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  1. 1 hour ago, LosIllini said:

    I've purchased refurbed Yamaha and Denon receivers from accessories4less as well, with no issues.

    HDMI Control is the one thing that is a little bit flaky on both receivers (Turning all my devices on/ off and defaulting to the correct Video input at the same time- stereo receiver/ TV/ Sat receiver/ Roku, with one click from either the DirecTv or Roku remotes).

    Denon seems to work better w/ an older Samsung TV, than the Yamaha w/ a newer Samsung TV.  Assume that every mfg implements their own version of the control standard, which causes problems.

    You can USUALLY get around this by playing with HDMI control on/off settings on the devices.  Usually any flakiness is both device on a link thinking they're in charge of control (which should work but different version etc), and one of them gets confused.

  2. 42 minutes ago, markstanco said:
    45 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:
    Update: humblebragging the fuck out of my 1% neighborhood by taking a daytime pic. Strong flex, sir

    Looks like each lot is .4 acres. Not 1%

    And no trees. New build in LeanderPark Hill.

  3. I don’t have an actual opinion on the games yet, but I’ll handicap today...the above would just be a numerical play iffin 3 is about the right number in either/both games.

  4. Both conference championship games are currently dancing around close to free roll levels if you want to bet on them landing on exactly 3, GB on the 3-3.5 edge and KC on 2.5-3. If your outs are such that you can pay -115 or better betting both sides, either game is a play.

  5. 4 hours ago, HornPhD said:

    Young kids need to focus on ball-handing, passing, and shooting. 

    Make everything a game (e.g., race down the court and back while dribbling, zig zag around cones, team shooting from different spots). 

    Do a lot of 2 on 2 and 3 on 3, which maximizes touches while making it easy to pass and cut. 

    Sorry I didn’t see this thread sooner. I’m a run drills guy and have been for years. I now coach what is probably the best 12U team in Austin, and we drill so much that when we ran early last week and scrimmaged for 10 minutes...my long time kids were legitimately confused. Skeleton offense, I say when a cutter is open, so they have to watch the cut instead of going through the motions. 2 on 2 block to elbow rebounding. Stationary passing around the perimeter for defense rotation drills, man and ball at all times...make the passing as slow as you need to for kids to get in position and add speed and skip passes as they’re ready (they don’t be this year). You can do this for a long time b/c the offense is resting and it’s not zone. We start every practice and game warmup with layup lines then 3 man weave and in this drill there is always an outlet and we always rebound misses and take makes OOB...build good habits. If you’re hoping to score a coaching related half court bucket at the age you’re at now, a clever baseline inbounds is your best chance.

    I ran really specific set pass stuff at 9 and 10 years old, then went 5 out motion last year which we still run. At your age, just drill the hell out of fundamentals while making it as fun as possible.

    Broadly speaking, we work on improving skills and making good habits in practice and we only really play live basketball in games.

     

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  6. 11 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

    And again, the great irony of it all is that he was underrated and underappreciated for a chunk of his career (particularly his first several seasons with the Astros) because it predated the analytics era. In a sense, his pre-Cincinnati career is the perfect case study in exactly why advanced analytics result in more accurate valuations of players.

    (His final season in Houston, for example - in 1971 you would see that he hit .256 with 13 HR and 40 SB. Not bad, but not special. What nobody noticed back then was that he walked 13% of the time, so he had a .351 OBP. He played half his games in an extreme pitcher's park too, and adjusting for that painted a more accurate picture of his actual ability. By WAR, he was a consistent all-star level performer in Houston. But he was underappreciated by the Astros (and baseball in general) and they made the franchise-altering decision to trade him.)

    And even in his prime with the Reds, even with the 2 MVP awards, he was still underrated because nobody cared that he walked 100 times every year and had OBPs in the mid-.400s. 

    The analytics revolution revealed that he was not just a run-of-the-mill Hall-of-Famer, but an inner-circle HOFer. And yeah, his railing against sabermetrics was cringey in an anti-intellectualism kind of way.

    He wasn't the only one, but it's not a good look when your criticism of something reveals how little you actually understand what you're criticizing. 

    Yep, he was plainly uninformed at the time, he’s hilariously wrong as time goes on, and ironically...the stuff he hated cleanly explained how much better he was than previously thought. A perfect triple crown of stupidity...and he was emphatic enough about it that it will stick to his legacy forever.

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  7. 40 minutes ago, Bevo in VA said:

    I went with the Bears after it started to look like the Jax starting RB wasn't going to be able to go.  In my pool, picks closed before the Browns Covid news came out so we lost 7 from that game.  Thirteen of us left going in the final week.

    @Vic Mackey - who did you end up going with?

    Thankfully I did too. As a long suffering Chiefs fan, I decided Romeo couldn’t be my ride or die. We’re down to 2 now, and the other guy doesn’t have Ravens for next week.

     

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  8. The only two favorites next week that will for sure be more than a touchdown are Ravens and Colts (and they’ll both be upwards of two touchdowns), so there is huge value to having one of them left. So, I don’t think it’s too cute to save the Ravens unless you also have the Colts. I’ve been saving the Ravens for a month now since it started to look like they’d be the only big favorite with something to play for week 17, but I also haven’t used the Browns...so they’re my pick today.

