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Posts posted by VolenteHawk
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You’re probably good now. I only did a few lower temp cooks to break mine in, and it’s still fine...years in. I prefer stainless on grills in general, so I’m no help on the cast iron question.
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14 hours ago, Mountaineer Maniac said:
This is an unpopular opinion among West Virginia fans who turned JC into a god like figure, but I actually don’t think we’ll miss Carter and Dax as much as most people would like to think.
I agree with you on Dax but not Carter. That dude was a stud at both ends and was a perfect fit to Huggins style. He often talked about how soft the team was last year, and that was WITH Carter playing ~62 minutes a night. Take him off that “soft” team and Huggins murders at least 3 players.
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Had a discussion about Scorcese movies last night and stumbled into an unpopular opinion I hold...
I like The Departed better than Casino and Goodfellas.
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1 hour ago, pepper brooks said:
Yeah. That place. Holy shit. In an ass kickingg contest between their que and my digestive tract this is like ou- 77 aggy-0. Been nice knowing you assholes.
Is your digestive tract gonna dance for a meaningless stop after the BBQ has quit trying to hurt you?
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Meh, I don't like tomato juice. So while I love the theory behind a Bloody Mary, I've never done more than taste them when people assure me "OMG THIS ONE'S AWESOME".
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Fuck a remake, but Cusack is hosting a viewing with Q&A at Bass Concert Hall on Friday night, and I'm all in.
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I'll be the only person to possibly mention them, so let me tell you this story....
Lawrence, Kansas circa 1998. An up and coming hip hop group was coming to the Granada (for you Austin types...think La Zona Rosa). The DJ that was supposed to open was sick, so the Mercury rep called me in a panic to fill in for his set. The group was touring in support of their 2nd album, which I liked pretty well after loving their first album. They were mix of A Tribe Called Quest, Jurassic 5, maybe a little Fugees...live instruments, break dancing. Fun shows and pretty good music.
As a thank you, the Mercury rep and me hung out on the tour bus after the show where the front man could not stop talking about how much money the guy that wrote the music to Super Mario Brothers made. He was obviously ready to writes hits instead of good music, but I didn't know how that would go at the time.
That group was The Black Eyed Peas, and the front man was Will.I.Am. They soon after added Fergie and immediately started recording terrible fucking pop music.
But they've sold millions of records and played the Super Bowl, so joke's on me.
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At Troon North, Pinnacle is significantly better than Monument, in my opinion. I'll take heat for it, but I'd rather play either 18 at Grayhawk over Monument...felt a little bit tricked up to me. TPC Scottsdale is fine, but I didn't think it was great for the money, and we even played it right after the Waste Management (stands were still up including all the way around #16).
TPC Scottsdate will prove to you how good the pros are. It's pretty dang hard and they're routinely throwing 64s on it. Insane.
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Subcontious zone squeeze due to 4 consecutive mound visits?
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3 hours ago, dingleberryswitzer said:
1st anniversary? I keed, I keed.
I'm interested in this bloody mary. To me it lookslike you put a shrimp cocktail and bacon in it?
It’s a Bloody Mary bar. They give you a glass of vodka and ice, and you handle the rest buffet style.
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That's one of the few spots on the field that the pitcher should play defense for his damned self on a pop up.
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Cover 3 is pretty damn solid. The ribeye tacos are legitimately great (though like $23 so they should be), and you could make an argument they have the best wings in Austin even though they only have a couple flavors.
They'll also close during a World Series game, because it's closing time...which makes them not a sports bar even though they market themselves as one.
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20 minutes ago, Art Vandelay said:
I pretty much agree with all of this, but I think it's more Gen Xers like myself who grew up watching and admiring Jordan, and millenials and younger who currently love Lebron. Jordan's rookie season was 1984. I realize there's probably some overlap with older millenials though.
I’m Gen X, grew up with the shoes, and idolized Jordan.
I think LeBron is better at basketball.
