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Dbeasy

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  1. I wasn’t talking about Wisner, nor did I say I was talking about Wisner. I was providing an example of the absurd nature of this board to come to rock hard conclusions about NIL numbers based on nothing more than some hearsay and no real knowledge at all of the actual NIL or portal situation.
  2. I’m amazed at all of the hot sports opinions in this thread. Surly - $1m is too much! How the fuck would any of you know? You don’t know the value of the players. Surly - Sark is failing in the negotiations! How the fuck would you know? We have no idea what value Texas has placed on various players. Surly - Texas is cheaping out on NIL! How the fuck would you know without understanding the whole financial picture. The entire NIL and portal process is a business. Hard decisions have to be made. Evaluations must be made. You roll the dice based upon this and try to construct the best roster you can. Will Sark blow it again like he did with the OL? We will find out next fall. It isn’t clear yet whether major mistakes are being made in portal management or NIL this cycle.
  3. Caution, long answer in case it helps others looking for a fridge: Thanks for all of the input. I am now much more knowledgeable on fridges than I was a week ago. Did a ton of research, and a few things I learned along the way: Consumer Rports shows heavy customer disatisfaction and weak reliability for every brand, with Bosch being the least offensive. They didn’t test the luxury brands like sub zero. I ruled those out because I don’t want to spend $10k and the selection was too limited. Bosch required ordering and they didn’t have the style we need. Otherwise we would have bought Bosch 800 series. We bought a Whirlpool that we thought would be good enough, but the ice dispenser wouldn’t work due to a poor design and manufacturability. But more concerning was that the temperature struggled to work well. We took it back and bought a GE fridge that had what we wanted and was the competitor to the Whirlpool. The GE fridges have the highest consumer reports ratings, but also the lowest customer satisfaction ratings. Given our experience with other GE appliances, we are expecting problems. But if it goes south, I’ll have a plan C ready for ordering a better fridge. The top, bottom fridges are more reliable because of their simplicity. We use a top freezer model for our garage fridge. Next most reliable are the side by sides because they don’t have multiple compressors and evaporators. We’ve had, and still wanted, a side by side because of space limits on open doors (damn kitchen island), and not liking freezer and ice on the bottom. French door types are the least reliable but most bought. And the most choices, by far. As said earlier ice dispensers are a source of problems. However we use that function every day, multiple times per day, so we bought one with it anyway. The Korean brands are controversial. Samsung and LG had serious quality issues as recently as a year ago, compressors and ice makers. However, theoretically they are improved. Repairmen still hate them. There are debates about why. The fridge ratings are all gamed by social media marketing companies putting in fake ratings. So you need to adjust the ratings. A 4.0 rating implies a lot of problems. A 4.5+ rating might indicate a reasonably good fridge. We looked at Costco but they didn’t have a type and model that would work for us. Ended up going with Lowe’s because we were able to buy it and have it delivered a day later. And every fridge was on sale. Saved quite a bit on the one we bought. Summary of brands IMO Bosch - pretty good quality, limited design options, longer deliver intervals. Not a bad choice if looking for a French door type. More expensive. Whirlpool - heavy volume sales, basic fridges, some ok some not. We liked the one we bought if not for the quality issues. GE - tested well but that bad customer sat has to come from somewhere. Probably will break prematurely. Samsung - ice maker problems behind them supposedly. Felt a little more solid than GE, Whirlpool or Frigidaire. Some interesting features. More features for the price. If quality issues are improved and repairmen are biased, maybe not too bad. I know a few owners who are unhappy with theirs. LG - same as Samsung except it was compressor issues. Almost bought an LG, if not for annoying ice door buttons. Fridgidaire - didn’t look too closely primarily because their consumer reports ratings were generally lower across the board. KitchenAid- overpriced for cosmetic features. It’s not the higher quality brand it used to be GE Profile - a little nicer than GE, better ratings. Potentially decent choice but harder to find and order. If Lowe’s would have had the model we wanted we would have gone with it Cafe - a GE upscale brand. Looked interesting but wasn’t able to touch one . Other brands - there were others but they were too hard to find or there were too few choices, indicating low market share. We wanted a brand where parts and repair were straightforward. One other the biggest surprises is that there aren’t really any great appliance stores in Austin anymore. We were interested in that to see a wider variety of lesser known models. But, since we couldn’t find a store we liked, we prioritized getting a fridge fast that we could touch over ordering one from one of the appliance stores where we weren’t able to touch the fridge. The whole process sucked.
