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Jiggy-Z

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  1. I think the only self inflicted flags were the after the play late hit on Sanders and the unnecessary blind side block. Everything else was deliberate and with a purpose, even the offsides/nuetral zone shit. Assume you meant for Bama.
  2. User name checks out.
  3. and another thing...some nerd needs to come up with a Tolkien calendar that starts at zero ans just keeps going..ain't nobody got time for all these different ages. i have a hard enough time keeping up with new places and all the elf names...my God the elf names. Elvish ,it's like jive without the malt liquor.
  4. I don't really have any beef with the show at all. I stated what I did out of a sense of frustration on part in getting my head around reconciling the appendix timeline and the TV timeline. I'm sure after some more study and some more plot development, things will clear up just fine. I took a little deeper dive into the Nerd of the Rings Youtube channel and that has been really helpful. I think what a lot of us that do not have an encyclopedic knowledge of the Silmarilion or the Appendices have been struggling with is all the new names and locations for the same shit that was in LOTR. We are kind of moving in slow motion with recognition..kind of like converting metric to English on the fly or being not quite fluent in a foreign language.
  5. I posted on this yesterday, but consider if the Bama player had not done the face mask at all. It looked like to me that, absent the face mask, that run would have gone for 2 or 3 more yds than it did and possibly a first down. No guarantee, but at least we could live with the results.
  6. Road bike surlies, I am currently sporting an old Fuji SLM 1.1 carbon frame hard tail 29er that I want to modify slightly to pick up a few gravel bike attributes. It is a straight up trail bile with a wide race face handlebar, front Manitou shock and wide off road tires, finger brakes (Shimano XT) and trigger snifter (also XT). 1 X 10 set up. Over the summer I have found myself gravitating to road hill workouts in my neighborhood (12-13 miles)and a few paved trails (20-23 miles). However, I need to traverse some off road terrain to to these spots and I am hitting 40mph+ on some of the road downhills and need to keep the wider bar for physical and mental health. I must also say that I am really enjoying the ride experience a lot more than walking or running. I know some riders experience some knee issues, but it has been the opposite for me. The ridding motion has resulted in an almost near miraculous improvement in the stability and feel in my knees from having two torn medial menisci from age and years of running and landing on bouldering crash pads. In fact the shift from walking/running and bouldering to ridding and sport climbing(ropes) is kind of an overall aging change to less extreme activity in general that I am really enjoying. So I really need this bike thing to work. I am happy with the bike overall but want to go with a more road friendly tire and some kind of new handlebar or new handlebar set up. I am not interested in going to a strict drop bar and I want to keep the shock as well. I am also interested in getting some locking foot pedals and shoes as I am just wearing my regular Nike's on rides. The tires and foot pedals/shoes are easy enough, although I wouldn't mind some recommendations in that area. My real questions are with the bars. I want to keep my current shifter and brakes, so my options look like either swapping out the bar for one that has some aerodynamic handholds (Koga Denham, Velo Orange Crazy Bar, Surly Moloko type) or scabbing on some inner bar ends. New bars seems to be in short supply so I have been kind of moving toward the inner bar ends in my mind although from what I have seen those look kind of short for my tastes. This is kind of just an experiment that I want to try before I finally settle in on a serious bike purchase latter on. Thanks. Edit: i will probably post this up in the mountain bike thread as well, but I think this is the real place for this type of question.
  7. Yeah, I don't think that's what they were doing. You are giving them too much credit like they were working off of a flow chart or decision tree.
  8. This show is intentionally leaving a lot of things in the dark as it's timeline seems to be all over the place or at least ambiguous. A quick read of the Appendices in ROTK wrt the chronology of the second age clearly shows this. I took a dive into the appendix just to clarify a few things and now I m more confused than ever.
  9. Future of chess:
  10. Not only that, I think he was wrong. The longer that game went on, the more it played into Alabama's advantages of being deeper and having a healthy qb.
  11. As soon as I saw Campbell, I thought the same thing. This game actually flowed pretty well, but usually his crew just muddies the waters so bad the games are not even worth watching. It's almost like they go out of their way to find penalties that aren't really there or that don't affect the play and then just ignore the important stuff that is right in front of them. Still pissed about the Robinson face mask. You just have to call that.
  12. Jiggy-Z

