grsharky

The AL East (minus TB) should get an ASG soon, it's been a while since anyone has had it in that division.

Rogers Centre-1991
Camden Yards-1993
Fenway-1999
Yankee Stadium (old)-2008

The wife and I just started a rewatch this week. Man the pilot was rough, and being a pilot a lot of things are different from the rest of the series, like the office is pretty different from what it becomes later. Obviously it takes a while for a show to gel, but Don is a lot different in the earlier episodes. The guys holding down Ken to put the spray deodorant on him, and Don is sitting there chuckling. If that happened in later seasons, he would've kicked them all out.

The one thing that drives me nuts about Mad Men is the geography is so off in the show. In the pilot Pete shows up at Peggy's door out in Brooklyn. She lived in Bay Ridge, that's a long haul from midtown to show up on the step of girl you met that day. Also whenever Don leaves from Ossining to go back into the city, they make it seem like it's 15-20 minutes and it's more like an hour. The worst one is when Don takes the teacher's brother to Massachusetts for a job, Bedford is a little northwest of Boston, and yet he gets him up there and back like it's nothing. It's a little thing, but I always notice it when I rewatch it.

Our school district just came out and said they wouldn't cover a lot of the GLP-1 drugs, there are a few they will still cover but it can't be just for strictly weight loss. I know they're expensive, but as said above, they will cut down on your overall medical costs over time. Heck my wife's intake nurse, her husband is a diabetic and they put him on these and he is at the point now where is no longer actually diabetic.

I'm not saying these are perfect, but man they can go a long way to helping with a lot of people's issues.

Teacher here, so more shows and movies than I could list. Most are grossly inaccurate for any number of reasons. I've never taught in an inner city school, but I'd say season 4 of The Wire when Prez becomes a teacher is pretty accurate. Lots of frustrated, burned out people navigating a broken system that only cares about test scores and keeping the higher ups off their back.

Most overly inspirational films are pretty much fiction. With that being said, I do like being a teacher but it's like any other profession in many respects.

Funny, it’s kind of the opposite in our district.
Elementary pretty much gets what they want, high school gets a bit less, and middle school is allocated the scraps. I teach 7th and 8th grade history so they barely know I’m alive. I kind of like it that way though, I do my own thing and admin leaves me alone.

Some teachers go way overboard on their rooms, and honestly the kids get distracted by it all. I keep my room pretty basic.

The first time it was, but others it was pretty smooth.

We just had to replace my wife's car, she was driving a 2013 Rav4 but it finally was reaching the end of the road. She didn't want to get rid of it, it was her first adult purchase coming out of pharmacy school back in 13, but it was going to need a lot of work to pass inspection. We ended up getting a 2024 Rav because she hated the new ones and they were crazy expensive.

I bought a new 4runner in 21 and got it paid off by 24. We've been plowing a lot into retirement accounts, so we did get a note on this new car (4 years). I plan on getting it paid off pretty quick though, the interest rate on used cars is nuts, even with excellent credit.

I guess it's for real this time, there was a rumor a few years back that he had passed but it was quickly debunked. Ned was great, but man he seemed old back in 93 when he made the first Dale and Dale call. He lived a long life.

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The biggest challenge I think is how antisocial and busy everyone is. That's the thing I've noticed as I've gotten older, before 2 of my best friends and I could meet up with a day or two notice. Now it's like at least a week if not 2 weeks notice to put aside time to meet up. Another one of my friends is even worse. They put stuff in their calendar on their iPhone. I feel like a lot of the time I need to give them like 2-3 weeks notice to hang out and do something.

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This. I'm 42, married with two kids. I've noticed as I've gotten older that having a social life has become harder and harder. Everyone is busy, things never line up, and it becomes easier to just skip things. I've mentioned to my wife that our lives are hectic with work and kids and we're constantly on the go, but I've never felt lonelier from a friends perspective. We text and have group chats, talk sports and send dumb memes still. But actually getting together is almost impossible it seems.

I saw Ziregolf that Rahm had an albatross on Sunday yet it was never mentioned on the broadcast. They had a fan video of it.

The ladder at Fenway that’s in play, balls take some weird bounces on that thing.