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  1. Match made in heaven. Jimbo will always demand more money, and victory-starved aggy will always ante up for their football program. I don’t think he leaves either.

    On the other hand, if Jimbo thinks that some sort of Sabanesque legacy is what he wants, LSU it is. That’s the only thing I can conceive of that would pull him away.

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  2. 10 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    re: the KU game that year, i'm pretty sure we on like 60-3 for something, and that looming at the box score shows just an absolute ass whooping from Texas. but you know what i remember the most about that game? our first play from scrimmage was that ubiquitous GDGD, "let's get the QB going by throwing sideways and getting a couple of easy completions". the KU DB jumped the route and had an unabated TD in front of him, but he ducked up the INT and dropped the ball. that's GDGD in a nut shell- he has VY, Jamaal, Selvin, RT, David Thomas, Limas Sweed, and three future NFL O linemen,  it he's so predictable, and so conservative, and so repetitive that even shitty-ass KU knows exactly what's coming.

    lol oh yeah- same as when Garrett Gilbert opened the OU game by completing two straight passes, only to find himself facing a 3rd and 14. 😂 GDGD called two of those idiotic sideways/backwards "confidence building" passes to open the game and OU jumped all over it and blew up each reception for a two yard loss. give Urban our rosters from 2000-2011 and we have 3-4 national titles and 5+ league titles. 

    As much as we knew at the time that Mack, et al watched message boards, I got to the point where I was certain that this early game play calling was an intentional middle finger to the fan base.

  3. 9 hours ago, ERhine said:

     


    If that’s the route you’re going you need to do it way in advance of the SOL. Med mal isn’t simply a file it at the deadline type case. Also understand in advance how few med mal cases make financial sense to bring based on tort reform.

     

    Thanks for this. It's a strange position I find myself in. I'm not the lawsuit type. I'm not even sure that what has happened to me warrants one. It for sure warrants being highly pissed off. It's a wait and see sort of thing, I think. In the end, if the thing doesn't work out, it's not even something that money will be able to fix anyway.

    I think I don't really have much choice but to do my best to keep Dr. W and his team, such as it is, on my side through this thing. I wouldn't choose him again, that's for sure.

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  4. 14 hours ago, Mother mopar said:

    It sounds like your doc is an idiot and a comms broke down somewhere and you're having to pay for it physically and mentally.

    This is certainly what Dr. W pled. He said that he had a very good assistant who left prior to my surgery, and that the staff at this particular branch of UTHSC was just not up to speed yet.

    I get it. It doesn't make the whole thing less infuriating though. Maybe more infuriating, actually, since he knew that his staff was not functioning at 100% yet.

  5. I got my left shoulder replaced back in March. I am 48, so fairly young for this procedure. I had extreme osteoarthritis from a congenital defect in my shoulder, combined with playing football and an professional life filled with jack hammers and rock drills. The first surgeon I saw told me that my shoulder was "beyond him", and gave me a referral to another surgeon. So I went to see him. Let's call him Dr. W.

    Skip ahead if you aren't interested in the medical procedure that I underwent-

    Dr. W does a procedure called a "ream and run". Basically, the procedure involves replacing the humeral head (the top of the arm), as well as reaming the glenoid cavity to give it a new shape for the humeral head to operate within. A conventional shoulder replacement puts hardware in the glenoid cavity too, so that is the way that this surgery is different. I was attracted to the procedure because at my age, I can look forward to at least one more replacement operation before I die. Doing the ream and run would allow for a conventional shoulder replacement at that time, rather than a "reverse shoulder replacement", which has a lesser chance of being fully successful. All of the patient reviews I found on Dr. W were stellar.

    Here comes the juicy parts-

    Prior to the surgery, I did some blood work and a urinalysis. The day of the surgery, Dr. W showed me a few stretches I should be doing at home afterwards. I mean RIGHT before the surgery. He also told me to avoid "external rotation". I did the thing and went home. Of course it was a motherfucker. Home Health came in and asked if I had a rehab protocol from Dr. W. I said, no, but that he gave me several stretches to do and told me not to do any external rotation. All fine and good. I was stretching religiously, working with the home health PT, and making good progress. Or so I thought.

    One day, about five weeks post-op, the joint started moving around strangely. I called Dr. W, and he said to come on in immediately. When I got there, he manipulated my shoulder and told me that I had torn my subscapularis. As a result, I would need a second surgery. I would start back at square one with rehab, too. This was all confusing to me. I walked Dr. W through the rehab and stretches that I'd been doing, and he told me that I should not have been doing some of that stuff. It was obvious to me that I had torn up the surgery through my own ignorance. That pissed me off. Maybe I should have started looking around for another doctor at that point. But I didn't. I scheduled the new surgery for the following week. I told my employer about it, and he was super pissed that our insurance was about to take another hit. He told me that I should make sure that this next procedure was free. I didn't do any of that, because frankly I was in shock that I'd have to go under the knife again at all.

    This time, prior to the surgery, I got blood work and a urinalysis again. I also got a chest x-ray, an EKG, an info packet on the surgery, a rehab protocol, and some cleanser to use on my body prior to the surgery. I called Dr. W and went over all of this. Why had I not gotten any of this stuff prior to the first operation? If I had gotten this stuff, I wouldn't have been doing the stretches and exercises that I'd been doing. I wouldn't have fucked up the surgery and be having to do it all again. 

