Poll of the Day > Sports Discussion Topic #163: We are sold out of Sport license plates!

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Jeff Hoffman came in and gave up four straight doubles. Christ, the game is 15-9 now with two men on in the ninth. Still a big lead but how can you suck so bad at finishing the game

Okay, they won, but for a second there, uh-oh
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MNTwins1991 posted...

I did that ancestry.com thing and it's officially confirmed that I'm white

lol 69

I'm probably going to do one of these sooner than later, although I know what half of my results will be (my dad did one and was 97% from Great Britain).
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Have you ever been to Colombia? I've been watching Narcos and the show is 50x better thanks to how gorgeous that country is (they shoot on location)

Not since birth. I'm hoping to go back sometime next year for about two weeks. It won't be enough to see everything I want to, sadly. Even with two weeks, I'll likely be spending a lot of time in a very enclosed region around where I was born (Cartagena) and where a lot of my family still lives (El Banco).
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The Cardinals are likely going to lose again. Not a great strategy for making the playoffs.

Michael Wacha is a solid pitcher, but it's a great example of matheny's typical incompetence that he would have Wacha pitch into the 7th inning of a 1-0 game. You literally can not lose a game at this point and you let Wacha face the lineup for a third time.

Whenever the local news does their sportscast, they talk about the Rockies for 15-30 seconds, and then they talk about the Broncos for like a minute and a half. Every damn time, even if the Rockies played that day and the Broncos didn't. There are multiple weekly-half hour programs about the Broncos. I get that each individual baseball game doesn't matter as much, but it's ridiculous.

Is it like that everywhere, or is that just a Denver (and other "football towns") thing? I imagine that even when St. Louis still had the Rams, it wasn't like that. Maybe Minnesota is similar though, at least until hockey starts.
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The Vikings are by far the most popular and talked about team in town, even when it's not football season

The Rams were not popular at all. Cards then Blues then Rams.

Here in Milwaukee the Packers are talked about more than the Brewers and the Bucks come in last.
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My local news covers both SF and Oakland markets, but SF is always more popular unless Oakland has a good team. Also Giants get more recognition than 49ers even when 49ers went to the Super Bowl. Right now I think it goes like this:

Warriors > Giants > Raiders > 49ers > A's = Sharks

The Brewers are gonna lose so the wild card is basically over. At least they finally ripped the band aid off. As always it took far too long but that's ok

vikings>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wild>>>twins>timberwolves (but this will probably change this year)

Yeah, it's looking pretty good now. The Cardinals can't lose any more, and the Brewers can lose, but at best that will get them into a tiebreaker game. This is, of course, not taking into account any possible Rockies wins.

The excitement hasn't set in for me yet, though, so I don't know if I'll ever feel comfortable until it's 100% clinched. Or maybe I'm just not excited because they only get one game
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https://streamable.com/0p2bl
this is a very nice meme

Hugh Hefner... Rest in Power

He's banging women 60 years younger than him with God now
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isn't that what they promise suicide bomber terrorists?

Rockies posted...

He's banging women 60 years younger than him with God now

But that's a devil's threesome

I meant figuratively, God isn't actually participating
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the twins made the playoffs

Congrats to the Twins for officially clinching the wild card. Since they clinched it long after their game as a result of an Angels loss, do they not get to do champagne or what?
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apparently they were still hanging out at the clubhouse/locker room in cleveland watching the angels sox. the twins twitter posted about 200 videos of them doing champagne

fun fact: they were sellers at the trade deadline too

Can't wait for the Twins-Rockies World Series. Every game will be cancelled due to snow and they won't award a championship this year
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they will rebuild the metrodome and play the series in 2 years

I bet it doesn't actually snow here nearly as much as Minnesota, but that still might be the snowiest possible World Series matchup. I imagine Detroit and Cleveland might get a lot, but they're also AL, and Milwaukee has a roof.

Do you guys get a lot of snow in October? You seem to have snow delays at the beginning of every season, but I don't know about the postseason since they haven't gotten far lately
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usually no/very little snowfall in october, sometimes a little. there have been a few blizzards in late october but that's rare

hbu.

Mid October is the earliest I can recall seeing snow in Denver. Usually we get some by the end of the month, but I think there have been years where it didn't come until November. I sort of remember getting snow in the 2007 run but I don't think it significantly delayed any games.

I always look forward to snow and think it sounds like a good idea, but then when it actually comes I usually hate it
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I like it up until after Christmas. Before christmas it seems nice and pretty and you're not tired of it, but afterward it's shitty and cold and bleak and then you still have 4 more months of winter

I liked snow when I was in school, but it just sucks when you work and have to drive in it. At my old job we didn't really get snow days, since it just went into your paid time off. One time I had to come in when it was really bad and the power went out or something so I didn't even get to do the thing I needed to be there for. So everyone left after like half a day; my car could barely make it out of the parking lot, then it took me like an hour to make a ~7 mile drive home, and finally my car got stuck in the middle of my apartment parking lot once I arrived. I guess it could have been worse though since it's a miracle I didn't get stuck on the road
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Zeeky_Bomb posted...

Not since birth. I'm hoping to go back sometime next year for about two weeks. It won't be enough to see everything I want to, sadly. Even with two weeks, I'll likely be spending a lot of time in a very enclosed region around where I was born (Cartagena) and where a lot of my family still lives (El Banco).

