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A-Tex Devil

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  1. I love this dude. He came to my son’s clinic last year with A Hill and was just awesome. Funny, funny guy. Kiddo wears his Colin Simmons signed shirt (a random blue Target shirt with a frog on it, lol) 3 times a week. Unfortunately it says #11 in the auto.
  2. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    And an against run of play goal. That double tap on the sideline was cool though.
  3. Is this a limited series or maybe multi-season?
  4. The Species episode last month was special. Sometimes the lesser movies really deliver on that podcast.
  5. I listened to Will Cain on either Simmons or Rusillo last year. He seemed like he’d be tolerable if you stayed out of politics. But he looks like a dime store Jesse Waters here.
  6. So like every Fox News host in history?
  7. Here is what you do…. “Nancy, what did you think of representative [made up name] in CA touting [made up benefit] to his/her constituents even though she voted against the OBBB that provided it?” ”Thats disgraceful” ”Good to know. Btw that person doesn’t exist and that wasn’t in the OBBB. But speaking of touting benefits to constituents from a bill that you voted against…..”
  8. I helped elect Donna Howard to do exactly what she is doing right now. Get fucked speaking for me, Ken.
  9. I may be misunderstanding you, but what I was suggesting was that a little less velocity and more movement (presumably upwards) doesn’t result in a home run there. Of course these guys are good enough hitters that 3-4 mph slower might be enough time to adjust the bat position.
  10. I get that is straight gas, but it's also straight. A 100 mph with a slight rise is a swing and a miss or a pop up/foul at worst. These hitters are too good. Wonder what O'Neill Cruz does with that pitch.
  11. So what is the latest they can pass redistricting and still get on the ballot for 2026?
  12. I really liked Dept Q but Matthew Goode was basically playing Dr. House the police detective.
  13. Some dude paddle boarding Hanalei Bay lol.
  14. The problem with QE being a great fit for McDaniels’ system is that if he has to play much McDaniels is probably getting fired. I hope the best for him. He is in a no lose situation given the two guys in front of him.
  15. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    Six goals in 2 road games. I really like BV and how he plays but perhaps rest of team struggles with a 9 like that. They seem to have unlocked something.
  16. Sigh. People take this stuff too seriously. I like Shane Gillis but the idea that it’s not ok to think he sucks is asinine. He is about the most acquired taste I can think of for a comedian that isn’t Kaufman or Fielder because his delivery is completely unlike any comedian I’ve ever seen. There is an amateur hour, uncertain nature about it. I see how it turns people off. I’m down with it because I just find it disarming. But I understand how others find it stilted and amateurish. Tom Segura still makes me laugh even though he seems utterly unlikable and smug so I still tune in. And that’s ok. None of these guys hold a candle to Jeselnik (ducking).
  17. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    Uzuni again. Nice pass from BHI. Uzuni seems like a bit of a dick, lol.
  18. Was it an honest question or a troll? I presume the latter but giving the benefit of the doubt on the former it’s the same reason I tell my kids there isn’t a children’s day but there is a Father’s Day and Mothers Day. Because every day is children’s day and every month in this country is white people’s month.
  19. They have A/C in the cabins. That’s not camp. 😉
  20. This is why Kerr County government needs an enema. On the Mystic stuff, the circles I am in are more sobered with respect to the future of the camp and camp management's responsibilities. We aren't sending our daughter back to even Cypress Lake if it is open, and we are hardly the only ones. I think many are sad because the family is a good family, but as a result of years of bad decisions, complacency, hubris, etc., this happened. In some ways, it was inevitable something like this was going to happen at one of these camps for those reasons. So I get the bonfire comparisons, and there are certainly some evangelists out there. But the bill will come due. It's OK for people associated with the camp to be sad about it, but I think most that I've talked to also expect accountability and know what that means. On the Kerr County side, it's more maddening because there won't be any accountability. None. The tourists and campers will be back next summer. Any explanation as to why there won't be accountability gets too CR for the sensitive ears on this forum, I guess, and is reflective of the f'd up priorities of our electorate at every level. [EDITED TO ADD "FOR THOSE REASONS". I AM NOT EXCUSING IT AS INEVITABLE SO WE JUST THROW UP OUR HANDS. I MEAN I BET A LOT OF THESE CAMPS (PROBABLY NOT ALL) MADE THE SAME MISTAKES AS MYSTIC, AND AS A RESULT, A DISASTER WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN EVENTUALLY]
  21. Fair. On my "who knows" point, I was just avoiding any air of certainty on my part, but I agree with you. With respect to the cabins, I meant once the waters came in, I am not sure anything could have been done based on what I read and having been at the camp and knowing where those sit. Those two cabins were in the middle of what was essentially a massive set of whirlpools. Obviously, if they act even 30 minutes sooner (much less the full hour), this is all a different story. That is what, unfortunately, Mystic/Eastlands, and those that lost people, will be grappling with forever. There likely isn't a great answer there that doesn't boil down to some combo of complacency, hubris, and really, really bad judgment by those *responsible* - like I said, both that night and in decisions made in the years leading up.
  22. From what I understand of Essengue's game (mind you almost exclusively from Russillo), that face will be something we need to get used to.
  23. Reading the WaPo and WSJ articles, I am not so sure staying in the cabins didn’t actually save some lives both at Mystic and La Junta. Nothing was saving Bubble Inn and Twins, I don’t think, and Mystic will have to pay the price for that given what we know now. After almost 2 weeks of reflection, this isn’t hard, I don’t think. Mystic leadership underestimated the storms and reacted too late. When they did react they probably saved lives. But who knows what happens if they move everyone uphill an hour earlier. Kerr county leadership, who has thousands of kids up and down the river on top of the tourists, did next to next to nothing to alert folks as to the danger until it was too late. They fall squarely in my unforgivable bucket and can additionally get fucked for the subsequent “Who, me?” reaction of said leadership.
  24. We picked up our 11 yo daughter on June 26th from Mystic Guadalupe. We visited La Junta the day before that with my son. That those places are more or less gone is tragic. What those boys and girls and camp leaders did to get people through everything, notwithstanding the tragedy is heroic. After getting past the adrenaline of learning about the news, and then the sadness and explaining to our daughter what happened, which as an 11 yo she both gets and doesn't, we tried, with some success, some not, to enjoy the remainder of the vacation we take annually after camp is over. But at least a few times a day I shudder at the thought of what if that storm was 10 days earlier. I feel lucky, then I feel guilty. I am not certain what is going to become of the Eastlands and Mystic, although I have a pretty good guess, which will require another hard conversation with my daughter. It is pretty clear that mistakes were made long ago and that night, but it's also clear that the Eastlands that night were heroic in many ways. I do hope the Kerr County officials who can't be bothered to self-reflect are run out of town on a pole. I imagine the electorate will quickly forget when election time comes, though. I'll leave it there because no CR and all. It's all just so incredibly crushingly sad. My daughter wants to go to Dick Eastland's funeral/memorial if he has a public one. I'm not sure I'll be able to handle it, but we'll make the trip if that's what she wants.
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