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To make matters worse for your insufferable wine fad, no serious winemaker would even consider processing their wine to remove the natural sulfites that occur in grape skins.

So not only is this wine fad completely silly, but the wine itself that you drink as part of the fad is usually crap. A few hyper-local "raw wine" makers may have a decent bottle or two that had no added sulfites, but the large-production wines that make it into the grocery store are not decent, by a long shot.

About 1 in 10,000 people have a sensitivity to sulfites. A much higher percentage of people are sensitive to tannin, or are allergic to alcohol, or just feel bad the next day from drinking. As nifty as it that people attribute all kinds of physical effects to the glass of wine they drank, the much more likely reality is that you got bit by a mosquito in the night, or you have bedbugs. Those welps on your face are not caused by the red wine you had the night before. They're sure as hell not caused by the sulfites in that wine.

For those of you who actually, really are sensitive to sulfites, please don't drink wine. Unsubscribe to this reddit. Sulfite sensitivity is dangerous, and can cause serious asthma-like attacks that can be fatal. And sulfite free wine sucks.

For the rest of you, please stop. Listening to people tell me they have sulfite sensitivity all day long is like listening to people tell me that they're clairvoyant. It's a fad, and you're a moron. You'd probably believe you were sensitive to oxygen if Oprah did a show on it.

To make matters worse for your insufferable wine fad, no serious winemaker would even consider processing their wine to remove the natural sulfites that occur in grape skins.So not only is this wine fad completely silly, but the wine itself that you drink as part of the fad is usually crap. A few hyper-local "raw wine" makers may have a decent bottle or two that had no added sulfites, but the large-production wines that make it into the grocery store are not decent, by a long shot.About 1 in 10,000 people have a sensitivity to sulfites. A much higher percentage of people are sensitive to tannin, or are allergic to alcohol, or just feel bad the next day from drinking. As nifty as it that people attribute all kinds of physical effects to the glass of wine they drank, the much more likely reality is that you got bit by a mosquito in the night, or you have bedbugs. Those welps on your face are not caused by the red wine you had the night before. They're sure as hell not caused by the sulfites in that wine.For those of you who actually, really are sensitive to sulfites, please don't drink wine. Unsubscribe to this reddit. Sulfite sensitivity is dangerous, and can cause serious asthma-like attacks that can be fatal. And sulfite free wine sucks.For the rest of you, please stop. Listening to people tell me they have sulfite sensitivity all day long is like listening to people tell me that they're clairvoyant. It's a fad, and you're a moron.

You'd probably believe you were sensitive to oxygen if Oprah did a show on it.

THANK YOU.

I used to work at a winery, and this claim would drive me nuts. A customer would complain about headaches after drinking wine and insist it was the sulfites. I would then ask "Do you get headaches after eating from a salad bar at a restaurant? Or how about a serving of dried fruit? Because there are more sulfites (by an order of magnitude) in those sources than in a whole bottle of wine. Of course not. You just can't handle your booze.

Naturally I would say so in the nicest way possible.

Life was good before the kids/internet, life is better with it.

Clif Note: Life was good before the kids/internet, life is better with it. 

Though my Kids are having the TIME OF THEIR LIVES at Camp Grammy... And Heather Saarloos and I have been reliving the days before kids,

AKA the Days Before The Internet.... 

Going out to dinner every night, being spontaneous, no plans, no distractions, having a clean house, and a bit of silence... We haven't even been googling things, we have been walking down the street to find movie times and trying to remember stupid things like the "pole vault" (we called it catapulting for 15 mins) Its been great.

BUT. I have come to the conclusion. 

My kids are like getting the internet.
Sure it changed your life, it sucks time away from other things, its Chaos, its messy, you get hit in the junk all the time, you saw awwwwwww, you are never alone, ext...
BUT HOW MUCH BETTER IS LIFE WITH IT!
Just sitting here Bricked.

Got a Awesome Note Today.

Keith,
I just wanted to drop a line and say thanks a lot for the awesome tasting you did with my wife and I on Saturday. We were part of the crew that came on the Jeep wine tour.

I left your winery and looked at my wife and told her it was like someone popped into my head and took almost every idea I have ever had about wine/a tasting room and made it come to life from the -
Decor of the tasting room (looks a lot like how my wife did our house)
The music (it was like you took my phone and just hit play on my music playlist)
Your view on wine - the lack of pretension, the family element, and your passion about what makes a great wine.

I worked as a wine buyer years ago and fell in love with wine in my 20s. Somewhere along the way I got bored with the snobbery and idiocracy that goes along with so much of the wine industry.

Thanks a lot for re-invigorating my passion.

I look forward to see what awesome things you guys come up with in the future and am glad that my family is now a member of your wine club.

Thanks!

Santa Cruz, CA (by way of Long Beach)

Kirk Saarloos Epic!!

TCU hires former Astro and Fullerton ace as pitching coach

by Stefan Stevenson

sstevenson@star-telegram.com

TCU baseball announced the addition of pitching coach Kirk Saarloos Tuesday.

Saarloos, who spent the last two years at Cal State Fullerton, replaces former TCU associate head coach Randy Mazey. Mazey took the head-coaching job at West Virginia.

Saarloos spent seven years in the major leagues, including two years with the Astros.

During his college career at Fullerton, Saarloos set a school record with 127 appearances from 1998-2001. He was a reliever his first three seasons but went 15-2 with four saves as a senior and was named a first-team All-American and Big West Conference Pitcher of the Year. Twice he helped the Titans reach the College World Series.

“He’s the perfect combination of someone who is a former outstanding major league player, as well as a former great college player and coach,” TCU coach Jim Schlossnagle said. “He was our top choice.”

Saarloos, 33, was an undergraduate assistant at Fullerton in 2011. He was promoted to pitching coach for the 2012 season. The year before Saarloos arrived at Fullerton the team ERA was 3.78. The last two years the Titans ERA was 2.88 and 3.18 with six complete games in 2012.

He said leaving his alma mater was tough but he and wife, Kristen, were overwhelmed by Fort Worth and TCU on a visit.

“We were blown away by the community and the university,” he said. “It was very difficult to leave because [Fullerton] was all I knew in terms of college baseball. I have a lot of great relationships over there. That says a lot about TCU.”

Saarloos and his wife have a five-year old son, Brady, and two-year old daughter, Emery. Saarloos was drafted 86th overall in the third round by Houston in 2001 and played with the Astros in 2002-03. He was one of a record six Astros pitchers to combine for a no-hitter against the Yankees in New York in 2003. He also played for Oakland (2004-07, 08) and Cincinnati (2007).

Lets Go Surfing.

Brady Signs His First Autograph

Mom and Pop had a Successful Day.

Double Buckles.

Good Job.