ExiledInIllinois

Yeah... Now you have to solve the pathological liar addiction. LoL... Always like with addictions. 😉😜

Sorry to hear. It sucks getting tangled up with doctors and the insurance companies that are bleeding everyone for what their worth. I guess they know people wanna live so they all got us over a barrel. Be careful and tread wisely or it will pile up even with insurance... Number one reason why people go bankrupt is due to medical costs. Number 2 is job loss. "1) Medical Expenses A study published in the American Journal of Public Health in 2019 found that 66.5% of bankruptcies in the U.S. were due to medical issues like being unable to pay high bills or due to time lost from work.3 Even with health insurance, high deductibles and copays, plus job loss, impact Americans. Rare or serious diseases or injuries can easily result in hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills—bills that can quickly wipe out savings and retirement accounts, college education funds, and home equity. Once these have been exhausted, bankruptcy may be the only shelter left, regardless of whether the patient or his or her family was able to apply health coverage to a portion of the bill or not. (Find out what you can do to avoid a financial meltdown when there's a medical emergency. Read Steering Clear Of Medical Debt.)" https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0310/top-5-reasons-people-go-bankrupt.aspx Good luck!

Where are Jays and Raptors playing now?

@Beerball 's bear 🐻 cam is better. I just felt I needed to say that.

We did no such thing at work. We shut down on Wednesday 9/12. 😜

Nice use of the word: "die"... You got poet in you! 😃

Sure they can field teams. MLB over the last 30+ years has had more different Champions than the "capped sports." I am surprised small markets in other games can field competitors... Which they usually don't.

911 is considered Patriot Day. But that's September. It's April now. They must like to plan. 😆

But... Everyone over 50 sleeps for 2 hours in the afternoon. In Mexico 🇲🇽, they call it: "Siesta"... All ages do it. Stay strong... You're rest habits are being tracked!

Our mayor secured the vaxx for the whole village (about 10k) by working with a local pharmacy. He's a Democrat. Election Day is tomorrow. Think he wins? Gets re-elected? 😆... Gotta admit, was a shrewd political move. What a beast! 😆

And that flame-grilled taste! The gift that keeps on giving! 😆... But you're right, "other worldly!!!"

Yeah... I stand corrected, 2.8 million in the Upstate New York Region of WNY... But heck... 1.9 million is a heck of a lot of Poles. I have even noticed in recent years, they are coming through on recreational boats, speak nothing but Polish. Hard-headed too! 😆 Anybody know how to say: "life preserver, no wake" in Polish! Help: @BringBackFergy @Beerball Special Shout-out to: @Gugny (I hear you just graduated from the Polish-American Museum in Amsterdam, New York! 😉)

Actually, the largest concentration outside Poland I believe is Chicago: "Institutions. Chicago bills itself as the largest Polish city outside of Poland with approximately 1,900,000 people of Polish ethnicity in the Chicago metropolitan area." I don't even think there's two million total in WNY.

Also... The day everyone is Polish in South Bend, Indiana. They celebrate it really big there. Like BFLo, if not even more hyped by the town!

Get it in your dominant arm. You know, the one you wipe your azz with. 😆🤣

40 in last 100 years. That's one every 2.5 years for all you little mathletes out there! Mets? 5 in last 60. That's one every 12 years. 2009 was 12 years ago. That's about right for the Yankees with Mets standards... 😆

Good luck... Your welcome. Again, pure bar food. In the old days, when they were invented, the sandwiches were gratis... Salted rolls so the workers would drink more BEER. FWIW... My BiL is from the Boston area... A lover of all things Bawston and his grandmother's baked beans... IE: Obnoxious to the core. Anyway... He loved the lowbrow, "salt of the earth" beef on weck when he was first introduced to it back when my mother was living (pre 1999). And yes, it was made with gravy. It's bar food, fare for the salt of the earth... So I guess there is a redeeming quality about my BiL... Yankee frugality and sensibly overrides coastal snobism... Even if he thinks BFLo is an outpost on the Niagara Frontier and a million miles away in Indian Country. Try not to make it out to be more than anything more. Get a big piece of suet and slap it on top of the top round while it cooks. Cook it rare, easy to slice and it will finish in the gravy. Kimmelweck is just a salted Kaiser roll with caraway. It's really not that hard. Gasp: finish it off in a CrockPot... 😆 😃😊

There's a joke in here somewhere about a leeky peck! 😆

Oh... Funny story about the Mets and 1969. My brother was 5 and in Kindergarten... My mother got him a Mets tee-shirt. Same mother who grew up thinking only the Yankees & Dodgers were allowed in World Series (honest Native, really! 😆)... And daughter of total Yankee lover AND Mets lover, my grandmother... ...Anyway my brother, who's 4 years older than me says he goes to school with said Mets tee-shirt and is promptly picked on, called every name in the school bus dictionary by the older kids. 1969 wasn't all that idyllic. Did you ever see Shea Stadium during those years?😉😉 Anyway, he went on to be a Yankee lover... During the Yankees-KC years I rooted for Royals... YET, he tolerated the Mets and would root for them. But NOT over St.Louis Cardinals! 😅🤣 I hope this clarifies things! 😆🤣

I really don't have any dog in hunt. BFLo doesn't have MLB... So... My heart is purely out of it. No Hometown connection. Sure Home State. But who from Upstate doesn't secretly loathe NYC? I can tolerate The City, it's like Chicago here. Love & hate the place and it's teams. I will root for Sox here, that's about it... Over the Mets, but not Yankees. Strange... I grew up hating Yankees. I'd take Mets over Cubs. The 1969 collapse is epic! I rooted for Cubs over Marlins and San Diego... But Indians over Cubs. My MLB allegiance is schizo without a heart! 😆 I guess like me! 😆

Look, I rooted for Mets in 1986 because they played the BoSox. I don't mind seeing the Mets collapse. I can't explain it. I think it's funny... Like watching the Cubs suck. Or Boston suck. But, on that scale... Watching Boston win is the worst. Why pick on me? You didn't see the OP's initial post? I guess, I am just a troublemaker. You can't convert me. I have no remorse with this issue.

Yeah... And get their meat hooks in parking and tailgate. Leave it alone. The new biz model NFL will be the death knell for WNY football. We're cooler draggers...

Varying levels. There are fewer teams I root for over the Yankees. Maybe one or two teams. Mets ain't one of them. Little more with the Mets. Yankees are one of them.