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I’ve lived in AAco my whole life, so sometimes I feel like I take for granted a lot of Marylander things that people from other states find interesting. Two of my college friends are going to visit me for a week and one of them has never been to MD (the other has spent limited time in College Park/DC).
Obviously, we will be trying crabs, visiting DC, Baltimore, and Annapolis, and seeing some museums and baseball. But what are some Maryland must-dos you all like to treat your relatives/friends to when they visit? Bonus points if you suggest a specific event happening in mid to late August.

I've been a very casual college baseball fan for about 15 years. My sister went to Vanderbilt, and they've been good, so I watched a game or two here and there, then watched when the playoffs came around because, ESPN+. We'll, I moved to the Phoenix area last summer, and we got Arizona State partial season tickets and I'm hooked. However, I have no idea the best way to follow beyond the school accounts. I'd also love to learn more about how NCAA selections work. I follow college hockey really closely and understand all the inns and outs of how the Tournament is selected. It's also much easier to follow all the terms as there's only 64 D1 men's teams in 6 conferences. Thanks in advance for any help.
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So I’ve been out of college for a year and I’m wanting to get into the next big thing in my career.
I graduated with a Degree in Mass Media Production from a smaller D2 school. (If that matters) I did a bunch of live in house broadcasts in college which I loved. Covering live football, baseball, basketball, softball, etc is what I would love to do. I shot documentaries and edited e
However, after graduating I sadly headed home and I am currently at a local TV station as a Video Journalist. While it’s not a bad position, it’s far from what I want to do. I help with stories and love shooting sports, I make an effort to always shoot those on game days.
I think I’m ready for the “next big thing”. Granted, I’m a 22 year old who is trying to get out of his small town. I’ve been applying to associate director positions as well as creative service positions with companies across the US.
My big question is, how do I get to those places? Do I go back to school? Keep harassing and applying to places? I’ve been using NCAA Market for positions as well as Skullsparks. A position with an ESPN truck or a company like GameCreek, LTN, Lyon video sounds promising as well.
Would love to do broadcasts of sports of almost any college and even the pros, I just don’t know how to get there
I’m just lost. I feel like my work is good, but I’m getting ghosted and never hearing back.
I appreciate the help, just a young frustrated guy looking for the next thing.

