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Minute Maid Park is tucked into a nice section in the middle of downtown Houston, Globe Life is in the concrete playground they purpose built for all the fun stuff to do in south Oklahoma.
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I was looking on Google Maps to figure out if Arlington had a downtown area that would make more sense for a parade but it doesn't seem to really have one. I guess the nearest downtown area would be in Dallas or Fort Worth.
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Nov 2, 2023 17:03
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No downtown, plenty of soulless desolation.
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Nov 2, 2023 17:04
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ATT Way lol. Come on
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Nov 2, 2023 17:04
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The parking lots are sponsored !!!!
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Nov 2, 2023 17:05
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It's gonna be a lot of fun being on ranger way sponsored by carls Jr, watching the world champion Texas Rangers scoot past me clearly hungover, and then I'll take Jerry Jones scrotum boulevard to a fudruckers and enjoy a chocolate shake before going to six flags over texas and throwing up on the carousel. Brought to you by Wal-Mart. It'll be great.
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Nov 2, 2023 17:08
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How long does it take you to get to Arlington from where you live
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Maybe 30 minutes, usually. Gonna take longer tomorrow. Honestly, if yall wanna talk poo poo about Arlington just make fun of them for refusing to embrace any semblance of public transit because Jerruh needs his parking lot money. It's a dumb city that loves getting absolutely fleeced in avoidable taxes.
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Unless your starting point is Arlington, the answer is half an hour or longer. e: for the two years I was in Dallas, it was near Addison and that'd be a 45-60 drive in traffic not accounting for congestion trying to get to a parade route.
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Popete posted:I was looking on Google Maps to figure out if Arlington had a downtown area that would make more sense for a parade but it doesn't seem to really have one. I guess the nearest downtown area would be in Dallas or Fort Worth. Yeah, even Phoenix and the surrounding suburbs aren't that bad*, and we sell everything that has any value to corporate sponsors and developers. *yet
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We'd play a game in the texpol thread whenever a new Jan 6th defendant got charged: "Which Metroplex suburb is this person from?" Usually Frisco.
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Nov 2, 2023 17:18
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Arlington is fine, it looks like the kind of place most people I care about live.
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I guess a DBacks parade wouldn't be so bad since it's November but god imagine a Suns parade, you'll have so many people get heatstroke
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Intruder posted:I guess a DBacks parade wouldn't be so bad since it's November but god imagine a Suns parade, you'll have so many people get heatstroke Sounds like it'd reduce the water usage, so probably a net positive
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Arlington is what it is, but I do enjoy that the parade route goes right in front of the Death Star.
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zoux posted:We'd play a game in the texpol thread whenever a new Jan 6th defendant got charged: "Which Metroplex suburb is this person from?" Usually Frisco. This is Plano erasure.
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General Dog posted:Arlington is fine, it looks like the kind of place most people I care about live. Got lots of friends who live in Arlington, and there's some nice pockets to it away from the mess. It's just where it's a mess it's...well, messy. Comparing it to Houston is unfair since Houston has eaten all of its surroundings, both good and bad.
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I still can't believe the loving Rangers won a world series. This has to be made up. Is this what people felt like when the Twins won the world series back in 1987?
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Shinjobi posted:Got lots of friends who live in Arlington, and there's some nice pockets to it away from the mess. It's just where it's a mess it's...well, messy. Dallas and Houston both had white flight. Houston's response was to say gently caress that and just swallow the flight and keep bloating out. Dallas took a different approach.
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Dameius posted:Dallas and Houston both had white flight. Houston's response was to say gently caress that and just swallow the flight and keep bloating out. Dallas took a different approach. I'm not sure its all that different. I bought a house in Little Elm (basically Denton) in 2021 because the housing market was utter loving chaos at the time. Its still just non-stop construction up here almost 3 years later. They are determined to pave and suburbanize every square inch all the way to Oklahoma at this point.
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Nov 2, 2023 17:38
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This will be the most on-brand American parade ever. A pointless loop around parking lots in a car-centric suburban wasteland. It's perfect.
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Nov 2, 2023 17:39
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I hope Tom Grieve is having a good day
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tadashi posted:I still can't believe the loving Rangers won a world series. This has to be made up. The 2023 Rangers had the 4th best run differential & 6th best record in baseball. They're a good team that swooned late and recovered in time to go the distance in October.
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I don’t know how Texas isn’t continually haunted It’s accursed
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euphronius posted:I don’t know how Texas isn’t continually haunted I can't hear the ghosts over the AC
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I hope Tom Grieve is having a good day Consider this: the first season where tag is retired, the Rangers go the distance. I love the man but the evidence suggests that he was cursed. It's the hummus sandwiches.
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https://twitter.com/matttomic/status/1720112949438599627tadashi posted:I still can't believe the loving Rangers won a world series. This has to be made up. The Twins were really good, and everybody liked Kirby, so it wasn't surprising in the least.
