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  1. So am I reading this correctly (the KXAN article is poorly written) that APD's lead investigator on the case, who now works at the State AG's office, was a key witness called by the . . . defense? That seems a bit, um, unusual.
  2. Agree. But I think I’ve just resigned myself to the fact we will always suck at fielding under White. He recruits hitters and perhaps figures he can teach them to field. He can’t. (See Scott, Mia). It’s part of his MO. But the pitching is a real head scratcher to me given his background. Moving on, we need sweeps of ISU and Kansas before taking on OSU at home.
  3. sucks - I'm sure she wants so badly to take advantage of her limited opportunities. It's hard to be patient.
  4. I’d love to have Ou’s hitters of course, but I think our biggest weakness with this team is lack of an ace, or even a swing and miss pitcher for that matter. Followed by a tiny bullpen. White has a great eye for recruiting pretty good hitters. But our lack of recruiting and developing top pitchers has been surprising to me. I figured when he was hired that with his background they would be lining up.
  5. I think she’s a lesbian, but agree.
  6. The issue is OU, to my understanding, has focused almost all of its NIL efforts on football, softball, and gymnastics. So these 3 sports are very well funded. We have been all in on football (obviously), but many other sports as well, so have way more dilution.
  7. Speaking of reloading, I guess there was some controversy this week with White's comments (see ~47 sec mark): In the post game presser, he backed off these comments. I'm guessing he's talking about paying players/NIL? That's part of the game now, and OU has a made a commitment to it in its best sports, which makes sense.
  8. So pitching, hitting, and fielding. Got it. In all seriousness there’s really no potential for catching up to ou until Gasso retires. They are just that loaded.
  9. At a baseball game so I can’t watch. But other than the pitching and hitting, it looks like we are right there.
  10. Did that giant uncircumcised penis finally retire?
  11. We haven't beaten OU in Norman since 2014.
  12. Yep, definitely deja vu. Sucks having #1 and #3 in the country in your conference every year. I think we dropped 6 conference games last year too. 2 to OU, 3 to OSU, 1 to Baylor I recall (where we got annihilated and I basically wrote our season off at that point - lol). It kinda feels like rinse and repeat. Maybe we'll get really hot at the end of the year. I don't think we have the pitching to make a deep run though. We need a true ace.
  13. so, as we head into conference play, call your shot. Do we finish better than 3rd in the conference? Likely no (again) with OU and OSU being so strong as usual. Last year, we went 1-2 vs OU (home) and 0-3 vs OSU (away). Baylor also looks to be pretty good this year.
  14. since we are going off on tangents now, who was the dude that basically implied he had to kill his wife or some such shit because she socialized during the early days of the pandemic?
  15. Also, no one probably cares but me, but it looks like Bella is swinging away now instead of slapping. I don't know if she's just experimenting because she's done both in the past or the slapping was better for her healing wrist and she's back to full strength now. I know nothing about slapping - I'm a baseball guy.
  16. atwood with another dinger. 2-0 good girls.
  17. The researchers behind this latest study/analysis are the same ones as Proximal Origin. In their own words, they had been trying for weeks in Feb 2020 to disprove the lab theory.
  18. Sophia can look good for stretches and then she loses focus or tires and the wheels kinda fall off. So yeah, bullpen makes sense.
  19. I'm well familiar with the story and what happened. I just didn't care for the style or direction of the movie (e.g., cutting to a bubble bath to explain mortgage bonds). It felt aimed at the superhero movie crowd or WWE fans. Not my thing.
  20. It's not so much what any one bank does, in isolation, it's the incentives it creates (or distorts) for depositors. One obvious reason we have limited deposit insurance is the insurance fund is not big enough to backstop all deposits. But another critical reason is we want wealthy, non-Mom and Pops to have some skin in the game with the loans (deposits) they are making to banks. They have the sophistication and financial wherewithal to monitor bank risk taking and move their funds to safer/higher-quality institutions since they have risk of loss if things go south. This type of monitoring is one of three pillars the FDIC views as playing important roles in mitigating the moral hazard problem with deposit insurance. This moral hazard problem arises with any insurance, but it can be exacerbated by government distortions. When the government, via flood insurance, bails rich people out of their foolish decision to build houses right on the coast where there's - wait for it - lots of water that is bad for houses, it encourages more foolish decisions to build houses right on the coast. SVB was reportedly paying 5% plus on large uninsured deposits. We want the VCs and tech companies to pocket the gains from this but then socialize all their losses? Ok, but then you'll get more SVBs and flooded houses on the coast that we all pay for. Another approach is to let the uninsured depositors learn the tough lesson of making risky on-demand loans to liquidity-strained borrowers.
  21. I couldn't stand big short - never finished it.
  22. This movie is an all timer for me. The acting and dialogue are top notch. It shows you can make a compelling drama with people mostly sitting around a table talking. Much like “Conspiracy.” Can it really be possible that we don’t know where Eric Dale is?
  23. Tighter banking regulations will do little IMO. They still have to be enforced by humans, and past experience has shown we suck at this in banking.
  24. One argument: because it basically implies we are effectively moving to a fully insured deposit regime, not just for mom and pop, but every entity. And that exacerbates the moral hazard problems that seem to contribute to a banking crisis every 10-15 years.
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