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I wish I could have seen that. Bob Uecker was on that one, as well as the famous match of Macho Man Randy Savage vs Ricky “The Dragon “ Steamboat. Do you have cable or satellite TV with FS1? Might be free on on-demand since it was just on over-the-air.
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As of the end of April, as many Americans who have received stimulus checks chose to put them into savings (38%) as chose to pay rent (14%) or pay for food and basic household needs (25%) combined. https://www.axios.com/americans-to-save-not-spend-stimulus-checks-bb84737a-a924-4613-a471-169a07942da1.html
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FS1 showing Wrestlemania 3 tonight. Lots of old, out of shape wrestlers, but still entertaining. Hacksaw Jim Duggan and his 2x4. Amazing how much debris was thrown at the wrestlers as they were coming down to the ring. But, that's Detroit.
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Probably not even polution. Probably because all the silt settled instead of being stirred up all the time. Many bodies of water have cleared up. My boss, who is Indian, said that the Ganges River is now so clean you might be able to drink out of it. The pollution that is in the air and on the streets ends up in the bodies of water after rain washes it down and away. No pollution in the air and on the streets means no pollution getting into the water after rain.
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With an estimated 80% reduction in vehicle traffic, Los Angeles supposedly now has the cleanest air of any major city in the world. The Venice canals are now so clear you can see to the bottom. There is a silver lining to this that we need to figure out how to sustain.
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The other one says 2017, so I think we can have just one that isn't dated. Howard Finkel passed away at the age of 69. Perhaps the best ring announcer ever... and hard to believe he was only 69.
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As someone who had some bad employment luck after graduating undergrad and worked three part time jobs on nights and weekends to make ends meet and pay rent with a credit card, I'm pretty sure that I have first-hand experience in what it means to lose a job and have to provide the basics for myself. The "privilege" comment I strongly resent. I've been there - how about you? I didn't say that everyone was entitled. I said that some are. And I said that it's possible for May. But I highly doubt that 1/3rd of renters could lose one paycheck and not be able to pay rent. Many of them, yes, but not 1/3rd. People like me who own rental property and have to pay that mortgage, whether my renters pay their rent or not. For calling me "disconnected", you seem fairly disconnected yourself.
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Most people who rent don't live by themselves - they have roommates - thus the unemployment claims would need to be cut in half in order to be compared to the total number of rental units. And many people in those industries hardest hit do own homes, particularly if they are in management. Bartenders and waitresses at nice restaurants make a good living. One of my friends who is a bartender is married to a chef and they own two homes - one in Chicago, and a vacation home in WI. Or they have spouses in a different industry and have two incomes, able to buy a home. And heaven forbid that (some) millennials feel entitled, but that's for a different thread.
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The stocks in industries that are hardest hit by this - travel/tourism, airlines/aviation, hotel/hospitality, oil, restaurants, retail, anything mortgage-backed - are down 50-75%, not 30%, so a lot of it is already baked in. Some companies won't survive, but other than perhaps the cruise lines the demand for those services/products will return eventually and the more financially stable companies that survive will pick up that demand and be more profitable in the future. Invest in companies that have a lot of cash right now. I have a hard time believing that 31% didn't pay rent. If even close to true, it speaks to entitlement, not economic impact. People didn't start losing their jobs until mid-March, and two weeks later they can't pay rent? And 1/3rd of renters lost their job? I'd believe it for May, but not for April.
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They absolutely can cut production. They took hundreds of oil rigs off-line in 2015/2016 the last time oil crashed. There are 200 fewer functioning oil rigs in the US than a year ago. In a two-year time span they went from 1600 rigs in late 2014 to 318 in May 2016. https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_oil_rotary_rigs
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Airplane Repo Some of the scenes are embellished/recreated for dramatic purposes, but it's hilarious. Of course, even though a couple of months ago I watched a few episodes of Season 1 (I think around Christmas/New Years) on TV, I now have to pay for Season 1. The last episode of Season 2 is a riot.
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And dropped another 800 points today. Lots of uncertainty surrounding the impact this is going to have. Nothing like 2008, however. There are no underlying issues with the financial system. Just like in Trading Places, those buying calls on margin had their pants pulled down and have to cover their margin calls and sell, putting further downward pressure on the markets. Now you're seeing money move from where the anticipated issues will be (anything relating to travel or sourcing from China) to what is not likely to be affected (low interest rates benefit the consumer - buying houses, buying vehicles, remodeling, refinancing, plus boons to the healthcare system, suppliers to healthcare, technology, etc.), and not a broad sell-off.
