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  1. 17 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

    Also, not completely fucking over the organization that gave you a platform and allowed you to do what you love for a living in the first place.

    To be somewhat fair to Rory, Jay trotted him and Rahm out there as the mouthpieces for staying in the PGA, while secretly working on a merger without telling anyone. 

    Of all the guys that made the jump, he was the only significant surprise. 

    Jay’s mismanagement of the tour and the LIV fight as a whole put himself and the tour in an impossible situation. But I can somewhat understand Rory and Rahm’s ire with the situation he put them in. 

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  2. 2 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Maybe no one gives a shit, but I wish someone would do some investigative reporting regarding LIV and Twitter golf accounts. I have no doubt in my mind that Flushing It is getting paid by someone to peddle LIV bullshit. Certain accounts on social media have a clear LIV bias, which goes completely against how the majority of golf readers feel. I'd bet LIV also creates bot accounts that reply in threads as well. 

    Funny how all the LIV players are begging for a merger now. This sad excuse for a golf league failed miserably. No one is watching. No one cares. I haven't seen DJ swing a golf club in over a year. The team format is one of the biggest whiffs I've ever seen and they still try to gaslight fans into thinking it's cool/fun/interesting. 

     

    The team aspect is hilariously bad. They sold the players on the idea that the teams would function the way that F1 does and were convinced that as player-owners the team brands would take off and become extremely valuable. 

    And I’m not sure which is the more hilarious con that they believed, that the teams would become valuable sports team brands, or that they’d get owgr points to qualify for majors. 

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, ConferenceRoom said:

    I’m no expert but just going by what I learned before my kid was born, you’ve got a pretty good idea when you’re about to go into labor. 

    In an interview earlier in the week he made it seem like she was still weeks away from giving birth. The media just wants to make it a story. 

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  4. While we’re all on the walnut love fest, here’s some figured pieces I’m trying to decide what to do with.

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    They are from a walnut tree that grew in the yard of my wife’s grandfather’s childhood home.

    I’m leaning towards a set of matching console/hall tables for my wife and her two sisters out of ash dyed black like this: af6750fd525f0fcffade10078750e2d5.jpg

    And then using the figured walnut for a row of drawer fronts.

    I’ve been sitting on them for like 5 years since he died waiting for the right use.

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  5. Timely project with the talk about walnut with Rubio, this has 2 coats of pure. It’s really best to not think of it as a single coat product on really absorbent wood like walnut. It ends up really matte and if there’s much figure at all it can look pretty splotchy. Sanded to 180, water popped, sanded again with 180, 1st coat of pure, light scuff with a maroon pad, 2nd coat of pure. Gives it a really nice satin sheen.

    Walnut, aluminum splines, black suede lining

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    lol at these asshats coming to terms with the consequences of taking the money and believing that they’d still get owgr ranking points. 

    Neiman probably the worst case scenario. Young guy (25), legit shot at winning majors, hadn’t won one yet when he left. Dropped from 19th to 74th. Gotta suck looking around major weeks and realizing you’re one of the few guys on LIV that isn’t past his prime, a scrub, or already win a major and have exemptions. 

  7. 1 hour ago, deadshank said:

    Nah.  He was a member at another club in Peters Township but he's not real interested in a golf club anymore.  

    So.....give him two a side and let him play from the women's tees.

    In Peters township that probably would have been valley brook. My uncle is a member there. 

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  8. 19 minutes ago, deadshank said:

    I have in-laws that live in Upper St. Claire.  He lives on some golf course there.  Great area.

    St Claire country club? That’s a great course. Somewhere in the 3-6 range of the best courses in Pittsburgh.

    Oakmont is obviously head and shoulders above everyone else.

    Fox Chapel is 2nd, designed by Seth Reynor, a lot of classic CB Macdonald template holes. Hosts women’s and senior events, doesn’t really have the length for the modern men’s pro game. 

    The next tier has St Claire, Longue Vue, Pittsburgh Field club, probably a few others could claim to be in that tier. 

