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The West Coast is Overrated! (1 Viewer)

General Malaise said:
If you are a fan of the Yankees or another east coast baseball team, how do you watch your team play when their in Seattle?  That's a 10pm start time.  How is that a better time zone for sports viewing?
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When it comes to sports viewing I used to be an east coast honk. I've been sold by CSTers and bought into their time zone being the best for this.

 
General Malaise said:
Homeless problem is awful.  That and taxes and traffic might be what gets me to finally move.
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There was a homeless guy in a wheelchair trying to sell me and 5 other doods a counterfeit $100 bill yesterday for 5 minutes as we waited for Uber. 

We moved over 15 feet and the guy wheeled back into our circle more aggressively yelling and cursing at us. 

 
fantasycurse42 said:
When it comes to sports viewing I used to be an east coast honk. I've been sold by CSTers and bought into their time zone being the best for this.
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I lived CT for 23 years and PT for 21.  I'll take PT all day long, but that's because I'm an early to rise early to bed kind of guy now.  When I lived CT, I stayed up until well past midnight every night, so catching the end of MNF or watching my Rangers play the Mariners was no big deal.  But now, I struggle to stay up past 11.  Conversely, I only have to wait a few short hours for college football Saturdays and NFL Sundays.  Before I was saddled with 1,181 kids, I used to meet my buddies at the sports bar at 9:30am on Sunday, settle in with breakfast and bloodies and watch all the games.  Those were some of the best times of my life (a tragic commentary about me for sure, but I loved them).  

Waiting until 1pm to watch an NFL game seems like torture.  No wonder all you hosers go to church out there.  Need to kill time before the games start.

 
fantasycurse42 said:
There was a homeless guy in a wheelchair trying to sell me and 5 other doods a counterfeit $100 bill yesterday for 5 minutes as we waited for Uber. 

We moved over 15 feet and the guy wheeled back into our circle more aggressively yelling and cursing at us. 
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They're awful out here too and they are all over in tent camps; sides of highways, door stoops of buildings, public trails.  I'm taking light rail downtown tonight to meet a buddy before the Blazer's game and I'm already dreading the homeless cholesterol that blocks the city streets.  

 
General Malaise said:
I lived CT for 23 years and PT for 21.  I'll take PT all day long, but that's because I'm an early to rise early to bed kind of guy now.  When I lived CT, I stayed up until well past midnight every night, so catching the end of MNF or watching my Rangers play the Mariners was no big deal.  But now, I struggle to stay up past 11.  Conversely, I only have to wait a few short hours for college football Saturdays and NFL Sundays.  Before I was saddled with 1,181 kids, I used to meet my buddies at the sports bar at 9:30am on Sunday, settle in with breakfast and bloodies and watch all the games.  Those were some of the best times of my life (a tragic commentary about me for sure, but I loved them).  

Waiting until 1pm to watch an NFL game seems like torture.  No wonder all you hosers go to church out there.  Need to kill time before the games start.
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Football starts at 12pm for CST, MNF/TNF ends around 10:30pm - personally, I don't really need sports before noon. I think they've got it the best.

 
General Malaise said:
They're awful out here too and they are all over in tent camps; sides of highways, door stoops of buildings, public trails.  I'm taking light rail downtown tonight to meet a buddy before the Blazer's game and I'm already dreading the homeless cholesterol that blocks the city streets.  
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This was Seattle FWIW.

 
fantasycurse42 said:
There was a homeless guy in a wheelchair trying to sell me and 5 other doods a counterfeit $100 bill yesterday for 5 minutes as we waited for Uber. 

We moved over 15 feet and the guy wheeled back into our circle more aggressively yelling and cursing at us. 
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Hope you're ok, GB. That sounds just dreadful

 
fantasycurse42 said:
Football starts at 12pm for CST, MNF/TNF ends around 10:30pm - personally, I don't really need sports before noon. I think they've got it the best.
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I felt that way when I lived CT, but that's absent kids or any reason to be up before 11am, so the start times were glorious.  I'm up by 6am every day now, no matter what.  It's quite nice to get your bets down, some time with the kids, a few errands out of the way and then exciting BIG TEN Football to watch before getting around to games that really matter. ;)

I'm going to pay for that......

 
fantasycurse42 said:
I don't know why they'd be here when they can be down there...
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They get one way bus tickets to come up here in the summers and no way to get back when it gets crappy outside.  The liberal politicians don't do anything here to curb the problem other than look to the taxpayers to help.  

 
So Cal - I walk my chocolate lab in shorts and flip flops at 10pm in 365 days a year.  Maybe a jacket if gets down to the 50's.  Love Pacific time.  10am bloody mary's for Sunday games, MNF wraps up closer to 9 than midnight.  I do believe other areas of the country have stronger sense of community.  Taxes suck.  High cost of living.  Traffic sucks.  But I still love it here.

