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I don't post here much, but I was just thinking about how Star Trek lore holds that professional baseball died in 2042. Sometimes I think someone (a cartel even) at MLB is a big trekkie and is trying to make this come true.

Are post-interview thank you letters still a thing? I've been a hiring manager for a couple of years and I don't think I've ever had a candidate send me one post interview. I've been looking for work myself and have sent an email to the HR person who coordinated my interviews and have asked them to pass along to the interview group. It just seems like check the box formality and a thing of the past. Do any of you send one post-interview?

That "Children of Children" solo at the end is killer.

Just an awful name. Doesn't mesh with the rest of the league.

How's the sizing on these knock offs? Do they run quite a bit smaller? Was looking at ordering a few but the Packers one I got a few years ago was pretty tiny.

Rec-Tec is one of the brands I'd been looking at. The Weber Smokefire is really appealing since it's a true grill and will get up to 600 degrees, but the launch has been pretty rocky. It's been getting savaged on youtube, but I'm finding others are more enthusiastic about the product. I'm tempted to wait for the Smokefire 2.0 whenever that launches.

Bumping this topic with warmer temps. I've got a Weber kettle that I use almost exclusively for smoking and a Weber gas grill for my grilling. I'm happy with them, but my kettle is junk (bent, rusting, etc) and screaming to be replaced. I've got kids that are involved in everything, which makes it difficult to babysit a kettle all day for smoking, so I've really been thinking about a pellet grill to replace the kettle. I'm aware of the downsides of them and the pros. Wondering if anyone here has a pellet that they either love or hate or somewhere in between?

I grew up in Green Bay and really like Jake's Pizza. My parents say it isn't the same since they re-opened on Broadway, but I like it. We ate a lot of Aldo's Pizza growing up and I see they're still going in Green Bay. Also delicious up Green Bay way is Wild Tomato in Door County. I saw someone else mentioned it, I also loved Luigi's in River Falls when I went to school there. Blue Moon in Lake Mills is very good pizza. The hours are weird, they're only occasionally open for dine-in. In the Madison area, Salvatore's is fantastic.

It's not good.

Yadier Molina

Sturgill Simpson and Jason Isbell are "next level" stuff. Simpson is really pushing the boundaries of country music and Isbell is one of the finest songwriters in any genre.

I went to a game about six or seven years ago and went to The Bullpen before the game. It was just a bunch of freight cars stacked together to create an enclosure, but they had live music, food trucks and beer and it was across the street from the park. I don't know if this is still the case, but when I went to a game I went with a couple of local police officers and they told me the neighborhood was gentrifying but still not somewhere you'd want to be after the crowds die down post game. We left as soon as the game was over to have beers in a nicer neighborhood.

Thanks for the advice, everyone. I called the mechanic back this morning and we're going to scrap it. I guess our plan is to double up the car payments on our other car, get it paid off and then go buy a mini van. Might have to look for a reliable used car in the meantime as I deliver pizzas a few nights a week and don't like delivering in our nice car (hurts my tips, lol).

I guess a lot of my hesitation has to do with the fact that we've had no problems with the car. It's been incredibly reliable. Other than brakes last year, we haven't had any major work done on the car in years. It seems like a rock solid car and I hate to dump something after it breaks down once. I was really hoping to get one more year out of it, but it sounds like the consensus here is that it's a bad gamble on my part.

I've seen a few car repair threads here and have seen people get good advice, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I had my 2001 Dodge Stratus with 190,000 miles break down a few weeks back. The repair shop (a reputable one for what it's worth) says that the timing belt snapped and maybe the water pump but he can't be sure about the pump until he starts the work. The car has always treated us well and has brand new brakes and we were really hoping to get another year out of it so we can finish paying off our other car before we take on another car payment. The repair guy, however, is really trying to talk me out of fixing it. Crazy. He says I'm looking at anywhere from $5-800 in repairs, depending on the water pump. He seems to think the head gasket will go soon (and then that's a big money repair), but when pressed on the head gasket he doesn't say why, other than saying 200,000 miles is a lot of miles on a Stratus. If he has a real concrete reason on why he thinks the head gasket is about to go, he's not saying or he just isn't good at communicating it. It's almost bewildering how hard he's trying to talk me out of fixing the car, but he just isn't making a convincing argument. Am I crazy to spend the money on the car? Or is it a good gamble seeing as we can pay off our other car in less than a year if we don't take on another car payment? I'd usually just say "fix it" but his hesitation is really making me double guess my judgement.