
A-Tex Devil
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Yeah…. At the government level this lands pretty squarely on Kerr County with a hefty bit of complacency on the state. And Kerr county majority will continue to vote for those that failed them because you know why.
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3 minutes ago, Homesickhorn said:
I just got word that Dick Eastland, the owner of Camp Mystic, is among the deceased.
We saw this in a text chain. Was waiting for confirmation. Really sad. He taught my daughter how to fish (better).
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22 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:
breaks my heart. Hopefully the ones still missing are found safeThe link in this twitter post is hella sketchy. Do not click through.
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We ate at 1011 Bistro in Kerrville last week the night before picking up our daughter. Imagine that place is no more.
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19 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:
Do we have any word on the names of those four little girls found together waiting to be rescued?
My understanding (and mind you this is via a mom’s text chain, but a text chain that is very well connected with Mystic) is that they are one of many in the area just waiting, including non-Mystic. If I find out I will post an update.
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My wife is on a mom’s thread for my daughter’s cabin from last Mystic term. Things are coming in fast and furious, but apparently a cluster of four girls has been spotted, is temporarily safe, and is waiting to get rescued from high ground.
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My wife just showed me a picture of two girls around 8 sitting in a helicopter that got airlifted out. It was daytime. I am not posting it. But there are active rescues still happening it appears.
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4 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:
Damnit.
So that’s two kids for certain as my cousin like me is a Kappa Delta so damnit. At least two still don’t know the fate of their babies.Damn. When I was a counselor at Waldemar I was 19 and we had the kids for 5 weeks basically. The whole month. My cabin was all 8 year olds and one 7 year old who came with a broken arm. I cannot fathom waking up in the middle of the night to this. 7 girls per cabin and one counselor. Counselors are mostly but not all around the same age I was then.
Mystic Guadalupe is like 18 girls per cabin - at least my daughter’s cabin this summer. There really isn’t high ground on that campsite to speak of. We toured Stewart for my son last week and the river sits far below the campsite there. We also looked at La Junta same day and I see how that could get overrun. Guess I know where we are sending him next summer.
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1 minute ago, ZB'Tejas said:
So awful. One of those girls goes to school with my daughter.The Twins cabins are the youngest as someone said upthread.
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I just picked up my daughter from Mystic Guadalupe last week. This is fucking terrible.
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1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:
Well hot damn
Disappointed as I liked the ending as a finale. But I’ll watch it. I feel like Carmy’s story is done
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It started too slow and meandering/rinse and repeat, but 4.5 onward was nails. I loved the under the table gimmick frankly because the set kept getting bigger and bigger as more people were under there. Sure it’s a metaphor, insisting on itself whatever, but I felt it was kinda self aware when the Fak backed up to take the picture.
I actually loved the conceit of the last episode just being those 3 and then Sugar comes out and validates Carmy without words.
Will miss this as I don’t think it’s coming back. Hopefully not.
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Given their draft this week, call up Brooklyn and offer Whitmore, a vet, and a pick for Cam Johnson. Can't hurt.
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2 hours ago, d2o said:
Fuck Hollinger. Talks like he knows so much but couldnt do a damn thing when he had the job. Dumars has stripes and while the move is questionable he deserves the benefit of the doubt
Dumars has zero stripes as a competent GM. I am sorry. He lucked into 2004-5. His transaction history is laughable.
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10 hours ago, Scraps said:
I immediately sell all my panini redemptions. They are a joke. I’ll sell most of my Topps too unless I intent to grade it or it’s in PC.
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Watched this with my 7 year old Friday night. He’s been asking for 2 months and finally got the thumbs up from Mom. It was perfect. He was sufficiently enthralled and scared and had a hard time going to sleep, then woke up and we talked about it and he was proud that he made it through and couldn’t wait to talk to his buddies about it. He want me to watch Jaws 2 with him now. I have no recollection of that movie so need to revisit it first.
We are going to watch the making of here this weekend to ground things a little bit.
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1 hour ago, ztejas said:
I don't even know who the fuck you two are. You never post in here.
It was Tyrese's decision to make and he made it and it isn't our business to question it. That doesn't make it right or wrong or good or bad. The point is that I respect the fuck out of what that dude just did for six weeks.
I get a little carried away and romantic sometimes. Especially when it comes to the NBA. Maybe don't take all of it so literally.
I mean.... and I like you as a poster, but....
In any event, no one is questioning Tyrese, and if I came across that way, that wasn't the intent. It probably barely crossed his mind his Achilles might pop. Same with KD.
I just think that medical staffs are going to be looking at calf strains in the NBA and NFL pretty soon the same way we look at pitchers' elbows. If the medical experts can find a correlation, then perhaps they can identify the risk of rupture early and take measures to diagnose and preventatively repair. Whether that is preemptive surgery or just plain old rest, I have no idea. And I don't think it changes the calculus in the playoffs, necessarily, outside of some kind of diagnosis that says the thing is about to go. But as stated above, that takes data and evidence, and that's hard to collect.
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21 minutes ago, naija said:
you're a hysterical irritant.
There is a genuine question of what the right decision here was. On a very objective level. And very smart, highly paid people, will need to look at whatever data one can mine from these injuries, and weigh the pros and cons moving forward.
