OT MLB to PDX: We're talking baseball to PDX

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  1. CupWizier

    CupWizier Well-Known Member

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    Seattle doesn't manufacture PC's though as they just manufacture an operating system and their are alternatives to that. :bgrin:
     
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    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I was a cubs fan growing up (visited Wrigley Field for the first time last month) , now a Mariners fan.

    I don't hate a team in Seattle because I didn't like another team that was in Seattle. that's just silly.
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Yeah, I'm not converting to Linux just to spite our arrogant neighbors to the north.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    What's wrong with cities having rivalries? That's..... basically what sports are built on :dunno:
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    Oh, you think the city is your ally. But you merely adopted the city. I was born in it. Moulded by it. I didn't see the rivalry until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING! The city betrays you, because it belongs to me!
     
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    This is happening. I know a guy that knows a guy.

    to the point that we will be looking at bidding the steel soon, so they can continue with their budgeting.
    My company will get the contract for supplying almost all the steel it looks like.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Curious how your company handles bidding for a job that presumably won't start for a few years, when steel prices are, shall we say, uncertain due to the tariff situation?

    barfo
     
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    Sorry, I should clarify. We are looking at supplying all of the BENT steel. The raw materials will be purchased from the mill at some point. But our bending costs will remain relatively the same regardless of cost of poundage of steel.
    We have a nitch and can do most things nobody else can do this side of the Mississippi river, so we are almost a lock for it.
     
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    Yeah, specific sports though, not an overarching thing. I may not like a TEAM in that city from a sport I like, but I won't for a sport I don't care of (I.E. I'm indifferent about the seahawks).

    If Portland gets a team, I'd be a fan of both. I can't just go and hate a team I cheered for for a decade and a half, thats just weird to me.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation.

    Shouldn't your company relocate to Bend? Bend Steel would be such a good name for your business.

    barfo
     
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  11. Orion Bailey

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    We started out on Albina St. close in SE Portland. So we called ourselves AlbinaPipeBending.

    Have since shortened it to Albina Co. because we were noted as only a bending company when we do much more.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    So, maybe I have some business for you. My human zoo needs a couple of albinos, how much do they cost? Breeding pairs only.

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    Can we bend them up into pretzels, dip them in chocolate and supply them as Choprezbinos?
     
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    Portland is irrelevant, we have one important team (sorry MLS is a bastardized soccer league without relegation)... Seattle doesn’t even have a basketball team anymore to have a rivalry with.

    To me, it’s PNW teams or suck my left nut. That said, Huck the Fuskies.
     
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    So you have inside information?
     
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    He's not from here originally. It's on our birth certificates.

    Mine says: Male, Black, Hate Seattle.
     
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    Lol you're not moving top Seattle. Their "housing crisis" is worse that ours. Check Zillow.
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    No, no--just moving out of Portland, since I apparently don't meet the Seattle-hating criteria. Maybe Van-tucky will take me.
     
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    I am mister insider!

    Canby might take you. Want me to bring it up at the next town meeting on Wednesday?
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Dude. I have standards.
     
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