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A-Tex Devil

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  1. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    Interesting.... I always thought Valencia was way less dynamic than Pereira, but didn't leave the back line hanging out to dry where Pereira could have a few runs in a game, but when he was at the 6, the back line was left in lurch a lot when he failed to clean stuff up. I really like Valencia for what he is and glad he's on the team. I may be full of shit as well. Agree Pereira and Ring looked good Saturday.
  2. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    Was there Saturday. Dallas is really bad - at least what they trotted out there. I didn't think anyone could have a worse starting XI than us, but they did. We were dominating them all game. Driussi's dime was stunning and a reminder that he is a different level of class than most in MLS. I'd love to see some MLS nerd write an article ranking the DPs across the league. My guess is Ring and Rigoni wouldn't be the worst as I imagine there are some that are always hurt and never play. But Rigoni has to be near the bottom and Ring, as much as I like him, is not DP quality. I wonder if collectively ours are the worst? That has to be remedied at the end of this year.
  3. As a Duke fan, those dudes played like ass today. I hope Flip doesn’t decide to come back. And on bright side, he doesn’t have Edey tape to plummet his draft status next week. He would have gotten dominated. Now Burns/Edey should be fun.
  4. Duke over UH Clemson over Baylor NC State over Tech
  5. Grant Hill is right though - if he plays and he shouldn’t he could really fuck it up. Grant knows more than anyone. Roach summoning his 2022 tourney persona.
  6. Ball don’t lie. But it seems to always lie with this guy.
  7. Both teams are fucking beating the shit out of each other. Not sure what refs are supposed to do. Hope Shead is OK.
  8. I landed a Bijan one of one on a break a few weeks ago and decided to just focus on getting his cards for me and my son. Has been fun. Box full of them now.
  9. Rockets catch a break with SGA out tonight. Keep it rollin'!
  10. Thanks. I've been buying up Bijan on eBay when I can find deals. Has been quite fun.
  11. Loved it. It's seems less tied directly to The Gentleman (the movie) than to the Guy Ritchie-universe in general. Callbacks to Lock Stock (weed farm guarded by stoners), Snatch (boxing, gypsies), Rocknrolla (rich narcissistic addict in debt setting off a ridiculous chain of events), and a look into the various ethnic and regional gangs across the UK. There other easter eggs, but I wonder if this is multi-season with same story, or whether they could do a Fargo-type anthology.
  12. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    I presumed getting rid of Fagundez; the most popular player in the franchise, was an aggressive play to set things in motion for an exciting offseason, then….. crickets. The team is worse than the team that opened last year. Obrien and Rubio are proven jags. Happy to have for depth but we will rely on these guys this year. I like Valencia because he is always solid but he’s never going to change the game. I am over Pereira at this point. He can make the occasional nice forward run but he does back line zero favors. Wolff isn’t as good when Driussi isn’t playing. We have 2 of 3 DP spots with guys that aren’t worth it and 3rd is hurt. I am not optimistic.
  13. Fuck that. Dude was running right at him. Would have been my natural reaction too. You don’t know intent if the fan. Just start suspending the coaches. That’s not hard and has real consequences that can create deterrence from the top.
  14. Wake Forwr fans can get fucked. *This* is the Duke team you are going to rush the court on? This is two incidents in the last couple of weeks now. Just let the visiting team get off the court then rush. If you don’t then, well I don’t know what the right penalty is. Maybe the coach has to sit out 3 games. It’s not the coache’s fault but it wil put some incentive into n for coach to talk to crowd ahead of big games.
  15. At my first game in a while. It is hilarious that Jared Thomas’ walk up music is Snake Farm. Well done.
  16. Is Chris Johnson a rotation player? I am hopeful he adds something next year. I am starting to really like Mitchell - for what he is - but he feels like a transfer this offseason for some reason. Pure speculation. But he gets like 14 and 10 just about every game these days by purely being the best athlete on court. If dude could just figure out a shot.
  17. I’ve been doing breaks on Fanatics.Live recently. It’s dangerous but has been a lot of fun. Got about 8 icons including a cool Nolan Ryan /10 with Astros and rangers. Also just hit on a Bijan 1/1 from Panini Ultimate Football. Will send picture once I get it. Two questions: 1. I have several dozen cards worth $5-$20. Would love to just sell them in groups at a discount (particularly the rookies) to recoup some costs but that seems hard. Any ideas? 2. Should I send all of the Icons off to be graded? My understanding is that if it’s sub $50 it’s not really worth being graded but happy to learn. Edited to add the Nolan.
  18. I think the thing that everyone finds hilarious is that a half dozen shots (maybe) of the Swift suite during a 4 hour game gets to you.
  19. None of this fucking matters as to why he got fired. If we are arguing whether it's OK to call him an abuser or not, then I'll step out, because I frankly don't care. And if you think he should have been fired as you note above, then you need another Elsa post. We all are in violent agreement that he should have been fired. After that, who gives a shit? He didn't go to jail, and he landed a decent gig that will likely vault him back into something equivalent to Texas or better.
  20. Why are people white knighting for Beard still? I don't get it. At the very least, he showed absolutely horrible judgment worthy of termination. I wanted the dude to succeed. We are same age and grew up in same area, so it was cool that we hired him. But what happened was going to happen with that pairing at some point, and he didn't have the good sense to hit eject before it bit him in the ass. And to follow that (and I get it was on advice as counsel) he didn't exactly cover himself in glory after the fact. Good on him for doing well at Ole Miss. Sorry you blew your shot at your dream job because either you did what you were accused of or couldn't step away from a ticking time bomb that would embarass the university. I am sure he is next in line at Kentucky, though, when Cal retires. So, yeah.... he'll be fine.
  21. This got a lot wrong. I don't fully understand why the hillbilly posse stormed the hospital? What was that? I don't have the same allergic reaction to this season as a bunch of y'all do. I'm enjoying it.
  22. Should have clarified as “writing” royalty. Tim Herlihy (Sandler’s writing partner) is the curly hair guys dad, and Steve Higgins was a writer on SNl and now in Tonight Show and is the dad of the short guy. Red head has no nepotism, I guess.
  23. Yeah. Didn’t realize two of three were from SNL royalty. Nepotism joke was funny. The Jerry Springer skit was great. And DJ in that skirt for the talk show scenes wasn’t bad.
  24. I can’t believe how old Alanna Ubach looks in this show.
  25. I am liking it, too. I imagine if the Cohle thing is anything more than an Easter Egg, it's his brother, not his father given timelines. But who knows? My guess is that none of the easter eggs really pay off and it's all fan/Reddit service. My prediction is that the one dude not in the ice went nutso and walked everyone out there, and Jodie Foster more or less told us exactly what happened in her lesson to the young cop in the hockey rink (hypothermia induced psychosis, etc.). The only thing weird is that the TikTok cooks phone went haywire right after the guy said "She's awake". Anyway, Season 3 was the same way, and it basically told us so in the episodes leading to the finale - but we wanted something much more sinister. All that said, I am enjoiyng it and looking forward to the internet losing its shit when nothing extraordinary happens vis a vis all the random theories.
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