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Beau Vine

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  1. 1 minute ago, Thiefery said:

    i used to think Mays was gonna be a superstar in the nba..shows you what a ten yr old thinks..

    Mays and Blanks had NBA talent, but they just had zero idea how to play defense, thanks to Tanning Booth Tom.

    Ironically, they were both brought here by Weltlich, and they probably had a better chance of making the NBA if he had coached them. 

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  2. I'm incredibly amused that we have:

    • People criticizing Shaka's recruiting
    • People claiming that Shaka can't recruit the kids who he was getting at VCU
    • People excited that we have a chance at getting Joe Cremo from Albany and a 5-foot-something guy from Samford

    The cherry on top is that there are people who are in all three of these groups.  Never change, Shaggy.  I mean, Surly.  Fuck.

  3. 3 minutes ago, Underdog said:

    UA fans were one of the reasons I was excited for their inclusion to the SEC, folks said they were great during the ‘78 FF.  Hogs made the FF in ‘78 and damn near again in ‘79 had it not been for some scrub from Indiana St.

    The SWC tournament at Reunion Arena was always completely packed with Arky fans.  

    I remember going in 1988 when I was a senior at SMU.  We had won the league, had won our semi-final, and the second semi-final was Arkansas and Baylor.  17K people, and 15K were Arky fans.  

    I sat in the middle of a bunch of them, and most of them talked to me about what a great team SMU had and how they'd love to have players like Kato Armstrong and Carlton McKinney.  At halftime of their game, they brought the SMU team out to recognize them as regular season champs, and the Arkansas fans gave them a standing O.  Just great fans.

    Again, I think the shitty part of their fanbase took over when they won it all in the 90s.  

  4. 12 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

    I'm 38 and remember the Nolan Richardson vs Penders games..  Richardson had some talented teams , shame the Todd Day, Oliver Miller, Lee Mayberry teams didn't win the championship....NOT

    I have a lot of respect for Nolan.  His first year or two... not smooth there with a noticeable portion of the fanbase because he wasn't Eddie Sutton and because he wasn't white. 

    Students used to be able sit literally right behind the other team's bench at SMU, and we would heckle him mercilessly.  I remember his first year there, we were beating the crap out of them and a group of Arky fans up in the corner unfurled a banner that said "I'd crawl to Kentucky to bring Eddie Sutton back."  

    A couple of minutes later, a friend of mine used the word "damn" while yelling at him, and Nolan went nuts, asking security to kick him out for cursing.  

    I felt bad for him and wondered how he was going to make it, but he got it figured out.  

    Of course, they eventually ran him off and they haven't been the same since.

  5. I loved the Triplets so much that it made it difficult for me to hate Arkansas once their fans turned shitty after they won it all.

    I don't know about football, but Arkansas basketball fans used to be great.  They would fill road arenas, and they appreciated good basketball.  That all changed at some point. 

  6. 21 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

    Don’t sleep on SWC basketball. So many colorful characters. Abe, Eddie Sutton, Shelby Melcalf, Guy V Lewis, Gerald Myers. Games against Rice at the Jungle Gym or at aggy in the Hollerhouse on the Brazos. Then Strollin Nolan and Tommy P. 

    It wasn’t great basketball. But it sure was entertaining. 

    Fuck that, it was great, especially in the early 80s!

    Phi Slamma Jamma at Houston.  Joe Kleine, Alvin Robertson, and Darrell Walker at Arky.  SMU had some really good years.  Bubba Jennings and Sean Gay at Tech could beat you by themselves.  The Dennis Nutt Horned Frogs were tough.

    Best of all, you had Frank Fallon and Rudy Davalos calling the Raycom Game of the Week.

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  7. 2 hours ago, HOOKEM4 said:

    However, she will haul around a box of stuff that is supposed to go to Goodwill for a solid 6 months before finally dropping it off.

    Mine too.  And she literally drives right past our town's version of Goodwill twice a day.

  8. 2 hours ago, Horny Bull said:

    Was there ever any question that Kansas would be implicated in this? I mean, come on..

    This is my favorite part:

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    “Earlier today, we learned that the University of Kansas is named as a victim in a federal indictment,” Joe Monaco, Kansas’ director of strategic communications said in a statement.

    How does that guy sleep at night?

  9. 4 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

    Molina gets a 1 game suspension because he didn’t like being called a motherfucker by the Dbacks manager

     

    The fact that Yadier Molina is a big crying bitch has already been established.  This incident just confirms it.

