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Paul Wesley

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  1. Carr has to stay under control.
  2. no contact there at all
  3. When I was like 14, I’d play acoustic guitar for the singing portion of the Sunday School service. And so sometimes after church I’d have my guitar with me when dad took us for lunch at Luby’s (full gospel services always ran long, and we arrived long after those restrained and punctual Methodists). In the winter, I didn’t want to leave my guitar in a freezing cold car, so I was the kid balancing a tray while holding a guitar in one hand. It’s a long way to the top…
  4. Has Fran ever lobbied for a call in our favor?
  5. Man, George has some offensive moments where he just gets great elevation and lets it go with a silky-smooth release, even with a defender right in his grill. It's Durant-ish. I suspect Durant shot a much higher %, but still.
  6. Yeah, I'm not down for any league-wide conspiracies or whatever. I just think "Charlie pissed them off" doesn't line up with any behavior we saw from Strong in his entire career, including in that game. He's remarkably restrained. I've seen Bo Pellini repeatedly go on red-faced, spit-flying, chest-bumping, unhinged rants (and not get flagged). We never saw Charlie act like that for a single moment. ... unless, of course, that ref thought he was being - you know - uppity.
  7. I suppose anything is possible - we'll never know - but that just seems highly unlikely. I'm not sure you could find a more WTF personal foul against a coach in any sport. I'd say way more likely than "refs hated Strong" is that somebody quietly had $$$ on the outcome. We know for a fact that the system has been clowned for gambling $ in both college basketball players and with NBA officials. Watch it on YouTube. I've seen refs who were stunned that a coach or player bumped them, and it takes them a second to digest what just happened and then throw the flag (or throw them out of the game). But that ref is chasing after him, then hitting him from behind and flagging him all in one motion. It's pretty dirty.
  8. I’m not trying to be an asshole to anyone, but if we’re gonna take turns telling anti-vaccine anecdotes, let’s also be very clear about the bigger picture.
  9. Tough call, right? On one hand, some guy on a bike got sick but now he’s fine and also the world re-opened. On the other hand, you’ve got six or eight million dead people and our nation’s schools, economy, and mental health could have been devastated indefinitely. What to do? p.s. Even for those of us lucky enough to be perfectly healthy (knocks wood), there is a public health consideration, right? Can we all agree that it’s not great for healthy people to recklessly give it to grandma, or to a person whose autoimmune disease requires lifelong immunosuppressants? If we’re all just gonna say “Fuck it. **I’m** not gonna die!” then why not abolish school zones and stop making me be fucking inconvenienced by kids on bikes for three hours every weekday?
  10. I mean, they *could have.*
  11. I mean, SF is on the road with their QB out. And yet they can still get to the locker room down 7. The chance they were gonna march 80 yards in 90 seconds with Johnson right there was **very** small. There was a far greater chance of giving up a sack, and/or a couple incompletions and giving Philly a free possession from midfield. It seems to me that, in general, coaches have learned from analytics (e.g. you rarely see a punt anymore once a team crosses midfield). But I think end-of-half clock management still errs on the side of being way too aggressive. Often, the smart thing is to run it up the middle twice and go to the locker room. Hell, UT did that with Garrett Gilbert right before the half vs Bama (also with starting QB out with an arm injury). If I recall correctly, we could have gone to locker room down 7, and instead ran a cluster-fuck of a shovel pass deep inside our own end of the field, and gave up a pick-6. Just a boneheaded high-risk-low-reward decision.
  12. Username...
  13. Yeah, Tenn player clearly landed out of bounds while holding ball
  14. Pretty bush-league accidental/on-purpose elbow to the face by TCU there. He should get tossed.
  15. I know y'all already talked about this, but when the teams were picked for these matchups, some effort was made to try to for compelling games with a lot of side stories. Kentucky vs KU - battle of blue bloods. Texas-Tennessee has the Barnes angle. Most of the other games try to make some sense geographically. How is it that all these games just skipped right over the Aggies, who used to be IN the Big 12, and who could have gone 90 miles down the road vs Baylor, or against former rivals Texas or Texas Tech? Just completely ignored.
  16. I normally don't go too hard for the conference rah-rah shit, but Bama and Auburn are a combined 14-2 in SEC play, and neither one even showed up for the first half on the road against two teams that are a combined 4-12 in the Big 12. That said, the day is young.
  17. Uh, do you know where the weight room is?
  18. Tucker is puzzled by your assertion and trying to understand it.
  19. Someone could have written this on-the-nose analysis about Greg Brown, who played only a handful of minutes vs a very un-athletic Abeline Christian, and spent what little time he was on the floor standing at the 3-point line. Ugh.
  20. I'm also a bit troubled with CNN pundits telling us what the "moderates" in the Republican Party have agreed to. Let's look at the negotiators: McCarthy - in early 2021, after polling made it clear that a big majority of Republican voters still believed some version of the big lie, he went to Florida to kneel before Trump, then used his power in the House (as the minority party, it wasn't much) to absolutely torpedo any meaningful investigation into what was pretty clearly a Trump-led attack on democracy. Gaetz - still giving speeches in 2022 blaming "Antifa" for January 6. Could one of you explain to me who is the fucking moderate?
  21. Ooof. There was a "Simpsons" scene where the robbers are speeding away from the Kwik-E-Mart, and Apu is standing at the now-empty register. He calls out to an off-screen Homer: "You may emerge from behind the chip display now. The chance to be a hero is long past." It's more like that.
  22. Agreed, but their own 2013 autopsy said they couldn't win without moderating in a way that added more women, youth, and minorities. But then Trump proved they COULD win without any more moderates, as long as they added enough whites, olds, and uneducated... all of whom watched Fox all day and were prone to conspiratorial lunacy. So here we are. You can't pick a Speaker without giving real, actual national power to Lauren Fucking Boebert. I really want to enjoy this more, but I enjoyed it immensely when they picked an idiotic racist gameshow host as their presidential nominee, and it turned out the fucking joke was on me.
  23. I like how this was implied by your first response, but then you went ahead and made it clear.
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