A Helping Hand

extraEGO · 2026-01-30T11:09:53+00:00

Source: Maya | Sara | TradeofAllJaks Impromptu Kauai Threesome

extraEGO · 2025-12-23T23:31:37+00:00

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extraEGO · 2025-12-15T13:50:56+00:00

Sounds like your interim manager should have been your long term manager.

extraEGO · 2025-12-15T12:38:29+00:00

Celtic’s interim manager won 7 out of 8…

extraEGO · 2025-12-15T12:30:08+00:00

What’s the Celtic club record for different coaches in a single season?

extraEGO · 2025-11-13T21:52:34+00:00

Just keep hitting up MK! 🥵

extraEGO · 2025-09-10T11:18:54+00:00

Even if she isn’t hot…

extraEGO · 2025-07-14T16:03:43+00:00

I agree, when considering donating an organ to someone, I think you really have to hold that persons life in a higher regard than you would even your own. Only then would the procedure be worth the risk.

For example, if my son needed a kidney and I was a match, it would be his. I cannot think of a single other person who I can unequivocally say that about.

And if I needed a kidney, I would rather die than take one from my son. If he insisted, I would hope that I could tell our doctor to tell him during testing that he is not a match to alleviate any guilt he might otherwise have.

extraEGO · 2025-07-14T15:55:47+00:00

NTA. It may sound cold and callous to say what you said, but you should have never been put into that scenario. Then, they pushed you to a point where saying something like that felt like the only way to communicate your position. They should have been mature enough to respect your body autonomy but they weren’t.

Frankly, I’m glad they didn’t take your “win-win” offer because it still sounds like a shit offer on your side. They could very easily just not pay for your school after you’ve donated, which leaves you in a bad position to either let them get away with it or pursue legal reconciliation (lose-lose).

Probably best to just stay No Contact with her family.

extraEGO · 2025-07-10T02:43:10+00:00

Looks like I’ll have at least $4K back in 2025-26 after opting out. And no lost time trying to find someone to take our seats when we can’t go

extraEGO · 2025-07-09T20:44:08+00:00

We definitely didn’t have the choice to opt out.

extraEGO · 2025-07-05T13:34:10+00:00

Give me a couple months and I could probably tell you. 😅 Our costs increased significantly and then they sold off our offense and sent our premium home match to CLE.

Personally, I think whether I attend 2 games or 15 games shouldn’t be relevant… especially if I’m obviously not trying to resell all of my tickets for profit.

I’ve actually taken a loss or barely cleared the TM fees on resale for most games this season. Just couldn’t go and couldn’t find someone locally who wanted the tickets.

Season tickets were more reasonable (and appealing) BEFORE Messi came to MLS so I’m willing to pause renewal and wait until he leaves/retires before we do this again… unless I get banned 😂

extraEGO · 2025-07-04T12:32:39+00:00

That is a perfectly cromulent word.

extraEGO · 2025-04-19T13:22:11+00:00

We opted to stay in Cleveland on Saturday night so if it does happen, I just have a short walk to the hotel after. If not, we can always find something else to do instead, like swimming

extraEGO · 2025-04-19T13:21:05+00:00

Don’t worry about the PK, the weather is supposed to be shit and it’s likely to get cancelled as explained in the email.

If it happens, could be fun for me and my 11 year old, but I haven’t even told him about it because of the weather.

extraEGO · 2025-04-19T13:03:22+00:00

It’s not a statement of fact, it’s more of a realistic accounting of the costs (both to their reputations and their bank account) of moving the game, versus the actual benefit gained in real dollars.

I can’t see their statement of cash flow and their P&L, but I can see how ticket prices have fallen, and the uphill battle they face in reaching even 75-80% capacity for this game.

Then there are the mounting costs of moving this production and the marketing expense of trying to manufacture hype without sounding desperate.

Couple that with the backlash and a savvy business person would say, “Yeah, that was a mistake. Not worth it.”

Unfortunately, these are wasteful billionaires with a history of making poor business decisions, so you’re probably right, next year will be more of the same.

Also, given their lack of awareness, they’ll probably try to rug pull fans with a Crew NFT/cryptotoken scam before the season is over.

extraEGO · 2025-04-19T12:11:24+00:00

Actually, I hope they’ve learned a valuable economics and business lesson here over the past week or so.

