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Dbeasy

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  1. It was pretty cool. Very old ruins and while a lot of the structures are rubble some of the buildings are still partially intact.
  2. Last night was the Dallas team I was used to seeing. They were contesting the puck way better, showed much more hustle, outshot them, and played much better defense in front of the net. They still gave up too many breakaway shots on goal, but Colorado is really fast, so I guess that’s expected to some extent. Great win. More importantly, great watch.
  3. Hell ya! I was a Bengals fan all the way until 1981 and Boobies were a critical part of my youth.
  4. With only 10 days and wanting to also do Crete, you may not be able to do what we did, but it worked great. We went from Paros to Crete, and that required a ferry change in Santorini. So we reserved one of the best hotel views for one night and went in to Santorini for one afternoon and back out to Crete the next day. It gave us time to see both major towns on Santorini, eat dinner on the water for sunset, and have an incredible view from our hotel room. We avoided most of the crowds this way. Worked great. We stayed in Heraklion on Crete for the sole reason that we could get both to the west side and east side of the island easily. That ended up working fine. If you have no interest in activities on the east side, I would stay in chania or somewhere on the west side, particularly if the beaches and/or major hikes are important. Greece was awesome. One of our favorites trips. edit. Accidently typed crete instead of Santorini when describing the two towns.
  5. What is the kill shot number for a new poster? I’m looking to get motivated about something and this might be it.
  6. The problem I have is that when I change the hdmi port to the tv via tha Yamaha, sometimes it changes properly and sometimes it doesn’t. Drives me insane.
  7. I installed a motion sensing light in the kitchen pantry. I no longer get stressed by having to turn off the pantry light 10 times a day. I am at peace with the world.
  8. I just want to point out that a few months ago I recall some asshole complaining about the DT situation. Wait, that was me. Shit. Nevermind.
  9. Yes. Didn’t see the third period and they obviously did something very different. I can’t reconcile the third period with the other periods of this game and the previous one. The other thing I can’t reconcile is that I saw on Reddit the Stars led both games handily in advanced stats. So now I’m completely confused.
  10. I went to bed at the end of the 2nd period, disgusted by the Stars power play, where they not only couldn’t get shots off, they couldn’t even get the puck in the zone. It was ridiculous. There is something very wrong with this team. Rantanen sucks. There isn’t enough team speed. The puck passing is slow and lazy. All this pops up after the trade. I’m pumped they won, but something has to change or it will be an early exit.
  11. What have we learned, for the hundredth time? Pass the puck fast during power plays.
  12. My Yamaha receiver keeps flipping out. I need to replace it. I have an OLED LG TV, a DVD player, and a three speaker configuration with a subwoofer. I may add the surround sound speakers in the future. I’d like to stay under $1k if possible. Good voice sound is critical because we are hearing impaired. Any thoughts on the best receiver?
  13. Today’s espn article and the press conference has made it crystal clear what happened and what is going to happen. Here goes. Cuban realized that he had two major problems winning another championship. First, he couldn’t figure out which nba players in the league had the right mental makeup to contend for a championship. The failed trades and signings of the past taught him that. Second, he couldn’t get free agents to Dallas, for whatever reason. So he went out to find someone who knew all the players, had good relationships with them, and could help him find and attract the right top players to win a title. In Cuban’s mind, Nico didn’t need to be a true complete GM, because Cuban filled that role as needed. He just wanted Nico for the contacts and to get players to Dallas. But then Cuban sold the Mavs to some plotting disingenuous fucks who schemed to strip him of basketball operations once the ink on the sale was dry. The new dipshit ownership thought Nico was qualified to be the GM of an NBA franchise, which he’s obviously not. He hasn’t even worked as part of nba organization in the past. But, because he made two good trades, Dumont thought he was qualified. Big mistake. Then, Nico the completely unqualified GM proceeded to make all the predictable mistakes you’d see when someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing is in charge. Combine that with the fact that Nico is a highly flawed individual who doesn’t know how to lead, and you get things like the trainer fiascos. Still unchecked by Dumont, Nico then makes the biggest mistake in organized sports history. Dumont hopefully finally wakes up. But he can’t fire Nico until he has a solid plan B in place. And in the back of Dumont’s mind is the fact that if he fires him, the franchise is toast for the next ten years. He’s hopelessly wishing that Nico’s Luca move will turn out like the first two trades and will save his franchise. So, imo Dumont fires Nico once Kyrie either opts out, or has been back playing with the team for 2 months. At that point, when Dumont sees that the team is nowhere near championship caliber without Luca, he will replace Nico with whoever he is currently lining up to take over.
  14. Everyone who goes to church falls into one of three categories: a) true believers; b) those who are unsure about the legitimacy of their religion but nevertheless participate, or c) pretenders who do it for social, political or other reasons. It sure seems like these days those in group c) are predominate. That makes it a whole lot less appealing to the a)’s and b)’s.
  15. What again does Rantanen bring? Stars don’t have enough speed.
  16. Good point. Mavs and Rockets aren’t the same. Here is a better rating system that is more reflective of how I feel 1. Passionate about them - Spurs 2. Don’t even think about them - Rockets and most other NBA teams 3. Root against them - Lakers, Celtics 4. Wish for nothing but failure - Mavs
  17. Yep, while I’ve always been a spurs fan first, living in Dallas for so long turned me also into a Mavs fan. But now, they are as dead to me as the Rockets. Eff em.
  18. Defense wins championships. On pace to give up 136. 148
  19. Every Tech grad I’ve ever met is partially retarded.
  20. I met him in the Calgary airport, many many years ago, when he was at the absolute zenith of his wrestling career. And we were both from Austin and were the same age. And lived in Dallas at the same time. And I not only knew nothing about wrestling, I had never heard of him before. That was what you’d call an uncomfortable conversation.
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