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Old 06-03-2020, 12:19 AM   #19701
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Is Mello Yello still a thing? Loved that stuff growing up but seems to have been displaced by Mountain Dew.
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Old 06-03-2020, 12:53 AM   #19702
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Is Mello Yello still a thing? Loved that stuff growing up but seems to have been displaced by Mountain Dew.

I always called it "Mountain Dew with Floaties!"
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Old 06-03-2020, 05:40 AM   #19703
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Is Mello Yello still a thing? Loved that stuff growing up but seems to have been displaced by Mountain Dew.

Still around. I pick up a stray 2-liter of it during grocery shopping now & again, typically in the event that both Diet Dew (my preferred) and regular Dew is out of stock (and I'm somewhere that doesn't have a decent generic)
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Old 06-03-2020, 06:25 AM   #19704
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Is Mello Yello still a thing? Loved that stuff growing up but seems to have been displaced by Mountain Dew.

Displaced by Mountain Dew? Mountain Dew was always king. Mello Yello was Coke's attempt to capture some of that, was it not?
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Old 06-03-2020, 07:05 AM   #19705
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Still around. I pick up a stray 2-liter of it during grocery shopping now & again, typically in the event that both Diet Dew (my preferred) and regular Dew is out of stock (and I'm somewhere that doesn't have a decent generic)

Don't know the last time I drank a Mountain Dew but I remember it fondly from my younger days. They had great commercials.

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Old 06-03-2020, 09:12 AM   #19706
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I found this article to be fascinating on several levels. The last person receiving a pension from the Civil War passed away due to COVID. She was the daughter of a man that fought for both sides - he defected from the secessionists and later fought for the Union. He was 83 and getting the job done!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Carolina.html
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Old 06-03-2020, 09:18 AM   #19707
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Any Sun Drop drinkers here?
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Old 06-03-2020, 01:40 PM   #19708
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Data before about 2000 is hard to find apparently (much less 1980, which would be the first year after Mello Yello was introduced in '79) but with some Googling I thought a look at U.S. market share by volume in 2000 vs 2018 might be interesting.

2000
Coke Classic 20.4%
Pepsi 13.6 %
Diet Coke 8.7%
Mtn Dew 7.2%
Sprite 6.6%
Dr. Pepper 6.3%
Diet Pepsi 5.3%
7 Up 2.0%
Caf Free Diet Coke 1.7%
Barq's Root Beer 1.1%

2018
Coke 17.8%
Pepsi 8.0%
Diet Coke 7.6%
Dr. Pepper 7.2%
Sprite 7.1%
Mtn Dew 6.4%
Diet Pepsi 3.5%
Fanta 2.7%
Coke Zero 2.2%
Diet Mtn Dew 1.9%
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Old 06-03-2020, 02:37 PM   #19709
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Pepsi has taken a serious beating

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Old 06-03-2020, 02:41 PM   #19710
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Looks like all soda is on the down swing.

Must be the sports drinks and coffees taking their place.
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Old 06-03-2020, 02:45 PM   #19711
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Yeah, seems like all the big boys only lost market share in that time.
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Old 06-03-2020, 02:52 PM   #19712
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Old 06-03-2020, 02:57 PM   #19713
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Looks like all soda is on the down swing.

Must be the sports drinks and coffees taking their place.

That wouldn't affect these numbers however, this is CSD, or carbonated soft drink, market share by brand. Ranked only against themselves here basically.

72.9 vs 64.4 for the top ten, really it only illustrates how the explosion of varieties - and the introduction of energy drinks with claim around 10% of the category now - watered down the share of the top, similar to the decline in ratings for cable channels when there were 50 of them instead of 250 of them.
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Old 06-03-2020, 03:00 PM   #19714
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Yeah, seems like all the big boys only lost market share in that time.

Until you consider how many brands they own that are part of the under 1% outside the top ten. This list would differentiate Caf Free Diet Coke from Caf Free Coke Zero for example and make those two different entries.
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Old 06-04-2020, 10:54 AM   #19715
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This could free up some resources to tackle society's problems:

Last Person to Receive a Civil War-Era Pension Dies

It's always fascinating to me how close to the past we really are. There are living children of Civil War veterans and slaves. John Tyler has 2 living grandchildren.

