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TwiceHorn

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  1. So, we fucking tie it up in the T9.

    And load the fucking bases with no outs in the B9:  HBP HBP Single.

    Un.  Fucking.  Real.

  2. 6 minutes ago, Cousin Strawberry said:

    The end of Gus was a shit show.  Darren Gustafson did a lot of the recruiting back then and we ended up with a lot of people from central Texas(because Darren didn’t have to drive) and counties where Darren liked to dove, deer and quail hunt.  It was bad.

    Yeah, that's what I understood, and similar complaints were leveled at Harmon before his departure.  But even still:

    1995 Texas 44-19 14-10  
    1996 Texas 39-24 17-7

    SWC Champion

  3. Just now, dcar00 said:

    of course..but the question was what happened to our pitching? Skip Johnson left and we hired David Pierce and a volunteer.

    Fair nuf.  And yeah, AO is right, the only experience any AC has other than Pierce's staff at SHSU, Tulane, or Texas is two years at NWSt (La.).  Very comfy for ol Dave.

  4. Skip aint the only good pitching coach in the world.  We had a pretty good string of em before him.

    But Pierce and his volunteer assistant pretty clearly aren't getting it done.

  5. 2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    So McGuire hit about 0.050 his freshman year here, came back as a pitcher, and now gets to play right field?

    Mysterious.  He is hitting .500 right now, though.

  6. 2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I used to have bad allergies but something has changed for me over the last few years.    Theres an internet cure that you take a teaspoon of honey daily.  Preferably honey as local as possible even from your neighborhood.  The idea being that the pollen is also in the honey and you become immune to it.  

    I know docs and bee experts say the honey should have no effect on allergies and maybe it’s only a coincidence that I haven’t had allergy problems in a few years. I also stopped the daily honey after the allergies went away.   

    Anyway I hope everyone gets better 

    That's the theory with allergy shots:  exposure to the allergen, although honey presents a different route.  I have heard that.  And, I fully believe that your system reaches a sort of detent with the local allergens.  I had reached one in N Texas before I moved to Austin and the cedar whipped my ass, then I moved back, rinse/repeat.  And I have been in Houston during the spring and had a complete respiratory spaz attack. And, of course, the allergy season(s) ramp everything up.

  7. 3 minutes ago, bernorange said:

    The superior characteristics of the AR-15 are the foundation of it's utility in self defense and it's check on tyranny.  History is replete with lessons in "might makes right" and the tyranny that results from an unarmed (or inadequately armed) populace.  In medieval times, a man's skill with a sword set a wide gulf between the haves and the have nots.  The evolution of weaponry has narrowed that gap.  The FN FAL was once characterized as the "right arm of the free world".  It leveled the playing field.  The AR-15 is superior the FN FAL.  Folks talk about nuclear weapons as a deterrent.  The greatest utility of modern firearms lies in the same dynamic IMO.

    A lot of arguments I have seen in the gun control threads (both here and at the old site) are grounded in the same assumptions about stability in our society - politically (because we can vote) and economically (for the life of me, I don't understand this as 2007-2008 should have disillusioned anyone who was paying attention).  I don't concede those assumptions to be certain in perpetuity. 

    My family history is a bit different from most.  I have ancestors that fled France because of religious persecution (Huguenots).  I have ancestors that lived in Austria, Hungary and Germany during Hitler's rise and reign.  I have ancestors that lived through Peron's Dirty War.  America's experiment with liberty is near and dear to my heart because it is so novel.  I think a lot of Americans take it for granted and don't really understand how fragile it is.  Maybe some are waking up after Bush/Iraq, Obama/Snowden and now Trump.  Maybe not.  Doesn't matter with respect the main point.  The FF in their wisdom understood that if we were truly to be a free people, we would not only have to accept having an armed populace, we required it.

    Fair point.  I actually subscribe to this viewpoint at least as a matter of theory.  But good ol' Antonin has largely gutted it already.

  8. 1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:

    Which is why no rational person or court says that gun ownership for home protection is illegal. It can never be.   Your right to have full auto weapons and Stinger missiles in your house near an airport to fight off the potential thread of the Russian Airforce?  Not so much.

    What about the USAF?  Gimme my MANPADs!

  9. 3 minutes ago, TahoeHorn said:

    I'll buy the theory.  I don't understand the practice.

    What do you do about the existing inventory?  We're talking about tens of millions of rifles.

    How do you specify the magazine?  Do you have a spec which makes it extremely difficult to use a larger magazine?  How would that work?

    Is what you're banning more deadly than a machine pistol (semi-auto version)?

