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SoberasHotRod said:
Just got back from a long camping trip. I expected to have a lot of JazzFanz to catch up on. Not so much.

It seems slower here than normal, even for the off season. Maybe DA needs to make a trade just so we have something to talk about.
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I’m worried Danny isn’t going to trade either. Maybe at the deadline so we can do our usual half tank for the 8-10 pick. Lol :rolleyes:
 
Thee Idiotic Minivan K said:
I’m sure it’s nice to have a break but I’m guessing it’s fleeting as I’m not sure any of them would trade their kids to have that feeling more often.
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Eh. We just take our kids with us. Our best trips are ones where everyone is there. When they were little, we took our kids on a cross country road trip and planned cool stuff to do with them in every state.

My wife took her mom and my daughter on a trip through Europe for her graduation.

We took my son on a trip to Iceland that was pretty amazing.

And back in March, we took our kids with us to Japan for our 24th anniversary. It was awesome.
 
Coach Ellis said:
Eh. We just take our kids with us. Our best trips are ones where everyone is there. When they were little, we took our kids on a cross country road trip and planned cool stuff to do with them in every state.

My wife took her mom and my daughter on a trip through Europe for her graduation.

We took my son on a trip to Iceland that was pretty amazing.

And back in March, we took our kids with us to Japan for our 24th anniversary. It was awesome.
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I view marriage kinda like a sports team.

You have the Golden States of the world. The perfect match of talents coming together in Curry, Klay and Draymond (the couple). Then there’s the smart FO overseeing the team and supporting making sure their needs are met and guiding them (the parents). That filters down to the supporting players (the kids, extended family).

Not every team is blessed with the perfect pairing of players howerver. You get miss match of talents or don’t get along (Rudy & Don) or where one is always injured (Pelicans, Clippers). Mismanagement of the FO (New Orleans, Wizards, Chicago), and the team never gets off the ground.

You’re lucky and well done for getting your team to run like a well oiled machine.

But again, the divorce rate is about 50% and do you know who suffers the most when your team keeps losing or gets disbanded all together?

It’s usually the kids.
 
Coach Ellis said:
Eh. We just take our kids with us. Our best trips are ones where everyone is there. When they were little, we took our kids on a cross country road trip and planned cool stuff to do with them in every state.

My wife took her mom and my daughter on a trip through Europe for her graduation.

We took my son on a trip to Iceland that was pretty amazing.

And back in March, we took our kids with us to Japan for our 24th anniversary. It was awesome.
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Good lord coach rub it in why don’t ya. Lol:p
 
HermanG said:
Having kids and not having kids both have their pros and cons.

Cherish the positives and accept the negatives and you can be happy either way. Focus on the negatives and life will suck no matter what.
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One of the dumbest things on the internet is the battle between people choosing to be childless and those that have kids. Like share your life and what makes you happy but doing so in a way that is making fun of one another is just gross. Its just so weird.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
One of the dumbest things on the internet is the battle between people choosing to be childless and those that have kids. Like share your life and what makes you happy but doing so in a way that is making fun of one another is just gross. Its just so weird.
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Nobody’s doing that here mate.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
One of the dumbest things on the internet is the battle between people choosing to be childless and those that have kids. Like share your life and what makes you happy but doing so in a way that is making fun of one another is just gross. Its just so weird.
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Internet is packed with stupidity. Im not fully innocent on contributing to it though. I try to stay respectful but that plan fails at times.
 
The Midnight said:
I view marriage kinda like a sports team.

You have the Golden States of the world. The perfect match of talents coming together in Curry, Klay and Draymond (the couple). Then there’s the smart FO overseeing the team and supporting making sure their needs are met and guiding them (the parents). That filters down to the supporting players (the kids, extended family).

Not every team is blessed with the perfect pairing of players howerver. You get miss match of talents or don’t get along (Rudy & Don) or where one is always injured (Pelicans, Clippers). Mismanagement of the FO (New Orleans, Wizards, Chicago), and the team never gets off the ground.

You’re lucky and well done for getting your team to run like a well oiled machine.

But again, the divorce rate is about 50% and do you know who suffers the most when your team keeps losing or gets disbanded all together?

It’s usually the kids.
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The problem is, like a team, success in marriage takes actual work. Unfortunately, also like a team, not every person who gets married is ready or willing to put in the work.
 
Keefe said:
Raising kids is tough. Way tougher for me than teaching high school kids. And I’m in an urban district which is about 80% Dominican.

I love my children. They’re special to me. All in G&T (I realize it doesn’t mean **** at their ages) so hopefully they’ll get money for college haha. Good kids. All very sensitive. That said, we have raised them far more spoiled than I would like (looking at my wife) and that’s one of the toughest parts of parenting for me. Being on the same page. I see too many signs of them being spoiled little *****. And it really bothers me. I address it obviously, talk to them. But they’re young.