Oh I meant to reply to this. This sounds awesome and I hope you get to do it. I don't know how high Colombia is on my list but it's at least high on the south America list. I don't have as much desire to visit my own motherland but I might do it anyway because of cheap flights to Europe that just started coming out of St. Louis. I also want to go back to Japan. This has been kevins travel corner

Hey Kevin, thanks for taking by call. first time caller long time listener. My question is, are there any places in Munich that sell peanut butter, or should I just bring my own?

I wouldn't count on bringing anything on the plane and of course you can buy peanut butter abroad you absolute git

I was planning on checking my luggage (I'm a heavy traveler) and peanut butter is very hard to find in Europe. Just looking for some advice. Didn't know I was working with the Simon Cowell/Gordon Ramsey of traveling

I'm sorry mate you seem like a nice bloke but you are an embarrassment as a traveler and you should give up on that dream right now.

I forgot, what's you guys' gameplan for the SNES Classic? I think you were each going to try a different store?

Near me, there's a Gamestop and a Target in the same parking lot, but at opposite ends, so I can't really wait for both at once. The Target opens at 8 and Gamestop at 9, so I guess I'll probably see what the Target line is like at 6, and if there are too many people I'll hopefully be able to get in the Gamestop line. Except that probably won't work because everyone else realizes both options are in the same place. Fuck!
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My plan is not getting one

I know. I was directing it at @CaptainHammer and @STLCards1991
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I'm going to the 24 hour Walmart tonight. I called ahead and they said they'll be selling at 12:01. If that doesn't work we're going to Best Buy and GameStop tomorrow. But hopefully it'll just work out tonight.

I'm actually feeling pretty optimistic about it at this point which is probably stupid. Our plan A with the Walmart might actually work because we're committed enough to get there early. Probably around 8. Mainly I'm feeling sort of good about it because I'm feeling sort of good about nintendo producing enough units this time. If you get one, what's first on your list? I'm excited to finally play Secret of Mana, Earthbound, and Super Metroid.

Oh man, I didn't even think about 24 hour Walmarts. I got excited when you said that cause I could have sworn my nearest one was 24 hours at some point, but it appears now that it's just normal hours.

I'll probably play something like SMW or DKC first just to do something quick, get a feel for the system, make sure it works, etc. I'm not in a big rush to actually play anything, just to get it since I feel like this will probably be the easiest day. I don't wanna have to keep checking websites and calling stores to ask when they're getting the next batch. But as far as "new" games, Super Metroid probably tops my list.
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I'm going to try and stop by the closest target after dropping off my kids at school. Not sure how well it will go because the one time I went to get an amiibo for one of my kids there was a long line so I was unable to get it that day (I don't even remember which one it was).
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I'm going to overcome my greatest remaining gamer shame and play A Link to the Past. I've played it before but never all the way through. I think the first game I'm gonna play through is Mega Man X, which is new to me but I've played a lot of the series.

The only one of the big RPGs in there I haven't played is Secret of Mana so that's exciting too. I can't recommend Final Fantasy 3 (now called 6) enough, and Earthbound is pretty excellent too. Super Mario RPG is very good but very easy.

STLCards1991 posted...

I'm going to overcome my greatest remaining gamer shame and play A Link to the Past. I've played it before but never all the way through. I think the first game I'm gonna play through is Mega Man X, which is new to me but I've played a lot of the series.

What? That is a pretty big shame. And how could I forget about Mega Man X, that might even go above Super Metroid.

STLCards1991 posted...

Super Mario RPG is very good but very easy.

Sounds great for me, the guy who thinks Pokemon is hard
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Rockies posted...

What? That is a pretty big shame.

Didn't you only just play this recently?

You're probably thinking of A Link Between Worlds, but that game was only about three years old at the time.
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Rockies posted...

Do you guys get a lot of snow in October? You seem to have snow delays at the beginning of every season, but I don't know about the postseason since they haven't gotten far lately

I don't know if you were asking me, but not really. At least not in Toronto. But then again, the lakes area is weird, and Buffalo/Detroit will get bombed but we'll stay relatively unscathed.

CaptainHammer posted...

Oh I meant to reply to this. This sounds awesome and I hope you get to do it. I don't know how high Colombia is on my list but it's at least high on the south America list. I don't have as much desire to visit my own motherland but I might do it anyway because of cheap flights to Europe that just started coming out of St. Louis. I also want to go back to Japan. This has been kevins travel corner

If I weren't born in Colombia, I don't know how I'd decide what country to visit. I mean, yeah Venezuela is out for obvious reasons. But otherwise, the entire continent is breathtakingly beautiful and has a large variety of climates.
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I hope you guys report back on your results with Walmart, I'm curious if it will end up being as crazy as expected. Of course I also could probably google like a million articles about it.

Part of my plan is still to not have to go to a store at all. I set my homepage to open tabs of Amazon, Target, Walmart, Bestbuy and Gamestop for the SNES Classic, and made sure my address and credit card were saved in each. Honestly, I don't know how the bots don't snatch everything up from those sites in seconds, but I heard stories of (very few) actual people being able to place orders during the preorder period, so it's worth a shot
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We're third and fourth in line. Someone got here an hour and a half ago. There's no official line so we're relying on the honor of Walmart employees

You guys are definitely going to get them, but damn, that's a pretty big line for four hours early. Hopefully my 2/3 hour plan works. Maybe people are less inclined to wait outside
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