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  1. I was just discussing this scenario today. Both of my kids went elsewhere after not being offered their majors in Austin. With their scholarships and Texas Tomorrow their college has costed me almost nothing out of pocket, but I still wanted them in Austin because it's what they wanted.

    I got a call from some student at UT probably doing her survice hours wanting to check-in on alumnae recently. I assume the call would end with her soliciting money. I had to cut her off as I was driving, but UT Austin has seen the last of my money oustside of a scalped football ticket. Hit up the out of state kid or foreigner in 20 years and see how it goes.



    Yeah. They go to Mississippi or Arkansas or OU.

    Again my opinion - UT is going to wake up one day and say “why is our alum giving down” and it’s because the parents are not happy their kids didn’t get in and the recent graduates don’t care about the things we do - namely sports.

    ... forgot to add “get off my lawn”

  2. Lol @ the ORD story. People may have seen something; it wasn't an alien. The distances are far too vast even if we're looking for each other. So these big eyed lizards are folding space time; get all the way here and go lol just kidding. I've seen ufos at night. They weren't aliens; just couldn't make it out.

  3. David Samson wants to fix MLB.  You might remember David Samson as the assclown lackey who was president of the Marlins only because his Jeff Loria was his father-in-law.  For some reason, Jayson Stark wrote a column about his ideas:

    Once in a game, and only in the ninth inning, a team could do what the Angels did in the scenario we sketched out earlier – send up its best player to hit in any situation if it’s trailing, even if that player had already hit in that inning.

    To DH or not DH? That would be a question decided by the home team every day before the game – in the AL and the NL. If it’s MadBum Night, the pitcher obviously hits. But if it’s a Wei-Yin Chen start (2 for 62, with 24 whiffs), what better time for an NL game to feature the DH?

    Or how about a Designated Fielder? Samson thinks that’s worth a try, too. Does your team have an Alcides Escobar kind of guy, whose bat doesn’t match his leatherwork? Or maybe a backup catcher who hits .153 but has a special rapport with your ace starter? Perfect candidates for a Designated Fielder – also the home team’s decision.

    A two-pickoff-throw limit – for any runner at any base? That’s another of Samson’s proposals. Would it speed up the game? Would it be likely to make baserunning a bigger part of the action every night? He would say: Yes and yes.

    If you hate the idea of minor-league games that put a runner on second base to start every extra inning, you’ll definitely need an antacid for Samson’s companion plan – to combat blowouts by allowing every team that gives up a crooked number in one half-inning to start the next half-inning with a runner on second. He’ll explain!

    And finally, he sees one more way baseball could mirror the other sports – with a nightly “halftime.” That would dictate shorter between-inning breaks to keep the flow moving, but also a 12-minute “halftime” in midgame that could be used for entertainment, pizza-stand runs, selling ad time, etc. You know that drill.

    What in the flying millenial fuck did I just read.
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