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wood

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  1. Still better than watching live on NBC though!
  2. Second best music video ever made, right after Dick in a Box.
  3. Yep and then there's the rumor of Aramco buying out Aston Martin and going after Max and Newey. There's a rumor out there right now for pretty much every scenario. They mostly read like the wish-lists of whomever starts them.
  4. Yep if it's in the sun and out of the wind, it can get hot af. Add to that how got damn deep it is, and you got your work cut out for ya. Still never experienced hotter sand than Aussie's in August, surrounded by buildings blocking the wind and reflecting/radiating sun and heat on the courts all day. We'd have never made it through a mid-late summer tournament there without the water hoses and the stinky outdoor shower.
  5. This reminds me of a time I was sitting watching a men's match at an AVP tournament. I was watching a very young Phil & Nick and the guy behind me starts talking to me about the match. It was a good one, and I was pretty engrossed in the battle on the court, so I chatted along but hadn't turned around to make eye contact yet. The guy started talking about how the rule changes were really catered to the bigger players and it was forcing the average-sized and smaller - but extremely athletic - players out of the game, like Lewy, E Fonoi, and lots of others. I turned around. It was Karch, just chillin' under a tree talking to me (also a BB/A guy) about the state of the game during a great match. He then said that despite having blocked quite a bit in his life, he wasn't really even big enough to be the back row guy in the 'new' (at the time) AVP, and we went on for another 15-20 minutes. Such a cool guy and a cool experience that's representative of several others I've had with people in the top levels of the sport - AJ, Sinjin, Stein, Jose Loiola, Kerri Walsh, Phil, Nick, Albert Hanneman, Dain Blanton, Scott Ayakatubby, & a bunch more. A lot of people at the lower levels are much bigger assholes than the folks higher up. The Beach Volleyball world is a small one. It's cool to be welcomed into it so graciously by some of the best ever. /csb
  6. BTW, did y'all know there's a Baywatch channel? All Baywatch, all the time. It's glorious. And then there's ...
  7. Ha, yeah. I do what I can ... esp when what I'd like to do costs an amount of money I can't justify. DKR will be full and loud though. So we got that goin' for us. Which is nice.
  8. These SEC games are gonna look pretty nice on the big-ass screen I'ma buy with the money I'm not spending on tickets, and I get the bonus of knowing I helped 4 waitlist people get the seats I won't be using!
  9. I saw someone on Quora saying F1 cars are heavier than FE and FE's “handling capabilities on the same road course are generally comparable”. That's cute, but naw, man. Now, I know F1 cars, even as bloated and heavy as they are, are still lighter than FE, and I know that even the Gen 3 FE cars are still way slower than F1, so I decided to do a little digging and find out just how slow they are. FE has never run on the same circuits F1 runs on until recently, and there’s a reason for that - the same reason they choose small, narrow street courses - so they don’t look so slow. The one F1 circuit that FE has raced without changing away from the F1 layout is Monaco. Even on F1’s slowest track, F1 cars were miles ahead of FE in 2023. So were the F2 cars. And the F3 cars. Current FE cars are comparable to 50 year old F1 cars from the early 1970s, but not new ones. Fastest Qualifying Laps: F1: 1:11.3 F2: 1:21.05 F3: 1:23.2 FE: 1:28.9 Fastest laps in the race: F1: 1:15.6 F2: 1:21.7 F3: 1:25.1 FE: 1:31.1 I'm not all that surprised that F2 & F3 are quicker than FE, but the size of those gaps are a little surprising imho. At that time differential, F1 would lap FE about every 5 or 6 laps. F2 would take 9 or so laps, & F3 something like 16 laps. The closest time that I could find to an FE 2023 car for a top runner at Monaco was the 2022 Monaco Historique Serie E winner, in a 1973 McLaren M23. Stuart Hall put it on pole with a 1:29.4. He also won Serie D that year, in a 1971 McLaren M19A, with a pole time of 1:30.1.
  10. Wow. That escalated quickly. You mad about me laughing at a cybertruck? So mad it drove you to necrophelia?
  11. LOL yep. Welcome to aggy, AD Trev!
  12. It was Mackowiecki. He was also in the car when the left rear went down (same corner he hit Legge with). Was that right after he tried to kill Legge or was it later? BTW that Gradient car Legge was in is from Austin (Round Rock)
  13. That video also confirms what I thought about Derani's Whelen Cadillac crash. He just didn't give the Ferrari any room & had plenty on his left as he made what should be a very easy pass on a much slower car. Such a needless crash, esp from the lead. That's the most common mistake I see from prototype drivers passing sportscars. So stupid & careless. Didn't help the other guy's race any, either. Some of those guys drive like the slower cars just cease to exist once they catch 'em, or like the other classes don't have a right to any room on the track.
  14. Yeah fuck that guy. She oughta press charges for attempted murder. Any idea who was driving the 6 when that happened?
  15. FFS, Blue. They don't need any help. That was 4" out.
  16. Yeah - at Texas - letting the pitching staff fall this far is unforgiveable. DP needs to go.
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