Before every new year, most people set goals for themselves to fulfill for this upcoming year. These five resolutions are the most common resolutions many people promise to themselves.

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Before every new year, most people set goals for themselves to fulfill for this upcoming year. These five resolutions are the most common resolutions many people promise to themselves.
Exploring how much the org would probably have to pay for the season of wifi passes on plane
It was recently in the news that the NY Yankees do not provide free wifi for their players on away game flights!!! That's earth shattering news because teams usually charter flights for their players, coaches, and support staff. These flights are typically equipped with amenities such as Wi-Fi, comfortable seating, and in-flight entertainment.
To estimate the cost of Wi-Fi for a baseball team during their charter flights throughout an entire season, we need to consider several factors:
In a regular MLB season, each team plays 162 games, with half of those being away games. So, a team would have 81 away games. However, not all away games require flights. Some games are played against nearby teams, and the team might travel by bus or train. To account for this, let's assume that 70% of the away games require flights. That's approximately 57 flights (rounding up). Since teams often play multiple games in a series against the same opponent, they don't need to travel between every away game. To factor this in, let's assume that they take a flight for every 3 away games. This results in 19 flights (57 away games / 3). Now let's estimate the average flight duration. Flight times can vary greatly depending on the distance between cities. In the United States, an average flight time can range from 1 to 6 hours. For this calculation, we'll assume an average flight duration of 3 hours.
As for the cost of Wi-Fi, it can also vary depending on the provider and the specific package the team has. For this estimation, we'll assume a cost of $25 per hour per person. Assuming a traveling party of 40 people (including players, coaches, and support staff), the cost of Wi-Fi per flight hour would be $1,000 (40 people x $25). Now, we can calculate the total cost of Wi-Fi for the entire season:
Total cost = (Number of flights) x (Average flight duration) x (Cost of Wi-Fi per flight hour) Total cost = 19 flights x 3 hours x $1,000 Total cost = $57,000
The Yankees are a franchise worth 6 Billion, but they make their players pay $9 for wifi. To which the fans said: "we could care less, those millionaires have to pay $9 and that hurts?"
It was a Saturday night. We had nothing else to do besides be with one another. We were normally always in your bedroom watching television and talking about random topics that popped into our little brains. The only difference was, that Saturday night was nothing like the rest.
We were laying in your comfy bed as you were singing to me in one thousand different passions and singing from your spirit. You were kissing me, hugging me, and showed a bunch of compassion that night. We didn't sleep for even a second. It was snowing outside our house.
Eventually, we made our way to the side of the bed, suddenly sitting there watching the snowflakes come down onto the window seal. A bright thought came to your beautiful mind and you opened the window. You grabbed my hand and stuck it out the opening of the window and said to me, "Open your palm, every snowflake you catch is a reminder of every reason I love you."
I opened my palm and thought to myself, "I want to catch each one." Of course I couldn't, but I most certainly tried as hard as it was physically possible. After a few minutes, you pulled my hand inside and rubbed the performance that the snowflake had given. I asked, "Why would you do that?" Your response was, "Look outside baby, there isn't enough snowflakes in the world for me to explain how much I love you, there isn't enough rain or sunshine or even seconds to explain how much I love you, and every reason of why I do."
I closed my eyes and smiled at you. I didn't know what to say. I was astonished, and filled with joy. All I could do was continue to hold your hand, so I laid my head on your shoulders and we looked out the opening of the window in silence. After 20 minutes or so, I lifted my head and pulled yours to the side so it was facing mine. I told you to look into my eyes, you did of course. "I'm deeply in love with you, and my only desire in this universe is to marry you," I told you.
I want you to know that since the day we met, I have fallen deeply in love with you. There are no words to express the feeling I feel in my heart that day you came into my life, and how you make every day so special. You are my life, my heart, my soul. You are my best friend, my one true love, my one and only. I love you more today than I did yesterday, and I’ll love you more tomorrow than I do today. Loving you is the only thing that makes life worth living.
Day by day, my love for you becomes overwhelming, and I can’t handle it when I don’t see or even talk to you every day. A day without you in my life is like a day without sunshine, a day without food, or a day without air. I need you when I’m cold to keep me warm; I need you in the rain to keep me dry; I need you in my life to keep me happy. You make me feel wonderful. You give me strength when I just can’t carry on and I truly treasure that. Every moment spent together is another one of my dreams coming true.
Dear Grandpa,
The first thing I want to say is that I miss you with all my heart, forever and always. I never stop thinking about you or the memories we had made.
They say that the loss of a loved one often changes someone's life. I'd like to agree.
I hate that I had to lose you at such a young age. I am old enough to remember your smell, and remember how contagious your laugh was; that always made us think you were up to something suspicious. But I was too young for you to get to know the real me. I'm still trying to figure that out who that is.
I wish you could have been at my college graduation. I know that you would be cheering louder than anyone when they called my name to walk across the stage and receive my diploma. But I know you'll be watching from up above with all of my other past relatives cheering me on, as I continue on this journey.
