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  1. Yes. Won’t have to worry about that next year. No tv!
  2. For popular games, poors are in the outfield. I bought general admission tickets because that's all you can buy online and I assumed it was general seating throughout most of the stadium as it has always been. Nope, all assigned seating and GA is technically in the outfield. But the usher told us it wouldn't be too crowded and we could probably just sit wherever, which we did. Parking is also now a shit show because all the nearby surface lots are gone due to new graduate student housing. Anyway, the whole thing has a very Steve Patterson feel to it. Agree on Simpson. One thing I liked was Czech was yelling encouragement to her from the dugout when she was struggling, which I thought was a nice touch. Czech seems like a great teammate.
  3. I went to the game tonight. No more general admission seating in the main bleachers. All assigned seats and they don't sell them at the box office. I guess it's all season tickets now, like in baseball. Total bullshit IMO. Anyway, I suck at evals, and it's early, and it's a bench-emptying game against Lamar, and I should know better from last year than to doubt White, but I don't exactly know what to make of this team. They did way better in Clearwater than I thought they would, particularly after last year. We have some talented Freshman. The leadoff (Goode) has a great swing and approach. She looks to be a pure hitter. Day had a nice HR. I have some concerns though. The pen is thin, and Simpson looks shaky to start the year. I'm also a little worried about lack of pop - I see lots of fast contact hitters. Day and Whitaker provide some pop, but the latter struggles mightily with decent pitching. Defense and baserunning are sure to be subpar - that's a White staple. I'm also a little worried about the lack of studdettes. Iakopo, Rhodes, Ellish. It doesn't seem we have players of that caliber on the roster. Of course, I could be wrong. We'll see.
  4. Drunk people stumbling off, falling in water, and drowning is actually more common that most people realize. This keeps happening on Rainey street (and not 6th street) because it's right on the water.
  5. Have you read the committee report? It's very detailed and well researched and concludes they were likely in blackface, which was very, very common for the time. Given the program and the newspaper accounts they cite, I would argue it's almost indisputable. But context matters. If you wanted to do an amateur variety show of skits and funny songs back then, at least part of it would have involved blackface, all across much of the US well into the 20th century. Minstrel shows were arguably one of the first true uniquely American artforms - an opera for the people if you will. It was so ingrained in the culture I doubt Sinclair et al. really thought much of it, nor did his audience. It's not like they said, "hey should we make this a normal variety show consistent with 2020 norms or the really racist one?" They likely just did what you did back in those days, on autopilot, much in the same way many of us played "smear the queer" on the playground without reflecting much on its label. But trying to tie the song itself to where it debuted - likely a coincidence of writing and timing - has always struck me as a bit silly, and it ignores the much more important role it has played historically as a positive and unifying force.
  6. I'm sure a vote put on by student government will really capture the pulse of the student body, particularly the sports-loving element. Dozens may participate.
  7. Going through major metros on the way to Wyoming seems like bad idea jeans. Kansas city is a bit too far south to go anyway. There are many different ways to cut around major cities and still hit decent sized towns to scavenge for gas.
  8. This was a great sketch and so true.
  9. Here's a vid with the actual ATC audio. What in the blue fuck was the controller thinking? Thank god for the pilots. That would have been the worst aviation accident in our (Austin) history.
  10. Well Pedro is Chilean, which is kinda mexican around here, so I'll allow it.
  11. Didn’t care for it. I thought the penultimate ending was rather silly, but the twist and “real” ending put it over the top as convoluted dogshit. What a waste of a great setting and cast.
  12. My favorite was "Tyler's bullshit." Legit LOL moment.
  13. It seems he's an insufferable asshole IRL, but I like and subscribe to his youtube channel(s). There's some great baseball content.
  14. I feel like I've forgotten at least 50% of what happened in this show, which is very different from my experience with GOT. It could just be me though.
  15. We've improved from being a terrible defense to an average one, and at times above average. So PK deserves some credit there. Our biggest playmaker weakness is obviously at edge rusher - no amount of coaching is going to fix that. LB is shaky too. I was at the game last night and could see the whole field. We do not play pass defense well at all. And it's not just talent. The writeup above about Lake handling the backend at Washington with PK being the front guy makes a ton of sense and might explain some of our issues. In zone, there's really poor (like no?) pattern matching. In man, we play soft bail so much, even in downs/distances that make no sense. There were several 3rd and longs last night where easy, pitch and catch comeback routes were wide open because our guys were so far off. A guy behind me must have read my mind and said "there's the comeback again for another easy completion." That's a scheme issue that directly contributes to us being unable to get off the field on money downs. Sadly though, PK and the defense aren't really the bigger problem right now. The offense is fucked, and has been for several games. Still, even if Sark unfucks the offense at some point, two seasons in, PK strikes me as the kind of guy that's gonna lose some close games for you. I just don't see him building the kind of defense you need to win the SEC.
  16. But culture, and new recruits, and some third thing.
  17. Terrible blocking. Terrible play calling. Terrible clock management. Continued stupid pre snap penalties. Shaky QB play. Etc etc. If the key to getting more than 45 rushing yards is having generational talent at rb, that’s no bueno, and really no plan at all. We just saw a preview of next year, and no super recruit freshman is going to come in and fix these issues magically. If you want to whistle past this graveyard and focus on one dudes shitty hands, ok. Whatever gets you through the night I guess. There’s a reason Sark is a .500 coach.
  18. Sark is who he is. He’s a nice guy and recruits well (for now) and will hang on for another few years. But we will never win anything of significance with him at the helm. Then it’s on to the next hire we fuck up.
  19. Lab leak seems to be the most likely possibility. It's become so toxically political at this point, but if true that also means the head of the NIAID - and the face of our response to the virus - was in part responsible for the research that led to this fuckup in the first place. That's just bonkers to me. If you wrote that into a movie script 10 years ago, the producers would make you take it out for being too on the nose.
  20. I enjoyed it. It was several orders of magnitude better than the usual shit they throw up on Netflix.
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