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From what I can tell, most major cable companies (including Charter Spectrum) offer cellular service now as a part of their offering, so I would think that most people would have that option. Part of the problem is living in Chicago*. What I want to watch the most are the Badgers games (football, basketball, hockey), but now those are pretty much split evenly between ESPN, BTN, and Fox/FS1, and it seems like every streaming service is missing one of those. In order to watch the Brewers here I need the MLB channel; not sure how the Cubs new TV network will work as they don't have a deal with Comcast yet as far as I know, but that was 18 games a year I got to watch. This past season I think the Packers were only blacked out once or twice here because of conflicts with Bears games - that was luck, but you have Thursday night and Monday night games that are on ESPN and the NFL network. Marquette basketball is split between FS1, CBS Sports, and some other obscure network. The Bucks are sometimes on TBS/TNT/NBA, so I might as well get cable so I have all of those sports channels. One of the other benefits of cable is that if you miss a game (NFL, BTN, sometimes ESPN) there are often replays of the game that are on later. (*Don't get me started on the taxes and fees here.)
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xFinity (a.k.a. Comcast)
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I'm paying about a combined $200/month for cable TV (including all ESPN channels, FS1, CBS Sports, BTN, MLB/NFL/NBA networks - no FSWI in Chicago), cloud DVR, internet, and cell phone service and that includes all taxes, fees, and $25/mo for a new phone, as well as free access to thousands of WiFi hotspots. If you add up what you're paying for each of those things individually, including taxes and fees, I'll bet it's pretty close to $200/month.
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From what I'm reading here, it sounds like you get what you pay for.
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Had Pequod's for the first time today. Ordered the pan pizza, and thought it was very much like Rocky's except round instead of square. Similar sauce, similar crust, fairly dough-y, but drier than Rocky's. Find it hilarious that many think Pequod's has the best pizza in Chicago... and it's like Rocky Rococco's.
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The deal was four toppings - one more meat would be too greasy and hard on the gut, one more veggie would be too much veggie. I don't like mushrooms - the cheap ones they put on pizza make me want to barf - and peppers pretty much do make me barf. Onions don't work for me with pizza either. It sounds strange, and I don't like pineapple when it's the only topping (or a Hawaiian pizza with just ham and pineapple), but it really balances out the pizza when it is one of several toppings, especially when one of them is spinach.
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Deep dish, thick crust, cheesy, saucy, sloppy pizza. You're damn right it's glorious. They had great coupons in the local coupon book, particularly four topping large's for around $15. My favorite - sausage (their sausage is the best I've ever had anywhere), pepperoni, spinach, pineapple:
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I still think there is nothing better than a super slice of sausage & pepperoni at Rocky Rococco's. Particularly before Badger football games. As for small mom & pop shops, Famous Yeti's in Stoughton, specifically their spaghetti & meatball stuffed Yeti Spaghetti pizza.
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For all of the concerns about Black and his control, in a micro-small sample he has the 3rd lowest walk rate in the bullpen behind only Suter and Faria. I keep wondering when Counsell is going to move him into a later-inning higher leverage role instead of the 5th/6th inning role he has been in.
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In a micro-small sample, Black has pitched in four games for San Antonio so far. He's completed four innings having thrown only 38 pitches, walking one and striking out five. He hasn't needed more than 11 pitches to get through an inning so far and has averaged slightly less than three pitches per plate appearance against him. For a guy who supposedly doesn't have a lot of control, getting 12 outs on only 38 pitches, with five of those outs via strikeout, is an encouraging sign.
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Maybe try going to work and being in meetings all day so you can't check your phone. Made for a nice low-stress day for me.
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I've had my eye on Ray Black for years. Career minor league K/9 of 16.8. Think about that for a minute. (For reference, Hader was 10.1; granted, he was starting most of the time but 15.1 in 2012 as an 18-year-old in relief). I don't think this is the year to go for it. Save your bullets for the offseason and reload with a couple of free agents on short-term deals, and give Peralta and Burnes more time to develop. Dubon on his own wasn't going to bring back anything special. Throw some spaghetti on the wall and see if you can turn into the 2006 Cardinals.
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Yep. If you have vacation property and the mortgage/taxes/insurance are $3000/month, all you need to do is rent it 100 days a year at $400/night and you break even (assuming also charging cleaning fees which pay the cost of cleaning, and $4000/year in maintenance and supplies such as toilet paper/paper towels, towels, etc.) from a cash flow perspective and build equity. Plus you can take one trip per quarter and write it off as a business expense of "checking up on your property/doing maintenance", so your actual vacations are tax deductible.
