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Posts posted by UpperWestside
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Just now, Im_smarter_then_you said:
Who is a reporter?
Not Albert Breer. That much is certain.
Charles Robinson perhaps, but I do not read him enough to know for sure on that. I used to read him more years back. I know he still writes about the NFL for Yahoo. Who knows he could've joined the access merchant fleet as well.
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2 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:
Yep. Papa sanders wouldn’t workout for certain teams. Elite talent. And also not a qb.
not sure why the poster you responded to lashed out at Breer.
It's not lashing out. I just don't care about what someone says when that someone is a guy teams feed information to like what happens with Schefter. There are reporters and then there are access merchants like Breer. There is a difference.
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3 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:
Albert Breer:
Abdul Carter can turn down interviews like he did with the Jags and Raiders. Sheduer was telling teams he wasn’t a fit for their team
Albert Breer is an access merchant and I am dubious of anything a paid shill says. Same with the Schefters of the world.
That said I am someone that thinks these interviews are ridiculous. We have seen in the past some of the insane questions they ask prospects. I have zero issue with any player that would allegedly tell a team they do not fit with them. If a team doesn’t want to take him they have that right as well. Sanders can play at the NFL level and he’ll find a fit somewhere. I am not a fan of his, but I don’t hate him either. He’s brash like his father and that rubs GM/control freaks the wrong way. We’ll see what team drafts him or failing that which team invites him as a free agent.
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11 minutes ago, Uncle Nate said:
When or if?
Doesn’t matter. Someone will take him. He’s good. Not great, but good and that should be enough in a league that has a shortage of even average talent at that position. Set aside the outside noise that will eventually die down and you have someone who will be a QB in this league.
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Yikes I have not watched the draft, but hoo boy this Sanders deal is going to be interesting when he’s finally taken. The Raiders seem like the kind of team he should be on, but wouldn’t shock me if Dallas took him.
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19 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:
Just wanted to chime in and say I appreciate the way you've spoken about these issues. I am starting to suspect that someone I am close to -- not family, but someone I've known for decades -- may in fact be on that spectrum. You are describing their decision-making habits spot on.
If you have a close enough relationship with them perhaps find a time when you two can talk face-to-face. I will say that they might scoff at you for suggesting it. I did the same thing when an ex of mine first told me she suspected it with me years ago. I told her no way was she right. I remember calling her four years later to tell her that she was right. My best friend of 20 plus years now never even bothered to tell me. He keeps it to himself. I remember telling him when I figured it out and he says to me “Welcome to the club.” I say that just to say reactions vary, but if that’s the case with the person you know then I hope things go well.
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Blow up the whole freaking Kremlin. If that despot is going to keep targeting civilians in Kyiv then get all of your active folks in the field to light that place up like the 4th of July. Nothing and no one in that country should feel safe.
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5 hours ago, hayden_horn said:
so, I uh have this theory.
I think elon might be on drugs
NOW HEAR ME OUT
I think elon got on drugs long ago. right? rich white south African does drugs...news at 11 whatever
but then there's grimes. she fucked up his world with sex, drugs (but the real bark like a dog, bitch drugs), and whatever she calls her music. (yall know this theory of mine if you've been around)
the problem is that she stepped on some childhood trigger. I reckon it was a sex trigger that turned into a drugs OH MY GOD SEX IS SO MUCH BETTER ON DRUGS situation, which then turned into a OH MY GOD THESE DRUGS ARE TELLING ME WHAT A VISIONARY I AM; FUCK; I CAN SEE INTO THE FUTURE situation. I also think she got him some drugs that he's never heard of and they blew his mind.
problem is, you gotta come down.
that's when the self preservation kicks in. OH FUCK WHAT DID I DO LAST NIGHT; you know it: we've all been there. Elon doesn't have that.
elon sees the future. he'll tell you. the problem is, the sober him sees the x fail and the future tesla crater (due to inflated stock prices due to: 1) weird market dynamics that don't make sense that he doesn't understand but loves, 2) tesla benefiting from selling ev vehicles and carbon offsets as a result (seriously, look it up, this will be the ultimate cause of the tsla crash), 3) a weird cult of personality related to Twitter and tesla and spacex as though he is Stalin (OH SHIT I MAY BE CLOSE TO FIGURING IT OUT), and he understands that there is no way out of the trap he's invented for himself.
