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Paul Wesley

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  1. "brutal?" fuck that
  2. Fuck these announcers "lot of contact:" "could have been a flag" etc
  3. Sark is who he is
  4. Seems like we had one of those vs KSU last week... defense all just points at someone, and then a few seconds later, refs are like, "oh, okay."
  5. boy, not much of a flinch
  6. *uninterested But yeah, it’s going to continue being a league with parity and likely some 2-loss champions.
  7. It's fucking crazy how truth and reality on the right are manufactured via the relentless repetition of lies. The idea that three years of data are somehow validating far-right anti-vaccine shit is INSANE, yet they repeat some version of "the vaccine is unsafe" constantly. Same thing for Mueller and his carefully documented report detailing months of high-level secretive coordination between Trump's inner circle and the Russian agents who were decidedly anti-American and delighted to undermine our democracy... And now you probably couldn't get through an evening of Fox prime time without hearing some version of "and we all know how vaccines turned out to be a scam" and/or "and we all know how Mueller turned out to be wrong about everything." And the audience nods along - so happy and self-satisfied to be so much smarter than the lame stream media sheep.
  8. Gehrig's timeline is really striking. He played 2130 games in a row. He had a fairly abrupt decline in power and coordination at the beginning of the 1939 season. He took himself out of the Yankees' starting lineup in May, and got the diagnosis a month or two later. He was 36. He came back to deliver the "luckiest man on the face of the earth" speech that same summer. He went from perennial all-star and pro athlete with record-setting longevity to death in like 26 months.
  9. I remember one of the posters (?Scipio) posting on one of the many former versions of this website -- on the subject of OOC games. His opinion was that you either A) get a home game for your fans/donors and eat a cupcake, or B) schedule a perennial OOC power (Michigan, Ohio State, USC, Bama, Notre Dame) in a home-and-home. "Don't mess with Mister In-Between" was his observation. i.e. don't play teams that aren't a national brand (little or no credit for a win) but they're still good enough to get you in their home stadium and beat you. Seems to me that pretty much all of the left-behind schools are Mr In-Between. I could get behind playing a home-home vs a school that's a decent travel destination (Tulane in New Orleans, Colorado in Denver or Boulder). We're not going back to Waco, Ames, or Lubbock in my lifetime though. That scheduling strategy (and this post) doesn't even take into account the hard feelings and bad blood from our departure. I have a lot of beefs with shit that our athletic department does poorly (hire coaches, manage your game-day in-stadium experience). But I think they've done a solid job of scheduling. Lots of big-name matchups, a few cupcakes at home. We've also stayed away from scheduling a bunch of the you've-got-to-be-fucking-kidding-me matchups of our future SEC brethren. Our Aggie brethren have scheduled Lamar, Abeline Christian, Incarnate Word, etc. Ugh.
  10. For the past few weeks, I keep seeing "treat it like a scrimmage" as one of the main arguments for going for all these 4th downs. But that argument works both ways. I can't remember the specific time left on the clock vs BYU, but we had a short FG that puts us up 3 scores with 7 or 8 minutes left in the game. For me, the "scrimmage" argument would be kick the short FG, play defense, then let Arch (who is one rolled ankle away from carrying ALL our playoff hopes on his shoulders as the only healthy QB) run the full offense at full speed.
  11. Yormark is going to get to the bottom of this nonsense about being biased against Texas.
  12. Those Kansas State vs Houston numbers should absolutely horrify the athletic departments of the left-behind schools. I wish I could be there in a couple years when the networks write their corresponding dollar figure on a sheet of paper and slide it across the table to Yormark and Wiesner.
  13. “He goes down slow too.” - Bum Phillips
  14. A good retirement portfolio would be real estate and pedals that don't fit on a board. Rebalance as needed.
  15. I have this one. Hit me up if you want to borrow it (it's pretty fun).
  16. I'm a Sark fan, but passing up a FG there (twice) was just monumentally stupid. Objective number one: Win. The. Game. The math says those three points are very meaningful. If a FG takes you from an 11-point lead to an 14-point lead, then it's still a 2-score game, and I suppose you can argue going for the TD. But the lead was 15 points, and tacking on a FG is *HUGE* right there. It makes it a 3-score game with less than a quarter to play. Failing to punch it in (shocker) also totally energized the BYU sidelines and their fans. If BYU had gotten lucky on those possessions and hit a deep jump ball, or if our DB fell down - or whatever - then they would have been kicking off in a 1-score game with ALL the pressure on our offense. Yes, we were the better team, and we got a couple of late scores and pulled away at the end of the game. That doesn't make those decisions less stupid. There's a time to let your nuts hang. There's also a time to take the FG and kickoff with a 3-score lead.
  17. Biff was right - it's a fucking Idiocracy version of "news."
  18. Yeah, a 70-year old dude with a felony murder conviction and a lifelong history of dropping N-bombs... he's the go-to law enforcement expert for Fox News. Bull Connor and Daryl Gates are dead, so I guess that's as "fair and balanced" as they can get.
  19. There's no work-around for that, right? A band can have a pitchy singer and still rock. They can have a limited-skillset guitarist and rock hard (as long as he recognizes his limitations). Ditto for bass. But if the drummer doesn't have some reasonable level of groove/timing/feel, there is just nothing the rest of the band can do to cover that up. The stink covers them all.
  20. Blackstone, huh?
  21. For the sake of my mental health, I should stop reading the news as the resumes of the prospective GOP speakers as their names are put forward for consideration. Scalise who proudly called himself "David Duke without the baggage." Jordan who covered up sexual abuse and shows relentless fealty to Trump and hostility to functioning government. Now Johnson who repeatedly propagated election lies, filed briefs to overturn a fair election, and wants me to live in his theocracy. It's all just so fucking gross. We see who they are in their presidential "debates" where none of them is willing to criticize Trump, except for the guy who enabled Trump from the inside for years and years, right up until the moment that he made his own power-grab calculation to be the "anti" vote (now polling at around 3%). I know I'm just observing what's been obvious for the past 8 years and counting, but it's disheartening to see it on display. I never thought I'd feel nostalgic for Romney or McCain - guys who I just disagreed with on most issues, but at least I didn't have to wake up every morning and see stories of them covering up sexual abuse, plotting to overthrowing democracy, trafficking teenage girls with Venmo payments, vaping and getting to second base in a theater where families are watching musicals, or having a completely forged identity. I still believe that none of this would be possible - and have vigorous party-wide support - without relentless right-wing propaganda that presents itself as news.
  22. Damn. That's a crazy tool. I love my Mobius - but Mobius only does modulation and not time-based effects. You could set up a pretty ferocious board with a really small footprint. TC Electronics makes great stuff.
  23. It's such a cool effect. Pinwheel looks cool. I'd never heard of it.
  24. Setting aside all the psychology of rivalry games and underdog vs favorite... OU did a great job vs Texas of scheming around their lack of a traditional running game (handoffs to the RB), but they're not gonna make it through a whole season beating teams with QB draws, sweeps, wildcats, etc. They'll almost certainly come back and win this home game vs the team that lost to Baylor(!) and hasn't won a Big 12 game. But the shitty O-line pigeons always come home to roost, i.e. they're gonna drop a couple games this year, maybe one of those being Big 12 championship.
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