Posts posted by F250
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2 hours ago, hpslugga said:
Actually, history and facts are the basis of policy.
And even when you tread into the what-if territory, it has to be realistic and based on evidence. For example, “what if the Iranian military air jumped into the US on jet propulsion packs, armed with fully automatic guns that shoot small tactical nuclear weapons at 150 weapons per second and kills all of us?!” is not a basis for foreign policy.
You are arguing with people that believe a Space Force is necessary. All of their ideas are based on absurd scenarios.
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2 hours ago, bschoolprof said:
The Atlantic League tried it out for their all star game. Seemed to work out ok. Thoughts?
https://www.sporttechie.com/mlb-umpire-automated-strike-zone-abs-atlantic-league-all-star-game/
I'm cool with the automated strike zone, it will likely improve the game by providing consistency.
I think the mound moving back will be a lot more controversial than an automated umpire.
"The league originally announced plans to push the pitcher’s mound back two feet, but delayed the proposal at least a season after an uproar from players and coaches."
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1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:
Well it also doesn't help that kids aren't swinging heavy enough bats. Everyone wants one more mph of bat speed so they are swinging -10 bats.
[getoffmylawn]Back in my day we used the biggest bat we could swing comfortably, my 11-year-old year I used a 30/24 and my 12-year-old year I used a 32/26. 12-year-old kids these days can't even pick up a bat that size and head up to the plate with a 31/21 if they're the big strong kid on the team.[/getoffmylawn]
Found a -8 for my kid last season he played and lo and behold the ball was jumping off the bat better.
In game news, Lufkin beat Western Hills last night so there is a final championship game tonight in Section 1.
My kids were swinging -5 at 12 years old without issues. There were a couple of Easton XL1 drop 5 bats that were passed down from my oldest to my youngest son. After a couple of years of use the "trampoline effect" with the XL1 improved due to the natural "rolling" process, it was a rocket launcher. The bat was very end loaded but if you could handle the extra weight while maintaining bat speed you are basically Thor with his hammer.
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13 hours ago, pepper brooks said:
the intermediate, junior and seniors from our league are all still in, and expected to go pretty far. Once we are allowed to go to one team vs two all-star teams we pretty much dominate district, state and sectionals. We regularly send teams to the world series in Bango, Maine in the 13-16 age group. We have a kid in seniors throwing mid 80's.
Our league never had Seniors and the Juniors were usually pretty crappy, most of the talent exited after Majors. They implemented intermediate too but that hasn't been very successful due to the talent drain after Majors. Plus our Middle Schools have baseball teams so LL at 13/14 is usually made up of kids cut from the middle school teams.
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8 hours ago, MAROON said:
pretty much a forgone conclusion that McAllister wins that sectional and Texas West every year. Texas East is pretty much either Pearland, Lamar, or Post Oak these days. The big leagues dominate.
How big is Pearland? McAllister Park has a huge talent pool to pull from and does the two charter thing and sends an MP American and MP National all star team every year. I believe both have made it all the way to the LLWS.
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8 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:
We are looking at an area off Blanco Rd which has 1 to 3 acre tracts and minimum home square footage of 2400 living space which means when you throw in the garage and patio/porch areas, it's give or take on either side of 3000 sq ft.
And yea I can see how Bulverde has drawn the city limit boundaries , they are trying real hard to keep SA from moving north of 1863. On Google maps, the city limits looks like a gerrymandered congressional or legislative district. LOL. Camp Bullis prevents SA from trying to go up around Bulverde's west side to snatch land going northward.
I don't see San Antonio crossing the county line into Comal. Bulverde already has most of the area on lockdown. Besides, San Antonio isn't even going to be able to annex the rest of Bexar county on 281 anytime soon. Timberwood Park has been successfully fighting off annexation for 15 years and the last time San Antonio backed down they stated that the matter would be revisited again in the mid 2030's and as you mentioned Camp Bullis is sitting across the street from Timberwood Park and that's military land.
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8 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
With Robin (Maya Hawke) getting so much public attention, I can't see them leaving her out of future seasons, which will continue to diminish other redundant characters.
Damn, I didn't realize who she was until I read your post. I thought she looked familiar but never bothered to IMDB the actress playing Robin. She does have a strong resemblance to Uma
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17 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:
I agree. I will say though, those two chicks I sucked face with and played with their titties were fucking hot. Oh well, can’t win all the time.It's all good some action is better than no action.
Did you ever make it to Southern Spain? Costa Del Sol this time of the year is a blast, like Spring Break but better. The Scandinavians flock to the place in July. So many topless Swedish and Norwegian chicks with very liberal sexual views and looking for guys that are exotic "non-scandanavians".
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5 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:
Over the last two weekends, we covered a lot of square miles in the area and it's all wonderful landscapes. Funny thing is I've been all over the Hill Country since I was a kid, but never paid a visit once to Canyon Lake until now. Why I've avoid it this long I don't know? Can't wait to find some buds up there with a boat and have some fun on the water. LOL
We started off first wanting to something east of 281, closer to New Braunfels or off 281 going up towards Blanco. We spent the balance of last Saturday west of 281 on 46 and found what we wanted. For now there is a little less traffic out there although that probably won't last too much longer. But from what I gather talking to some of the builders, it might take a little longer for it to explode with development vs what has occurred east of 281 on 46.