I wish that you would be there when I say "I Do" at my wedding ceremony some day. I wish that you could meet my future husband and approve of him (it would mean a lot coming from you because you were so protective of me) and then maybe scare him a little. I wish you could be sitting in the church as I give my vows and promise to love my future husband as deeply as you loved me and our entire family.
I wish that you were around to hear that we still talk about you. We all still laugh about stories from vacations and how you would get mad if someone took your seat at the dinner table on Christmas.I wish you could hear us all trying to impersonate the way you laugh or how sarcastic you liked to be. I wish I could hug you one last time because you gave the warmest hugs every time I every need a pick-me-up or just because hugs are better than words.
I wish I took more pictures with you. I wish smartphones were a thing when you were still here, so I could have had videos of your voice with me always. I barely have any pictures with you and now it's too late and i regret it. But i will always cherish the one that we have together.
I want you to know that I miss you so much and I wish you could be around to see the woman I became. Not a day goes by that I don't think about you. I wish heaven had visiting hours. I miss you so much, but I know you would be proud of me.
If Heaven wasn't so far away I'd be there everyday.
I love you so much, Grandpa.
Love,
Your Granddaughter
Baseball's Opening Day has inspired countless writers, fans, and players throughout the years. Some notable quotes we remember about this special day are:
And it did not disappoint. Aaron Judge hit a home run in first at bat
AARON JUDGE HOME RUN IN HIS FIRST AT BAT OF THE SEASON pic.twitter.com/IJQ391g4ia
— Talkin' Yanks (@TalkinYanks) March 30, 2023
Baseball is back, let's go !
Dear Old Friend,
I decided we aren’t friends anymore and you may not fully understand why.
I recently read To The Bestfriend Who Decided We Aren't Friends Anymore and it struck a chord with me. I realized that I was that friend who walked away, who gave up. I hurt you and that hurts me. But, the reality is, I decided we aren’t friends anymore because… we just weren’t.
I think about all of the memories we shared, too. I haven’t forgotten all of the years we were never without each other. And if we were apart, we were texting or counting down the minutes until we would be together again. I think about the times when it wasn’t even a question if you were going to celebrate my birthday with me, binge-watch Netflix and eat junk food, or hug me until I stopped crying and forgot his name. Because all that mattered was us. We were like Blair and Serena. Everything would be OK as long as we were together, right?
But we aren’t together.
My heart is broken when I see you post pictures with other friends tagged #bestfriend #rideordie #girlfriend, when I hear one of our songs and you’re not there to sing horribly with me when I am alone or scared and you aren’t there like you’re supposed to be.
You’re just not there anymore and you haven’t been for over a year.
I moved away. I will take responsibility for leaving, for transferring colleges, for making new friends, for growing up. I know I left you, but that didn’t change our friendship for me. I never stopped being your best friend. I know I had to go days at a time without texting you back.
I know I had to go months without visiting. I go to a new college, I have new friends and I don’t live 15 minutes away anymore, but when did that stop me from being there for you? When another jerk broke your heart, I was on the phone with you until you stopped crying. When you experienced loss, I got my shift covered and drove down to you as soon as I could. I never called anyone else my best friend, it was always you; my new friends even knew that. But it was never enough for you.
Maybe I am the one who officially decided we aren’t friends anymore, but you decided too.
You decided we weren’t friends anymore when you stopped being my best friend, but expected me to be yours. You decided we weren’t friends anymore when you intentionally tried to hurt me because you felt justified in doing so.
You decided we weren’t friends anymore when you chose a boy over our friendship — over and over and over again. You decided we weren’t friends anymore when you chose to be jealous instead of happy for me. You decided we weren’t friends anymore when you made our friendship a one-way street.
Friendship, like any relationship I have learned, can’t be a one-way street. It isn’t petty, it isn’t cruel. True friendship is supportive, accepting, understanding and is never less important than a boy. Best friends never, ever intentionally hurt their best friends , no matter what the reason may be. Once you do that, you just aren’t best friends anymore.
Now, I know that when you love someone, you fight. I know that there are going to be rough patches, but I stuck around for longer than I should have. You know this. I know you know this. I forgave you over and over and over again. I forgave you for things that I never in a million years could imagine myself doing to you, or anyone for that matter; because I love you. Even when you did the unspeakable, I still loved you. You were my best friend. That meant the commitment to me. That meant loyalty and unconditional love. Until it didn’t to you.
I kept choosing you when I should have been choosing me. Well, now, I choose me.
I stand by my decision in deciding we aren’t friends anymore, but it will hurt me every day. I just know that it will hurt less than it did desperately try to save our friendship, trying to save you. You have made it clear that to you, our friendship isn’t worth saving. You have made it clear that you don’t want to be saved. So, I have no choice but to let go. I have nothing to hold on to anymore.
Despite how it has ended, I still thank you. Thank you for our years of friendship. Thank you for all of the amazing memories — memories that I, to this day, can’t imagine being topped. Thank you for showing me what true friendship is and what it isn’t. Thank you for teaching me how to be selfless, how to be forgiving and how to be a loyal friend. Most of all, thank you for being the person who finally pushed me to choose myself.
Love,
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