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On 5/22/2018 at 11:24 AM, VolenteHawk said:
My son is 9 (first year of kid pitch) and has finally stopped having the insta-reaction to get out of the way. Stood in and took two like a GD man this weekend (one against a kid that threw pretty hard) and tried to turn into one other inside one.
I was bursting with pride.
Stood in there and took another hard fastball from a 10U AAA pitcher on Saturday, then refused to back down on Sunday and got hit again. #wearit
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Heading down this afternoon for a long fishing/golf weekend. Already looking forward to Cancun in the morning to fight back hangover #1 for the trip.
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On West Virginia, I actually think Konate is such a game-changing shot blocker that it might make sense for them to play a little less hectic defensive style. Not sure Huggins shares that opinion with me, though.
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1 hour ago, texasstrong12 said:
Kansas is going to be really reliant on the two FR (Grimes and Dotson) being good 3 point shooters. Kansas needed a player like Cremo just as much as Texas needed. Kansas is either going to be playing a different style of basketball or there's going to be some major struggles from 3.
I'm not saying Texas > Kansas, but I don't think Kansas has substantially better shooters than Texas will next year.
Oh, they'll play a substantially different style, because the strength of the team will be on the interior again, which it hasn't been in the last couple of years with POY level guards and playing 4 out, 1 in. That will also make the defense and rebounding better, so this will be a team that plays more like the way Self wants to play.
Still, you're not wrong about the shooting question marks. Jhawk is right that the style will yield more wide open perimeter shots, because the defense will want to play KU inside out, but we have no reliable, proven jump shooting at all. I think the most likely answer is a couple of guys figure it out enough (coupled with the style) to ensure that this is a very good team. I'm not yet ready to get on board with Jhawk on declaring them sure fire great. They lost too many pieces to confidently say that.
Self's track record is ridiculous, though.
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The 2011 team itself wouldn’t get through this schedule with 2-4 losses. That team played in a shit league (outside of Texas) and played a bad non-con...not just “bad for Self” actually bad.
This KU team could be a Final Four FAVORITE and lose 7 games. And with the youth and shooting question marks on the perimeter, while they’re likely to be damn good, Final Four favorite is a pretty high bar.
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1 hour ago, po elvis said:
Defendant could have easily put something on his penis to make it darker, couldn't he?
Easily. I beat off with some spray tanner once in a pinch, and it took weeks to get back to normal.
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3 hours ago, dcar00 said:
off topic but...to be honest they should be way more discriminating on calling breaking pitches strikes at younger ages. it really hurts both the batter and the pitcher. Any pitching coach will tell you that command of the fastball(4 seam) is the most important skill to learn. if they were walking guys because they can't control the curve they'd be less inclined to do it and work on locating the fastball.
When I was umpiring, I always had a smaller zone for breaking pitches. In hindsight, I think it was subconscious because I knew it was bad for the kid’s arms.
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That's the scariest thing about the new potential legislation. The people that are now in charge of writing new laws don't understand the difference between handle and hold, they just want their hands in the cookie jar, because OMG!!!BILLIONS!!!! And the leagues, after fighting this for 6 years, now need an "integrity fee", and they're cool.
Ultimately, it can be legal as hell, but if dime lines or better are hard to find my situation won't change...I'll still use a local and offshore.
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Out of pure circumstance, I ate at the Salt Lick by Dell Diamond for lunch on Saturday after kids baseball in the morning.
It actually wasn't terrible. I feel dirty.
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On 6/2/2018 at 9:46 AM, WJC88 said:
Why?
Self doesn't want him back. If KU wasn't so razor thin last year, he'd have been benched early and often. The depth issue is solved now (at least on paper).
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Vick will not be back at Kansas.
Are LG TVs any good?
in Can You Help Me With This?
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The side TVs in my game room are LGs (42"), and I've been happy with them. One of them is DirecTV and one Apple TV (mostly streaming ESPN, MLB, NFL), so absolutely no experience with WebOS.