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  1. 16 minutes ago, cochamps said:

    I don't really disagree with your second point.  But what you or I think doesn't matter. is expert" committee determines the four teams that play for the national championship.  And this year, that did not include a team that was able to beat a three loss North Carolina team (with significant opt-outs) in the Orange Bowl.

    I still think "Orange Bowl" should be in quotes. That was often the biggest and or best bowl game in a given year, but it's been an afterthought since.... what, I guess aligning with the ACC? 

    Bowls, even NY6 ones, are less relevant in general nowadays but the Orange dropped off earlier and still seems like it ends up with shit matchups more frequently than the others. 

    Not to mention what COVID did to the shape of the 2019 season. Making an NY6 bowl last year was kind of like making the NFL playoffs in 1987 after winning all three of your scab games. 

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  2. 2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    So we’ve reached the point where the fake Jim Rome aggie rant is making its way back around to new Internet users that believe it is both real and funny? Fuck. 

    do said new Internet users know who Jim Rome was?

    (he died, right?)

  3. 59 minutes ago, Wiler77 said:

    Surprises me that Clemson/Georgia isn't on the list.  Should easily be in the Top 10.  that one goes back a LONG way, but they stopped playing regularly in the 80's I think.  Pretty sad considering where both the programs are today.  And the campuses are less than 100 miles from each other.

    Man that's a great one. At a glance I'd guess Clemson felt like playing Georgia regularly was a challenge it just didn't need, because it's kind of a lopsided series, but it was great back in the day. 

    I don't think Auburn-Florida State counts as a "rivalry" but that was another Southern matchup I always really enjoyed watching-- it was semi-regular in the 80s when FSU was really emerging as a national contender. I think FSU played at Auburn in 1990, or maybe 1989, and it was the first time I ever saw an SEC night game on TV-- it was impressive. 

  4. 1 hour ago, ztejas said:

    Since this is the immediate focal point of the map as a whole I'd agree with this initial take and would also probably go San Marcos. Maybe Denton after that? 

    Isn't there a school or a branch in Weslaco? you can't pass that up

  5. On 5/7/2021 at 9:32 AM, Hagbard Celine said:

    the move away from the new deal and the great society really got going ...  they pivoted to waging war on their citizens by disassembling the entire social safety net

    well, I thought it was a lovely story. and you tell it so well. with such enthusiasm

  6. 16 hours ago, Deej said:

    "Don't care. Didn't lose to Texas, again."

    That is really the essence of the 100 Year Decision. "What if there were a way we could claim to be better than Texas every single year and never have to prove it in any meaningful way?"

    It's the Aggie version of the perpetual motion machine or alchemy or cold fusion. Well, strike those last two, I guess they claimed to have invented those for real. 

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  7. On 4/27/2021 at 5:02 PM, Paul Wesley said:

    Also, I cannot tell you how much I identify with "ridiculously ambitious work that may never get finished."  If I were to describe the last 3 years of my own creative efforts, that phrase would pretty much sum it up.

    you know, someone I respect once said it takes a considerable amount of discipline and grit to finish songs, you may want to try that

    I feel that 100%-- like Jimmy was saying, sometimes I sit down with a guitar and unintentionally find some changes and a melody and tag/phrase scream out at me, and sometimes I might even write a complete set of lyrics, but (not sure if this is anyone else's problem) I am much happier imagining how great the song I hear in my head could be as opposed to doing the dirty work of woodshedding it and putting a complete version down on tape. I'm also not doing this for any real reason, so I don't have anyone or anything pushing me if a song gets to 80% and stops loading.

    The biggest problem for me other than that sort of fear of failure, i.e., what's in my head is perfect and doesn't take any work to complete ergo it's far superior to what I could produce, is that as soon as I sing something halfway decently, my brain wants to stop right there. You got it, that's as good as you're going to get it, don't do it again because it will probably be worse. That's not real conducive to practice and improvement. 

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  8. On 4/27/2021 at 3:02 PM, Goredho said:

    Part of a ridiculously ambitious work in progress that may never get finished, we'll see.   The goal in this piece of the whole will be to convey anger, strife, conflict and retribution.  Its a relatively simple progression in 13/4 time.  Has a mix of major and minor in it, which I hope lends to the sense of musical conflict.  The solo is probably a scratch that gets replaced.  This is all played with my new Telecaster which is a fucking badass guitar.
     

     

    that has a VERY Physical Graffiti feel to it, I really like it. Saying something has a Physical Graffiti feel to it, for me, is like saying "you're as nice as my Mom", for reference. 