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    Team captain Yadier Molina wants United States outfielder Adam Jones to apologize to Puerto Rico's players for saying they were planning a postgame party in San Juan before the World Baseball Classic championship game was even played.

    Molina made his comments to ESPN's Marly Rivera during Thursday's parade in San Juan, less than a day after Jones told MLB Network that Puerto Rico's postgame plans sounded a little premature and inspired the United States' dominating 8-0 victory.

     

     


     

     

    "Adam Jones ... is talking about things he doesn't know about," Molina told ESPN. "He really has to get informed because he shouldn't have said those comments, let alone in public and mocking the way [preparations] were made."

    Jones noted that the Puerto Rico team had champion T-shirts already made up as well and that "didn't sit well with us, so we did what we had to do." A flight to Puerto Rico and a "caravan" and celebration already had been planned before the title game was played.

    "He has to apologize to the Puerto Rican people," Molina said. "Obviously, you wanted to win; he didn't know what this means to [our] people."

     

  10. Hey, fuck you, Jeter!

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    Root, root, root for the ... international offshore holding corporation?

    The Miami Marlins are claiming corporate citizenship in the British Virgin Islands in an effort to have a federally appointed arbitrator take over the lawsuit by Miami and Miami-Dade County to recover a share of the profits from Jeffrey Loria's $1.2 billion sale of the team to Derek Jeter and partners last fall.

    Lawyers representing the Marlins told a federal judge that at least one corporation that owns part of Marlins Teamco — the company Jeter and majority owner Bruce Sherman formed last year to buy the franchise — is based in the Caribbean. As a result, team lawyers argued, the dispute with Miami-Dade should be governed by jurisdictional rules that apply to international disputes.

    "One of the members of Marlins Teamco is a corporation incorporated in the British Virgin Islands with its principal place of business in the British Virgin Islands," the Marlins wrote in the court filing last month. "Accordingly, Marlins Teamco is a citizen of the British Virgin Islands" under federal law governing treaties.


     

    The legal argument drew a sharp brush back from county lawyers, who mocked the "Jeter Marlins" for invoking treaty law in a lawsuit involving a Miami baseball team and the municipal government that owns Marlins Park.

    "This is the most local of disputes, involving a locally-negotiated contract made between local parties under local law and requiring local performance," county lawyers wrote in arguing to keeping the lawsuit in Miami-Dade Circuit Court.

    If successful, the Marlins' request would strip the case from a Miami-Dade judge who has already sided with Miami and Miami-Dade in a preliminary ruling rejecting the arbitration that Loria lawyers requested from the outset. If the Marlins are deemed a foreign-owned corporation, a federal judge could take over and then consider whether to trigger an arbitration clause in the contract the two governments signed with Loria in 2009 to steer public dollars to a stadium complex that opened three years later.

     

    Miami, which owns the Marlins' parking garages, and Miami-Dade, which owns the stadium, are entitled to a share of certain profits from a team sale. But Loria lawyers claim the formula for calculating those profits yielded a paper loss of $140 million for a team that the New York dealer bought for $159 million in 2002.

    Lawyers for Jeter insist the profit-sharing fight is between the governments and Loria, who agreed to put $50 million of sale proceeds in an escrow account to resolve any claim that the new owners might have to pay. But Miami-Dade sued a Loria entity and the new Marlins when it filed suit in February. Miami promptly joined the suit, setting up a high-profile legal dispute between Jeter and his new hometown landlords.

    The litigation did not seem to dim relations between the new owner and local political leadership. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez both threw out ceremonial first pitches on Opening Day, and the Gimenez administration is trying to accommodate Jeter's request to move the ballpark's county-owned "Homer" home-run sculpture off the property.

     

    A Marlins spokesman declined to comment Monday. The lawsuit does not provide any details for the British Virgin Islands entity, Abernue Ltd. The suit said the company owns a piece of Marlins Holdings LLC, which is the sole owner of Marlins Funding, which is the sole owner of Marlins Teamco.

    The suit does not identify the national origins of other owners of Marlins Holdings, and county lawyers said the omission strongly suggests those corporations are U.S.-based. If that's the case, Miami-Dade lawyers argued, then the Major League baseball franchise in Miami should not be considered a foreign corporation.

    "If even one of the Jeter Marlins’ members is a United States citizen," the county wrote, "then the Jeter Marlins is a United States citizen."

     

  11. 3 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Greed, it's always greed and over exposure.  

