PrivateTim

No I meant "Does anyone think Connley Ranch isn't Joel's..."

No Jack is just a man getting older and wondering what he has missed being with one woman since he was 16 years old. He is 40 years old and noticing his Dad Body, a little sagging in the face and when a 20 something bats her eyes, it fuels his ego, insecurities, curiosity and horniness. Rumor is guys in their 40's can still be horny.

I don't understand these comments. Doesn't anyone think Connley Ranch isn't Joel's "permanent residence" for as long as it needs to be? And that Joel would go to school with Colt and the twins? And play on that school's baseball team? Being a star athlete is about more than getting a scholarship. It is about getting into a school you otherwise might not get into and maybe getting financial aid you otherwise might not.

It's a ranch.

I liked Titanic, but I actually laughed out loud when she said "I'll never let go" then shoved Leo under the water. My best friend was sobbing.

He would not be ineligible in any state I know of. Moving out of the county where he was to a new residence in a different county is different from transferring without leaving the district you were in. There are over 1,600 college baseball programs, D1-JC. Most can offer non-athletic financial aid, in addition to scholarship money. It remains to be seen what happens with NIL in college baseball.

The story is moving very slowly along. Not a criticism, just an observation. We are still in the first 24-48 hours since Joel was thrown out by his mother. Not sure where the wild ass guesses are coming from in what is next or what a certain look or phrase means. Joel is still in shock from the events. It will take him a while to process what has happened and what is next. At least this didn't happen during baseball season, meaning school was in session, that would really add complication. My speculation on Colt being gay has nothing to do with anything textual, it is just a guess on where the storyline could go.

In the poll in the fan forum I called Guy Fellowes the MOST likely and Trevor the LEAST likely. THAT should have been our clue, that like any good mystery writer, the least likely suspect was going to be the guilty one. Who knows why, but maybe someone is chirping in Trevor's ear that Travis cheated him. Or maybe there is another outside source (Alexandra, Elizabeth, etc) that has gotten to Big.

Has it been "a couple of years" in CAP time? If the cheating started in Gap Year, that was maybe less than a year ago in CAP time. The "gap year" lasted what, 3 years in real time? Started in 2020, finished in 2023 or 2024 I think. Jack is hardly the first character in CAP to cheat on a partner, but he seems to be catching more flack for it than his peers in the family.

Another great chapter! I love Fridays!

Stef might not ski, but you don't need to ski to own a chalet in the French or Swiss Alps and I think Stef would love the tight fitting ski apparel of the day and being a snow bunny in the lodge. Of all the major male characters in CAP Jack isn't even top ten in the scumbag behavior department.

The property in Wyoming was commercial, not residential as I recall Skiing/snowboarding is an activity of the wealthy, even if they don't ski or snowboard. A lot of the kids from Malibu. Harvard-Westlake and Palo Alto would be snowboarders, especially the surfers. Growing up everyone I knew had a house in Hawaii, one in Palm Desert and a ski condo. The locations of the ski condos moved with the time. First Aspen, then Vail, then Bachelor Gulch or Deer Valley.

It is too déclassé. 100 years ago it was fine when Wrigley bought it. Mark's also never had any of the characters own ski chalets at Bachelor Gulch, Yellowstone Mountain Club, St. Moritz or even Lake Tahoe.

OMG it must be nice to have time to watch an hour and a half YouTube video! Maybe Travis & Will's house will burn down in the fire in Book 47 of CAP.

It was my impression that we are barely into Summer.

Every state has different rules governing athletic eligibility, but most jurisdictions are falling in behind the court rulings pertaining to college athletes. In California, if you change your legal residence you are eligible to compete for the new school. That is an over simplification because there are nuances to the policies, but athletes have been gaining the upper hand in transfers. In Nevada they have open enrollment. There was an athlete there who a few years ago played football, basketball and baseball for three separate schools in one school year. In any case, I am not sure why transferring would have any bearing on his scholarship eligibility. And a pre-season all-state player transferring would get some attention in the local press and college recruiters would have no issue finding him. The only question would be did Joel have the passion to play still. But barely 48 hours into the situation, there is a lot more to come before school even starts. PS I still think Colt is gay.

..... is called hypocrisy.

