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  1. 23 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

    So our little gambling consortium group is going again where we have maybe 16 of us and each week everyone picks SNF and MNF, and one person picks 3 college/2 pro or 4 college, 1 pro game.  Point spread bets only.  This week is me.  Whaddya got?

    Thoughts-

    Texas v OU (-2.5)- taking Texas (I think it comes down to Ehllinger v Rattler, and I don't have faith in Rattler)

    Fla (-7) @ aggy-  taking FLA (Mond sucks, Jimbo cratering Tamu)

    Alabama (-24) at Ole Miss - taking Ole Miss (Kiffin can come up with SOMETHING to keep it closer than 24, yes?)

    talk me out of the above or offer alternates, please.

     

    I'm also on Fla -7.

    I actually do like Kiffin to cover but not enough to put it on my card.  He loves being a thorn in Saban's side and you know he will have them up for it at home.  Bama also has UGA next week.

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  2. Got my ass kicked in Week 12.  Posting my picks until @joeycovers posts his and I can jump on those.

    Nebraska -4 @ Maryland

    OSU -7 @ WVU

    Tulsa -2.5 vs Houston

    Virginia Tech -4 vs Pitt

    Minnesota -13.5 @ Northwestern  

     

     

  3. Tell me why I'm stupid:

    Houston +3 @Tulane 

    Utah -4.5 @ USC

    Cal +2 @ Ole Miss

    Florida -14 vs. Tennessee

    North Carolina -3 vs. Appalachian State

    Texas -5 vs. Okie Light

  4. Great article on the Athletic-  his QB's from the past few years shared their favorite Leach stories.  Overarching theme was that 1 hour film sessions were routinely 2-3 hour sessions and not because Leach was talking about anything related to the film.  Some of my favorite parts:

    "One of the quarterbacks at Texas Tech took notes on Leach’s stories, and he would quote Leach but he wouldn’t say the F word and he wouldn’t write the F word. He left his notebook behind one day and somehow Leach got a hold of it and was looking at it, so the next day in the meeting he said, “I want you to get up on the board and write the word ‘fuck.’”

     

    It was fall camp my second year and someone threw a pick. He was like, “Don’t throw the ball to the other team. That’s the last thing you want to do is throw the ball to the other team.”

     

    I remember during fall camp last year he had a pretty big dip in. During fall camp that man puts like half a can in his mouth. It’s insane. But anyways, he was so concentrated on the film that he had his coffee in one cup and his spitter in the other way. He spat in his coffee with his dip in his mouth, took his dip out and then drank his coffee. He spit in it like two or three times and didn’t even know it. Me and Casey were like, “What the fuck did he just do?”

     

    We’d be watching film and out of nowhere, just completely out of left field, Leach would use his laser point and he’ll point to two of our players and he’ll be like, “All right, in a fight to the death here, who do you got?”

     

     

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  5. Yesterday morning I drove up on a younger homeless man having a seizure in the middle of Koenig  (westbound, right before Grover Ave).   Appeared to have tried crossing the middle of street and was struck by a car.  Car must've been moving pretty quick as the passenger side of their windshield was completely smashed in and the j-walker looked pretty cut up.  Haven't seen anything in the news but wouldn't be surprised if he died.

  6. I don't post often and have no clout here, but I find it hilarious that Derka fancies himself the rational voice of the board.   So principled as to never give in to the emotional rollercoaster that the idiots on here fall victim to.  More enlightened with his cherry picked advanced metrics that make him smarter for knowing of.  If you don't agree with him, you're a homer sheep.  Thank you for posting, Derka.

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  7. On 11/7/2018 at 4:44 PM, Angry Gorilla said:

    Finally got in to see the oncologist today.  That's his 5th vet visit since going blind.  Selfishly, it was worst case scenario as I was hoping the decision would be made for me and it wasn't.  The tumor has completely blocked off his right nasal cavity and has eaten through bone and gotten into his brain which caused the blindness.  The vet said he is probably in considerable pain, though did say the pain medicine he is on now is very strong and he prescribed some more that would help with pain (that we had filled at Walgreens which seemed weird to me).  He said we could go the palliative route and keep him pilled up and we would be looking at 3-5 months, but he also said as fast as this has come on it would likely be less than that. 

    The other option is radiation therapy.  He said the technology has come a long way, but there is no chance it would cure him.  It could shrink the tumor to relieve pain, and did mention there is a small chance some vision could return (he could see shapes and lights but would still be mostly blind).  Best case scenario would be 9 more months, but he is old (8.5) and overweight so 9 months would be very optimistic.  The treatment involves taking him in 5X/week for 4 weeks.  The treatment only takes 5 minutes, but they have to put him under anesthesia each time and he stays there for ~2 hours.  My wife can't load him into her car as he turns into dead weight if you try to pick him up.  I work for myself and could do it, but it is a lot to put him through.  The vet also said after treatment he would feel better, but the tumor would slowly start growing back and he would eventually be in the same position where he is blind, in pain, and in a drug induced fog.

    We are waiting to hear from our normal vet, who has been great, tomorrow after he reads the synopsis and hoping he gives us better direction.  We had to put down my dog 2 years ago and after we did I have always felt guilty that I kept her around too long selfishly and should have done it much sooner.  My wife is also pregnant with our first child and she is worried about the stress of seeing him waste away.  He already gets terrible nose bleeds and the vet said seizures should come next.  I think we decided that if we didn't go through with the treatment, we wouldn't do the palliative route and would go ahead with euthanasia.  He is already a shell of himself now and would only get worse with the growing tumor and added medicine.  And he is in pain.

    Hopefully the vet tomorrow helps with the decision, but any advice is appreciated.

    Colt's a good boy.  Fucking sucks-  sorry to hear this.  My first dog is a 5 year golden right now and I'm dreading these days.  Sending good vibes to Colt and his family.  

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  8. On 8/29/2018 at 5:43 PM, KaiserSoze said:

    It's on Lavaca- across the street from Texas Chili Parlor. Based on its size I've wondered... is SXSW going to be the only tenant or just the primary named tenant? 

    They are only taking top 3 floors.  It's 12 floors total... not sure how many of them are parking.

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