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A favorite DDL scene. The guy is beyond great.

Ambar - GES NOV 23

QD54 ASR JUN 19. Was by far the best example of these I’ve tried.

Better time to buy? The general consensus seems to be fear. From 120k highs back to 76k and divebombing.... I doubt anyone can call the end of this year right now.

Ok I think we're past the top 😁

no, no, no. wrong island. our very own tattoo was off helping mr roarke on fantasy island. or perhaps it wwas the same place.

count me in. if the commputer is even close to working.

It must of had a permit for that

Yes, the next time I'm in New York (God willing, of course!) we will meet up an have much to discuss. In regard to the Kyle Tucker signing, for me, something didn't feel quite 'au fait' with all that happened. I mean in terms of the media reporting of it. This is the only instance of any media outlets getting news of an Mets offers to players this offseason. I find that intensely curious. By comparison, not one media outlet even knew that the Mets were interested in Bo Bichette since the Winter Meetings in the first week of December last year. Then when Bo was signed it was all a tremendous shock! My theory about the Kyle Tucker negotiations is this...Firstly, let's not even pretend that Steve Cohen is stupid when it comes to money. You don't happen to be worth $US21 billion by accident, do you? I think that 'Uncle Steve' knew that Tucker was not going to come to the Mets so he did two deliberate things. One, increase his offer by AAV (Average Annual Value) to an absurdly over-inflated amount (because let's be honest...Kyle Tucker is only the 5th best player on the Los Angeles Dodgers team going by 2025 WAR or Wins Above Replacement and he is not worth $US60 million a year) and two, he leaked the Mets insanely sky-high offer to the media to force the LA Dodgers to overpay for Tucker's services. I mean, no-one even knew what the Dodgers were offering, by contrast. Since we posted about all this a few weeks ago the Mets have added the aforementioned Bo Bichette, reliever Luis Garcia, pitchers Freddy Peralta and Tobias Myers, center fielder Luis Robert Jr., second baseman Vidal Brujan and signed Craig Kimbrel, Austin Barnes and Grae Kessinger to Minor League contracts. After not much happening post Alonso/Nimmo/Diaz leaving, the transactions happened like a tidal wave. The 'Amazin' Mets'? Yes, quite literally, it was all amazing! It's a very good team and at the very least Mets fans can't complain that management has taken a course of action to address making the postseason in 2026.

OK...it the Pats V Seahawks....but still! Light up a cigar. Pour a drink. Let's party a little We will do this one on Zoom. I will send you an invite 30 minutes pre game. Have it on the background. Have our zoom in in the background! Scream a lot if need be. Tell us why your team sucks (assuming they are not playing!)l Last game of the year. Make the most of it, Register here on this thread for the link 15 minutes out.

Fantastic to see Alex doing well We are hope to catch up for a private Zoom in the coming weeks. Looking forward to it.

So far AG Lancero by AG Cigars (Alex Glez). Very good Cuban taste.

Thank you guys!

Love the San Juan! They (even recent examples) have been smoking the house down

An OLM Oct 2014 Hoyo de Monterrey Le Hoyo de San Juan. In a word...bliss!

Haha...so funny! 🤣😂

Water. Eat less, eat better. Cut sugar. Medical alcohol only. Exercise & regular sleep. Basically a total 180°.

That is an excellent story. One of the many things I loved about Oscar Valladares was his rolling school in Danli Honduras. I hope that one day that Fab 5 will be in the position to do the same. Rolling school, childcare for the youngin's.

I appreciate the feedback folks. Did a testing on Sunday morning on the way to lunch. NB/Saucony/OC/Hoka predominantly. I have ordered a couple of sets of Hoka (Clifton and Arahi). 40% sale helped make the decision but they felt great. Let's see how they go.

It blew the Snapper out of the water. Sweet white meat. Excellent.

you take one flight...

you are doing a good job regardless ........ Epstein files/releases have no part of this forum. Unless you or I come up. JohnS would be a surprise. Fuzz would not.

no argument.

looking at all this from the perspective of diversions involving cuba and others, so as not to go down paths inappropriate, it started before the arrest in 2019 with epstein and very suspicious deals with acosta. this and the arrest was in trump's first term. then came prosecution of maxwell and subsequent appeals. this was during the previous administration. investigations relating to all this were only shut down by trump in june or july last year, from memory. while this is going on (the appeals, investigations, statements from witnesses and so on), it was considered inappropriate and potentially prejudicial and even likely to adversely affect the case against maxwell by providing her with further and likely successful grounds for appeal should files be released. and it just isn't done at this stage. the dept of justice, or any such entity (assuming them competent and not simply one man's private law firm), does not go around releasing files before a matter is concluded. in addition, as the previous white house has explained, they believed in the seperation between the office of the president and the justice dept. as they should. sadly, not everyone does. invading Cuba? as for it being a stretch, really? politicians the world over have used diversions to cover problems. many believed that thatcher declared war on argentina, not to save a few sheep on a far distant rock, but to take attention away from her failing popularity at the time. if so, it worked. i always liked thatcher but she was a politician. it would be fair to say that the current incumbent of the white house does not do diversions, simply because there is so much going on that some might feel he'd need them daily. who really knows. but a lot of things seem to happen when the focus is very much on the latest chaos. attention now on Cuba could easily be more of the same. we've seen it before. one exampple among many. it really is a bit difficult to see the actions of bombing small boats allegedly because of the drugs issue as anything more than yet one more diversion, very much along these lines. the size of these boats mean they need to carry an estimated 950 gallons of fuel to get to the US (not much room for all the alleged drugs left), the US coast guard/navy have already identified them and if they really were headed to the US or an interim site, could easily intervene and arrest them. they are supposedly being bombed to prevent fentenol arriving in the states. venuezla makes about as much fentenol as i do. fentenol basically comes originally from china. yet not a word about stopping that. and if they were genuine about drugs, why pardon a guy who sent literally tonnes of drugs into the US? and on and on. so yes, if/when the epstein files issue builds again, i can see a diversion, whether it be Cuba, china, iran, another city like Minneapolis, a prize ceremony, a movie, who knows. not a big leap. but to go further might see us transgressing FoH rules.