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Dbeasy

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  1. So, you are using his terrible lack of development as an argument for why Terry can’t be blamed for his lack of development. Interesting take.
  2. All this data looks correct. And the ABoR data should be ok because its pulled directly from MLS data. Here is through February. My experience is that prices were still dropping though December/January and stabilized in February/March. If you look at JimmyJazz trend line, the current prices are just about back on the trend line. 2022 was ridiculous.
  3. Wtf? I clicked on that link expecting to see a video that cleared the delivery guy. Unless I missed something there was no video. So where the hell do you come off declaring him innocent? Were you there? Are you a time traveler? Git the fuck outahere with that uninformed declaration.
  4. I think Riley is gone after this year regardless of how his season progresses. He’s in too much of a tenable situation. He knows that if the defense struggles again for the next two years, it will destroy his nfl opportunities. So he will take whatever nfl job comes his way in the offseason. And someone will hire him for sure (insert Jerry Jones joke). Or if the defense improves, a good nfl job will most certainly crop up.
  5. Talked with one fly fishing company that it within an hour of Winter Park and they said at the end of June the fishing might be ok once the rivers have emptied a bit. But they don't do river float fly fishing, only stand and cast. We are interested in a float trip for half a day. Anyone recommend a decent fly fishing guide reachable within an hour of Winter Park?
  6. Recently, I had missed a few years of the Texas OU game for various reasons before finally going again last year. The place was always crowded and a mess, but holy shit the misery was about 2x what I remember. The bathroom lines, the food lines, the area around Big Tex. It was terrible. I don’t remember it being that crowded, and I had been going for over 35 years before missing those few games.
  7. Why are the spurs winning? Don’t they need to stay in the bottom three for the draft? I thought this year was all about tank #2?
  8. The Shaka formula: 1. Play in a so so conference. 2. Recruit a few top quality recruits and a few other athletes. 3. Let them run up and down the floor jacking up 3’s. 4. Win a few games against high seeds by getting lucky with 3 point shooting and leveraging the athletic ability of the team. 5. Beat up on lesser programs in a so so conference 6. Gain a decent tournament seed as a result of 4 and 5 7. Beat the really low seeds. Lose as soon as you run into good coaching, or your 3 pt luck runs out 8. Rinse repeat
  9. The Boeing situation and this thread are fascinating to me. The comments about not putting the MBA’s in charge of engineering or of airplane businesses are not that crazy. I have first hand experience. I have an engineering degree and worked as an engineer in the aerospace industry for several years. But then i got an MBA and ran companies for several years. So I’ve lived on both sides of the fence. The issue is that the pure engineer who thinks solely like an engineer makes a terrible business leader. They think too linearly in black or white. But similarly a pure business leader with no product development expertise is often an absolute idiot, making dumb decisions about product quality, safety, timelines, costs, etc. You have to be able to meld those two mindsets together to make optimal decisions. But often leaders with experience in both areas still screw up because they can’t effectively optimize their thinking. It took me a long time to really get better at ensuring businesses optimally mixed safety, quality, profitability, etc. But even then, if you report to people that don’t understand it, they will force you down the path of bad decisions. A bad Board of Directors can be just as responsible for the failures. In my opinion there have been enough serious problems at Boeing that they need to redo the Board as well.
  10. Let’s see this is shaping up to be the worst year of Texas baseball since________
  11. As a rabid Spurs fan I would love this pick. He has the athleticism, attitude, and potential that the Spurs could leverage while fixing his shooting and lack of impact. I’ve seen the Spurs fix the shot of tons of players. This would be great for Mitchell.
  12. We are definitely better off at the position than we’ve been in a long time. I don’t mean to sound like I’m complaining about the position. I’m pretty happy with where they are at DE. And yes I’m sure a few of those guys will get drafted or a look in the nfl. I just don’t think any but potentially Simmons are likely to be an Ossai, or a multi-year player. Of course I’ve been unenthusiastic about Burke since the beginning and I’ve been proven spectacularly wrong there. Let’s hope he keeps getting better and I’m wrong about all of them.
  13. Of all those It’s a lot of good to very good guys, but I think the only strong NFL prospect is Simmons, imo. Size, strength, speed, agility needed to stick in the nfl.
  14. What’s the real story behind this Hagerty bill banning federal money to be used to fly illegal immigrants to the US? The right wing propaganda machine is making a big deal out of all Democrats voting against it last Friday.
  15. I’ll put this in the category of embarrassing trivia. I just learned two weeks ago that the top ingredient in lemon pepper is not pepper. I’ve been using it my whole life.
  16. How else do we win the internet? That’s my highest priority item on today’s To Do list.
  17. It's nice to finally see a few folks start to voice their concerns about Pierce. I've been on that island for awhile now. I get it, though. He's done just well enough so that if you squint and rationalize, you can convince yourself that he's the right coach for Texas. I've done my share of squinting over the years, even staying on the Charlie Strong "let's wait and see" bandwagon too long. That "let's wait and see" approach can sustain you for 2-3 seasons. I freely admit that based upon the world series appearances it seems like I'm jumping the gun on Pierce. But, I've seen enough little things over the last several years to believe Texas could do better. I also don't believe a mid-season firing is warranted, obviously. Giving him next year as well seems appropriate, on paper. But if you're CDC, you have to have received enough information about his coaching to make a call after this year if you do believe he's the wrong guy.
  18. In 1996, i never once had the thought that I might die of old age before the Cowboys won the SuperBowl again. These days, it’s a distinct possibility.
  19. I burst out laughing when I heard that. Probably one of the funniest e-brake call ins ever.
  20. I’ve done a few with another o need to schedule. Anyone have a good Austin doctor recommendation? The guy I used was ok but I want to use a top quality doctor.
  21. Oh I didn’t realize it was already time again for Lisa (and I’m sure Susan Collins at any moment) to express deep concerns about their party, right before they vote straight maga again on a given issue.
  22. I’m not a fan of Terry, but dang this roster is terrible. Him keeping them in this game is a miracle.
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