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6? I think you misspelled 26.
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Oh, and fuck Jeff Fisher's 'sportswriter' cronies, who printed anything and everything Fuckface told them.
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^Wow, that was some seriously weird shit. Posted post #943, then stayed right here and posted the following multi-quote response. I hit submit, and the multiquote response was posted in the OU Football 2025 thread. I'd never even seen that thread title before, much less opened it up. WTF? @immamac Had to come back here and re-post #944 in the correct thread.
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100%. No doubt in my mind. Give him a coach who knew he had the Golden Goose and knew how to coach him and the rest of the offense in a way that played to his strengths and diminished his few weakenesses, then sit back and watch the greatness and the SB rings roll in. As it is, he changed the way the game is played, at every level. VY utterly redefined the QB position forever, whether he gets credit for it or not. Prove me wrong. Lamar is my favorite NFL QB to watch now, because he's the closest thing to VY. That said, he's still not what VY could have been in the NFL, but for sure he's a perfect example of coaches knowing what they have and knowing how to let him, and to enable him, to get out there and do his thing, then reap the rewards of that. Exactly. He only ever got credit for his mistakes, even when many of the mistakes weren't even his mistakes. Yep. Fuck the Texans, Fuck Jeff Fisher, and Fuck Bud Adams. He powered through when he needed to. He just didn't need to very often. Never seen someone that big who could come even close to making people miss the way VY did. I played some highlights for my 19 & 21 YOs the other day and that was the first thing they started talking about . They were absolutely mind-bottled. Just ask Lloyd Carr. He threw his defense under the bus after that Rose Bowl, calling them out for poor tackling. A few days later he came out and said he was wrong. He said the tackling was solid, but they weren't tackling a normal player. Superman was kinda hard to bring down. He esp noted how strong VY was in the pocket. Said he was damn near impossible to bring down in the pocket with just one guy.
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OK, that's some seriously weird shit. Posted in the VY thread, then never left that thread and posted a multi-quote response there. Hit submit, and the multiquote response was posted in this thread. I've never even seen this thread title, much less opened it up. WTF?
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Yep. Still underrated. It's truly phenomenal that anyone can look at what these two guys did and continue coming to the conclusion that, somehow, Tebow should be ranked ahead of VY.
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I guess this is as good a place as any for this ... Just popped up in my youtube feed. Clarkson on the USS Eisenhower, a long time ago.
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Nat & her friend ... rude.
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Yeah, so RBR has been fucking their #2 for, uh, some reason, and Ferrari pursues Lewis for years, finally snag him, pay him loads of money and make him the centerpiece of a marketing campaign - so they can screw him over in favor of Charles? I'll never understand why people buy into these crazy conspiracy theories. How would it benefit any team to intentionally make one side of the garage slow? Well, of course, the answer is that it wouldn't benefit them at all. ... in which his teammate is beating him. Lewis is one of the greats, but as I've said before, I believe he was ready to retire as WDC in 2021, having won 7 of 8 in a dominant car. Then that plan fell apart. Everything I've seen since then just reinforces that belief. From 2022 through 2024 he didn't look like he wanted to be there at all imho. Moving to Ferrari seemed to rejuvenate him a bit. I remember when people thought McLaren was trying to screw him even after having won a WDC with them. It's wild.
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Just went to Frost Bank downtown Austin today for Canajun $$. No account needed. $5.00 fee. Easy peasy.
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CNN: Lewis Hamilton says there’s ‘a lot going on in the background that is not great’ after saying he’s ‘useless’ at Hungarian GP https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/sport/lewis-hamilton-ferrari-hungarian-gp-intl
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Things been heating up over on the Kamchatka Peninsula, too. Ring of Fire got ants in its pants?
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Yep. Think about the alignment of stars it took for Ferrari to get out of their own way - Brawn + Byrne + Todt + Schumi + Phillip Morris money + one of the tire suppliers developing its tires specifically for their car + unlimited testing.
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I dunno about Lewis, but I gotta disagree with you re: Alonso. He's a monster out there. Just keeps doin' it. If Newey can give him a car, he'll at least compete for more WDCs. IMHO nobody out there is better in-race than Alonso, even now. Re: AM's pace this weekend, I don't think it's really a turnaround in their fortunes, but I'd love to be wrong. Alonso said around Spa that they were done with upgrades and the rest of the way they'd be good at some tracks and not so good at others. I guess now we know what kind of circuit they can be good at. My guess is those will be the minority.
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Yeah it's always been like that for me, too, even going back to our early PdC days. When I said 'No, gracias', that's always been enough. This was definitely a first for me.
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Just fyi we heard about a little, uh, altercation while we were there. First I can remember hearing about on Isla. Dude from Texas got his ass kicked pretty bad by two 'locals' & woke up in the hospital. His friends said that he said he just went for a walk and these two dudes jumped him. It was out on the east side waterfront area adjacent to the square, up the hill from the hoops court (the old, pretty much abandoned boardwalk-ish area). He said it was unprovoked, but according to other witnesses, he was talking a lot of shit to some guys on Hidalgo not long before it happened. I also wonder why he was walking in that dark area that nobody really goes to at night. We were told by some actual locals that the guys who did it were new to the island and were bad guys, heavy drug users, etc. They said covid brought a lot of people to the island from the mainland, looking for work, and that some of them aren't the best people to have around. They are not impressed. As for myself, during that May trip I had probably the only negative interaction I've ever had with a 'local' (who's probably also not actually from IM). I'd never seen him before, but some of y'all may have seen him - short guy on Hidalgo, kinda jacked, with jailhouse tats all over. On his face, everywhere. Always aggressively selling shit, if you know what I mean. I saw him every single time we went down Hidalgo on this trip, day or night. Offered me pot. I said no. Then he doubled down, "What, I bet you want cocaine? I got it." Me: Nope. Gracias. "You want crack? I got fentanyl, too". Me: 'No. Thanks'. I'm tryna move on but he kinda had me backed into a corner by the store I was coming out of, and really close-talking me, not in a friendly way. Finally, getting more and more in my face, he says "Oh you want a girl? Or a boy? I got little boys". By this point I'm starting to show my irritation, but not wanting to give the obvious ex-con who seemed pretty fucked up atm a reason to lose his shit. Me: "I said no", and I gtfo. This was right in the middle of the strip on Hidalgo at like pm, with people all around us. Pretty crazy. I love Isla and Mx, and I love the people, and they seem to love me back, but that dude is literally scary af. He has the kind of ojos locos you rarely see. I just stayed away from him the rest of the trip.
