thunderbird1100

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Either I’m not understanding that correctly but Texas hasn’t played OU yet and also Texas hasn’t lost a series yet this year

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"They" in that is USC

Texas is at the top of the league and they (USC) lost 2/3 to OU. This was in response to someone mentioned the league added 2 good teams since when Mainieri was here.

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Has the league changed that drastically in 3 years?

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The transfer portal has drastically changed the ability to plug holes you think you have, for sure

The problem for Mainieri is they had a pretty bad portal haul to go along with a pretty bad freshman class as well. Now he had no real input on the freshman class obviously, but the weak portal haul certainly was a lot on him.

South Carolina is really lacking on the talent end and he doesnt have the talent influx to fix that thus far, and their freshman class coming in for next season is also still pretty weak.

So basically he better go balls to the wall in this next portal cycle and hit it big because thats about the only way South Carolina will be competitive again in the SEC next season.

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SLU Friday night guy is a dude. If they get in the tourney, they will ruin some 1's seed day.


Brother Martin kid that blew his arm out a few years ago.

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Dude's a 5th year senior too.

Last year he had a 2.87 ERA but only 49 K's in 84.2 IP.
This year he has a 2.06 ERA with 98 K's in 74.1 IP

He must have added a really good pitch between this year and last year to double his K's in 10 less IP

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Sounds no different than a credit card

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Very different from a credit card, these are out there every single time you check out for any size purchase, tempting you to do it because it makes it look cheaper. Everyone knows how a c.c. works, everything comes due within the statement month. It might be similar to a c.c., but again you can sign up for these basically every time you checkout somewhere and it's almost instant. You're not getting offered a new credit card every time you checkout somewhere and if you do, still have to go through a process of approval if you can even get it. It takes a little time, this is very very easy by comparison and nearly everyone gets approved to start out. C.C. almost always require a hard credit check, BNPL uses soft (which also makes it more appealing to a lot of people).

I really would like to see John Pearson get more looks. He honestly hasnt had much in the form of bad AB all season long, but obviously been given very few opportunities.

I know hes unlikely to see any meaningful time on the weekend at this point, but some more mid-week looks would be interesting and maybe he plays his way into more weekend AB. He is a bit all or nothing if you look at his stats this year, but that could also be to pressing so hard knowing its limited opportunities for him at the plate.

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There could be many reasons for this change, including the increasing costs of homes and childcare, or a growing focus among young people on travel and career.

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Dual income households and daycare is fricking nuts definitely a huge factor.

Everyone in my wife/I's friend group didnt have their 1st until mid 30s. All of them focusing on career and realizing how much it is just to have a kid with daycare costs these days kept people working and not wanting to have a kid for quite some time.

My wife and I just had our 1st kid in 2023 at 37ish (37 for her, 36 for me). Our closest friends have 2 kids at the daycare we're at with our kid now and they pay $700 a week. My buddy went and got a vasectomy a month after the 2nd child went into daycare. :lol:

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I'm not talking about McDelivery though, thats obviously bad.

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This is what BNPL has turned into though.

There's aways been 0% options for larger purchases, tvs, appliances, furniture, etc etc

Now we are talking about going to Old Navy, spending $27 and putting it on BNPL because they offer it. Or any online shopping in general where typically the transaction price isnt that much, but you almost always have the option to use a BNPL option at checkout which a lot of people are obviously doing.

I think there's a right time and place to use 0% financing options on larger purchases, and makes sense in say moving to a new place, lots of cash going out the door potentially, so furnishing some new space getting some 0% financing on that to spread out that cash flow hit.

There's no reason to use BNPL on these smaller purchases though, it's just a trap to eventually hope you cant afford the payments and then they collect a ton of interest and fees on you...and theres only 1 type of person using BNPL on $27 at Old Navy or $15 McDelivery - people who cant afford it to begin with and are broke. They end up with a $150-$200 BNPL balance each payment and then cant make the full payment. The point of doing it on such small purchases is to make it addicting to use since there's little (1/4 of price) to no sting at first when buying it so those endorphins of "I made a bad decision" dont get triggered. Unklike a credit card too when the full balance will be due in a month's or so time, and BNPL spreads things into smaller payments over time to make the "sting" once again never feel bad until you build up your payments over time to do so.

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Its a good tool if you're responsible in its use.

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It's pretty much a terrible tool for 98%+ of the people that use it, because it literally encourages you to buy things you cant afford until you then cant afford the payments themselves and then get killed with fees and interest.

It's just another poor persons tax without them realizing it. If you are putting $15 of McDelivery on 4 payments; thats a problem.

Man we have fizzled out hard in the portal, things are not looking great for nextseason if we can't close this class out.

What a bitch that TN player is to shove him like that