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Beau Vine

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  1. 18 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    ???  

    My old house in Woodcreek/Wimberley does not have city sewage and wastewater, yet we paid property tax to the city.  Do I need a lawyer to get me 20 years' of refunds?

    Never mind, just got the distinction.  They provided it, but we opted out because they provided it through AquaTexas, one of the worst companies on the planet.  

  2. 4 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

    Historically

    I really enjoyed the Sunday Night Baseball crew of Jon Miller and Harry Morgan as they were on every Sunday from when I was 1 until I was 21. On the college football side give me the 11AM Big XII match-up between Colorado and Texas Tech with Joel Meyers giving the play by play. I'll also take an Astros booth of Bill Brown and Alan Ashby.

     

    Current:

    First on the color side is Razor and right behind him is Geoff Blum. Play by play I'll take Sean McDonough or Brad Nessler. I like Fran Fraschilla in college basketball. Pro football has to be the Sunday night crew of Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth but that's mainly for nostalgia reasons.

     

    This is such a terrible post.  Harry Morgan?  And Geoff Blum might be the only guy dumber than Joe Morgan who has ever been on TV.

  3. 1 hour ago, blacklab said:

    What all these dumbasses clamoring for these houses to be taxed doesn't realize is that under state law the city has to provide sewer and wastewater for all of these houses and they currently do not. 

    ???  

    My old house in Woodcreek/Wimberley does not have city sewage and wastewater, yet we paid property tax to the city.  Do I need a lawyer to get me 20 years' of refunds?

  4. His parents were awesome.  You could talk to his dad for 2 minutes and know he was a former coach.  His mom would sit in a lawn chain waaaay down the line past the bullpen, near the outfield fence, and would scream at the umpires.  One time, I asked her why she always sat down there.  She said something like, "Have you heard what some of those idiots in the stands yell at my son?  It's better for the general peace if I stay away from them."

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  5. When researching Colorado prospects over the past decade, I could not help but notice that they all seemed to be coming from Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, and Pueblo.

    When researching Washington prospects over the past decade, I could not help but notice that they all seemed to be coming from Seattle/Tacoma, and Spokane.

    When researching Alaska prospects over the past decade, I could not help but notice that they all seemed to be coming from Anchorage and Fairbanks.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Machinator said:

    When researching Arizona prospects over the past decade, I could not help but notice that they all seemed to be coming from the same five cities: Chandler, Scottsdale, Tucson, Gilbert, and Phoenix. Only 4 of the 61 players rated as 4-stars or better over the past decade in Arizona have come from any other city. Things don’t get much clear-cut than that. 

    Has this guy never fucking looked at a map of Arizona?

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    John Paul Funes—who pleaded guilty today to stealing more than $550,000 from the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation—sent approximately $180,000 of that money to the father of Vadal Alexander, the former LSU offensive guard who played for the Tigers from 2012-2015 and was a student-athlete at the time of the payments.

    Four sources have confirmed for Daily Report that Alexander’s father, James Alexander, was the recipient of the $180,000, who is referenced in the court documents only as “Individual C.”

    James Alexander is a self-employed entrepreneur who lives in the Atlanta area, according to his LinkedIn and Facebook pages. Multiple attempts to reach him and Vadal Alexander, who went on to play in the NFL, most recently for the Oakland Raiders, were unsuccessful.

    The Alexanders are not the only LSU-connected family to have received payments from Funes, who pleaded guilty after a 35-minute hearing this morning to one count of money laundering and one count of wire fraud in the six-year embezzlement scheme.

    Daily Report previously reported the mother and sister of former Tigers quarterback Rohan Davey also received money from Funes—some $107,000 that Funes had said was intended to help cover medical costs for a Children’s Hospital patient.

    A key distinction, however, is that Davey was not a student-athlete at the time of Funes’ payments to his family members, who later returned more than half of it to Funes at his request. Alexander was a player for the Tigers during the period when his father received the payments, exposing LSU to potential NCAA rules violations.

    In a statement, LSU Senior Associate Athletic Director Robert Munson says only that, “LSU was made aware of specific allegations by OLOL officials in late 2018 and made that information immediately available to the NCAA. As this is an ongoing inquiry, LSU will have no further comment.”

    The NCAA did not respond to a request seeking comment.

    Former LSU coach Les Miles, who led the Tigers during Alexander’s college career, says he is stunned to hear of the payments.

    “I didn’t know about it and wouldn’t have expected that in any way,” says Miles, now the head football coach at the University of Kansas.

    It is unclear whether those who received money from Funes will be targeted by the feds, now that the investigation into Funes is essentially done. But sources familiar with the case say that is not likely and court documents continue to stress—as has OLOL, which first announced the embezzlement scheme last November—that Funes acted alone.

    https://www.businessreport.com/business/funes-directed-stolen-money-to-father-of-lsu-football-player

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  8. 9 hours ago, DougO said:

     

    I had to go on a school trip to St. Pete back in the day, unfortunately. It seems it might be good place to be if you're 100 years old or gay...or both.

    FTR, Al Lang Field (just east of the Trop) was one of the greatest minor league stadiums in the country before they fagged it all up for soccer.

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  9. 30 minutes ago, WBT said:

    Wow, game just ended in St Louis with the tying run picked off of 2nd.  That was immediately after the non-tying run was almost thrown out at the plate on an idiotic send by the 3rd base coach.

    You forgot to mention it was a pitcher pinch-running because Yadi is slower than Mo Vaughn's grandma.  Christ...

  10. 8 minutes ago, thestud said:

    Fuck the Cardinals.

    Doesn’t Albert have a kid with DS? Pretty sure I saw an interview with him about doing some extensive work with a DS foundation or something. He seems to be a good human being.

    Fuck saint louis.

    Are you aware that Pujols plays for the Angels and has since 2012?

  11. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    Your baby is ... breathtaking.

    I’m guessing the odds of you getting this one are pretty fucking low as well. 

     “Well, you know, Elaine, sometimes you say a thing like that just to be nice.”

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