Sure, most of these oddities were caused by dirty old men marrying women decades younger than them, but, still interesting.

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Old 06-04-2020, 11:08 AM   #19716
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This could free up some resources to tackle society's problems:

Last Person to Receive a Civil War-Era Pension Dies

It's always fascinating to me how close to the past we really are. There are living children of Civil War veterans and slaves. John Tyler has 2 living grandchildren.

Sure, most of these oddities were caused by dirty old men marrying women decades younger than them, but, still interesting.

That’s kind of disgusting that her dad was 83 and her mom was 34(and mentally disabled) when she was born.
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Old 06-04-2020, 11:33 AM   #19717
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Old 06-04-2020, 12:20 PM   #19718
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What can one even say to this?
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Old 06-04-2020, 12:42 PM   #19719
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This could free up some resources to tackle society's problems:

Last Person to Receive a Civil War-Era Pension Dies

It's always fascinating to me how close to the past we really are. There are living children of Civil War veterans and slaves. John Tyler has 2 living grandchildren.

Sure, most of these oddities were caused by dirty old men marrying women decades younger than them, but, still interesting.
My parents were 47 and 41 when I was born, and my wife and I were 44 and 42 when our youngest came along. She's now 7, and if she lives to be 80, we'd have the grandchild of a WW2 veteran still living more than 150 years after the war started.
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Old 06-05-2020, 05:16 PM   #19720
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Sounds like HR folks had quite the week.
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Old 06-06-2020, 10:25 AM   #19721
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This is a fantastic idea (assuming it really is legal). Great way to buy an RV for retirement and have it be tax deductible.

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He bought a small 22-foot Airstream RV on a 30-year loan, parked it in his back yard, and souped it up for video calls. The analyst surveyed the local real estate market, and found that rentals were charging at least $2,000 monthly. Instead, he got a 30-year-loan at $370 monthly for a $50,000 Airstream "Sport" trailer.

"I own it. I can claim it as a business deduction and re-sell it at some point in the future," says Owyang.

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Old 06-06-2020, 12:37 PM   #19722
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Participating in my first lockdown beer festival. 12 beers, many of which are 6% plus (and some in some cases), the YouTube feed runs 6-10pm

Think I’ll go every other beer!
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Old 06-06-2020, 04:50 PM   #19723
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Politicians Across The Nation Want To DEFUND The POLICE! - YouTube

Just putting this here as it doesn't seem like many would agree enough with his opinion for a thread.
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Old 06-06-2020, 05:11 PM   #19724
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Just putting this here as it doesn't seem like many would agree enough with his opinion for a thread.

"We've seen the brownshirts...that's antifa" Good lord.


I will say that the idea of disbanding the Police and replacing them with some kind of organic, holistic re-imagination of policing is a challenge a lot like the idea of replacing the NFL refs....there's not a whole other pool of qualified candidates with revolutionary values to pull from, the pool is the same & full of people aligned with the organization you just got rid of. Certainly not a reason to give up before even trying, but a challenge to be sure.
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Old 06-08-2020, 09:16 AM   #19725
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You know what's kinda underrated?

English muffins.

Once buttered, they take pretty much any traditional breakfast topping -- jelly, apple butter, whatever -- exceptionally well. The nooks & crannies even provide a little extra pocket of goodness on a bite or too. You can cheese 'em up. You can faux McMuffin 'em with sausage or canadian bacon, with egg or without.

Inexpensive aside from a few over-the-top brands, durable (usually perfectly good for at least two weeks past their best by, if not more than that), tasty.

They just don't get as much mainstream love as it seems they deserve.
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Old 06-08-2020, 09:46 AM   #19726
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You know what's kinda underrated?

English muffins.

Once buttered, they take pretty much any traditional breakfast topping -- jelly, apple butter, whatever -- exceptionally well. The nooks & crannies even provide a little extra pocket of goodness on a bite or too. You can cheese 'em up. You can faux McMuffin 'em with sausage or canadian bacon, with egg or without.

