Jax-Tiger

I know the earnings report was bad, what is your take on AAPL?

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he likes having incompetents running things.

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What kind of competency are you looking for?

Are you looking for a bureaucrat who is great at talking for 30 minutes straight and saying nothing?

Are you looking for a guy who is a genius at covering up waste and fraud?

Are you looking for someone who is the best at financing our war machine and MIC?

Are you looking for a master at the status quo?

I don't think Hegseth is competent at any of those things, nor do I think Trump is interested in any of those things.

The Villages has a lot of positives going for it. Not to be a negative Nellie, but there are negatives that should be taken in consideration.

Complaints about The Villages:

1.) The Villages gets old, after a while. This happens when you have a massive development done by one developer. They repeat their pattern over and over with each new section. There are a lot of "downtown" areas that are accessible to different neighborhoods, but they all tend to be similar. Wash, rinse, repeat.

2.) Location. It is a long way from anything. If you get tired of The Villages and want to do something different, you are too far from the beach, Orlando, or even Gainesville to take a quick trip. The nearest decent beach is almost two hours away (either coast). Orlando and Gainesville are both over an hour away. There are alternatives closer to the ocean that you might want to look at.

3.) It gets expensive, if you pay for extra activities like golf, swimming, etc, it could cost you an thousands extra per month. In order to play the Championship golf courses, you have to pay for a membership, plus greens fees/cart each time you play.

4.) Costs go up in the peak season. Businesses raise their rates during the winter, because they can.

5.) Part-time neighbors. You end up with empty houses around you during the off-season. A lot of the residents only live in Florida when it is cold up north.

6.) Congestion. The OP said the population is 150,000. I don't know if that's true, but the population does fluctuate, and in the winter, getting around can be difficult. Golf carts alleviate some of the congestion, but golf carts do have a limited practical range. Getting into restaurants/bars, finding good parking, getting a good spot to see a band, etc, can also be an issue, at times. And it's not going to get better.

The Villages is the biggest and most well known of the retirement places in Florida. My wife and I have done some research on it, and our current thinking is that we will probably retire in Vero Beach, where we currently rent, while trying to decide where to buy a house.

We lived in Tradition, for a while (a smaller version of The Villages in Port St Lucie, FL), and we prefer Vero Beach for it's authenticity. It has a small town feel to it, without the touristy vibe that most beach towns have these days. We will probably decide for sure when we both retire, but we are kind of looking at Hobe Sound, as well.

ETA - It's pretty common knowledge that the widow business is pretty cutthroat. Some of these widows scour the obituaries looking for men who's wives have recently died, make a move, get married, and then frick the lucky bastard to death (although ED medication mixed with heart meds might have something to do with cause of death), leaving them with a retirement account and a house.

Tampon Tim is the poster child for that guy who tries too hard to be liked and tries too hard to be a man's man. But he always falls short.

He needs him one a Deez...



Desperate times...

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Definitely helps our pitching.

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I don't care about the tourney, but our options for a 4th or 5th starter are good. Chase Shores, Jaden Noot, William Schmidt, or Connor Ware give us options better than most teams for a 4th or 5th starter. These guys all have great arms and have started games for us. None of them are indispensable bullpen pieces.

We'll do okay in tournaments with our staff. If we are down to our 5th starter, the other team probably is, too.

Crews was better as a freshman. Both were very mature baseball players as freshmen, but Crews was the total package AND he improved incrementally every year.

Having said that, Curiel has a more room for improvement. Obviously, he could add more consistent power. Crews didn't have any holes in his game as a freshman, other than he struck out a bit too much. He fixed that, and the rest is history.

I would love to see Curiel hitting . 360+ with 20+ home runs as a Junior.

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he also didn’t bother warming anyone up in the pen after they brought in that rag arm in the 8th and still let it ride while we clobbered him in the 9th

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Another good one.

Did anyone notice that he brought in a lefty to face Curiel for a lefty on lefty matchup. After Curiel walked, he intentionally walked Jones in order to face lefty Brown. Instead of leaving his left handed pitcher in for a 2nd batter, he brings in a righty to face Brown. Brown proceeds to hit it out of the park.

I thought Vitello didn't make mistakes like that. Imagine that.

In game decisions can be a crapshoot. Nobody is perfect. There are other mistakes that could've cost the Vols. Yesterday, Vitello used up both of his challenges early in the game on non-scoring plays.

Well, Milam did okay last night. The rest of the team needs to do what he's doing...