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  1. On 3/3/2023 at 12:54 PM, DaysOff said:


    Get your shit back in at Delta. Scooter is a lying fuckface.

    No way I'm commuting to ATL when I can drive to IAH. Also it'd take 15 years to reach top 50% seniority at DL and at my age I'd never crack top 10%. Probably would never hold widebody captain. Especially at the rate DL gives their long haul flying to their JV partners.

  2. 47 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

    Point taken. Where you at these days?  You and I had a couple conversations years ago when you were just getting started. Hope all is well with you. 

    I have one trip left at Republic, then off to United next month. Had CJOs at AA, DL, and UA but decided on UA since it offers the best combination of bases and seniority.

    Always appreciated your help early on. Seems like a lifetime ago and also yesterday.

  3. On 2/5/2023 at 4:27 PM, Your Mom said:

    On the AUS ramp deal with Virgin…  I may be biased but SWA had no need to yield there. The ramp is wide enough Virgin has room and every right to go around them.   The SWA tug driver purposely stopped short enough to allow Virgin to pass around them. It happens daily and you just taxi around the guy.  That’s just how it works  

    I don’t think AUS quite needs a ramp control yet, but that’s just me. That big wide ramp has lots of room.  Nashville could use one though, it’s tight and congested there.  

    On the near miss today… holy shit. That was bad. FedEx pilots saved lives. Im guessing the SWA was a Max and didn’t have the full warm up time yet. Another reason to not to taxi out single engine if so.  Could’ve been something else though.  It’ can take 30 seconds or so to acknowledge your takeoff clearance, make the turn, and spool up to roll, but 50 seconds is a bit much with a guy 3 miles out.  I don’t know how low the vis was but that’s no time to have tight spacing.  

    This isn't true. The outer taxilane is wingspan restricted and VS is too large for it. Narrowbodies may be able to do it but no chance for a heavy.

  4. 11 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    No doubt, and I am not attacking you, or anyone who is a fan. But the club has had a huge advantage over the years. Now, yes, they do things correctly in regards to having a great organization, and it shows. But, what Napoleon said about the ability to stockpile young talent is also true.

    I remember when my godson's Karlsruhe team went to Barcelona for a game with their 12-year old team and the one kid Mikey played against was "the next Messi". According to my cousin's husband that is what they were all, even the Barcelona folks, saying about the kid. He wasn't the next Messi but, if you stockpile enough youngsters you may be correct, once every 10, or 15 years, and that is enough.

    That said, I'm not a fan of any English team because for me, and my family, until they free the Six Counties, they can right fuck off.

    I don't agree with that last statement you made. Since 1993 Montreal's last of its 23, or 24, Stanley Cup victories "new" teams have won a good number of Cups. Tampa Bay (3), Anaheim (1), Carolina (1), Since 1982 when the Devils became a thing they have won three, the Penguins were founded in 1967 and they have won five. The Avalanche, since they moved from Quebec, have won two.

    They all count. 

     

    All that being said, I do plan to watch the finals, it will be fun, and much like me watching Notre Dame v State Pen, I can hate on both teams. 🙃

    I don't have any animosity toward small-market teams or new teams (on the complete contrary). Tampa Bay, as an example, has done an excellent job of building that franchise up from basically nothing. They lean on their player development. So, too, did the Astros in 2017, with a couple of well-placed acquisitions. 

    It's not about big vs. small. When Leicester won the PL, it was one of the greatest stories in sports history. 

    The issue is when a team is just able to decide that they're a big team now simply because they can afford it. There was no growth. No perseverance. No overcoming long odds to win and earn their spot at the top. They literally just bought a championship contender out of thin air. None of City's titles are special because they had unlimited capital to invest in world-class players. Look at the other big clubs in England and see how many of their players are products of their academy. You can't remotely say the same thing for City.

    That's the distinction to me. At the end of the day, each of the successful clubs in England developed into a successful club. They didn't just become one overnight like City has. 

  5. 1 minute ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    And they undoubtedly have been one of the, if not the, richest teams in Spain.  I’m just saying old money is no different than new money in sports. That’s all.

    It's kind of the chicken or the egg argument to me. Now, undeniably, Madrid had considerable advantages domestically because of their association to the Crown. But it's perfectly understandable that previous success begets more money/opportunity, and it's off that early success that Madrid (indeed, all the major clubs in the world) has become a staple at the top of the footballing world. At some point Madrid had to start winning or they'd be no different than any of the other Real teams in Spain. And that success has created La Fabrica and the entire identity of the Club, not just top side team. Real Madrid is a sporting club, much like Barcelona. They compete in multiple sports domestically and across Europe.

    City was a mid-table/bottom tier side until Abu Dhabi bought them. Then almost overnight, they became one of the best teams in the world. That's nothing to be proud of, and it should be chastized, IMO. Their only identity was being "Noisy Neighbors" to United prior to Abu Dhabi's money.

