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wood

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  1. At ABIA, just boarded our flight to Mexico. While we were waiting to board, the PA announcer comes on and in his most sarcastic Texas drawl says ... "Attention passengers in the terminal, we need the owner of the Tesla Cybertruck who left their vehicle parked sideways across two departure dropoff lanes to return to the vehicle before it is towed". That may be the most 'Cybertruck driver' thing ever. The only way the PA announcer could have made it sound more sarcastic is if he had included words like 'MAGA dumbass' or 'Mr. Musk'.
  2. At ABIA, just boarded our flight to Mexico. While we were waiting to board, the PA announcer comes on and in his most sarcastic Texas drawl says ... "Attention passengers in the terminal, we need the owner of the Tesla Cybertruck who left their vehicle parked sideways across two departure dropoff lanes to return to the vehicle before it is towed". That may be the most 'Cybertruck driver' thing ever.
  3. As soon as I saw this story I sent it to my wife's cousin (no pics), because ... she was drunk af one night after partying in Austin 20+ years ago. When the partying ended, she and her friends returned to her apartment complex only to find the gate broken. Couldn't get the car in. No problem. They parked the car and started climbing the fence to get to her apt. In her drunk-af-ness, she slipped after getting one leg over the fence, managing to impale herself on one of those spikes, with - get this - the spike entering through the back of her knee and exiting the front. And there she was stuck like that until Fire and EMS showed up. 100% true csb.
  4. nsiap ... Holy shit. This is so fucking amazing. Watch til the end for the extra lulz. MTG subpoenas the guy and then fabricates bs about him. Sooooo busted, and her reaction is priceless. Thanks Rep. Stansbury for calling her out.
  5. Yeah, but is it ok to yell "MOVIE" in a crowded firehouse?
  6. So is he a Cubs fan or South Side? Personally, I prefer the White Sox over the Cubs, but I'll take a Cubs fan over a Yankees fan any day. Fuck the Yankees. And btw, fuck the Dodgers. Because fuck the Dodgers. And fuck the Yankees. Duh.
  7. And how they wouldn't let him wear #2!! !1 ! !
  8. Better not let that turd anywhere near him!
  9. Maybe not, really. This could be an intentional move to counter our current, uh, "leadership".
  10. Yeah I've been next to Fernando, Lewis, Kovaleinen, Massa, Jackie, Emmo, Ant Davidson, Checo, etc. Just tiny humans, even Kimi R. A few are normal size, like Button, Bruno Senna, Webber, Gro, Hulk, Schumi, Brendan Hartley, George, Ocon, etc, but most are pretty much jockey-sized. Rossi and Marquez are itty bitty too.
  11. As I said a year or so ago, Piastri is a machine, in the Alonso mold. Basically a human racing computer behind the wheel, always calculating. He's the next great one imho.
  12. Yep. Based on what we've seen from Lawson so far, we could write volumes about what he doesn't understand about racecraft and physics. L1T1 was a perfect example. Once he stuck the car in where & when he did, he was just headed to the scene of the collision. Doohan was already committed. It was impossible for him to avoid Lawson. Been saying this for a while. They need to penalize positions rather than time. True, except this time the years of progress weren't developed away. They were simply thrown out the window by a rule clarification in response to a big team or two crying about it.
  13. Time to check some bats? Holy shit.
  14. Yep. I'm sure some of these HPUs aren't aware that they're doing it, but the crazy part is that there are actually umps out there who consciously and intentionally call it that way. Fucking insane. Coach: "Hey Blue, that was two ball-widths off the plate". HPU: "He hit the target the catcher gave him. It's a strike". Truly head-scratching stuff. I've literally seen catchers set up for a ball 8-10" wide of the plate - where the ball has to cross over the stripe of the other batter's box to hit the target - and get the call when the pitcher hits the spot. It's amazing.
  15. Crazy how deep the OF is playing.
  16. It blows my mind that some of these dudes ever even made it to this level. I've seen better Pony league umps. Much better. Makes me wanna start umping in my retirement.
  17. I think we could possibly see him spot start. That's the beauty of the flexibility he brings. I know it would suck for the pen, but where do we need help most right now?
  18. Fuck me. Rake Meyers needs to write down every single thing he did since he got up this morning and then live by that for the rest of the season. Incredible day.
  19. Gasparino just laughing at how bad HPU is. Anything near (or not so near) the outside corner is a strike.
  20. My kid was telling me there's also some talk about Merc's wind tunnel being 'too smooth', i.e. it doesn't have a way to re-create bumpy track conditions. There's some speculation that this is one reason they've had so much trouble with ground effects.
  21. I flunked out of Aerospace Engineering as a freshman at UT, does that count?
  22. Bring back in-season testing, for myriad reasons. Just include it under the budget cap along with everything else and let the teams figure the rest out.
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