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  1. 10 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    The only thing worse than Steely Dan's music is their fans.   It's total dogshit, and, much like Rush fans, SD fans go full Derka in an attempt to make you "see the light" that they're great. 

     

    No dude, they fucking blow. 

     

    And you get extra-asshole points if, at any point, you refer to them as "The Dan".

    Now this is how the thread is done.

    I'll never waste my time trying to get people who hate a band to like it.  If it doesn't click for you, me going full Derka is only going to make you dig in harder.  Long live The Dan.

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  2. Agreed.  I'd agree that Paul was the best musician on certain instruments...obviously bass, and probably both drums and guitar.  But I always thought George was the most well-rounded.  He was at a minimum proficient on the broadest set of instruments, brought the sounds of India to the world, wrote great lyrics and music, plus had a decent voice.
    I'd argue Paul's writing was "limited" to musical composition, and great hooks, but sucked at writing unique lyrics.  John was a lyrical genius, but sucked at musical composition.  
    George could do it all and that's why, for me, his solo stuff was much better than either Paul or John...and of course Ringo.

    I love George, so I’m not really gonna argue. Your argument is definitely defensible. Especially considering he had the most important solo album of any Beatle and he was a fucking Wilbury.
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  3. I don't agree, but it's certainly a popular and defensible position.  
    For me, George was the best all-around musician in The Beatles.

    He’s my #2. Paul is one of the greatest bass players of all time, and a hell of a drummer/piano player/guitarist too.
  4. Reminds me of the quote when Paul was asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world, and Paul replied that he's not even the best drummer in The Beatles.
    Anyone touting Ringo as the best musician in The Beatles is smoking the good shit.

    Paul was the best musician in the Beatles by a wide margin.
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  5. 2 hours ago, deadshank said:

    I'd go for a can of original formula Schlitz.  Reminds me of the old man picking up a sixer while my brother and I waited in this babe magnet as we were on our way to Lake Texhoma for a family reunion with the Choctaw side of the family.

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    You grew up in a James McMurtry song.

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  6. 3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    They didn't have articles published about them in WaPo about what horrible people they are 

    They also haven't publicly thrown their wrongfully imprisoned former players under the bus, and don't condescendingly talk down to everyone they publicly encounter.  We don't know that they've ever encouraged rape victims to stay quiet, or lesbians to stay in the closet either.  

    Maybe not everything about Mulkey is verified, but if they were this way behind closed doors, I'd think it would leak more.

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  7. 5 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    I have no idea what they are like behind closed doors, and I would guess they work very hard to keep it that way.  I thought most of my childhood that Tommy Lasorda was some genial, good natured guy.  I had no idea he had a mouth and attitude that would make a sailor blush.  

    They very well might be quite different behind closed doors, but I don't know that they are.

    We know that Mulkey sucks as a person.

  8. Just now, Mittens said:

    It wasn't publicized at all, but someone made AI porn of her last week.  That's a long way over the line.

    I don't disagree, but this is likely coming for any attractive female celebrity.

  9. 37 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Maybe but Dawn is also a very tough hard nosed coach to play for. She holds you to the highest standard. Dawn is an infinitely better human than Mulkey 

    Exactly.  I don't think of Dawn Staley or Lisa Bluder as bitchy, at all.

  10. On 3/25/2024 at 10:10 AM, Tylerocks said:

    I can't remember a coach that is as universally hated than this chick.

     

     

    Who do y'all think is the male equivalent to her in basketball or football?

    Bob Knight was a huge asshole, but still kind of likable for whatever reason.

    Coach K?  

    I know Scott Drew is persona non grata here, but do random CBB fans hate him?  I doubt it.

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  11. 4 hours ago, Js1 said:

    She also doesn’t have a great role model for a head coach. Let’s face it, you don’t send your player to LSU if you want them to be humble and modest and let their play shine on the court over their antics. Can you imagine a player under Vic acting like that? 

    This is the exact point I bring up every time I've heard someone start getting dog whistley about Reece in the past year.  Because those people all hate Mulkey too, it does seem to actually land.

  12. Schlitz has been revived in the Midwest recently, and it doesn't suck at all.  Same thing happened to Grain Belt (which I'm assuming most of y'all haven't even heard of).

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  13. 9 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Turned 42 a few months ago apparently. He got the job at 35. He's less than a year older than me, and I recall that hitting me strangely when he got the job (I was already starting to feel old). To even get that job he had to show some serious maturity for that age and it certainly came through. Can't believe it was 7 damn years ago.

    I'm 38 now and just assumed Boynton was a good 10 years older than me.

  14. 10 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Missed the joke, sorry. Mike Boynton's favorite hashtag was #LetsWork and I've seen some OSU fans posting #LutzWork. Kinda funny. Some of it is mean sprited, but most still like Boynton while agreeing that we needed to move on (that's where I am). I saw that he's joining Mays staff at Michigan. He'll be a head coach again soon enough. He's only 41. 

    No shit?  He always gave off kinda-old man vibes to me.

  15. Stopped at one a couple weeks ago in Arkansas on a mountain biking trip.  It took 20 minutes to get our order.  It tasted fine, but if I'm going to wait 20 minutes for a burger, I better be bellied up at a bar with a beer in one hand and a game on the tube.

  16. Angel Reese seems like a bitch and a whiner.  She deserves to take some crap for her antics.  Her and Mulkey seem cut from an extremely similar cloth.  The people who make her behavior a matter of race are far worse than she is.  This is 100% a "both things can be true" situation.

    6 more days until I don't have to watch Iowa fans use the women's program to hide their shame about how badly we've buried their men's program.

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  17. On 3/23/2024 at 9:45 AM, 4th&Five said:

    Poppy little divorce tune. 

     

    Dead Man Winter is my favorite iteration of Dave Simonett and that album is among his best work.  After his divorce, Dave spent a lot of time kicking around the Driftless Area of SE MN (the part of Iowa I live in is part of this region as well) when he didn't have his kids and the album is full of references to places I know well, all drenched in that reflective sense of loss.  A lot of that era went into the TBT's "Life Is Good On The Open Road" as well (Kelly's Bar is a real place I've been to several times), which might actually be my favorite TBT album.

    I think this track (which might be my all time favorite Simonett song) fits the bill of this thread as well.

     

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  18. I remember essentially cutting out on JRE when it went to Spotify exclusively.  It was a combo of just preferring the Apple Podcast for keeping track of pods, and all the whining he'd been doing about the COVID lockdowns.  He was inserting more and more of himself and less of letting the guest talk.  He'd constantly get side tracked whining about lockdowns and cancel culture and all I could think was "you're a fucking millionaire 100x over and ain't no way you're getting canceled for this stupid shit you say".  I just lost interest completely.

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