Youth sports also make life holy hell. Not just the time (and money) spent on them or the choreographing of all the driving and carpooling, but the dynamics of relationships between families/parents of those on the teams and such. It’s just weird to me. We get invited to parties and I very often don’t want to go. I’m likely just a judgmental prick but I don’t want to hang around at someone’s house whose owners lie and gossip. Not my thing. No room for that toxicity in my life. Or at other get togethers where one mom who hosts is a Board of Ed mom who just bitches and complains about everything. The school system sucks (it doesn’t), the soccer coach sucks, etc. No time for that. Or perhaps worse yet, hang around bro dudes with their wealthy dicks swinging about. It could be a slight insecurity on my part but it’s just not me. Dudes drive Bentleys and the like. Make millions. Etc. Basically I just wanna be left alone, raise my kids, make love to my wife, and provide for them with the very occasional hangout. But it’s like people want to hang out 3 out of 4 weekends. Hell, when we do get a babysitter, I also don’t want to hang out with these people. I want to go out alone with my wife. Or other couples who we’re close with. So that’s just weird to me that these people want to hang out so often. Like, don’t they have college friends or work friends who they’re close with? Idk. Maybe it’s me.
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Just wait until you reach a point where they decide that after the past 8-12 years of running them around for youth sports that they don't want to do sports anymore anyway and just flat out quit. My kids all did all the sports, a couple of them up to jr high, then decided, nah, not for me. I am glad they had the organized sports experience while young, but a couple of them had a real chance to get somewhere in sports so it couldn't help but feel like it was all for nothing. We could have saved a boatload of money and done many other things instead of we had known. Of course, you can't know, so that is the gamble of it, and you try to do your best to give them opportunities, but goddamn, that was a bit of a gut punch.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Just wait until you reach a point where they decide that after the past 8-12 years of running them around for youth sports that they don't want to do sports anymore anyway and just flat out quit. My kids all did all the sports, a couple of them up to jr high, then decided, nah, not for me. I am glad they had the organized sports experience while young, but a couple of them had a real chance to get somewhere in sports so it couldn't help but feel like it was all for nothing. We could have saved a boatload of money and done many other things instead of we had known. Of course, you can't know, so that is the gamble of it, and you try to do your best to give them opportunities, but goddamn, that was a bit of a gut punch.
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I think I am in my last year of competition gymnastics with my daughter... gonna be hard not to pinch pennies going to competitions knowing this is it. I had convinced my self the friendships and experiences were well worth it either way... then this week I learn her and one of her good friends on the team had a bit of a falling out and things are icy. Lighting money on fire over here.
 
It looks like the majority of the lower seeds won in the first round. This pretty much gives credence to my theory that the 2K SIM is worthless.

Based on this we should probably just auto eliminate the first two seeds.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I think I am in my last year of competition gymnastics with my daughter... gonna be hard not to pinch pennies going to competitions knowing this is it. I had convinced my self the friendships and experiences were well worth it either way... then this week I learn her and one of her good friends on the team had a bit of a falling out and things are icy. Lighting money on fire over here.
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When our daughter was younger she was invited to do competitive gymnastics. The coach really pushed us, but at the time we just couldn't afford it. I sometimes feel bad about that.

Besides this one daughter, none of my other kids are athletic. We've developed the parenting strategy of having them try lots of different sports/activities, but not take any of them too seriously. For the most part I like this strategy, but it is difficult sometimes to not have a kid that is excelling in any one thing. When I was a kid my Dad never practiced sports with me and I always thought that held me back vs the kids who had parents that were more involved. I thought when I have a kid they will be great at stuff because now I can really coach them up. The reality is that my kids very rarely take me up on my offer to go practice with them.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
When our daughter was younger she was invited to do competitive gymnastics. The coach really pushed us, but at the time we just couldn't afford it. I sometimes feel bad about that.

Besides this one daughter, none of my other kids are athletic. We've developed the parenting strategy of having them try lots of different sports/activities, but not take any of them too seriously. For the most part I like this strategy, but it is difficult sometimes to not have a kid that is excelling in any one thing. When I was a kid my Dad never practiced sports with me and I always thought that held me back vs the kids who had parents that were more involved. I thought when I have a kid they will be great at stuff because now I can really coach them up. The reality is that my kids very rarely take me up on my offer to go practice with them.
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Yeah I tried my best with flag football, basketball, baseball, but none of the kids really loved any of it. My son played baseball until freshmen year and then had a ****** experience and didn't want to do it.

Competitive Gymnastics is no joke. Our gym used to only have the crazy competitive team... like they were there every day for 5 hours. No joke. They started doing an intermediate team and that is when she started. Still expensive. Lots of travel stuff (about 6-8 meets most are local drivable). The only place to go up from where she is though is to the super competitive team. Its been great for her confidence and she is the team captain and stuff but she would have excelled more long term in volleyball or basketball imo, but they have to like/love it. My guess is the cheer team tries to recruit her next year in HS but either way I doubt she wants to move up. Its a lot of time, energy, and yes.... money.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
It looks like the majority of the lower seeds won in the first round. This pretty much gives credence to my theory that the 2K SIM is worthless.

Based on this we should probably just auto eliminate the first two seeds.
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Wow really?

That’s really surprising.

Which is why I favored your system of every team playing each other in first round with the best loser making it to the top 8. No free lunch for the top teams from SIM.

@Thee Idiotic Minivan K doing it his way ruined that opportunity as usual.
 
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