GAME05

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.

The first few times I saw that gif I wondered what Zach Galafinakis movie that was from.

I'd be all for a trade but is Willis really that much of an upgrade over Jake Browning?

Robert Redford, 89.

Most teams don't even bother filling the 15th roster spot, so if ours goes to a rah-rah guy, so be it. It's not like we ever have any draft picks taking up that seat.

Don't remember it exactly, but it was probably a stupid post. I don't see where there's an option to delete posts entirely, so the period seems to take up the least space.

Latest cope from Cowboys-fan co-worker: "I'm glad he's gone." Coyboys wanted a premium player. So unless you're talking Bullard or Williams or LVN, of that bunch Clark is probably the most expendable. Good person aside, he's geriatric by Packers' standards and was probably going to be a cap casualty after this season, anyway. Graded out pretty much exactly League-average for both run defense and pass rush. I really can't think of a less-hurtful premium player for the Packers to lose. Subtract the fandom and he's probably the most ideal player to have to let go of.

Check out the hook while MlF revolves it.

Reggie also changed the whole narrative of Lambeau being a Podunk igloo every FA laughed at. Reggie reversed 30 years of awful. Parsons could be just as talented, but Reggie did something special.

I normally hate trading 1sts, but hopefully they're both really late picks plus how often do you get the chance to get the 3rd best DE in the League and a guy who has already shown he can completely take over a game? Plus he can play inside on passing downs, so good luck against Parsons-Wyatt-LVN-Gary. My Cowboys-fan co-worker doing his best to accept it. I had the patience not to respond to "We can get another Parsons with a late 1st for sure much cheaper." He said Parsons tends to dog it in the 4th Quarter, but I'd guess that's because he's been their entire defense for years.

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Two new casinos opening up, both two hours from me. Other ones were too far away. Maybe I'll get back into playing cards, after all. Used to be very good but there's a lotta rust to knock off.

Bitcoin price still following Global M2 supply. We never really left the four-year cycle, although it's been rougher than usual on alts, probably and understandably because the ETFs are safer but don't allow rolling interest down the line. M2 expected to peak around late September. Four-year cycle trend has BTC peaking around late September, too. There's also an FOMC meeting right around then where a hoped-for rate cut would rocket high-risk assets like crypto (fingers crossed). Typically alts do their last little agonal breath right after BTC peaks, and then I tend to notice one last memecoin hype-cycle just to keep people holding on way too long. Still think there's a lot of 20-40x gains out there to be had, at least going by current vs. expected FDV. I'm knee-deep in AI, particularly Neural and Spectre. Maybe better RWA plays out there than I own. Feels like gaming is more about incubators like SuperVerse and such than actual games and I'm just not excited about it this time around. But at least there's some optimism back in the market again. It was really rough for a long time. A year and a half since the halving has all been garbage.

Yeah, the season starts way too soon. And it ends with cold but two months of just hockey. NFL would be good to push everything back a month.

They still gotta sell season tickets. If I'm the Pirates, Miz and Chourio would be where I'd start. Otherwise no reason not to hold him for another year or two and let the Dodgers and Yankees duel it out for him. What the Brewers could offer now I don't think would be a world different than what the Dodgers could offer later.

Sad day for Hulkamaniacs everywhere, brother.