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Bateshorn

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  1. Totally. The owners would love to see Davis sell to a well capitalized ownership group. That's based on an a forbes estimate from his wiki profile, and I don't know how much I entirely trust those. Sheila Hamp is a Ford Heiress. Davis' worth is the team. Dan Snyder was reported to be worth billions before he sold the team, but the NFL had to lend him money to buy out his partners.
  2. The Raiders are absolutely terrible, but they are also by far and away the poorest NFL franchise, in owner personal wealth terms. As a throwback to the old AFL, the Davis family made their money AS team owners. He's probably the only non-billionaire at the league meetings. It doesn't excuse their terrible decision making, but it does provide context for why they are consistently stupid in almost every aspect of the team's management. Because Al Davis literally talked his way into the Raiders organizational structure, acted as coach, scout, gm, etc during their AFL years, and leveraged that as a salaried employee into a minority stake, and eventually ownership, I suspect in addition to lack of resources, his son and current owner, Mark Davis is simply not able to separate the Football Team from the Family Business in a way that even Jerruh would find confusing.
  3. I read an interesting article about the Maui fire and the lessons they learned from it about house fire prevention from the few residences that survived: https://www1.wsrb.com/blog/wildfire-in-maui-what-can-we-learn Connecting wooden fences, composite roofs, and shrubbery around the base of your house is a bad idea in fire prone areas. Although when you are facing 100mph winds, I think it really just comes down to luck.
  4. It's going to be awesome when they trade up to #1 so they can get Travis Hunter.
  5. He's such a desperate, grasping attention whore.
  6. It's all fun and games until he's standing on the 50 yard line in November and the University is naming part of the Stadium or something after him. Which is clearly why he's back, now that UNC has definitively kicked him to the curb forever.
  7. This. AAU is about your ability to bring in big research dollars and members of the National Academy. Oregon nearly lost their AAU status a while back before Shoe Daddy dumped a bunch of money into the STM programs to lure federal dollars and top tier talent.
  8. Yeah, the Dems will need to be selective with the filibuster. He’s going to be calling for its end by this summer. I’ll wager Murkowski is a hard no, but after that? 🤷‍♂️
  9. I guess Tuberville never played San Diego State, huh?
  10. Yup. It’s easy pickings for Trump. I can’t decide whether he’d be willing to take on a much more complex operation for the Canal.
  11. Narrator: None of them. Somebody should see if they still have LBJ's shower assembly somewhere down in the White House basement.
  12. We are definitely going to invade Greenland. That’s as good as done.
  13. I guess technically for Congress and how it works, but that more or less is the same as outhouse maintenance.
  14. Also, brevity. Along with @Sydney Cartoon
  15. Since this site is nothing but @hitbyatrain socks, aren’t we just nominating ourselves?
  16. Yeah, Oregon struggled all season to get their defense adjusted to opponent. They almost always did, but it meant they rarely jumped out to a big early lead. That tendency really bit them in the ass when OSU couldn’t do anything wrong in the first quarter, and then it just snowballed from there. The Texas Defense is a bunch of pipe hitting MFers. tOSU is not the 2001 Hurricanes. For me, if Good Quinn Ewers shows up, the Horns have an excellent chance of winning this game.
  17. I had to basically give up beer, because I have gout (thanks, Mom!). Wife and I both started cutting back on hard liqour a few years ago, because we just couldn’t handle the next day. We’ve been fairly heavy wine people for years, but she’s on meds and has to cut back. So we are in Dry January. I feel better, but we go to bed fucking early.
  18. I think people that haven’t seen it make assumptions that it’s some simplistic War on Drugs movie. It’s also Villeneuve’s first big film, I’m not sure some film nerds have gone back to see it making the above assumption.
  19. I’m out. I’d rather watch Below Deck.
  20. I’m not sure Dryanuary is gonna happen at this rate.
  21. lol ewers can’t even place the ball correctly
  22. Sark, you dumbass: the clock is also your enemy here with an exhausted defense. You need to have run at least one running play, dipshit.
  23. Este. Uno is aging like fine wine. The combination of Villenueve’s visuals, with a stripped down (mostly by BDT) Sheridan script, nearly perfect cast, and that score make it an underrated classic. Dos is a solid cash grab that entertains just fine if you don’t ask too much of it.
  24. This. If anything there is a glut of Ph.Ds in this country. Why do you think so many are bouncing from post doc to post doc trying to find permanent work? The problem is you can’t work a domestic Ph.D or Computer Science M.S. 80 hours a week for 60k a year with the threat of revoking their visa if they complain.
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