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We bought a 25” Sony flat screen TV in 4:3 back in 2001 (specifically in time to watch the debut of Billy Crystal’s 61*), just before the HDTVs started coming out in earnest, and I swear to you, it must have weighed close to 100 pounds. We replaced it only two years later with our first 50” flat screen, which also must have weighed 100 pounds. We just bought a new 65” Samsung OLED flat screen this past Friday, with a screen roughly the width of a plate of glass, and it must be less than half the weight of that old Sony.

Boo kidney beans. 😉

This is as close to a walk-off homer as you’re going to see in football. I acknowledge that field goals and touchdowns, i.e., scoring to win games, is in that way more akin to homering to win games. But those are usually resolutions to developing situations. A walk-off sack, like a walk-off homer, is rather a relatively unexpected event, something that ends that game in the sort of exhilarating, out of the blue manner that a field goal lacks. In that vein, a walk-off pick six is more like a walk-off sack than a walk-off field goal.

Game situation notwithstanding, ten years ago, twenty for sure, we would have been slack-jawed after watching a franchise record-breaking field goal of 59 yards. Nowadays it seems as though there’s a field goal of 59 yards or longer every other week.

Giants also had a late in the fourth quarter lead on the Packers.

Here is the original long form article as first reported by AP. This is a long read, so make sure you have the time. https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd#

This is exactly what a surveillance society leads to: stopping and detaining people just for normal travel, just because the government deems the travel pattern “suspicious“. Apparently this was started under Trump I, continued under Biden, and is still in force today. So we have arrived at the point in which just traveling around and living your life the way you want to is enough to get you stopped, questioned, detained, and who knows what else after that. This is nothing short of horrific.

59-yard FG good. And now for the crushing loss with 28 seconds left. 😏

I was thinking congressional hearings to investigate perfidious maga efforts from inside the house to destroy America, but sure, social media, too.

I would bet most people who truly believe they and they alone are responsible for the success in their lives—no outside aid, no personal help, no nepotism, no family wealth, no lucky breaks, even if they actually did get any or all of these on the way up—are all aboard the MAGA train. I wouldn’t doubt that 80%+ of professional athletes fall into this self-definitional category.

Certainly was live long enough to create hundreds of screenshots to present at the congressional hearings in 2027.

What I’ve learned from this is that the notion of hundreds of Russian nationals at the Internet Research Agency toiling away on fake X accounts in St. Petersburg is almost certainly not accurate, since second world labor demands relatively high second world wages. Instead, the grunt work of creating and maintaining troll social media accounts surely gets farmed out to third world countries for third world wages.

We may or may not be able to time the market, but the time feels right to take some overheated profits from Mag Seven-driven SP 500.

You’re still young enough to do 70/30, at least. I’m around 60/40 equity to fixed and I’m already retired.

The Cyrillic letters were a dead giveaway.

I don‘t know whether it would be so much of a discount this season, since presumably Skubal would be paid much more this year under an extension this winter versus taking the arb award figure. A raise over his arb number this year would probably have to be the sweetener to get him to lock up before he’s an actual free agent, and if I’m not mistaken, that’s not exactly Scott Boras’s jam.

That’s OK, I won’t miss him.

So will continuing to phase out the Avila pickups.

WTAF is going on today

And you'll probably get it if (1) you're not an ass about it and (2) you walk away if you don't get it at first.

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And another lot just sold today!

I've been getting more messages from non-Tigers friends suggesting there must be something to the rumors since they keep seeing articles about it.