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Huckleberry

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  1. I mean those stupid fuckers like Trump
  2. A lot more family time as well for those of us with kids in school. Family walks every day. I know dogs wish they could make life like that all the time.
  3. It's happening all over but they'll stay united against "evil libs" no matter what. The CFISD board flip was assisted by the vice president choosing to run against the president for his seat instead of running for her own seat. Why? Because he wasn't hard right enough. The guy who was fired from his job for being racist at a school board meeting wasn't hard right enough for them. In that election she got 34%, he got 21%, sane guy who won got 45%.
  4. Completely understand. My youngest is a senior at Woods and I am planning to get out of Texas as of right now. These results are a pleasant surprise considering that early voting looked a lot like it always does (a bunch of old white people) at my location. I went on Friday afternoon to get the biggest sample I could. If I had to bet my life on it I would say this is temporary, of course, but still pleasant. Final vote totals were over 62k in these races. They were about 55k in 2023 so turnout was not depressed or anything. I'm assuming that isn't much more growth than population growth rate but haven't checked. Okay, just checked and based on dubious sources (AI search results) it was a 6% higher turnout relative to population than in 2023.
  5. Hahaha Bloomberg has suspicions that Trump has damaged the economy. Fucking cowards.
  6. Cypress will apparently flip the CFISD school board back to sanity. Book banning right wing "Christians" had a 6-1 majority and 3 trustee positions up for reelection. All 3 elections are being won easily by people with brains right now. If anyone wants some hopium then just consider that fucking Cypress just rejected the Christian nationalist takeover of education. Well at least the ones who voted. Between 47-48k votes.
  7. Right. Great person who preaches kindness and love to all but then rages on alphabet people. That is textbook self-loathing closeted behavior, regardless of how many heterosexual relationships they've had. My psychoanalysis being worth what you paid for it, of course.
  8. That friend is gay or at least confused by gay curious thoughts and/or dreams.
  9. Also a memorable game because Lee Corso was the color commentator in his first season at ESPN.
  10. 1987 Texas @ Arkansas
  11. He's frustrating to watch run. When he approaches a single open field tackler he immediately starts going to the ground in preparation for contact. No effort to avoid or run over the tackler. He immediately gives up on breaking the tackle in any way. I would like to believe it's psychologically related to the injury but he has done it to some extent since he's been here. Someone needs to remind him he's a badass and it's his job to break that tackle.
  12. As a thought exercise imagine a scenario where a team plays the top 12 (other) teams in the nation for their entire season schedule. Assume all games are decided by exactly a field goal. What should their record have to be to "deserve" to be in the 12-team playoff? Additionally, assume that whatever record you pick, their results match the rankings of the opponents. So if you say 9-3 that means they only lost to the #1, #2, and #3 teams and beat #4-12. If you were looking strictly at what power ratings would say and wanting the top 12 teams in the playoff you could make an argument that 2-10 is good enough. Because based on their results the only thing you can guess objectively is they are the #11 team in the nation. They only lost to #1-10 and they beat #11 and #12. Obviously that would feel absurd though. But I would absolutely argue for a 6-6 team with that schedule to get into the playoff.
  13. Correct, this is what it comes down to. A lot of people misunderstand what "not punishing a loss to a good non-conference opponent" means. If you're trying to figure out who should be #8-11 (assuming #12 is a G5 champion) in a 12-team playoff, what does a one score loss on the road at the undefeated #1 team in the nation really mean? It means jack shit, a #8-11 team should lose to the #1 team on the road, and if it's a one score game then that means they played like you'd expect a top 10 team to play. I mean I'll believe it when I see it but the loss column, which has always been the only thing that mattered in polls, shouldn't be the only thing that matters. If we finish 3-2 in top ten games and have only one subpar loss that is absolutely a top 11 résumé.
  14. No worries, only concerned that we must maintain our thread title accuracy in order to justifiably complain about our QB's accuracy.
  15. Week 10 just finished.
  16. In addition to what you'll read in the rest of the thread, I failed to emphasize in that post that they currently have 2 million subscribers, not 50. That was a hyperbolic best case scenario. They would of course get a lot more subscribers if nobody carried them anymore but probably not 50M. Even growing by 400% to 10M subscribers means adding current cost to lost revenue offset would require your ESPN app bill to be $110/month almost immediately after they become their own sole source.
  17. Right, and that's only replacing lost revenue. Once they have a captive market then the price hikes to satisfy shareholders really start. Current price plus the above is $55 per month for only ESPN. I don't see any way that if their plan works that they're not at least $100/month within 5 years of being app only. $200/month sounds insane but thinking it stays at 30 is even crazier.
  18. Right now ESPN gets about $10B per year from carriers. If they are no longer carried anywhere but their app and there are 50 million subscribers, take a wild guess at how much per year that would mean every subscriber has to pay.
  19. Right now Disney gets a shit ton of money from broadcast carriers based on their subscriber base. Once they effectively price out those carriers (which is their stated goal) so that the viewers have to use their app to see their content, where do you think that shit ton of money is going to come from in the future?
  20. Yes, you're right. Once the large corporation sole sources their content they will definitely always keep those prices where they are right now. We can explain it to you but we can't understand it for you.
  21. On the list of worst calls in college football history, this is the one I have the least issue with for some reason.
  22. Lower-tier P4 teams have to be thinking they'll take a retread if they're jumping in this year. I don't see any other logic. And there will be plenty available.
  23. Jon Wilner - OU #9, Vanderbilt #14, Texas #22 https://collegepolltracker.com/football/pollster/jon-wilner/2025/week-11
  24. That may be why he's unemployed because it's wrong. Any decent analytics team now reports on each decision based on net points EV, win probability, or some other end game result for the decision.
  25. Waiting to see who the last coach to bet his career on Jackson Arnold will be.
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