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Modessit

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  1. I kept thinking they were trying to low-key strike her out while "intentionally walking" her. I was wondering why they bother throwing four pitches and don't just award the base if the pitching team indicates they want to intentionally walk.
  2. Wow! I was hoping they'd pitch it close again.
  3. You could tell the batter was waiting on that changeup. Two fastballs for strikes. Should've stayed with it. Went changeup and HR.
  4. Got some small pea-to-gravel hail in 78724. Some nice rain. Power went out about 5-10 minutes before the rain hit. Wife and kids barely got out of the car and onto the porch before it started coming down. Lasted about 20 minutes and the sun is out again.
  5. Looking west from Elgin. I don't know dick about cloud formations, but someone is about to get fucked.
  6. He doesn't work for Amaxon despite the Amazon branded vest and panel van. He works for a subcontracting company that delivers Amazon packages. It's how Amazom avoids liability for shit like this. The sub-companies are responsible for hiring and clearing drivers. Any damages incurred are on the sub-company that hired him. I personally would've called the customer first to see if they had a ladder or rope, then 911, then my dispatch to let them know why I'm not delivering (vehicles have trackers).
  7. Can someone wake me up when we stop talking about yester-Quinn and start talking about his camp or training with the Dolphins?
  8. QE definitely had some WTF throws, but I'm not going to totally blame him on some of those deep 40+-yd throws that landed 3-6 feet to the side of the receiver. A lot of times you hear about a QB "throwing a guy open" because of the defender's position. You have a WR running down the field with a CB on his right hip. Sure, a perfect throw COULD land right in his hands, but it's better to throw it to the left and let your WR adjust to the open area of the field and catch it. Worthy was terrible at making adjustments and tracking the ball. I don't put all of that on Quinn. Now, when he overthrows or underthrows a wide open receiver, that's definitely on him.
  9. I would call it a "self sack" if: - the QB runs out of bounds behind the LOS without throwing it away first. - the QB has time but sees all of his options covered and decides to tuck it and gets tackled behind the LOS rather than chucking it OOB over a receivers head. Either of those two instances have an option that doesn't lose yards, but the QB decided not to take it. Now, tucking it and getting tackled 2 seconds after getting the ball because someone whiffed on a block is not a self-sack.
  10. I'll just jump in for a second to bring up something that occurs to me often when I hear this from Sark or the sports mafia that reports on the Horns: We often hear about "that TD (or big play) was a result of (QB) changing the play at the line. I called a different play, but he saw the defense was (in whatever formation), made the change, and the result was (great play)." We never hear about the times when the QB changes the play and it ends up being a complete clusterfuck that ends up in a turnover (INT, loss of downs, etc) or DOESN'T change the play because they didn't read the defense properly and the play gets blown up or stopped for a loss. How many times have we all yelled "WTF?!?" after a stupid 4th down play or "WHY IS HE THROWING DEEP WHEN WE ONLY NEED 2 YARDS?!?" We blame Sark for the playcall, but who's to say it wasn't Quinn changing the play or NOT changing the play (if warranted)? Sure, it's great when it works, but there are usually a ton of mistakes that led us to the point of needing that great play. It's like shooting double-bogey on every hole but saying you had a great round because you chipped in for birdie on the 18th to beat your playing partner by 1 stroke.
  11. First player with TWO numbers retired.
  12. After Deion kicks back some of that $50M he got from Jerrah back in the day. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if Daddy bribed some team to draft him. Maybe with a promise of a scholarship for someone's kid.
  13. Ehlinger is.
  14. I was thinking about the knife while catching up. There has been speculation about whether a small folding pocket knife is legal on a school campus and - if so - how small is legal and how big is illegal. And if a small folding picket knife that is legal would have a large enough blade to stab someone deep enough to penetrate the heart. But let's disregard that for a moment and consider three things: 1 - it was a folding knife and was folded, then he had to remove the knife, unfold it, and then stab. 2 - the knife was already unfolded in the backpack. He just had to grab it and swing. 3 - it was a fixed blade knife, either in a sheath or not. If unsheathed, he just need to grab and stab. If sheathed, he had to pull it from the sheath first. Does any of those change anything about intent? If you have time to pull the knife and unfold it, I'd think you also have time to walk away. Does unfolding it imply intent to use it? Does carrying it unfolded and "ready" imply you are expecting to be in scenarios where you would have to use it? If you have pull it from a sheath, I'd think you're intending to use it. Just wondering if the type of knife used and how it was carried in the backpack could have any bearing on the self-defense theory.
