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  1. Better than most! Wristband sold.
  2. Daughter wanted to go weekend one with her friends (shocker) so now we have an extra for ACL weekend two. In Austin, can meet up locally. $400
  3. Hate to break it to ya but you're going to need to have that reversed. Turns out being a procrastinator like me pays off yet again!
  4. Paul McGinley talked a ton (nearly non stop) about analytics, mental prep, team building, etc during the broadcast. Given he's closely involved with the Euro Ryder Cup team, he clearly knows what he's talking about and not just making shit up to fill up time. On the flip side, you didn't hear anything like that coming from Azinger or Bones or Smylie - either they're not involved at all (which for Smylie, fine, but Azinger?) or the US doesn't do any of the stuff McGinley was talking about. I'm guessing the US doesn't do any of the stuff McGinley talked about. And if he talked about that much, he's probably hiding 3x the stuff. Totally different mindsets. Totally different approaches. One clearly works.
  5. This feels like we're missing the story here. People hate each other for their religion - that has been the story of the world since the dawn of time and I don't know of any place that has this solved. Mental illness is a major issue throughout the world and while some countries (European, generally) have a better plan for it, it's still largely unsolved. Add in the issue of PTSD Veterans and the world largely ignoring their needs and we have another mostly unsolved issue. Guns, however - we have a solution for that. European countries have proven the solution. New Zealand has proven the solution. It's right there! It doesn't solve the whole problem but it addresses a huge part of it and it's something we can actually do - we know this b/c it's already been done. Control what you can control.
  6. Yup. These are my people.
  7. That's fair, and I agree to an extent. I still think it was more advantageous to the US but perhaps not advantageous enough (well, clearly not advantageous enough). Another school of thought I'm starting to come around to is the typical American bomb and gouge advantage just isn't an advantage anymore like it used to be when we had DJ, Brooks, and Tiger. There are enough Euros that thrive in the current bomb and gouge setting but can still succeed in the "must hit fairways and putts" setting and outside a few Americans, we struggle with that.
  8. That's my argument - this course WAS setup to be advantageous to the US. No penalities off the tee, soft attackable greens, wide enough fairways. Euro favored courses are tight, penal, brutal rough, rock greens. Minus the rock greens, that's exactly what Paris and Rome were. And again, didn't matter. Euros trashed us anyways. Keegan saying they could have set the course up different is a bullshit distraction from the reality that he fucked up pairings and the players were totally outclassed.
  9. It's called rain. Also, a harder, more penalizing course benefits Europe. They fare better with tight fairways, higher rough, and rock hard greens. A course where you can just bomb and gouge, like this week, generally benefits the US. Yet.... Here we are.
  10. Once the match starts, no, but not like it'd be any different.
  11. It's been around since 1979. Hardly ever (only once I think) does it get used. And it's completely inconsequential this time around. Whole bunch of nothing. Re-aim the angst at our sack of shit players and their captain.
  12. BDC is not good for the game of golf. He's not entertaining. He's cringe. He makes golf look hard, unapproachable, and douchey. The game will be better off when he finally puts up the clubs. Fuck that guy.
  13. They'll play it out most likely. Might see some matches concede early but these guys all care too much, despite this less than moving performance.
  14. Pretty sure the caddy did it to Rose twice - got in his read - and the 2nd time Rose was done with the bullshit.
  15. Nope. Hard to root for. Pretty much the exact opposite of Europe.
  16. If the ball is the reason for some of these absurd pairings, that's inexcusable. A TP5 plays so similar to a Pro V1x and the Callaway counterpart. And these players are so damn good, they know exactly how they have to adjust to switch balls. These guys are just worse than the Euros in match. And their captain and vice captains are so much smarter than Keegan and Co. They love each other like brothers. I don't know what to call the American's "camaraderie".
  17. People who attend most US golf events are the dumbest human beings on the planet. If you want to watch golf for the golf and not the douchebags trying to make a scene, you gotta go across the pond or pay your way into Augusta.
  18. What part of his statement is wrong? You're really showing your ass these last few hours. Might be time to take a nap.
  19. The US has completely shit the bed. We're about to be embarrassed with a home loss in NYC at the heart of public golf.
  20. Trump showed up and the US still fucking sucks at Ryder Cup. US team is every man for themselves and Europe actually plays for each other. So emblematic of what we've become.
  21. 100% Canada. Our team blows.
  22. Why? B/c they're actually a decent court and that would be telling here? Or...?
  23. May as well. UEFA is threatening to ban Israel from matches, like it did Russia, so no WC for Israel. That happens, and the Euro teams will probably find themselves not getting visas granted. Sure would be something to have a WC and not have Europe there.
  24. Morning looks like 2-2, which is a shit ton better than I was thinking. Also... 7:10 in the morning east coast start time? Is there weather rolling in late?
  25. Not if the victims are children.
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