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I never said it as a kid but have only recently started using it. Think I've latched onto it since it's somewhat-uniquely Wisconsin. Few years ago went back home and had a visit with an uncle who had a very northern-WI accent. Don't think I really noticed it until then and had already been living out of WI. Really liked the accent and was kinda sad I didn't have it.

My co-workers are giving me crap for pronouncing "milk" more like melk. They say I'm wrong but I tell them I come from the land of melk and therefore I'm the expert and I'm right. The harder i sound just seems off and weird and wrong, kinda like how you know someone isn't from Wisconsin if they pronounce the il in Milwaukee instead of with an uh.

But this is Green Bay, which means everyone will realize the coaching staff sucks but wait another four years to do anything about it.

Boy my timing couldn't have been better on that prediction.

My guess is he keeps his job next year. Dart is clearly the franchise guy and maybe you don't mess with that by bringing in another coach. Nabers alone changes that offense, and you get a big boost with a top WR/CB/S in the coming draft. Giants should be a good team next year.

For the first time in about forever, my aquarium is (basically) algae-free. Been feeding my fish way less (maybe not enough) and I suspect I was adding too much of that water de-chlorinator and that was contributing. Added a second filter and recently learned there's a correct way to stack filter media in a canister. Also added a few cups of water from a nearby stream to add some microscopic buggers.

Ah you're right. Guess I was thinking $25 when it's $20.

I did the tape-delay on NFL+ last year and liked that, too. I often have to work Sundays and miss the game. And I live outside WI so I don't get people randomly saying "Too bad about Kraft" and such to spoil things. I used to have a "totally legal" stream which did the same thing but they got shut down. I'd pay for NFL+ if they ever returned to Packers-only live/tape options. Zero desire to watch any other game especially because the NFL youtube channel shows 15-minute highlights of every game shortly after they finish airing and I'd rather see those. But man, illegal streams were only slightly more inconvenient than what streaming services used to be, and that was enough people would pay $7 for. But tack on all this new nonsense and there's every reason to just go back to illegal streams again. I'd be tempted to pick up Hulu but $25/mo is just nuts. My only streaming service is Youtube Premium and any ad breaks elsewhere have become intolerable for me. I don't feel like I'm really missing out on anything from not seeing any modern TV shows. I have no idea what "Winter is coming" means but I still get by.

I thought for sure upgrading at Center and Guard and drafting a run-blocker in the 2nd was going to make the run game so much better. It doesn't really seem like Jacobs is worse so much as there's just no gaps to run through.

Hey, here's a whole bunch of cheap departure flights! Now if you'll just go ahead and choose your return flight, all of which will cost you another $400.........That's just great. Now in order to check you out, we're going to force you to view every single optional extra-priced feature we have---and we have a lot!---and manually decline each one before we finally charge you. I hope you noticed the $22 option for us to return your bag to you promptly if we lose it, and please don't consider that this means we wouldn't have otherwise done so.

If you start making exceptions to their trade strategy it's not really a strategy anymore. We couldn't afford Fielder, Sabathia, Burnes, etc., etc. Welcome to small-market baseball. Thanks for being here on the cheap, now go make your money elsewhere. Already having a deep minor leagues isn't a luxury for us but a necessity. And if we're over-full on young SPs, why not include someone like Gasser or Henderson in the deal?

I appreciate the offer. I'd be able to make room indoors for some equipment. Even just an adjustable bench and some dumbbells is enough to hit every muscle group. But it was hard enough to get in the routine of lifting with my stuff right there under my carport, which I suspect would be even harder if it were right there in another room. What's most convenient is easiest to put off. Oddly enough I suspect a more cumbersome drive would actually make me more consistent.

Any salary floor agreement probably has to come with a guaranteed positive income stream for ownership, like getting a specific percentage of gate receipts. That way you have a motivation to put an exciting team on the field every year and not the need to keep a payroll low for the sake of additional profit. And if your star players are still low-paid, maybe there's room to shift money toward some other player-focused thing.

