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Bateshorn

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  1. So this scene from Bull Durham, as much as it is played for comedy, is a actually a guide to how to handle the media: There's a reason why you hear so many athletes giving the same boring "110% , didn't get the breaks, faith in God" blah blah speech, that makes you tune out the interview after checking out Erin Andrews: It doesn't create media ripples. Angel Reese decided she wasn't interested in the traditional route to handling the media. She had thoughts, and she expressed them. For better and worse. Winning cures a lot of problems. Reese just found out that losing tends to make things unreasonably and exponentially worse. America is still an incredibly racist and sexist country. And if, as a celebrity, you elect to raise your profile in the media ecosystem, it's going to come with some very real, unfair, and scary consequences. That doesn't make it right, but Reese's post game speech didn't seek to tamp down on an already volatile and awful situation, it poured gasoline on the fire.
  2. I could never get into this series. Then or now. Batman:TAS, Bayman Beyond, and Justice League makes the quality of the Marvel animation look like it was drawn in preschool.
  3. That last quarter of the Michigan game was eye opening. If you give him a clean pocket and time, he's Mark Rypien and will tear you to shreds. If he has to do it on the go/underpressure, he's also Mark Rypien and his game falls apart pretty quick.
  4. As a 5'9" guy who was very unenthusiastic about fighting in my bar crawling hey day, can confirm that avoiding aggro little dudes is a very wise course of action.
  5. Prep seems to be the hardest part, from what my wife told me. I'm due. I have a bidet, so it can't be that bad, can it?
  6. Just get fucked.
  7. Lol. When it came out and the controversy about the nose occurred, all I could think about was Tropic Thunder: The Academy has gotten pretty good at sniffing out thinly veiled Oscar bait.
  8. Este. It was easily one of the horniest movies I've ever seen. Not sexy. Just horny. Either way, I'm totally glad I saw it.
  9. Rattler is a perfect 4th round pick. He might just pan out and become something special, because he's had to play in hero mode most of college, but if he doesn't, it's not that big a deal. A team that can afford to make him 3rd string and let him grip it and rip it a bit in preseason to see if it will pan is the ideal location.
  10. Brickskeller bit the bullet year’s ago. when I moved here in 97, on Friday and Saturday nights the cabs ran exclusively between Adam’s Morgan and Georgetown. You could get to the bar, but getting home was a nightmare.
  11. We all were, brother.
  12. I honestly don't know beyond internet rumor mongering as well, but his rise at Oregon coincides with the Willie Lyles era. All that seems positively archaic by today's standards.
  13. I haven't been on this thread in a hot minute. That Hawk>T Coast> Smith Point adventure was a fucking movie back in the day. I never cared that much for the Tune. The Shitty service and ass food didn't make up for the cheap ish drinks and it never had the dark, "let's make some poor life choices" atmosphere that the old school Hawk had. Fun fact: I used to live directly across the street from the rear of the Hawk. Ever since the Lounge died, the Hill just hasn't had a lot of quality get shitty drinking options (and it never had as much as other parts of town to begin with). For those that didn't hear, the man that ruled DC nightlife and pretty much sole handedly created H street died in 2020. https://dcist.com/story/20/08/24/joe-englert-dc-restaurant-bar-owner-obituary/
  14. I was always sort of under the impression he talked Knight into pushing Bellotti into AD/retirement so they could implement a pay to play system and let Kelly run wild with the spread attack. Anyway, UCLA definitely backing into the BIG1G rn.
  15. This. Given the deadmoney hit they just took and everything else, the Broncos are in full tank now mode.
  16. In the upper left corner of your browser, click on the "<-" or "Back" button. You'll be taken back to Daily Texan. From there you can navigate to a thread you give a fuck about.
  17. This has been rehashed a million times, but the Falcons have effectively given Cousin's a 2 year deal they can (relatively) affordably cut and walk away from in 2026. In effect, they've elected to try and bring in a veteran while they have their core rookies on value bargain deals and hope they can put a run together. The weakness in their division (the Panthers are quickly becoming the most poorly run franchise in the league, the Saints are grasping at straws with an aging core and Derek Carr, and the Bucs are meh) suggests that it's a pretty sound strategy, assuming Cousin's Achilles holds up. It's pricey, but a better option than hoping Desmond Ritter is going to stop being ass or that the 8 pick is going to net them a qb that will get them to the promised land while the core of the team is still cheap. This and the weird Steelers situation are just further examples of teams trying to figure out how to win with talented core's while not attaching themselves to a QB who is going to bankrupt the talent pool of the team. We are likely to see more, not less, creative QB solutions in the future.
  18. This movie had it's moments, but it doesn't hold a candle to Miami Vice.
  19. Jesus Christ, how am I the one asking where the gif of Pedo Bear at the bar from the Penn State bowl game? I wasn't even at the game. Y'all are slipping.
  20. This is an odd trade unless the Seahawks aren’t sure about Geno and would like to see if Howell can do something when he’s not running for his life. Backups don’t cost you a 3rd rounder.
  21. Because he’s about to be the most expensive RB in the league.
  22. This. we just need to start DST later in the spring. A lot of people do not realize how close to our monkey ancestors we are when it comes to daylight. Anyone who has lived through a multi day power outage, and starts going to bed at dark knows what I mean. Humans are not physically or mentally equipped to handle rapid time zone changes. And that’s functionally what we all just experienced.
  23. Jesus Christ, they sell heated socks and hand warmers at the Costco. This isn’t rocket surgery.
  24. In the least, Spring forward should go back to the beginning of April so it doesn't feel like flying across 3-4 time zones.
  25. A few years ago, the Senate approved a permanent move to DST by voice vote, but it never moved in the House. The bill was sponsored by the FL delegation, which as the eastern most southern state and a state that lives and dies off beach tourism, benefits the most from permanent DST. The problem is large swaths of the nation wouldn't see sunrises until well after 8 and sometimes 9 in the morning. WHich is why virtually every scientist recommends Standard, not DST as the year around time. While it's fun to have sunlight late in the evening, from a practical perspective as humans that evolved to wake with the sun and sleep with the night, we need more morning light, not less. It's why your dog is also so miserable: they have evolved to rise and sleep with us and it's very hard on them. Fun fact: in 2005, Congress extended DST by 4 weeks. For the last two ish decades it's started 3 weeks earlier in the spring and a week later in the fall. That's part of the reason it feels so damn severe for most of us: The diurnal shock is much more aggressive than it used to be, when it was mostly about getting an extra hour at the bar in the fall.
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