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  1. 1 hour ago, Frank Drebin said:

    I thought Murphy was just awful last year for us.  Inaccurate.  Afraid of contact.  Panicky.  He was lucky DBs on the other team dropped several gift interceptions.

    He didn't look good in the Spring game for Duke either.

    We will see.  I have been wrong plenty.  But I think it is more likely than not that he won't be very good at Duke.

    I've honestly never understood the mindset evidenced by this post. He was the backup here, and was hurt for long stretches, both of which combine to make it obvious that he's still going to be very raw. But he wasn't our starter, so he wasn't forced down our throats. And when he did get thrust into the fire, he played his tail off and we won, with obvious things that would be a problem were he a long-term starter, which were discussed here ad nauseum. But guess what? once Quinn was healthy, then Maalik didn't play anymore. So in some regards, the coaches agreed with you. And then, he got passed up by Arch on the depth chart. So again, the coaches agreed with you. Now he's getting his shot at Duke. And if he sucks, you know what will happen? He won't play.

     

    Kid hasn't been handed a single thing as a D1 football player, and by all accounts is an exceptional teammate and an exceptional human. I don't understand what makes you post something like "I thought he was awful." To be clear, I'm asking why you would POST that; I don't begrudge you THINKING it. Maybe he is awful, but what does your post add to this conversation, at this point?  If he were our starter, and we were discussing his deficiencies and how they're holding us back, then your post is spot-on. Lord knows this place can do QB controversy with the best in the world. But that's not this thread. This thread is wishing a solid kid good luck, who has arguably been placed perfectly on the depth chart his entire time here. So why throw rocks? It's just not additive in any way, and it feels like you just want something to be mad about. Maybe start with our interior DL, instead of the kid that kept our name in the national championship conversation last year?

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  2. 2 hours ago, TexasEd said:

    When did you build it?

    Completed August of 2019. We're definitely in the danger zone.

    We don't have any of the obvious, horrendous cracking / separating lke in the pictures I've seen; really, we have almost no cracking whatsoever, neither inside the pool nor outside on the the superstructure. I do have SOME calcification buildup in a few spots, but I also have shit water. So I'm hopeful that I dodged it somehow. The Premier Pools main office has been helpful in the past getting someone to come out and work with me on a few things (not covered under warranty, of course), so I'm gonna reach out to them for advice. Fingers crossed.

  3. On 4/12/2024 at 8:24 PM, AUS-97HORN said:

    This was the first story that I heard of the problem its a courtroom recording from a WilCo lawsuit.    I cant tell you when or where, but I am almost positive the phrase "gunite" being used multiple times as the two defendants tried to claim they didnt need to fix the issue

     

     

    Oh fuck me. This is the asshole who built my pool and then went out of business. 

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  4. On 3/16/2024 at 2:29 AM, harpercollins said:

    And what’s your son doing, Cheryl??fa44b5c853adf6adc7fe7515c8e442e2.jpg

     

    A good chuckle this morning, and a new twitter follow. 

     

    You KNOW Tyrone's mom is a fuckin' menace! I would be, too!

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  5. 6 hours ago, CoTex said:

    Do you even moneyball, bruh?

    Turns out, winning gets a LOT easier when you have Tim Hudson ($850k), Mark Mulder ($800k), and Barry Zito ($500k) under contract for <$1m each, the latter two still on their rookie deals. Fucking Chad Bradford and Scott Hatteberg weren't the reasons that team went to the playoffs. 

  6. 6 hours ago, CoTex said:

    Do you even moneyball, bruh?

    Turns out, winning gets a LOT easier when you have Tim Hudson ($850k), Mark Mulder ($800k), and Barry Zito ($500k) under contract for <$1m each, the latter two still on their rookie deals. Fucking Chad Bradford and Scott Hatteberg weren't the reasons that team went to the playoffs. 

  7. Can everyone please put on the lens of "both teams are really fucking good, and any point made about a relative strength or weakness is in that context, and is not calling said strength or weakness a failing"?

     

    The last ~15 pages of this thread are an absolute beat down of a circular navel-gaze, on BOTH sides. 

