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  1. Europe maybe, Spain has a decent women's league, pays well comparable to the WNBA, and not a bad place to live. Not much different than what we see from the better men's and women's soccer players going overseas. I understand ztejas position about how viewership is going to grow because of all the participation in the youth leagues etc... which will translate into viewers. When I was in elementary school my Mom signed me up for a youth soccer program and we went to watch Kyle Rote Jr and the Dallas Tornado play at Ownbey Stadium. That gives you a hint how long ago this was and at the time we heard the very same thing. Soccer will eventually become very popular in the US because of all the youth players who will eventually become viewers etc.....and it did grow a bit. If you expect Clark to raise the profile of the league similar to what Magic and Bird did for the NBA she and her team need to win titles and force the rest of the league to elevate their games otherwise she is Pete Maravich playing in obscurity in Atlanta and New Orleans ,
  2. So, she is basically Texas during football season in the Big 12 which means she should be leaving for a bigger league in a couple of years.
  3. Personally, I have found stumbling around and winning is far more preferrable than stumbling around and losing, but I am sure the glass was full, fell on the floor and shattered into a million pieces, and I cut up my bare feet while trying to get a broom, dust pan, and mop will be along shortly to tell us why we are all not seeing thw true big picture of this team.
  4. A very good point. Listening to George on the radio later in the race it sounded as if he was anticipating Oscar to push forward and George was going to either pass him or at least tag along and pass Max. Friend texted me that Oscar should have gone old school and made up his mind to either win the corner or crash he and Max out, but I don't think most of the modern drivers think that way.
  5. Which part? Crane not willing to overspend or the Padres trying to outspend the Dodgers and coming in second in terms of payroll and standings.
  6. Damn easy to spend other peoples money and that is exactly what is happening, I will type SLLOOOWWWWLLLLLYYYYYY. His ESTATE owns the Padres .
  7. Similar to the problem that plagued Junior though I believe with Griffey it first started hitting a wall on a catch.
  8. You mean the guy who tried to buy a championship before he died two years ago and now his estate is the owner of the team?
  9. Understood, so what the fuck happened where he can grip a bat? Seriously, if you are 27, aside from some autoimmune issue what can possibly cause so much pain and discomfort you can't grab and hold a bat?
  10. There is being cheap and there is someone who views players as assets and will spend accordingly with the periodic wild hair impulse buy, say Hader for example. Bregman at 31 is at a career high for exit velocity and hard hit% which is not only the norm for most players, but what indicated he was going to start the way he has this year?
  11. After the All-Star break? What the fuck! Seriously, what could possibly be wrong with the guy that would have him out for weeks? He is supposedly only 27, okay, factor in the Cuba birth certificate and he could be over 30 and if so those aches are called being over 30 so deal with it.
  12. Stanford also has a habit of not playing well with their conference mates. They aren't a pain in the arse like say BYU with some of their outright "we won't play on certain days" etc..... but there was more than one Pac school that was damn happy to be away from Stanford and it wasn't because they were getting beat by the Cardinal.
  13. The race was won between Friday and the point where Max passed Oscar. Red Bull did an incredible job changing something to go from what was seen in practice on Friday and today on the track. The pass by Max was a great move coupled by Oscar being WAY too tentative. Hoping he learns from today and applies next week because Monaco is more of the same. With that being said, the Red Bull driven by Max was the fastest car today. You could see it after the re-start when he absolutely ran away and hid from the two McLarens. i am not smart enough to know whether this is a the case of improvements made by Red Bull or if this track fits Max and the Red Bull really well as he has now won 4 in a row at Imola. Great day for Ferrari, can Charles possibly be anymore morose? Lando is whiny, George a wanker, and everything with Charles is so damn dour. Ferrari needs to replace his race engineer with a sports psychologist. Great weekend for Williams and a great drive for Alex (currently 8th in drivers' points). Also a good weekend for Carlos and Williams is clearly having the best year of the teams outside the big four. WTF happened to the Astons in the second half of the race? These next two weekends should be interesting with a similar race next week and then a more open circuit in Spain.
  14. Don't disagree with any of that, but in the end do you really think who they recruit is driven by where they play their games or the success of the program?
  15. The decision who gets included isn't going to eventually be driven by the conferences or who plays nice with whom.
  16. This, I think the smart schools in solid non-P4 conferences wait for the next round of conference realignment. There are 68 teams in the four power conferences and ND. Not all of those are going to be included in the next round which means there could be some very interesting options to form some new, regionalized conferences.