Hello everyone,
This is my first post. I’ve been watching Dr. K’s videos for about a month or two now, and I want to share some realizations I’ve had from watching them. I just watched the first 45 minutes of today’s live stream on “sh*t life syndrome,” up to the part where he starts addressing how to fix the syndrome. I don’t think I have it right now, but I can see myself developing it in the future.
I’ve been fortunate in many ways. I’m an Indian growing up in a wealthy American suburb with a lot of Asians near me. I’ll share a bit of my personal story to provide context.
I was a super positive, outgoing child, probably because my dad was very extroverted. I was also good at sports and considered academically gifted. In that aspect, my life was great. I had a lot of friends and did everything I wanted—I felt like the king of the world. But at home, my parents fought every morning, and although they tried to shield me and my brother, we could still hear their screams. They even got physical to the point where they tried to kill each other, and the police were called. My father wasn’t abusive, but he cheated. I didn’t understand why there was so much negativity until my mother told me when I was 6 or 7.
When I was 3, my parents started to separate, with one living in an old condo they had before moving into our current house. They switched every few months, and when I was 4, they moved back in together. Without any knowledge of this, on the last day of kindergarten (when I was 6), my mother took me and my brother to an apartment, and we started living there. My brother (5 years older than me) and I would live with my dad on the weekends, but as time passed, my mom wanted weekends with us too, so we only saw our dad every other weekend.
I loved my father a lot back then. He was a great dad—playing baseball with me during the day, biking around our subdivision, and indulging in fun activities at night like watching movies, playing games, or making music together. When I was 7 or 8, he got me a drum set and lessons. In June 2013, when I was 9, he passed away from a heart attack due to diabetes. Coincidentally, my parents were officially getting divorced two days after he died, and the day after was our school’s field day, which got canceled due to rain.
During the years my parents were separated, I preferred staying with my dad. My mom was strict and had anger issues, though she wasn’t very abusive—just the classic Indian mom slaps. Despite this, I loved her, but even at 6 or 7, I threatened to kill myself multiple times and even grabbed a knife once. I think this mindset has been there since then. When everyone around me criticizes me, I get thoughts of just living for them like a puppet and then eventually killing myself. In the end, I had to mentally side with my mother and demonize my father because he was dead and had cheated on her. Since then, I’ve always tried to be tolerant of my mother and avoid negative thoughts about her. These decisions have had repercussions. Subconsciously, I started to hate my mother, likely for making me hate my father. I couldn’t express my emotions—I couldn’t cry or be angry. I had been a big crybaby before, but after my dad’s death, I rarely cried, even at his cremation.
Over time, I became very disconnected from my emotions. Recently, I came to a theory: the parts of my father that I resembled, I locked away because of how my mother spoke of him. The extroverted, charming, and optimistic parts of me disappeared. By 9th grade, I didn’t know why I was living. When COVID hit in my 10th grade, it was almost a saving grace. My grades were slipping, and I played more video games. During quarantine, I reconnected with my best friend, and we spent a lot more time together. Our friend group started having more group calls, and I got into a relationship with a girl, which made me see a life I wanted to live for myself, not for others.
Both of us had issues, and I realized I needed to deal with mine before getting into a relationship. During our time together, I had a huge issue with pathologically lying to maintain appearances. I still lie today, mainly to my family, about things like my GPA to escape judgment. Every move I make, every word I say, gets judged by them. They even critique my vocabulary and how much I smile and laugh. This constant scrutiny has led to the life I am living today.
After my breakup with my girlfriend, I decided to try therapy again because I realized I had unresolved issues. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to open up, making it a waste of time and money, except for a book my therapist recommended, “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself,” which helped open my eyes a bit. After reading this book and starting college, my life was improving, and I was happy. However, it quickly deteriorated as my family began pressuring me about job placement. Since October 2023, two months into my second year in college, there have been many times when I feel there’s no point in waking up tomorrow. The expected path for me is to climb the corporate ladder. When I think of that, all I see is slaving away, working 100 hours a week, around superficial people, building wealth, giving it to my family, and then disappearing to another country where I can actually be happy. Alternatively, I imagine going somewhere, partying, doing drugs, and overdosing, or simply killing myself in my early to mid-30s.
I can envision lives where I could be happy, but there is pressure from my family to pursue a corporate career and secure a six-figure job. While I don’t dislike money, I can’t see a happy life whilst chasing it—it feels so useless and pointless. I’ve expressed my desire to do other things with my life to my family. My family isn’t necessarily against it, but there are high expectations for me. Growing up as the prodigy child with a high IQ, I was always expected to outperform my older brother. Because of these expectations, I’m constantly compared to others who were in my place in college not too long ago.
I tried to get into investment banking because it’s high-paying and well-respected, but I’ve had no luck with that or any other internships, even with local small firms. I’m a finance major, and after coming home from college two weeks ago, I feel like I’m constantly criticized and judged. If I make food, they comment on how much time I have. If I don’t eat, they say I’m depressed and that I can’t be too busy to eat. I genuinely believe I am depressed, I have issues related back to my childhood where I have locked off parts of me, and I want to do therapy for it but don’t know possibly when. I’m frustrated that life isn’t turning out as I hoped.
I’ve spent over 1000 hours in the past 2-3 years applying for internships but have landed none. It’s frustrating because all that time could have been spent doing things I actually want to do and building a life I want to live. I’m currently doing an unpaid internship through a family friend because I needed something on my resume, along with an externship, networking, interview prep, and mindlessly applying. I don’t know how to live a life at home without constant criticism, and I don’t know what to do. I have pathways I want to pursue but lack the time and energy to commit to them properly. I know that putting in little effort once a week isn’t enough—they need commitment. I don’t believe I have a terrible life, but I feel like I’m heading down that path. I genuinely don’t know what to do. When I came home, I planned to focus Monday and Tuesday on my internship and externship work, Wednesday and Thursday on what I genuinely want to do, Friday on my research, Saturday on playing guitar, painting, and doing anything creative, and Sunday on personal development (watching Dr. K videos, miscellaneous stuff, and journaling about my childhood). But since my brother came back and he works from home, he constantly talks about how his girlfriend and all her friends got internships sophomore year summer, and she was in finance and it was only last year too, and asks me to do stuff around the house (which I don’t mind) but he asks in a way acting like I have all the time in the world and I am doing nothing. This leads me to being pressured to apply for internships, network, and interview prep, that I did not plan to do this summer or want to. After living like that for 2-3 days working for 18-20 hours a day I get angry internally and pessimistic and start to dread and hate my life. Then I coop myself in my room the next days, watch tv or anything that’s brainrot and act like I’m working while I do like 1-2 hours of work that day.
I honestly don’t know how to fix this. I’ve tried adopting good habits and ignoring the criticism from my family, and it works temporarily, but that’s all it is—temporary. I don’t necessarily blame my family; my mother is pretty supportive of anything I do nowadays. It’s more the overall image and fear of people looking down on me and badmouthing me. The only one who directly criticizes me the most is my brother, and even then, his intentions are usually good; it’s just the way he goes about it, along with my mother and brother undermining my actions. I know I left a lot here, and I have a lot of problems to deal with. I have high levels of anxiety, I’ve suppressed a lot of my emotions to the point where they bottle up and seep out
What I’ve done in the past: Consistently workout Socialize and have fun, actually enjoy my life Gratitude Journal daily Weekly journal Mindful Meditation daily Proper morning and nightly routine

