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On February 28, 2004, Apple opened its first store in San Francisco. It was a long time coming. The store’s arrival was publicly announced by Steve Jobs at WWDC 2003: We’re opening three really great stores — one in Chicago, one in San Francisco, and one in Tokyo… In San Francisco, we don’t have anything constructed yet. We’ll open San Francisco next spring. But this is a rendering. I wish it was this easy to build them!

The first year of the College Football playoffs was contentious, wild, featured some fascinating games, and in many respects was similar to the 2023 playoffs we’ve been watching unfold this season. Check out the penultimate rankings before the final ones that set the field and actually mattered: Alabama (11-1) Oregon (11-1) TCU (10-1) Florida State (12-0) Ohio State (11-1) Baylor (10-1) Arizona (10-2) Michigan State (10-2) What happened next? Alabama won the SEC Championship over Missouri, Oregon smoked Arizona for the Pac-12 Championship, TCU sat at home because the Big 12 didn’t have a title game, Florida State eked out a 37-35 ACC Title win over Georgia Tech, Ohio State obliterated Wisconsin 59-0 despite starting back-up quarterback Cardale Jones, Baylor sat at home like TCU, and the final rankings went…

If you haven’t already, head to my Instagram and check out my Story highlight for the 2022 Polestar 2 to see my live review. I hate leading a Polestar review with Tesla in the subtitle - but every other review of the Polestar does too. The fully-electric Polestar 2, despite looking like a crossover SUV, is actually classified as a sedan meant to compete with the ubiquitous Tesla Model 3.

Welcome to another year of SkipAce Fantasy Disc Golf. I am really excited for the upcoming season to start and some of the new features and changes that we have implemented into the website. In 2022 we are introducing the new "year long" draft format into the SkipAce website, in addition to all the other formats. This custom league is similar to a traditional fantasy sports league where you get together with your friends for a draft, and everyone takes turns picking players.

Anything with diamonds costs a lot, but it turns out that all the money in the world can’t necessarily buy baseball happiness. Since 1994, there has never been less of a correlation between team spending and wins than in 2023.  Fans and insiders alike have long known that dollars spent on talent don’t automatically lead to team success. Bungling front offices can turn huge stacks of money into even larger piles of losses, while shrewd front offices can win more than expected with lower payrolls.

2023 NFBC Fantasy Baseball Championship Final Standings 2022 National Fantasy Baseball Championship Final Standings Here’s the final standing (the above link in yellow ~ Google Sheet) for the 2023 NFBC Main Event, Online Championship, Auction Championship, Cutline, and Draft Championship. High Stakes Fantasy Baseball/Football Analyst is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. ncG1vNJzZmiekaPBor%2FYmqWapKmowW%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2hqYGeAbrrAraCoppGheqetza2YrLFdl660scGao6Vlk52urrzIqKWsoJml

This is a terrible thing to say, but: the pandemic was — in some important ways — good for me. I started eating better. Exercising more. Lost a lot of weight. (I’m still fat.) Started getting better sleep. After a decade of health problems that left me wondering if I would make it to 50, I started to feel somewhat normal again.  And part of being normal again was becoming a serious reader again.

The 2023 season has come to an end with the Texas Rangers emerging as World Champions. But that’s not the story. The story is that now those who were scheduled to become free agents have become, well, free agents. And that means it’s time to predict where these guys go. This is an exercise I do every year. And every year, I’ll get one right and get excited and then look at the list and realize how terrible a job I did.

Hit: 60 Power: 45 Speed: 55 Defense: 50 Arm: 50 Overall: 40 Risk: High ETA: 2027 Compact, athletic middle infielders build. Moderate projectable to add strength to frame. Strong hands. Wide open stance. Leg kick is mostly inwards to the plate with short landing forward. Whippy like, quick swing. Signed for $1.375M out of the Dominican Republic.  Given that Francisca hasn’t played any stateside ball yet, I don’t have much, but off reports I’ve heard from people who I trust, this has the potential to be a special, bat-driven profile.