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  2. they are working themselves in a frenzy thinking they have the nations top DL and are deep.
  3. After 25 years of never swinging a club, I picked up my clubs from the literal last century this March and started playing again. Yeah, I'm complete shit. I took a few lessons with the pro at the local course to get my swing rebuilt, and have spent a lot of time with coach YouTube over the past six months. I like that it's a sport my wife and I can play together as we age (currently mid/late 40's). I've worked out a ton of stuff to get to my current state which I could call "absolutely bad," but that's a step up from "doesn't make consistent contact with the ball." My wife and I play now an about 3x-4x month and I might go with my bud about another 1-2x more. Fun when it's working and so so frustrating when it's not. I'm around 100 on average (like I said: SHIT). Issues the pro and I worked out: Driver - when I started back I could hit my small irons decently but the driver was like voodoo. I would top the shit out of it, worm burners all over, and when I made good contact I would open the face terribly and sent it off to the right. I had to learn a lot more about setup and address for the driver being different. What cemented it for me was when the pro told me something like: "Golf isn't one game. It's 5 games: driver, long irons, short irons, chipping, and putting. And the swings for each of those are a bit different." Now I can make good and fairly consistent contact with my driver, in May I gave up my 30 year old Dunlop driver from high school and got a 2 or 3 generation old TaylorMade SIM2 at the golf store for $250. It feels great and makes that beautiful sound when you hit it sweet. I'm still not getting the distance I want out of it; I'm averaging around 200 and my club head speed on the monitor is only mid-90s. If I try to push it faster my form gets out of whack and I mis-strike it, so that is a work-in-progress. I've been watching a lot of videos of the pros and the long drivers specifically with regard to weight shift but I still don't feel like I'm recruiting the power of my lower body enough. For reference, I'm not weak and do lift 😅, I squat and deadlift north of 400 lbs which is decent for my age I guess, I just don't feel like I 'm putting that strength to use on the swing! Tips welcome. Irons - I have really worked on delaying my release and getting my hands in front of the ball so I can hit the low point of the swing in front of the ball. Wow that is hard (for me). I still regularly chunk the shit out of it and hit fat/behind it. I drill this a lot but feel like hitting at the range those pads lie to you and hide fat hits. Chipping/Wedges - I've done a lot of work here but I feel like I blade a good portion of my chips. Recent video I watched and incorporated described the ideal feeling as "putting with a wedge," which is a good mental model for me to keep in mind. I tend to chop at it and abbreviate the swing in an attempt to muscle or lift it out but I need to trust the club face more. Putting - I'm actually not a terrible putter and can read breaks ok. What I don't have experience on is understanding green speeds. I played with a buddy the other day on a new course and I guess they had just punched and sanded recently and my 20 ft putt went about 5 feet lol. I think just need more reps. And a L.A.B. putter, obviously. My friend, who is a big golfer and is retired/gets to golf a lot, saw my 30 year old irons and said "here borrow my extra set of 7 year old TMs." But I'd like to get my own set that is at least modern and give those back. I think I'm probably going to get some Takomo irons to supplement my driver.
  4. The Bananas shit has been driving me crazy. It's August - put an actual game on.
  5. Anybody losing sleep over football much less the Dallas Cowboys who isn’t a paid member of the organization deserves to turn on their car and forget to open their garage….from the sleepiness.
  6. worse than the fumbles was the not stepping up in the pocket on 4th and 5 to deliver a ball to a guy wide open across the middle and he has to stop and dive to catch it and not make the first down not the thread for this I know
  7. Spent my day with truss rod adjustments and adjusting the heights of the humbucker pole pieces and the pickup itself to get rid of the muddiness. Sounds much, much better now. Ordered a Reverend soft-touch spring for the Bigsby. The one in it is too stiff, and I don't have the patience to let it break in. The guitar sure is a pretty thing. I almost went with the sparkle Lake Placid blue. Happy with the Aztec gold. I will say, every Fender and Squier (aside from the Joe Strummer tele) I've ever gotten has needed tweaking out of the box to get it to sound right. The biggest offender was the Vintera Nocaster. I've got three Sires and everyone was perfect out of the box. How can they accomplish that, but Fender can't?
  8. Anything remotely resembling an action type movie is usually made for global distribution. They are not so concerned with winning an Academy award as they are in filling seats all over the world to get a good return of their investment. It is why an unloving God forces us to watch all those Mission Impossible movies starring the Scientology midget.
  9. i'm not buying Moore stock either
  10. Would have been nice if MLB had scheduled a backup game, so I'm not switching between CFL and the Savannah Bananas on a Saturday night.
  11. You can leave the driving to Greyhound for only $130. The bad news it will take you 30+ hours each way.
  12. constantly reminded that physicians can be brilliant within their field but are often complete dumbshits outside of it.
  13. No. And I’m still not sure how all of you and your typewriters fit inside my phone.
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    BB27

    Will turned into a massive bitch this week. I hate him and his stupid fucking "beard" Thanks for your service tho dude lol
  15. We all knew where that was headed, but it sucks anyway. I wanted that guy. I don’t think 2025 will have a big impact on this cycle’s recruits for stable big time programs, but Oregon is going to be overrated this year. I assume they’ll start out 4-0 because they open FCS, Okie State, NW and Oregon State. Then they go to PSU, off, and host Indiana. Indiana wasn’t a fluke. They’ll be a better than .500 team and maybe much better than that. Their HC is legit. Then they go across the country to Rutgers, get Wiscy, off and then go to Iowa. Then they host Minnesota, USC and finish at Washington. That’s not a weak schedule. Beyond that, they’re relying on Moore who is getting the benefit of the doubt as a bounce back after legitimately having one of the worst true freshman seasons in a quarter of a century at UCLA in 2023. They replace most of their OL, the RB, 2 of 3 WRs. They lose their front on defense and multiple guys on the backend too. They’re going to be ranked in the top ten because their name is Oregon. I can see an 8-5 season if I squint.
  16. PM Bob Wheeler.
  17. Also good news is they get to play at like 6am tomorrow...what could go wrong?
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