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As someone who has cigs and an empty pack of M&Ms signed by JD, there’s something else I need signed for my Daly collection: an ace and face card. I’ve seen parts of this interview over the years, but I’d never heard that Daly was losing millions — he estimates his losses got as high as $55 million – playing 7-handed blackjack at casinos.
“The game of golf, if you’re in the hunt, you’ve got adrenaline going. But you got 140 to 300, 400,000 on the blackjack table, you’re going to have adrenaline. And I think that’s what I loved more than anything,” Daly said in the “Hit It Hard” ESPN 30 for 30.
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In that documentary, JD said gambling for four days straight was his life. He estimated the net losses once he’d hit rock-bottom were north of $50 million after gambling somewhere just south of $100 million.
Good luck at the casinos this weekend. Just don’t be like Big John. Take a break. Go for a walk. Call it a day if the tables turn cold while playing SEVEN hands.
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Have you guys been asked by an airport kiosk to add a tip at a self-checkout? This guy caught a self-serve airport kiosk where you buy water and drinks asking for a tip. I guess this isn’t any different than grab & go drink stations at sporting events asking for tips.
The lesson here is that you better have your head on a swivel or that $7.50 bottle of water is going to be nearly $10 when the computer gets its tip because you’re not paying attention.
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Guys, I’m trying to look out for you.
• Tom in Virginia asks: I’m sitting in the Charlotte airport, and able to read today’s column because the Wi-Fi works for a change. Because I spend a lot of time in airports, I pose the following: Do guys purposely spit their gum in urinals, or are there a suspiciously high number of accidental drops? It’s so common, and I move along to a clear option, but I think about the custodian dude who knows, and I mean death-and-taxes knows, that will be a part of his shift today.
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Also, I get your Superbar idea, but it will never happen. I will give you a minute to visualize what derelict behavior will inevitably follow the ribbon cutting.
Good weekend to you. Take your hats off indoors, gents.
• Chris from California is fired up: Until it showed up in your column I didn’t even know “Dump Dinners” were a thing and having watched that video, now think they may be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen.
While I think some parents do it for the social media attention, I also think a lot of it is because of the infantilization of the modern adult. Remember, parents with kids this age are also the ones that are still living with their mom and dad, have to have coloring books and fidget toys at work to settle their nerves and focus and flat out refuse to grow up. They say it’s because the economy, the political system, blah, blah, blah… but honestly it’s because they’ve been allowed and are still being allowed to act like children and they are passing that along to their children.
It’s difficult and frustrating to teach your children table manners and how to eat like something other than a wild animal, so why not do something trendy that removes that headache and responsibility?
I will continue to bang the drum until the day I die, but the habits and manners we instill at home are what makes the difference between a successful persona and a whiny layabout. Could I have my children eat like animals and have no sense of order or decorum because it makes my life easier? Sure, but then what happens when they go over to a friend’s house or actually out in public and act like that?
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I have 3 boys, all of whom are very active and do a ton of activities outside of school and have very active, robust, healthy social lives. Two of them are teenagers so I’ll let them go meet their friends at McDonald’s or go bum around the mall and I know that when they are doing those things they are reflecting the responsibility and values I helped instill in them. If I wasn’t 1000% sure they were doing that I wouldn’t let them leave the house.
It may make a few dinners here and there more difficult to teach your kids to use silverware, wipe themselves with a napkin, clean up after themselves, say, please and thank you but that little bit of extra effort makes a HUGE difference in their lives, maybe not right then and there but later on in life.
Also, another Outkick writer asked if we are all over getting up in arms about all of the stupid antics held during the National Anthem. The answer, at least for me is a resounding NO!!! It’s two minutes of a 3 plus hour sporting event used to honor and remember all of the men and women that made that very sporting event possible!
Once again, I have teenage boys, they don’t take anything seriously but to go back to my earlier point I taught them from the moment they were old enough to stand that they stand and show some damn respect when the anthem is sung. They don’t question it, they don’t fight it. I explained exactly why it means something and they may not agree with whatever the politics are of the moment but they know the anthem is about far more than that and these are teenage boys that also punch each other through walls and try to shotgun Dr. Pepper’s.
We do need to make a big deal out of it when athletes blow the anthem off. They are making millions of dollars that they couldn’t make anywhere else in the world because of the very things that flag and that anthem represent. If they really can’t be bothered to show some respect then we shouldn’t be bothered enough to give them our attention and money. Grow up, stand up, stand still and when you eat… eat like a human!!!
• Travis says: There’s free software that has been around for at least 12 years called Radiodelay that allows you to pause live radio so it can sync to your TV broadcast. I started using it in 2013 and it’s probably older than that.
You can either connect an external radio to your microphone in jack or use a URL if your favorite radio station streams their content online.
• Steve in Texas spent time near where I live: Sad to hear about the lack of quality nachos in NW OH. More years back than I care to count there was a Mexican restaurant in downtown Perrysburg, OH that had great Macho Nachos. I gained about 15 lb having them and a margarita a couple times a week while on an internship in Toledo one summer. I think it was Casa de Barron and it was back in the late 80’s. Also still need to get back to Tony Packo’s, the job was just down the street from the original location.
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Kinsey: There’s good news and bad news, Steve. The bad news is that Casa Barron is gone, but it was replaced by a legit Mexican restaurant operated by one of the the real good guys in the food industry. I haven’t been to the new place even though it’s been there a few years.
As for Packo’s, I have bad news: The food is all factory-made and overpriced. Yes, even the original Packo’s. It’s just not the same as 15-20 years ago. And if you were eating it pre-2000, it’s going to be really disappointing. The original Packo’s is still an institution, but the food has gone downhill.
My phone hadn’t been hammered until Thursday. I don’t know what list I ended up on, but it’s officially being lit up. Amy Acton is pleading with me to donate $5 to battle Vivek. This election can’t get over with fast enough.
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Go have an incredible weekend. We’ll be in Columbus for the Ohio Junior High Cross Country State Championships. Can Screencaps Jr. run in the 11:20s or maybe even the 11:19s at one of the fastest courses of the season? The weather should be just about perfect. Stay tuned.