Baseball 26-27 (10-20)
I huge week for the Panthers. We had our final home game of the season was against Penn State on Tuesday where we won 10-0 in a game shortened to 8 innings due to the Mercy Rule. In a tight battle for the final ACC spot, we blew a 3-1 6th inning lead to lose to Miami 5-3. On Friday we evened our series with the Canes winning 5-3. Elsewhere in the conference losses by Notre Dame and Boston College put us in a win and your in game on Saturday. On Saturday we withheld a 9th inning rally to beat Miami 10-7 and earn a spot in the ACC Tournament.
This coming week is the ACC Tournament at Truist Field in Charlotte, NC. We are scheduled to play two pool games. First against Wake Forest on Wednesday at 3:00. Then against North Carolina on Thursday at 3:00. Both games will be broadcast on ACC Network. If we win both games we will qualify for the ACC Semifinals on Friday.

Imma keep this short and sweet yo. 26 M and I have been dating my gf for 9 months. We both live in Chicago and the game in question was the cubs walk off winner on Saturday.
She had friends from college coming into town who I have never met before and she was excited for me to meet them. Part of their plan was going to the cubs game Saturday afternoon and going out afterward. IMPORTANT DETAIL ALERT: I paid for mine and my girlfriend’s tickets. I’m also a big cubs fan so I was thrilled to go. But wrigley field is a major tourist place and a lot of times people go just to go and don’t really care about the game like my gf and her friends.
In the 7th inning, her and her friends started getting bored. They decided to leave to go to a bar. As my girlfriend got up, I stayed seated and told her I would meet them afterward because I want to watch the game. She didn’t want to argue in front of them so she said okay and left.
She texted me after leaving saying that the objective of the day was to hangout with her friends and not for me to watch baseball. I said I paid for the ticket so I don’t see anything wrong with me staying and using the ticket I paid for. She told me her friends think I’m weird for wanting to stay by myself and were wondering why I didn’t come with. She said if the group wanted to leave as a whole I should have left with them. She thinks I made her look bad and it looks like I don’t care to get to know her friends. She said the point of today was me meeting her friends and them liking me again not me watching baseball. But I paid for the tickets and met them after so I don’t understand why it was a big deal. She is still salty at this moment. Am I am asshole?

