SinceThe70s

Congrats! And all the best to you and your wife! Home ownership comes with it's challenges - feels like everything has been breaking or aging-out for us lately. Frustrating as hell but in the end well worth it.

It's kind of crazy how they played inspired/smart ball last year when things were going well - and now we're seeing poor play. I'm still in Buck's corner - but more willing to consider dissenting opinions. Pretty much where I'm at with McD too.

I get that folks are pointing the finger at Buck but I'm not buying in - although I'll admit to listening to the argument. To me this season has been all about the pitching: - started with the shaky proposition of relylng on Scherzer and Verlander - losing Diaz was devastating and shortened the bullpen - Quintana hasn't thrown a pitch - straining the weakened bullpen - Carrasco, Peterson and Megill have all sucked - straining the weakened bullpen - Verlander started the season on IR and has been average - straining the weakened bullpen - Scherzer has been average and willingly missed time due to the sticky stuff - straining the weakened bullpen I tend to be overly optimistic but this looks like a lost season. For position players: 😄 excited about Alvarez - he has crushed at the plate at every level 1B: no need to think about this position until we have a hard time signing Pete - but would like to see a higher batting average 2B: between McNeil and maybe Mauricio I think we are OK SS: great fielder, power bat but the batting average is way too low 3B: we're rolling with Baty - and maybe Vientos. Fingers crossed LF: Pham is trade bait, Canha is a 4th OFer. McNeil in LF with Mauricio is intriguing CF: Nimmo is fine but would be better off in LF RF: Marte has been a big disappointment since he got hurt last year. I'm not giving up on him yet but RF is a big red flag if he doesn't return to form DH: this has been a black hole. Not sure whether I put that on Buck or the GM.

A few months ago I read about a system that some concert venues are using. I imagine it might be cost prohibitive for school systems but the concept makes sense to me. Everyone has to put their cell phone in a locking pouch that can't be opened until you leave the room/venue. https://www.overyondr.com/howitworks

I can't fall in love with a wheat field I can't fall in love with a barn When everything smells like horse sh!t Down here on the farm

Saw the Frog Brigade tonight. Holy crap, they absolutely crushed Animals!

Thanks fore the info - hadn't hear that.

I had the same thought. I get the older guys risking their lives - at least one of them was an adventurer who was presumably used to assuming a certain level of risk. I wonder if the kid was already on a similar path or if this was more of a one-off or first time adventure that his dad was able to bankroll and if so if they really understood the risk involved.

And they're marching to Bastille Day La guillotine will claim her bloody prize Sing, o choirs of cacophony Well, the king must kneel to let his kingdom rise

Wine is fine, but whiskey's quicker Suicide is slow with liquor

Perhaps this a play on the bar sign "Free Beer Tomorrow"

Today was brew day. I had one small problem and one major problem. It's unlikely this batch will be very good. The first problem was a low flame on my outdoor cooker (below). Not sure if the propane line isn't clear or there's come other issue but I had to boil inside. The house reeks but wifey took it pretty well so I have that going for me. Wish is nice. Second problem: I didn't notice that my chiller had a small hole in the copper piping. Didn't notice it until too late and so while I was cooling the wort I was also filling the fermenting bucket with water. I had to scoop around 2 gallons of watered down wort out of the bucket. I'm going to proceed anyway, but at best this will probably end up being flavorless.

Not sure what the powder actually is - the label doesn't list ingredients - but you mix it with water and then clean everything. With that said you're the second poster who mentioned Star San so I'll go that route if this batch doesn't work out.

Apologies in advance if this is TMI/LAMP. Just after Fathers day I'm sharing my boys favorite Steely Dan songs. I think its cool as hell that they like some of Dad's music. They are both above average musicians (sax and trombone). AFAIK they pretty much listen to rap, but for whatever reason they've never been keen on sharing their music with me which is disappointing. I hope they aren't trying to shield me from the lyrical content. My younger one was taken aback when I explained what the Fez referred to in is fave:

Much appreciated! For anyone that cares - we purchased a Honey Brown Ale kit at a local place and intend to brew tomorrow. I'm a bit circumspect about the following things, but wtf, sometimes you gotta stop dipping the toe into the pool and just jump right in: - the place I used to buy beer kits from had them refrigerated, this one didn't, that seemed sketchy - I'll be using sanitizing powder that's of legal age, could be a fatal flaw - the kit I bought specifically said not to re-hydrate the yeast, not sure why but that will save me a step I planned on skipping the first time back anyway - pretty sure my past siphoning technique was low-brow - put my hand around the siphoning tube instead of my mouth to avoid my nefarious bacteria. Unless I have a revelation between brewing and bottling day I'll probably do the same - wifey suggested I wear a rubber glove. Stay tuned...

Dad I need to tell ya Sometimes it's hard to show you how I feel And dad I'm gonna tell ya I wish that all our differences weren't real Don't go away again I just wanna be your friend And if I don't say this now, I'm gonna be sorry Don't wanna make the same mistake again I see the older that i get I'm becoming you

You probably did see me - I was the one that looked simply fabulous! It wasn't the usual crowd, that's for sure. But that's not why I'm posting. Remarkably Pete is back today!! Vientos is the casualty as he got sent down. I'm fine with that because it made absolutely no sense that they brought him up only to have him ride the pine more often than not. @Gugny @Another Fan

Thanks for the info and advice - and good luck with the brewery research. I have the plastic fermenters and we have at least two places locally where I can buy the kits. I never graduated to choosing the specific ingredients and measuring/weighing. The one addition to my setup that was great was a chiller - basically a copper coll to run cold water through to cool down the wort. The one thing that for the life of me I can't remember is how I siphoned the wort from the fermenter to the bottling bucket. When I pick up the kit I'm gonna see if there's some kind of pump I can buy - saw something about that online.

I was looking at my old notes last night and apparently I had started to re-hydrate the yeast before pitching it into the wort and it made a big difference when it worked. I'll probably forgo that step the first go around and hope for the best.

Thanks. That's really interesting - one of the limiting factors when I pick out what to brew is that I can't stand IPA's and hoppy beers. To me it's like drinking nails. If I get back into brewing I'll try that but I'll definitely start out with something less hoppy than an IPA.

Good idea. I actually worked with a guy around the same time frame that I was brewing who quit his job in publishing to pursue brewing. I think he has a small scale brewery a few towns from me.

Just before the turn of the century I started getting into brewing beer. The last beer I brewed was a homage to getting married. Tagline on the label was "The last taste of freedom" and there was a pic of a guy in prison stripes with a ball and chain. Good times! Haven't brewed since but now that I have a son nearing legal age I thought it would be fun for us to whip up a batch together. All of my old equip looks OK. I have notes from all of my previous brews (roughly 7-8) but some of the details escape me. I always started with pre-measured kits - and experimented with substitutes like honey and lemon with mixed results. Not sure what's changed in the past 20+ years but figured who better than Bills fans to discuss beer? I'd appreciate any tips and discussion!

As mentioned previously went to the game tonight. The good: 6-1 win with 4 of the runs coming off two out hits. The bad: the game was just over two hours long. The pace felt unnecessarily rushed with the pitch clock. The ugly: second straight year I went to a Friday DJ night - ugh.

My guess is that a simple look over to third from the reliever would have stopped the play in its tracks - regardless whether he went stretch or full. Maybe the Yankees knew a tendency, maybe they saw something in real time, either way good for them. I'm a big time Mets fan so of course it was painful to see. But I'm also a big time baseball fan and can appreciate that the (hated) Yankees took advantage. Great play for the Yanks, embarrassing play for the Mets - however it went down.