     

    It's another topic, and I don't have expertise, but if I were going to shoot up a school an AR-style rifle would not be my weapon of choice.  I'd use a small caliber machine pistol.  I could aim it like a rifle and be accurate at short range.   It'd be much more easy to handle than a rifle.  My accuracy with a true pistol or a large caliber gun sucks.  I'll bet I could rock and roll with a machine pistol with a stock with a small caliber.

    I think I added some after you posted.  Yes, there are glaring holes in my proposal like existing stock, black market, etc.  We could see what that really means, though.

    And this last paragraph, I'm not sure the crazies make totally rational firearm choices.  I think one reason "assault weapons" are sort of the weapon of choice is simple popularity and what the nutbag thinks he can do with it as opposed to a Browning Hi Power or 1911, based on urban mythology.

  10. 2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I realize this has moved into "gun control" and away from "assault weapons", but I don't want to wade into that other thread.

    I recently had a conversation with a guy who made a pretty compelling point for his high-capacity high-rate weapons on his ranch, far removed from first responders, etc.  It led to a soft conclusion on my part that perhaps a better solution would be some sort of shift in graduated licensing where such weapons aren't completely outlawed but rather subject to stricter standards of ownership.  To say that I can assert the solution right at the moment would be lying . . . but it seems like it could be a reasonable compromise.

    I could get on board with this, too.  For the aforementioned large cap, semi-auto center-fire rifles.

  11. Well, the issue that I have with the Brady Bill was the number of loopholes and grandfathers.  It wasn't a flat ban on large cap mags.

    I don't really harbor any illusions that restricting a particular type of weapon will inevitably reduce gun violence, but I acknowledge that it might and I'm willing to experiment on a small segment of vilified weapons with limited non-lethal utility.

  12. 12 minutes ago, TahoeHorn said:

    I am genuinely open to a proposal.  But all the proposals I hear are from people who know even less than I do about what an assault rifle is.  And their proposals make no sense.

    Well mine, probably buried, is ban semiauto centerfire rifles/long gun with mag caps greater than five rounds (plus one in the chamber).  What we lose from that is the ability to blow the shit out of watermelons or hogs or water jugs or whatever with 20-25 rounds as fast as you can pull the trigger.  What we gain perhaps is some warm fuzzies that crazed maniacs won't be able to discharge those 20-25 rounds into teens or moviegoers or whatever, but will have to do it in five round increments.

    Yahoos can still blast away with rimfires, and bird hunters keep their 1100s, 1187s, Benellis, Berettas etc.

    It would also give us a vivid look into the problem of pre-existing large cap mags and black markets for same.  And probably also yield insight that the real problem may be handguns.

  13. 14 minutes ago, bernorange said:

    @jimmyjazz- OK, so you didn't answer me directly, but you didn't complain about my understanding of your point, so I'm going to assume that you concede it was essentially correct.  If I'm wrong about that, please do explain because I don't want to create a straw man, play games or troll here.  I'm trying to establish a common ground of understanding.

    The crux of your assertion is that guns kill people, so they are a problem that needs to be addressed.  It's true that guns (and AR-15s in particular) can kill people (or kids if you want to narrow it down to your original statement), but so can a lot of things.  The AR-15 was designed to kill people.  Most weapons are, but guns don't kill people all by themselves.  They are a tool and in the wrong hands, a deadly one.  There are a lot of things (and useful tools) that kill people (even kids)with much greater frequency than AR-15s year over year.. 

    A common rebuttle when this point is made is that, yeah, but those things have utility to society.  Here is where a lot of folks demanding bans on AR-15s and magazines lose sight of the forest (IMO).  There is an implied argument that AR-15s have no utility aside from murder and that's wrong on many levels.

    I'll bite for the sake of expository debate.  I'm probably more on your side than jimmy's.  But, while I acknowledge a great deal of personal utility in shooting sports and related activity to include hunting, both licensed for game and unlicensed for varmint/pest species, I am willing to concede that blasting 20 rounds in 30 seconds from any firearm has limited utility and therefore ought to be within legislative reach.

  14. 15 hours ago, SW Horn said:

    It’s one game. Off the ledge, everyone.

     

    1 hour ago, BERT said:

    Just win the series, that should be the goal every weekend. 

    True true, but it does seem like one step forward, two back and we need to beat the teams we should, hopefully with sweeps, so we won't have to pin our hopes on games against TCU and Tech.

  15. 8 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    You are wrong.  Flat wrong.  Again, it was designed as a small game varmint round.  This isn't a debatable topic.  

     

    Dig a little on the history of the .222/.223 family.  Then on hunting regulation in place today on it's usage hunting.  Then get back to us.  

    For the record, I didn't say that about .223/5.56.  I find the whole argument that "black guns are meant to KILL PEOPLE!" to be fairly ludricrous and useless in the debate.  .50 BMG, ok, but .223/5.56 and .308/7.62, nah.

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