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dieucla98

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  1. dieucla98

    USMNT 2023

    Is Will Forbes someone I should care about? MLS is way more than 3 years from being a league that can have real appeal to the USMNT outside being a development league or retirement league.
  2. More racing more better! Another entertaining sprint.
  3. Do you promise me that Lewis still wants to race in 5 years? Then Lewis.
  4. I've worn a watch of some sort for quite a while. Started out with the Fossil junk in the college days and eventually graduated to a "true" mechanical watch - a Sinn 857. That started me on a binge of watch buying and selling. Everything from Omegas to Rolexes to more Sinns to Balls, etc... Then the smart watches came along, switched to various flavors of those. Over time, I've tried to remove as many things that attract me to my phone as possible so the smart watch had to go. Now I've come full circle back to a limited edition Sinn 857 and I love it. To wear a mechanical watch, you don't do it just to tell time - you do it because you find the physics of it, the engineering behind it, the aesthetics fascinating. It's certainly not for everyone.
  5. Funny you bring that up... I've been playing in Austin all summer. Not pleasant but I managed. But this round in Dallas.... I nearly quit after 8. Probably drank 7 bottles of water and 2 Gatorades and didn't have to pee until 10pm.
  6. Dallas National is an epic course, one of the best golf experiences of my life. It is incredibly hilly. Feels like you're in Austin, not south Dallas. Great layout, I can see why pros pay to be members out there. For example, Spieth doesn't pay for Trinity Forest, he only goes to TF for lessons and then drives to DNAT to play. Apparently, they kicked Mahan out because he refused to pay. I've never been more perplexed on a green. Things that look like a foot of break have 6+ feet. More than once, I was convinced I was downhill and I was definitely uphill. Forecaddie was invaluable but it's hard to commit to something you just don't see. Didn't take any pictures on course, but their practice bays are awesome.
  7. dieucla98

    USMNT 2023

    Musah, CP10, Adams, Aaronson, Dest, Balogun, Weston, Jedi (?) all still to go. That's a lot of our 2 deep on the move.
  8. On my way up to play Dallas National today. I hear it's nice.
  9. dieucla98

    USMNT 2023

    I thought Tolkin just wrote long ass books.
  10. dieucla98

    USMNT 2023

    Juve need a winger (I believe a right winger) and Lille uses him as a FB. I think this will be good for him and for the USMNT.
  11. Ok this makes logical sense. Tuned down RB was hyperbole (or just wrong, whatevs).
  12. It seems to be fairly well accepted that Red Bull have no interest in having two drivers fighting for the championship and this is Max's team. Given that, Perez's RB surely is a lesser version of Max's. So how much of that 4-4 is because of Perez vs having a tuned down RB? I just have a hard time believing Perez is THAT much worse than Max. Heck, going 4-4 against those cars while in a RB makes Perez look like one of the slowest on the grid. Again, that's hard to believe.
  13. I'm just going to accept I missed some inside joke.
  14. dieucla98

    USMNT 2023

    Point conceded on Uruguay. Still, top 4 in Copa doesn't feel like a stretch minus the GGG factor.
  15. dieucla98

    USMNT 2023

    I would think top 4 would be expected. We're better than Uruguay, Colombia, and Peru at least on paper. Those 3 plus the US are fighting for #3 and #4 behind Argentina and Brazil. The GGGv2 factor is the great unknown as you call out - hopefully, v2 has some notable upgrades over v1.
  16. dieucla98

    USMNT 2023

    You're bitching about people making comments on a... checks URL... message board? A message board in which you have contributed more than pretty much anyone else (or maybe you are #1...). Of course none of this is going to change anything, we're not idiots. This whole board is a waste of time - that's its primary purpose!
  17. Didn't you hear on the broadcast? It was "by design" because having a key piece of downforce flopping around wildly is sound aerodynamics. Ferrari is about to introduce the same concept on their next round of upgrades.
  18. dieucla98

    USMNT 2023

    Compared to what we saw this weekend, MMA feels like a triple pivot. Gio as the central, attacking figure in the midfield and a true double pivot behind is the correct balanced approach going forward. As much as I hate to say it, I think Weston should be the odd man out and come off the bench but we need depth all around and Weston is some high quality depth for a pivot position. Quick look at depth... 9's - Balogun, Pepi Wings - CP10, Weah 10's - Gio, Aaronson Pivots - MMA FB - Jedi, Scally, Dest CBs - Robinson, Zimmerman, Richards, CCV We need some help on the wings and one more FB. Tillman perhaps though he plays more centrally. Not sure who the best candidate would be for FB.
  19. dieucla98

    USMNT 2023

    Surely, no one is so full of themselves that after watching the last two matches of utter domination they would think "my system that got me pseudo fired in the first place will work better than this." At this level, I know everyone has an ego the size of the moon but even still, this has been damning evidence.
  20. I use them for sure. Just have to ensure you understand what your particular club does when you go one click in either direction. For example, on my TM, a click lower launch will open the face where as Titleist and Callaway are the opposite (lower = closed). Definitely makes a difference and I'm not scratch. I just wanted to tame my draw slightly so I set my driver to one click lower launch. It's effective.
  21. Sounds like it's only going to get wetter as qualifying approaches. Full wets for qualifying? When was the last time we had that? Japan a few years back?
  22. dieucla98

    USMNT 2023

    Wanting GGG and defending the hire are two different things. I'll take the over. Enjoy being you.
  23. dieucla98

    USMNT 2023

    Ok.
  24. dieucla98

    USMNT 2023

    Fuck GGG. And fuck anyone try to defend this hire even if it's just a tired old contraian bullshit. This is about as bad as we could have done. Period.
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