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Beau Vine

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  1. 7 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    Someone finally voted for Arizona.  I almost didn't put them on the list, but they're even with Philly, ahead of Mets and MIL, and their remaining schedule is baby soft.

    Now ahead of Philly, 3.5 behind the Cubs.  Their finishing stretch: 6 against CIN, 6 against SD, 3 against MIA, 4 @ Mets, 3 against STL.  13-9 seems very doable, which would get them to 86 wins.  Maybe not enough, but Luvullo has done a great job with this team regardless.  

  2. 12 hours ago, crash_davis said:

    I'm going to invent a fireproof box for charging electronic devices and make millions.  Crazy to think a lithium battery killed 30+ people.

    edit: actually there are already a few in amazon.  

    maybe move on to a tamper-proof festival cup lid?

  3. 3 hours ago, HRSchenker said:

    I love small town Texas! I grew up in a small town and eventually lived in a big city. Advantages and disadvantages to both but I honestly prefer to be around less people. One thing i absolutely hate about small towns is they operate on their own traffic rules. Drive east away from Dallas and you'll run into a town called Gun Barrel City. The folks there use the middle turn lane as their own merge/acceleration lane. So if you're trying to turn left to get on the main road, normally you cross 2 lanes, the turn lane, then your lane. Nope. These folks turn into the turn lane, stop, put on their blinker, then wait to merge. Very annoying.

    WHere do people not do this?

  4. 4 hours ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

    Grew up in small town Texas, so won't ever live in one again.  I want more of a "small city" than a small town.   The dream one is Bend, Oregon.  Love that place.  About 100k in population, and just gorgeous.  And yeah, it is all perspective.  100K feels a lot smaller than 1 million or whatever the Austin area is at these days.   Unfortunately, expensive as all get out, so loses any financial 'wins'.   Kicking myself for what I could have bought when I first visited it, but at the time my job wouldn't let me go full remote.

    If not Bend, then some other small city in the Pac Northwest.  That's the fantasy, at least.  The climate and scenery out there is just perfect for me.  

     

    Bend is pretty much the meth capital of the west coast.

  5. 2 minutes ago, You don't know me said:

    I'm not sure he had much of a choice yesterday.  There were just too many games in a very short period.  But it's been a great ride the last month and a half or so.

    I understood why it was going to be a bullpen game, but it seemed like he only made pitching changes according to the pregame plan, while ignoring how the guy was pitching.  He easily could have gotten another inning out of Wacha, but the plan was two innings, so nope.  And the plan said 1 inning for Leone, even though he clearly had no idea where it was going -- 5 of his first 10 pitches missed the strike zone by over a foot, and then he gave up a 3-run homer when he did get it in the strike zone.  Not sure why you bring in Miller to face Longoria, but you can't trust him against Pillar?

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    Another really good start from Hudson today. 

    Hudson, Flaherty, and Edman have really turned this team around.  The team is 16-3 in Hudson's last 19 starts.

  7. 4 hours ago, Longhornfrenzy said:

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    This one is beautiful. 
    TU has very little real appeal.  Yet they're still getting recruits, even though the coaches aren't great recruiters.  Their players get absurd media hype.  Trust in Jimbo.

  8. 32 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

     

    I Don’t have some personal vendetta against you. That’s reserved for @Katfid54. I fucking hate that shitstain of a poster.

    I was under the impression that we were supposed to reserve our personal disdain for futureman.  Did I get that wrong?

  9. https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3055983

     

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    Interesting
    full article... https://www.si.com/college-football/2019/09/02/tom-herman-texas-lsu-ed-orgeron

    Kelly Orgeron returned from dinner with bad news for her husband. LSU had offered its head coaching job to Jimbo Fisher. "Everybody," she told Ed Orgeron, "was talking about it at dinner." This was Wednesday night, a day before LSU played at Texas A&M in what many thought would be Ed Orgeron's final game as coach of the Tigers. The Orgerons and more than 200 othersplayers, administrators, coaching staff, parentsspent that night in the team hotel. It was buzzing with talk of Fisher, a sort of long lost son for the Tigers. Fisher has in the past expressed his affection for LSU, where he served as offensive coordinator for seven years and has twice been seriously in the mix to be the Tigers head coach. He interviewed for the job to replace Nick Saban in 2005 and was the clear choice to potentially replace Miles in 2015.

    Earlier in the day, just before the team took flight for College Station, Texas, a Baton Rouge radio host, Charles Hanagriff, had reported on air information that he thought at the time was public knowledge. "I had been told from somebody I trusted that if they would prepare an offer to Jimbo, he was willing to come," says Hanagriff, still a host on that radio station, ESPN 104.5 FM. By the time the team landed in Texas, the rumblings about Fisher had reached a fever pitch, so much so that Orgeron noticed pockets of players and staff members whispering and gesturing to their phones, none brave enough to tell the man in charge the news. Team meetings that night in the hotel were a mess. The swirling rumors were not only that Fisher was coming but that he planned to keep on staff LSU's current receivers coach, Dameyune Craig, one of Fisher's former quarterbacks at Auburn and a guy who now works for Fisher at Texas A&M. "There were guys on our staff talking about this and that and where these guys are going," says Orgeron. "They never said it in front of me, but you can tell it was going on."

    Joe Alleva and others are here to set the record straight about Fisher. In 2016, Alleva had one phone call with Fisher's agent, Jimmy Sexton, early in the search process. They never spoke again. In the end, he was not a serious candidate, partly because of his price tag: $7.5 million a year over seven years, committee members say. New Orleans businessman Stephen Perry, a board member who served on that search committee, describes a "fateful moment" during the search when decision-makers agreed not to pursue Fisher. "We loved Jimbo and thought he was a great guy, but we felt like the program at Florida State was in a downward spiral. And what the agent was asking for" Perry says trailing off. Committee members told no one of this decision. In fact, they allowed the Fisher rumors to fester and even sometimes fueled it as a smokescreen to negotiate with their real candidate.

    On Wednesday, a day before LSU played Texas A&M, reports from The Shreveport Times and ESPN about an offer to Fisher were wrong, committee members now say. Behind the scenes, school officials were in intense negotiations with Trace Armstrong, the agent of Herman. At some point that week, Alleva and committee members scheduled an interview in Houston for that Saturday morning with the coach. Through deep talks with Armstrong, the school had met Herman's requests, and a contract was readied. "We had numbers worked out with Tom," Alleva says. Some sources claim an offer was extended, and that Herman had verbally agreed. Alleva vehemently disputes that. The price for Herman was $5 million a year, Perry says. "We never had a deal, but we were both very seriously dancing," Alleva says.

    That whole article is bullcrap. They are trying to prop up their man and tarnish ours. It is so transparent it is laughable
    I don't care what light they paint Jimbo in, I am just thankful to God every day we have Jimbo and LSU doesn't. Can you just imagine whatever coach we would have now if LSU had gotten Jimbo? That would've extended our run of mediocrity another 10 years minimum.
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