doctoroxygen
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How about those Yankees?
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
MLB Playoffs
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"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
TheVirtualMind
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You mean "how about those over priced, 1 year past their prime" Yankees? I hope the Tigers win the first round so George can't buy a World Series for another year.
doctoroxygen
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Which of the hitters in the lineup is overpriced?TheVirtualMind said:
I'll never understand why Steinbrenner is so hated for WANTING THE TEAM HE OWNS TO WIN. I guess it's jealousy; I'd sure love the owners of my Mariners to spend commensurate with the amount of money they make. Steinbrenner goes above and beyond for the Yankees. Every other owner has the money he has to spend, they just choose not to spend it and complain about the Yankees instead.
RedPill
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The Yankees get killed in the playoffs every year now because they have an average pitching staff, and they play very tense from the enormous expectations on them. That, and there never seems to be any sort of that team chemistry from which legendary teams are born. Their bench always looks like a bunch of hired guns that are there to do a job and then go home. In Game 2 their whole dugout had this look on their faces as if to say "I don't get it, we have better batting averages," as if that matters in the present moment.
If anyone should be hated on, it's Major League Baseball for not forcing a firm salary cap. But then again, I'm a Tigers fan, so fvck the Yankees. :box:
If anyone should be hated on, it's Major League Baseball for not forcing a firm salary cap. But then again, I'm a Tigers fan, so fvck the Yankees. :box:
"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
doctoroxygen
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There's no reason for MLB to impose a salary cap. Salary caps are designed to improve parity in sport, but leagues with salary caps (the NFL and NBA) have less parity in their championship teams than MLB does. A lot can be done with a little money (see: Florida Marlins 2006). The fault isn't with the overspending of teams like the Red Sox and Yankees, but with the front offices of small market teams: they're just less competent with a built-in excuse.
WHERE DID THAT PERFORMANCE FROM KENNY ROGERS COME FROM?! WOW he was great last night. Hats off to him; he's too good of a pitcher to be thought of as a choker.
I wish Torre would play Melky. They didn't need Matsui and Sheff for the whole season, and they don't need them on the field now. The Yankees are the only team where when one guy doesn't show up, they ALL don't show up. Pathetic.
WHERE DID THAT PERFORMANCE FROM KENNY ROGERS COME FROM?! WOW he was great last night. Hats off to him; he's too good of a pitcher to be thought of as a choker.
I wish Torre would play Melky. They didn't need Matsui and Sheff for the whole season, and they don't need them on the field now. The Yankees are the only team where when one guy doesn't show up, they ALL don't show up. Pathetic.
Francisco d'Anconia
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The Yankees can't choke nearly as well as the Twins! :woo:RedPill said:
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Randy was pitching good stuff yesterday yet he allowed 3 runs, piece of crap, Kenny Rogers did an awesome job too, the yanks need better RPs.. anyways, lets go yankees lets go
TheVirtualMind
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Yankees fans, go back to crying about A-Rod!
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**** The Yankees!!
Tigers All The Way!!
Tigers All The Way!!
"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
The Tigers are a feel good story alright. Blue-collar bozo's hunting down the New Yorker's in their Armani suits.
In retrospect, it ain't over. Those A's are sizzling. I am absolutely in awe of their pitching staff, no let-up whatsoever.
To my Dodgers, love being back in the post-season, even if getting sweeped by the Mets was our fate. It's all building blocks for the future. James Loney has quality written all over him.
Mets and Oakland series. Oakland in 5
In retrospect, it ain't over. Those A's are sizzling. I am absolutely in awe of their pitching staff, no let-up whatsoever.
To my Dodgers, love being back in the post-season, even if getting sweeped by the Mets was our fate. It's all building blocks for the future. James Loney has quality written all over him.
Mets and Oakland series. Oakland in 5
Bible_Belt
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St. Louis vs Detroit, Game 1 tonight.
This World Series will sell a lot of beer.
This World Series will sell a lot of beer.
doctoroxygen
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Haha, understatement of the year. I think the Tigers are going to annihilate the Cards.Espi said:
Bible_Belt
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Yeah, Detroit is the favorite. Getting swept by the Red Sox a couple years ago is haunting the Cards.
I think the Cardinals' best chance is momentum - they have it and will be hoping that the Tigers come out looking cold and out-of-synch.
Who wants to give a lesson in what these numbers mean? I do not understand it very well. I have tried reading about it but the concepts are still not clear.
http://www.islandcasino.com/Lines.asp?IdLeague=5&IdSport=MLB
_______$ Line___Total___RunLine
901 STL +170 o8½-115 +1½-128
902 DET -190 u8½-105 -1½+108
I think the Cardinals' best chance is momentum - they have it and will be hoping that the Tigers come out looking cold and out-of-synch.
Who wants to give a lesson in what these numbers mean? I do not understand it very well. I have tried reading about it but the concepts are still not clear.
http://www.islandcasino.com/Lines.asp?IdLeague=5&IdSport=MLB
_______$ Line___Total___RunLine
901 STL +170 o8½-115 +1½-128
902 DET -190 u8½-105 -1½+108
"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
Could look at it in retrospect, Detroit has had ample time to prepare and freshen up, the Cards are straight out of a draining 7 gamer against a quality Mets side, albeit short on pitching.eminence said:
Still, it's the "World" series, anything can happen huh? I'm with the Cards, but like you said, 4-2 to the Tigers is more than reasonable. Let's hope it's still a cracker of a series.