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/40164127/2024-mlb-standings-braves-dodgers-phillies-national-league-best-team
Curious on everyones thoughts on this article I read today. Pretty much breaks down the strengths and weaknesses of these three teams. In short this is what the article said (what I can remember):
Dodgers: top 5 of the order is a powerhouse. Starting pitching with yamamoto and glasnow has been great and reliable compared to last year. Bullpen leads the NL. Bottom of the order needs better production for post season. Glasnow isnt the best in October.
Phillies: great depth in hitting and pitching. The 1-2-3 rotation of Wheeler, ranger suarez, and aaron nola the best in baseball. Their defensive infield has been solid if not great. Not many downsides as i can remember but that castellanos and the outfield has lacked production and havent faced great teams yet
Braves: sale, fried, and morton have been great this season and reliable considering no strider. Offense has been good considering acuna, albies, michael harris, and olson have been mediocre. The braves offense will pick up and the bullpen needs to be solidified.
Overall it seemed that the article and different people they asked were favoring the phillies then the dodgers then the braves. Article was fun to read but curious on everyones thoughts on this.

So I want to play some baseball while I’m home from College this summer. I don’t want to join a league (for a couple of reasons). Does anyone know any adult pick up games by Alpharetta or Roswell?

My (F23) brother (M21) is depressed. It’s a hard topic for him to discuss, especially because my dad definitely raised us with very Western, Christian ideals (including very specific gender roles). This includes toxic masculinity, for example saying things like “don’t cry” and “man up” and “get used to it, life’s unfair.”
He went through a rough breakup last year (they lived together, she cheated, he caught them in bed) and ever since he hasn’t been the same. He’s dated here and there, but the last girl he was seeing didn’t work out. Also, him and his best friend got hired into the same company (sales) and my brother is an introvert who keeps to himself.
He didn’t do very well and was amicably let go but his best friend (who is very outgoing and talkative) moved up the ladder rather quickly. He has a hard time comparing himself to others, especially his friends who have finished school or are continuing as athletes into adulthood.
He dropped out of college where he was playing baseball on an athletic scholarship, and has since wanted to start a landscaping business. He’s toyed around with wanting to go back to school, but is having a hard time committing to anything. He spends most of his time weightlifting to failure and playing video games and he lives with my parents and our sibling and they feel helpless and like there’s nothing they can do.
The biggest issue is that he has anger issues and will unreasonably scream at the TV, at other drivers (pretty bad road rage), and berates himself when working out (he is the most athletic person I know, is jacked lol, and a handsome, kind guy underneath it all).
I feel like he talks to me most about his feelings (I have to really work for him to open up) out of everyone in my family, so I might be the best one to talk to him about getting help. But how do I talk to someone who is insecure about their depression and those feelings? (Side note: I have depression, ADHD, and struggled with an ED for many years, so I’m not stranger to mental health issues)
Any advice for a big sister? I’m the oldest and I feel like I have a responsibility to take care of my younger siblings and make sure they’re good. I live about an hour away, so I’m not seeing the rest of my family all the time and sometimes feel disconnected. I cried through writing this, but I love my brother and I just want him to be okay. Thanks in advance ❣️

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1	Tennessee Volunteers	SEC	1	1	1	1	—
2	Kentucky Wildcats	SEC	2	2	2	3	↑1
3	Texas A&M Aggies	SEC	4	3	3	4	↑1
4	Clemson Tigers	ACC	3	4	5	7	↑3
5	Arkansas Razorbacks	SEC	5	5	4	2	↓3
6	North Carolina Tar Heels	ACC	7	6	6	5	↓1
7	Oregon State Beavers	Pac-12	6	7	7	6	↓1
8	Florida State Seminoles	ACC	10	8	8	10	↑2
9	Georgia Bulldogs	SEC	11	9	9	9	—
10	ECU Pirates	American	9	11	10	12	↑2
11	Oklahoma Sooners	Big 12	8	12	11	15	↑4
12	Virginia Cavaliers	ACC	16	10	12	14	↑2
13	UC Irvine Anteaters	Big West	14	13	13	13	—
14	NC State Wolfpack	ACC	12	14	14	18	↑4
15	UCSB Gauchos	Big West	13	15	18	21	↑6
16	Mississippi State Bulldogs	SEC	15	16	16	17	↑1
17	Duke Blue Devils	ACC	17	19	15	11	↓6
18	Oklahoma State Cowboys	Big 12	19	20	17	19	↑1
19	Wake Forest Demon Deacons	ACC	22	18	19	8	↓11
20	Indiana State Sycamores	MVC	20	17	20	20	—
21	Arizona Wildcats	Pac-12	18	21	21	16	↓5
22	Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns	Sun Belt	21	23	22	22	—
23	Oregon Ducks	Pac-12	23	22	23	23	—
24	Texas Longhorns	Big 12	24	25	24	NR	↑2
25	Dallas Baptist Patriots	C-USA	NR	24	25	NR	↑
NR	Southern Miss Golden Eagles	Sun Belt	25	NR	NR	NR	↑