Inexpensive aside from a few over-the-top brands, durable (usually perfectly good for at least two weeks past their best by, if not more than that), tasty.

They just don't get as much mainstream love as it seems they deserve.

Severely underrated!
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Old 06-08-2020, 10:00 AM   #19727
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You know what's kinda underrated?

English muffins.

Once buttered, they take pretty much any traditional breakfast topping -- jelly, apple butter, whatever -- exceptionally well. The nooks & crannies even provide a little extra pocket of goodness on a bite or too. You can cheese 'em up. You can faux McMuffin 'em with sausage or canadian bacon, with egg or without.

Inexpensive aside from a few over-the-top brands, durable (usually perfectly good for at least two weeks past their best by, if not more than that), tasty.

They just don't get as much mainstream love as it seems they deserve.

I definitely keep some in my pantry at all times.

As a kid we used to put sauce and cheese on them to make faux pizzas.
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Old 06-08-2020, 12:49 PM   #19728
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"We've seen the brownshirts...that's antifa" Good lord.


I will say that the idea of disbanding the Police and replacing them with some kind of organic, holistic re-imagination of policing is a challenge a lot like the idea of replacing the NFL refs....there's not a whole other pool of qualified candidates with revolutionary values to pull from, the pool is the same & full of people aligned with the organization you just got rid of. Certainly not a reason to give up before even trying, but a challenge to be sure.

The other problem is replacing it with separate authorities and hierarchies just leads to more bloat. You need to make people accountable. Not just the sheriff, but make the mayor accountable as well. It is their job to know.

Disbanding the police force is similar to the movement to get rid of the Boy Scouts. There are bad apples in both groups, and there is a very good baseline there. It is far better to reform and preserve what is good than start from scratch.

Also, if they do start disbanding police agencies, the first thing I am going to do is get a gun and a rifle, and take a self defense class.
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Old 06-08-2020, 12:55 PM   #19729
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I think English Muffins are extremely toaster specific. My toaster probably has a 10 second window where they are perfect.
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Old 06-08-2020, 01:19 PM   #19730
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You know what's kinda underrated?

English muffins.

Once buttered, they take pretty much any traditional breakfast topping -- jelly, apple butter, whatever -- exceptionally well. The nooks & crannies even provide a little extra pocket of goodness on a bite or too. You can cheese 'em up. You can faux McMuffin 'em with sausage or canadian bacon, with egg or without.

Inexpensive aside from a few over-the-top brands, durable (usually perfectly good for at least two weeks past their best by, if not more than that), tasty.

They just don't get as much mainstream love as it seems they deserve.

I love english muffins with just butter. SOOOOO good.
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Old 06-08-2020, 03:06 PM   #19731
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We use english muffins in place of hamburger buns
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Old 06-08-2020, 03:14 PM   #19732
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We use english muffins in place of hamburger buns



this is so wrong i need to try this
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Old 06-09-2020, 09:09 AM   #19733
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Old 06-09-2020, 12:27 PM   #19734
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Bagel pizzas(and assuming English muffin) turn out straight fire if you do them in the air fryer. I usually toast the bagel a bit first. Make sure to preheat the air fryer too.
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Old 06-10-2020, 09:19 AM   #19735
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English muffin pizza has been a semi-regular dinner menu item for us for years. All the pizza goodness with less fat (skim cheese, turkey pepperoni, etc.).
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Old 06-10-2020, 09:23 AM   #19736
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Sitting in the house for 3 months straight, I've seen way too many commercials too many times.

The life insurance commercial featuring Alex Trebek is one I always question - the dude is host of Jeopardy, but they use a Wheel of Fortune hook for the commercial? Huh? You know, the P_ _ _ _ P_ _ _ _ P_ _ _ _ thing? I just found that odd.
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Old 06-10-2020, 11:47 AM   #19737
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The thing I hate about that is that two of the PRICES are the same.

Price you can afford
Price can never increase
Price that fits your budget

That last one is the same as the first one. We were really reaching there.
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Old 06-10-2020, 12:09 PM   #19738
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Good point. So I guess the pitch was... let's spoof Location Location Location with a Wheel of Fortune nod narrated by the Jeopardy host. And they had to shoehorn 3 points in there, or it would have all fallen apart.

