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Murfdogg21

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  1. In the NFL it’s nearly impossible to win a championship without an elite QB, and since at any time there are about 10 of them teams have to pay $40M+. I’m sure some better baseball fans than me will clap back at this with counter examples, but how often does paying an MLB player $300-500M guaranteed or $40M+ per year a good ROI? The Yankees, Red Sox, and Dodger were infamous for how much $/win they spent compared to other good teams. Trout is/was the best player, and the Angels aren’t winning shit while paying him and Rendon mega bucks. Half this board was irate that Houston didn’t offer more to Carlos than they did, but it’s hard to argue as of today that Peña isn’t a way better value. Fuck Scott Boras. Let other teams get saddled with these contracts that look horrible in a couple years and drag franchises down. The Dodgers and Yankees can only sign so many guys to those contracts, maybe it’s time for the other teams to put their feet down and not give in to the demands of a 0.250 hitter that expects to get 40% of an average team’s payroll for the next 10 years.
  2. “I WANT TO COMPETE FOR A CHAMPIONSHIP. THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS TO ME AT THIS STAGE…besides strippers and cheeseburgers.”
  3. This thread needs a new title. I get depressed every time it pops up.
  4. We switched to stream with DirecTVnow/ATTnow/DirecTVstream 3 years ago. When we cut cable, we went from >$150/mo tv and internet bill to $60 Google fiber and $35 DirecTV Now. The streaming companies have all edged their pricing up so they are like $60-70/month for the basic package. I’m considering cutting this now since we don’t want much live tv. I nearly canceled live tv streaming a year ago in favor of Locast (free streaming of local over-air channels NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, CW, PBS, Telemundo). Locast got buttfucked by a court that they could provide for free to consumers over the internet what they could already get for free with bunny eats antennae. Maybe that was a prelude to local NBC/CBS/ABC/Fox affiliates offering live streaming, but I have not generally seen it. I’ll probably move to the Hulu Live + Disney + ESPN bundle and save about $5/mo until the next time they jack up prices. If I was smarter, I’d cancel live tv every year after the super bowl and pick it back up for the UT opener in September.
  5. Missouri 2000 was a torrential downpour.
  6. They should’ve gone with a white helmet to give a nod to the Oilers days.
  7. Best donuts in Austin at S&H. After living in East Austin for 12 years and rotating Saturday breakfast between Kerbey, Paco’s, and S&H, the past year in Houston suburbia makes me feel like Henry Hill getting his egg noodles and ketchup. I miss that Cambodian lady and her donuts.
  8. They could lose him to save $33M/yr? For the Nth time on this page, Ayton cannot be traded for 6 months (realistically 12 months). This was not to flip Ayton for KD, unless you are poorly describing a scenario where they had to resign Ayton to pair with KD after trading Devin Booker to the Nets?
  9. The shaggybevo softball team that played down at Riverside and Pleasant Valley back in the day wasn’t terrible. I’d say I’m sorry we didn’t play again, except I bet y’all did play again and didn’t invite me because I refused to utilize Captain America as a cutoff man.
  10. I am on my second summer with Ryobi 40V self-propelled mower. I’m on a quarter acre and the one battery can do my front and half my back. I usually recharge after mowing the front, and take that time to weed eat. I bought the corresponding Ryobi 40V multi-tool where you can sub the string trimmer end with an edger. I love it for now. I’ll hate it if the battery starts not holding charge in year 3 or 4.
  11. Holsteins hasn’t been great in a few years, but it was good for late night drunk hunger. After Lurch reported they no longer give you the shake mixing cup (which is about 50% of the shake), I’m a hard pass.
  12. Is the breakfast buffet at Paris still closed? Sounds like it. We are staying at Cosmo again but looking for a nearby buffet besides the on-site Wicked Spoon.
  13. TCU should be sending Bobby Bonilla-style commission checks to LaDanian Tomlinson and Coach Fran for giving TCU this fake image of sports prestige. They are athletically average, academically below average, and don’t have an alumni base comparable to most P5 schools. They were just lucky to fall into aggy’s spot in the Big 12.
  14. Yeah, Noir is kind of already undead. The show runner did a tease interview yesterday and made some comment about two versions of Noir with two actors, so a rebirth type thing might happen. In the comic, wasn’t he some kind of failed proto-version or failed clone of Homelander, or the “black noir” of him? In the Amazon show, his powers are a hybrid of Batman and Wolverine.
  15. President Bill Clinton didn’t step in when that gum chewing kid in Singapore was strapped onto a wood pole with his dick in the hole on the pole while a samurai caned his buttocks until the flesh was removed. Chewing gum be punished by ass torture should be more objectionable to the US and world at large than taking concentrated THC oil on a plane in Russia. She did the crime and should face the punishment. I haven’t even got the sense she or her people think she did anything wrong just because they believe weed should be legal everywhere.
  16. Seems like the Boys’ odds got worse for next season.
  17. Upthread some praised Dame as someone who wasn’t demanding trades and forming super teams, trying to win with his original team in Portland. No way are they going to win and pay his 36 yo self $63+M.
  18. He isn’t committed to winning shit except the “Antonio Brown: Look at my Bank of America account!” award.
  19. She broke the law, and unless her punishment is out of line with similar offenders in Russia, the only injustice would be if POTUS or the State Department treated her situation differently than any other American jailed in Russia. People’s (including me) disagreement with marijuana laws and enforcement is immaterial, especially foreign laws. I hope they don’t give up a valuable prisoner for her release. If the WNBA wants to send Putin a bribe, they can knock themselves out.
  20. FDA needs to waive a lot of the testing requirements for vaccine updates customized to variants, because the regulatory time requirements are longer until we are on to the next variant. I posted a few days ago that we got covid omicron for the second time (mid February and last week) and it wasn’t bad, but I spoke too soon. My wife and I both got knocked on our ass for two days, and this was after we had mild symptoms, tested positive at home, then a few days later tested negative on PCR, then we got hit with terrible symptoms and tested positive again at home. I was always cautious about vaccinating my toddlers, but there is no way in fuck I’m doing it now if the vaccines are based on Covid alpha strain and actually having Covid Omicron four months ago only gives you limited immunity. There’s no benefit. FDA, be practical because 9 month approval process when we get a new variant every couple months is stupid as fuck.
  21. Maybe they will do a package of KD + Simmons to a team for one of those rookie max players? “If you want KD, you gotta take Benny too!” Perhaps they should approach with the Lakers with a KD+Kyrie+Simmons for Lebron+AD+Westbrook swap? Both teams have an equally wrecked draft pick future.
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