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  1. 33 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Turned the game off mid third quarter. I wasn’t entertained by it and I wasn’t enjoying it. Turned a movie on and would glance at the score every 5 or 10 minutes. Don’t feel at all disappointed that I missed the comeback- could have turned it back on at any score check and kept choosing not to. 
     

    had planned to take my boys to the vandy game but scrapped that because tix are $200 for upper deck, plus fees. 
     

    the circus half of bread and circuses isn’t holding my attention any longer. 

    Doubt I’ll see another game in person unless I get free tickets or at the behest of one of my kids. Prices are obscene, people are dicks, and the commercial breaks are downright ludicrous 

    now get off my lawn

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  2. 9 minutes ago, MartyWills said:

    Why?  Because we went back to back weeks in OT against the bottom feeders of the conferences?   
    I’m elated!  Im ecstatic for the win.  I’m also realistic.  This isn’t the Texas standard. I’ll forgive and forget but he has a lot of work to do for a while to get me to trust again. 

    Wat

  3. 21 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    It’s absolutely implausible to argue that its existence benefited anyone save counterfeit bag manufacturers and unauthorized immigrants

    You don’t have a wife or teenage daughters obviously 

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  4. 16 hours ago, bolverk said:

    I don't understand how my getting curbside at Whataburger and taking a photo of the rain while parked and waiting became a bitch session about curbside at HEB, but I guess Surly is gonna Surly.

    1. Remember where you are

     

    2. Why not use the drive through since it’s raining dick? (See 1.)

  5. On 10/9/2025 at 8:50 AM, The Dog said:
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    Baker Mayfield ranks fourth in the NFL in passing yards. He’s third in passing touchdowns and he’s tied for sixth in Expected Points Added per Dropback, according to TruMedia. He is thriving in late-game situations, which was once an enormous knock against him, and he has enjoyed a complete career renaissance since leaving Cleveland and landing in Tampa Bay. He has the Buccaneers atop the NFC South and is now widely considered one of the early favorites for the league’s Most Valuable Player award. 

    I hesitate to mention Mayfield and Cleveland because of the vitriolic emotion it brings out of Browns fans. There is a lot of revisionist history tied to the Mayfield saga these days in Northeast Ohio. 

    Nevertheless, it’s worth mentioning Mayfield within the context of the current Browns quarterback room because there are only two reasons I can find for why Shedeur Sanders is still on this team.

    Either the owner is requiring it or there is a fear held by someone in the building that Sanders will develop elsewhere and turn into this franchise’s next Mayfield horror story. There really is no other explanation at this point, and neither is a strong enough reason to keep him around. 

    Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has proved time and again that he cannot trust himself to make football decisions, and the odds of Sanders developing into that rare fifth-round quarterback in NFL history to have any career of substance (Mark Brunell? Steve Grogan?) are slim. It’s time for the Browns and Sanders to part ways. The sooner the better, and certainly before next month’s trade deadline. 

    I’m tired of writing about and mentioning Sanders, a player who hasn’t taken a meaningful snap since Aug. 23. I thought it was outrageous we’re into October and still wasting so much time discussing the third-string quarterback of any NFL team. But now that the Browns have traded Joe Flacco, their former starter and team captain, another Sanders conversation is at least warranted this time because he should theoretically move up and become the backup behind rookie Dillon Gabriel. 

    The Flacco trade took me by surprise because I thought they saw value in him being there as a veteran presence. So it wasn’t all that surprising when Browns coach Kevin Stefanski went out of his way Wednesday to say without saying that Bailey Zappe will likely be promoted from the Browns’ practice squad to be the backup quarterback beginning this week at the Pittsburgh Steelers. 

    Since they already had three quarterbacks on the active roster, the only reason to even carry Zappe on the practice squad was to move him ahead of Sanders in the event there was an opening at backup quarterback. Now there is. 

    “I always have to be mindful of our players, and our players’ development, and I want to make sure that I’m always doing what’s best for our players and, of course, our team,” Stefanski said when asked if Sanders will be the backup. “But with young players … you have to think long and hard about that, because these are young players that you’re so invested in their development. So I’ll let the week play out and make a decision later on.”

