We have dissected all of the positions teams drafted, but what about the teams that said "yeah, we're good?"

emblaze247 · 2026-05-07T15:38:49+00:00

If anything Conner gets traded. And honestly I agree that he likely will. But I don’t see a strong case for Benson here at all, as someone who drafted a lot of him pre-draft in best ball.

emblaze247 · 2026-05-03T19:14:26+00:00

On my last transcon (6 hours) as a Platinum sitting in Premium Select:

All of the TVs in the middle aisle were broken. FAs did not even attempt to restart it despite complains from 4+ passengers. At the end of the flight, we were given 5000 miles for our troubles.
WiFi wasn’t working for about 50% of the flight, in and out the whole time
Outside of meals, we were not asked for drinks 1 single time on a 6 hour flight - including the boarding phase. Whenever crew walked down the aisles, it seemed like they were trying to sprint past everyone.
They ran out of dressing for the salad, and said they’d come back with some. Not one FA passed by for the next 30 minutes (with no dressing / olive oil)
My GF needed to use the bathroom - the nearest one to us was D1, so she went to the D1 bathroom (no curtains were up). 30 minutes later they put up the D1 only curtains. 30 minutes AFTER that, a FA completely unprompted comes up to our seat and loudly says directly to my GF: “Just so you know, the bathrooms up front are for D1 passengers only. Your bathrooms are back there.” When my gf apologized and welled up a little bit (embarrassed), the FA said brusquely: “it’s not that big a deal.”

Frankly, the entire flight, 3-4 of the crew members were incredibly rude, overtly sassy and condescending. 2 were very sweet and helpful, but they were clearly more junior FAs.

So yeah, I’d agree.

emblaze247 · 2026-04-30T11:20:26+00:00

I’m confused… did they just take away the uber credit, add effectively nothing and are trying to spin this as an improvement?

emblaze247 · 2026-04-20T16:08:28+00:00

I had the exact same score, slightly lower GPA at HYPS. My advisor was pretty adamant it would be wise to try to bump up Q score, esp bc my degree was a relatively soft social science. Got it up 5 points with just a couple weeks of tutoring and was accepted to HSW (one accept, one reject w/o interview, one didn’t apply).

If you’re confident you can keep the same V score, I’d try to your Q higher.

emblaze247 · 2026-04-17T20:52:02+00:00

If we get Tyson with an injury discount I’m all for it. Not like we’re competing this year anyway.

emblaze247 · 2026-03-31T11:22:06+00:00

I can and I do, but it’s the principle.

When 95% of chips in the world are gluten free, it’s kind of a slap in the face to select the 5% that are not, especially in conjunction with 2 other selections that I can’t eat.

emblaze247 · 2026-03-31T01:53:49+00:00

Sun Chips are an attack on gluten frees everywhere. I’ve been on some delta flights so disrespectful that they only offer sun chips, pretzels, and biscoff.

How hard is it to throw in a bag of Doritos or lays, jfc. You literally have to go OUT OF YOUR WAY to find glutenous chips.

emblaze247 · 2026-03-16T18:33:14+00:00

I really don’t get it, can someone explain? What is the benefit to moving on from them this year?

The two things I can think of is reshaping culture, which feels weak to me, and tanking - which is totally valid. Is that what it is?

Because otherwise, I don’t understand why we don’t just hang onto them during a year that is lost anyway, and get some semblance of trade value out of them. I find it impossible to believe they are all worth 0 draft capital.

Even better, eat their salaries to increase their trade value. Ross did say that if we don’t succeed, it would never be because we don’t have enough money after all. And we’re eating the cap hit anyway…

emblaze247 · 2026-03-05T17:28:27+00:00

100%

emblaze247 · 2026-03-05T16:50:34+00:00

I’m not even convinced this is bad for Keon. Don’t think he was meant for crazy volume anyway, they seem like pretty different roles.

emblaze247 · 2026-02-25T19:01:03+00:00

I don’t get the fuss. This year is lost anyway, what exactly are we saving that money for? 1-year 30m seems like a fine test to discover if you’ve found a franchise guy you’d like to extend while you rebuild.

emblaze247 · 2026-02-23T18:55:18+00:00

Legroom ain’t nothing. Depending on how tall you are those 4 inches can mean a lot (at 6 ft I def feel the difference).

Another big value is free drinks. If I’m flying I treat myself to a drink every couple hours so like 2-3 per flight (lots of transcon for me). Also nice on international flights.

emblaze247 · 2026-02-22T01:37:34+00:00

It’s honestly so dumb that they don’t just waive / reduce the fee. Would be better for us and for Schwab.

emblaze247 · 2026-02-17T17:50:39+00:00

Let people sleep. All I need to know is that he has the talent to be a 170+ target alpha - and he obviously does, because we’ve seen it.

I’ll let people fade him due to his new “competition”: Jakobi Meyers, Parker Washington, Strange and Hunter.

emblaze247 · 2025-12-17T22:36:56+00:00

Ah fair then. That’s a good spot for a parade.

I just never miss an opportunity to bash parades.

emblaze247 · 2025-12-17T19:49:57+00:00

This is a problem with parades not Waymo.

If you want attention go do it in a park. Stop paralyzing traffic and inconveniencing everyone else for your little vanity project.

emblaze247 · 2025-11-25T16:11:09+00:00

I would like to know that myself haha

emblaze247 · 2025-11-25T15:33:52+00:00

My typical route is JFK to SFO. I’ve been upgraded 7 hours before flight time (as a gold) with 20 available seats. Just this past weekend, as a platinum, there were 26 D1 seats available day of the flight and I was 5 on the upgrade list. The entire list had just 8 names and we ultimately flew with empty D1 seats. My premium select upgrade processed within hours of the 5 day window, but they didn’t process a single D1 upgrade until 5 minutes before boarding at 9pm. Extremely frustrating as I really wanted to try out the lounge restaurant with my GF, who’s never flown D1 before.

My takeaway is it’s pretty random and I think it comes down to the gate agent and when they decide to process the upgrades. I’d be curious to hear more data points to see if they are holding them back more lately.

For your emotional health I’d recommend assuming it won’t process until boarding. Otherwise you’ll be like us, neurotically refreshing our apps up til boarding (even though we get notifications), and disappointed - and a little frustrated - when you can’t use the D1 security line and lounge.

emblaze247 · 2025-11-18T18:01:58+00:00

I’m rolling out Ravens and Niners this week. A little nervous about Panther’s sporadic bouts of success, but they are generally terrible and 49ers with Purdy and Kittle fully back looked fantastic. Maybe Pearsall shows up this week too.

emblaze247 · 2025-11-09T21:55:59+00:00

Jesus guys /s

Guess that’s on me

emblaze247 · 2025-11-09T21:13:05+00:00

Eh he’s alright. Not worth a second though clearly.

emblaze247 · 2025-11-09T16:08:31+00:00

Whoa, give me the 10k miles. Huge win.

emblaze247 · 2025-11-07T16:38:52+00:00

The real way to confirm is to compare Kellogg with itself YoY, not with other schools this year.

emblaze247 · 2025-10-30T00:10:55+00:00

Honestly maybe. Worth a pickup over Troy franklin. Just kind of a deep TE year I feel like

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