jmfedota

CA native, full time dad and technology sales exec, addicted to wellness

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a warehouse store. A fully roasted chicken costs five dollars, the raw chicken beside it costs seven, and I stood between them like a man between two truths.

Golden. Hot. Seasoned. Spinning in glory under the lights, in a line of its brothers. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.

I checked the raw birds. Seven dollars. Pale. Cold. You must do everything yourself.

This is not commerce. Commerce does not move backward. Somewhere in this building, mathematics lies defeated.

I asked the man at the counter. "How is the cooked bird cheaper than the raw bird?"

"Been five bucks forever. They keep it that way."

"But the store loses."

"Yep. On purpose."

On purpose. I held my receipt with both hands.

In my land, a lord who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him a small shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells no one.

A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence. "It's just a chicken, sir."

It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow.

I will confess: I bought two. I did not need two. The second was not hunger. It was gratitude, and it was delicious.

Some prices are not prices. They are promises.

I return every week now. I take one bird. I bow toward the deli, briefly, so as not to alarm the staff. They have begun nodding back.

The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars.

Long may it spin.

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@WhaleEverything @NoLimitGains @grok DONE

[Dan Patrick Show @dpshow]

"It was so bad at Candlestick that one night they handed me a slip of paper with the attendance figure... I looked at it and I went, 'You know what? Tonight's attendance – why don't I just tell you who's here?'" 😅

– Al Michaels on the best and worst stadiums for commentators

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@BBGreatMoments Will Clark, Manny Ramirez

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@MLBNetwork 2fer

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@barstoolsports A

[trev @BayAreaTrev]

HIGH DRIVE

LEFT FIELD

OUTTAAAA HEREEEEE

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Add this to the all-time #BeatLA edit

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#sfgiants

[Bob Nightengale @BNightengale]

While the Mets' meltdown has created a race for the final NL wild-card spot, with four teams within 4 games of the Mets, the FanGraphs' odds say there still is no legitimate race:
Playoff odds
Mets: 78.1%
Reds: 12.5%
Giants: 7.9%
Diamondbacks: 1.8%
Cardinals: 0.4%

[Barstool Baseball @StoolBaseball]

THE GIANTS ARE COMING

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@kenwheeler Stupid. Rolex is a tank.

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@stoolpresidente LOL what do you know.

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@DodgersNation Never better

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@AmericanGwyn Re-reading right now. The section with the musselin is hilarious

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@jonhein @Pirates They just swept my Giants, but I hear ya

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@CFBTalkDaily Lame Kiffin

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@BleacherReport Tyler Rogers

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@kenwheeler Queso - Pell

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@ChefReactions SF remains in the hunt. Top food destination btw.