He's never had to face internal failure, so he seeks external sources for the feel good success feels.
Enter donald trump v2. V1 was not elon friendly but this v2 version might just be his exit stage wherever
so he jumps up and down did this clown because he didn't want to be the clown himself.
God the irony
Also I'm massively high. The irony
If he’s neurodiverse, which he says he is, you have to understand that his ability to make sound decisions requires a lot more time spent thinking about the possible outcomes of what he may or may not decide to do.
Now this is the point where I’m laughing because he is obviously making very rash and illogical decisions. One of the things I had to massively work on is stringing good decisions together and remembering to keep making them. I think in very black and white terms and unfortunately so does that rabid idiot. Instead of saying to himself “Might want to think this one over first” he just shoots from the hip. Doesn’t matter if grandma catches a stray bullet when he does this. He is not even thinking about the consequences of horribly bad decisions.
Long story short is while neurodiverse people can do some really cool things with their intelligence just like a neurotypical person, you can’t give us carte blanche on decisions, especially if the things we do regularly seem to be rashly made choices that were not fully thought through.
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3 hours ago, Fastbreak said:
The US “media” is owned by mega corps and oligarchs who look to benefit the most from Trumps bullshit. There may be a few small town papers that are “left wing” but pretty much everything else is compromised.America has had issues with the owners of news media for forever and a day. William Randolph Hearst, a partisan hack of the worst kind in his day, was busy using Hearst owned papers to piss on anything FDR did as president during WWII as well as before hostilities broke out with Japan. We had him at one point knowingly trying to float the idea of national “hero” Dugout Douglas MacArthur to be the Republican nominee in 1944. We’re trying to beat down two separate fascist powers in two vastly different areas of the world and the richest newspaper guy of that time was busy trying to get FDR out of office.
If you can actively try to undermine a president that guided America through the Great Depression and three years of war at that point then nothing is sacred with these scumbags. Just a new generation trying to see how much influence they can peddle in DC while lining their bank accounts.
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3 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:
I guarantee you that I will be waiting to see if it works. That pick is custom made to put butts in seats and eyes on the TV
For a franchise that needs all the attention it can get, well, that pick should do it. Overall the NFL does not hold my attention, but this particular situation does. I hope he has a 100 yard plus game receiving and then shuts down the guy he is covering. Pretty rare opportunity to see the physical limits of endurance of an NFL player.
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21 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:
I heard that number on the radio station I'm following along with. It was actually north of 1400. The average NFL snap count is around a 1000. That's a big big difference. At the highest level of play they can't sustain the beatings. They just can't. There are some outliers but it's really really rare. There's a reason why RBs and LBs don't last long. It's a car crash on every snap. Can he sustain the wear and tear of the longer season combined with the harder hits? This ain't baseball and Ohtani doesn't get clocked on a weekly basis. I put it at maybe 3 years before he picks one side of the ball.
I guess it also matters how you get deployed. If you are sending him across the middle consistently to get his head smashed then it will be short-lived.
I think the NFL has taken a lot of the contact out of the game that could cause such an injury though. Wideouts and corners come across looking like they are playing flag football with how little contact can be made. I tend to think that if he can get 90 percent of the defensive snaps and half on offense that he’s succeeded. All up to how his body holds up. Hopefully Jacksonville has good team doctors and not a bunch of Dr. Nicks.
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37 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:
There ain't no way he does 1400 snaps in the NFL
You know they are going to let him play both sides positions though. I say go for it. None of this matters so play both and get as many snaps as you can. I would imagine he will get fewer offensively, but again it’s just football. I might have to actually watch a bit of the NFL just to see how Hunter adjusts to playing both ways at this level.
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1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:
Had the audacity to effectively and articulately pitch his Democratic viewpoints on an extremely popular podcast hosted by a guy who voted for Trump.
How does anyone get mad about this? He was more/less the only Democrat that was on FoxNews giving articulate interviews with answers that shot down all the crazy conspiracies these people were putting forth. Now it's a bad idea for him to give sane views to the same type of audience why again?