    That hardly screams anything close to Sanders becoming the backup. 

    The Browns are adrenaline junkies who thrive on car crashes. They have been driving without brakes and seat belts for generations. From Jeff Garcia’s Playboy playmate girlfriend’s bar fight to the Johnny Manziel disaster, from Odell Beckham Jr. begging opponents during games to come rescue him from Cleveland to the Deshaun Watson debacle, the Browns have more tire fires than Goodyear. Now it’s Sanders and all the unwanted attention on their third-string quarterback. 

    At what point is it enough? At what point will the Browns grow up enough to leave the kids’ table and sit with the other adults? 

    The Browns deserve no benefit of the doubt when it comes to evaluating quarterbacks. Gabriel represents the 41st starter they’ve had since 1999, a grotesque figure that is worthy of constant heckling. That number is likely to grow by at least one more next year since they have two picks in the first round.

    But this isn’t just one inept team saying Sanders isn’t ready. It’s easy to find people around the league, and within the Browns, who will tell you Sanders isn’t a good NFL quarterback right now. What you’ll struggle to find is a team that believes he is ready to help them win games right now. If one existed, Sanders wouldn’t have fallen to the fifth round.

    Sanders’ legion of fans would rather believe it’s the incompetent team he is with and not the idea that he just might not be a very good NFL quarterback. Given Cleveland’s history, the skepticism is warranted. 

    But if Bailey Zappe — Bailey Zappe! — is more trustworthy to a team that has spent 25 years searching for competent quarterback play, then what are we really doing here? 

    Cut Sanders, just as the Philadelphia Eagles did with sixth-round quarterback Kyle McCord and countless other teams do every year with countless other late-round rookie quarterbacks, and end this silly madness. McCord returned to Philadelphia on the practice squad. The Browns are protecting Sanders on their 53-man roster so another team can’t pluck him off their practice squad, yet they’re about to promote Zappe from the practice squad ahead of him. When else has that ever happened?

    Stefanski is constantly peppered with questions about the third-string quarterback. Gabriel, whom the Browns spent a third-round pick on and whom they actually like, is constantly badgered with questions about his backup. 

    Stop forcing Gabriel into this untenable position where every word out of his mouth is judged as to whether it’s a shot at Shedeur. Stop forcing the head coach to field questions about the third-string quarterback every week. Just stop. 

    If the Browns could get fifth-round picks for both Kenny Pickett and Flacco, they ought to be able to recoup the fifth they spent on Sanders last spring. I had one member of the organization tell me a few weeks ago that they should’ve traded him for a draft pick immediately after his preseason showing against the Carolina Panthers. We already know the Ravens and Eagles were ready to take him in the fifth round. Maybe the Ravens will still want him. Is it a risk trading him within the division? Of course. But at this point, it feels like a risk keeping him in the building. 

    Cut him. Trade him. Whatever. Let him become someone else’s daily topic of conversation. At 1-4, the Browns have enough problems. Clearly, he isn’t viewed as one of the solutions.

     

    I'm not reading this drivel, and Sanders is an entitled prick, but this stupid fucking reporter can find 20 pertinent topics for articles of why the Browns suck and will suck for the foreseeable future before getting to the rookie backup QB. Fuck you for giving that topic any oxygen you no talent hack

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  6. 3 hours ago, bolverk said:

     

     

    Who the hell complains about curbside? And why? That app is the best way to get your order both correct and on time, not to mention the rewards.

    I like to pick out my own meat (that’s what she - or he - said) and produce 

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  7. 10 minutes ago, Lamar said:

    Great points.  Ill bow out of discussion.  We should just do the level-headed thing instead.  Boycott Christmas.

    You seem new around here so I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt that you are arguing in good faith.
     

    let’s forget for a moment the idea that one duty of a free society is to care for its most vulnerable, and government is the instrument through which a society acts, because you may not disagree with one or both premises.
     