This is my point better made. The Drs and trainers are going to start worrying about these calf strains a little more even in the playoffs absolutely the players want to play and management wants them to play. But it’s worth it for everyone to try to figure out what type of calf strain is leading to these Achilles tears because I don’t think it’s coincidence.
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11 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:
How are they laughable? Do you even post here frequently? Everyone here basically realizes OKC has a ton of talent but exploit things to take advantage of. Defenders like Dort, Caruso, JDub, Wallace physically use their arms to keep the ball handler in front of them. thats a foul in high school league basketball. Keep the ball handler in front of you by sliding your feet is what they teach you in basketball camps at age 8. theyre talented enough to slide their feet but they play touch grab and get away with it. so it makes it fucking stupid when the other team does that with Shai and he falls to his ass on his own and is rewarded 2 fts despite all throwing up some slop shot while flinging his neck backwards. OK now that that's established, defenders have to now play honest defense with Shai who's able to dissect him because he has space to get to his midrange sweet spots or go to the rim. he's exceptional at finishing in both areas.
It's boring because the takes you found laughable are predominately true. every nba fanbase is saying this. OKC fans turn a blind eye because they dont want to admit it.
Im sorry, I thought this was Surly. I thought “laughable” was a pretty mild ad hominem attack.
Anyway, I guess the general sense I got from the posts was that OKC doesn’t deserve this, aren’t a great team and somehow won 68 games and the finals by gaming the system.
The bolded above sounds like sour grapes. And you can put it on loop from opposing fans complaining about every dominant defensive team in college and pros, basically ever. I caught myself doing it re: UH basketball this year. But it makes it seem as if the other 29 teams care too much about the integrity of the game to stoop to such tactics If they had the defensive talent to play like OKC, all 29 other teams would. They are good enough to hold contact before the guy gets by them so the foul isn’t obvious. This is something that is taught the same way DBs are taught to subtly make contact with receivers in a way that avoids a PI call. They are hardly the first team to use their athletic ability to their advantage. Defenders may try to do it to SGA but he’s already by them so the contact is clearer to the refs. And sure, the MVP, as has historically been the case, gets some whistle benefit.
This team was really good. SGA is a legit top 5 player in one of the most talented eras the NBA has seen since the early 90s. Just weird to see them shit on is all. They deserved this. I am hardly an OKC fan at all (Rockets), and frankly found myself rooting for Minnesota against them, but to my chagrin, the Wolves never had a chance. And I guess I’ve also never found OKC boring.
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51 minutes ago, ztejas said:
Yeah well - it wasn't you - because you aren't a professional athlete and you've never been a game away from an NBA championship.
The way that Durant and Haliburton went out in those Finals is as noble and selfless as it comes - but then you get hindsight 20/20 dickheads like yourself that come in and think you're making some revelatory point about how they should have known better or not have played.
Chill, Winston….
I am not blaming the players. I get why they kept playing. But strained calf leading to Achilles tear is clearly a thing. It’s gotta be fucking brutal weighing the risk at this stage of the season.
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Some of the SGA and OKC takes here are laughable. I am not a fan but they had a great fucking season. They may be boring but they deserved it. SGA is the best scoring SG since Kobe and he’s young enough to surpass Wade when it’s all said and done. He doesn’t finish at the rim like Wade could but he’s better all around on offense including as a distributor. Congrats to all of them.
Separately, and maybe it’s upthread, but if I have a calf strain, I am letting that mf’er heal. Durant and Halliburton aren’t the only two. I can’t recall but there was at least one other recently that had a calf strain, came back and played, then tore an Achilles. May have been in football. It really sucks. You have 3 of the top 20 players in the East out with Achilles next year.
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26 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:
The East is going to be dogshit next year. Giannis should have a pretty clear path to the Finals.
No shit. Orlando is looking pretty good if Paolo can take another leap and Suggs comes back.
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1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:
Jalen Green:
307 games played with the Rockets.
He played in 186 consecutive games for the Houston Rockets.
Green is currently 4th on the Houston Rockets' all-time list for 3-pointers made.
Green notched 10,038 mins in addition to 240 STLs and 91 rejections in his pro basketball career. He scored 6,173 pts to go along with 1,030 assists and 1,310 total rebounds during his career.
Thanks for everything.
57 minutes ago, Scraps said:Jalen in his feels on his intagram stories
Honestly, I hope he figures it out and makes a few All Star teams. He’s still super young and dropped 38 in the playoffs. This is a no brainer deal for the Rockets and even if KD can’t bring us to the finals and Jalen is a future all-NBA player, you do this 10 out of 10 times.
If I were the Suns I don’t trade with the Rockets without getting that ‘27 pick back on principal even if I have to take the shitty Miami or SA deals. And yet, here we are. Awesome.
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Jabari is the more interesting one. He won’t get a great deal if he signs early like Jalen and Alpy but I am sure we will try to lock him down. If I am his agent I tell him to bet on himself and make the Rockets pay him much more by extending next summer.
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I didn’t want to say it, but, yeah. Kerr County judge should commit career seppuku on behalf of him and, presumably, his predecessors.