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CBW – National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association
USAT – USA Today

so for context me and my best friend share an apartment, we met a few years ago in college and decided to get a 2 bedroom place together last year. it all started out pretty great, i moved there to spend time with him during my gap year and figure out where to transfer schools before we part ways. we hung out everyday basically for about 5-6 months, and then something changed but i’m not sure what. he started bringing one of his friends over a lot, i’ll call him james. no big deal i was just a little sad we weren’t spending as much time together. over the next few weeks it went from having james over once week, to nearly almost every single day he was at our apartment from the time i got home from work until i went to bed. i hear them laughing and giggling all the time so it just kinda makes me feel shitty cause we live in such a small apartment. again, no big deal, i started reaching out to a few of my friends that live somewhat nearby but still like an hour away, but i still considered my roommate my best friend and would put in the effort to hang out with him the most. it got to a point where when i would ask him to hang out he would always be busy with james, which happens to be my ex gf’s ex boyfriend, so it’s just a little awkward and makes me feel kinda crappy when he’s in my apartment. i told him this in a nice way, how it just kind of made me feel uncomfortable how he was always over in our apartment because he was my ex’s ex so there’s some weird tension. i didn’t make a big deal though, i told him i wasn’t trying to say he couldn’t hang out with james in anyway, i was just venting at the time. this made him hang out with him even more it felt like, completely leaving me in the dust and only making plans with james. also, a couple months ago i went with him and my family to vegas for my 21st birthday. my parents bought his flight, his hotel, all of his food, and basically everything else for a 4 day vacation. his parents came into town the following week and i had mentioned that if they wanted to go to dinner or anything to let me know. nothing. he didn’t even bring his parents in to say hi to me. he’s only at our apartment when im at work, and he will leave the apartment right before i get home from work, it almost feels intentional. fine, whatever, another week went by and i never saw him. and this week, we finally made plans to go to a baseball game together (i made the plans, and i actually canceled other plans i had because this was “the only day that worked”) 5 hours before we are supposed to go he texts me and says he’s been throwing up all morning (presumably from drinking too much the night before with james and whoever else) but whatever, i don’t say anything, i say it’s fine and tell him to feel better. so i do stuff with my family out of town for the weekend. i come back to the apartment tonight and there was clearly a party thrown in my apartment. there’s alcohol cans everywhere and it reeks of alcohol and weed. my bathroom reeks of weed, and i tell him constantly if he’s going to smoke in my bathroom to keep the fan on and close the door because my cat likes to chew the plant in there and throw up. he ignores this constantly, my bathroom absolutely reeks, and my plant is thrown everywhere with dirt because he didnt close the door. this all was my final straw and made me incredibly upset because i paid a lot for baseball tickets and had put in the effort to make plans and he blows me off completely and throws a party after being “too sick to do anything”. i have talked to him many times (in a nice and friendly way) asking him to spend some more time together since i want to make the most of out of our friendship before i move away, but nothing ever changed, if anything it felt like it just made it worse somehow. i just feel so unappreciated and it’s making my mental health absolutely plummet. everytime i’m driving into my neighborhood to go home my heart starts racing and beating out of my chest im so anxious to even step in the door. i can’t do it anymore, i have about 2 more months before i move away, i’ve just decided to focus on myself and my other friendships, but if anyone has any advice on i guess any of this it helps. there’s a bunch of other little things that have happened but this is already so long i don’t want to add anymore

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