    If you completely eliminated all federal Medicaid and Snap spending you would save about 640B per year. Sounds like a lot right? It’s 10% of the budget.  Not peanuts but really not much in the grand scheme. 

    Now realize simply allowing the Trump tax cuts to expire would have added at least 400B to revenues. Take it back to pre W levels it would be more like 600B

    So right there you almost have a wash. Even assuming you think we have no duty to help those people who have made terrible life choices such as being born into single parent households, it’s not costing much in terms of additional debt to throw them a few crumbs  

     

    But now look at what cutting SNAP and Medicaid entirely does to the broader economy

     

    Due to multipliers, that loss of 680B translates into a conservative estimate of a loss of 2-3% to GDP in the first year

     

    Doesn’t seem like much until you think of how it actually plays out. Job losses and business closures will be mostly in the healthcare sector, and they will disproportionately affect people who live outside dense metropolitan areas. And of course it will also affect food producers. Now the powers that be aren’t cutting 100%. Yet. But they are cutting enough, along with ending ACA subsidies, that there will be a large ripple effect  

     

    But I guess if you’re a “me and mine” type, and you have 100% employer funded health insurance, and  if you don’t derive your livelihood from the above industries or the industries that support them (retail, finance, housing, service industry, etc) and if you live in or near a big city (assuming you can stand being in one of those likely commie infested areas), you probably won’t feel much pain.  Probably.

     

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  8. 18 minutes ago, Lamar said:

    Not everyone should have disposable income.  Many people should not.   Should work like a bankruptcy case.  If you want to take taxpayer money from Government (loan payoffs, welfare, etc...), disclose to the government your financial situation.  A trustee/receiver should approve all of your spending requests until you no longer need government $$.  No more Starbucks, alcohol, cigarettes, entertainment, hair dos, etc....

    Fuck all that, the administrative cost would be ridiculous. Just bring back debtors’ prisons and workhouses. We’re already bringing back child labor 

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  9. 16 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    I remember being a poor college kid and that being my life.   Going out meant knowing where the cheapest happy hour drinks were and making sure it was a Mexican place so the chips and salsa were free.  And only doing that maybe 2-3 times a month.   Never going on Spring Break during the 5 years I was in school because I couldn't afford it and would work the extra hours that week because I was off from school.   Picking up holiday shifts and working Christmas, Thanksgiving and NY's day because they paid time and half.   

    Jalisco’s was money

     

    Was it the Hyatt downtown that had 1/2 price margs and a free buffet? 
     

    Damn I’m getting old

  10. 18 minutes ago, Redneck Mutha said:

    My wife (white, born in Colombia to American parents when her dad was stationed there in the Navy) will be putting #1 to the test in January when we travel to Mexico and go through customs upon return.  

    Having "Place of Birth: Colombia" on her passport, we've already had high level discussions on "what ifs" and those will increase as we get closer to our travel date. Especially with the recent escalation in hostilities the regime has shown toward that nation.

    Overreacting? Maybe. But maybe not. 

    At a minimum I bet they are going to want her to unlock her phone 

  11. 57 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Just another series of "Kavanaugh stops."  No worries, the SCOTUS just created two classes in America: (1) white people, who are free to go about their business with no interference from ICE and federal forces, and (2) everyone else, who can be stopped and detained functionally indefinitely whenever, wherever, as many times as ICE feels like it, and detained for as long as ICE feels like it.

    Imagine someone 25 years ago describing an America of roving bands of heavily armed government forces, who regularly and with great force grabbed and detained anyone they wanted to, demanding "papers please," but also even being arbitrary about what "papers" would satisfy them before they'd let you go.  Can you go to the store?  Church?  To visit your friends?  Outside your house on your porch?  Can you do any of those things without the fear of being grabbed and detained by masked men armed to the teeth?  Nope.

    Imagine describing that America 25 years ago.  Everyone would have thought you were deranged.  Turns out, you just had a perfectly functioning time machine that let you see the future.

    When did “stop and frisk” end?

     

    damn I’m getting old 

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