There is still a lot of agriculture in that area, it will be awhile before development takes over. We've been in Spring Branch for about 17 years and the growth was pretty slow up until the past 5 years.
For the most part the zoning restrictions have been pretty good about keeping development under control. The area you are looking at used to have a minimum of 13 acres per lot, I'm not sure if that's still the case. Even the more crowded areas off of 281 had a minimum requirement of 1 acre which prevented the growth of overcrowded tract housing.
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1 hour ago, Walden Ponderer said:
I grew some golden honeydew melons a couple of years ago, and those were delicious. Hybrids, though, so saving the seeds did nothing for me. I was a little surprised that their genetic descendants were cantaloupe, not honeydew, but then, I'm an amateur gardener, not a botanist.
I need to know the reasoning behind this.
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On 6/28/2019 at 1:58 PM, Patricio Swayze said:
Well, it’s been 21 years since my brothers and I attempted to run with the bulls. We are partially of basque descent with a basque surname and thought it would be cool.
tldr: it didn’t happen
We left for Pamplona from San Sebastián the day before the first running of the bulls. When we arrived the streets and plazas were packed with people drinking and dancing. The streets were covered in glass from broken sangria bottles. Already 2 people had died that day getting drunk and jumping off statues expecting people to catch them. As we walked around we saw a young woman dancing on top of a building and people screaming to her to jump. She was at least 50 ft up. I had enough of all the people as I am not into this shit (I have less than zero interest in Madrid gras or carnaval) so my younger brother and I found a quiet plaza to eat some really awesome salami sandwiches we bought nearby.
That night was kind of crazy. The hotels and hostels were full. We made our way to one of the main plazas and there was a stage with bands playing well into the morning. Some Australians we met up with in San Sebastián were there and they proceeded to get drunk as Australians do. I remember one climbing a tree and being really obnoxious to the point that people started throwing shoes at him. The bars around the plaza were full and not heir TVs they were showing videos of past San Fermin festivals with plenty of people getting tricked and gored by bulls.
Although it was warm during the day, it got really chilly that night. None of us were prepared for that except I had brought a flannel shirt. We planned to sleep on the ground in the plaza like hundreds of others. 3 American women approached us and oddly asked if we planned on going to sleep soon. We said we didn’t see how we could with a band playing an freezing our asses off. They asked if they could cuddle up with us to stay warm. So we obliged them. They were pretty average and while I guess it could have led somewhere, none of us were interested.
We woke up the next morning and headed to the route where the bulls would be running. My younger brother felt like shit from the cold. My older brother started to chicken out. I didn’t want to run it alone, the whole point was to run it together as brothers. Disappointed we watched as people packed into the street from behind the barricades. It got so full that police started removing people as it was going too unsafe with all those people. It really looked like they attempted to remove the tourists rather than the locals or basque/Spaniards. I suppose there is a chance had we tried, we would have ultimately been removed.
What’s funny is, we didn’t really get to see much action because there were so many people. My younger brother was sick and we just got back on a bus and headed back to San Sebastián.
Later during that trip I hooked (unfortunately not sex) up with an Italian stewardess and then some gal from Colorado, so it wasn’t a total loss.
That’s all I got.
Take a jacket
Make a hotel reservation well in advance
Watch out for idiots killing them selves diving off statues
Run like hellThis was a very disappointing story.
If you are a young American male vacationing in Spain, it should be hammer time 24/7.
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1 hour ago, Nueces River Rat said:
You might getting this asshole and his lovely wife west of 281 off TX 46. between Bulverde and Blanco Rd. We might be pulling the trigger on some land with the intention the build within three years. Visited a number of properties yesterday and man I love it out there. Having Guadalupe St Park just a few minutes from my front door will be a blast.That's a pretty good spot. I have a few friends in that area, one of my son's played baseball for a team that held practices on their property right off Ammann road, you got to love property with it's own baseball diamond. I'm over on the other side of 281, about 10 minutes from Canyon Lake.
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Anyone still playing in All Stars?
I stopped for lunch at Chuey's the other day and was sitting next to a couple families with McAllister Park All Star players. They won their district and begin Sectionals next week, which they are also hosting. I think Boerne representing the District that I used to coach in is the only team that might challenge them.
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What is the reasoning behind these proposals? Teachers only, is that really solving the student debt crisis?
Also, the PBS link mentions he would provide the first two years of college for free but wouldn't it make more sense to make it the last two if you are only funding two years? That would at least incentivize students to complete college.
"Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke announced a plan to forgive 100% of student loan debt for all public school teachers, as part of a far-reaching plan for massive investment in public education."
"He said he would provide two years of debt-free public or community college for all Americans, according to PBS."
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2 hours ago, DixonHur said:
Some dude posted this on Texags' Q thread calling it is "an excellent summary of everything up till now for those who think nothing is happening:" It's long, but well worth it if you enjoy mental gymnastics.
RyanAg08 responds:
Then cbr posted this gem of a recap...
Yes, you read that correctly...the known crimes are unknown.
I honestly can't even wrap my head around how anyone, I don't care how dumb, could believe this shit.
Uh, you are talking about aggy. They are programmed to believe in lies from the moment they step on campus.


Rand Paul was always a Piece of Shit
in Cloak Room
This is off topic but Slacker despite being a few years before my time represents the Austin that I remember and cherish. It's crazy how much the place has changed.