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VolGee4 said:
BI is definitely priced high- proud of their beer. I have tried a lot of them. But I did get tired of paying $15 for a 4 pack. Today I saw a beer from Asheville I had never seen before- $17+ per 4 pack. Yikes.
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Which brewery? Curious, were they 4-16 oz tall guys?
 
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Devo182 said:
Which brewery? Curious, were they 4-16 oz tall guys?
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DSSOLVR. Yes, 4 pack of 16 oz. I had to look it up on Untappd. The one beer they had was less than 4.0.

I think we’ve discussed that I have been to Asheville. Great beer town. Went to the Funkatorium, NB, Burial, Green Man, etc. Just hadn’t heard of it and wasn’t going to spend $17 for an unknown.
 
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SweetasSoda said:
And what if we cancel football because of X number of deaths then more football players contact it while at home and some die?
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Yeah, they could die anywhere. The public's question would be where is it safer? I would think the public's pov would be playing football is not the safest scenario for them, as opposed to social distancing and/or universities going back online.

Just my perception of how the public discourse would go. If it even gets that far. The public does not like quantifying and weighing deaths, nor want any feeling or sense their "hands are dirty", are in any way a cause of one's death, or were enablers. Reminds me of the discussion on euthanasia or drug legality in that sense.
 
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Vol423 said:
Which brings up a question that I have about Bearded Iris. If they are charging $4.25 per beer retail, what is their price per beer in their tap room or in local restaurants in Tennessee? I would think that it would be much higher.
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And they had Homestyle at the Southern in downtown Nashville for a little bit - think it was 6-or-so a pint.
 
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ATC_VOL said:
Happy Father’s Day to everyone it applies to. My oldest and I found an unlocked gate this afternoon and checked out our new seat location.
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Very cool. My oldest got his masters in Sports Mangement at UT in 2016. He worked in the event managment office while there and he gave a lot of the tours. He had the literal keys to Neyland that he carried around everyday. Which was scary since as a typical teenager, I would not have trusted him with the keys to my backyard shed! Got several tours from him including going onto the roof of the West Skyboxes. Good times.
 
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franklinpence said:
@VolGee4 and @Vol423 take this to the beer thread in the Pub. Don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying my popcorn while watching the exchange, but @Big Gucci Sosa is not the dude to ask for advice about good beer and then have a conniption over the price of said good beer.
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I have a fairly good idea of beer pricing. Had beer all over the country besides the NE. Plus I only drink “good beer”
 
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franklinpence said:
@VolGee4 and @Vol423 take this to the beer thread in the Pub. Don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying my popcorn while watching the exchange, but @Big Gucci Sosa is not the dude to ask for advice about good beer and then have a conniption over the price of said good beer.
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Sorry. Didn’t realize there was a beer thread in the Pub, although that seems highly appropriate. I only brought it up here because BGS told me about Bearded Iris Brewing in this thread.
 
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franklinpence said:
@VolGee4 and @Vol423 take this to the beer thread in the Pub. Don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying my popcorn while watching the exchange, but @Big Gucci Sosa is not the dude to ask for advice about good beer and then have a conniption over the price of said good beer.
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I really didn’t have a conniption. I will pay for good beer. I just don’t do it year round. And I didn’t ask for advice either. I know good beer.
 
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Vol423 said:
Sorry. Didn’t realize there was a beer thread in the Pub, although that seems highly appropriate. I only brought it up here because BGS told me about Bearded Iris Brewing in this thread.
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No worries. I was surprised by some of the pricing on the 4-pack 16ozs too, but you find the right ones, and they’re worth it. Bearded Iris falls in that category, and in TN and GA, it’s among the more reasonably priced 4-packs.
 
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ChattaTNVol said:
When I was a sophomore in high school we had race riots at my school. The police were there but they just watched. We were the Brainerd rebels and I played on the football team. Coach Pete Potter was our head coach at the time. Anyway the situation was totally out of control. It was 1972 and busing was the new solution being tried. The school was over 80% white.

When I got home after the first day of riots/in school demonstrations, I told mom and dad that I was suspending the school for a few days until they got their act together. I think I took a couple days off from classes but when I went back we had a team meeting of the football players and we had some really good guys. The older black players took the lead and put an end to the disturbances in school.

I’ve never forgotten that and I don’t ever remember us having a problem again for my time there. A couple years later we were all in Memorial Auditorium downtown for our graduation. The school had over 1500 kids at the time and around 600 of us were graduating. At the time we were only grades 10-12.

There were a lot of changes in the years after I left. When I’d come home on leave from the navy I’d go visit from time to time. The basketball coach was a good friend of mine. He had also been one of my favorite teachers in the classroom and my parents really liked him. He was a black man. He was a lot of fun. He thought women shouldn't shave their legs and he thought the moon landing were a hoax. He had graduated from Tennessee State. He was my buddy though. If I ever wanted to get out a class he was my go to guy. He never let me down.

Anyway, the name eventually became the Brainerd panthers. When I came home from my last project in industry in the fall of 2015 I read an article in the Times-Free Press that said it had become the worst school performance-wise of all the schools in the county. It’s now 9-12 but total enrollment is only around 600. The students are 95% minority. It sort of hurt me to read that my school was doing so poorly. It was more than embarrassment. I felt bad and still feel bad for the kids that were in that situation.

We need better solutions. jmo.
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Home of the Football Jamboree back in the day. Played on that field many times.
 
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delfonic said:
If you go 2-5 with a single and a home run every single game of the season, you’ll end up with a worse OPS than Barry Bonds in 2004. With the 2-5 each game with a single and a homer, that is a 1.400 OPS, Bonds had a 1.422 OPS.

From 2001-2004, Barry Bonds played in 573 games and reached base in 539 of them.
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He didn’t need the roids to be a HoF’er. That era of baseball is just so cringey looking back
 
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