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idigTexas

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  1. I don't know the reasons why they decided to stick with the _ets naming convention for all of the second tier NY franchises, but knowing you have to conform with that limits the alternatives. Bets - Atlantic City tie in Fets - maybe if George Lucas bought them Pets - Dear Penthouse... Vets - vets who flew jets
  2. Pogačar is 24, and is still competing for the White Jersey. Barring a career ending event or mental burn out, his best years are ahead of him. Vingegaard is 26, and is also on the young side of professional cyclists. Over the past several years, the average age of riders in Le Tour is 28.5. Average winner age is 27-29, depending on how far back you go. As for doping, all teams are better than ever at managing nutrition, especially when it comes to recovery. They also constantly push the envelope regarding technology and what the human body can accomplish. Are rules being broken? It would not surprise me. What would surprise me would be if there is a single team or rider that is doing things to gain a competitive advantage that other riders and teams aren't. I'm firmly in the "if one rider is cheating, then they all are" camp. If your rider isn't winning, it's because he isn't as good or is dealing with an issue that is impacting his condition. It's not because only one guy/team is cheating.
  3. I don't watch much live football these days, and no longer living in Texas makes it a challenge to watch the Horns anyway, even with YTTV. I make do with live updates from the internet, Surly game threads, and highlights are always available after the fact. It's not ideal, and for those who have to see all the action as it unfolds, it's a non-starter. If I'm in the mood to watch some football, there will be games through other streaming options, often ones I would not have been able to watch before making the change. For me, it works fine. Of course, it's the middle of summer. Get back to me in the fall.
  4. I recently came to the conclusion that I'm not a "live tv" person, and that includes most sports. Commercials annoy the ever living fuck out of me to the point that I would rather pay to avoid them. As a result, I made the decision to dump YTTV. Everything I was recording to be able to fast forward through the ads I can stream via other services. I'm currently doing month-to-month with different streaming services, using a rotating and binging approach. I can only watch so much TV, so annual subscriptions are a money loser for my method, with the exception of Amazon Prime. I can pretty much watch everything I was watching on YTTV that I cared about plus a lot of other stuff I didn't previously have, and saving $ on top of it. It takes a little while to adapt from "let's see what is on" to "what do I want to watch," but I'm getting the hang of it.
  5. Don't be silly. The roster limit is 15. Even if you assume multiple benchings of each player per game, he would have to make over 4 substitutions every minute. Can't be done.
  6. I'll give him a pass because he is having a kid, and likely was not as focused as he otherwise might have been. He did not seem on his A game all tour, and can be selfish at times, but he wants to win as much as anyone. He's another one of those riders who can do a bit of everything, and just loves to compete.
  7. Wow. That will do it, barring something completely unfortunate. Hard to see Pog like that, but every cyclist has been there, though perhaps not THERE. He had me convinced that he was up to the challenge for two solid weeks. I wish he had been in top condition so we could have taken this battle all the way to Paris.
  8. And being on the same team as Jonas, you'd think he'd have the same supplier. So....Jonas is doping without team help....Wout refuses to dope....the only one doping is @Horn Dogg?
  9. I couldn't agree more. He's Sagan with GC chops.
  10. I mean with all the opportunities...that was one way to go, I guess.
  11. And sometimes not so great. I'm personally glad that he rides the way he does, because it is fun as hell to watch, but it takes a toll.
  12. Fair enough. From where I'm sitting, Pog has always had a talent advantage, but Vingo has better form and discipline. The talent advantage is often enough, but in a time trial, form matters. Pog is a talented beast, and if he ever perfects his form he'd be unbeatable. Or maybe the missed weeks of training due to the wrist injury are starting to take a toll.
  13. Pog didn't look good? He beat Wout, the third place finisher, by 1:13...over 22 kilometers. He absolutely destroyed the rest of the field in spite of the bike change that everyone is criticizing. If not for Vingo's historic ride, everyone would be talking about Pog's incredible performance. They should be anyway.
  14. I avoided this thread and any cycling news until I could watch the replay. I just finished. What a ride. I thought Jonas would win it, but not like that. The Tour isn't over, but that will certainly help his cause.
  15. While I'd like the number of Petes to stop at 3, even if it doesn't, it won't change that fact that OU sucks.
  16. Yeah, Chelsea keeps trying to low-ball their offer for Caicedo, but so far, Brighton is holding firm.
  17. I think it is an advantage to go last in the race of truth, so Jonas holding on to yellow is a pretty big deal.
  18. My favorite part of a new signing...the "it's DONE done" part.
  19. It's nice when my expectations are met. Surly always delivers.
  20. Does Terry have a back issue? I'm curious why he appears to be leaning forward in almost every photo of him I have seen.
  21. I made some changes to my streaming subscriptions recently, so I now have access to every season. I've been binging season 1, which I haven't watched since it first aired. It's weird seeing how little personality Jeff Probst had back then, and how drab the overall production was. There was only one alliance, and those not in it frowned on it, but yet did nothing to stop it. The challenges were all very tilted toward the physically gifted. Few contestants seemed genuinely interested in winning. Hatch is remembered as a villain, but nothing at all in the editing has portrayed him as such...at least not yet. Very trippy.
  22. I should have taken my cycling much more seriously when I was a kid.
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