult woman with a sign that said, "Tay Tay is my hero".

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Midwest Cheap
« on: April 04, 2024, 03:22:46 PM »
I still always get CCQ as an app and a side CCQ with my sammich at Rockabelly. Pretty sure they use cream of mushroom or something like that for theirs.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS
« on: April 04, 2024, 01:40:31 PM »
https://x.com/JoshChavis65/status/1775937189127352350?s=20

I mean, they aren't even pretending that they are only there because of Clark's dad and the fact that taxpayers give them a bunch of money to be there. Mark D flat out said a couple weeks ago that the area is trash and not worth putting any money into it.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals
« on: April 04, 2024, 01:38:06 PM »
this poll only had 233 votes from whatever twitter users happened to see it, but still. It's so dang obvious

https://twitter.com/_chandler_____/status/1775354143273562589?t=eI3vGNHVYt22Xt4AvmdMOw&s=19

I'm still opposed to giving a dickhead billionaire taxpayer money, but i've talked to multiple people and seen this same thing in many other places. This would have probably passed if they had just stuck with the east village and/or not changed it at the last minute. Seeing money flow to an area that is basically vacant is much more appealing than the Crossroads spot at least to me. Neither is economically advantageous to anyone but the owners, but at least a new area of the city would be built up a bit.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals
« on: April 04, 2024, 11:05:18 AM »
So is Smellinger gonna get canned for this? Seems like he did he job poorly.


As the royals' VP of communications, he absolutely should be. In his defense, the royals probably put him in a bad place by constantly changing plans. But the only thing I've seen from him on twitter was amplifying a bullshit story about voters being turned away from the polls for wearing chiefs/royals gear. Inexplicable.

Yeah, he was put in a shitty spot, but maybe he hired all the dumbasses that worked on this shitty campaign.  :dunno:

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT
« on: April 04, 2024, 11:01:24 AM »
The thing I like about this guy is he can actually get past a defender off the dribble

If he doesn't bring the ball up the court and dribble just past the 3 point line right into 3 defenders and then just give one of them the ball, its an improvement.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Signs of getting old
« on: April 04, 2024, 09:26:00 AM »
if you take inositol, l-theanine, and glycine you'll sleep a lot better. just a pro-tip from supplement dave sponsored by supplement world by supplement dave.

I haven't pooped since you recommended that magnesium supplement to me 2 months ago....

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Signs of getting old
« on: April 04, 2024, 09:14:36 AM »
Waking up at 4am to pee and then not being able to go back to sleep


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Oh man. This isn't a huge problem for me, but Mrs SF yells at me all the time. If you wake her up within like 3 hours of normal wakeup time, she is up. Sometimes I lay there having to pee really bad, but don't get up because I know i'll wake her. I'm a pretty good person when I think about it.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS
« on: April 03, 2024, 04:10:20 PM »
Ha, reports already coming out that KS has already been in contact with the Chiefs.

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