HELL. NO.

I live here, and I honestly would not even go if it moved there. Number one, Jerry Jones is a douche. Number two, he already tried to fleece Dallas out of money to pay for that monstrosity, and I declined it once already, thank you very much. Number three, that entire area is a traffic NIGHTMARE. Number four, there's no bloody hotel in the stadium, much less free happy hour. Number five, Irving police.....don't even get me started.

*edit* If anyone wants to buy some homemade BBQ sauce.... I make it. Just saying. I have a pressure canner, and although something that high in acid (tomatoes) doesn't really *require* pressure canning, it's what I do. The stuff keeps a long ass time. :p

Yeah, I misspoke. Big whoop. Both of those areas suck, in terms of traffic and policing thereof. I have to drive through Irving to get to Arlington from my place, hence the brain fart.

Either way, what I said still applies. The entire area around the new stadium is a fucking nightmare of epic proportions, especially with the Wal-Mart right there across the street.

Gonna have to look this up...never even heard of em.

Huh? The only toll roads you might possibly take between *EITHER* airport would be George Bush (180), 121, or the express lanes on 635 and (Really no point here, as you would save less than 5 minutes since you're going to get off on....) , the Dallas North Tollway. We don't have a lot of toll roads compared to like...Miami...or Houston....that are utterly MANDATORY to get where you need to go. There's always an alternate route.

The DNT is pretty cheap, compared to the express lanes on 635. Like maybe 3 or 4 bucks of tolls to get all the way to Frisco.

Use Uber if you're not going anywhere other than the hotel and walking distance. Get a car if you plan or need to go elsewhere. If you don't want to pay tolls...it's really EASY to avoid them...just stay on the service road, especially the DNT. North of 635, and for a little ways south, there's service road all the way up to Frisco. It's a million and a half lights, but hey... no toll.

Google Maps is just as good as any local at avoiding tolls...if you tell it to.

I'm local and I don't even get this joke. I'm assuming it has something to do with it always being abbreviated PGBT. (Literally have never heard anyone local conflate it with LGBT, as a joke or otherwise...)

Frankly, I think that was an asinine name either way, but then again 635 is technically "LBJ Highway" so whatever. Might as well stick with a theme, I guess.

Can't wait for them to rename 75 to the "PGBTJr"....

Yeah...I'm 38. College humor isn't exactly my forte anymore.

Deep rule sets very rarely come into play in tournaments, unless you end up in the finals with Keith, Trent, Colin, Steve, or <insert any other top 50 player>. Most people are just going for a multiball, maybe stacked with a playfield multiplier if it exists on that game, and a mode running at the same time. I mean........that's mostly what I do and it's worked out pretty well for me over the years.

Hell yeah!

Yep...taking pics of the waitresses...not creepy at all....

That looks like fun slate for the Wizards tournament, but I'm going to have to do a lot of learning in the next few weeks.

I didn't say that, so don't put words in my mouth. It's hard to belittle someone's VOLUNTARY situation they put themselves in. I said it's creepy. Which it is.

Really? You think that's going to work on me? What's next? Threats of physical violence? Come on.

I'm happy to meet up with anyone. My wife and I usually ARE at the meetup at Fast Pitch...just not the last few years, because we haven't gone to the show, sadly. BUT NOT THIS YEAR. This year, it's party time. No games of my own at the show for the first time I've ever gone. Not sure if we'll make the actual meetup this time, because kid has school on Friday...depends on when they schedule it for...

I'm not expecting a ticket refund (even though that's the lion's share of my expenses), but tournament refunds (minus transaction fees) should DEFINITELY be on the table. Most of that money goes to trophies, the cash payouts, and paying the TD (Colin, Ken, whoever is in charge any given year). My understanding is very little of that money goes to actual show expenses.

Me too. I'd hit up the raffle if they decided to do it on the side. I was going to buy some tickets anyways.

I'm sure merch will probably be available for a while..they're not just going to burn them, and it might be kind of a novelty item at this point. Knew I should've ordered one of those hoodies lol.

It's nice in March, kind of brutal June-September though.. Hope you like 100+ straight days of 100+ weather...

Was kind of surprised how light the box with 2 hoodies felt...thought I was going to be disappointed. Nope, they keep you nice and toasty, for sure. Definitely does a much better job than the Old Navy hoodie I've been using for years that I've worn so much it's got a ripped and bare elbow. No doubt I'll get a bunch of odd looks because this thing is ridiculously purple, and I'm not really known for my flamboyant choices in clothing, but oh well. Worth the wait.