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  1. 50 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Arizona State is 3-1 (two cupcakes, big controversial win over Michigan State in the Spar_y Bowl, close loss to Colorado at home)

    Cal is 4-0 and ranked #15 (one cupcake, and then three good wins at Washington, vs North Texas and at Ole Miss)

    I was not impressed winning against North Texas by 6 points. Then again, I don't know North Texas at all, other than Houston plays up there tomorrow.

    Cal starts slow at home. Hopefully that changes tonight with good attendance.

  2. I block walked for Beto and Sri Kulkarni last year. I found it to be surprisingly rewarding, and I would like to do something similar next year.

    I see myself donating to a presidential candidate but otherwise directing my efforts down ballot. Sri is running again and a local TX House candidate is getting some buzz. There's a shockingly few number of TX House seats that need flipping (like 10?) in order to flip the whole chamber. That would be HUGE. 

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  3. 10 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

    Headed to Tucson (via Phoenix) with the boy on Friday.  It’s great knowing we may actually have a shot.  It was looking pretty hopeless through the first 3 and a half games of the season.

    It has to be reassuring going up against Sumlin again. Worked out well for you guys a couple years back.

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  4. WTF...

    1) Oregon - They haven't shat the bed yet. That loss a Auburn doesn't look that bad

    2) Washington - Back into form. Oct 19th will be fun.

    3) USC - They have proven their depth. Helton is the one holding the team back.

    4) Cal - Only undefeated team remaining west of Norman. Solid road win against the SEC SEC SEC!

    5) Utah - Still a favorite to win the south.

    6) Colorado - Another south contender. Still don't know how that loss against the flyboys happened.

    7) WSU - Even the best Leach teams had their annual WTF game, but man...

    8 ) ASU - Mediocre to good team. Will know more after their visit to Berkeley this Friday.

    9) UCLA - Huge win, but need to see more, starting next weekend in the Desert.

    10) Stanford - Are they bad or just middling? Either way, it's a first for David Shaw.

    11) Arizona - Off yesterday. They need to beat UCLA.

    12) OSU - I don't think this team is really the worst. They get Furd at home next weekend.

     

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  5. On 9/17/2019 at 7:30 PM, Sbbruin said:

    Cowherd spews a lot of unsubstantiated stuff sometimes, but interesting "source" info on Chip Kelly (about 11 min mark).  He's right, it's not about the winning, it's about everything else- disengaged recruiter, aloof with the media, aloof with the boosters.  Couple that with the shittiest performance in DI, and he may be wearing out his welcome fast.

     

    Of course it's about the winning (or lack thereof).

    Oregon fans and media tolerated all of Chip's personality quirks when the Ducks were winning P12 championships.

    He's wearing out his welcome because he's losing.

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  6. 6 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    He won a lot of games at Colorado dude.  What's your record since he left?   You had some success with that phony-baloney McCartney and that's pretty much it. 

    Slick Rick left each of his stops in a worse position than when he arrived. 

    He inherited the Colorado and Washington programs during the start of their downward trajectories and was unable to reverse the trends. It sucks to immediately follow McCartney at Colorado, so this is basically true by default. At Washington, he oversaw some good teams that were loaded with off-field problems. The program seemed to collapse when he left and sucked ass for six years.

    The lone exception might be UCLA. He left Mora some real talent to inherit, although he really squandered it during his time. 

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  7. 2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    Cal's defense and run game looked great last night, and I have been told that that's how you win football games.

    If the passing game would only play like they did in the second half with some consistency, then Cal could win 8+ games. An average all-around QB performance is all I'm asking for.

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  8. 1) WSU - Haven't played anyone with a pulse yet, but damn they look good doing it

    2) USC - Two solid wins to take the heat of Helton, for now

    3) Utah - Early favorites to win the south, until last night?

