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Is ho-bag SIL hot?

Old men generally don’t. My wife and mother? Completely different story. At this point I think they know how much I hate it and do it on purpose. I love your grandpa’s dedication to punctuality.

No, no, no. “Welp spose” merely initiates the process to actually leave the premises. The host will consider it their obligation to not be impolite and push you out, and the leaver will consider it their obligation to not to appear too eager to leave.

I wonder if there’s an equivalent for politely trying to leave? Going to my mom’s today, and she and my wife are the world’s worst Midwest Goodbye-ers. It will be an hour, minimum, from the first time I suggest we need to head out until we actually leave.

So playing Utah is gonna be like playing Iowa twice? Shoot me now.

Scotty will kill Hamm. She’s 3rd generation badass female. Munch is totally killing the shitass son.

This seems like a key point RE breach of fiduciary duty

Watching the Sheriff's crew down is going to be extremely satisfying. They have to be some of the least likeable bad guys in the whole Coenverse. I felt like early on they were setting him up to have some redeeming sense of justice (when he killed the wife beater for example) but at this point he's just 100% a complete piece of shit.

I have a feeling ol' Danish is a little tougher than we realize. Now that I think about it, Hamm's dismissal about him being a "guy named after a pastry" seems like something that could come back to bite him (Hamm) in the ass.

I remember the scene, I just didn't notice the cologne application. I was already sensing the PT was code for an affair after the "wively duty" conversation, but that seals it.

I missed that part.

I view Gator is more of a commentary on the average small town cop. I've known a quite a few, and while most aren't like him, I've met a few and it's a few too many.

On the plus side, they'll have a shit load of money.

That would be a very entertaining league (although I'd rather have BYU than Baylor - they're less rapey and they bring eyeballs), but I really don't think the Big 12 gets in that position if they don't add those 4. Even if 3 of them are serious dead weight potential (I think Houston is absolutely dead weight and that Cincy and UCF at least have potential).

There is a level of stasis with the SEC that I can see minimal incentive to change. I do think FSU would make the quality of games better, but I guess the question is it "better enough" for lack of a term? 2/3rds of the Big 10 are no different than the schools in the Big 12 - they just got lucky hooking up with Ohio State and Michigan 100 years or go, or for literally existing in highly populated states in an era when having a lot of people in your state made you valuable to the conference network. Ergo, they have (considerably) more games with smaller interest levels and could be motivated to pull in an FSU.

Keep in mind that they make less than UCF as a member of the ACC. The Big 12 is a pay raise for them. The benefit to the Big 12 is obvious. If FSU joins the Big 12, the Big 12's odds of being a multi-bid league are all but guaranteed. The Big 12 + FSU is a better league than the ACC with FSU in it. The Big 12 and ACC merging with the non-serious football schools dropping out of major college football would make sense as well. That league would be included in any playoff that SEC and Big 10 are. It would rarely win said playoff, but it would probably win some games.

I mean, the real question here isn't whether the SEC or Big 10 want them. It's whether or not ESPN or Fox want them in those leagues. I could see where ESPN would view FSU playing an SEC schedule as a valuable thing more than I can see Fox finding value in them playing a Big 10 schedule. I think the average viewer would find FSU vs Georgia or Bama more interesting than FSU vs Penn State or Oregon.

FSU and Clemson make a lot more sense in the SEC, IMO. At least in an actual logical sense, not a "college football 2024" sense.

I thought this week's episode absolutely flew by and did a lot of great character building and set up. There wasn't that much action, but there are a LOT of things being clearly set into motion. - It's obvious that Gator is going to meet his demise at the hand of Munch - Lorraine is playing chess to Jon Hamm's checkers - Lars (the epitome of every shitty stereotypical Minnesotan bro I've ever met) is going to end up being responsible for a lovable character's demise (Scotty or Wayne probably) or severe misfortune - Dot and Lorraine are going to team up, albeit possibly unintentionally. - Indira's gonna get a hell of a promotion

He really is a fucking scum bag, and the fact that no one cares about the legitimately awful things he's done because he's good at sports, but guys who were merely average got blackballed due to their politics is a gigantic indictment of our society.

If you don't hate something the way rich athletes hate rubbers, are you really living?

Something like this would not only be the best for fans, but it would also be the most profitable model. Maximizing eyeballs and there would be very few programs with a legitimate gripe that they got left out. A 40 team model would to a shit ton of lawsuits and basic apathy from the 30ish fanbases that would get left out in favor of 20ish schools that are basically on the same tier as they are. That would draw worse ratings than the modern iteration, I suspect. I still think if you're trying to get more exclusive, then you get extremely exclusive and put the 16-20 schools that are actually capable of winning a national title in the current system in their own division, and the back half of that 40 team model join up with teams 70-40 for a 50ish team level. I think this would eventually be more appealing to the back half of the 40 team model, which will really have nothing other than saying they made the cut to hang their hats on. They will never be competitive in that setting, and a lot of those fanbases will get apathetic from mounting losses. Then you have the Iowa States, Oklahoma States of the world raising holy hell. All of a sudden a school like Arkansas or Iowa goes from being the whipping boy in a 40 team model to being a national title contender at the next level. And the 16-20ish team top tier would probably have a lot of parity, and those fanbases will be given exclusively blue blood-ish slates. Either make the top tent a fairly inclusive thing where most of the schools know they have little shot of competing, but they're happy to be in the ring, or make it fucking tiny and only composed of those with a shot to win it.

It really makes you think that extra notch was Tang

Oh, for sure. There's a really good Minneapolis thread in this forum. I've given my general recs in there. Not sure of anything I'd add. If the Twins are at home that weekend and it doesn't conflict with the match, you should absolutely go. Target Field is beautiful.

Depends on what you're looking for. Minneapolis has lots of great places to eat and drink. If you're traveling to go a soccer game for a weekend, I'd assume that's all you're really looking for in a destination, right? If you're looking for a lengthier type thing, that is a really nice time of year to get up into the north woods, but that's gonna be a 2 hour drive one way from Minneapolis/St Paul. Minneapolis in June can be hotter than you likely expect (100 degrees wouldn't shock anyone), but will almost certainly be cooler than Texas.