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Don

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  1. The area where the Royals play now is way sketchier than downtown. East of Troost is and always has been a shithole, but anywhere west of Troost and between 435 and the river is perfectly fine day to day, and has been for ten years. It’s only when people from the east side of town (or KCK) show up en masse for events (like today, or summer weekend nights in Westport) that shit like this happens. I’d bet a large sum of money the shooters from today have home addresses either east of Troost or somewhere in Wyandotte County. As soon as I heard there were multiple people involved I was pretty sure of that.
  2. Everybody Wants Some is a solid under the radar baseball movie.
  3. Two episodes in to Masters of the Air and it’s really good. The flight/aerial combat scenes are really well done. Definitely relays the sheer terror of flying in one of those bombing raids.
  4. The first ten minutes or so of that movie is absolutely masterful. One of the better heist/action sequences ever made.
  5. Sure, there’s more involved in evaluating the situation/decision in the moment, but the trade success/fail threshold is way lower than we’d all like to think.
  6. As long as you’re getting more value than you’re likely to get out of a 61st overall pick, it’s a win
  7. Must be hard for the dudes at BJsWin to contain their excitement. I’m sure that place is gonna erupt once the news is confirmed.
  8. The new season of Fargo is really really good so far. Some awesome casting
  9. If it’s not us I really hope it’s the Giants.
  10. So, a several months later update… Threw myself back into the job market in my field while I maintained my position. I was very transparent with management at my company about the fact that I was actively looking and they had limited time to act. Got a number of offers while looking that were all significantly higher than what I was making, but chose to hold out for a bit more (it’s a wild time in my industry and there’s some real opportunity out there). Finally got an offer for about 75% more than I was making (and that’s before bonuses). Took that back to my management team, and to their credit they all went to bat for me with HR. Exactly zero of them (or me) ever got a response from the people that could actually make anything happen. So yeah, I ended up in a new role with a ton more control and decision making latitude at nearly double the pay and with much more opportunity for advancement. Can’t complain about that.
  11. Just did a rewatch of Band of Brothers. Hadn’t seen it since it first came out. The story is still great, and it doesn’t feel dated at all outside of some “kinda too much” musical choices that they made. Major Dick Winters remains the most thoroughly likable character in the history of TV (and perhaps just people). Ron Livingston and Damien Lewis are both amazing in their roles.
  12. Went to a music festival in coastal Maryland this last weekend with a bunch of old college friends. Saw plenty of good acts and bands, but Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats unquestionably put on the best show of the whole festival. Honestly one of the best shows I’ve ever seen period. That dude is just an exploding supernova of raw talent. I’ve seen a ton of shows in my life, and I’ve never seen anything like what that dude and his band did last night. Absolute fucking monsters.
  13. A figment of our collective imagination. A fever dream of gold glove caliber defense, exceptional plate discipline, and gap to gap power.
  14. Decided to watch Eastern Promises in honor of @Brandon. Definitely a well-made movie with a ton of style, good plot line, and an awesome Viggo Mortensen performance. That said, I was kinda shocked when it ended. I didn’t look at the movie runtime before watching it (roughly 100 minutes), and the end of the movie kinda felt like the end of act two to me. This movie easily could’ve had another 30-45 minutes of awesomeness. Maybe a sequel some day?
  15. It’s just that with nuclear energy, the potential scale and overall impact of some sort of accident could be massive. I know everyone goes on and on about how safe it is, but it’s not like there are never incidents. Luckily, those incidents have been relatively minor so far, though Chernobyl came very very close to turning into a cataclysmic event.
  16. I get where you’re coming from. Bro has sucked the last month or so, and his peripherals weren’t great before that. But it just seems that teams that pick up Angels pitchers that suck seem to magically resurrect them on a semi-regular basis. I know it’s an emotional fan thing to predict that sort of outcome, but it’s definitely worked out similarly before, and it points to some sort of over-arching flaw within our organization. I just hope someone picks him up and he gets to experience some success for his sake.
  17. Back in Phoenix again. Turns out Sky Harbor is peaceful AF on a random Wednesday in August. Pretty pleasant experience. Also, the new airport in KC is really well done. I’ve flown out of there a couple times since it opened this last winter/spring, but today was the first time that I showed up with some time to waste. Good restaurant/bar choices, nice facilities, pleasant aesthetics, etc… Although some of the restaurants are like polished up versions of things that were hyper-local roadside food trucks 5-10 years ago, and that feels oddly inauthentic.
  18. Their BP is just better than ours. It’s what they do year in and year out
  19. Fully agreed… but here’s the ugly truth of it… moving runners over doesn’t get you paid
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