Everything posted by VolenteHawk
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The Watch Fanatic Thread
I don’t know the last time you were in an AD, but there is practically nothing in SS sport models.
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Things you're a little bit embarrassed to admit
But most importantly, in something other than a microwave.
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2018-19 Big 12 Basketball Thread
It’s basically impossible to discern what level of commitment you’ll get in the weight room and on the defensive end in the recruiting process and AAU basketball. Bill Self and Chris Beard don’t have some magical ability to make guys adapt when they get one that doesn’t buy all the way in. How you handle those guys largely depends on your options and how much worse you’ll make the team benching him. Self has planted high profile guys on the bench but also occasionally tolerated surprising stuff. Beard will too given enough success landing 5 stars. Just this year K did nothing about RJ Barrett jacking more shots than Zion even though he couldn’t throw it in the ocean. And it was obvious and correctable after the Gonzaga loss. It happens everywhere at this level.
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Long time listener, first time caller:Austin
I don’t think you should be so flippant here. Given your demographic, there is no better spot than the Chili’s at 45th and Lamar. Not just any Chili’s. That one.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
I have several people across my teams that go on vacations together. I will never understand that.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Wait a damn minute. There is no reason for delicious jalapeño poppers to be drug into this.
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Fire Shaka Smart
I went to KU but my company doesn’t recruit there, so Tech is my adopted school for finding engineers. This is pretty much right. Lawrence is probably a better “college town”, but it’s not exactly Pepperdine geographically.
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FBI vs. NCAA Coaches
They didn’t really tout victimhood. They sent out a press release acknowledging they were aware of their inclusion in an indictment and quoted the relevant language language from it. That doesn’t mean clean (I’m on record as nobody is clean), but Forde’s entire article is predicated on overstating KU’s actual response to the indictment.
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Your unpopular food opinions
Let’s not get carried away, Mrs Black.
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2019 Little League Thread
Mini Volente is 10 and chucked 3 innings on Saturday.
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WTB 2 tickets to Hamilton at Bass concert hall
Why would you stay at a shitty hotel just because it kinda rhymes with Hamilton?
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
- Your unpopular food opinions
I hate peanut butter and think Taco Bell is decent.- Big Green Egg & Other Ceramic Grills All Encompassing Thread
I use one for slow/indirect cooks, but it's not a requirement.- Overrated Austin restaurants?
I said in the Austin steak thread, still my favorite place to eat a steak in town...even though some places make a better one.- Trivial Things That Make You Surly
If you miss a call, do you immediately show up knocking on that person's door? Why are you shifting communication methods?- Striking Out The Side
I’m a sabermetric dork, but I’m not a true expert on WAR. With that disclaimer, I think the answer is it depends on the method of calculation. Fangraphs WAR: The groundball pitcher would be penalized, because it’s based on FIP...and so some non-zero number of those ground balls “should” be hits. This is obviously a contrived example but the 27 K pitcher would have a FIP of 0 as the basis for his WAR calculation, while the 27 GB guy would have 3.20. And so the strike out guy individually contributed more toward saving those runs (relied on the defense less). Baseball Reference WAR: Less obvious to me, but it’s intentionally designed to be a more descriptive stat so is based on actual runs allowed as the starting point and not FIP. So, I THINK in this case the two WARs would be equal (unless I’m missing a 2nd order defensive component in the calculation that would similarly adjust being perfect on balls in play).- Striking Out The Side
Think you know what it means to “strike out the side?” Don’t be so sure https://theathletic.com/926389/2019/04/17/think-you-know-what-it-means-to-strike-out-the-side-dont-be-so-sure/ Article from The Athletic on striking out the side. I’ve always thought 3 Ks counted, apparently some disagree that it has to be 1-2-3. What sayeth Surly?- Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
You didn’t tell her Kansas is in black and white? Missed opportunity.- North Austin Restaurant Suggestion
Yeah, that's budget is tough. A conference room and catering Rudy's or Chuy's is the answer here.- Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
Gotdamn she sounds hot.- Unpopular Opinions Thread
I would kill to watch that show again without knowing what happens.- 2019 Masters
Remember 10 pages back when Tiger wasn’t intimidating anymore?- 2019 Masters
After seeing Keopka’s 2nd, I don’t think anybody should be going for it there.- 2019 Masters
It is, but you're not shooting under par with it. Day has an excuse for everything, plays ungodly slow, regularly WDs early Thursday taking away a spot from a guy that could use the start, and has vertigo relapses that he miraculously plays through...but they never seem to surface when he's on form. Fuck him. Biggest d-bag in golf. - Your unpopular food opinions
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