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Posts posted by Beau Vine
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Schilmiller's family sent WAVE 3 News the following statement:
“Darin Schilmiller was born as Darin Thomas. He is a low-functioning individual, which was apparent at an early age. His biological family did not want him. He was subsequently adopted into the Schilmiller family in an attempt to provide a better life for a child. We had no knowledge of what was happening nor did we believe he was mentally and morally capable of carrying out these actions. We are mortified this is attached to our name. Our family is disgusted and hopes justice is served. We want the victims’ families to know our thoughts and prayers are with them. As bad as our embarrassment may be, it pales in comparison to the tragedy they have to endure.”
While those who knew Darin were shocked to hear about his involvement in this murder, they weren't surprised to hear that the FBI was already investigating Darin for child porn charges. "I don't think that anybody thought he would ever kill anybody but the child pornography—he definitely had a problem there," said Jade Pohle, who attended middle school and high school with Darin.
Jade reported Darin asking her for inappropriate photographs of herself in bathing suits while she was underage, and other women reported that Darin would frequently create fake personas on the web and use them to ask for photographs of babies having their diapers changed. In fact, some said that Darin's penchant for child porn was an open secret in the small town where he lived.
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2 hours ago, Machinator said:
Smiles with his eyes. Sign him up.
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59 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:
Every April or May, the posts on my Facebook feed start coming in with parents posing with their kids signing with D3 schools for the most part because by that time of the academic year, D1 and D2 schools have already allocated their scholarships with signing periods in the fall and winter. I have to think either those kids are getting a heck of good deal in academic based aid because D3 schools don't award athletic only scholies. Or are the parents are going further into debt to see their kid play sports in college? Are they blinded with the fact they spent so much money getting him/her to this point, they have to see it play out at the next level?
Blows my mind to see kids "signing" with D3 schools. They're not signing to play the sport. They're signing to pay tuition there.
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Pujols homered at STL and got a curtain call, also did this:
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What are the chances that he plays something other than CB?
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Finally got around to watching a little bit of Holey Moley. Somehow, that was much worse than I expected. What the hell happened to Joe Tessitore?
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5 minutes ago, gmr548 said:
Anyone that tweets at recruits is a moron. All schools have them. I think it was Princely U that had some idiot Texas fans come at him recently, which probably helps fuel the speculation that he's trending aggy despite being on campus the past two weekends. That said, I'm sure aggy has a special breed.
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I can't believe that one of the fastest CBs in the country just committed here, and this board reacted by spending a full page hating on Witfong.
Wait, yes i can...
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Spy's favorite player Leonys Martin DFA'ed a day after playing a single into a triple and getting into it with Lindor in the dugout.
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1 hour ago, F250 said:
My teenager has been an umpire and 7on7 ref for the past several years. Baseball pays the best between 30-50 dollars a game but it is definitely work.
He says the secret is tuning out the parents and vanishing the second the game is over. Never linger around the field after a game.
I've told this story, but I'm gonna tell it again.
I started umpiring youth league games when I was in HS. My supervisor loved me because I knew the rule book backwards and forwards, and I needed money, so I was always willing to do games. The week I was graduating, I specifically told him to not schedule me or even think of calling me to work on Thursday because I had a graduation party to go to. Sure enough, my phone rang on Wednesday, and he's begging me to work a game Thursday because someone cancelled -- "It's a single Pee Wee League game at 6, so you'll be done by 8 and you can still go to the party." I told him to call everyone else on the list before he called me back. And yeah, he called back, and yeah I took it.
As some of y'all know, the problem with Pee Wee League games is that they're always 22-18 games where you only play 3 innings because of time limit, because they're nothing but walks and walks and walks.
So I show up to the game determined to be done before 8pm so I could get to this party. And I told both coaches at the pregame meeting, "Listen, I'm going to have the biggest strike zone in the history of baseball tonight -- you tell your kids to come up to the plate ready to swing the bat."
After about an hour, we were heading into the 6th inning and the score was 5-3 because if I thought the batter could have reached the pitch with his bat, I called it a strike. Then one of the pitchers just completely lost it and couldn't throw a pitch anywhere near the plate, so we had about 15 walks in a row and that final inning took about an hour. And when the final out was made, I turned and started to run to my car.
Except there was an entire gauntlet of parents from both teams in my way. And they were all wanting to shake my hand. And they were saying things like, "That was the best game we've had all season" and "Can you umpire more of our games?"
But I didn't get laid at the party that night. :sadbanana
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2 hours ago, Dr. Beeper said:
Couple of things. It starts a LOT sooner than 9. And, there are plenty of white kids that get football, baseball and lax scholarships, and in fact I think my 9-year old could get any of those.