My work truck has Android Auto and I turned it off. The maps feature would be nice when I rarely need it, but I'm not much interested in adding a routine every time I start up the truck. Especially so as someone who has to stop-start-stop all day. Who are these designers who think we want to customize a driving experience for ourselves every time we start the vehicle instead of just get in and drive off? The truck (F150) also has that idle shut-off feature which is fine, except you can't permanently turn it off. Instead it's another thing you have to manually turn off every time I start up the truck. Whenever I stop to talk to people and the truck turns back on to idle I feel like I'm being so rude, like I'm starting it up in order to end the conversation. It also bugs me that when a new popup commercial appears here that it throws your cursor out of the text box and you have to click back on it to keep typing. Maybe there's a call for a Toyota 2.0 car company. Give us something ugly, ultra-reliable and cheap. No more designed obsolescence, no more electronic gadetry making repairs expensive, no heated seats and do-dads, heck even bring back crank windows. Let me hit 200,000 miles without having had to rebuild the engine part by part to get there. Make only three models: A sedan, a mildly nicer coupe and a truck. No more of the 50 different models of vehicle to choose from. And every year it's not some huge re-design, but simply making more reliable the one thing most often reported to break. A car that says "I'm tired, I drink gas station coffee and I'm just trying to get to work."

At work I'm pretty spoiled. I don't have anywhere near the number of law enforcement issues others do, nor the crowds of people, nor the need to do multiple educational programs every day (I'm good at them but it's exhausting) and the biggest negative is boredom, which I recognize is a pretty good negative to have. At home everything is about 45 minutes away, I don't enjoy my church but I'm out of options on that, and I live alone but can only get 1.5mb internet speed. I simultaneously want to transfer to work in an area with more going on, but also don't want to leave and make my worklife much more stressful. Since I have about ten years to retirement and likely will go back to Wisconsin, right now I figure it's better to stay.

Well, been about a year and I've lost 40# on a regimen of lifting and diet. Not a huge total but I wasn't really overweight to begin with, just skinny-fat. Now a bit underweight but didn't lose the gut as I'd hoped. I suspect it's because I didn't have that much muscle mass to begin with. Eventually I'd lose the gut if I kept cutting, but I don't want to be rail-thin to do so. Despite the gut I sometimes hear "skinny" which tells me I really need to bulk my chest/lats/delts. Planning a lean-bulk starting Thanksgiving to put back everything I worked hard to take off, but hopefully a good percentage of that being muscle. And after that, back to cutting. Didn't really gain muscle this year but wasn't much expecting to while cutting. No huge transformation like you'd see on Twitter, but I'm not 25 years old or on TRT or Tren, so there's that. Now that it's getting colder will have to start driving 40 minutes to the nearest gym instead of my outdoor home gym which'll be tough. But on the plus side I used to take off 3x/yr because my back went out, and it hasn't gone out in a year+. May need another major surgery on it in time, though. Could be 20 years down the road depending on how degenerative it is, or I could do it in 7-10 years right before retirement when I could use a year of sick time (ours accumulates and unused gets counted as service time) and would get paid better for that time than if I did it while retired. But a description of the surgery sounds terrible and I don't think I want to do it at all.

Very average starters are getting $20-25 these days. Woodruff already got $17m from the Brewers to hopefully pitch 3/4 of a season. The Brewers can't afford him and he's not coming back. Of course we'd all love to see Peralta back and reportedly he really really wants to stay, but he's too valuable to just let walk after next year. You can't judge the Burnes trade by how the prospects ended up playing but by their potential as prospects, and to that the trade wasn't a bad one at all.

>not a hard cap, again, use a "Bird Rule," because the Yankees never should have lost Derek Jeter because they were up against the cap To a good degree teams can prepare for this. I otherwise like the idea that when re-signing a player, 10% of their salary will not count toward the cap. Baseball should encourage players sticking with the same team.

Of course we had this same conversation 25 years ago and Selig just gave us more playoff teams saying "See, now the small market teams have a better chance." Nobody wants a big fix but the fans, and it's gonna take 5-10 more Montreals and Oaklands where fans just stop bothering for anything to change. And even then they'll just relocate the team.

All that "Tank for Arch" talk and I haven't seen him in the first round on a single mock draft yet.

More surprised Flacco didn't just retire after that game.

Get the kickoff at about the 30, move it all of 30 yards, kick the long field goal. There's a value to it being hard to score. Or is this the NBA where you only need to watch the 4th Quarter?

I always say a quiet "Oh, good" whenever I see there's a new post on this thread but it's a comment to a comment and not somebody new.

Don't much care for the White Sox after the Albert Belle/Fernando Vina incident.

Nope. I know the Florida coach personally and he's a good guy.