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Saint Tacky

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  1. True; but, it sounded better than "very little," and not as self-deprecating as "none."
  2. And you sir, are the bee's knees.
  3. Turns out after the fact that Charlie was zeroed in on at an event in NYC right after the season ended and there was one follow-up trip to Charlie's residence after the fact. To the best of my knowledge no one else was interviewed, and the timing of the hire seems to support that. I was told by a BMD that the new coach had already been hired, but that the BMD wasn't told who the coach was (his source was our former AD). BMD was told only that the deed was done and there was a veiled reference to the new hire's season being over before our own bowl game. We sat down and spent hours making a list of potential hires. Strong was on the list and I don't recall who else. I need to see if that list exists. This may have been contemporaneous with Mack's "killing it in Florida" statement because I seem to recall associating that statement with the hiring, and not the pursuit of Nick Saban as some speculated. Fuck, it's all a blur. I threw what I knew out there on the other site and there was some constructive dialogue that would be interesting to read. I need to go back and look at that thread.
  4. Same with watching Jim Norton try to play Don Rickles. I kept thinking, damn this is disappointing. Jim Norton used to be really funny.
  5. A starting OL for Jesuit went to Philmont with us last summer. Great kid. Actually they're all great kids. My heart is picking Jesuit, but my wallet is on the Mustangs.
  6. For the record, first Raven across the field to shake hands with Kyle Shanahan was RGIII
  7. Agree with @Macanudo I liked it and it got me out of the house and away from the chaos for a few hours.
  8. “Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you've got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.”
  9. Very cool. THAT is something to be proud of!
  10. I inherited my grandfather's baseball signed by the 1932 New York Giants. It's next to my Dizzy Dean baseball and the one I had signed by Cal Ripken, Jr. and Brooks Robinson. Humble brag.
  11. Apples and oranges. Passing a law allowing for the funding of lethal aid and then not doing so is not remotely close to wrongfully withholding lethal aid.
  12. I took it pass/fail. Didn't need it. Forgot to drop it, or something like that. But, on the bright side I did ace "Asian Women and their Families."
  13. That's okay. I failed "Human Sexuality."
  14. For once I'd like us to be the compromise pick. Just this once. For that matter, I'd like to stop being the kid's choice when Mom has final say on where he is going, or Mom's choice when the kid is doing the choosing.
  15. Saw it on Sunday, and nothing in it really struck a chord. Battle scenes were cool, but unless you are familiar with the battle it is just chaos and most won't know the significance of what's happening. It glosses over critical details, invests heavily in material that likely should have been peripheral, and has all the excitement of a documentary. It just skips the surface and was pretty unsatisfying if you know much about the battle. There was more time dedicated to John Ford being on Midway during the battle than there was to the Japanese counterattack that sunk the Yorktown. Or, that the fourth Japanese carrier (Hiryu) was sunk by Yorktown planes flying from Lexington and Hornet. I had an uncle that graduated from Annapolis and was stationed on the Enterprise when WWII started. He didn't talk about it much, but once we were sitting together in a duck blind near Port O'Connor and he told me about coming into Pearl Harbor at night after the attack. The island was blacked-out but it was as clear as day because of the fires. To navigate the channel to the harbor he was assigned to take a lantern to the bow and watch for buoys, and waive it when he saw one. That's the most I heard him say about it. He never talked about Midway and only after he died and the internet arrived with its access to information did we learn that he had been in charge of a sector off of Makuti Island (PT-171) when PT-109 was sunk.
  16. I laughed at Jared's biological parents piling on, and thought their final line about his presentation being "underwhelming" was lough-out-loud funny. Jared's Biological Parents The rest of the show was a waste of time.
  17. Care to guess which one was a former prosecutor in the SDNY? It's not the one reading from a script or asking questions he doesn't already know the answers to.
  18. you rang?
  19. Every article or item I've read said that it didn't occur, if it occurred at all, during the postseason. "rumored?" The Red Sox were stone cold busted.
  20. Oh, so the escalator is for fans going to the baseball game?
  21. Thru 2-episodes. Was hoping the assassin would ask for "a name, any name," and be forced to swear by the seven New Gods and the Old Gods beyond counting. So far, so good.
  22. Aggy gets Jimbo. FSU gets Stoops. Difficult to find the winner here.
  23. This is the least of my complaints about Joe Buck because I have zero problem with natural sound and I don't need gimmicky catch phrases or a signature call. The primary reason Gene Elston was fired by Drayton McLane in 1986 was for simply uttering "There it is!" and then allowing Glenn Davis to run to the bag and seal Mike Scott's no-hitter while the crowd screamed and the players jumped. Contrast Elston's call with Milo Hamilton's screeching throughout Hank Aaron's 715th home-run trot and I'll settle for something in between. IMHO Milo spoiled Hank Aaron's 715th home run by screaming as Aaron went all the way around the bases. If he had just STFU after "..and its Henry Aaron," and let the event play out I could stomach it. Instead, I prefer Vin Scully's or Curt Gowdy's calls of the same home run. Particularly Scully. Hank Aaron-715th Home Run - Three Different Calls But, Drayton wanted screaming and gimmicky catch phrases, so he went with the polar opposite of Elston by hiring Milo. Yelling and ego-maniacal to a fault. Just not my taste.* But, there was one other Astros announcer that would talk non-stop during a game and that was Bill Brown. Brown was very knowledgeable, and he's a nice guy, but he could not tolerate so much as three-seconds of dead air without speaking, and therefore spoke incessantly. He knew his stuff, but Brown called television like it was radio and it was annoying. * ironically I will always utter or think "gotta go get-em Astros!" a la Milo when they head to the 9th on the short end of the score.
  24. Soto had the ball in hand and was wheeling around to throw when Reddick was still 3 to 5 strides from third-base. Only a terrible relay would have saved him. Besides, with Altuve coming up Pettis was wagering that Reddick was going to score anyway. They can be reviewed. But, Altuve was brushed on the jersey in DC and it was clear as day on the replay. He didn't raise a stink, it wasn't reviewed, and he popped out.
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