  6. Asensio is doing work up top preventing City from locking it in the Madrid half. He's playing his heart out right now and has won Madrid the ball a couple of times in the second half of extra time when he was the only Blanco up there.

  7. Madrid also has an enormous, established academy and a solid handful of current players also came up from their reserve squad, including Casemiro, Vini, Rodrygo, Valverde, in addition to academy products Carvajal, Nacho, and Lucas Vasquez.

    As I said, all the major clubs are spending money. But City is the notable standout from buying their way to prosperity. All the other big clubs were already big before this era of spend.

  8. City has absolutely zero club identity outside of their money. They are trying to buy titles on a scale that sports has never seen before. Even if I weren't a Madrid fan, I could never support anything like that. I know all the major clubs everywhere are spending ridiculous amounts of money, but City were a literal nobody until Abu Dhabi came in. This isn't a team rising up through grit and hard work. They were bought.

    Fuck them. Hala Madrid!

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  9. 17 hours ago, Mac8111 said:

    Remember at the Alamo Bowl Tailgate where all those people were loading up all their little portable Webber’s with a full bag of charcoal and lighting on fire, causing a 4 ft flame and Shaggy had JM’s smoker on a trailer, cranking out world class Q.

     

    14 hours ago, SA-KC_Horn said:

    RIP John.

    That Alamo bowl tailgate was epic, which was the only time I've ever met him. On that cold ass day, his q was on-fucking-point. 

     

    4 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    I think he had some reserve he shared.  @blacklab was there that day but if I recall one of his youngsters was sick and puked. I may be confusing that with the time we cooked the steer.  

    This was my first exposure to John, and god damn was it a glorious one. I wasn't even hungry, and he slapped down an enormous beef rib on my plate and I just kinda walked around, not really knowing what to do with it. But holy shit was it something else.

    I made my way around to his 6th and Pedernales and Black Box spots. He's absolutely a BBQ legend, flaws and all. I've always said (and it seems like many here agree) that when he was on, he was the best in the business. He didn't have the consistency of some others in the area, but his highest was higher than theirs.

    Clearly he was a troubled man, and I hope he is finally at peace. 

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  10. On 1/2/2021 at 10:07 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

    Perhaps what I'm looking for doesn't exist, or perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree in thinking that there's some publicly accessible repository of weather data from ORD. Maybe I need to be focusing on some kind of almanac, or consulting a local library. 

    I can walk outside (or look out the window to see which way the planes are going) and figure out what direction the wind is currently coming from, but I'm trying to figure out what direction it most often comes from so that I can mount a birdhouse facing the opposite way. 

    I'm trying to attract kestrels (which I guess can be challenging - I'm kind of flying blind here, as I have a five year old who is super into raptors and I'm just along for the ride), and apparently one of kestrels' primary domicile selection criteria is to have the opening face away from the wind. But even so, they can be hard to attract. One of the books says that you should give a box three full summers to attract guests before deciding that it's a bad location and moving it, and I would like to minimize the likelihood that it might take several years to put tenants in the box. 

    The wind here is tremendously variable, thus my interest in finding actual data. 

    I think this is what you're looking for. They're called a wind rose. Also used in airport planning.

    https://www.isws.illinois.edu/statecli/Roses/wind_climatology.htm

    Specifically: https://www.isws.illinois.edu/statecli/Roses/ord_rose_13.pdf

    Winds look to average out of the W/SW predominantly. That jives with my experiences landing at ORD. I'd say putting  the birdhouses with them facing to the ENE would be a good bet.

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  11. 27 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    if we can shoot 35% plus from 3 and 70%+ from FT line we can win a lot of games.  I'm not sure what to do about the fouling.  Yes we need to be smarter but Shaka needs to work the shit out of the officials for our guys.

    Sims getting limited minutes is a good thing.

    If Kai Jones can keep improving Shaka may save his job.  I like Hamm he just needs to play a bit more under control.

     

    Hamm plays hard, but he's undersized to be a big man and he's too slow. He's always half a step late. I absolutely appreciate the work he puts in, but he's too easy to move around, especially with larger 4s and 5s. 

  12. Re Nate Silver pictogram, he follows up: "I'm not sure it's really sunk in yet, even among reporters, that we're probably going to get 2 runoffs in Georgia on Jan. 5 that will determine control of the Senate."
    Last two pics are run-off.  First two are something like bee-sea (busy).  
     
    Hive (I've) Sea (See) Knee. (n En) On-Off. (ough).

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  13. Here's the deal about the "military" ballots. First, they're not just military. They're military and overseas ballots. I think it's Maine that segregates them and this voting bloc actually tends to skew D. And the ones that have already come in have been counted. I believe I read they have until 5 PM tomorrow to get in, and that there are 8800 that *could* come in, but the likelihood of that many coming is practically zero. I suspect that's the delta between the requested and unreturned. Not predictive. Most who intended to return one will have done so long ago.

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