    Scalpers charging $500 and up for $65 face value tickets is also part of it.

    Hotels that charge a $100 a night charging $300 per night for 2 night min. stays.

     

    These things aren't greed. 

    These things are supply and demand.

     

    Greed would be UT (a non-profit organization) charging you $95/ticket + donation to watch fucking Kansas play.

  12. 12 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    I love watching Zack Godley pitch.

    Works fast.

    Dances around on the mound after almost every pitch.

    Wicked curves over and over and over.

     

    Bonus: 7 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 9 K tonight

     

  13. 38 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

    Is the future of Sul Ross State stable? I've heard talk of them dropping all sports (who cares), but is the school itself in a good position?

    BTW, their sports are D-3 -- no scholarships. 

    So dropping sports would mean fewer kids paying tuition to come there.

    No way they drop sports.

  14. 57 minutes ago, Kringelbert Fishtybuns said:

    I meant small towns in general over simply Alpine.  That being said a quick review of the Alpine demographics should prove sufficient.

    I think there's a lot of "limiting" factors about living in a big place and going to a huge high school.  Your kid's opportunities for participating in extracurriculars are extremely limited.  Your kids won't know most of the kids they went to school with.  Your kids won't develop a sense of community.

    I said upthread that my daughter actually thanked me for choosing to live in Wimberley instead of San Marcos or south Austin or New Braunfels like everyone else I work with does. 

    She got raised by not just my wife and I, but by wonderful people in the community who took an interest in helping out kids.  People who said, hey the school music program is kind of subpar, so we're going to offer to teach kids how to play the guitar after school.  For free.  Hey, the art program is weak, so we're going to run an after-school art program.  For free.  Mike McNeal, who decided that he wanted kids to get more interested in science, so he created an event where kids could show up and do science experiments.  For free.

    Meanwhile, at school my daughter was taught by some of the greatest people I've ever met.  I already mentioned that we had an absurdly high rate of 5's on a couple of AP tests.  One of her best friends went to Harvard.  One went to Stanford.

    She also got to participate in varsity athletics starting in her freshman year.  She literally knew everyone in her graduating class.  She learned to love (or at least accept and support) all of these people, no matter how different, because they were part of her town.

    But more than anything, she learned about being a part of the community and the power of having a sense of community.  And I would put that WAAAAAAAAAAAAY up near the top of things that anyone should learn. 

    And you don't learn that in a big school in a big city. And I think the absence of that is a big part of this country's problems.

    So don't tell me that small towns "limit" their kids.

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  15. 3 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

    Is the future of Sul Ross State stable? I've heard talk of them dropping all sports (who cares), but is the school itself in a good position?

    I have been threatening my family that I'm going to get a job at Sul Ross for 15+ years.  (But it would have to be a dean job, and I don't want to be a dean, so it's not a real threat.)

    But I have been hearing these rumors for 10+ years. 

    1.  It would be incredibly difficult to shut down a college in this (relatively extremely prosperous) state.  It's not going to happen.

    2.  Their presidents have been asleep at the wheel.  Sul Ross is exactly the type of school that can clean up on distance learning, and they have REALLY lagged on that. 

     

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  16. 15 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

    There were 10 people in my graduating class, I would move back in a heartbeat if my wife would go. It was all I could do to get her to get the fuck out of Austin, and move to Granbury. I want to sell out and move to somewhere like Benjamin, Knox City, or Paducah. I could pay cash for a couple of hundred acres, build a modest house, and do some menial shit, and sell real estate to pay the bills. I could buy a walk in freezer buy primal cuts from locker plants out of Amarillo, have Catalina Seafood drop ship fish, and it would be there the next day before Noon. Just hunt, look at stars, and listen to the coyotes every night, just like at the deer lease.

     

    CHIEF

    Kinda dusty in here.

  17. I love watching Zack Godley pitch.

    Works fast.

    Dances around on the mound after almost every pitch.

    Wicked curves over and over and over.

     

    Bonus: 7 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 9 K tonight

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  18. 8 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    If Baylor didn't exist, Ole Miss would be the shittiest, slimiest program around. 

    I mean, they first tried to take on the NCAA and back Hugh Freeze.  

    That blew up spectacularly.  They got their faces shoved into Houston Nutt's asshole.  

    And now they're trying this stunt?  Why?!?!?!?!?  Did they learn nothing from that?

     

    Whoever is running that school is severely lacking in both logic and self-awareness.

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