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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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)

  8. 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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  9. 4 minutes ago, demos said:


    I see lettuce. It qualifies.

    And honestly, pretty damn healthy. Good protein, I don't see rice or quinoa so should be low-carb, ain't nothing wrong with some hard boiled eggs and OG shredded cheddar. A-, would eat.

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  10. Who was it on the old site that used to do game breakdowns each like? The mini film study really helped guys like me who never played football beyond 7th grade. He'd use clips from a replay and make a few of them into gifs with lines drawn on them, and then explain what the key players were looking for, what the key concepts were, and why it worked or didn't work. And it was awesome because it wasn't all sunshine pumping - he'd show plays where the opposition just straight up beat our D, or where our O overcame a missed block or a blown assignment to still make a play. Really helped my understanding not just of that particular game, but of how our team fit together and what our coaches were doing.

     

    I'd happily contribute to a fund or a charity or something if someone were to take this back up.

  11. 9 minutes ago, Porterhouse said:

    I guess. I’m not sure with Casey, Card, our OL, and our terrible front 7 that 9-3 was ever a real possibility. We shit the bed last year because we were a very mediocre team, at best. Our lines and linebackers were unquestionably bottom 10% in P5. 

    When the announcers called out that Brockermeyer had just entered the game at MLB, and then he fails to scrape to the hole and watches the RB waltz through for a TD, it was just #chefskiss.

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