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Nico not shutting up is just strange. Take the all-time L on this trade and just stop talking.
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7 hours ago, Thatguy said:
Yeah, things could've gone Trump's way but they had to do the one thing the Chinese will not tolerate and that's being treated like second class humans. Those are some old wounds for them and Vance calling them peasants just drove the stake home. It's like they learned nothing from the Canada debacle.
TFG absolutely sent Vance out there to call them peasants as a way to both demean and humiliate their populace, but also as a means of putting himself above a fellow authoritarian leader. TFG has praised Xi for how he runs China with an iron fist, but one thing authoritarians like him want more than anything else is to be at the top of the chart of despots.
The language though is reminiscent of how the United States portrayed Japan in the 20's and 30's. We refused to look at them as equals with the Washington Naval Conference being one of the biggest slap in the face moves given to a country in the 20th Century for no other reason than racism playing a large role. That one naval conference set Japan on a path of getting even that ended with a war between the two countries 20 years later. Just wait until TFG starts to pull out some of the insults directed at Japan during those two decades such as how they can't shoot accurately because of how their eyes look. That one is definitely locked and loaded and ready to be used by Vance within the next year or so in order to further demean and dehumanize them.
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15 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:
I’d be shocked. We’re better, bigger and deeper but also need to remember what state I live in and our uncanny ability to fuck things up when presented on a silver platter.
I think Friday night is do or die for LA. Sunday’s game is a matinee less than 48 hrs after game 3. Fat boy will be on fumes with no relief help
I wouldn’t even waste anybody guarding LeBron from the 3 pt line. I’d dare him to shoot.Luka, even in his pudgy form, is the best player in the league not named Jokic. He can slow down a game and it'll play out to how he wants it to. The guy controls a game better than anyone since, and believe me I hate to invoke this player's name as much as anyone else would, Chris Paul in his prime.
Minny does have a deeper team. You guys are better. We have a guy who won a Make-A-Wish dream to play in the NBA in Hayes. I think any level-headed Lakers fan realized that this year was going to be tough sledding in the playoffs without a viable center. You can't just ask a 40 year old LeBron to fill that role consistently in a small ball lineup. I like Reaves quite a bit, but this is a step up for him. It's one thing to Pistol Pete your way through the regular season. Now you have to do it consistently when the lights are the brightest. I would say this series will be a litmus test of sorts for him and whether or not he gets included in trade offers over the summer. I think he can play under the brightest lights, but it's up to him to mentally get over that hump. The best players figure it out. The mentally weak wind up playing on lottery teams their entire career.
The Wolves are the better team with an ascendant young star in Edwards. I won't bet against Luka mainly because of seeing him carry Dallas on his back last year. I don't need to tell any of the Mavs fans this since they saw him up close for years. I would bet on LeBron having himself a really good game three followed by the bottom falling out in game 4 for LA and then game 5 deciding who ultimately wins the series.
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9 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:
I fell asleep and missed the first qtr and a half, 10 PM starts here in Florida are brutal lol.
Luka musta went nuclear in qtr 1. That wasn’t the score I expected to see checking in. He scored about 11 the other 3 quarters but yea you’re right. Couldn’t get out of our own way. Lakers were 17-24 on the road.
Haven’t seen a single thing that makes me think Reaves or LeBron will do anything to help Luka out that Kyrie provided last year. I’d expect a couple of wolves thumpings in 3 & 4. Send it back to LA up 3-1It’ll go back 2-2.
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3 minutes ago, ATXbronco said:
Doncic loves to play Gobert
What I have learned about Doncic in his career is that there are certain players he enjoys humiliating repeatedly. Booker is one, Gobert is another and the Mavs as a franchise are 3rd, but quickly moving up the rankings.
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On 4/15/2025 at 6:05 AM, Redneck Mutha said:
I think coffee supply has recently been impacted by weather in some of the top producing countries, as well. The price for ours went up a couple months ago.
I love drinking coffee. Not a coffee snob other than I stay away from coffee that has a definitively bitter and acidic taste. A couple of the brands here have a smooth flavor and the price has not gone through the roof yet. Sometimes I’ll buy Kcup pods that are on sale. One of the good things about working in a restaurant is access to free coffee, especially if the brand they use tastes good.