Reminds of of TV shows you can tell were built around a title someone thought was really clever and couldn't let it go.
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Old 06-11-2020, 06:14 AM   #19739
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I just subscribed to our local paper to get the print edition. I really like the idea of drinking my coffee and reading the paper every morning.
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Old 06-11-2020, 06:55 AM   #19740
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I just subscribed to our local paper to get the print edition. I really like the idea of drinking my coffee and reading the paper every morning.

you and millions of other sitcom dads
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Old 06-11-2020, 07:42 AM   #19741
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you and millions of other sitcom dads

If you heard me yelling at my kids in the morning you wouldn't think I am sitcom material.
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Old 06-11-2020, 08:44 AM   #19742
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If you heard me yelling at my kids in the morning you wouldn't think I am sitcom material.


Are you kidding? Yelling at kids is grade A sitcom material. It's classic sitcom dad stuff! Go on say something funny about the music they listen to or that they are making too much noise while being adorable!
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Old 06-11-2020, 09:34 AM   #19743
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Are you kidding? Yelling at kids is grade A sitcom material. It's classic sitcom dad stuff! Go on say something funny about the music they listen to or that they are making too much noise while being adorable!

I'm guessing you don't have kids
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Old 06-11-2020, 09:53 AM   #19744
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I just subscribed to our local paper to get the print edition. I really like the idea of drinking my coffee and reading the paper every morning.

I did this a few years back. The paper showed up maybe 80% of the time. One time the Sunday paper didn't make it until Thursday. They had an online system to report missing papers but I'm not sure what effect it had. I tried to cancel eventually, but they wouldn't let me do it over the phone. I had to physically go in.

Hope you have better luck.
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Old 06-16-2020, 09:32 AM   #19745
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I saw this in an article online:

“Iowa's high school games could mark the first competitive, sanctioned team sports in the U.S. since the coronavirus pandemic brought an abrupt end to athletic action three months ago.

Iowa is the only state that plays its high school baseball and softball in the summer, with the season going well after graduation and deep into July.”

Does that mean graduating seniors play after graduation or 8th graders (potentially) could play before they start 9th grade? Just curious.
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Old 06-16-2020, 09:52 AM   #19746
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I believe it's the 2020 season, so graduating seniors play past graduation. Not uncommon, although what appears to be unique is that they start so late. A number of states play beyond graduation, depending on playoffs and how many snow days get tacked on in any given year. In Kentucky, we've had seniors have to choose between graduation and playing in a championship game on the same day.
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Old 06-17-2020, 03:30 PM   #19747
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This lockdown has been a test to see how many pairs of New Balance I can buy at severe discounts. And none of them are the blue and white dad lawn mowing shoes. The online NB Outlet is relentless with markdowns.
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Old 06-17-2020, 03:33 PM   #19748
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This lockdown has been a test to see how many pairs of New Balance I can buy at severe discounts. And none of them are the blue and white dad lawn mowing shoes. The online NB Outlet is relentless with markdowns.

Same. Everyone has gotten them recently. Really hard to beat a $30 pair of really good shoes, and free shipping.
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Old 06-17-2020, 05:58 PM   #19749
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I snagged some Brooks close outs for like $52 down from $150 the other day. Deals like that all over. $150 shoes feel like $150 shoes. Dunno why people buy stuff at kohl’s or famous footwear when legit stuff is cheaper
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Old 06-17-2020, 07:08 PM   #19750
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I saw this in an article online:

“Iowa's high school games could mark the first competitive, sanctioned team sports in the U.S. since the coronavirus pandemic brought an abrupt end to athletic action three months ago.

Iowa is the only state that plays its high school baseball and softball in the summer, with the season going well after graduation and deep into July.”

Does that mean graduating seniors play after graduation or 8th graders (potentially) could play before they start 9th grade? Just curious.

The phrase I found -- cause this was certainly unusual enough to spark my curiosity to Google -- was "Summer baseball is an extension of 2nd semester for eligibility purposes"
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