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I love supporting local farmers and businesses in general...but $9.50 for a 12 inch frozen pizza...? 9/10 I tell my wife to get some sense when she wants the $6ish Portesi. Of course I have bought a $5 half gallon of milk once to support a local farmer so I am sure I will pay $10 for a frozen pizza too. On another note, the reason I dug this thread up, I’m not a huge fan of Lottza Mottza. Stupid amount of cheese for the amount of crust. HOWEVER, there is a new artisan crust that is a thicker crust and WOW. So much better! I believe it is the same price as the normal crust, but not sure as I bought it when there was a $4.50 sale. Highly recommend trying.
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I guess I should clarify Phoenix area, not necessarily literally in Phoenix. I guess for a typical Wisconsin person even Phoenix is going to seem expensive. A decent vacation house that will bring in lots of short term renters will cost ~250k at least. I think they couple I know bought around that a few years ago. Obviously has a pool etc. that people would look for. I don’t think it is a great investment to get into. One is better off just doing Air BnB themselves when they go on vacation. Just invest money in something more worthwhile. More lucrative and less stressful. Not to mention you won’t feel tied down to your vacation rental when you want a vacation. You can just go wherever you want.
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There is a lot of stress/work and expense into a non local rental property like that. The most success I have seen with it is at higher end properties that attract more laid back people. Not million dollar homes/condos, but not something that college kids and cheap families will be seeking out either. It can pay for the mortgage IF it is in a highly attractive area that is pretty year round. Phoenix area is really really good for that. It’s affordable to get a vacation property and attract renters pretty year round. I know someone that snow birds and they say even the non peak time sells really well for them and helps pay for the place.
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It isn’t the credit check that hurts, it’s the age of accounts that takes a big hit if you don’t have a ton of accounts, historically. Honestly, one should open up 2-3 credit cards ASAP in their early adult years. Your age of accounts is already pathetically low so what does it matter. Then never cancel those cards so it helps you down the road. Only if one can use them responsibly of course.
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The fastest, most efficient, and best outcome customer support is on Twitter. Not kidding. Part of the reason may be the fact they are all US based people and I also think the public complaint creates a motivation to make better amends. A phone call complaint is seen by no one else, but on Twitter the whole world can see it. Just make sure to tweet at the customer support page for a brand, most seem to have a dedicated page for support these days. Calling Spectrum is usually a terrible pain in the butt experience...but Twitter is super easy and they are great.
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I'd love to see the breakdown of how you came up with this.... Well, it would depend on any bundles one does and how many boxes they need...or if they need DVR. If you start wanting to have those things for 3+ rooms cable gets ridiculous. I calculated it and after the first year deal it was going to be about $1k more for cable.
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The time it takes to set up a streaming service is approximately 10 minutes. Changing streaming services, if you feel the need to do so, 20 minutes. Hardly a hassle and no one has to come into my house...or charge me rent to use a box. You also don’t have to call to cancel and return equipment etc. A hassle would be TV contracts or the massive price hikes cable customers see...that most then call, threaten, and complain over multiple phone calls to get reduced. I’m not sure what I would value the ability to watch the Brewers at...but I know it isn’t an extra $1,000+ a year. Everyone has their things they spend money on and don’t feel the need to find ways to save on. I have seen people cling to cable over way dumber things than the Brewers/Bucks. I know someone that has it because no streaming service will let them have the History channel and another specific channel they like. $1,000 seems like a hefty price to make sure you can watch Pawn Stars, but hey...not my money. Of course I am the kind of person that will switch around my bank account every 6-12 months to get $500 account opening bonuses. I know many won’t go through that kind of effort.
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I think it is generous to call it a cable alternative. Technically you are “cutting the cord”, but its still the same concept. It appears to be cheaper, but still waaaaay more expensive than other streaming services. Offer like $200 to sign up, stuck in two year contract, massive increase in the second year. From a Google search it looks like after the first year it is almost double YouTube TV cost wise.
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I looked into AT&T TV for about 10 minutes...looks like it is pretty much just expensive as cable, pass.
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Hulu has fast forward DVR if you get the upgraded DVR...which is $10. As it stands that makes it the same price as YouTube TV, but will actually make it more expensive when the price for Hulu goes up in a few weeks. We will see how standalone RSN works...I see a lot of issues. If it is a standalone product the sports fans have to shoulder the entire cost...where now it is divided among all the subscribers. For that reason I doubt it will be anywhere close to cheap...even for one regional area. It also seems you would have to stick people in a year contract for financial reasons. If not Brewers fans or Bucks fans would just drop the service after the season ends. I can't imagine how bad subscriptions would be if the Brewers/Bucks suck. Subscriptions would plummet after a month or two of the season if they suck. That is before even considering the revenue sharing problems and how MLB would respond to it.
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Is that where a lot of the NBA teams have their broadcasts? I know that is the case with the Bucks, but I wasn't sure if that was common for most teams like it is with baseball. The FOX RSNs are a disaster for Sinclair right now, but I don't know if they can really afford to have them entirely off the streaming services long term. They will have to figure out something.