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  9. 15 minutes ago, Jkwellborn said:

    Im in the same boat. I want a jointer and can’t decide. I’d like a stand up 8” floor jointer with a spiral head. I’m not sure I’d ever need it but, I’d rather have something more than what I’d normally use, just in case.

    For the time being, I considered getting an 8” grizzly benchtop from Home Depot, but the reviews are fairly hit or miss.

    My space and wallet are telling me to get an 8” bench top helical cutter. But I’m just trying to envision how much I’ll hate trying to deal with the short bed, short fence, and how accurate I can get it to be. 

    My brain and my heart are telling me that the setup I have right now is working well enough that I should just wait until I can justify getting the 8” floor model. 

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  10. 14 minutes ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

    I'm not a polished woodworker with lots of equipment but I am involved with a machine shop and equipment for metal working. Always get the next size bigger if you have the floor space and $$$ to do so.

    I absolutely do not have the floor space, but I’m weighing the quality of life improvement of being able to quickly run a board across a jointer and have a flat face instead of having to take the time to shim and hot glue a board to a long piece of melamine and then feed that through the planer to get a flat face vs making my shop even tighter than it already is. It would probably end up going between my bench/asssembly table/outfeed table and the wall. I’d end up putting retractable casters on the table so that I could pull it out to get to the jointer. Fuck I need a bigger space. 

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  11. Question for the woodworkers that have a jointer: Do you have a 6” or 8” jointer, and if you have a 6 do you often find yourself wishing you had those extra 2 inches? I’m trying to decide if I’d constantly be wishing I would have spent the extra $1k to go with 8” instead of 6”. 

  12. 14 hours ago, deadshank said:

    Where are you in the Burgh?

    About 15-20 mins north of downtown. Between mccandless and Glenshaw if you’re familiar with the area. A bit south of wildwood country club if we’re keeping it golf related. 

    You spend time in Pittsburgh? 

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  13. 1 hour ago, dieucla98 said:

    Oooor, work on chipping/pitching.

    At least for me, my irons can come and go - it's the most minute difference in angle of face/path that can make a monumental difference in ball flight and if it's off, it's damn hard to get it back during a round. With my short game now, I'm very confident it's always there to bail me out. Short game is also a lot easier to practice daily.

    My mentality is every birdie putt I get is a bonus. I play for the up and downs.

    Chipping & pitching is my #2 priority heading into this season. I’m losing far fewer shots chipping and pitching than I am with my irons. I’m standing in the fairway or on a par 3 tee box and every possible miss is in play, fat, thin, shank, pull hook, big slice.

    I would rather have 230 to the pin hitting 3w off the deck than I would a 9i from 140. Playing out 10 shots from each spot, my scoring average is going to be lower from 230 than 140. 

    But also, I “get” chipping and pitching. I understand it and I like working on it. The biggest problem I have with chipping is not having a bump and run. I struggle with long chips, especially up hill, a lot more than I do with having to hoist it high and get it to stop. often times, just off the green with a long uphill chip I end up leaving it way short because the height and upslope killed it or, having to carry it the whole way there, I go way long. So I need to get a low runner into my game this year. Just a matter of practicing it to get the feel for the distance. 

  14. This is the year I finally break 80. I had a few rounds in the low 80s last year and felt like I was close, had to take a few weeks off and then didn’t get close the rest of the season. 

    The main stat I need to work on, unsurprisingly, is GIR. And in my case that comes down approach accuracy. By far the weakest part of my game. 

  15. Refs just making absolutely sure they get Allen v Mahomes next week on these last couple drives.

    2 minutes ago, SpiralOut said:

    Allen realizes he fucked the defense up by hinting at sliding and not.  Then he busts a big run and doesn't slide.  Then he changes up and slides and gets the flag.  Dude ain't dumb.  It's still correct to blow him up every time he runs.

    He absolutely baited them into the penalty with that slide. Totally need to make him pay for using his legs. 

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