 
Speaking of homeless problems, I was shocked at how well Denver has its under control. I was expecting it to be awful, scores of people lost in the wake of the dreams that came with following legalized marijuana, wandering around aimlessly begging for change or weed or both,  but it was the complete opposite. I don't think I was approached once while I was there.

 
Limp Ditka said:
Speaking of homeless problems, I was shocked at how well Denver has its under control. I was expecting it to be awful, scores of people lost in the wake of the dreams that came with following legalized marijuana, wandering around aimlessly begging for change or weed or both,  but it was the complete opposite. I don't think I was approached once while I was there.
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We’re you on the 16st Street Mall?  Pearl St in Boulder?

 
who likes an avg of 42?!@?#!@?   Its going to drop to the low 40's next week and I'm not happy winter is here.

 
Osaurus said:
We’re you on the 16st Street Mall?  Pearl St in Boulder?
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Around 16th street and some time in the Rino area. Never made it up to Boulder

And don't get me wrong, there were plenty of what appeared to be homeless people around, but they kept to themselves.

 
Limp Ditka said:
Around 16th street and some time in the Rino area. Never made it up to Boulder

And don't get me wrong, there were plenty of what appeared to be homeless people around, but they kept to themselves.
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That’s an improvement for sure.  I have been aggressively panhandled/mildly mugged several times at both places.  Tampa is getting bad fwiw.

 
Osaurus said:
That’s an improvement for sure.  I have been aggressively panhandled/mildly mugged several times at both places.  Tampa is getting bad fwiw.
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I don't go to Boulder because it's expensive and smells but 16th street isn't bad anymore.  It got rough for a while but they've really put a lot into revamping it.  Part of that was a larger police presence which solves some of the aggressive homeless problems.

 
Limp Ditka said:
Speaking of homeless problems, I was shocked at how well Denver has its under control. I was expecting it to be awful, scores of people lost in the wake of the dreams that came with following legalized marijuana, wandering around aimlessly begging for change or weed or both,  but it was the complete opposite. I don't think I was approached once while I was there.
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Yeah, weed isn't really the drug of choice for many of the homeless people with drug addictions. 

 
Osaurus said:
That’s an improvement for sure.  I have been aggressively panhandled/mildly mugged several times at both places.  Tampa is getting bad fwiw.
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I get pestered for change more on my walk to or from the train to the office, which is about 1/2 mile, than I did the 4 days I was there.

 
Limp Ditka said:
I get pestered for change more on my walk to or from the train to the office, which is about 1/2 mile, than I did the 4 days I was there.
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The folks out in traffic at major intersections freak the #### out of me here.  Dangerous is an understatement with all the Formula 1 drivers this city apparently has.

 
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Judge Smails said:
So Cal - I walk my chocolate lab in shorts and flip flops at 10pm in 365 days a year.  Maybe a jacket if gets down to the 50's.  Love Pacific time.  10am bloody mary's for Sunday games, MNF wraps up closer to 9 than midnight.  I do believe other areas of the country have stronger sense of community.  Taxes suck.  High cost of living.  Traffic sucks.  But I still love it here.
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But the heat! My god, the heat! It was 95 degrees on Thanksgiving! 
Good thing we have girls in yoga pants and volleyball shorts walking around to take our minds off the weather.  :thumbup:

 
Skipped page 2 but is someone really complaining about SF weather?   :lmao:

 
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What's your infatuation with hills :lol:

East coast is pretty busted up, lots of weird odors. It's got some ok spots I suppose, definitely the West Coast ugly sister though.

 
The General said:
Raised and went to college in Southern Indiana. Big fan of the midwest.
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Southern Indiana is part of the Midwest but it's amazing how different it is from the northern states yet.  It's amazing how different things are just going from Iowa into Missouri.

 
Hawkeye21 said:
Southern Indiana is part of the Midwest but it's amazing how different it is from the northern states yet.  It's amazing how different things are just going from Iowa into Missouri.
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Care to share any of this amazingness with us coastal elites

 
Hawkeye21 said:
That's the majority of Iowa but not where I live.  North Eastern Iowa is very nice and not even close to being flat.  As for boring, any place can be boring, that's completely up to the person.
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Just bustin balls, GB.  I am probably maybe possibly going to be moving to Michigan at some point in the not so distant future.  

 
The General said:
What's your infatuation with hills :lol:

East coast is pretty busted up, lots of weird odors. It's got some ok spots I suppose, definitely the West Coast ugly sister though.
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I dunno, New England in the fall in smaller, quaint towns is rather aesthetically pleasant.   

 
Eephus said:
Care to share any of this amazingness with us coastal elites
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Once you get to Southern Iowa and get into Northern Missouri the culture seems to change some and so does the accents.  Don't have to go too far to start hearing a slight southern drawl.  Southern Iowa and Western Iowa is what I'm assuming how most people view the entire state to be.  The NE corner of the state is very hilly and wooded.  We even have skiing here.  It's more like Wisconsin and it's very picturesque.

 
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