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Yeah I think if you post the numbers and then follow that up with your observations on the data that can help spark discussions. Personally I find these threads enjoyable enough, mostly because there's not a ton of new topics to discuss. They tend to fizzle out quickly and yes the discussions tend to be at least as much about the thread itself rather than the topic of the thread.

In the interest of countering that and discussing the original topic, 200+ strikeouts in one season is a lot. Mr Skenes is good at baseball. Mr Anderson is pretty good too
Paz was one of the pitchers Jay was talking about specifically as being an anchor of the pitching staff next year. He's definitely more potential than results but it's a significant loss if for no other reason than it throws a wrench in Jay's plans.

I was thinking we'd be done grabbing pitchers in the portal outside of maybe a depth piece, but I think now we may need to go find another upper end arm if we can. To be fair I don't know much about incoming freshman pitchers, so maybe not, but after this year the more reliable arms we have the better I'd feel. Can Cowan get a local judge to rule he had a cold in his freshman year and therefore needs to be allowed to play another season?

re: Steam Summer Sale Started Today

Posted by LSshoe on 6/25/26 at 10:39 pm to
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For those that haven't played Cyberpunk, getting that game for $17 could not be more of a steal


How does it play on the steam deck?
I think the ultimate answer to your question of why doesn't something that's not sugar not taste like sugar is kind of self evident. I don't think people appreciate that sugar tastes like more than just sweet, and there are different kinds of sugars that have different flavor.

Stevia is good for subtle sweetness. If you add too much it tastes gross, but for lightly sweetening things it works very well. The liquid stevia is hard to find but it's great for adding just a dab or two to a pitcher of tea or something of the like.
They're allegedly selling it at cost. Hardware is just stupid expensive currently. People saying that if it was like 7-800 it would make sense, bit that's also allegedly around the original price they were targeting before ram and gpu prices went through the roof.

I like Valve as a company, they aren't perfect by any means, but they're about as consumer friendly as they can be and that's a rarity in this day and age. They also try. They push the envelope and try to put things out there that improve the situation for their customer base. I would love for this thing to succeed, though I don't know that I was ever really the target audience. I have a steam deck though and that thing is amazing.

Throwing out any sentimental crap and getting down to brass tax, this thing is at ita core a midrange pc. What I think it's real strenghts are is that it's tiny, it's quiet, and it at least has the potential to be a seamless drop in for couch gaming. The entire UI being controller-able is a big part of that, but also that they got CEC working properly on it. Meaning you could theoretically throw your TV remote away and use your steam controller to wake the pc and by extension the TV, and then put them both to sleep with the steam controller. That's not something at all straightforward with more or less any other pc.

And the other thing it has going for it, is that it is a pc. You can pull up a desktop and do legitimate work on it. If you like KBM play over controller you can do that. Any Bluetooth headset you want? That works. Those extra Xbox/playstation controllers you have? Probably works too. BC valve isn't trying to lock you out of this thing, they're trying to enable you. You can install windows on it if you care to (you probably shouldn't though).

I don't think it's at all pointless. At its current price point it's definitely niche though. That's not really Valve's fault though. You could say they could have subsidized it with theoretical game sales (which is the main reason you can get PlayStation and Xbox consoles at the price points they sell for), but since they by no means lock you into only buying games from steam, there's not necessarily a guarantee they'd recoup the loss from selling it.
There's a lot of good Greek/lebnese in the BR area. I love me some Albashas. Used to eat it at probably every other week before I changed jobs. I don't know that I'd say it's the best but I do find it consistently good. Serops express is what fast food/fast casual wishes they could be. I've only been to zorbas a couple times but it was really good when I did. Romans is also good stuff. I think I'm going to be eating Greek tomorrow.
They show about 4 seconds of it during the recorded Dan Borne "It's Saturday Night In Death Valley" speech. Which I guess only happens on games that start or finish at night. So maybe not every game, but most.
I think Wachs has the potential to play CF for us too. Maybe not his most ideal spot, but if Jay wants to put experience in that position while letting Patrick or one of the other younguns develop a bit more I could see it early season.

