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Paul Wesley

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  1. Still 45 minutes to kickoff, Baylor fans...
  2. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/25/fox-news-crime-coverage-decline-us-midterm-elections
  3. Exactly. “I’m transferring” tweets are rivaled only by Kevin Fowler songs about beer for their profound lack of imagination.
  4. I agree with your earlier post that Greg Davis wasted a shit ton of talent here. We had NFL-caliber wideouts (Roy, BJ) who collectively had 0 touchdowns in their entire careers vs OU, and an NFL-caliber running back who the Sooners just embarrassed... Benson could hardly get back to the line of scrimmage. Ditto for our offensive line full of five-star recruits who went years without scoring a meaningful touchdown in Dallas. It just bothers me that Texas fans continue to shit on Simms -- "disappointment" or a "waste of talent" -- when those labels never seem to get applied to the other 10 guys on offense. Anyway, if you subtract out the Aggie game where Simms was pulled with the lead (and we lost) and also the Holiday Bowl vs Washington where he was pulled when we were behind (and we won), Simms was 25-5 across 4 seasons. I mean, we can literally count his career losses on one hand. Two were to OU (hard to put that shitshow on his shoulders) and one was to Oregon where Simms threw four really nice balls into the end zone as the game ended -- any of which would have tied the game. Two were flat-out dropped (BJ and Roy). And I'm not sure why you "lol at the Ewers comparison." That comparison was only brought up because you said Simms was a disappointment "based on his ranking." As the top-rated QB in the nation, we can compare Simms' numbers to Vince Young and to Ewers and that's pretty much it. I hope you're right that Ewers will be a far better college QB than Simms, because to do so, he'd have to be one of the best QB in all of college football over the next two seasons. Oh, I also agree that Simms is way fucking wrong about the SEC vs Big 12 this year. We just have different ideas of whether five career losses = "disappointment."
  5. You’re just wrong. He was 26-6 as a starter. One of those losses was at A&M when he was pulled while Texas had the lead. There was 1 - maybe 2 - games in 4 years where you could say Texas lost primarily because Simms played like shit. The Colorado game was one, I agree. Every QB has a game or two like that. Applewhite had a 5- or 6- turnover game vs KSU in a top-10 matchup at home that might have pushed us out of the CCG. Ewers has had arguably more WTF nightmare-game losses (OSU, TCU) in 9 starts this year than Simms had in a 4-year career, and they both came to UT as the top-ranked QB in their class. Ewers’ play at OSU this year likely cost us a shot in the championship game (he’s not a “bust” either). You can say that you’ll never forgive Simms for the 2001 CCG, or that you were always a Applewhite guy, and that’s all fine. But Simms was not “absolutely” a bust by any fucking metric whatsoever. You’re just wrong.
  6. Agreed. It's even crazier that the Big 12 champion plays a round-robin regular season and then the second-place finisher gets an automatic do-over. Conference championship games are dicey things even in a divisional format. Tons of great teams get knocked out of BCS games, MNC games, and playoffs (from Nebraska 96 to USC yesterday). But playing a round-robin and THEN making the winner play another one... it makes no sense.
  7. Feels strange to have to point this out... but the 5th winningest QB in UT history was not a "waste of talent" by any metric.
  8. In the era that Big 12 quarterbacks were McCoy and Bradford and Graham Harrell, we got so used to seeing passes hit receivers right on the money... it was kind of weird to put the TV on a mid-tier SEC matchup and see those QB's consistently throwing at the running back's ankles on a screen pass, or sailing balls way over the WR's heads... and then seeing their fans beat their chests about DEFENSE when the game ended 13-6. That region of the country put out tons of NFL-caliber athletes, but those offensive schemes/execution were a decade behind.
  9. I always appreciate the contributors to threads like this one. Terrestrial radio is long dead, and on a lot of modern platforms (bloggers/reviewers, streaming playlists), I have a hard time finding my personal "signal" above the noise. I'll be checking these out. Thanks to all of you.
