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Cake day: April 2nd, 2026

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  • Let me start by saying there are various types of pain. I’ve cracked my head open on a brick fireplace, I’ve had a finger hit with ammonia anhydrous spray and freeze almost instantly, freeze burn sucks worse than fire. I had my hand caught between a tractor tire and a 3 point cultivator and the pressure burst open a finger. I had a 1000 gallon water tank fall on my foot and lost a nail, I’ve had a completely ruptured disc in my back and needed a fusion.

    I think I’d rather go through all of those again at the same time than ever experience a kidney stone again. The pain is indescribable and unlike other pain where you get brief moments of relief in waves, a kidney stone pain is always on and does not relent.

    The second worst pain is peeing after you have it surgically removed. Nothing like pissing pure blood at the temperature of molten lava.

    The third is having the stent removed, it’s like a tiny thorny vine and the thorns are pointed towards the exit











  • Sports analytics have changed every sport. I distinctly remember that season, the average sports fan didn’t know back then what was going on behind the scenes but that streak was fun as hell to watch even if you weren’t and A’s fan. My buddy was a die hard As fan and he was distraught at the trades before the season started.

    I loved baseball as a kid, I wasn’t good, but I loved playing and I loved watching. when I hit my late teens is when I finally found my strength in hitting. But I stopped watching when the strikes in the 90s happened and I didn’t follow again for 20 years.

    Dont let others ruin something you love. that’s a hardlife lesson, because I’ve gotten back into it and realized how much I truly did love the game itself and hate that I didn’t keep watching or trying at it. Just the feel of the glove, the grass, the smell of the dirt.

    And what’s truly great about baseball even though it’s been played since the late 1800’s by hundreds of thousands of people over 100 games per team a year. It seems like every year there is still something that’s never been done before in its history.