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If Abrams is going to take his walks, he’s going to be dangerous! Nice debut by Lipscomb. Ruiz is a better hitter than Ted Williams, just look at the numbers!

The Detroit Lions select Kamari Lassiter, CB, Georgia.

You can get a gun at a Florida elementary school, but you can’t check out a Judy Blume book in a library. That’s DeSantis’ America.

Thought Houston was going to regroup at halftime after the injury. If UNC had pulled it out last night, it would have guaranteed two ACC Final Four teams. I do think that Illinois has the best chance to beat UConn out of the remaining seven. I don’t think they will though.

Creighton goes to a triangle and two to get back into the game. Down three.

How often do you use multiple burners on the stove? I wonder if there’s a solution to have it sit on half the stove. 🤷‍♂️ Maybe there’s a flat surface thingy that could sit over the burners if you have gas and they have grates. I totally get the space dilemma.

https://www.ninjakitchen.com/products/ninja-foodi-6-in-1-smart-10-qt.-2-basket-air-fryer-zidDZ550 I got this for Christmas 22. I dig it. It’s great for frozen food that you don’t have to set out to thaw. Great for wings. If you’re entertaining, you can get that going along with the oven, stovetop, and crockpot. Instead of baking salmon in the oven, I drop it in here and I’m eating by the time I’d wait for the oven to pre-heat. It has more versatility than I’ve taken advantage of.

Not surprised that the woke J6 deniers are funded by Bud Light.

He’s so, so good. Need Illinois to win to be in the black for the evening.

Bradley was the only one who showed up. Not getting Hall in foul trouble early killed them.

Wut? I don’t remember this at all. 🤣

People can question about whether or not he’s a true prospect or not, but for a third round ‘22 pick to make the bigs in two years is a draft win. I saw him hit a bomb in F-burg in ‘22.

I remember a couple of weeks ago hearing about how bad the ACC is. 🤣

It’s so hard to repeat, but damn, they are just better than everyone else. They can play multiple styles so if they can’t shoot, they can go inside. If their bigs get into foul trouble, their perimeter can shoot themselves back into games.

Did Joe Ross ever win you $13 on over 5.5 Ks on opening day? Did he? Did he!

Uggh. That’s so frustrating. I have Hulu at $82 all in. Thought about dropping that for Fubo. Probably not now. That’s a thumbs down for the information, not you @Metalhead. 😎

Their lineup construction stances were farcical. But at least they do talk baseball. Can’t say the same for others. However, I was running an errand and they were going through the lineup as it was released. Spent a lot of time on Abrams and Lane. No problem. 1-2, makes sense. Then I think they went through 3-6 and got sideways about how bad the middle is. Which is true, but I got home and thought, well I guess I’ll look up the rest of the lineup online.

You can find estimates all over the place. https://www.lendingtree.com/debt-consolidation/raising-a-child-study/ Heaven forbid the child has any ongoing medical needs. Between premiums and out of pocket expenses, we easily spend $10-$12k a year on healthcare alone. The link I have says $3200 for food, that sounds reasonable, but on the low side. And that’s for parents who are fortunate to live in an area where the schools are passable and don’t have to use private schools. I agree with your main overall points in that thread, but wanted to point out that you were really underestimating child care costs.

@TheGreatBuzz From the election thread, $15k/yr to raise children? 🤣

I went deep down the rabbit hole about this woman and her family. Daybill’s sentencing is coming up in the next week or two. What she did was horrific. But there were a lot of horrible things/events in the family that led to this. Schizophrenia with her father. She was allegedly raped by her brother. Her sister died at age 31 due to complications from diabetes which was exacerbated by a mistrust of modern medicine. Her daughter who died was abused by her father. Her son who she killed was adopted. His biological mother had substance abuse, worked hard to try to get him back, and has since died. So ****ed up on so many levels.

Coming from a super casual Caps fan (where hockey is a distant 4th in the big 4 sports), I think it sucks that the Leonsis/Sweatervest stadium news is overshadowing this exciting late season push for the playoffs.

Had to look it up. Reading about Diddy, I came across the word Tuci. Not familiar. Tuci = “Pink cocaine” = a combo of caffeine, ketamine, and ecstasy.

I read this, and I have to be missing something. Day care is crazy expensive, nobody is denying that. But you say your wife is on unemployment and your parents live with you. With that combination of three people, wouldn’t one be at home and you could pull the little ones from daycare? Not trying to preach, just trying to better understand. I’ve been there with daycare, unemployment, and in-laws moving in. Fortunately the duration of each was limited, but yeah, pretty stressful.

Okay, yeah. Looks like they rebranded to Copare.

106.7 and 980 used to do spots for a weight loss company. I don’t hear those ads anymore. I can’t remember the name, but I know there was one in Tyson’s. I tried looking it up, but nothing looks familiar. Anyone remember them and did they go out of business? I could stand to lose some weight. I looked into them, but they were godawfully expensive.