    4) Oregon - Nice rebound for what should be  a 9+ win team

    5) Colorado - Not sold yet but great comeback against The Corn

    6) Cal - Impressive upset in Seattle after a lousy first week

    7) Washington - Growing pains with a green QB

    8 ) Stanford - Probably better than this ranking but last night will leave a mark

    9) ASU - 2-0 but looks like a young team with some issues all-around

    10) OSU - Two respectable losses (Rainbows are tough on the Islands)

    11) Arizona - Sumlin can't field a defense worth a shit

    12) UCLA - Chip can't field an offense team worth a shit

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  9. I've worked peripherally in O&G for 5 years now, and there's too much about it that I don't get, but there are some recent trends I and others have observed that suggest that many of the characteristics people take for granted about the industry might be changing. Wall Street just isn't pumping money into it like it used to. That might be a lingering effect of the downturn, but I think some of it has to do with the arrival of renewables, which aren't going away. 

    When I joined my company in 2014 (chemical supplier), I was told the next annual meeting was going to be in St. Thomas. Then it was California. Then it was cancelled altogether. We finally got around to having one in San Antonio just last year. This year, it was in downtown Houston, but only for the sales force. The downturn is over and yet, here we are. The point is that the days of people lighting cigars with $100 bills isn't that far away in the rear view mirror, but people still seem to think they're up ahead. I don't think they are.

    The sky-high salaries are going to come down. Either that, or the number of folks making them will drop due to layoffs. Speaking of layoffs, they happen by the hundreds of thousands every decade or so anyway thanks to the boom and bust inherent with the industry. Many of the folks who get the axe never go back to O&G. People talk about a generation gap in the workforce, with lots of young people and folks approaching retirement, but nobody in between. That's because those people went elsewhere.

    Bottom line is I don't see the GND, in the likely watered-down form it will take, doing all that much to alter the natural trajectory of the industry, which is to become overall more hostile to its workforce.

     

  10. 3 hours ago, texifornia said:

    Their administration pretty openly sort of wishes the football team would go away. It's such a basketball school at heart.

     

    3 hours ago, mulletpelini said:

    It is quite amazing that football has never really been successful there especially when you consider how fucking many NC's they've won in other sports.

    A hostile admin, success in other sports, underachievement, fickle fan base... It's a California thing.

    At least UCLA went for broke when it hired Kelly. I'm not sold that he's a flame-out just yet, but the school should be able to go out and get another good name if he moves on. In contrast, the next flashy hire Cal makes will be the first.

     

  11. I'm not opposed to a few more candidates being let in through the back door in six weeks if they manage better poll numbers. IMO winnowing down to 10 candidates by Iowa is a realistic target while hitting that number five months early is going too fast. There are a lot of white dudes who are carbon copies of each other that need to go, but there are a few other candidates who might bring something compelling to the table that are currently on the outside looking in: Steyer, Gabbard, and Inslee if he had stuck around.

    At least this way gives us one debate with the anticipated Warren-Biden and Warren-Harris match-ups. I won't mind expanding to two nights in October as long as the Houston showdown tells us something new.

  12. 1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:

    Why do people have such strong negative feelings about Tulsi? It's weird

    I wouldn't describe what I feel antipathy as much as apathy. To say that her performance so far hasn't matched the hype would be a massive understatement. 

    She had the anti-war lane all to herself and completely squandered it, despite given chances to debate lightweights like Tim Ryan. There are plenty of anti-war democrats who would have given her a second thought, but she chose to appear in the wrong kind of media. With most of the Left digging Liz or Bernie, she chose to go after the male disaffected anti-establishment quasi-libertarian crowd. These people are an already small proportion of the population. LOL if she expected them ever to vote in a Democratic primary. 

    She has been strangely subdued in debates and at other public forums. Too often she also showed up in the wrong places. Go on Fox News and do a town hall, like Bernie. Don't go on fucking Tucker Carlson and rail against the DNC. She needed to talk to the voters. Instead, she was just another cable news talking head. As far a controversial candidates go, she was downright boring.

     

  13. Question for the M4A or bust folks.

    What happens when Congress sends a bill to the president's desk that doesn't go all the way? I can see vetoing one or two of them, but on the flip side I honestly can't see the Senate passing a legit M4A bill. This is especially true considering the Dem's path to control of that chamber involves the election and re-election of several moderates in 2020.

    At what point does Bernie sign a public option bill? How about Liz?

     

  14. 14 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

     

     


    lol Those two are probably reporters.

     

    I don't know whether to think this is good or bad.

    I'd rather see a room full of pissed off Iowans, throwing at him take-out from any of the district's ethnic restaurants, or rotting ears of corn that they are unable to sell.

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