  17. Agreed, SMU has done what they need to do to position themselves to take advantage of the opportunity given to them. Win, draw eyeballs, and when the deck gets reshuffled again for college football they stand a very good chance of getting in because of their location. The big key is they have to win in the ACC and when they get a chance to beat a brand they do it. I think what is getting missed by some and it is understandable on a Texas board is that at some point programs are going to get left behind. Tradition, rivalries, conference brotherhood. All that shit doesn't mean anything when the networks offer enough money. Not taking a swipe at Texas, merely saying Texas supporters might not think about these things because they haven't ever been the school that someone said goodbye to and they won't be the next time. There are 68 teams in the current forms of the ACC, Big 12, Big 10, SEC, and those assholes at Notre Dame. Does anyone really think that ESPN, Fox, and/or Fox wants to have to play all those schools top dollars for their broadcast rights? Too many schools are in too small a viewing areas for someone not to be left behind when the deal gets paid and having been through it before it will happen, but people don't expect it to happen to say one of the Mississippi schools in a state of less than 3M, or an Iowa school, or a Kansas school, or whomever the powers that be deem excess baggage unless you have been left behind and you normal the idea of loyalty among conference mates is about as tangible as amateur student athletes. There is no way OU wants more than two Texas schools in whatever version is coming down the road. Why allow a program that has shown it might have more financial backing than you to now build some credibility? Makes no sense and for those who say the coaches will always insist they have those easy games in their schedule so keep the Vandy's etc...do you honestly believe what any coach thinks has influenced any of these conference changes?
  18. Still comes back to winning plain and simple. Barry recruited where he wanted not because of the number of games he played there, but the games he won. They never had a losing record under Barry, fewest wins in a season was 7 and over Top 10 finishes in his 16 years. Yes, he ran a program in which they not only cheated, but the players were out of control to a degree I am not sure we have seen elsewhere. Unless things have changed since I lived in the Metroplex, which family and friends say it hasn't, OU has no issue with media coverage in the area, aren't a forgotten program, and there are more than a few alums living there. They aren't Arkansas who is basically become anonymous since moving to the SEC> A second game in the Metroplex doesn't do shit for the program if they aren't winning and in fact, it puts you in an awkward position if you don't win the game. One advantage OU has to play against SMU and the Big 12 schools in Texas in recruiting is they play in the SEC which is just a different level of football. That mystique for OU takes a bit of a hit if they get beat by SMU or any of the other Big 12 teams. Any time Patterson beat a bigger conference school when TCU was moving up the conference ranks they broadcast that shit for months to anyone who would listen to them and even those who tried to ignore it. The Frogs win in Norman in 2005 combined with the wins over Tech and Baylor twice the next two years opened some big damn doors in recruiting and gave the program some credibility. There is more for OU to lose playing that game than there is for them to gain if they lose it, especially if they can't get their shit together which is still debatable with Venables.
  19. The video is only conjecture, but highly educated conjecture from the one former McLaren engineer and I enjoy this type of talk far better than the water bottle theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTnAZxqD5w4 Skip to the 5 minute mark if you want to avoid the repeating of McLaren has a secret and Red Bull is calling them cheaters diatribe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L00FHrVFGaU
  20. I have been given a couple of kits which are cool, but this was pretty incredible when they were unveiled at Miami a few weeks back. https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/how-lego-built-life-size-replicas-of-every-formula-1-car-at-the-miami-gp/10719866/ https://www.espn.com/racing/f1/story/_/id/44983976/how-lego-built-life-size-f1-cars-miami-grand-prix-driver-parade https://www.planetf1.com/features/lego-full-size-formula-1-cars-miami-grand-prix If you want a car with a different bit of styling they also unveiled this last fall: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a62172677/lando-norris-lego-mclaren-p1/
  21. This reminds me of the "1" documentary where pit crews are putting barriers back together prior to a Grand Prix race because the track owners haven't done shit to get it ready for the race.
  22. Agreed, there is nothing wrong with a track that punishes them for not staying on track. Why paint the damn lines and far better than someone cutting a corner, we get 5 minutes of drivers whining about giving back positions, and then stewards have to make a decision. Much simpler, cut the corner, catch the grass and go sideways or spin out in the gravel and get buried and your race is over for today. A damn site better and far better to watch on television than from some parking lot.
  23. Good thing the Big 12 got Texas ready for the SEC. That or they were going to win those titles regardless of the conference.
  24. Great pull, that was one of the high points of Richard's time on the radio, especially with the manner in which Richard would defend La Russa and go on and on and on about how smart Tony was etc...
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