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Braff Zacklin

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  1. It's got to be a weird feeling to be 6-foot-9 and feel short cuz the KID you're playing against is more than half a foot taller than you.
  2. If possible, I'd go back to that fateful day I signed up for the Shag. There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then, a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I wanna talk to him. I wanna try to talk some sense to him -- tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I gotta live with that.
  3. What a Chad! Who also Fucks.
  4. ME: Sir, your brain can absorb an impressive amount of trauma. DUDE IN WHITE SHIRT: Huh?
  5. I know Texas is not the school for moral victories, but hat's off to Vic and the ladies for snagging a No.1 seed despite the injuries and setbacks. They never made excuses and kept balling. Hope they continue that trend next week.
  6. I'm sure we got bumped to No.7 for the potential matchup with No.2 Tennessee. The committee had their pick. Guess they figured we already got belted once by Marquette so might as well let Tennessee have a crack. Both are flawed Nos.2, though.
  7. Shocked and somewhat stoked to see that Texas got a 7 seed, as that seems very generous to me, but the possibility of playing Virginia does not instill me with confidence. Please convince me that I'm a pessimistic idiot.
  8. Texas was favored but it taking down the Brooks Bros. was still a huge win and no small feat. That same team was responsible for one of my favorite all-time regular-season wins--beating a stacked UCLA side at Pauley Pavilion. How stacked? Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love, and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, for starters. Several great teams that season, and Texas was one of them. Barnes put together a special crew.
  9. Imagine being one of the world's wealthiest people, capable of buying or doing virtually anything, yet somehow believing you're the victim and that life has been unfair to you.
  10. Negative. I was more worried you'd try the "old celery trick" again. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice ...
  11. Yikes. Bet LeBron was like, "I know how you feel, Kent State."
  12. Yeah, if they've sourced him accurately, then Lunardi must've stroked out or something.
  13. Saw today's result. Yikes. Just assumed the team would bounce back and win today and tomorrow to take the series. Bad, bad losses.
  14. What's being overlooked is the unnecessary FiberCon. With that many enchiladas, your bowels aren't going to require any assistance moving them along.
  15. Again, no one is contending that victims of abuse are guaranteed to become abusers. Most do not. But data does suggest that victims of violence are indeed more likely to perpetrate violence than those who were not victims. Another study: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/sexual-trauma-life-histories-rapists-and-child-molesters This one compared sex offenders with a control group of non-offenders. 31 percent of the sex-offender group reported some form of trauma between the ages of 1 to 15. Only 3 percent in the control group reported something similar. And another study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0145213419302121 You can continue your own cycle of abuse all you want, but your insults strike me as ironic.
  16. Wish we had him for every single game of his career. Miss him immensely.
  17. That article does not say what you seem to think it says. Also No one is contending that victims of abuse are guaranteed to become abusers. Most do not. But data does suggest that victims of violence are indeed more likely to perpetrate violence than those who were not victims.
  18. Sadly, victims of molestation as children have a very high incidence of "paying it forward," so to speak, as adults. I don't know the percentages, and it is absolutely not a guarantee that a victim will become a future predator, but it does happen at a much higher rate amongst the abused than it does amongst the rest of the population.
  19. C'mon, man. Lobo would never write a post that short.
  20. You said Dak couldn't win without a running game. He obviously can. Doesn't make Dak elite and it doesn't make him a playoff Wunderkind. It does mean, however, that you were wrong. Move the goalposts all you want (now you're trying to redefine what constitutes a win! LoL), but it's not going to change any of those facts.
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