Lulz.
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12 hours ago, conVINCEd said:
I reffed for 5 years (soph hs-soph college). Mainly basketball with a lot of baseball, and some softball and soccer. I can’t imagine there are many better paying part time jobs for hs kids, but you earn every fucking penny. In the early 90’s it started at $15/game, and when I started reffing older kids when I was in college, I made as much as $35/game. In hs it was also cash money, no taxes. I could write a book about the ridiculousness I witnessed during that time. I will say this, it teaches you a lot about dealing with people.
Spot on.
I used to ump what we called "The Mexican League" up in Gunter when I was in college. It was a North Texas men's league, and no one from the FtW chapter of umpires wanted to drive to Gunter, so I always got the games even though I wasn't in the chapter. Gunter's team was all migrant farm workers who didn't speak English. $70 to do a doubleheader on Sundays. Good times. One time the other umpire made a bad call, and a lady in the crowd really let him have it in Spanish. I spoke just enough to understand, and I busted out laughing. She saw that, so she started yelling at me in Spanish, mostly good-natured stuff. When the game was over, she brought me those badass horchuta cookies and beer ( I think I was 19), and did that every game for the rest of the season.
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12 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:
Yep. It's crazy looking at the past champs list to see not one team other than Oregon State come from north of an area if you drew a line from northern California to Washington DC. I mean you have to go back to 1976 to see a team from north of that line Eastern Michigan even playing in the championship game and that was way before the best of three series for the 'ship. And the last time a team from the Big 10 won the 'ship was Ohio State in 1966.
https://www.ncaa.com/history/baseball/d1
So Go Big Blue! Especially if you play the SEC! SEC SEC! rep.
I believe Bob Welch was on that team.
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3 hours ago, Goo Punch said:
Frankie Montas out 80 games for PED use.
Fangraphs did this on him two days ago: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-marvelous-mr-montas/
Conclusion:
QuoteFrankie Montas is largely looking like the latest example of why you should always let a player prove you wrong. When we talk about teams bringing in Kyle Kendrickor Homer Bailey and calling it expensive, it’s not just a money thing, but an opportunity cost issue. Would a richer team than the Oakland A’s, coming off a 97-win season, be as willing to give Montas an extended stint in the rotation? Whether it’s luck or skill, the Oakland A’s have likely unearthed a hidden gem in Montas.
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4 hours ago, Bevo14 said:
jackass forgot that forgot that Majors and Parr would bring their lunch pails too
And be coaches on the field.
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1 hour ago, Nope said:
Josh Lewin and Tom Grieve were a good tandem for the Rangers
Because Lewin carried Grieve. Once Lewin left, Grieve started to sound like my 88-yo father calling a game.
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1 hour ago, Nope said:
Josh Lewin and Tom Grieve were a good tandem for the Rangers
Because Lewin carried Grieve. Once Lewin left, Grieve started to sound like my 88-yo father calling a game.
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12 minutes ago, EastTexan said:
Nadel is good, but Mark Holtz was "the" all time Ranger announcer.
Dick Risenhoover.
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2 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:
Yep - that's also what I tell my broker when I insist he puts a large percentage of my portfolio in highly leveraged S&P ETF's.
If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, you need a new broker yesterday. Those are intended for *daily* investments. Unless you're rebalancing your positions daily, your return can be the opposite of what you expect due to volatility.
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Just now, totallynotabuttpirate said:
I didn't read the details of the case, but the bottom line is you can be sued and found liable for damages if you lie and misrepresent a product you're selling.
Yeah, I didn't see anything about lying and misrepresenting.
This is from a longer article:
QuoteBrees described growing so close to Moradi over the course of about 15 years that he completely believed the jeweler when he said the diamonds were investments that would rapidly appreciate and likely weather downturns in the economy such as the 2008 financial collapse.
However, problems brewed when an appraiser told the Breeses in 2017 that they had paid roughly $7 million more for the collection than it was worth. The appraiser’s opinion was that the $8 million ring was worth roughly half of that.
Brees sued last year, asserting that Moradi admitted to obscenely marking up the diamonds and explaining that away by saying the prices were what they could be resold for in a number of years.
So two guys disagreed about what diamonds are worth. I'm not aware of any valuation formulas that can tell you what a diamond ring is actually worth.
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2 minutes ago, totallynotabuttpirate said:
The key here is the guy sold it to them as an investment, not as jewelry. That changes things.
I guess what I'm wondering is why he didn't take that $3.75M diamond ring to the appraiser who told him it was worth that much before he paid $8M for it. That shouldn't be so hard to do, should it?
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