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Rando thoughts about last our last trip, etc ... - June used to be our go-to month for Isla, but the sargassum is really putting a kink in that. None in May when we were there. Not too bad in June most days afaik, and seems ok now. - Re: Isla not being all that cheap, yeah that ship has sailed. The bang for the buck used to be incredible, but prices steadily crept up and then after the covid restrictions lifted, the prices started skyrocketing & haven't really stopped. Hidalgo used to have lots of lower end places with incredible food for low prices, but now everyone is angling for the 'high end' customer. It also used to be a lot more chill than it is now, but oh well. - Re: Punta Sur, I ccould stand there for hoursing just watch the waves crash on the rocks at the tip of the point. The power of the water is something to see. We also saw more turtles from up there this year than we've ever seen before. Side note: sucks that the turtle hatchery got closed down/bought. IIRC it's gonna be a hotel or some such. - hire a boat captain to take you around the island. We always do it. Always worth it. We snorkel a bit, fish some, swim off Punta Sur with the turtles sometimes, etc. Even just riding alone is worth it to me. The last 2 times we've hired the same guy. We met him just walking on PN, trying to find some business. Good guy. I'll try to find his info if anyone needs a captain. - Re: trusting the locals more than Murcans, absolutely this. 100%. We've been taking our boys to IM since they were babies, and we feel safer with them there than most places in the US, even in Austin. Of course you always wanna be careful, and I tend to be pretty wary with my cash & belongings, esp at the beach ... BUT, in at least 20+ stays of 4 to 10 nights on IM, we've never had a single thing stolen. We leave the hotel (sliding glass doors next to the pool) unlocked all day when we're on PN and really only lock it when we all leave at night. Never had a single thing go missing, even with maintenance, maids, etc coming and going while we're out, etc. We leave money, speakers, water bottles, backpacks etc on our beach chairs with no problems. Leave stuff in the cart when we're out, etc. All good. (yeah we've definitely gotten a lot more relaxed there over the years. ) - Re: the whalesharks. Yep. It's awesome, awesome, awesome. But we haven't been since 3 or 4 years ago when, for the first time for us, it was super crowded with boats. Too crowded imho, for the fish and for the people. I've heard rumblings that they may start trying to regulate it more to keep the crowds sizes down and the people and sharks safe. I can't really argue with that. - @Wally Pryor, thanks for the rec on the Doc! I'll have to keep that in mind. Getting old sucks. - Man, the 'indoor' soccer seems to be getting even better there, or maybe we were just lucky and went on the right nights this time. It was like what I would imagine 18U boys club soccer level would be. One of the teams also had a big, fast American kid who was pretty damned good. They were killin it. We missed baseball again, got dammit. Normally they play on Sundays, but this year we were there during the big fishing tournament, and pretty much nothing else happens that day (Sunday). We always get a cart & go exploring, esp at night. We always find new stuff we've never seen before, which is crazy on an island that size that we've been to so many times. Re: Beach clubs, we always do at least one day at Kin Ha or Castillo de Garrafon. Usually Kin Ha, these days. There's a lot for the kids to do there. We always stay at Ixchel, and everything there is great, but the beach clubs just a offer a little bit different setting and vibe, with some different activities.
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I don't mind the service charge for the convenience of pulling out cash on the island, but Mrs. Wood (no pics, assholes) likes to go to Frost Bank downtown in Austin and get cash ahead of time. Don't have to have an account and iirc it's no charge. Anyone can walk in & exchange money. I have no idea which ways get the best/worst exchange rate etc, & I stopped having the energy to gaf. I know we're gonna spend a shit ton of money down there and I'm just better off not worrying too much about it. When I'm on the island I just use my card for everything I can use it for, but we still end up needing quite a bit of cash. YMMV. OBTW, when we were there in May, finding operation and/or stocked ATMs was hit & miss, even at Chedraui. The only one I found that worked every time I tried it was the CI Banco ATM next to the OXXO on Medina at Madero (heh. they named a street after me).
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LOL. Dang. I thought it woulda been obvious by now!
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In aggyland. Shocking.
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Heading to Vancouver on Tuesday for a week.
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So Mikulski is worth Carlos Correa + $33M? I guess Matt's probably getting a pretty good chuckle about that. Good story for his grandkids some day.
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So, Fox bought 1/3 of Penske Entertainment, which owns IndyCar & will extend their media rights deal. That's kind of a big deal. https://racer.com/2025/07/31/fox-corporation-acquires-one-third-interest-in-penske-entertainment
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Most of that thread? Yeah, probably. There are quite a few people in the thread these days. Many of them are newer fans, but some of us have been to a shit ton of races. Not sure that's a solid indication of much though.
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