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Whitewater Horn

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  1. I’m late to this show and trying to make a go of it. I haven’t read the thread (to avoid spoilers) and only have a vague idea of what it’s about - An American CFB coach is with no experience in soccer is tasked with managing an English FC. I’m about 10-15 mins in on then pilot episode, and it seems horrible, like an over the top farce with the ridiculous premise of your typical American who has never traveled or lived abroad, ignorant of English culture and sport, making all of the predictable faux pas and requiring a shitload of suspension of disbelief. I lived and worked in the UK for five years back in my twenties. I also grew up playing soccer in north Texas in the 70s & 80s, and have always been a big fan of international football, as well as CFB/NFL. I’m no commie, after all. Can someone tell me to stick with the show and that it gets better, or will it be too silly and insulting to the country and the sport? I’m cool with stupid humor, but I’ve had enough of the whole shitting on soccer and other countries shtick. I’ve seen that this show has been nominated or maybe even won some awards, so I’m curious. I hope the consensus is that bits well done and gets more realistic or believable.
  2. Agreed, good for him. I was at the Red Rocks show on Sunday and that is the most people I’ve ever seen at show that was exclusively for Jason Isbell. It was great to be back at a significant live music show and to be outdoors, but it was so packed that it felt a bit iffy, especially with cases surging from the Delta variant. Many will surely disagree, but I’m glad Jason has taken a position of “better safe than sorry” and is defending it. All that said, what a fucking show. It was kind of bummer to see such a diminished version of Lucinda Williams, though.
  3. “I wasn’t born in the spotlight. Nah, I hadda grind ta shine…” There’s always at least one set of incessantly repetitive ads during the Tour that become annoying ear worms, and that’s the winner for me this year. And fuck them for bringing back the Hulu ad or whatever it is that has Aidy Bryant saying “I’m shaking it up, I’m my own boss now!”
  4. That was inevitable. This will be fun.
  5. Flawless half volley. Wow
  6. Damn, Kuss was likely going to need more than 30 seconds to hold the lead til the finish. Hope he gets it, but Valverde has the experience on his side.
  7. Knew an attack had to be coming with him in the breakaway. Go Sepp!
  8. I was really happy for Cav when he won on Stage 4. I figured it was a great way to cap his career and finish with a stage win in what I assumed is likely his last Tour. Then he won at Chareauroux for the 3rd time in his career and second stage win of the race, so that seemed like a really magical way to wrap it up and go out like the legend he is. Now we have a situation. In what is all but certain to be a real laugher of a runaway victory for yellow by Pogacar, we have a chance to witness significant history. One win away from equaling, and two wins away from passing Eddy’s TDF all time stage wins record. Eddy Merckx has plenty of records that aren’t going to be touched for a long time, if ever. I can’t imagine there are many people rooting against Cav. Hard to believe that the upcoming sprint stages hold more compelling possibilities than the remaining mountain stages, including the lame double ascent of Mont Ventoux that doesn’t finish on top.
  9. That was nice bit of bike handling and restraint by Sagan to stay upright in the intermediate sprint when Morkov failed to hold his line and put Sagan against the barriers.
  10. Good for Cav. That was a nice moment in a race full of horrible moments so far.
  11. I guess they decided having a bunch of crashes would make up some excitement for only having three uphill finishes in the mountain stages. What an absolute shit show so far.
  12. Brutal. That last one was all Ewan. I was watching closely to see if Sagan would try to crowd toward the barrier when Caleb took them both out. Not sure if Roglic will be able to recover from that. Even before that crash between Caleb & Peter, I was furious at the spectators holding their phones way out over the barriers with sprinters approaching at speed. Get your goddamn phone out of the way! Reminds me of when Thor Hosholvd got his arm sliced wide open after a spectator caught him on the arm with one of those green fans on a stick while he was sprinting along the barriers.
  13. No kidding. It will interesting to see how long it takes before we know everything about this “look at me!” idiot.
  14. I don’t think he was trying to get a selfie. Instead of watching the road behind him for the approaching peloton, he was looking up the road trying the get the television camera on the moto to see his stupid sign shouting out his grandparents. Whatever it was, it put a lot of riders on the ground. About 30 seconds before that happened I was thinking that Jumbo were in a dangerous position on the road - you could feel that something was about to happen. Crazy start. Glad none of the real GC favorites lost significant time.
  15. I decided to go that show instead of one of the Austin shows. So excited to see them at Red Rocks with Lucinda opening. This will my high school aged kids first show at Red Rocks. It’s pretty cool to have this experience with them at a place where I’ve been making it a priority to travel from Texas to see bands since I was their age.
  16. This is a staggering assault on democracy, and I wish I could say that I’m very concerned how it will be applied, but I’m leaning more towards heartbroken, disgusted, and terrified. The language allows for elections to be more easily overturned or voided based on “a preponderance of the evidence” versus clear and consistent findings of fraud. So, the next time their candidate appears to lose a race, the Republicans can just “make it right” with this new power. Now add in the “heartbeat abortion ban” and it’s clear that Texas and other states are moving closer to a Gilead type future than I ever believed was actually possible. This damned culture war is destroying, or has already destroyed, our nation.
  17. Great 2nd shot out of the rough to set up that birdie putt to retake the lead. Hook em, Jordan!
  18. Been waiting for this. Guess I’ll be firing off a text to Zack at Sweetwater tomorrow.
  19. I want to root for the guy, but I have to be honest. If someone played the audio of this for me and didn’t tell me who it was, I think my response would be, “well, that was pretty average and forgettable.” It will be interesting to see what else he does. The vocals were stronger than I expected. Rock on, Wolfie.
  20. Watched it, laughed a few times, but it was pretty much what I expected it would be after so long since the first movie. Coming To America has infinite re-watchability, but I can’t see myself ever wanting to see the sequel again.
  21. What time is the inauguration? The Q folks aren’t big on specifics.
  22. I guess we can stand down. She says it was intended as a joke. I was genuinely disgusted and horrified there for a moment.
  23. Hard to pick from so many, but few things have impacted the way I think about and listen to music as from having my mind blown by the way Jeff Buckley used his voice as an instrument beyond singing lyrics. Just otherworldly.
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