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  1. Yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about Contreras. I'll let you all know next fall.
  2. Danny and Brad in the booth together are great. Surely they can't keep Danny after this, right?
  3. His third. No excuse for that. I think he has called his last game for the Cardinals
  4. Delete... wrong thread. Ban user.
  5. Well, maybe he should contact KKL. I hear she has her own IT staff.
  6. It is for the Virginia players that were killed. 1, 15 and the 41.
  7. The worst part is the shedding. They both shed their undercoats twice a year. Once late winter/early spring and again late summer/early fall. It just plain sucks. We have one of those rake comb things that really dig into the under coat. They just sit there and let us do our thing until we fill up a hefty bag full of hair. It lasts for about 6 weeks or so even with us getting at the undercoat like that. That being said, I wouldn't trade those dogs for anything. They are both rescues, but one came from a farm on the border with Iowa (we live in Missouri). The people there just kind of let them breed and do their thing because there were somewhere north of 30 of them there. The only social interaction that she had with people was when the rescue went to round them up. We already had the other one and decided that she needed a buddy, so we adopted this one. It was a little sketchy at first because she just didn't know what to think about people and having an indoors space to go in. To top it off she was pregnant when we got her. We agreed to take her and have the puppies at our house and then when they were old enough the rescue got them adopted out. I think her seeing us with her puppies really made her trust us. That girl is completely changed. She weighs over 100 pounds but thinks that she's a lap dog. She will also kill a racoon if they get too close to the chicken coop. She doesn't draw blood or anything like that. I think that she breaks their neck or smothers them. She's kind of a bad ass. Anyway, back to the 2022-23 winter. We finally got some cold weather late last week. About an hour south and east of us got upwards of 5" of snow, but we didn't get anything other than a few flurries. We are supposed to get a little snow tonight. We'll see how that works out.
  8. I have 2 Great Pyrenees that completely change personalities when fall rolls in. They are kind of lazy during the day in the summer. The do their running and playing mostly at night. Then when the leaves start to fall, they get way more active during the day. They will both go outside through the dog door when it's snowing or icy and just lay out there. I figure they'll come in when they are good and ready. People just don't understand that some dogs were made for cold.
  9. My boy graduates AIT on the 23rd. After that he will be home until moving into the college dorms on 12/28. He will be working his ass off to get into wrestling shape. He is about 180 right now and needs to get to 165 by early January. He can do it, but I am just really surprised that he didn't lose any weight in BCT or AIT. In fact, he gained about 5 pounds.
  10. Honestly, "Dad" is higher rank. I understand you calling him Colonel though. A friend of mine is a retired Army Sergeant Major. I never served with him, as we didn't meet until after he retired. I call him Sergeant Major sometimes and he usually chuckles a bit.
  11. Between 2005 and 2012 I was in Iraq and Afghanistan for about 4 of those years. I'd do a year tour (2 years one time) with a couple of weeks home every 3-6 months. That time was much harder on my wife than it was on me. All I had to worry about was me and work. She had the boys to take care of. Between sports, scouts, and all the other crap that our kids get involved in, she kept everything going. About 5 years or so ago my wife started a job that kept her on the road Monday thru Friday for a couple of months. You'd think that I had never parented prior to that. I had a very rough time.
  12. I guess it was just a little too subtle for your brand. I'll be a bit more direct next time.
  13. Who's Brian Robinson?
  14. Logbook made my inner child giggle.
  15. Fuck. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34795140/hall-fame-reliever-cy-young-winner-bruce-sutter-dies
  16. I am not optimistic about the postseason. Really limping along now.
  17. Very true. There could be people on here that I sat next to in school that wouldn't know me if I plastered my name and picture on this site.
  18. I'm not saying that I didn't see racist shit, because I did. But a slave auction just goes well beyond anything that I ever saw. My family is from Mississippi, so yeah, I heard some racist stuff. I was born there, but my parents moved away just about right after I was born. I've lived all over when I was a kid. West Texas (Midland/Odessa area), Georgetown, Jarrell, Blytheville AR, Richmond VA, Chicago (twice), St. Louis, and then down to Sugar Land starting in my sophomore year of high school. To be honest, with all the moving we did, I never made close friends until I got to the Houston area. Even then I was horribly shy. I was also younger than everyone by a full year, and to top it off I was a runt until my sophomore year. I just never really ran with the 'popular' crowd, so I guess I was extremely sheltered. Freshman year of high school I was living in St. Louis out in the suburbs. At that time they were busing inner city kids out to our school. For the most part things were okay, but there was definitely some tension. At wrestling practice one day we were running sprints in this really long hallway. Half the team was on one side of hall and the other half was on the opposite side. 2 kids would sprint down the middle and get back in line. One of the inner city kids, who was our heavyweight, got to the end and accidentally bumped into this white kid. The white kid went straight to "you dumb" n word. Everyone got quiet and I fully expected the inner city kid to just beat the shit of him. But he didn't, he just kept quiet and didn't even acknowledge it. I know he heard it, but I'm sure that he had been warned of stuff like that by his parents and was told to just let it go. To this day I have no idea how he kept himself from beating the shit out of that kid. Long way to say that just because I wasn't aware of really overt and publicly racist shit going on, doesn't mean that it wasn't there. I probably just didn't know about it because I didn't really hang out with a lot of people because I was not popular at all and was extremely shy.
  19. Winslow sounds like a nice place to take it easy.
  20. I'm older, but I honestly don't recall anything that bad when I was in high school in the 80s. Doesn't mean that it wasn't around, just that I was probably oblivious to it.
  21. Please tell me that you are REALLY old or that it happened several decades before you were there.
  22. Good news, no new shart thread entry. Family day last Wednesday and then graduation on Thursday went great. He's definitely matured quite a bit. On Friday he moved to AIT, still at Leonard Wood. We were all under the impression that he would start today, but they don't have enough students so it's now supposed to begin next Monday. That also pushed graduation by a week, but that's okay. It was great to spend a couple of days with him.
  23. I saw Nolan pitch in person in Houston and Arlington. The thing that sticks out in my mind is how you could hear him grunt when he pitched. He just put everything he had into it. Now that I'm in my 50s I have an even greater appreciation for his longevity.
  24. I do keep this on my desk:
  25. I can't remember who said it in the documentary, but the guy said something like this: If you're digging into the box and Nolan is waiting on you, you're gonna get one in your ear hole.
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