Don't you sell drugs? Thought that would be really lucrative

I'm a lowly student during the year and a lowly intern during the summers right meow. Catch me summer of 2021 slangin' amlodipine to Howard while throwing brownbirds around though.

Baseball hype making me want to play. Haven't caught a decent fastball in about 22 years. Near the end, my friends were throwing very fast to the point that if they didn't hit the glove, I probably wasn't catching it. My left hand still aches on raw winter days from the fastballs, but I'll still throw you out at 2nd base.

I was a catcher for many years as well. Miss it a ton but my left thumb will never be the same.

One of my favorite speeches of all time came after a Babe Ruth league postseason loss(single, caught 1 stealing) by my friend's father, the assistant coach. He knew that a lot of us were unlikely to make either high school team, myself included. So it was a nice "farewell to summer ball."

After that, a lot of my friends made the high school team, so I started pinning up K's when they pitched at the park.

Baseball is a pretty funny thing for a ferner or children of ferners. My parents never taught me how to play, so I had to learn the rules one at a time every PE class in second and third grades.

I'm right handed, why am I putting the glove on my left? Oh, so I can throw the ball - where do I throw it? Home?? My home is too far away!

I also had to learn the rules of football by watching the games. I was like super proud of myself for figuring it all out during the '85-'86 season and of course the Patriots went to the Super Bowl and every newspaper in the Boston area had Football 101 primers for people who didn't know how football worked and I was like wotttt fffffuuuuuuuu. But I was happy because ldo Patriots #1 4eva.

Of course I didn't realize the concept that one team could be favored over the other so when the Pats scored first I truly and honestly believed that the Bears were gonna get crushed.

Life is full of broken dreams.

I'm pretty sure(I was 6 years old) that they put us children to bed when dad started really swearing that night.

Ferner?

Say it out loud. Although with some ferners you get more of an L sound instead of an R sound.

ah..I assumed it was some particular racial slur I wasn't familiar with.

When I learned that a safety was only 2 points I was pretty happy because I thought the Bears had scored a touchdown!

Limit Hold'ems, Running Aces

Dealt 44 in the CO, capped 6 ways preflop

Flop 686, checks through to me and I say "checked around? Daaaangerous six ways"

Turn 4

Bet, call, call, raise, I raise because I'm an idiot: several call the 3 bets

River K

We bet, one caller, I am shocked

I am vacationing in New York this week (and next). This morning, I have fulfilled a dream.

I have played cards with a man called "Doc." (He was a serious nit. JonLocke could have ground him to bits.)

I have slept with several women who were/are crazier than I am.

And as of this morning, I have hit the trifecta. In Syracuse, NY, I was able to eat at a place called "Mom's."

The food was decent. Not excellent, but not bad either.

I too, used to wear the tools of ignorance. Is there some correlation between "poker player body" and catcher? Nah, must be the analytical nature, right?

I feel like AB has had more 3-somes than most people have had 2-somes.

Certainly better than cards with crazy women, sex with mom and eating at Doc's.

Having sex with mom's Doc is in the cards, though.

Stars gets shut-down for allowing illegal gambling where players could actually win something. I'd love to be able to show Preete Bharara or w/e his name is just how badly Stars is raping the play money players, it's monstrous. I've been playing a bit of Zoom and they rake 100+ in an 1,800 pot. Players are buying $500 chip packages. This really is a sin.

I ran up the original 10k free stack to 23million in like 15 sessions even with that atrocious rake.

Then played 50k/100k or whatever NLO8 to run it back down to 1.8 million, so haha jokes on me!

My last 2 sessions both went poorly. Both times I had a hard time getting any hand to stand up. Either missed flops or bad rivers. OK - no big deal - just some runbad - it will turn around.

But both times someone asked me "Why do you keep raising preflop? You don't win any hands." The best answer I've come up with is "I like losing big pots." Anyone got a better answer?

I can't get even by playing small pots.

That’s why they call me the magician. I make chips disappear.

'I have too much money for my own good. It's always been a problem.'

I actually use that one.

"Poker is more fun when I raise."

I like it.

Yes, I can use that one.

I did use a variation of this while running bad. I said, "Raising preflop is the only fun I can have since I'll lose on the river."

I didn't buy a lottery ticket, and probably wont't for the upcoming billion dollar drawing. Someone asked me why not. I said "I'd only spend it". I was thinking that was a movie line - I was close. It is the last 2 lines from The Sting:
Henry Gondorff: You not gonna stick around for your share?
Johnny Hooker: Nah. I'd only blow it.