  10. This is why I think polls are arguably becoming less and less predictive of actual electoral outcomes... because (like Trump) Walker is brutally and undeniably unqualified for public office in every way. And a lot of *R* voters responding to polls understand that fact. But, you know, party over country, party over faith, party over morality, party over domestic violence, party over raising your children, party over a functional level of intelligence, party over grade-school-level command of the English language... And then after misrepresenting their intentions, they'll celebrate when Walker outperforms the polls, because "fuck the experts, amirite?"
  11. Have you considered a TwoRock Studio Pro 35? Very compact and relatively light. Best EQ I’ve ever heard on any amp, and possibly also the best reverb. Great overdriven sound and also the perfect clean “pedal platform.” I’ll bet you’d love it.
  12. Thanks for posting. Pre YouTube, I used to hang out on recording forums where engineers would share behind-the-scenes rehearsals/alternative takes/demos/etc. It used to feel like you were really getting a privileged "insider" look, but I think a lot of that stuff is widely available now. I find that stuff interesting. A little tempo change, different instrumentation, a key change... you realize how many songs that are among the most-played album tracks in history sounded like a shitty garage band five or ten minutes before the take that's been heard a billion times. No one watching this in real time would have predicted where this would land: I realize Boston is a polarizing band - the overly dramatic lyrics and the overproduction sometimes get really cornball. But you've got to tip your hat to Tom Scholz for making a highly polished/produced record like this in a basement in the early 70's. That's a remarkable work of imagination, engineering, and perseverance. And Brad Delp... wow.
  13. It’s always interesting in a 2-guitar band to see how the guys choose their instruments and amps. This was a good exercise:
  14. I've had a DC-30 on the bucket list for a long time - I always thought they sounded glorious - and I was just poking around Reverb to see if I could find a used one. I had never heard of their "Laurel Canyon" model, so went down the rabbit hole of online demos, and the more I listened, the more I was convinced that it's really 100% in my wheelhouse. I only buy amp heads these days. No more combos for me. I have a 65Amps 2x12" speaker cabinet, and that's what most everything goes through. Buying amp heads is 1) a lot cheaper (especially used ones), 2) takes up considerably less space, and 3) is much better suited to recording, when you can have the amp sitting next to you in the control room and really crank it up and let it sing, and put the cabinet in another room so you're not going deaf. I'm also convinced that 15 or 20 watts is *plenty* of power. If you read the Matchless description of this model, they have a feel-good story about it being a tribute to the singer songwriters who lived in the canyon ...which strikes me as odd marketing, because none of those Laurel Canyon singer/songwriters were known for their electric guitar tones. When I looked at online reviews and gear discussion forums, several people describe them as being sonically between Vox and Fender. I might be missing something, but that's not how it sounds to me. Like I said, I hear it as a nice Vox sound with that EL84 chime. It seems like it gets a little more growl than an AC30 when pushed, but it maintains really nice note separation when hitting chords (I realize that Tim Pierce could sound amazing on almost anything). Anyway, I can appreciate all kinds of guitars and all kinds of amps, but the tones that seem to resonate with me emotionally are disproportionately semi-hollow guitars, P90 pickups, and Vox-flavored amps. I'm also not a good soloist... so I care less about killer single-note tones and more about playing chords and partial chords and getting inspired by low-to-moderate gain guitar tones as writing tools. Probably a lot longer answer than you wanted.
  15. It’s gonna be a few days. I posted those demo videos so that y’all could watch them and subsequently talk me into buying it, but then I watched them again after I posted them and realized I didn’t need any more convincing. It was like a self-hypnosis thing.
  16. A few cheesy songs in this first demo, but damn, I *really* like the way it breaks up. To my ears, it seems like a slightly more aggressive and more "modern" (more harmonic saturation) version of an AC 30. Wheelhouse.
  17. Just scanning channels during a commercial (because, you know, I'm a dude), and the 2:30 lineup of games is a bunch of meh outside of these two powerhouses on the plains.
  18. The line was UMass +32
  19. *Chef's kiss* on the punter flop to open the game.
  20. *Immerse (I blame autocorrect)
  21. Immense (the one in that demo video above)
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