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  1. On 7/29/2025 at 11:41 AM, Pato del Muerto said:

    There is no meaningful difference between Houston metro and DFW.  Zero.  Fewer hurricanes in DFW, fewer ice storms in Houston. 

    Houston has better food. Dallas has better roads and weather. 

    On 9/10/2025 at 11:28 AM, Guadaloopy said:

    The Astros suck right now and y'all are still 2.5 games back.  So, congrats?

    Yeah well we've sucked all year so eat that.

  2. 1 hour ago, Storm the Field said:

    Had to step outside for a second before going to bed last night. 81 degrees with a feels like of 87 at 11 pm. This shit getting tedious. 

    Hope everyone enjoyed that nice 60-hour stretch from last Sunday morning until Tuesday night. Looks like it'll be a while 'til we get another dose.

     

    It's been like 5 days.  How'd you make it through that 40 day stretch we had not long ago?

  3. 40 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    For whatever reason, I enjoy Devin having success.  I guess because she's put in the work without a lot of playing time or accolades.

    She could have left three summers in a row- any of the times when Molly decided to stay, when we went after Whitney lauenstein, Jenna, or maddie, when we signed cari or Torrey transferred here.  But she chose us and she chose to work hard.  She took the Ella Swindle road and she did it while being supportive of her teammates.  She bet on herself and she chose Texas.

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  4. You know what I really liked?  Devin hitting middle.  AA's footwork just isn't there and frankly I don't know if you can learn quickness.  When we stagnate on offense and let teams go on 7, 8, 9 point runs it really helps to have a middle who's a threat. I love AA's presence on the block but I wouldn't be mad if we saw a wrinkle from time to time of Harvey in the front or Devin hitting more out of the middle and not just on that one rotation.

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  5. 5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    That definitely gave us momentum. I also thought Louisville's passing broke down a little towards the end of the set and the 3 consecutive errors by Petersen to tie it at 12 were huge. 

    Yeah, she got a kill then to make it 12-13, but Texas finished it off on a 4-1 run via a Louisville service error and 3 consecutive kills from Stafford, Spears and AVW

    That whole match was nuts - .144 for Louisville, .153 for Texas.  Louisville hit almost .300 in set 1 and then never hit higher than .200 in any other set. Texas didn't hit .200 in a single set until set 5 

    28 attack errors for Louisville (15 Texas blocks), 35 for Texas (19 Louisville blocks)

    This match was really good experience and tape for when we face another really fucking physical block at aggy on Halloween. 

    Louisville had 3 chances at 11-8 in the fifth to take momentum back but couldn't pass on serve receive and ended up setting the outside pin where our two best blocks knew the attack was gonna go. If their receive could have generated better passes on any of those three serves I don't think we win.

  6. 3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    On the other end, something was going on with Emma last night.  They were serving her hard and it was fairly effective at times.  At one time the announcers mentioned an alignment/responsibility problem with her and AVW that may have extended to other rotations.

    I'm not going to ever doubt Emma's ability in serve receive or anything else for that matter, but they seem to have scouted something there.

     

    3 hours ago, Js1 said:

    I mentioned last night it was one of her worst serve receive matches. At one point, she was responsible for 75% of Louisville’s aces 

     

    Second and third sets I noticed they were serving her body shots - high, hard, and flat- and she had trouble passing in system when she didn't go to an overhand pass. I watched the Stanford game also yesterday and it made for a stark contrast with how she handled serve receive when the ball wasn't at her and above her waist.  Something to keep an eye on.  

     

    Did anyone else notice in the fifth set that serve receive rotation where we hid everyone but Emma and Torrey? It was before the switchover.  

     

    3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Really with you on Skinner.  Also, at UK, she was admittedly a burnout, even with or maybe because of an NC under her belt.  I think last year she was a burnout again.

    She had hinted on socials she was having anxiety about post college life.  I'm sure that figured into it.

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  7. 2 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Time to call in the Gurkhas

    Heard this story on a podcast a while back - let's assume it's true for the sake of how bad ass Gurkhas are.

    British army was spinning up a new parachute regiment and wanted to include the Gurks.  They were asked how many wanted to jump out of airplanes!  Five raised their hands.  Officer was puzzled, as he'd heard the tales of how fearless these guys are.

    He talks to their commanding officer.  He then understands that the Gurks didn't understand the concept of a "parachute", and these five tough SOB's took the literal meaning of jumping out of an airplane!

    When explained, of course 100% of them volunteered.  Wild shit.  

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    Bruh.  Five of em understood the parachute.  

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  8. 8 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

    Apple debuted these today.  The mic sends it to an iPhone.  AI translates it and sends it back to the AirPods.  

    https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/airpods-pro-3-can-live-translate-conversations-in-your-ear/

     

    The active nose cancellation also reduces the speaker's voice level so you hear the translation better.  I found that detail pretty cool.  And when you speak you show the other person your phone screen and it translates what you're saying I to their language.

  9. On 9/5/2023 at 1:14 PM, Dbeasy said:

    Update for those that provided advice. After another few days of no responses and not being able to reach anyone on the main claim line, I filed a complaint with the TDI. They responded within a day, saying that because it was not my insurance company, they could not investigate or intervene. However, they did forward my complaint to the insurance company, including my request for TDI to investigate them for bad faith practices.

    That must have gotten their attention because an assessor was at my house within a day, and the settlement check was fedex'd to me two days later. Unfortunately, they are scumbags and low balled everything in the settlement summary. While I understand that it's up to the repair shop to work the parts and labor costs, I began to get concerned I wouldn't be able to get the proper payment from them to get a quality repair done.  So, I rejected the payment and filed with my insurance.

    This whole situation is making me realize that the auto insurance industry is an absolute scam. They operate in a way to basically force you to file with your own insurance, even when it isn't your fault, so that they can all constantly raise rates for "reasons". I also got a sense I was about one person out of a hundred that even tries to not file with their own insurance when it's someone else's fault.  It's almost impossible.  Eff'em.

    Does it matter that you didn't get your carrier involved?  Because when you go to renew they ask if you've been involved in any accidents in the previous x years regardless of fault.  So wouldn't they find out then anyway?

  10. 5 minutes ago, Wiler77 said:

    Not a Cowboys fan. I have no dog in this fight.

    But your post was the entire problem with the drive. They played like the goal was to give the ball back to Philly ASAP and then get the ball back as quickly as possible. They had 3 minutes and 3 time outs, and ran 7 straight passes in hurry up offense.  Just stupid strategy.

    I don't mind the hurry up, it prevents them from subbing.  Four straight passes in a row when we've been running it well bothers me.  

     

    But they didn't do it because they were preserving clock otherwise they would have snapped it before the 2 min warning. Schottenheimer mishandled that. 

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