  15. I'm 5 days behind, so apologies if this is covered already, but you can tell the majority of the speculators here were the bullies and not the bullied. And probably don't even realize they were bullies. I was bullied a lot in HS . Apparently it's frowned upon to get the best grades and wreck the curve. The last thing I would ever do is intentionally go where my bullies are unless I was planning a drastic Columbine-type retaliation. It wouldn't matter how bad the rain was. I'm not hanging around to give them a target. Either this guy was never bullied by them, or went there specifically to tempt them so he could harm them with the knife. And I wouldn't want a stranger in my team's tent where cell phones, jewelry, etc are sitting in bags.
  16. Didn't see it was already mentioned. Sorry.
  17. To be fair, so do 85% of the other posters on this thread. People who obsess about politics always ignore the story and focus on who is telling it. Very few of these posts have any actual facts or discussion about what actually happened. This is why those people should be locked in the Cloak Room and never let out. And to answer your earlier question, the white kid got stabbed.
  18. Wife got a new debit card because hers expired at the end of March. She texted me yesterday because she stopped to get gas and - of course - forgot to activate the card. I told her to use the backup credit card we usually keep only for emergencies. I was home, and told her to go ahead and activate it while she was pumping gas. She told me she couldn't remember her password and she got locked out of the website after failing too many times, so now she has to call Support. I told her to go ahead and call right then and get it activated, but she didn't want to call right then. So I sent this message: "Call when you get home." About 30 minutes later my phone rang. Her: "I'm home."
  19. My wife is a teacher there and my kids attend. Edit: At Pillow, I mean.
  20. When I was stationed in Colorado (88-90), I went to a military surplus auction. They had an old jeep like this that still drove (I drove it around for about 10 minutes). No keys. Kind of like a golf cart in that you pressed a pedal and it started up. Was interested in buying it but was told that because it wasn't "street legal" they'd have to cut it in half first. That's a cut from front to back straight through the engine.
  21. I'm sorry. Is bipartisan shitposting frowned upon?
  22. I hate dipping into CR waters. I cannot and will not speculate on the political leanings of this group of dirtbags (death penalty if everything is true), nor opine on any motivations for what they did, but if you think this violence against trans people is limited to far-right sickos... I'd suggest looking up Muhlaysia Booker, Tiffany Thomas, and LaKendra Andrews - all black transwomen who were murdered in Dallas. And I'm willing to bet not a single murderer voted Republican. Hate is not limited to just one side, and not all crime is politically motivated. Nor is violence against transpersons new with Donald Trump. And it won't go away when he's long gone. Sorry to interrupt your hate party.
  23. I'm guessing she was sick but unaware of how sick. She was his caregiver. She probably collapses in the bathroom and can't get up. He's too far gone with Alzheimers to respond if she tried calling for help. Dog is locked up. She can't get her phone, and dies on the bathroom floor. Meanwhile, he's wandering around the house unaware she's even missing. Doesn't know to feed himself. Probably isn't taking his heart medication that she made sure he took. He gets weak from no food and falls. Pacemaker is keeping him alive for a while but he finally dies, completely unaware of what is happening. Dog dies of dehydration or starves in the crate. Sad all around. This is probably a case where his fame worked against him. A normal person would probably have a nurse coming to check regularly. They didn't want his condition going public so they kept it too compartmentalized.
  24. Is it an "honor" if you have to pay to be in it?
  25. I think I told this story in the Dad's thread: When my son was about 4 (he's 11 now), I took him with me to pick up some BBQ. He was big into Paw Patrol at the time ("Chase is on the case!") so was excited to see some county sheriff's vehicles parked outside. We went inside and saw they were all seated at a table against the wall. As I went to order, I told him to go say "Hi". He eagerly went that direction as I placed my order. Suddenly, I heard them all laughing loudly. After I paid, I went over to see what was going on. They told me that, instead of saying "Hi", the first thing he said was, "The other day, my mom drove through a yellow light without slowing down and stopping."
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