TempestOwl
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I know I was.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
@BackInTheGame78 I agree!Yes, but wouldn't be surprised to see Dodgers win 4 straight now.
The teams are owned by the billionaire overlords who own everything else. The players are wh0res for money. The team that spends the most usually wins, Dodgers are technically #2 in payroll, but only because they deferred one big contract, so they are the top spenders by far, which is why they will win. The Jays are big underdogs, because they are only #5 in spending out of 30 teams.I don't understand baseball.
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
Not always. The Yankees have tons of money and used to be the biggest spenders by a mile, and they still spend a ton of money but it's been over 15 years since they won anything.The teams are owned by the billionaire overlords who own everything else. The players are wh0res for money. The team that spends the most usually wins, Dodgers are technically #2 in payroll, but only because they deferred one big contract, so they are the top spenders by far, which is why they will win. The Jays are big underdogs, because they are only #5 in spending out of 30 teams.
The real scandal of modern baseball is the money it takes to give your kid a chance to make it. Equipment, league fees, expensive coaching, camps, travel leagues.... only parents who are at least moderately wealthy can afford the money and time. And almost all of them are white. Minority kids in the US never have much of a chance. The black and brown faces you see come from other countries where kids grow up playing ball in the street with a stick and a rock if that is all they have. One of my favorite players never had a real baseball glove until he signed his first professional contract at age 16.
Who pioneered new levels of cheating. None of the players were ever punished and they got to keep their championship.including the Houston Astros
All teams cheat, some just get caughtWho pioneered new levels of cheating. None of the players were ever punished and they got to keep their championship.
After staying up until 3:00 a.m. watching that 18-inning game, I’m really hoping the Jays come back and win it all lolYes, but wouldn't be surprised to see Dodgers win 4 straight now.
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
true great pointNot always. The Yankees have tons of money and used to be the biggest spenders by a mile, and they still spend a ton of money but it's been over 15 years since they won anything.
In that time several teams with much lower payrolls have won the World Series, including the Houston Astros multiple times where they knocked the Yankees out of the playoffs, the Kansas City Royals, the Saint Louis Cardinals and the Washington Nationals.
So yes, money helps you get the best players via trades and Free Agency, but that doesn't guarantee anything because you still have to put good teams around them and a lot of that is through drafting and developing, which is where those other teams excelled.
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
You digging the bob over the long, girl-next-door tresses
Other than he won it all last year in his first shot?Shohei Otani is giving off Lebron James vibes
I thought he meant they are both connected to illegal sports gambling.Other than he won it all last year in his first shot?
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.