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wood

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  1. Yeah - at Texas - letting the pitching staff fall this far is unforgiveable. DP needs to go.
  2. Yeah he looked safe af to me, but ok, cool. Hookem.
  3. Yeah count me on the team that thinks it'd be hard to bench a NC-winning setter, esp one who played hurt while doing it. I can't help but think it's early and she'll get some jumpsetting accuracy back over time. But who knows. We'll see, I guess. Maybe if it comes down to only her overall setting accuracy, then she might go to #2, but the overall package she brings to the table is very strong imho.
  4. Yeah to me he's kinda walked that fine line most of the time he's been here, where we as a fanbase overall weren't quite sure what we had in DP. Now it seems like we know. Time to move on imho.
  5. Yeah there are several times Hanks either wasn't very good or was miscast. Esp as Robert Langdon. Reading the books, you'd never think, "Oh yeah. This guy's gonna be played by Tom Hanks". I'll add Road to Perdition. Not terrible, but not very good, and he just didn't fit imho. And that Tom Parker accent is one of the worst things in the history of cinema.
  6. Agree with all of this and noticed the bold part too, but he pulled it out of that pattern toward the end. Overall I loved it. Given the way it sets up for season 2, the future potential is huge imho.
  7. Just finished the season. Couldn't stop watching. So good. So many great performances. Theo James for the next James Bond, imho, I told that to my wife about half way through the season, then googled it, and there had already been several articles written in the same vein in the last day or so. /csb
  8. LOL yeah I used to do stuff like that when my boys were little, then I'd forget about 'em and find 'em years later (the gifts, not the boys).
  9. WTF was up with the refs late? We score & then after the faceoff Borque is going after the puck behind the goal. He gets tackled from behind within seconds and is on his back with a guy on top of him the entire time. He gets 4 minutes for Roughing. What in the actual fuck? Then, there's the guy taking down one of our guys on the boards, then starts throwing fists outta the blue after he has him on the ice. Ref is literally standing there watching the whole thing for 5-10 seconds and just stands there & does nothing. It was truly bizarre.
  10. 3 or 4 of those cars aren't ugly at all in race trim.
  11. So I've been wondering for a while what Renault was doing re: F1, thinking it looked a lot like they're winding their F1 participation down. Now there is a rumor that GM/Andretti are buying the team, engines included. This is great re: getting Andretti into F1 and getting rid of a shitty team, but I hate the idea of F1 being limited to 10 teams going forward. Unreal.
  12. Went to the Texas Stars game tonight vs Rockford (Blackhawks). Fun game. Won 5-3. Uh ... interesting reffing. Late in the first period we had 5 guys in the box - at the same time. That'll probably be the only time I'll ever see that. Good time.
  13. Yep, and he and Fernando have already been talking about racing WEC together. That team would be just a little loaded.
  14. And now we can add in a 'Max to AM' rumor. https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/why-aston-martin-could-beat-mercedes-f1-race-sign-verstappen/10587065/
  15. Yup. But who knows ... Would be cool to see Max at Merc, Lewis and Chuck fucking with each other at Ferrari, Alonso at RBR, and maybe Albon at AM.
  16. In the box score it said it was to CF. Was it over the monster?
  17. Huh? The car's race pace was dreadful in Bahrain, but it was improved in Jeddah, and with that came better defense by Alonso. He held George out of DRS range for the last 37 laps of the race, keeping him behind by 1.0 to 1.5 seconds almost the entire time. Put him in a quick car, and watch him go. Racecraft is not a problem for Fernando.
  18. And Alonso to slide nicely into his car at RBR. I could go for that ...
  19. The tires are quite vanilla. There's no reason they can't mix things up by separating the compounds by more than just 1 step, varying the compound choices at each track from year to year etc. It's stupid and just adds predictability rather than variability, which is what they should be trying to add. Same thing with the engine reliability rules.
  20. Indeed. He was stationary on that stop for 42 seconds, dropping him from P14 to last on the track. Huge hit to his race that he had no control over. With even a decent stop, he'd have left the pits ahead of Sargeant, Bottas, and Ocon, and very likely would have finished right behind Yuki at worst. Yep and last year he was parachuted in mid-season, to a car he'd never driven in anger. Raced 2 races and then broke his hand and returned while rehabbing that. That crash wasn't his fault as he simply had nowhere to go when Piastri crashed in front of him. I'm not saying he's back yet, but IMHO he's done a lot more to warrant a further look than some others out there have.
  21. I'm not so sure he was still in the box. It looked like he was out of it to me, but I guess the transponder says he wasn't. It adversely affected his start. The problem is that whether he was out of the box, and whether he stopped or not, and whether or not he gained an advantage, he clearly moved before the lights were out which is a clear no-no according to the rulebook, because of how other drivers can react to the jumped start, etc. He moved before the lights went out and was moving when they went out. He didn't stop until after they went out.
  22. I just saw the ruling. They said that even though they could see that he moved early, the transponder didn't indicate a jumped start. Idiotic rule. So even though we can see that he jumped the start, our machinery that's less sensitive than our eyes says it didn't happen, so we're gonna go with what it tells us. It's happened before, too. So stupid. Don't remember Alonso getting away with it. He did get penalized in China 2010. I was thinking Bottas had gotten away with it on this basis though, and Vettel, and Lewis in Brazil last year.
  23. Haven't had a chance to look anything up yet. Was it ever explained why Norris got no penalty for an obvious jumped start? Oh, and apparently RB botched RIC's pit stop, dropping him from 14th to last, and it was never even mentioned.
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