| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | New Orleans |
| Biography: | From New Orleans |
| Interests: | Football |
| Occupation: | Oil and Gas Finance |
| Number of Posts: | 9696 |
| Registered on: | 7/12/2007 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: Lexus GX-550...Anyone on the board own a Lexus GX550?
Posted by deNYEd on 4/18/25 at 9:11 am
The premium and luxury trim all match body
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re: Lexus GX-550...Anyone on the board own a Lexus GX550?
Posted by deNYEd on 4/18/25 at 7:50 am
Been on a wait list over 6 months for our trim and package. Just received picture of it arriving in but getting the roof wrapped in black. If you want captain seats in back you will be waiting quite a bit. only way we could even get hands on this one is because they are showing at Zurich. Don't touch my car
re: This guy gets it, re Travel ball
Posted by deNYEd on 3/26/25 at 9:17 am
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Excuse my ignorance, but when I was younger there were 3 tiers of baseball leagues: National League (lowest), American League (middle) and Dizzy Dean (top). You would then play teams in the same tier from other playgrounds in your city.
Has travel ball taken away this format?
Based on what I see. The Participation Trophy mindset created the current environment. Growing up in Chalmette they had A, B, C, and possibly even D teams. Kids were cut at an early age and it was just tough tickles. Over the years they started mixing all the kids together to make it "fair". It became watered down and the more passionate kids started looking for better competition. It's like anything in life, the pendulum typically swings hard
re: This guy gets it, re Travel ball
Posted by deNYEd on 3/26/25 at 9:08 am
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Because kids genuinely aren't wired that way, that was even before social media, video games, and phones took over their already frantic existences.
Yes, and he still enjoys these things like most normal kids, but some kids are simply different. This is possibly the disconnect with most of the board because they haven't experienced what I am describing. My goal is to never turn my kid down when he ask to throw the ball. He begged me to go to cages when he got home from school yesterday. Last thing I wanted to do at end of the day yesterday, but had I said no he would absolutely resort to an extra hour of TV or video games. I know what I'd rather and spending the time with him is just a bonus.
re: This guy gets it, re Travel ball
Posted by deNYEd on 3/26/25 at 8:55 am
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I don't want to call you a liar, but come on my dude.
I guess you just haven't experienced a kid passionate about a sport. My kid walks in door and grabs his glove. He watches other random kids on youtube playing baseball. I never played baseball past 6yr old or had any burning desire for my kid to play baseball. My daughter doesn't want to do anything that would make her sweat. I am happy to foster a love for anything that isn't destructive.
re: This guy gets it, re Travel ball
Posted by deNYEd on 3/26/25 at 8:46 am
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My theory is that none of my children will be professional athletes, the genetics just aren't there, so play as many sports and do as many different things as possible so you're at least average in everything. That's better for their lives going forward IMO.
but why does this even have to be in the equation? How about just doing what makes them happy, regardless if it's repetitive or exclusive
re: This guy gets it, re Travel ball
Posted by deNYEd on 3/26/25 at 8:28 am
I must admit that the travel ball scene here is somewhat exaggerated. I probably even bought into it at one point. Now that I've experienced it, it's easy to see that although the stereotypes exist, it's also incredibly simple to find a middle ground. My child genuinely loves the game and wants to play every day. He doesn't enjoy playing with kids who pick flowers in the outfield—that's not fun for any kid with a real passion for the sport. We're on a team that lets him play two additional times a week beyond rec league, usually within 15-30 minutes of home, with the occasional trip to Hammond or Baton Rouge. We have a great group of parents, and no one is beating or yelling at the children.
re: People talking about AI “taking over” always make me laugh.
Posted by deNYEd on 3/24/24 at 12:13 pm
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I think that people who say AI will take over every job don’t understand how artificial intelligence actually works. For sure there is a place for it, but if your job can be taken over by AI then it’s likely because you are doing useless paperwork. AI is just a stats program, and input into it must be done by somebody. Jobs creating/editing AI software will become more common, and that will replace the “jobs” that AI is taking over.
yea, not exactly how this works and if you are not intelligent enough to understand this you should be concerned
re: Greed-flation AKA Sellers Inflation Do you Believe it?