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2 hours ago, Gatorubet said:
Then why, when you threw a rock on J6, did it bounce off 5 ex-military guys?
Oh the enlisted has plenty of magats, especially the younger guys in their 20’s
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2 hours ago, aggie08 said:
The power of "At the end of the day, I just don't want to get fired" should not be underestimated. Even from our military leaders.
I think we are thinking in terms of the world we live in. The world a soldier lives in is one entirely different from ours. Again they have a very clearly defined oath they adhere to. I trust that the people who can make the order to turn against the populace will not do so. I also think that people like McRaven still get updates from friends on what is going on. That would go for Milley as well. Those guys know exactly what is transpiring inside the branches of service. TFG is a paper tiger without the world’s most powerful military doing his bidding.
Dictators rely on the armed forces to carry out atrocities for them. I do not believe this will be how it goes. We may have a period of years of fascist morons running the government, but we’ll see I guess. I think in the end we survive, but the rebuild with the world will be going on long after we are all gone. We are not to be trusted, at all.
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5 minutes ago, Satchel said:
I like to think of myself as one does not practice his faith casually, and as such I still attend church regularly. In most things, I am an advocate of modernity, but the changes in worship, across denominational lines has been dispiriting. One would have difficulty discerning the difference in the music at St.Ann and that offered at Gateway or some such. From the sterile, uninspiring, windowless auditoriums that typify most modern churches, to the annoying, loud, often poorly performed band music, churches have made change the calling card without mapping to anything remotely transcendent. In my tradition (the black church) the fadishness has reached riduculous levels, to the extent that choosing a worship style that motivates and inspires is virtually impossible. While I am theologically and doctrinally in sync with my local congregation, (“Christ centered, Justice Driven, Kingdom Minded), I struggle with the pandering to Gen Z and Generation Alpha that masquerades as disciplining.
I believe the church must change or die, but I’m not entirely comfortable with all that’s being done in the name of change
Rant over.
I get all of this too. I sang in the choir in a black church in The Bronx called Parkchester Baptist. It was a traditional Baptist church and I loved it. A woman was the minister and she was great at delivering a Good Word. That church reminded me of singing in the choir at a black church in Oak Cliff when I was younger. I prefer the older songs and love to sing them.
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44 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:
I grew up Baha'i, and I always thought it was great that there is no clergy or places of worship. We would have Feasts, where a local Bahai'l family would offer to host at their house for potluck dinners in a relaxed atmosphere to read prayers and have discussions. Maybe 20-30 people max in attendance.
One of the nicest celebrities I ever met was that faith. Rainn Wilson was so cool to everyone. I didn’t go up to him. He came to me and said hello and shook my hand while I was working. I remember him saying God Bless you to everyone and thanking them for stopping by to say hi while he was having lunch outside on the patio.
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2 hours ago, Clintonaldo said:
I put this here because it feels right.
I go to church. I give back to the needy with my time and money yet I am not feeling it in church. We did Easter service yesterday because today would be packed but the whole time it felt like a Rolling Stones concert and it all felt so forced. I’ve never been one to raise hands and pray over people but I am one to actually help people. I just feel weird sometimes when almost everyone but me is singing and praising but I am just standing there. I wish I could get into it more but I just don’t feel ( that ). I do give my church credit in that they do not get into politics so it isn’t that. I can say I’ve never felt closer to Christ than with a charity I do that helps special needs people run triathlons and half marathons.
I just really wondered during the laser show yesterday am I the oddball or am I real ? Is this your 40’s??I understand you completely and how you feel. I had thought of spending Easter at a church here. Then I decided that God is everywhere so instead I went to the beach for a few hours, got in the water and swam and just enjoyed the morning and thanked God for another day.
I have been in spiritual ruts before. Most of my own making. You’ll get past this feeling, but just remember that God is wherever you are. You don’t need to be in a fancy church building to feel God. Keep doing your charity work and stick to the basic tenets of being a Christian according to what Jesus said. Everyday you get the chance to make someone’s life better that may never be able to return the favor. Feel the joy in that and the rest will follow.
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Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
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