It doesn't seem like we have a natural 3b (or at least anyone who's spent considerable time there) but we have a bunch of MIF options so you kind of ASSume one of them can cut it over there.

Assuming we can find a good compromise of fielding and hitting in CF, I think we'll be able to get someone to fit at 3B. Catcher is the weird spot that we have tons of hitting talent but the defense back there was lacking. Hopefully with more reps over the summer and ideally our pitchers refamiliarizing themselves with the strike zone we'll be in good shape defensively.

At a minimum we should be significantly better than this year. Right? Right???
He was not on the 23 squad. 2 nattys would be impressive regardless.
Armstrong on highland has been good to us
Never heard of it but it sounds tasty.

Here's a random recipe i found just for some kind of base of recipe:

LINK

re: Blazing Saddles

Posted by LSshoe on 5/24/26 at 10:06 pm to
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the finale is less funny than the lead up


While true the end is kind of weak, the movie as a whole is a gem. It's maybe not the kind of movie that could get made, but the kind of movie that should.

re: Dempsey's in Baton Rouge

Posted by LSshoe on 5/24/26 at 9:38 pm to
It's good BR food. Good poboys and you can do a half and half with gumbo which is a great lunch option. The specials that I've tried have been solid.

It's not gonna knock your socks off but you likely won't go away disappointed.
LSU vs an Alabama team topping attendance charts checks out. LSU travels well and its close enough for plenty of AU/UA folks to make it. A little surprising in a year where we suck but maybe folks redirected their omaha budgets to hoover instead. I'd imagine the weekend games' attendance will pick up though

re: LSU 1 @ Auburn 3 Final

Posted by LSshoe on 5/20/26 at 10:57 pm to
Yup, sucks that the season is over. As dysfunctional as this team was much of the time, I think anyone who's on this board at 11pm on a Wednesday can relate to lamenting the end of the season. It shall be an interesting off-season. Silver lining is Jay has a head start on it this year and I have a suspicion that he's going to maximize it.

See y'all in the fall practice report threads fellow boxtards.

re: LSU 1 @ Auburn 3 Final

Posted by LSshoe on 5/20/26 at 10:22 pm to
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There is no part of this line up that scares pitchers


Well we're down two of our top hitters in Brown and Serna, plus Bide is slumping hard. That basically leaves Curiel and Mialm. Curiel is a fantastic bat but he's not exactly fearsome. Milan is clutch but for the most part he's not going to exactly strike fear either.

re: LSU 1 @ Auburn 3 Final

Posted by LSshoe on 5/20/26 at 10:03 pm to
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Why didn’t the dugout have him challenge


Because thats not the way it works. You only get a couple seconds and you aren't supposed to take instruction on that from the dugout.

re: LSU 1 @ Auburn 3 Final

Posted by LSshoe on 5/20/26 at 9:40 pm to
Evans is coming off an injury. At this point we've had all of our starting rotation injured this year, at least he's able to pitch at all (and pretty darn well tonight at that)

re: LSU 1 @ Auburn 3 Final

Posted by LSshoe on 5/20/26 at 9:01 pm to
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We’re really gonna miss DC, but he and Monster really need another year of LSU baseball


LSU baseball needs another year of DC and monster. Not certain the opposite is entirely true.

re: LSU 6 @ Oklahoma 2 Final

Posted by LSshoe on 5/20/26 at 12:35 am to
Nice effort tonight. Live to fight another night. Let's pull another one out tomorrow/today. But for now, sleep.

re: LSU 6 @ Oklahoma 2 Final

Posted by LSshoe on 5/20/26 at 12:02 am to
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Québécois surrendered to the British while the Acadians refused to pledge allegiance to those fricking pansies.

frick that catcher and his whole lineage.


:lol: :bow:

History boom in a midnight baseball game thread. My man.