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Chuckie Finster

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  1. 5 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

    We might still get a WC berth with four guys under .200 all year, but only if all five starters stay healthy and none of those four hitters is Springer, Correa, Reddick or Gurriel. I wouldn't want to find out. 

    Welcome to 2005!

  2. 41 minutes ago, Mack Tripper said:

    Woj reporting Luc could be back in second round.

    Kind of... he just said "likely to miss the first round."  That doesn't necessarily say that's all he will miss.  Although it is certainly better than an "out for the year" announcement.

  3. 2 hours ago, Guest ¡Pinche Pendejos! said:

    Fuck Dumb'toni

    Who was he supposed to play last night?  You saw the scrub lineup at the end, right?  The one with Ariza still in there?  Yeah, that would have been Luc had he not been injured.

    Newsflash: Even if D'Antoni rested everyone but his last 5 bench players, Luc would have still played.. and probably more than normal.  If D'Antoni decided to rest Luc and Ariza or Green got injured instead, all of the idiot Houston sports fans would be blaming D'Antoni for resting him.  

    I support resting players, and it would be one thing if Harden or Paul went down in the 4th quarter last night.  But there's no realistic scenario in today's NBA where your 6th or 7th best player isn't playing in the 2nd quarter.  Blaming the coach is an incredible lazy take.

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  4. 23 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    If he tried to fire Mueller, I think plenty of highly-interested people will be voting come November. 

    And Hillary won’t be on the ballot. 

    I do think that those of us who spend a lot of time in here tend to forget just how uninformed the general public is about politics.  Most of the storylines coming out of the administration, while simple to those of us that keep up with this every day, are just too complicated and/or uninteresting for a lot of folks out there.  I'd be willing to bet that less than 30% of average Americans could even name the guy in charge of investigating Trump.

    But "he fired the guy investigating him"?  That's a data point simple enough to stick.

     

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  5. Or maybe Mueller just found out about other criminal activity by Cohen and passed it on to the relevant authorities. Why does it have to be one or the other?

    Why not both?

     

    I do appreciate that Anastasis has finally dropped the charade of pretending to see things from both sides and fully embraced his inner-Swam over the past few months.

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  6. 9 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    It would be really nice if he would just have an aneurysm or a stroke or something.  Not die, just can't serve.

    I'd much prefer stroked out Donny to lead our country than the current blob taking up space in the Oval Office.

  7. On 4/3/2018 at 7:48 PM, Robin Masters said:

    Absolutely. And I'd love to hear, is it just me or are others noticing a decline in the number of what they consider "great" movies?
    Looking at just the best picture nominees my greatness count peaked in the 1990s. Decline began in the 2000's and really dropped the last 8 years. Going back further 80s were less than the 90s, 70s more than the 80's, 60s and 50s down but still more than the 2000s. I'm 47, so the peak for me happened in my late 20s to early 30s. Is it my age?

    If I'm channel surfing I'm gonna stop and watch Road House, Smokey and the Bandit, etc. every time. But they're not GREAT movies. (Point Break is though) Revenent to me, meh. It's sooo beautiful, incredible cinematography, shot with available light, but the story, meh. Same with Mad Max. Visually engaging, but overall ehhh.

    Wolf of Wall Street, meh. The first time Scorsese did this movie, Goodfellas, it made my great list. Even the 2nd time he did it, Casino, is close. But, now it's just formulaic as hell. Yeah I'm gonna stop surfing and watch it, titties and some great lines but not great level movie. And this is why I wonder if it's me getting old. If you're younger and haven't seen Goodfellas and Casino, then Wolf might be great.

     

    You're not the first person to have this observation, and you won't be the last.  "Why do movies/TV/fashion/kids suck so much these days?" is a question that aging people have asked for centuries and will continue to ask until the end of time.  

    There's nothing unique about the current state of movies, and this exact post will be replicated in 20 years by someone else... except the "great" list will be replaced with recently released titles that you scoff at currently.  Life, man.

  8. Just now, washparkhorn said:

    My last soapbox statement: the public craves facts. 

    In all honesty, I am not sure this is the case anymore.  And I think that is the scariest realization I have had over the past few years.

    From what I see on social media, people crave two things: 1) their "team" winning and 2) reinforcement of previously held beliefs.  Facts are, at least in my opinion, a distant third to those two.

  9. 2 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    This is trouble.  They’ll go in, speak of absolution, and remind every god fearing man in the country that despite his faults, it is their duty to support trump. They tried with Moore and it almost worked.  

    "He said he didn't do it and we believe him.  It's so nice to have a true Christian in the Oval Office now.  We still fully support him and his administration."  

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  10. 4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    Nope. I think the house flips in 2018. They send articles of impeachment to senate. He skates because GOP senate. No matter what the facts and evidence show, he skates.

    And despite the fact that everyone knows that Trump is unfit to lead, and despite whatever evidence Mueller brings that will almost certainly result in a valid reason for impeachment, every GOP-led House going forward will use this impeachment as precedent to impeach any Democrat president.  Pretty excited for the future.  

  11. 8 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    He basically claims that Hamm knows what he's doing and he's not the rube we all think he is. I remain dismissive of that as an absolute, but it's clear Hamm understands what he's doing in many ways. 

    More extreme than this is that Liucci is apparently very lucid about his aggieness when he's comparing notes and tries to deflect a bias. The problem for both of these guys, IMO, is that it is clear they're both fanboys and they can't help themselves. 

    I've had an off-the-record conversation with Hamm where he basically admits as much.  "The goal is to sell subscriptions to Aggies, not Longhorns" I believe was the quote he used.  That being said, I think he suffers from the same aggy illness that befalls most of his subscribers and quite enjoys being able to let his freak flag fly on his site.

  12. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

     

    It appears that Herman is finding a groove and an identity for how he wants to recruit at Texas, and it's a pretty good moat against negative recruiting and pitches from other programs. He's doing a few things that are really important:

    1. Identifying players that they absolutely do not want and playing a role in directing them elsewhere. Others do this, but he's doing it as a fired volley in order to actually pursue similar players that UT covets.
    2. Identifying players that are the highest priority and building a full pitch to each of them in a bespoke manner, based on legitimate personal research. Some of the analysts get this started on freshman and sophomore players. It's one thing to talk up Austin or tradition or show hot girls on campus, it's another to introduce players to professors from fields in which they've expressed interest, to put together a suite of high quality unique graphics, or show film of specific opportunities/issues with current talent and juxtapose/compare that to the recruit's role in the same situation.
    3. Going with the "I don't have a game" approach, which is the greatest game to play. Offering up total transparency around where recruits would fit on the depth chart is one thing, telling them where they fit on the recruiting board when they're not number 1 is another. Involving the parents and walking everyone through statistics about percentage of players who make the NFL vs. enter the work force, and then comparing that to other schools and average salaries, etc. Showing them that Billy Sims has been homeless in the not too distant past and that Earl Campbell still gets paid a salary is quite a contrast. 

    With Saban and Swinney around, he's not unique in being thorough, but it is a difference compared to other staffs directly east in BCS and Baton Rouge. 

    It also helps to establish relationships with trainers, 7x7 crews, uncles, etc., given that this is college football at this point. 

     

    I really, really hope Herman can get this thing turned around on the field, because it's obvious (at least at this point) that he is damn near perfect for this job off of it.

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