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tokamak

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  1. I figured it would be Monty -> Nate -> Scherzer again. Monty threw 32 pitches and was scheduled for a 40-pitch bullpen session yesterday anyway. He'd be on full rest for Friday if they want to do it that way.
  2. Good observation. According to Baseball-Reference, on that play our win probability went from hovering around 75% to 91% and never dropped below 91% again.
  3. So the Dems are gonna pussy out and help elect Emmer without getting a damn thing in return, just because he's not a total piece of shit? What a shocking turn of events.
  4. Don’t worry guys, MLB gonna suspend him for 2 games in the 2028 season.
  5. Really seems like we should be able to get Alvarez out at least occasionally. Just a law of averages thing.
  6. It's a great idea, but holy fuck, 127+ pages?
  7. I think I've got everything now. I'll look at it this afternoon and send it to your Venmo
  8. In other news from around college football yesterday… OU struggled all day at home against a 17.5 point underdog and won by 2 after stopping a late 2-point conversion attempt. UNC lost to a 23.5 point underdog at home. Everyone’s darling Washington needed a late 89-yard pick 6 to beat a 27.5 point underdog at home. Good teams have shitty games sometimes. Can we learn from it and improve? That’s what really matters.
  9. He wanted so fucking badly to run that out to the 7 yard line lol
  10. It’s pretty surprising that Xavier Worthy, Adonai Mitchell, and Jordan Whittington apparently cannot get open against Houston’s secondary. Hard to believe, in fact.
  11. Agreed. The first quarter showed the true talent disparity between these two teams. Then we decided the game was over and packed it in. A team with any semblance of killer instinct would be up like 35-7 right now.
  12. We don’t talk about it on Surly but Jones and even Banks have regressed this year
  13. Majors got absolutely destroyed in the sneak. Pushed right back into Ewers’s face.
  14. A Little Gas Then Smash The Fuck Out Of The Brakes
  15. For fuck sake
  16. So you’re saying we are happy when we play well, and unhappy when we don’t? You’re right, that’s crazy.
  17. Feels like we say the exact same thing about 5* HS WR every year for like the last 15 years now. "No big deal, there's always the portal/next year". Would be kinda nice to actually land them sometimes. Reviewing the last few years of HS WR recruiting to confirm/disprove my gut feeling: 2023 - pretty good. Landed Cook and Moore, missed on Hale (backed off supposedly) and Greathouse. 2022 - whiffed on Stewart, Burton, Coleman?? Commits were Brenen Thompson and Savion Red 2021 - missed on Earle. Landed X super late and with some luck. Missed on Quay Davis who appears to have promptly fallen off the face of the Earth. Other commits were Jaden Alexis (who?), Keithron Lee (who?), and Casey Cain. Yikes. 2020 - missed on JSN (ouch), Demas (sorta) and Quentin Johnson (ouch). Commits were Kelvontay Dixon, Omeire, and Dajon Harrison. 2019 - missed on Wilson, Dylan Wright, Wease (I think?), and Higgins (I think?). Missed/didn't miss/missed on the Bru McCoy saga. Commits were Whittington (yay), Jake Smith, Marcus Washington, and Kennedy Lewis. 2018 - missed Waddle and Rondale Moore. Commits were Eagles, Josh Moore, Woodard 2017 - huge year for WR. We were in on all of Reagor, Tyrell Shavers, Lamb, Netherly, Omar Manning, and Rambo and landed none of them. Commits were Damion Miller and Jordan Pouncey So out of the 6 classes prior to 2023, we landed two HS WR worth a damn (X, Whittington), one of whom kinda fell into our lap. Red is a RB now. Promising early returns on Cook and Moore. A lot of this ain't fair because it was previous staffs. My concern is that the portal is always going to be a gamble. It's worked out well so far but I don't see how you can count on landing a contributor every year. Really, really would like to see us land one of Ryan Williams or Dakorien Moore next year (or maybe this year???) I want to move on from the days of "Waddle/Wilson/JSN were never coming to Texas anyway."
  18. Every 6 months there's a news article about Alex Jones losing a court case, and the entire internet celebrates. There's a steady stream of people on Twitter/Reddit/Surly chiming in with takes like "oh yeah, I'm a bankruptcy lawyer, and I can tell you he's really fucked now". ...but the thing is - he isn't. Is he living in a shitty 1 bedroom apartment? Is he driving a 20 year old Altima with no hubcaps? Is he flipping burgers down at Jack in the Box to make ends meet? Nah, he's not. He was rich as fuck before and he's gonna stay rich as fuck for the rest of his life, no matter what. He and his lawyers will just keep kicking the can down the road forever. Face it, justice works completely differently for rich people. I fucking promise you, 6 or 9 months from now we'll be right back on this thread after reading the latest news article about how he's been fucking around and not paying and judge is really laying the hammer to him THIS TIME.
  19. Exactly. Gaetz and his group don't care about governing and there's enough of them to torpedo any nominee. They already had a speaker that gave them a lot but not EVERYTHING and they voted him out. What's going to be different this time?
  20. Gaetz knifes McCarthy, and then Scalise: no problem Conference votes fair and square against Jordan (twice!): "sWAmP tAcTiCs!!!!!11"
  21. I dunno. Betting on "moderate" Republicans to lose their spines has been a winner more often than not in the last few years.
  22. Hey, that percentage is moving down. Clearly the Democrats are coming around.
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