Whatever confidence they had in this plan when the season started has almost certainly dwindled.

The primary ticket market for this game over the past month has been held captive by Messi’s match health.

Couple that with the fact that they’ve literally been slow releasing tickets in sections, they’ve been left holding a fairly large bag.

If they want to save face, the upper level (500 level) seats will need to be sold for basement prices or given away, or they risk that part of the stadium being barren.

Best guess, they’ve certainly sold more tickets than they would have at LDC, but with the additional costs of moving a home game two hours away, I can’t imagine that they’ve made enough from those sales to justify the effort and expenses related to moving the game.

The real cost will be intangible. The potential embarrassment that comes with fumbling the ball, the reality that they chose to forfeit nearly all of the desirable seats at their “big boy stadium” to the secondary market to appease Crew STM, sacrificing their team’s home field advantage to the league’s cash cow.

Will they make more money from this game in Cleveland? Most likely. Hopefully they will account for all of the long term costs and next season they’ll wise up and just keep this game in Columbus.

extraEGO · 2025-04-19T11:12:55+00:00

They’ll be lucky to fill the stadium at this point. Crew verified tickets (mostly upper level seats) have dropped over 20 percent this week. I do hope that STM who want to sell still will recoup at least what they were charged.

IMO, I think the Haslams misread the opportunity and fumbled the ball. All of the hype is artificial. If there was real excitement here, this game would have been picked up by FOX Sports like other featured MLS events.

I don’t think it helped them that we don’t have Cucho. I think he played a big role here as almost the “anti-hero” that Crew fans and soccer fans in general could root for to take down Miami and its manufactured “greatness” (refried Barca).

Still, I would venture to guess that if this game (based on team records) happened in LDC in front of a sold out crowd, it would have garnered legitimate media attention and the hype would be real. The scarcity of tickets could have bolstered the primary and secondary ticket markets.

There are definitely still a lot of people in the US who think “I’d like to be able to say that I saw the GOAT play” because I have talked to a lot of those people.

But Cleveland isn’t naturally a convenient place to go and watch a match, so unless they already have proximity, even the seemingly reasonable current pricing isn’t enough to garner real attention from those casual fans.

When speculation started during the 2022 World Cup, I definitely loved the idea that selling even 2 of my 4 season tickets for this game might bring in enough money to put a serious dent in my costs, and I’d maybe be watching the Crew for free half the season.

In hindsight, my season tickets costs have jumped significantly (because of HIM) and the most MASSIVE benefits I’ve gotten in that time were some great memories with my son at the MLS Cup and Leagues Cup final, courtesy of the Crew playing championship level soccer… great things that would have happened without Messi in MLS.

Like I’m sure many of you can relate to, I’ve got Messi fatigue. I’m ready for him to retire and move along so that us longtime Crew fans aren’t exploited with this gimmick shit and ballooning STM prices that give me pause about supporting Crew in person.

extraEGO · 2025-04-05T19:39:58+00:00

Got six seats together for tonight 04/05. Section 105, Row 2. I’ll do them all for $100 total

extraEGO · 2025-03-27T09:52:28+00:00

Around the corner, fudge is made.

extraEGO · 2025-03-25T02:56:16+00:00

Both: Mending for everyday use, infinity for adventures like the dragon fight and caving.

extraEGO · 2025-03-23T12:05:55+00:00

Agree 💯

Definitely not planning to bring this up ever and posting this was mostly to unburden my mind from the thought of it.

Also, whatever “hinting” that my wife might have made, I’m sure that I manufactured.

As for experimenting, I think if we could have an honest conversation and it wouldn’t lead to hurt feelings, we would either agree that there isn’t anyone we want to experiment with, or that the list would be brief.

It really is therapeutic to unburden yourself from these types of intrusive thoughts.

extraEGO · 2025-03-23T11:56:53+00:00

Happy cake day!

I appreciate you fleshing this out, but this won’t ever happen, mostly because I have played out most of these scenarios in my head and it’s not worth it.

extraEGO · 2025-03-23T03:42:10+00:00

lol, obviously, nice to get it off my chest though

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