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  2. Our President is discussing the important issues of the day.
  3. It's getting to Li just a bit.
  4. Superstar athletes don’t need keyboard warriors white knighting for them, but “professional athletes” are mostly the non-superstars. Leagues like the NFL and NBA collectively bargain with players associations for percent of revenue and profit sharing, minimum salaries, maximum salaries (NBA), team salary caps and salary floors, and other benefits. The other 90% who aren’t LeBron James, Patrick Mahomes, etc. benefit by more money being spread around and other non-paycheck benefits. Since the superstars are a minority of the membership, I’m surprised the rank and file hasn’t pushed for lowering the max salary in the NBA or imposing max salaries in the NFL. Teams spend their cap money, so the players as a whole collectively get more. The converse is MLB, as sbb brought up. You have teams in LA, NY, etc. paying absurd money to the superstar free agents. That doesn’t do much for the hundreds of mid level types. No salary cap means no salary floor, so you get the A’s, Pirates, etc. The talent discrepancy (or rather competitive imbalance) and the fact the most hate-able teams are always the good ones are turn offs to fans outside of those major markets, which reduces revenue from tv, marketing, merchandise, endorsements, etc. which trickles down to reducing what the players collectively earn. The MLB model is great if you are Shohei, Judge, Juan Soto, Gerrit Cole, the Yankees, Dodgers, Mets, or their fans. It’s not ideal for everyone else, players and fans. The NFL is the most popular sport in the world, partially due to competitive balance, and the players collectively make the most of any sport. For college football, the MLB model certainly favors the blue bloods like us and will keep the championship competition between a dozen or fewer programs. The NFL model would result in blue bloods spending less (capped), everyone else spending more to be competitive, better league products = more revenue = more money available to future players via direct pay and indirect benefits. Better for fans of the bottom 90%. I enjoy Texas playing championship level football, but I also enjoy(ed) college football when upsets were weekly and lots of random teams in and out of the top 25. I think the blue bloods would still dominate in the NFL model due to better coaches, facilities, NFL odds, legitimate NIL endorsement opportunities etc.
  5. Hell yeah. More teams with great throwbacks need to do this when they play. Falcons and Bucs doing it makes sense. Patriots also travel to Tampa.
  6. You know their brisket gets sliced with the grain
  7. I’ll let someone else start the 2030 Thread… I’m assuming young Marshall Manning has a standing offer from Sark? https://apple.news/AIgpZblcWSruBB1OpUSnAaQ
  8. They stole the winged helmet too?
  9. Derrick Cooper telling it like it is, excluding CTJ
  10. I guess just like with putting, it’s a way to take wrist action out when that’s what’s called for. Just never seen it.
  11. No doubt. If there were volunteers down there still searching thinking there were over 100 still missing and the leaders knew there were only 3, the volunteers should be rightfully pissed.
  12. I believe Arch had a chance to take over if he performed well in the 1st Half of the UGA game @ DKR. But he struggled too. Sark knew we could win with Ewers for the remaining games, so he stuck with him.
  13. Needs Tim Ryan/Paul Hornung* on the broadcast. * I know he’s dead, Jim. AI that MFer.
  14. I saw it too, was it Fitz? I thought maybe that's how it's been and I didn't know.
  15. You don’t like the Hey Steel Shank! thread do you?
  16. And done (made it over 60 hours decided getting to 72 wasn’t going to happen due to more fatigue than I care to endure). Slept a lot yesterday, this morning I ate watermelon then a spoonful of peanut butter and 45 minutes later scrambled eggs cooked in avocado oil. I’ll figure out another snack then I think I’m going to mainline fajitas for lunch. Fucking A bring it. Autophagy peaks at/after 48 hours so hopefully my body did a good job cleaning up and recycling the bad parts. Onward and upward.
  17. Now I know you are just trolling if you are claiming sports writers are the definitive authority. I love what Wisner did for Texas but you are crazy if you would not trade him for Caden Durham, Nate Frazier or Jaden Baugh right now.
  18. They showed the Texas-ASU playoff game on the SEC Network last night. Goddamn Bert Auburn was a fucking disaster. So glad he left
  19. Don’t sexualize us!
  20. The deep state that republicans have been ranting about for 50 years is here and embraced with open arms by those same people.
  21. I don’t want to go full Lobo and start name dropping, but I’ve interacted with them a time or three going back over 20 years and neither has been anything other than curious and friendly. You’re likely not wrong about operations and finance, some of which I’d attribute to an intentional strategy to build early, non-Austin Alamo’s to be independent enough that management could have a more organic “rebel” attitude with screenings and the menu, and which I think was a big part of their adoption in Austin and attracted the investors. Whole Foods had the same problem, fwiw. Each one had a separate personality, product selection, in house restaurants, etc. Since the Amazon purchase all that independence has been wrung out of them for almighty profit.
  22. So they haven’t been updating the missing list in real time or at least daily? And just decided to give an “oh by the way” now?
  23. Wow, hole placement on 16 is dastardly
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