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Why are our right handed hitters continually flying out to RF ronight?

Make it make sense
Did bear miss a Wheatie or two this morning?
He's safe, unless they called way out basepath
Cannot get this kind of performance by Anderson, ugh
How the hell did that stay in
Curiel said enough with the bunt BS
Kade getting abused tonight
Holy shite a Jay johnson challenge worked
This guy is making us look real real bad
Sheerin was like a lot of other guys we got from the portal and didnt have great control last season
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That’s a simplistic way of looking at it. Having 4 walks spread out over 9 innings is very different than having your starter go 6+ innings with no walks then having 4 walks over the last 3 innings.



Bingo, this has been a major problem for us when a number of guys come out the pen

Bullpen only
Game 2 against Texas - 5 walks in 3.2 IP
Game 3 against Mizzou - 3 walks, 1 WP, 1 HBP in 5.1 IP
Game 2 against Mizzou - 6 walks, 1 WP, 2 HBP in 5.1 IP

The 3 other SEC games the pen was just fine to very good even. So its not every game, but when they're bad, they are definitely bad and its been in half the SEC games at this point plus some non conference weekend games as well.
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It’s been frustrating to see TN pick up a guy like Liam Doyle and transform him into one of the best pitchers in the country and Auburn take Sam Dutton and turn him into an effective weekend starter…meanwhile, what has LSU done? We signed one of the best high school pitchers in the country, who scouts say had one of the best curve balls in the entire draft, and he gets to campus and can’t find the plate with it. We signed multiple high level arms out of the portal, and there’s just been no development at all.



The pitchers we got from the portal who didnt have control problems (Cowan, Eyanson) are the ones who arent having control problems.

All the rest of them had control problems, and continue to have control problems.

I hope Yeskie and Jay are learning a solid lesson here if they cant get 70% of the arms we got from the portal to throw strikes consistently who all couldnt really previously either. Place a premium on strike throwers in the portal with stuff 2nd to that, not the other way around.
When you go out and get a bunch of pitchers in the portal who have control problems, and you're not fixing said control problems, this is where we're at.
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Those people are doomsday morons. Even is you invest conservatively and make and draw 4% a year you are drawing $120k a year without touching your principle.



You are assuming all $3M net worth is $3M in the market? Because net worth is a lot of things outside the market.

Without any context to the $3M net worth, hard to make any real judgements.
Runs will be at a very high premium on Thursday, Pico their ace is as good as they come in the SEC.

re: What's up with yamin?

Posted by thunderbird1100 on 3/26/25 at 8:59 am
Yamin is redshirting, he basically wasnt going to play this year being so far down the depth charts at C/1B/OF so better off to redshirt and preserve 2 more years of eligibility for him.

He was a bit of a bloomer last season because his freshman year wasnt good, so he still is probably figuring things out.

I will say usually these types just end up transferring from here, but not everyone is ready right away either so he could become a contributor next season after a number of guys leave between the OF, Jones at 1B and Hernandez at C.
Vehicles inflated a ton over the last 5 years, its been bad. Used prices have corrected some but its still used prices on things that went way up in MSRP over the last few years if you're looking for something made in the last few years.

We got the '22 MDX tech pkg for $40k with 29k miles on it. Original sticker was for $54k on it. A 2019 MDX same trim level stickered for about $50.5k. So from just 2019 to 2022 it rose a decent bit. A 2025 MDX tech (again, same trim) is just under $58k with now. So over 6 model years it went from $50.5k to $58k for the same vehicle basically.
Hes not a bad pick in terms of if he doesnt work out at QB he could make for a pretty dang good RB.

re: Personal loan question

Posted by thunderbird1100 on 3/26/25 at 7:55 am
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What’s your thoughts on doing this, but instead of making $491 payments monthly, pay the minimum each month and put the remaining into a HYSA (of course discipline is crucial here and you can’t touch that money) then pay off the entire loan at the end of the term. You end up recouping some of the 5% transfer fee.



3% transfer fee with the one I posted, not 5%

This is a really bad idea though for someone trying to get out of credit card debt. They need to be throwing as much as they can every month to get rid of the debt, not trying to suddenly be an optimizer while still having the credit card debt. The extremely small spread difference is not worth the risk of someone who has had credit card debt seeing a big chunk of change building up on the side they can suddenly use one day instead of paying off the c.c. debt and the cycle just continues. Much easier for them psychologically to just pay off the debt as fast as possible throwing all they can at it.

Once its gone, sure, start building up the savings on the side, they will have money again, until then, no way would I tell someone to make minimum payments on transferred C.C. debt and and throw the rest in a savings account to make an extremely minimal (frankly not worth the huge risk) spread. Pay it off and get rid of it and dont tempt yourself. If they were optimizers they wouldnt be in this situation to start with.
Nissan CVTs are the worst, its a ticking time bomb, I would walk away from it. It's only a matter of time before the CVT ultimately fails on you (sounds like it is basically).

Whats your current financial situation like overall? Can you afford a new car?

Why not look at certified pre-owned? You dont just have to settle for market rates, there's always manufacturer subsidized rates even on some used vehicles. We got my wife a 2022 MDX CPO for 1.49%/36mo last summer.