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Prices reflect what people are willing to pay. Baseball is still a cheap option, especially relative to the other 3 pro sports.

SpaceX is tasked with the lander for Artemis III but NASA recently opened up the option for someone else to do it. Artemis II, which will go around the moon in a free return trajectory rather than Lunar Orbit, doesn't involve SpaceX. I would not bet $500 of my own money that we land on Artemis III. That's what makes me laugh about the "We can land a man on the moon but we can't...." trope. It was extremely costly and took 400,000 people to do that. In 1966 NASA was 4.4% of the budget. In 1968 before we flew a manned Apollo mission, they already cut productions of the Saturn V rockets, 15 total. 2 were kept for Museums and 1 was used for Skylab, 2 were unmanned. If JFK didn't die when he did there's some that think we never would have even done it. The drive to do it came from him issuing the charge and then getting assassinated. Congress couldn't wait to pull funding from Apollo. And we're finding out it's not that easy even with modern technology. We're never going to Mars. I don't see it. Check... maybe someone will attempt to go, but they won't land.

Why is Captain in quotes? Mark Kelly > Pete Hegseth

I saw a reel that pointed out that Cheap Trick was offered either The Flame or Look Away. "Pick one of these, the other I'm going to give to Chicago" was the direction. I was 15 at the time and spent many nights at the skating rink the summer of '88 hearing that over and over again. Thanks for the suggestion. I am going to try that now.

If you had to pick the best Tiger moment from 2016-2020.... it would be his HR off Chris Sale.

A friend of mine does a foo fighters tribute band and at one show they also had a cheap trick band. When I watched I was surprised tnat I only knew one or two songs (they didn’t play The flame). I wonder if my lack of interest and knowledge is an age thing. I am 52. Did I miss them by just a few years? Like if I was 55 I would care? I like exploring things like that. The cutoff point.

They’re gonna take that down.

“Homeless vets” is the new “moon landing”. Just the lazy reference used to complain about something totally unrelated. “We can land a man on the moon but we can’t….”

I agree with you which is why I picked sixth for a number. Just enough of a drop, for whatever reason, to say “well, maybe he peaked and he’s not the pitcher he once was”.

I looked up the previous sixth place winners. In 2024 it was the Logans, Webb and Gilbert. In 2023 it was the Zachs, Eflin and Wheeler.

total clown show

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I'd be so embarsassed to be a Trump voter.

Mercury's death hit hard. I remember exactly where I was. In front of my then girlfriend's house, it was dark out, and I had just parked my car. THe DJ on WRIF announced it and, to show the difference in times, had to throw out something like "and forget for a moment how he got it...." Or it was "how he died..." Either way. There was definitely some kind of shame qualifier rather than "This sucks, this guy was awesome...." THe tribute concert rocked.

I may or may not have made that joke over the years with my wife when we watched him play

This summer we noticed our rental didn't have a TV in the room our son was going to sleep in. I confirmed with the owner that was the case. So we packed a flat screen in the suitcase with bubble wrap. We have 4 TV's in our basement not being used. It was small, about the size of a large laptop. But it worked

Texas purists insist that chili does not have beans and I wholeheartedly agree with them... and I use the Carrol Shelby mix as well.

window A/C units from the 80's were.... HEAVY. The house has toys in it. "Why do you have toys?" "Well the kids might come over". "The kids are in their 20's..." Even simple things like "You don't need 35 bath towels. You live alone. Let's throw all these away because they're probably form 1989 and we'll buy you 3 or 4"

yeah. I noticed once getting an ad for an insurance company located a few towns over. Why? Because I was sitting at a stop light in front of them. I noticed the insurance company because there were two branches of the same brand next to each other, just different names. I assume they share space/staff. My son and I alternate between google accounts so I wonder what their algorithm thinks of that. "This dude likes space history and bubble guppies and MeTV and obscure 1925 maps"

Like most people my age, 50's, we're dealing with parents who refused to get rid of "stuff" and we are left to deal with it. My mother in law's garage and back room is a hoarder situation. This is giving me PTSD. "We can still sell that...." I told her I'd write her a check for $1000 if I can throw everything away.

Brian Moehler. A "not that bad" pitcher on some very bad teams. He hung around the league until 2010? Wow. Made $16M in career earnings.

During the covid stuff my son wasn't at school. He was home all day and I was also home all day working. For about 2 years we'd go on a nightly drive during the week. Just to get out of the house. It was so much fun. I'd pop in a podcast. We had 3 routes that took about an hour. We'd stop at the gas station to get snacks and drinks. My son being the particular person he is, we had to stick to those 3 routes. One was south to the downriver area, like Brownstown/Woodhaven, then back North. Just a big square. Another one was north to Detroit, coming back down Grand River. The third one was downtown by the stadiums and midtown. I wonder if he feds noticed.

Yes 2026. What if he’s not top 5 Cy Young?

I want to know what they consider suspicious so that I can do it.