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  2. Congrats? Still, the point I made concerned supporting Republicans while displaying a kid banner. It implies you are fine with cutting the safety net for children, separating children from their immigrant parents, and, well, the whole pedophile President thing. I made a shitty remark. You vote for shitty policies and people.
  3. Article is paywalled, but here is a snip.
  4. {Not a rules violation because it attacks people from both sides}
  5. The money shot?
  6. So are we going to get a CloseToJaggering Bingo card going for the opening game(s) of the year? Or just wager on some yardage and scoring totals? We could do straight cash, homey, or make CTJ just names his next kid Parker Alan Jackson _____________.
  7. I'm sure Lincoln, Nebraska is cheap as fuck. Why? No one wants to fucking live there. Cheaper housing is cheap for a reason.
  8. Do you talk like RFK Jr?
  9. I'm still fucking on tilt this morning. I need someone to talk me down off the ledge. A serious ballclub that is interested in winning simply cannot run it back with this same offense next year. Look at what we have under contract: Seager, $31.5m: Fine, he's great Semien, $26m: We're fucked on this one. Defense is still fine but the bat is well below average at this point and it ain't gonna magically come back for a guy that is 35 years old. Pederson, $18.5m: LOL, might as well light this money on fire Adolis, arbitration (probably $8-9m?): Might be the rare guy whose salary actually goes down in arbitration. 2023 was a fluke. We absolutely cannot continue giving this guy 600 PA every year. Higashioka, $6.7m: This is fine. League average bat. Has yet to surpass 300 PA in his career though. Heim, arbitration: Below average bat. Again, 2023 looks like a fluke. Burger, arbitration: Will be cheap, but has not been good. Jung, arbitration: Will be cheap, but has not been good. Decent defense I suppose. Hitting all downhill since 2023 (see a theme?). Smith, arbitration: Hooray! A useful utility guy with an above-average bat. Not exactly fearsome at the plate, but useful. Langford, arbitration: I'm down on him. We're almost 1000 PA into his major league career. At this point, I don't think something will click and he becomes the offensive force we all dreamed he might be. Looks likely to end up as a solid regular that occasionally has scorching hot months. That's very useful, especially while cost-controlled, but a bit disappointing. Carter, arbitration: Even more down on him. He'd be fine as a 4th OF/platoon bat, except he cannot stay healthy, which is kinda what you need from your 4th OF. I think it's likely that his rookie season ends up being the high point of his career. So you have 11 hitters under contract. One star (Seager), two that are above average but not killers (Langford, Smith), a league average but part-time C (Higgy), a guy that you can squint and maybe see league average (Jung), and six(!!!) fucking black holes (Semien, Adolis, Heim, Burger, Pederson, Carter). If we go into next season with our main strategy being the hope that those 6 guys will improve, I'm going to rip my fucking hair out.
  10. They put out that he dropped one pass
  11. Looks like IBRX reading out a positive study in rare form of non-hodgkin lymphoma today. https://immunitybio.com/immunitybio-reports-complete-responses-in-non-hodgkin-waldenstrom-lymphoma-patients-with-chemotherapy-free-first-in-class-cd19-car-nk-immunotherapy/
  12. Sam Rayburn and LBJ have pieces of speakers and minority leaders like this in their petrified stools.
  13. Somebody doesn't remember the DBs in 2023
  14. Huge fan. Dell Griffith is his best role , so I love the title. Who’s Harry Crumb via HBO was hilarious to 12 year old me. Peak Shawnee Smith. I’m quite confident it doesn’t hold up.
  15. hotwheels also graduated from UT. Fuck the both of them.
  16. My head canon now is that the sports writers that cover Texas absolutely know CTJ hates Livingstone, so they keep mentioning him positively to slowly drain his sanity away, update by update, until the season opener.
  17. This could be the shot at Fort Sumter.
  18. Klatt is better than this So because players can be paid, they can participate in sports betting? Even if it was a joke, CFB players need to understand optics. A lawyer can't send a cheeky, joking Venmo payment to a friend with the description "BRIBE FOR A JUDGE" the day before a hearing. That would 100% warrant an investigation. Sports betting for collegiate players is still 100% against the rules Joel, so yes, it warranted an investigation. Sports betting/gambling is very far removed and unaffiliated with players being paid and the transfer portal. That is why it is still not allowed. MLB, NBA, NFL have huge contracts and free agency and they still aren't allowed to bet on games within their sports.
  19. I acknowledged that, if not specifically. But yeah, Tech players are paid. Tech is not a bad place to got to school, regardless of what you say. The premium is because they don't have the program/ other talent/ NFL factory status of other schools. We don't have the same discussions in basketball circles, do we? No. The funny piece in that aspect is how the big dogs keep yelping about said market. If Tech sucks so bad, then why even acknowledge it? Your great locale and program will give you a built in discount.
  20. Used to live in Denver. I found it to be pricier tha. Any Texas city by far. Also look at pricing per square foot for housing. Houston is far cheaper.
  21. We need to use modern technology to get the quality of these videos upgraded to HD somehow. I probably settle down and watch VY highlights once or twice a year, and I'm always struck by how bad the quality is for most of the videos. As in, I swear it didn't look that dark and grainy watching it live back in 04 and 05. Or on my DVR of the Rose Bowl I kept around for years.
  22. I worked for the team in the 90s under Mackovic and before the games we would get a copy of the opposing teams media guide. The Tech media guide was catchy and had us saying it the rest of the season. It still stuck with me 30 some odd years later
  23. Bobby knows exactly what he’s doing.
  24. And it’s fucking beautiful. One of the healthiest states with the lowest level of obesity. I love Colorado. Maybe it’s time to start planning the escape
  25. Bomani Jones approves of this. Can't believe Will Cain graduated from UT
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