What I was saying that Joel would have a number of lifelong friends, be they neighbors or teammate or Little Billy who he has gone all through school.... a lifelong friend who is a best friend. Not a love interest or someone he told secrets to, but a buddy who has always been there. And by extension, an alternative place to live in his home town.

Right... it's AMBER'S FAULT that every man in the CAP is a sexual animal who can't keep it in his pants. As they say in Argentina, "It take two to tangle". Or something like that.

Eh, that was two years ago when this was a one chapter story and I took that as a reference to high school more than anything. Living in the same neighborhood for 17 years in a small town there'd be neighbor boys he'd gone through elementary school, middle school and on into high school. I'd be interested in Krista's thoughts in the expanded story.

Meh.... Jack is what, 50? And he's had sex with four, maybe five women? Will is 18 and had sex with what, 70 people? Maybe it was rude to hit on Amber in front of his ex-wife, but she is his ex-wife. I do think it was hot 17 year old John banged Amber. Every high school boy's dream of getting older women.

Oh thank you, thank you for this newest chapter. A chance to hate on Will for being a douche bag hypocrite! “Not that it’s any of your fucking business, but Marie and I don’t have any commitments,” Ryan snapped. Damn straight cookie! Will is free to support or comfort Marie, but he has no business trying to tell Ryan what he should and shouldn't do. “When you seem to get off on hurting my aunt, it’s my fucking business asshole,” I said Again, none of his fucking business. Maybe if Will had accepted advice and direction from his father, Robbie and Jeanine he could have some kind of input to other's lives, but Will "stay out of my fucking business, I am 13, it's my life" Schluter has no leg to stand on. “I’m going to go visit Austin.” She was referring to Austin Biehl You have to love anger sex and revenge sex and anger-revenge sex is even better. “Biggest game of the season is coming up on December 4,” he said in his cocky way. “Playing USC.” Well THAT didn't go well for UCLA. Are there any holidays in August? Does National Cucumber Day count? I love three chapters in seven days instead of two!

Heathen? It has been well established that Joel's family is NOT a religious family. Who knows where his mother's hate comes from, but it is not based on religious beliefs. Most violence against gays is not from people with strong religious beliefs but from people who are not church going people. I continue to be disappointed in how ball-less Joel's father is. If he was a man he'd kick his wife out of his house, not his productive, baseball star son. I don't remember the timing here, but I am pretty sure we are still in the first 48 hours, maybe 24 hours, since Joel was kicked out. We have yet to hear from Joel's baseball coach, Joel's friends. I think Joel has lived in this house his whole life, so in a small town he has to have friends he's known his whole life, a best friend or two, and other parents in his town who care about him. If I was the baseball coach and my all-star player missed one practice I'd be tracking him down. If I discovered he'd been kicked out of his house, I'd find someone else in town to live with. No way am I losing a star off my team. As to the twins, they'd already know who Joel is, if not by sight, then by reputation. A player good enough to make the pre-season all-state team would be know, especially by players at a rival school.

I learned early on in college that the plumbing was pretty much all the same. While my fraternity bros were all sniffing around the three or four hottest sorority chicks and getting none, I was chatting up the clock stoppers and extra pounders and getting lucky a lot. Getting lucky a lot masked my other side, that I didn't advertise in college.

In So Cal, from Santa Barbara to San Diego we have like 500 craft breweries, many like Societe Brewing Company, Stone BC, Coronado BC, AleSmith, etc have become national brands. India Pale Ale (IPA) was invented in Britain and so named because the original brewer was close to the docks of the East India Company and many of the EIC adventurers liked it, the company began to export the beer to India. Jump forward 150 years or so and as the craft brewing movement was exploding in California brewers were looking for something different and distinctive. Thus was born the West Coast IPA, a hoppier, more bitter IPA and a short leap to the Double IPA, hoppier still and even more bitter. Australia has many IPA makers, Hawkers (Hazy IPA), Black Hawks Brewing, Young Henry's and Five Barrel Brewing (Little Nipper, just great). You want to get really out there, try a Cuvee des Jacobins Rouge Flanders Red Sour Ale. The first sip you think you've ingested liquid sour gummi bears, but the flavor mellows out and it is amazing.