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Braff Zacklin

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  1. Been out of town a lot for work, but have spent the past week at home. Weather has mostly been great, so that's granted me more time to get out, pedal, and explore. Trails are still weeks behind the average year, but the amount of dry singletrack is night and day compared to just three weeks ago. I stop and take a picture here every spring, it seems. Same location, just reverse view, looking back toward town. Won't be able to ride as much this week as duty calls once again. Just as well--my grundle is very disgruntled.
  2. Please don't kill the messenger. https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39987650/usmnt-sergino-dest-injures-knee-doubt-copa-america Feels like a big loss, if I'm honest. We've got some serviceable right backs, but none of them can do what Dest can. And his defense has improved over the past few years
  3. @Brisketexan is almost always moist. It usually begins by whispering words like Allsup's, parisa or, if you're really brave, chicharrón in his ear.
  4. As if I needed another reason to like Joker ... ... they've found one.
  5. Nineteen free throws for the Lakers to Denver's 6. And the Nuggets have been in control since early in the third.
  6. Hey, you promised me you'd never share that pic of me at Applebee's with my "date," @ztejas!
  7. So, so very happy to see this bill pass the House--our first official funding for Ukraine in nearly a year-and-a-half, right?
  8. You think like a farmer, not an artist. The green swirl represents "the later" because it resembles how the chorizo con juevos will look as they're being flushed ...
  9. Very artistic. The chorizo and eggs represent "the now." The green swirl represents "the later."
  10. Can we just keep most of the SEC folks out?
  11. What do you have against Tottenham, and why is that relevant to the hoops forum?
  12. Yes, reconsider your life choices.
  13. And how do you imagine Israel will get boots on the ground in Iran? Do you genuinely believe Jordan, Syria, Iraq or other Muslim nations would simply allow Israel unfettered access to their airspace, or that they'd be OK with columns of Israeli tanks and troops driving through their borders? Israel doesn't have much of an amphibious surface fleet AFAIK, and it's not as if Egypt would allow one passage through the Suez, anyway. But the thought of an Israeli invasion force slowly working its way around the Arabian Peninsula definitely brings the chuckles. This is entertaining, so please keep the answers coming.
  14. So you're contending that Israel--a nation of less than 10M people--could "easily" handle a land invasion of Iran, a nation with nearly 10 times the population and with several countries and/or bodies of water between it and Israel?
  15. I recall when LaMarcus was on campus, Barnes saying something to the effect that he couldn't keep Aldridge out of the gym. Kid was always working on his game, injury or not. Barnes had similar praise for KD. I don't have statistics, but I remember TJ developing a serviceable midrange J between his freshman and sophomore seasons. And he also became the guy you _wanted_ at the line at the end of games. He was ice cold. I don't remember feeling that confident in him as a freshman.
  16. Ford definitely improved his J and his stroke from the charity stripe between his freshman and sophomore seasons. However, Aldridge was a gym rat long before he showed up on the Forty. I also want to recall Damion as having a decent jumper as a freshman, but that was more than 15 years ago. He improved from deep and showed some improvement at the free throw line, but I don't think it would be fair to say that neither he nor Aldridge could shoot. They could.
  17. Neither Hunter nor Mitchell were "black holes." In basketball parlance, a black hole is a teammate who never passes once the ball is in his hands.
  18. Should've performed more Bach and less Dvorak.
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