BaddestAndvari

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I hate people that are solely speculators and collectors. Kids can't even play the game because 50 year old dudes are waiting in line at Target to wipe out the shelves every Monday morning.

I get you are enjoying this with your kids, but don't make it about finding high value cards. Just enjoy the game, the art and completing sets. Don't make it about money.

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I will say - luckily around where I live we have a bunch of card shops, and every single one of them cater to the player waaaaaay more than the scalpers. For Magic they hold onto some of their stock for the Magic night, for Pokemon they hold onto it for Pokemon League, etc. If I wanted to I could have my son opening packs every week because of this and at MSRP (I don't, because I'm REALLLLLY not trying to give him a gambling addiction at the age of 8 lol).

He's had a load of fun playing, I hope next week and the 20+ games he might have to play won't make him hate it completely after :lol: (I've heard the big regional events are a lot of fun though, so I'm optimistic)

I play with my son - my son is running a deck right now that we are taking to a Regional this weekend. In his deck I have him running a $250 card, a $190 card, a $150 card, and about 9-10 cards that are worth anywhere from $50 to $80. The other kid's jaws just drop when my son pulls out his deck, the other parents are like "why are you letting your son play with those cards?!?!"

It's a card game, it's meant to be enjoyed, what is the point if you aren't enjoying them and just keeping them locked in a case?!

My son pulls chase cards like they are going out of style, he just pulled the SIR Magicarp last week from his prize pack he won at a local tournament.

Janitor watching the vibe change from a mosh pit to mop shite in the blink of an anus

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Its because as he and others have pointed out, we have an inverse system for youth than the rest of the world.

The youth leagues get paid by clubs when the players develop and go to them, and those payments are in some way passed down to the player/families

Its the opposite in the US: The families pay the clubs $15,000 (or whatever) to develop their child

And those clubs have no incentive to do it the way the rest of the world does it.

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Michael MacKelvie does a great video on Youth Sports in general... our system is broken

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I guess I mean manipulated in its truest form, not necessarily in a devious meaning. Manipulated as in how do we know the positioning of every sensor, scanner, laser and measurement is exactly accurate to the perceived strike zone above the plate and each individual.

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I was at the Met when they calibrate it - it would be hard for this system to be wrong in this regard. They have so many cameras and sensors pointed at the plate in so many areas and running at a higher fps than the human eye... They could see the wings on a gnat riding the ball, it's absolutely insane.

To calculate it... They basically have an entire server room full equipment to run the processes

In years with good weather how fast do you have to run to be in the top 500?!?! A painting as a reward is really cool

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Everything is starting to bloom and my daughter's vocabulary is exploding, so it's absolutely priceless going on runs with her now and asking her questions about the color of flowers, how many etc.

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My daughter makes me keep my pace up because she starts talking to the other runners and if I slow down she gets very angry because she wants to keep talking to them :lol:

I guess it goes without saying, but I only run with her during a few run clubs

20 today with the local run group, it's usually at this point that I say, "so ready for recovery" ... But I still have 4 more days of 10 miles each :sigh:

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What's your run walk ratio. Been trying this for a few weeks and have been enjoying it.

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I can't speak for anyone else, but Jeff Galloway recommended:
3 run / 2 walk on "maintaining" days
4 run / 1 walk on "Building" days

I do 6 run / 2 walk when I'm doing an easier run/walk and I "build" with 6/1 (this would also be my "race day" ratio)... but I only to run/walk at random times

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I am now doing the Louisiana Triathlon

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:lol:

Seriously though, welcome to the crazy house.

Did my first interval session in 3 weeks, and first "hard" run since the 62 miles, just fartleks between 1 and 3 minutes for 4 miles... my body still aches but my vo2 max prediction went up a point! :nana: