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Everything posted by heso
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The one thing your practice plan is missing is pitching & chipping. For chipping, I think the lowest hanging fruit can be gained in your back yard. Take 10 balls and set up 2 targets 5 & 10 yards away. Could be little chipping nets, hula hoops, hand towels, anything. Chip 10 balls to the close target, 10 to the far target, 5 & 5, 2-2-2-2-2, alternate. Keep track of how many hit your target and work on improving. Vary the target distances. You’re trying to develop feel for distance control. For beginners for form, I usually tell people to use the lowercase y setup. Take the wrists completely out of the chip, and rock your shoulders like it’s a putt. Keep 70% of your weight on your front foot. For the yard game use a fairly high lofted wedge, 52-56 degrees to get the feel of popping the ball up out of the rough. the other type of chipping practice you should do is onto a practice green. You want to develop 2 basic chips, a higher lofted one that stops shorter and a lower one the runs out more. The easiest way imo to do this is to have 2 wedges and develop the feel of each shot. I like a 54-56 for the lofted shot and an 8 iron for the bump and run. Some people, like Faldo, suggest always trying to carry the ball 2 yards onto the green and varying the club for how much rollout you need. I prefer my method because what the fuck does Nick Faldo know about golf. A good exercise is to take the highest lofted wedge you’ll chip with, a club for a bump and run, and something in the middle. 8i, pw, 56 for example. Go to the practice green and work through different types of holes. Long/short, uphill/downhill. Work on feeling how easy/hard it is to get to different pins. Chip 10 balls with each club to each hole. Again your trying to develop feel for how far to carry the ball and how much it’s going to roll out. For example, it’s pretty difficult to hit a long uphill chip with a high lofted shot. Because the ball is coming down more directly into the upslope, it will stop very quickly. So you have to carry that shot almost the whole way to the hole, which significantly increases error dispersion. Think how much more difficult it is to toss a ball into a bucket that’s 5’ in front of you vs 50’ away. Same thing as with the yard game, hit 10 to each hole type with each club. Keep track of how many you can get inside 3’. That’s your goal with a chip, give yourself an easy putt. You’ll start to get a good feel for what type of chip you need for a given situation. After that work through your clubs to the same hole for 9 (or 15 or whatever you feel like) balls changing the club for each shot. You’re starting with blocked practice to refine the technique, then moving to more variable practice to develop feel. The next game is par 2. Work your way around the practice green to 9 hole locations varying the types and lengths of shots. After your chip, putt out until you hole it. Keep track of your score and see how much better you get at this game over a couple months. Even better if you occasionally have someone to compete with at a game of par 2 with a round of drinks or something in the line to add a little pressure. I’ll type up my approach to putting practice later. Working on chipping and putting at the practice green with my headphones in listening to music is one of my favorite ways to relax on a summer evening.
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I don’t disagree with most of that. I expected Fleming to be better than he was. His best game was 2 catches for 60 yards and 0 tds against Kent state in a game that ended 56-0. He finished the season with 14 catches for 176 yards and 1 TD. His last 7 games he had 1 catch for 5 yards. There was a reason he was getting g passed on Ohio states depth chart by true freshman. Of PSU’s top 6 players in receiving yards, only 2 were WRs. The year before that the “big” addition at WR was Dante Cephas who had 1 good season in the mac and then went 22/246/2 at Penn state in ‘23 and then 15/124/0 at k-state in ‘24. The WR position has been a disaster the last 2-3 seasons. There’s been no Chris Godwin or even Jahan Dotson. Parker Washington leaving early to be a sixth round pick. Keandre Lambert-Smith transferring to auburn. The terrible evaluations of the transfer portal WRs. The drying up of what was a decent string of WRs is real. But the problems all fall on Franklin. Not the least of which was his hire of Yurcich at OC, who was a fucking disaster and surely contributed to KLS and Washington leaving.
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I don’t think Kotelnicki is the problem with the offense. In fact I think he excelled at getting the 3 best players the ball in effective ways. Maybe outsmarted himself at the goal line at the end of the Ohio state game. The problems with the Penn state offense last year were, in this order: 1. The WR group. Unbelievably bad 2. Franklin - he coached Allar to play scared early and it shows 3. Allar - he shows flashes but also shows a lot of meh. One of my friends that’s really high on him is a Pitt grad and thinks he’s hands down a legit nfl qb. I’ve told him that as of right now I think he’s closer to Hackenberg that a legit nfl qb. Allar is still really hard to evaluate based on results because the WRs were so bad last year. They could not get open. At times he still struggles with the short-intermediate chain movers. Some of that is on the WRs but it’s also on him. Not a single WR caught a pass in the notre dame game. Leading receivers were TE 6/75 yds, rb 2/33, te 2/21, te 1/7, rb 1/6. That’s unbelievable. He’s done some of his best work after he’s put them behind the 8 ball and had no choice but to play aggressive like the 2nd halves against usc and Oregon after throwing interceptions. I think the whole season comes down to how good the WRs are. All 3 of the wr at the top of the depth chart are transfers. Pro football focus gave them an honorable mention in their list of top 10 wr groups heading into the season. We’ll see about that. If they are good enough, can Allar do enough? The run game will be elite. If Singleton and Allen put up the same numbers they did last season they will finish their careers as 1 & 2 all time rushing leaders at Penn state. The oline is solid. Dinkins is good, I think Luke Reynolds will be the better TE. The defense should be elite again. Little question at LB but I think they’ll be fine. I think psu probably beats Oregon at home. I don’t know how anyone can expect psu to to beat osu @ osu until they do it. They don’t play Oregon. They should beat UM. So the big ten probably comes down to that game and you have to assume osu wins that game. They rematch in the big ten championship game and osu wins again. Psu wins a couple playoffs games against inferior teams and then has to play either Texas or osu in the semifinal. Even if you think psu is the better team on paper, it comes down to the head to head, in Columbus. And until Franklin wins it, you have to assume he fucks it up.
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You answered all of your questions with your first sentence.
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Volcanic eruptions in the cascade range, earthquakes on the San Andreas or cascadia faults are 100% going to happen. That isn’t remotely in doubt. Predicting when, so that people can be prepared, is just a matter of probability. The volcanoes are a little harder to predict, and even more difficult to predict if it will be a VEI 3 or VEI 6. The subduction zone is still active, so the volcanos aren’t going to stop erupting, but I think that poses much less of the threat than the earthquakes. Especially since there will likely be weeks if not months of warning signs that an eruption is eminent. Your dismissiveness of the “big one” earthquake in California is absurd. There is zero doubt that a large earthquake will happen on both the northern and southern portions of the San Andreas fault zone. The plate is moving. The middle section slips, the north and south sections are locked. They will snap. Same with the Cascadia subduction zone. The plates haven’t stopped moving. The fault produces fairly regular massive earthquakes. They are documented in Japanese tsunami records, Native American folk lore, and geologic surveys. The fault produces earthquakes that are 1-3,000+ times stronger than what would be considered a “big” earthquake in California. Every 250 years or so that fault produces a 8-9+ earthquake, regularly for the last 10,000+ years. The last major earthquake was in 1700. This is the longest its gone without an 8+ earthquake in the last 5000 years. There will almost certainly be a 8+ earthquake on that fault in the next 100 years, it’s already past due. It could very well be 9+. That would be catastrophic.
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Worth noting that the 9.1 in 2004 was almost 3 times stronger than the 8.8, and that 9.5 is 11 times stronger than 8.8
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The last few times we’ve gone down we’ve rented air bnbs on Clark’s hill lake near Lincolnton, GA and lake Murray near Columbia, SC. Both times we’ve had about an hour drive to Augusta National. We get it a few days before the day we have tickets for and then have 2-3 days to golf before we go to the masters. If you really wanted to spend some money, last year the Tree Farm had some cabins available the week of the masters.
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Fuck yes! Every time I or one of the guys I’ve gone down with have gotten our name pulled (4 of the last 8 years) I thought about how long you’ve been entering without a win. I’ve been hoping you’d get your name pulled. Happy for you.
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God damn that one hit me like a ton of fucking bricks. My first concert was the Sabbath reunion tour in 99 with Pantera opening for them. That show blew my fucking hair back like I didn’t know was possible. Set list: War pigs NIB Fairies wear boots After forever Electric funeral Into the void Black Sabbath Snowblind Iron man Children of the grave Paranoid I still have the shirt from that tour
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It’s impossible to really get how much it drops until you’re standing there.
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And god damn does the course deliver that, over and over. The 2nd shot into 15 is my favorite single shot in championship golf. The risk / reward nature of the shot. It’s such an inflection point in so many rounds. The 12th has probably dashed more dreams, but the 15th has so many potential outcomes. From Sarazen’s 2 to Sergio’s 15. If you need to make eagle to make a run, it’s there to be had. If you’re trying to protect a lead, it’s a terrifying shot and laying up short leaves such a delicate shot that it’s not an easy par. Short is dead, long can be dead. Long and then coming back might be one of the scariest chips in golf.
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He also had Donald Ross, Tillinghast, and Macdonald apprentice under him, he’s the reason courses have 18 holes, and at Murfield he probably developed the first returning nines instead of nine out and nine back. But that last one might have more to do with the courses playing along the coast and back. It’s impossible to overstate how instrumental he was to the development of the game, not just in the UK, but also his influence on the golden age of course design in the US (1910-1930ish)
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Well he was the one making the courses.
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Double makes things a little interesting. Draining those two long pars probably still keeps him safe.
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It’s so stress free for him. Play for par with a look a birdie. And now his putting has gotten good enough that a lot of the birdies are dropping.
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That’s every British open though. “Here’s the course. The weather is what it is. Go score.” And sometimes that’s -20, sometimes it’s +5.
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He’s just never out of position. He’s not super long off the tee but he’s long enough. His driving accuracy is great. And from there he almost never gets himself into trouble. He gives himself safe looks at birdie while avoiding the danger. He turns that into a lot of stress free pars and a handful of them drop for bird.
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I meant to add “were they bought by the right wing and/or right wing friendly propagandists?” and then forgot it. I expect it’s probably a combination of all of them. It was really bizarre. It started out as one that stuck out as “oh, I didn’t see him as having those views”. And then it kept happening to a point that there was obviously some level of coordination, be it algorithmic or on the content generation.
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His podcast was a combination of mma discussion, comedians, and interesting experts interspersed with absurd conspiracy theorists. It was at times pretty entertaining. His opinions on pretty much everything except weed and standup comedy seem to be extremely malleable. He takes on the opinions of his guests. Early in the 2016 Dem primary he was an Andrew yang supporter and then Bernie. How he went from that to endorsing Trump is pretty crazy. Something related that I’ve spent some time thinking about is: how did the young male YouTube space become so right leaning in the run up to the 2024 election. I saw so many previously apolitical channels, across a wide spectrum, start espousing right wing talking points. And I found myself wondering what caused that shift and how much did it influence the election. Were they captured by the right wing propaganda machine? Did they sense that was what their audience wanted to hear? Was it a collective group think? Did it stem from a collective rejection of Covid policies they saw as government control? Were they all already right leaning and now just talking about it because it was an election cycle? Was it just YouTube’s algorithm feeding me right leaning political content?
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The pendulum will eventually stop swinging. The voters want populist policies. There will eventually be a realization that American politics has become a con game. At this point it might be more likely that the realization comes after the pendulum’s momentum can be stopped with votes. It usually takes bloodshed to stop it. Sometimes it takes guillotines. But at some point it will likely start to swing back. Either that or future historians will look back on the 20th century like the Islamic golden age. After the US has been carved up by corpo-religions with ai feeding the proletariat their favorite flavor of propaganda-porno-tainment.
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The source is the usgs website. Location accuracy is +/- 5 sec, so +/- 480 ft. Elevation accuracy is +/- 0.05 ft. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/USGS-08165500/#dataTypeId=continuous-00065--887047781&period=P7D
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The 1978 flood had water get to the dining hall but not inside the building and the camp was badly damaged. And in 1985 Tweety Eastman had to be airlifted out due to flood waters. So it sounds like it takes something closer to a 4-5% event to create a dangerous situation at the camp.
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I’m a bit ignorant on the term 100 year flood or 500 year flood. How is that calculated? Because at least twice in the last 100 years camp mystic has had cabins lost to floods, another time cars got washed away and the camp was badly damaged, another time the guy’s pregnant wife had to be airlifted out. So clearly these aren’t 100 or 500 year events if they’re happening that often. I’ve been really reluctant to criticize Eastland because by almost all accounts he was a wonderful human. But Eastland, by his own admission, knew the risk the river posed. His repeated efforts to get and then replace a monitoring system show that he knew the camp was at risk. His comments about dangerous the river is over the years show that he knew it. He knew that not having any way to monitor the river left his camp vulnerable, but from the firsthand accounts, he was asleep until the NWS flood warning came in at 1am. Even after that warning came in firsthand accounts from his family say that they didn’t immediately evacuate to higher ground. Firsthand accounts from cabin counselors say that they were the ones that made the decision to evacuate once the water in the fucking cabins got too high for them to stay. Eastland’s own words: “I’m sure there will be other drownings,” Eastland said in a 1990 interview with the Austin American-Statesman. “People don’t heed the warnings.” He ignored them. The 6pm NWS bulletin said that more than 3” of rain PER HOUR was expected and dangerous flash floods were likely. The first flash flood warning just to the south at 11:40. The flood warning at 1:15 should have been his signal that it was time to move. At that point their response seems to be little more than what, hope the flood didn’t get worse? There is plenty of blame to go around for politicians and camp management both. But the idea that this was just some fluke, unforeseeable, unpredicted event is bullshit.
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Who is more upset that he called OSU’s stadium the big house, UM or OSU?
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