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Beantown Express 2.0

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  1. Yeah, but now since all those Puerto Ricans have money they can afford to buy airline tickets to invade the United States and destroy our way of life. Vote Republican to save us from this Puerto Rican invasion- Fox News
  2. Sorry, but to an old dude like me, what the fuck does this mean? If I am not "getting it" then I am positive most of the target audience in AZ isn't either. It is amazing how bad both sides are at politics (except for Fetterman's folks as his stuff has been fantastic so far). I guess I have to add all the Republican fear ads that for someone reason work on people (with Fox News and others backing up their claims). At this point I have to vote for Greg Abbott here in TX or the brown people and Hunter Biden's dick are going to strangle me in my sleep. I will let you figure out which one is doing the strangling.
  3. I quite enjoyed the first episode and looking forward to the rest of the season. I am a big fan of the first 3 vampire books and first 3 Mayfair witches books. I thought all of those were really great but after those books Anne Rice kind of lost me.
  4. Texas-47 OU- 31 X and Bijan go for 274 yards I haven’t been to TX-OU since my freshman year of college. That’s all I got. Oh and fuck OU.
  5. I have a 16 year old son and I would argue his X Box is more addictive and harmful to him than weed would be. That being said he runs with a bunch of geeks so he doesn’t do drugs or alcohol like his old man did in High School.
  6. Not trying to be a dick and glad to hear your son is back on the right track but of the 40% that say they have used pot how many are messed up? I bet a bunch of those kids are good students and doing great in school and will head off to college and become doctors, lawyers and other professions that are part of a productive society. Those same 40% probably have used alcohol which is far more dangerous. I am not advocating for kids to smoke weed but it is not an addictive substance like heroin, coke or opioids. I grew up in Miami in the 1980’s and let’s just say I partook in my fair share of weed along with most if not all of my friends. I started using it in 7th grade and by the time I got to UT I was not interested in it anymore as I got it out of my system I guess. Once again, not advocating that kids use marijuana but you are giving a “reefer madness” vibe that I don’t think is quite true.
  7. Well, I used pot habitually when I was a child and I can tell you that……..um, never mind, I forgot what I was going to say so now I’m just gonna open a bag of these cheetos.
  8. The beginning of the decriminalization of marijuana? I don't know about everyone else but I am sick and tired of Biden constantly doing things that make sense and also has the backing of a majority of this country. Someone needs to stop the madness.
  9. Below is the worst deal ever made in sports history (for the NBA) and also the best deal ever made (for the 2 guys that owned the Spirts of St. Louis). The New York Times is reporting that the National Basketball Association has finally reached an agreement with Ozzie and Daniel Silna, two brothers who owned the Spirits of St. Louis, a former American Basketball Association franchise through which they had negotiated what became known as “the greatest sports deal of all time.” With help from their lawyer, Donald Schupak, the Silnas had, since 1976, received a portion of the NBA’s television rights fees which added up to an estimated $300 million. The NBA has long wanted to somehow end the Silnas sweet deal. And it looks like, with an upfront payment of a cool $500 million or so, the NBA will finally get its wish. The reason the NBA is acting on this now? The league's media rights deals expire after the 2015-16 season, and it does not want any of that money--expected to be the NBA's biggest payday yet--going the Silnas way. I wrote about the Silnas amazing story back in May 2011. The short version: The Silna brothers were, at the time, the owners of the St. Louis Spirits of the ABA when the NBA decided to absorb the rival league. During the merger, the NBA agreed to take on four of the ABA teams--the New York (then New Jersey and now Brooklyn) Nets, San Antonio Spurs, Indiana Pacers and Denver Nuggets. That left three ABA teams out of the mix. When the Virginia Squires folded, the ABA and NBA had just two teams left to deal with: The Kentucky Colonels and the Spirits. The ABA offered the franchises $3 million each to fold. John Y. Brown, owner of the Colonels, took the deal. (Then the president and majority owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Brown would go on to become the governor of Kentucky.) The Silnas and Schupak turned that offer down. Instead, they negotiated their own deal. ABA officials, wanting to tidy up the merger, agreed to the following: the Silnas would be paid for any Spirits players drafted by NBA teams, an amount that came to roughly $2.2 million. On top of that, the Silnas would also get a 1/7th share of each of the four former ABA teams’ NBA “visual media” rights (which amounted to 57% of one full share). Here’s the kicker: By the parameters of the deal, they would receive that share of the NBA’s television revenue in perpetuity which worked out to roughly $300 million, quite a deal for two owners of a team that hasn’t existed for nearly four decades. As I reported in my 2011 story, some of the Silnas money was lost in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme. The New York Times reports that the agreement with the NBA came because of Daniel Silna’s growing reluctance to keep fighting the league. With an estimated $800 million haul from the deal, Daniel (69) and Ozzie (80) Silna will always be part of basketball lore, for striking the deal that will go down as the best ever in sports business history.
  10. If we are #9 in offense with Card starting all these games I am guessing we would easily be Top 5 with Ewers in there all year.
  11. For whatever reason, to me, the funniest scene is still from season 1 with Nandor speaking to the city council. "greetings mortals"
  12. Shit. I have been doing that for the past 10 years. It's the American Way. "Lisa, if you don’t like your job, you don’t go on strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.”- Homer J Simpson
  13. Strange. I would think you go to A&M and then have a mental breakdown from having to live in that shit hole.
  14. Judge will win MVP but I think it should be Ohtani. Judge is having a great year (one of the best offensive seasons ever actually) but what Ohtani does is mind blowing. The dude is an ace pitcher and oh by the way an all star level hitter in your line up. He has 15 wins on the Angels which would equate to a 20-25 game winner on a division leading team. Dude is a unicorn like the league hasn’t seen since Babe Ruth.
  15. Guy at the liquor store convinced me to buy a bottle of this today. Old Soul Tintype 119 proof. Anybody tried it? I hope its not total garbage.
  16. I also rode out Andrew and the sounds of the winds during that storm were quite frightening when you are boarded up in a house with no way of looking outside. My brother lives on Sand Key (Clearwater Beach) and decided to stay. Hope he was right.
  17. I am kind of confused on the timeline going on in this show. Sauron at some point gives the rings to elves/men/dwarves and they don’t realize he made the one ring to control them all. This would mean Sauron wasn’t viewed as an evil villain yet, right? So at the beginning of this show, Galadriel and the rest are hunting Sauron and the world knows him as evil but the rings haven’t even been made yet. Am I missing something? (I am a dumbass so I am sure this is obvious and I am just missing what is really happening time wise).
  18. The kicker part is what kills me. I swear any team we play could have a kicker that has missed his last 12 attempts in a row prior to playing us and that fucker will drill a 60 yarder with room to spare. It is quite annoying.
  19. I am assuming Ewers is back. Texas-45 Cousin Fuckers- 31 RB room goes for 160 yards. (Ewers throws for 400 plus with 4 TD's) If Card is starting then I really don't care what the score is because I will not be watching and drunk in a ditch somewhere.
  20. You forgot the most important part of the pitch. "So, how does this movie begin?" "Well, we definitely need the Fabulous Freebirds wrestling at MSG to really set the mood".
  21. This is why you are not a highly paid Defensive coordinator. Apparently it is better to rush 3 and drop 8 and tell those 8 to run around in circles and make sure they don’t go near anybody with a Texas Tech uniform on until the pass is completed.
  22. A lot of those plays were in the first half starting with the first two drives where the defense couldn’t get off the field. The offense had nothing to do with that. Not saying the offense didn’t hurt them some at the end but the D sucked from the second they got of the bus today.
  23. So in your analogy the dog shit is our football program, right?
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