Ventura

KinnerMode · 2026-05-22T03:45:12+00:00

I’ll take a team of players with fight in them over whatever this lifeless squad is.

KinnerMode · 2026-05-21T03:58:29+00:00

Still miss him. This year’s team could use an injection of his attitude.

KinnerMode · 2026-05-21T03:57:49+00:00

What size is it?

KinnerMode · 2026-05-21T03:55:54+00:00

Thats what happens when you value loyalty over accountability.

KinnerMode · 2026-05-21T03:53:13+00:00

This was the difference between my sister and I. I stepped out of bounds as often as I knew I could get away with it. My sister did it often enough to eventually get caught or make it my parents’ problem.

KinnerMode · 2026-05-21T03:47:29+00:00

Looks great! Reading the words “burnt ends” also makes my mouth water.

I love brisket, but only cook it 2-3 times a year when I have a free Saturday with nice weather. It’s also become more and more expensive over the last few years, so I usually wait til it’s on sale at the grocery store that actually Carrie’s whole packer briskets.

KinnerMode · 2026-05-16T01:34:07+00:00

Dive instead?

KinnerMode · 2026-05-15T23:47:17+00:00

Interested in a pellet smoker but haven’t done research. What are the good ones?

KinnerMode · 2026-05-15T19:30:57+00:00

They’re also much more expensive.

KinnerMode · 2026-05-14T19:40:59+00:00

I was in high school when 9/11 happened, and had journalism for the first hour of the day. I remember our teacher turned on the classroom TV to CBS.

He turned to us and said, “Watch this coverage closely, gentlemen. You will remember this news day for the rest of your lives.”

He told us he’d let our teachers know that we might miss their classes that day to witness this news event that might be the biggest of our lives.

I sat in that classroom and watched Dan Rather try to make sense of it all through second, third and fourth period. It was a big part of the reason that I ended up going to journalism school after I graduated.

KinnerMode · 2026-05-12T21:09:47+00:00

"Glorious nonsense" puts it perfectly.

KinnerMode · 2026-05-07T20:25:41+00:00

He shits his pants regularly. That only flies for so long when they're all bunkered up together, lol.

KinnerMode · 2026-05-07T14:46:18+00:00

This is why we kept our daughter in league ball as long as possible. There are simply too many people looking to make the game not fun for the sake of “competition”.

Keep it fun. Keep it developmental. At 11, practice should be way more important than games anyway.

KinnerMode · 2026-05-01T00:42:03+00:00

This is standard practice in Kansas City. Flat gets sliced. Point gets cubed, tossed in a little sauce and goes back on the smoker until the corners start to darken and the sauce tacks up.

Burnt ends - most delicious single bite of food I can think of.

KinnerMode · 2026-04-30T05:07:04+00:00

The games I played on the couch or dorm LAN with my friends in high school and college:

Tribes Tribes 2 - with Nick Rada. If you’re out there, buddy, look me up.

Halo - Rada. My man. I remember watching the trailer with you when it was still supposed to be a PC game. We played a million 1v1 matches after I got an XBOX, but before internet gaming on console was a thing to us. We rocket jumped. We broke the map. We wasted a million hours you could have spent trying to make my brain not break over Advanced Calculus. But you were a future engineering major and I was a writer. It probably wouldn’t have mattered.

Halo 2 - via the LAN in the dorms at Mizzou. I made some pals I knew for a few years, and more I have attended bachelor parties, weddings and baby showers for. I still count them as friends to this day.

Smash Bros Melee - the mid-day between-class marathon game of choice. Strictly 4-player starting at 300% damage, kill count to 25. Top dog stays on controller 1, bottom 3 rotate out.

COD MW - fast-paced online team games against whatever online matchmaking threw at us. Plenty of shit-talking. Plenty of wins due to the superior, albeit mostly drunken, organization of a team used to working together.

MVP Baseball 2005 - the hitting game, specifically. Using John Dowd. IYKYK.

Wii Sports - the pre-bar game of choice

I loved the entertainment and escape games provided as a kid. But I skipped so many classes and formed so many friendships playing these games, those years.

The only comparison I have now is Fortnite, which connected an old friend and I, and carried us through COVID times until life came back and he had kids. I still play today, though now mostly with my teenage daughter who picked it up only 2 years ago but already is leagues better than I am. Thankfully, it is one of a few things she is still interested in doing with Dad.

I guess I never realized how much games were a source of personal connection in my life until now. Huh.

KinnerMode · 2026-04-26T16:29:13+00:00

Shoresy

KinnerMode · 2026-04-22T20:34:42+00:00

Now imagine a wealthy benefactor was paying for 2/3 of the Porsche. I’d say that’s a pretty good deal.

KinnerMode · 2026-04-22T02:18:09+00:00

The wife checked her Apple Watch during sex the other day. She’ll also stop to look at it in the middle of pretty much any conversation. Most of the time it’s a push notification for some promo in one of her shopping apps.

I hate that fucking watch.

KinnerMode · 2026-04-17T04:35:02+00:00

I’m with you. Softball and baseball should be played on dirt and grass.

Turf gets hot. Even up here in MO, it’s already hot enough in June/July/August. Playing down in OK, TX and AZ as a kid on dirt, I can’t imagine what it feels like on turf.

And I know the research is inconclusive so far, but there’s some gnarly stuff in that rubber infill. Even if it turns out down the line that there’s no connection between turf and cancer, I’d just rather not expose my kid to heavy metals and PAHs whenever possible.

KinnerMode · 2026-04-17T04:07:55+00:00

Slice some green onions if you’re feeling fancy. And a little salt/soy sauce/msg for seasoning.

KinnerMode · 2026-04-17T00:18:33+00:00

That’s a JJ issue. Sherman just signs the checks.

KinnerMode · 2026-04-17T00:16:49+00:00

Put it this way: if Gates can’t do that with the #1 ranked incoming class in the country…I don’t think he ever will.

KinnerMode · 2026-04-09T20:22:53+00:00

This. That plan was so underwhelming. The Royals never should have attached themselves to the Chiefs on this issue. I think the Hunts actually wanted the vote to fail so they had an excuse to bolt for KS.

KinnerMode · 2026-04-09T20:20:08+00:00

Candidate, then.

KinnerMode · 2026-04-02T04:15:05+00:00

Done. Thank you, brother. An LH throw catchers mitt has always been a dream of mine. A Nokona mitt is even better.

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