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YouTube TV has a much better platform, and it isn't really close IMO. It really is pretty awesome. Hulu Live TV has gotten a lot better in the last 12 months, but YouTube TV has better responsiveness and fewer glitchy issues. Thanks, I know a few people with Hulu...no one with YouTube TV though. It does seem most of them have issues with Hulu on a pretty regular basis. One time the Packers game crashed on an intense final drive...talk about a cringe moment. I am hoping the FOX RSNs will come back before the start of baseball season. From what I read a major reason that hasn't happened yet is because COVID pretty well ruined the sports seasons and right now there is not much reason to try and make a deal because now those sports are over.
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Is there a general consensus on which is better, Hulu TV or YouTube TV? It was obviously Hulu before, but now that it doesn’t have FSWI that isn’t much of a scale tipper anymore. Both are going to be the same price come next month...actually Hulu may be slightly more with DVR after the increase. Seems like YouTube TV has the better line up.
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I doubt creating something to just air the Brewers is more lucrative than being apart of FSWI. Seems hard to believe.
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How would a team even go to streaming services without Fox (or any other channel affiliation)? Wouldn't they essentially have to create their own TV channel and infrastructure to televise the games then?
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They very well might. Not exactly something that gets announced. Usually it gets uncovered after the fact and the contract details are just based on rumors.
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I wouldn’t be optimistic. Many other services lost Fox before Hulu did...none have revived it.
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Just got an email that Hulu Live is dropping Fox Sports Wisconsin since they were unable to come up with an agreement with Sinclair. Are there any streaming services left that offer Fox Sports Wisconsin? That’s a huge bummer. I checked AT&T and (at least for me) it quoted at $70 for the first 12 months and for the second year they get you for $110. This being the price for the Choice package that is needed for regional sports (and has BTN).
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I only saw the two posts above me at first and was really confused why someone was so hyped for another person getting fiber internet.
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This is a baseball team, the goal should definitely be to rip the other team off. If we think a player is going to be a bust, but some team think he is a Top 50 prospect are we suppose to tell them that and offer the player as a throw in? The goal should be to gain the most perceived value while giving up the least amount of perceived value. According to our own valuations of course. Make the worst offer possible that the other team will accept. Of course at the time of a trade it probably will never look like you are ripping off a team. I doubt even Stearns expected all these guys to flop so much. And I don’t mean rip off like try to sneak them some pitcher who is about to blow out his elbow or try to trade them someone we know has serious mental/drug problems and is about to implode as a baseball player. That would be wrong.
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The CC trade wasn’t even that good in the grand scheme. They gave up a pretty good player in Brantley who went on to have 3 AS appearances, a Top 3 MVP finish, and 24 WAR with the Indians before moving on to the Astros. The Brewers got CC for half a year and got booted out of the playoffs first round as a wild card team. I’m not saying any Brewers fan would go back and veto the trade from happening, but it’s hardly some kind of robbery success story. It’s not even in the same universe when it comes to how good the Yelich trade has ended up. Lewis Brinson: -3.4 WAR Isan Diaz: -0.9 WAR Jordan Yamamoto: 0.4 WAR Christian Yelich: 14.1 WAR It’s quite possible the Marlins gave up a future HOFer in their peak for a package of players that will end up giving them a negative overall WAR. So far the Marlins would have been better off just giving Yelich away. I wasn’t alive with the dinosaurs like some of you so this may be bias towards the 21st century, but after the Yelich trade the Gomez trade has to be up there. Hader looks to be one of the best relief pitchers of his generation. Houser looks to be a very good pitcher whether that be in the pen or starting. Domingo Santana was solid bat for years and his double in Game 163 is arguably one of the bigger hits in Brewers history. What did the Astros get? A negative WAR from Gomez while he was there.
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Verizon is by far the best mobile carrier for coverage in Wisconsin. I have heard some people will get good coverage with ATT depending on where it is...overall the coverage isn’t as good, but sometimes it will be better in that one specific spot you really need it. It does really well for me “Up North” and other unpopulated areas. Did me pretty well on my spring vacation driving through parts of AZ/NV/CA.
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The whole lease/loan thing really is a big scam. Pretty much locks you into a contract with no reasonable way out. The other possibility is many people get so used to the $40 a month it doesn’t seem like a big deal and simply upgrading to a new phone every two years is no big deal. It’s like a monthly subscription...a trap. Get used to the payment, forget about the payment, and sit there spending money on something you don’t really need.
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Well there is a difference between a pension being good because it is actually good and a pension being good because the person is financially illiterate. The later is why social security even exists, because people cannot voluntarily make good decisions for themselves.
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Saying 401Ks are substantially worse is really inaccurate, especially without fine details of said person. When one gets into the pension (and leaves it) is a pretty important detail and how much they contribute is a pretty big deal (which tends to be a lot more than 20+ years ago). If we are being technical one would probably want a 401K for the first half of their career and then a pension for the later half. That probably is the most beneficial.