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SquishMitten

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  1. You realize this current discussion was sparked by people wanting to pay whatever it takes to get a player from the defending national championship team, right?
  2. Additionally, as CTJ noted, there are so many guys that are getting nothing. It really sucks for them. A great analogy is the current job market for many industries. You have employees that have been in the company forever, have shown their worth and their loyalty, but new hires straight out of undergrad are making as much or more than those folks who have been around forever. What can those employees do? Ask for a raise and maybe get 8% instead of their usual 3-5%? Or do they go on a few interviews and see that they can get a 50% increase? Because that’s the kind of shit we’re dealing with. Current employers in this scenario (aka the NIL collectives) have to offer all those guys something pretty substantial to keep them from going on those interviews. It was inevitable in hindsight, but it’s happened so fucking fast, a lot of people got out over their skis, and everybody is racing to figure it out…some doing much better than others!
  3. #6 is a big one, y’all. It’s simply not sustainable to have tons of guys making $100s of thousands every season, year over year, much less millions. I feel like we might eventually see some teams try to build a championship roster for 1-2 seasons, chill for a couple years to refill coffers, then run it again. That’s the only way I can see anybody being able to go after a ton of the really elite talent in any given year. Done properly, it would be a fucking sight to behold. That being said, this isn’t what Horns With Heart (One Fund) was founded to do. Really need corporate and a lot of folks with fuck you money to pull that off.
  4. The link literally has a name for each subscription level at the top of the page
  5. Great! Please follow the link so we can make things like this possible https://gift.idonate.com/texas-one/texasonegeneral
  6. Fuck yeah. Same on Vonlane. That's the party section. Most of my trips in those seats, the stewardess will continue serving everyone well beyond their policy limit as long as you don't get too wild. They know those are their regulars.
  7. Take the gold, use it as collateral to take out a few hundred million in loans with a 10 year, deferred interest, balloon payment, use loans to buy bitcoin as a hedge.
  8. Yeah, bonuses are different, but most people didn't consider them that way until Covid. Nobody ever paid attention to the part in their employment agreement that said bonuses MAY be paid depending on employee AND COMPANY'S performance. Fortunately for my employees, we only had to delay bonuses for a few months, but then we maxed everybody out regardless of individual performance. And we never missed annual pay raises for them. Unfortunately for me, I haven't taken a bonus or a raise since Covid, and it'll probably be another year or so before any of the partners do. This lady went about it very poorly, but I would get a bit pissy if there was an uprising about not getting non-guaranteed bonuses. Unless she's not making bigger sacrifices than they are, in which case I say she can fuck right off.
  9. Wordle 667 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Best Quordle I’ve had in quite a while Daily Quordle 448 6️⃣2️⃣ 4️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Sequence Quordle 448 6️⃣7️⃣ 8️⃣9️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  10. Only thing I’d say in defense of that stat is before the invasion of paddle boards the only people that ever went into the water was Texas Crew, that one pontoon tour boat company, and the occasional canoes from Zilker. The massive increase in the lake being turned into a recreational area would naturally lead to an increase in people thinking it was safe to swim in, especially young folks that haven’t lived here long
  11. Shitty Titanic song playing in the stadium. Always funny
  12. Might need to head down to the pen myself and start warming up at this point.
  13. This is embarrassing. Not a good weekend
  14. A bit of quick research says there have only been two years in US history where there has been a named storm in April. 2017 being one of them, which provided two of the top ten worst hurricanes on record.
  15. This happened a week ago. Is this a second occurrence or are y’all just really behind on the news?
  16. Really cool how the press release from the cops asks for anybody with knowledge of the case reach out to them after they give absolutely no information about the person. No race, gender, hair length/color, approximate height/weight/age, clothing… all of those would be something they could say unless the body had been in there for a long time, but even then they should still be able to give a few of those details.
  17. Wow. Our troops probably WEAR better protection than those tanks provide
  18. Wordle 666 3/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Quordle 447 4️⃣6️⃣ 7️⃣8️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle 🟩🟨🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Sequence Quordle 447 3️⃣4️⃣ 7️⃣8️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  19. Drowns out the sound of our three daughters (plus 1-4 neighborhood kids that are almost always in our house)
  20. I saw this graph back in 1863 except it was titled β€œPhysical injuries among black people.” Really don’t understand how it’s funny
  21. NIL 1%ers can’t be counted on for everything. I can tell you there are a lot of unhappy wives in that group. Those guys stepped up in a huge way, but we really need a shit load more of the regular fans to start contributing. Look at what we did here with Burnt Ends? Our TE’s are getting paid more than like 80% of our roster without ANY big money donors involved.
  22. I didn’t catch whatever reference your referring to, but he is a spokesperson for this brand. And the shirts are awesome. Got a couple. I’m wearing that exact one right now, in fact.
  23. Well, I have done it. Obviously not at that level, but it is a little different. You still feel the pressure, but a little part of your brain knows it’s not as much of a risk. But the more important part of my post was that he would’ve been clobbered in a real game. Defense would’ve been coming much faster, and directly at him. Rather than slowing up and taking a slightly off-target line towards him.
  24. Think that would’ve been a sack in a real game on that 4th and 5. Also, lot easier to maintain composure when you know they can’t hit you
  25. Has something changed? Back in my days, that was the norm for them
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