    One Wheel

    I have a friend who is 56 and he has been ridding his for years. He has some old man stuff going on with a hip replacement, former back surgery, and ACL surgery last year. Not of that from the one wheel, so it can be done. My middle son got one two Xmas's ago and he hardly ever uses it anymore. Like everybody else's teenager, he mastered it in about 4 hours...taking it down stairs, 4' drops, ramp jumps etc. Little fuckers. My son promised me some lessons and I would like to learn how to ride it in a easy going manner just to keep some of the small balance muscles tuned up for other things etc. I can never seem to be rid of little nagging injuries though.
  13. Well played.
  14. ...almost as if he had been properly prepared for just such and event...go figure.
  15. Yeah, it was kind of a bad hire for the Big 12 with Sherman being and NFL guy. But he figured it out and just got pretty unlucky his last year, also in a pretty tough Big 12.
  16. I always thought they should have kept Sherman. I'm not sure they would have had the JFF Heisman year, but I think the lows would have been much higher. He had a rough few years in the big 12 south, but recruited well coming out of the Franchione debacle, especially o line, and had them set up physically to compete in the SEC West meat grinder and finally adjusted to the college game. He was their most solid coaching hire in my lifetime. No crazy baggage, no bad habits, no drama etc. Whatever, aggy would have figured out a way to screw that up too. Its not like Texas has been stellar with coaching hires/retains in the last dozen years, but at least Texas recognized the error its ways and made changes.
  17. One thing that has been said about the play of Alabama from national media was that they were usually mistake prone and that Texas got lucky in many respects, but especially with the drops by the Bama receivers. While it is true that that there were about 3 drops drops by the receivers of Bama, I think Texas had just as many between a couple from Jordan, one by Worthy, not to mention the wiff tackle on the last Bama drive or failure of Sark to call time out and reset things for the end of half field goal or the int drop bay Jamison. I think the timing of all of these drops/plays was critical and all could have reasonably resulted in gain or loss of points if not directly and I think Texas had more of those than Alabama. While Alabama also had more penalties, I can not think of a single one where I thought the call was questionable. Even the Bama blindside hit penalty was previously offset by an even less aggregeous blindside Texas block. Likewise, I think all penalties called on Texas had merit. In fact, I think the only truly stupid penalties that were mental errors by Bama were the above block and the flagged hit after the play on the TE. All the others had a forced error aspect (off sides) or a a definite purpose such as intentional injury or play mitigation. Alabama knew what they were doing and it was intentional and purposeful. It was not an undisciplined team early in the season out of its element or a team caught off guard by non SEC officials. I can only recall one penalty that could have been called on Texas (that wasn't) and I didn't see it, but Klatt mentioned some possible defensive holding over the middle of the field on a a play in the first half. Counter that with: 1. Of course, I think the non safety call was nonsense, but that has been discussed to death. 2. The missed face mask call on Robinson, I found to be the equally bad. I would have preferred that the Bama player not done it at all. If that happens, I think Robinson gets at least two more yds and possibly the first down. The fact that the face mask was instrumental in reducing the yardage on the play has not really been discussed much. That is a call that must be made, not only because it is a penalty but because it had a huge bearing on the play and the rest of the game. Additionally, the non call messed up what could have been an epic Texas victory or an even more epic Bama comeback. 3. PI in the endzone non call. I'm going to call offensive holding a wash, since I don't thin a single one was called on either team the whole game. In the end I think the narrative should be that Alabama was lucky that Texas committed more unforced errors, got a huge advantage (at least 3 to 1)in critical obvious non calls, and of course altered the game on a dirty purposeful hit on our starting qb....again.
  18. I'll have what he's having.
  19. I bet they could.
  20. Does aggy get to claim all of Michigan's titles because of this?
  21. Aggy making it hard to drink responsibly.
  22. Dangerous to themselves.
  23. Those were obvious calls. If refs call the other obvious calls, Texas
  24. It's Friday already? Shit. More cash out for payroll. Fight..I guess.
  25. ...and since "it's " undefeated, we are not really even all that confident, to tell you the truth.
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