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  9. On 5/6/2021 at 12:27 AM, ChiTownDoc said:

    47+20=67+8=75

     

    I can’t be the only one who did that?  And it takes less than 2 seconds.  I was educated only at the finest of institutions.  

    That is how I do math as an adult, but not how I was taught in school. I have always been much better at math post-school than I was at it when it was being graded-- I can generally do the four basics in my head in the time it takes most people to get their phone out and pull the calculator app up and do it. 

    In short, as Bushwick Bill said, fuck school fuck teachers fuck homework!

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  10. 6 minutes ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

    He jaywalked on a bike!!!

    I mean.... fuck the police and all that fun stuff, but if a police officer tells you to stop and you're like "nah I'll just ride some more circles on my lil bike wheeeee", you are inviting a test of the meathead frustration tolerance scale. And a financial settlement too, probably, so it's not all bad I guess. 

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  11. 1 hour ago, Randolph Duke said:

    Are you saying the collective coaches and sportswriters did or did not not vote Texas A&M #4 in their final poll?

    so there IS such a thing as a dumb question

  12. 10 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    Why is twitter character count relevant? Why do you assume that we can’t handle long form? I think we all can.

    Yeah, I think the transcript of the Lincoln-Douglas debates is fascinating to read. I don't want it read to me when I'm ordering my Happy Meal at McDonald's.

  13. 11 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    As to the term of affection “sport”, it’s appreciated. I haven’t harkened back to the Flapper Girl Era in years, so it’s appreciated. 

    I envision Randolph Duke as an old-timey bicycle enthusiast. 

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  14. 14 hours ago, BearSchlong said:

    would you say you have a disease of perception?  I know I do.

    Indeed! but like the old GI Joe saying, knowing is half the battle. When we know we have that disease, it's robbed of a LOT (not nearly all, but a lot) of its power over us. I realized it again this morning, thinking about a company happy hour we're having tonight. My first thought, the alcoholic thought, was "oh GOD, poor me, I have to go meet a bunch of bright happy young people and chit chat for an hour, why am I so put upon, can't I get out of this, can't I make up some bullshit story and not go?" 

    My alcoholic brain would have taken and run with that pity party three years ago. In fact it did, and that's how I ended up in an Uber back to my hotel to guzzle Skol vodka out of a plastic Traveler alone with HBO blaring in the background, leaving a team party of 30 people in a luxury box at Fenway going "where'd Swandered go, have you seen him?" 

    This morning my second thought was to tell those thoughts to shut the fuck up and my action on the matter will be to suit up and show up. 

    [quote]That's always a fun exercise that results in absolute humility. [/quote]

    I never would have thought of it in those terms but fuck yes it does. The further I get from May of 2018, the more it can feel like something I saw in a movie, or something that happened to someone else. I don't particularly LIKE immersing myself in remembering the misery that brought me to detox and rehab but it's critical to stay in touch with that end of the drinking spectrum, because it helps keep perspective on where one drink will take me.

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  15. Counting down to a significant anniversary a week from today, have been doing a lot of thinking about where I was three years ago. I don't ever want to go back to that in any way, shape, or form; I am truly grateful that I don't have to, today, if I choose not to pick up a drink and if I maintain connection with my higher power. I didn't have a great day yesterday, but that was my day, it wasn't and isn't my life. Went to bed early, got up early feeling off again, but had my quiet time and worked out and by the time my daughter was ready to get out of bed, I was feeling a lot better about things. Amazingly, the AA cliche about "this too shall pass" always turns out to be correct if I do my part and give it TIME to pass. It doesn't say "this too shall pass the instant you decide it's unpleasant to feel it". 

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  16. On 5/3/2021 at 11:10 AM, Randolph Duke said:

    Insist all you want that neither the coaches poll nor the sportswriters poll had Texas A&M finishing #4 in the nation at the end of the 2020 season.

    This is just so what you do.

    He didn't say or imply that A&M didn't finish 4th in either of those polls; no one is saying that, because we're all aware they did. His position is that the polls do not matter now that we have a committee that picks the "final four" teams to compete for the national championship, that the meaning of a "top four finish" changed as of 2014. In other words, A&M hasn't been among the top four teams since winning the 1939 national title, because through 2013, they never finished in the top four of a poll, and since the CFB playoff established an objective final top four with the 2014 season, they haven't been selected for a playoff.

    That's all. It's not complicated. Now, I know your response will be to preface a wall of text with a disdainful "I already KNOW what he's saying"* but you will be the only one who believes it when you say it, because your responses make clear that you either don't understand his point or are pretending not to, in order to save face and not heaven forfend lose an Internet Argument. 

    * or you might choose to nitpick to death something in my post, e.g., "no one SAYS anything on the Internet, they TYPE it and/or POST it"

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