Posted by deNYEd on 7/19/23 at 10:20 am
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Do you believe in greed-flation? Or is that just some Joe Biden Liberal BS?
Its very real. It is just not oil/energy companies like the left-leaning media would have you believe. I know some major manufacturing business owners and had some of these discussions. They will all charge inflated rates until they simply can't get away with it. They started seeing prices reductions in raw materials and shipping a year ago and are just starting to lower prices to stay competitive and fight back demand levels.
This is why the fed needs consumers to break. They absolutely NEED pain in the market. Only way to affect demand levels, which is the only way to end inflation
re: Now that TD is nearly 20 years old, are there any posters the product of two posters
Posted by deNYEd on 7/6/23 at 3:56 pm
This thread has brought back many old memories
re: Club 4 Fitness
Posted by deNYEd on 7/4/23 at 3:58 pm
I'm at one in Kenner. It's ok for cheap gym but I'm often frustrated. I simply had to walk out this morning bc so crowded and shite everywhere. People rarely pick up after themselves and tons of douchebags flexing in mirrors and doing dumb shite. I hate everyone and really need to get out a commercial gym
re: Jo Lindner dead at 30
Posted by deNYEd on 7/2/23 at 11:18 am
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I don't follow bodybuilding, but I do follow strongman. I see some bodybuilding stuff tangentially every now and then. Both of those groups are on a shite ton of gear. The main difference I've noticed between the two is that the strongman competitors seem a whole lot more committed to regular doctor's care. Maybe it is because of how injury prone their comps are, or how strenuous the events are, I don't know, but just from the outside I've noticed a lot of those guys take their "health" seriously enough. Health is in quotation marks because, well....it is all relative to the fact that they are living an unhealthy lifestyle to begin with.
In comparison it seems that a whole lot more of the bodybuilding community live a lot faster without as much oversight as other strength sport groups. Just my two cents.
thats some of it, but honestly a big difference is what some of these guys (namely Jo) do to stay so lean. He was known to do extreme things in order to keep his body fat low. The human body is not designed to run that lean for extended periods of time.
re: Funny how all the servers disappear during Essence.
Posted by deNYEd on 7/1/23 at 9:37 am
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enlighten us
sure...its not a particular socioeconomic class of a race that has the stereotype but rather the race itself
re: What poor baw is this?? Shoot shot on the big screen and getting curved
Posted by deNYEd on 6/27/23 at 12:29 pm
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Likely some Holy cross trash in the mold of GRTiger.
HC grad and the same year as GRTiger and I
re: What poor baw is this?? Shoot shot on the big screen and getting curved
Posted by deNYEd on 6/27/23 at 10:49 am
He went to Ole Miss but grew up in New Orleans. Doesn't miss many parties
Goofy dude, if I had to guess he wasn't even trying to flirt with her. Prob legit wanted a high five or some shite
Goofy dude, if I had to guess he wasn't even trying to flirt with her. Prob legit wanted a high five or some shite
re: What poor baw is this?? Shoot shot on the big screen and getting curved
Posted by deNYEd on 6/27/23 at 10:33 am
re: 1st Person Vid of randomly shooting at houses w/handgun Update: Not NOLA, Texas
Posted by deNYEd on 6/6/23 at 12:12 pm
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St Andrew’s Ct. off Bullard in the East is close too, but no street view.
This is area I am thinking as well
re: Pulse chain
Posted by deNYEd on 5/23/23 at 9:34 am
Remember that time we desperately tried to tell everyone about Pulsechain and they laughed at us then it became the second-largest blockchain by volume in 9 days?! I remember... :rotflmao:
re: Text war with a former boss
Posted by deNYEd on 5/8/23 at 2:52 pm
If you said what you meant then you let it ride. If you said shite solely bc you were drunk, you apologize. Fairly straight forward
re: At Orlando International. Waitress: "we're out of Miller Lite & Coors Light"
Posted by deNYEd on 5/4/23 at 4:27 pm
i see now
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