  4. The problem with the high-end brands is that I have a tight space due to kitchen configuration. But, I'm still looking at fridges from $2-5k, and they all still suck.
  5. KitchenAid refrigerator bit the dust on Christmas Day. We had gotten it in a house sale ten years ago. When we got it, it was already 10 years old, so it lasted 20 years overall. Solid. Holy shit today’s fridges are crap. The quality and customer satisfaction ratings on all of them are terrible. I spent hours trying to find one that “might” be good enough. The construction quality is cheap. Terrible products. Finally we gave up and bought a Whirlpool that was supposedly “good enough”. After three days, the ice dispenser has never worked, the temperature varies way too much, and everything on it feels like it will break if I touch it. This sucks. Taking it back today.
  6. Just catching up on this thread after a busy holiday. Jesus. Do we have a bunch of posters that have never played sports? This mindset is ridiculous. And if they did play sports and still think this way, my guess is they were giant pussies on the field, court, ice, diamond, sand, grass, concrete, wood, ropes, or lane. Good grief.
  7. I am unable to successfully click a laughing face rep. I was in the One Battle After Another Thread. It just says there was a problem posting rep.
  8. Man, I came in here to ask about graphics pics that sometimes don’t load, like below, and found a bunch of over-the-top bitching by people. Good grief. The change is pretty good and I love how immamac is just plowing though the changes. It’s not like this is a damn space shuttle mission. Lighten up pussies.
  9. Well this isn’t encouraging. When I think about the complexity of managing portal additions and subtractions, I would think it gets pretty complicated. You think you have a guy, but then someone just comes in over the top with a much bigger number and you realize you’re doubly screwed. You let guys walk and didn’t get better replacements. When I think about the type of person/people who can thrive in that environment, it needs to be someone who is thorough and a very strong planner, combined with the ability to make fast, bold decisions, and the personal magnetism to sway players their way. That’s a pretty tough set of personality characteristics to have in just a one or a few people.
  10. It’s time. Just try to do without it for two weeks. I promise you it will be fine.
  11. Just finished it. Great movie. Had to actually do a 15 minute timeout. We were expecting a pure comedy and when it started so strangely we at first thought it might be garbage. But we went back in to finish it and really liked it. It will definitely get some Oscar nominations.
  12. Dbeasy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    I’m going to need to hear from the other 23 Asians before weighing in with a comment.
  13. Same. It’s the primary way I use the site
  14. This is an outstanding post. He took a lot of misfits and made them stars.
  15. He seems to have a somewhat better trajectory than Brenan Thompson, who finally showed some signs of progress at MSU. He might actually be decent wherever he goes, but the money seems to be a major disconnect.
  16. Just turn off all notifications until you use the app.
  17. None of it matters.
  18. Speed at safety and LB is more important I would think. More mobility at DT is important. The edge players need to be of enough size. When you look at each position safety is a question, and I think the DT’s are more space eaters. Edge is fine because of the incredible athleticism.
  19. Ran across the prototypical example for this thread. We are fixing tacos for dinner. As we pull out the taco shells we realize Old El Paso now makes their taco shells too narrow to fit in meat or anything else. WTF? Seriously? I guess if we were making taco meat and fixings for ants we’d be fine.
  20. Sure, but he only made it two seconds into those 463 snaps before he was too tired to continue.
  21. Is A&M still doing well so far for 2027 guys? If so, is that because they are throwing around more NIL money, or because elite high school athletes are partial to deeply overweight oaf-looking head coaches, or some other reason?
  22. It’s over! Tear it all down! People must pay! Not really.
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