     

    Texas is going to win, of course, but it's not like we're equating Washington with Baylor for gods sake (and they're not calling us Arizona)

  8. 7 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

    I remember Dodd Johnson at a camp when I was in high school telling everyone about how they shouldn’t dip but then following it with “but man it gets me focused and can see the ball so much better when I hit with a dip in”. 

    I played for Dodd for two seasons right before high school. Funniest dude I've ever spent time around, and was really the first time I started to realize that while I was a good baseball player, I did NOT have a future in the sport because those dudes are just different.

     

    We were chatting one day about a bunch of nothing while warming up. I asked Dodd "hey, what was your major when you were at UT?" He doesn't miss a beat and replied "pussy."

     

    He stayed in touch with several of the guys from that team well after we all quit playing. Truly a nice guy. God rest his soul. 

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  9. 20 minutes ago, Katfid54 said:

    Burke plays it perfectly (again).  He doesn’t run upfield.  He doesn’t crash on the snap.  He stays wide, forces the GIVE read, and then attacks straight down the line of scrimmage.  Sweat blows up his blocker to force McClellan back to the outside, and Burke is waiting there to make the tackle himself.

    As quasi-inebriated as I was by this point, I specifically remember seeing Burke play this one totally differently than the ones in the 1st half. God I love seeing it.

     

    Great breakdowns. Welcome back. 

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  10. Anybody have a list of the Horns currently on MLB rosters? I know I could get at this data, just curious if it's already compiled somehwere (only checked a page back in this thread).

     

    Kody Clemens. Elder rocking out with Atlanta. Belt continues to amaze with his career. Fun times.

  11. I forget the exact timeline, but watching Michael Vick get a full redemption timeline, including playing in Atlanta for a coach that found ways to scheme to his strengths, just made me more and more sad for VY and fucking furious at Jeff Fisher. That should have been Vince. And yes, 100%, that should have been Vince in Houston, where he would have become as synonymous with a franchise as Namath is to the Jets or Montana is to the 49ers. (I'm not saying Vince would have been Montana ... I'm saying he would have been a god in that city).

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  12. 14 hours ago, Steel Shank said:

    Also, do the moth balls really work to ward off snakes sneks?

    No, they don't. There is not a product that you can spread to keep snakes away. Full stop, period. Keeping the area around your house free of brush/debris, and free of rodents is how you keep snakes away.

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  13. 42 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    "free churro" episode of bojack is pretty emotional.

    To this day, I consider "The View from Halfway Down" the best half-hour of television I've ever watched, and you're damn right I cried. I know that's high praise, but I stand by it. I think it's made all the more impactful by the fact that you really have to have watched the entire series to that point for the full weight of that episode to land. The absurdity of the cartoon animal world, held up by the writers incredibly, sometimes painfully accurate portrayal of many, many societal and personal illnesses ... it's a hard show to get into, and i suspect that lots of folks have watched the first season, and probably have that "I tried but I couldn't get into it" vide from Bojack. And that's fine, I get it, and in lots of places the show is REALLY unapproachable. But holy fuck ... the last season just hits like a mack truck. 

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  14. 15 minutes ago, Modessit said:

    If you can sleep at all. It takes a while to get over the terror of "is the baby breathing?"

    Which is replaced with a new kind of terror when the kid first sleeps more than 3 hours. "Holy fuck it's WHAT time?" followed by the sprint to their room (to find them perfectly fine, and actually SLEEPING and oh holy god thank you for the rest)

  15. 1 hour ago, South Austin said:

    Sounds sappy, but I absolutely loved those 2am wake-up calls when it was my turn to feed the kids, sitting in their dark room while the world felt still and I’d stare with wonder at those little creatures. It’s not for everyone, but those are some of my favorite moments in my life.

    There isn't a big-enough all-caps font for me to use that captures the amount of THIS. Fucking THIS. 

    I'd hold my daughter in the crook of my left arm, and pat her butt until she went to sleep. I'd try and see how deep I could make the footprints in the carpet as I swayed, singing to her. For the first 3-4 months, she stayed in a room just off of the master (like an office space, attached to the master but with a door). I was able to be the baby retriever when it was time for mom to feed her, and the baby returner. Awesome balance for me and my wife, and amazing bonding time for my daughter (and my son, tbh - same setup). The time with those babies is irreplaceable, and it does my heart good to see all these great dads in this thread.

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