    If your pool is likely to go the distance, then game theory wise you need to hit the two team parlay regardless...I’d rather Bears/Texans - Ravens than using the Ravens this week and being in a coinflippy situation next week.

  9. 2 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    If you watch is really that expensive why don't you have a private limo?  I guess when you're cool and drop a bunch of money on a watch, and then tell every one you meet how much it cost, rules don't apply to you.  If I was driving I would have dropped you somewhere you could have made an unplanned donation of your watch.

    Point of order, it was a really shitty car.

     

  10. On 12/6/2020 at 1:26 AM, ztejas said:

    Tangential but fits the thread. I've been driving Lyft and Uber a lot lately because I don't feel like getting a "real" job right now/yet/maybe ever. 

    I have done hundreds of rides and received almost as many ratings. I have received nothing other than 5 stars for every single rating except for one. One fucking person on Uber gave me a 1 star rating. I don't know why or who it was. 

    I don't REALLY care because (to the thread title) it is extremely trivial - but man I'd be lying if I said it didn't annoy me. It would probably annoy me less if I had a mix of ratings but I sit there and check my shit occasionally and it's still just that one God damn rating getting in the way of perfection.

    If you’re in Dallas and have an ultra strict no beverage policy, it was me a few weeks ago.

    Now, I’m cool with the policy if they feel like they need it. If I’m swilling a to go beer at 2:15 and you’re dropping me at Waffle House, stand firm. Rules are rules. If you’re picking me up outside a hotel at 8am for a morning of meetings, dressed in office attire, and wearing a watch that’s worth more than the car I’m about to get in...take a context clue and be flexible. Ultimately it’s up to the driver, but if I’m ditching this coffee and he’s a dick about it...that’s 1 star and part of his tip is replacing the coffee 11 minutes from now. Driver’s choice.

     

  11. On 12/14/2020 at 10:46 AM, SwanderedTalent said:

    when you're driving cautiously in a parking lot, manage to surprise a pedestrian who's not paying attention, and they give you a dirty look like you're driving like a maniac and almost ran them over

    because that makes me WANT to run them over but at that point I feel like I've missed my best chance and now you're talking about driving through the front door at HEB to catch them from behind

    and that seems like too much effort

    I had the reverse yesterday at HEB. Big truck unloading those jugs for the water machine causing a blind spot along the front. I see a big Lexus SUV driving towards it just a little bit faster than I’d be driving, so I was cautious as I popped around...had I not noticed it first and rounded the water truck like I pretty much normally would have, I’d have been hit hard enough to care.

    The lady gave me an embarrassed smile and wave. I was carry shit and in a mask so could only muster a squint and head nod.

     

  12. Atlanta ML +106

    Houston -1 1/2

    If Pittsburgh get to the full +3 I’ll take that but I don’t think it will.

    Will probably be on Ravens tomorrow night but I expect the number to move in my favor.

    Edit: BOL had a -1 -115 for the Texans so that’s what I officially took.

  13. 13 hours ago, Updawg said:

    You have prefix with tx- or whatever. It’s dumb as hell

    That wasn’t it for me...they just straight changed my account number.

    I figured out a workaround (if anybody cares). I went back to my latest statement email, clicked to view online, and it hit a landing page to “upgrade” that finally took my email address and let me set up a new account. So I got in. Now the bad news...

    Back is a car I sold this year, except it’s listed with its first set of plates instead of the ones that were on it. Back is an Explorer that I sold 12 years ago. Gone is my wife’s current car. My truck is correct and the weekend sportster I just bought (the reason I’ve been trying to log in for a month) it let me add but not including a make or model. I have two different days in November with dozens of charges on my truck...like I just drove it in circles for 10 hours and there is a couple hundred dollars of replenishment against card they have on file. It’s a clusterfuck.

    They must have gotten hacked and are scrambling to reassemble data, and given how well TxTag works in general...it’s going about how you’d expect.

  14. On 11/19/2020 at 3:28 PM, UTexasFight said:

    Lololololololololololol....19 days for the entire system to be down 

     

     

     

     

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    The website is back up.  Sorta.  My login credentials don't work, my email address isn't associated with an account, and since all of that is broken if I want to use my account number instead it must be 10 digits (mine isn't, leading zeros doesn't work).

    They somehow made the worst customer experience in my entire online life worse.

     

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  15. On 11/19/2020 at 9:48 AM, VolenteHawk said:

    Alright look here, Covid.  KU has to play all their scheduled games for this bet to pay instead of push, and there is a bunch of money at stake.  Stop fucking around.

    Texas game canceled.  This suuuuuuuuucks.

     

  16. 20 hours ago, BradInATX said:

    Any opinion on Acadia Denalis? Bout to pull the trigger on a kid hauler for the wife. She commutes 30miles per day so she wanted to stay smaller than the Tahoe/Burban/Armada group but still get 3 rows of seats. Of the Acadia, Atlas, Telluride, Ascent and Palisade only the Acadia had enough leg room in the front with car seats behind (she's 6 foot and I'm 6'3).

    Seems like a good vehicle. Any red flags or experiences?

    Also, if you're going new in Austin and don't mind driving out to Bastrop, I can refer you to a guy that won't feel like a car salesman.  Good dude, our kids play sports together.

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