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  1. Uff, 3:00-7:00 just became unlistenable. Say what you will about Mike checking out a few years ago, he was still the glue that held that show together. He still played a valuable role in being the station voice of baseball, music, Dallas history, and the horny sexagenarian with early onset dementia. He made the show tolerable.

    Now, not so much. I like Danny but he's best in his dark cloud role sprinkling the show with his fun facts and stories of his Know City boxing friends. I don't expect the Ticket to carry afternoon drive anymore. They desperately need to find a third man in the booth

  2. On 12/16/2019 at 8:05 AM, billfromlaketravis said:

    Scorsese has won best director. He’s never won best picture. I don’t think he deserves it for The Irishman, but I bet they give it to him as a lifetime achievement type award. The Academy always does this. 

    The Departed also won Best Motion Picture in 2006. He didn't pick up the statue for producing it but if that's the criteria then he's only been nominated for Wolf of Wall Street and Hugo. He was hardly passed over for those two.

  3. 8 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    Somebody is gonna have to get the best out of Zeke Bc he’s been paid. 

    See this illustrates exactly why this isn't a well constructed team. A disproportionate amount of the team's resources are allocated to the offense starting with a ridiculous market shattering contract for the most fungible position in football. $50MM guaranteed for 1,200 yards and 4.4 ypc...where can you find production like that? In the 7th round.

    23 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    Cooper ain’t worth the paycheck he wants. 

    While I applaud not succumbing to the sunk cost fallacy like the Cowboys front office and their dipshit fans (including many on this thread), I wouldn't let Cooper get away. He's physically not right the last three games and this passing offense goes nowhere without him.

  4. 14 hours ago, Bone3421 said:
    16 hours ago, Hate said:
    Phillip Rivers has played in 47 more games than Rodgers. He’s only 33 TD’s behind Rivers. I feel safe in saying he will catch Rivers assuming he stays healthy.
     

    Oh so not missing games with injuries is a knock now....but for real, its just a stat that happens to be a fact. We all know we can have stats that show anything we want to say. Some people it seems like making excuses for facts

    Well Rodgers was drafted a year after Rivers and sat behind a HOF QB a season longer than Rivers had to. Statistically, Rodgers is a better QB than Rivers. Factually, he's orders of magnitude better than Dak.

    He's going to moonwalk into the HOF. The debate on his candidacy will take the committee about 10 seconds.

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  5. 9 hours ago, youdunnf'dup said:

    Lol what exactly am I a dumbass for? Teams have expectations. Outside of one game, we’ve met those expectations for the most part. If you’re sitting at 5-2 heading into this game and your only losses are to the saints and the packers, we all feel completely different about this team. We’d still be in position to compete for a bye. You lose that game and it fucks with everything. The eagles have a similar loss (to the falcons) but the falcons aren’t the jets. Not even in the same ballpark in my opinion. I think it might actually be the worst loss on the season for any team.

    Because you keep trying to put this regular season loss into some sort of historical context. Because you're outraged that form didn't hold in a league where preseason predictions are worthless and half the playoffs teams didn't make the postseason the year prior.  It's not a franchise altering loss. Or maybe you're right and ESPN will make a 30 for 30 about the game.

  6. 4 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    I sit around a fish camp fire with a few of these guys every year.  They tell stories about their cases (very sanitized of course). They do their homework, and by the time they bring charges it's as good as done, you're going down.

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    Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeit

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  7. @trophI can only relay my experience with someone close to me who was in a similar condition as your friend a few years ago. This guy was a 1st ballot HOF alcoholic and in his mid 40s wound up in the ICU sedated in a coma for a week. Liver failure which led to renal failure, jaundiced, and retaining fluid in his abdomen.

    He came out of the sedation after a week and it took some time for the encephalopathy to clear with round the clock dialysis. After which his liver doctor told him his drinking days were over, that he would die without a new liver, and he would be on dialysis until he got a new organ. His MELD score was in the high 30s.

    He wasn't an AA guy either. Despite the best efforts of people in the program coming to talk with him, he was too hardheaded to admit defeat. Impressively unreasonable even for an alcoholic. He remained dry for the next 12 months because he was physically incapable of basic tasks including transportation. Sobriety was a choice made for him but he still thought he was in control.

    We buried him about a year later. His body just couldn't recover from the damage he had inflicted and started shutting down just when we were getting hopeful. He left behind a wife, a beautiful child, and lots of people who cared about him.

    We alcoholics are prone to insane thinking and can be quite pugnacious when someone starts lecturing us about our booze. If he and his husband don't listen to his doctor when they read them the riot act, then dead man walking is a certainty. This is not a speedbump to endure before they can make a few changes to their lifestyle. I don't have any experience with an interventionist but I think that has a better chance of success than a social worker assigned to your friend. He needs a hard, pipe-hittin alcoholic to get through to him.

    I'd also encourage the husband to attend some Al Anon meetings though he could be a candidate for AA himself.

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    Now the Yankees have to survive Verlander in Game 5 and, if they win a bullpen game in Game 6, Cole in Game 7. If they can’t, they will have played their first decade without appearing in the World Series since the 1910s.

    No Corby, you weren't misled by Verducci. You're just an illiterate asshole.

    https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/10/18/new-york-yankees-bullpen-houston-astros-alcs

     

  9. 2 hours ago, Both Tacos said:
    On 10/14/2019 at 2:56 PM, C-Man said:
    Don't disagree. $29/lb for prime brisket is as high as I've seen anywhere in DFW. Pecan Lodge is $22/lb for brisket.

    $29/lb... who the hell is selling brisket at that price?

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  10. 2 hours ago, TexasEd said:

    the prosecutor hammered her on special training and aptitude for situational awareness and observation.

    Missed the fern, red carpet, apt number, floor number, blood, etc.

    Hammered her on intent, she intended to kill him.

    Hammered her on de-escalation training, opportunity to retreat and delay, and a later police officer witness said he would have retreated.

     

    The closing argument will be good.

    The prosecutor has to hammer the fact that there was no element of surprise. She noticed the door was open, that there was movement inside, and she chose to confront the "intruder" without confirming she was in the right place. Her claim that she found herself in extraordinary circumstances, fearing for her life and forced to make a split second decision is laughable.

  11. Your bottom is whenever you decide to quit digging. There is a solution.

    • Go to a meeting
    • When the meeting chair asks if anyone is there for their first, second, or third meeting, raise your hand
    • Listen
    • See if you can relate to anyone's story in the room
    • Talk to people after the meeting
    • Go to another meeting

    You don't have to feel this way ever again.

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