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wood

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  1. Yeah, reading is hard.
  2. Yep. Imagine if they had banned all the players from all the teams that were doing that shit.
  3. He did in this series too, and got the last laugh. Don't make a shit though. Helobious has already pitched his tent with the Dodgers (because of course he has).
  4. Wow. It's like those French people have a different word for everything.
  5. Man, my favorite thing about baseball is the way it makes grown men act like little boys when they get the big hit, make the big play, or get the big strikeout. No matter the age, they all go back to being those little boys again.
  6. George ... doing George things. Fuck yeah. Let's fucking go.
  7. I mean, a gondola to the pits? Why not a monorail? Unless they've acquired some of the neighboring property, that building would have to have a seriously narrow footprint, given how little room there is behind that runoff.
  8. PFP pays off.
  9. Wait ... are you saying there's somewhere I can get a hat and a blowjob for $120? Hook a brother up, yo!
  10. They shouild list the commentators in the order of the number of words they speak. If they did, it would be something like ... Smoltz Davis Rosenthal Verducci
  11. Probably, yeah. And sure, it was worth a try. I'm a little surprised it took them so long to call it though. That seemed like a pretty easy call.
  12. Yeah bro, you can't do that.
  13. Blonde in the brown top, after that strikeout. Rude. Team Blue Jays.
  14. Hey, just curious. Do yo know how much Epstein was charging for coaster rides? Also, the tower cost $35 last time I went up, but that was at least 3 or 4 years ago. Surely he's raised that price.
  15. Yep. Thanks, Tavo!!!
  16. My buddy just texted me this ...
  17. Exactly. If the car is too complex for the driver to manage on their own as it used to be, then deal with it. Make it more manageable for them. Or don't, and suffer. The driver needs to be a bigger part of the equation again.
  18. Yeah, only a few years ago, F1 was much more affordable. Now it's insanely expensive, esp in the US. The Australian GP is the other end of the spectrum compared to COTA in terms of bang for your buck. This year iirc COTA 3-day GA tickets were $429 + taxes & fees. That's with one support series & 2 support races. At this year's Australian GP, you could sit in the most expensive grandstand for less than what that Austin GA pass costs. And that's for 4 days, with F1, F2, F3, V8 Supercars, & Porsche Carrera Cup. 5 support series for a total of 11 support races. Plus music, daily air shows, and more, and they have 3 or 4 support races just on Sunday alone. Most GP weekends fall somewhere between Oz & COTA. Honestly, predictability is a problem most years in F1, but in the past, there was less reliability, more variability, and the cars, the engines, etc were so entertaining in and of themselves, that the predictabilty was something most people could overlook. The drivers were loud and brash, and the cars were louder and brasher. The whole F1 circus was louder & brasher, & not so polished. The drivers poured themselves out of the cars at the ends of races, looking like they'd just finished an Ironman Triathlon. The extreme nature of the racing, with far more pushing than they do now, the cars being twitchier and physically harder to handle, etc pushed the drivers extremely hard.
  19. ... and further down, the battle between RB & AM for P6 is very close, with AM trailing RB by just 3 points. Sauber is only 10 behind AM. Not prestigious positions, but very important in terms of money.
  20. That would help, at least from the viewer's end. Predictability and utter lack of variability is the biggest thing wrong in today's F1 viewing experience imho. After an initial transitional period in 2013 when nthe new regs took place, engine reliability went way up from what it used to be with the V8s and V10s. That's largely because of the draconian engine limits. The idea was to save money, but engine limits don't actually do that. They spend even more on engines now, because there's no limit on how many engines the manufacturers can destroy on the testbed. Because of the penalties their teams would get for replacing components, cost and reliability went way up, as they ran through hundreds or thousands of engines getting the best possible reliability, power output, and efficiency. Other problems off the top of my head: - The cars are fucking huge and heavy. They're so big because they're so heavy, and they're so heavy because of the heavy batteries & hybrid PUs. - Cars unable to follow closely because of dirty air. That's not just a symptom of being deep into these regs. They had made great strides but threw it all away because of crying from a few teams, Mercedes in particular. - Lack of variability in tire strategy - Too much telemetry data flowing to the pitwall & too much advice/coaching coming from it. - Over simulation. Everything is simulated to death thousands of times before the race starts. Very little is left to chance. - Far too much tire conservation, fuel conservation, battery management, systems management, etc, and far too little of drivers just pushing the hell out of the cars. If the drivers need constant guidance on tire temp, tire wear, brake temp, fuel status, which of thousands of possible mode scenarios to be in, etc, etc, etc, then maybe the cars are too complex and there's something wrong with the formula. It's motorsport, not fucking NASA.
  21. Yep. Let's go back in time to about 2012 & show them the future.
  22. Yeah there's really not too much to say about that race ... as evidenced by the thread today. A real snoozer. Woof.
  23. I won't be at the race today, but my kid is at COTA on a personal driving gig for a friend of ours in the Paddock. He dropped them off this morning and has to wait around in the Paddock parking lot near the Paddock entrance. He's having a blast meeting and getting selfies with several drivers and other F1 personalities. So far, Fernando, Kimi, Bortoleto, Hulk, and more. I can't keep up. He keeps calling me, all excited. Good times.
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