Scott Dolan

I remember Caitlyn when she was Bruce.

Much appreciated GA & page!

Me, too! My buddy Scott and I are going to try to get our annual birthday round in today, and we're hoping the weather ends up cooperating. It's going to be close...

Thanks, Tim. Been nice having you back around.

Thanks, gents!

The latest generation of Royals fans are as whiny and stupid as any fan I've ever experienced. They're like Yankees fans from the 90's and early 2000's. My apologies in advance for anyone who runs across one.

I'm glad to hear they finally fixed Vista, but I had already bailed by then. If the machine I was running XP SP2 on had not died, I may still be running it to this day. All I know is that Vista made Apple a lot of money.

Vista was an absolute nightmare. It was the straw that broke this camels back.

Then you obviously never made the switch from Windows XP to Windows Vista. Or from OS 9 to OS X. As for Windows 7, it was an OS designed for lap/desktop computers. But, Windows 8 was primarily designed for their touchscreen tablet, then lazily ported to lap/desktops. Either way, there can be enormous differences in functionality and user friendliness between operating systems. Hell, the differences in usability between Windows 98 and 98 SE were striking.

Good practice no matter what kind of product it is. Early adopters tend to have a lot of headaches.

Yes, you do digress. One professional sport season at a time, please.

I no longer own any Windows machines, but have always read that Windows 7 was rock solid, but Windows 8 was a disaster outside of their tablets. Is Windows 10 a mea culpa to laptop/desktop owners?

Yes, and it actually looks good for a change.

My job here is done.

I washed a brand new red shirt with a bunch of other clothes about 25 years ago. I wore a lot of pink for awhile, but was permanently relieved of laundry duty...

I never got past the "filling the dishwasher" phase.......... I get to empty the dishwasher, but my wife doesn't let me fill it because I allegedly "do it wrong".

My wife is Italian, and has become the stereotypical Italian mother. She can cook her ass off. BBQ and Asian (mostly Vietnamese and Korean) are her specialties, with Italian simply coming naturally. Since she's really come into her own cooking, that's when we started going rub over sauce. Or, in the case of the chops she grilled a couple of nights ago, a little of both. But yeah, you really have to have your shit together to get it right using nothing but a rub. I sure as hell couldn't do it, but she can for some reason. Of course, I don't get to touch the grill either. Well, that's not true. She sometimes lets me take the cover off and turn the burners on. I'm the prep cook. Hey, I've got no problem with that. I love cutting shit!

We're bigger on rubs than sauces ourselves. But, just depends on the mood, and the cut, really. Burnt ends are the big thing around here. I always do sauce on those.

? Most cuts of pork are the leanest meat you can find. We're not talking about bacon here.

Yeah, my wife's favorite sauce recipe uses mustard. It's surprisingly good! Grape jelly is another surprising ingredient around here. It's quite good as well.

I was thinking the same thing! Nothing guilty about it for me. Just honest enjoyment through and through. Do you have more Memphis style BBQ in northern Georgia? It's predominantly Kansas City style here, but I prefer the vinegar based Memphis sauces to the molasses based KC sauces.

All of this pulled pork talk has me wondering…how, exactly, is it a guilty pleasure? Aren't guilty pleasures supposed to be things that are normally considered unsavory or embarrassing, yet you take pleasure in indulging?

Yeah, my wife and I have made Vietnamese banh mi sliders using pulled pork. So I can imagine it would make a fantastic Vietnamese salad. Now I'm going to have to find a recipe for that!

It's just slow-cooked pork that either falls apart by itself, or is pulled apart by hand. It is immensely popular here in Missouri, with Kansas City being one of the top BBQ cities in the U.S.

Kraft Deluxe Macaroni And Cheese would be my biggest food related guilty pleasure. We do our own cooking and eat very healthy, but sometimes I just gotta!