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Bandire posted:I'm not sure its all that different. I bought a house in Little Elm (basically Denton) in 2021 because the housing market was utter loving chaos at the time. Its still just non-stop construction up here almost 3 years later. They are determined to pave and suburbanize every square inch all the way to Oklahoma at this point. I meant that the municipal boundaries of Houston kept expanding to recapture the flight (obviously not universally, and the furthest flung white flight still stayed independent and blah blah blah) while Dallas metro has a lot of individual municipalities. After Houston annexed Kingwood in the 90s the state got pissy and basically shut Houston down from doing it again. Both Houston and DFW are sprawling blobs of strip malls and parking lots. But we're getting pretty far from baseball at this point so I'll drop it there.
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Dameius posted:This is Plano erasure. Don't threaten me with a good time. E: Dallas is recapturing its white flight too, just not the same way. Source: From, and still in, Irving. Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I hope Tom Grieve is having a good day I went back and watched the 1996 "Arena notices the Rangers just won the AL West on the out of town" clip to hear Mark Holtz and holy poo poo, that's how you sports tears yourself. DOOMocrat fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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Haven't seen anybody post it yet so here are  IMPORTANT 2023-2024 OFFSEASON DATES 11/2: That's today! The WS is over, congratulations to all the Texas Rangers and their fans, besides Aroldis Chapman. On this date all players set to be free agents are, well, officially free agents. However! None of them can sign yet, so cool your jets. 11/6: Free agents are now officially allowed to sign places! Also any contract options (player, club, vesting, mutual, etc) must be exercised or declined by this day at the latest. So this is the actual real "start" of the offseason for the purposes of ~tHe HoT sToVe~ 11/5-11/16: All the various awards (GG, SS, MVP, Cy, etc) will get announced during this window. Check out MLB's page here for specific dates: https://www.mlb.com/awards/2023 Preemptive congratulations to Cody Bellinger of the Chicago Cubs for his Comeback Player of the Year award.  11/7-11/9: GM Meetings, which are not the Winter Meetings™, please get it right. You might see some of the earliest FA deals happen here but probably nothing major. 11/14: Deadline for players hit with the QO to accept or decline. Also the last day for teams to set their 40-man for the purposes of the Rule 5 draft. Can't let Sleve McDichael go unprotected!!! 11/17: Deadline to tender arb-elligable players. That's right, you too might get to experience the joys of watching your team non-tender a future postseason legend so your team's poor, destitute, downtrodden owner can save a couple mil. 12/3-12/6: The Winter Meetings™, which get hyped up every year as being the nexus of the Deal Zone™ but usually are kind of a dud. All the GM's go meet in one place (but it's not the GM Meetings, get it right!!!) and a bunch of players and agents go there too. Some guys might sign! Most will not! Exciting!!! 12/5: The dumb as poo poo MLB draft lottery, which is completely unnecessary but hey look at us kids, we're like basketball now, engagement!11!!!!!11 12/6: Rule 5 Draft, where your team is guaranteed to lose a player you're sure is going to be a future star and pick up a player you're sure is dogshit garbage. 1/12: Last date for teams and players to file arb numbers. Most players will come to terms and that will be that, but a few will get dragged into arb hearings over like $250K and get really salty over it on twitter, drama! 2/13: Spring Training begins! Er, kinda, really this is just pitchers and catchers reporting, but still! Baseball! 2/22: Spring Training actually begins! Come down to beautiful Arizona or tune in from home to watch all your favorite players get like 1 IP or 1 AB and then get subbed out for Willie Dustice and Rey McSriff the rest of the way. 3/28: Baseball is BACK.
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Nelson Cruz has officially retired. He didn't get to 500 HR so no-one will argue whether he is or isn't a HOFer and then have to talk about STEROIDS.
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Red posted:The Twins were really good
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bawfuls posted:were they though? the 1987 Twins were "good" kinda like Jack Morris was an elite starting pitcher My point was this team that nobody really follows finally wins the world series.
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The 2024 Chicago Cubs open at Texas and get to watch the Rangers raise a flag and get their rings. Here's hoping that this experience imparts The Will To Win in our
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bawfuls posted:were they though? the 1987 Twins were "good" kinda like Jack Morris was an elite starting pitcher mcmagic asked how people felt, and my recollection that year is that everybody I knew felt like it was a given the Twins would win when it came down to them and St. Louis. (Edit: I was in like 2nd grade, so) I also remember loving the poo poo out of the '87 Topps series, and I got more of that set than any other series until '91 Upper Deck.
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tadashi posted:My point was this team that nobody really follows finally wins the world series.
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Red posted:mcmagic asked how people felt, and my recollection that year is that everybody I knew felt like it was a given the Twins would win when it came down to them and St. Louis. (Edit: I was in like 2nd grade, so) I have no memory of 1987 but I assume going into the postseason the Tigers were the prohibitive favorites
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bawfuls posted:I presume this comes down to the fact that's after they knocked out the 98 win Tigers Presumably. I think people generally accepted the Royals would be good, and once Bo Jackson became a thing, everyone felt like they'd probably be good for a while. Oops. https://twitter.com/SInow/status/1719916293141213689 Smith should ask for a billion dollars
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I was a sophomore in high school for the 1987 World Series. Off the top of my head, all I really remember about it was liking that the Twin won and the HOMER HANKY. Huh. There were some cool World Series when I was in high school. Red Sox / Mets with the Buckner nonsense. Twins / Cards - though not much stands out. Dodgers / A's - Gibson's home run was on my 17th birthday. Giants / A's - big rear end Earthquake.
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