    So surgery day arrives. Before the procedure, Dr. W tells me that while they are in there, he wants to look at the humeral component and see if it is matching up with my healing glenoid. If there is a more ideally shaped humeral head, they will replace mine with that. To do this, they wouldn't have to remove the entire prosthetic, just the round "top" of it, if you will. I said fine, go ahead.

    I came out of the surgery to my wife crying in a chair beside the bed. She tells me that Dr. W swung by after the surgery and told her that they had indeed decided to replace the humeral head during the procedure. But that while trying to remove it, they had fractured my humerus. A fissure fracture, running down the bone. This had loosened the entire prosthesis, and they had to wire my bone back together and drop an entirely new prosthetic in. Not good, Bob.

    So here I am, about 9 weeks after the second surgery. Shoulder has good days and bad. I am following the rehab protocol exactly, going to PT once per week and doing the rest at home. I'm thinking now that I just have to wait and see. If I start approaching the SOL on this thing and I have a piece of shit for a shoulder, maybe that's the right time to sue. But if things are going well, there will be no need to.

    All of this has been real hard on my home life and my work life. After the second surgery I was in a real fog for a couple of weeks. My wife told me that she thought the whole thing had broken my spirit. That woke me up some. Any of you Surlies have any thoughts about my "wait and see" approach? 

  6. Got Pfizer #2 on Saturday. Had a few drinks that night. Strange, had chills but I wasn't cold. Ran between 99 and 100 temperature, but that was done by Sunday morning. I was really sore on Sunday, entire body. Felt great yesterday.

    Wife got Pfizer #2 on Sunday. Very fatigued on later that evening and yesterday, with a bad headache. 

  7. The struggle is real, man.

    I've dealt with so many ant-maskers over the past year that I've lost count. The toughest stretch was between the start of this whole mess and the day that Trump came out finally and wore a mask himself. After that things evened out a little.

    We tried all sorts of things. We offered to put anti-maskers and their families on private tours for an exclusive price. That worked sometimes. Other times there was absolutely no way to make them happy. I totally lost my shit one day when a dude who refused to wear a mask was also open-carry, and stubbornly aggressive about it all. Worst part about it was our employees, who freaked out and damn near walked out over the implied threat.

    Yesterday a guy showed up who presented the old ADA bullshit card for me to check out. I was like, "nah, put that away. Wear a mask or come back when all of this is over. Check our website for when we drop the masking requirement." He wanted to argue and I had none of it. The guy left.

    To me this is like going to that friend's house whose mother required you to take off your shoes at the door. A minor inconvenience but those were the rules at her house so you just did it. It still depresses me how many of our fellow human beings out there will not do even the slightest something to even possibly keep someone from getting sick. It's nuts.

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  8. 1 hour ago, bornbama1 said:

    As much as I hate to see Bama lose coaches, it has become a yearly thing. The alternative to not losing coaches is having such crappy team/coaches that no one wants them. Thankfully as a Bama fan I have to go back fifteen years to remember that.

     

    I think this years Bama on field coaching staff didn’t include a single coach who was on the field in 2017 when they won it last.

    Another crazy bit: I think it’s also true that he has never had a signing class at Bama that has failed to win a national championship at some point in their 4 years on campus.

  9. 1 minute ago, Goredho said:

    I want to just take a moment to thank God that the original founding fathers were not this stupid with their sedition, insurrection and revolution.

    They weren’t this stupid because they were deadly serious about what they were doing and the consequences of their actions if they failed.

    These people, for the most part? Not so much

  10. How can you be a fan when you don’t even watch them? 

     

    The players are the constant. Coaches come and go. Don’t like the coach? Fine. Me neither. Refuse to watch the kids? Fuck off, you suck, your heart is black as coal. Eat shit and die in eternal fire. You’re not a fan, you’re a wretched heartless pile of shit and you should be jettisoned into space.

  11. 1 hour ago, Rip76 said:

    Night crew in.

    No more McRibs.  Hell no more McAnything.  McWilliams, Mackovic & Mack Brown.  Enough Mc’s and Mack’s.  Time to move forward.

    Hot dogs from here on out.

    Every single one of the Mc’s and Mack’s has more hardware than Herman. 
     

    We used to think this guy fucks. Course correction. He sucks.

  12. On 11/16/2020 at 10:59 AM, Pato del Muerto said:

    Only 4 eps, very quick. I got used to the animation but never liked it. I guess they went that way to save on sets, just had actors and green screen or whatever backdrop?  Interesting story though, even if they didn’t take the time to fully explore the ethnic makeup of the 157 and how it affected their time in theater. 

    My Grandfather fought with the 45th. He was not in the 157th, I'd have to look up his exact unit. He was, however, there when they liberated Dachau. Some of the things he took from there and traded SS officers for after the capture are on display in the Houston Holocaust Museum.

    The few combat stories he shared (via memoir to my grandmother - he never spoke of it aloud) are harrowing. He also had one of the best personal stories I have ever heard from that war. If anyone is interested I will write it up here.

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