"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.

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MLB Playoffs

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How about those Yankees?
 

"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.

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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.
 

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TheVirtualMind said:
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.
How bout those "over priced, 1 year past their prime, POSSIBLY THE GREATEST OFFENSE OF ALL TIME" Yankees?
 

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TheVirtualMind said:
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.
Which of the hitters in the lineup is overpriced?

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.
 

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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:
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October 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.

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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.
 

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RedPill said:
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...
The Yankees can't choke nearly as well as the Twins! :woo:
 

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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
 

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Yankees fans, go back to crying about A-Rod!
 

"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.

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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 :up:
 

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The thing about being a Yankees fan is that we're not biased. We say "fúck the Yankees" as much as non-Yankees fans do the first week of October. :(
 

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I think Detriot is poised to take the series.
Haha, understatement of the year. I think the Tigers are going to annihilate the Cards.
 

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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
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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7-2 to the Cards, bottom of the 9th.

National League pride! Fight those odds baby!
 

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well of course the tigers have had a week off from playing, and the cardinals are fresh out of a series and have some momentum going. this was expected...detroits gonna take the series 4-2
 

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eminence said:
well of course the tigers have had a week off from playing, and the cardinals are fresh out of a series and have some momentum going. this was expected...detroits gonna take the series 4-2
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.

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.
 
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