UConn James

Achieving greatness is not as difficult when you literally buy all of the best available players and have a $415M payroll. But does this even include all the put-off Bobby Bonilla style deferred payment schedule they gave Ohtani? Red Sox fan here. Clearly spend more than a lot of teams. But have spent a lot less in the past 5-6 years of penny-pinchin' (despite having the highest ticket prices in the league) and shed a bunch more with the Devers trade. Nice that we've rebuilt the farm system and a bunch of those players have now come up and done well. There absolutely needs to be a salary cap. And a salary floor. Having 8-10 competitive teams and 20+ that spend less on their entire operation than the Yankees spend on sunflower seeds is just terrible. The cheap owners don't re-invest what they get in ticket, concessions, parking, media deals, and just pocket millions. I see what you did there! 😉

It's 2:30 a.m. and it's going to the 18th inning. Soon they're going to be getting pitchers from out of the crowd. Wow.

Which... is saying something. Storm is just parked on them and not moving anywhere. 🙏

It also helped that we were playing against Andy Dalton. Not exactly great mobility at QB which has burned our asses this year and, well, every other year. Let's not start thinking this D is fixed or anything near just bc McD grabbed a playcall sheet and turned on his radio. It's still undersized, oft-injured (probably in no small part due to being undersized), and slow. No amount of a slightly different configuration is going to turn chicken ***** into chicken salad.

Re: Hailee's anxiety having any bearing on Josh.... I really do hate to dismiss other peoples' struggles bc you can't know exactly what another person goes through in this life. But. With that said.... If it's something that can be helped / fixed with 10 minutes of a bit of solitude or a blanket and warm cup of tea.... that's a Hollywood version / privilege-class anxiety. ... It's not crying on the floor, wondering howTF you're going to make ends meet, 99 problems and the car broke down is one, mom's been in cancer treatment for two years, the world these days just feels like a complete poop show, insomnia is an old friend, and you don't know what the next step is or whether you even want to take a next step... kind of crippling anxiety. A NSFW (language) extraordinary poem, ~3 minutes. "My dad says therapy is a rich person's thing -- poor people've got ***** to do!"

Oh man. 🥺 That's far too young. Scientists have been growing organs in labs for quite a while now. And "organs on a chip." Yet it's like we're forever "10 years away" from any kind of advancement for any kind of treatment for any kind of disease.

Well... if he can stay within 10 yards of his assigned receiver during a play he'll be doing better than Tre White.

Apparently from yesterday. Grass has had its first mow, in baseball outfield diagonal pattern (it's better for the grass to mow it in different directions each time). Wondering why the right sideline is the same shade as the real grass versus the left sideline artificial turf (which is still incomplete) being so much lighter green. 🤔

245 pounds? Much too big for LB in McD's scheme.

Time is a flat circle. I guess we have to re-learn the whole "gambling is bad" thing. It infects everything. I am this close to not watching football anymore. The league is in bed with Vegas. Didn't watch anything last weekend when Bills were on the bye. It's only a step above wrestling at this point.

On seeing highlights, Detroit's second goal where they tied at the end of the 2nd period... the scorer had set up camp in front of the crease. Power just stood like 3 feet to the left of the goalie. Just stood there and watched it happen. So aggravating. There's nothing going through his head saying 'Do something about this'?!?!!!

The logic is that they coached on the side that McD is not known to have heavy involvement with. Handed them the keys to the O and let them drive without much interference.

The Xs and Os just haven't come through. There was a small window but we are at the very tail end of the undersized-all-around defensive zone scheme having any kind of success. The pendulum has swung back to bruiser RBs running it roughshod. McD has refused to re-invent and, honestly, I think his tree is going to be pruned & grafted sooner rather than later.

One could argue for McVay, and tho it is early, it has had some measure of success.

I've shared on some threads on OTW that I'm on the autism spectrum and with that often comes restricted eating. Even now I have trouble drinking enough water / electrolytes during the day (even landing in the ER 3 times in the past ~ 5 years for severe dehydration -> constipation. And especially when it's just me in the house I frequently miss meals because I just don't remember / feel to eat. I was always a thin kid. That said, after starting on an SSRI for the autistic run-alongs of depression & anxiety, I gained about 20 pounds and am now in about the 190 range at 6'1", which is about in line with a normal healthy body weight. One of the things I think helped during my youth and continues today is that both sides of the fam have always been vegetable gardeners and I would have this pride that I grew these things and my foods list broadened. Green beans, Swiss chard / spinach, cucumbers, tomatoes (I have only recently come around on thin slices in a sandwich without the seeds & goo, but I would always do sauce, which I am doing at present with the last of them from the garden. I have also watched a bunch of well-produced cooking shows, mostly PBS because we never had pay-tv, that taught me how to cook. America's Test Kitchen, Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, and about 10 years ago "A Chef's Life" which was very watchable and entertaining even beyond food. Can I ask what have been the food influences in your family? I can remember that around the time of my mum's pancreatic-area cancer diagnosis, treatment, and her passing it was often a struggle for me to have an appetite. It was just... the thought of anything passing my lips was just revolting. After her death, I had to get Ensure drinks and down a few of those a day just as quick & dirty calories. Also, an elementary->high school classmate had on Facebook a few years ago that her daughter at 8 years old was having early difficulties with ED due to media and peer comments that they had been getting therapy for. Eight! And she's the cutest little kid. So much societal pressure and food information of questionable fact and debate (I mean... even from so-called experts) is zooming around, your head can get pretty wonky from it. Good luck in this journey.