Happy New Year You Surly Bastards!
Everything posted by Skipper
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Season Ticket Renewal
Nothing on that but I did receive an OU ticket request notice. I signed up for same amount I always have but then read the email closer and it noted ticket eligibility is tied to donations. I sent an email asking for confirmation that NIL Donations will count towards that number. If that isn't the case and I'm not eligible, I'll be dropping NIL donations. No way I donate to NIL instead of the ridiculous administrative bloat and waste that is the LHF and get rewarded by having to pay 3rd party OU tix. Would also be the type of dumb policy the idiots at the LHF would put in place.
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17 year old stabbed to death by another 17 year old at Frisco track meet
Yeah, it's a complete mystery why someone with the disposition to murder someone over petty BS would also be they type of person to carry a knife around and instigate conflict. Let us all know if you ever figure it out.
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
Team looks sloppy and tired. We've had a lot of guys logging a ton of minutes the last few weeks. The good news is that after this 3 game home stretch, we'll be in a really good position to know whether or not to push the last 2 road games. Before puck drops next Monday, Winnipeg will only have one game left (home against Anaheim) which you have to chalk up as a win. If we are still 3+ points behind I think you just manage minutes and treat those games like practice to get ready for the Avs. Absolutely have to play better than we've been playing to win that series.
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
Have been sloppy as hell for 3 weeks now but still winning. Now law of averages playing out.
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17 year old stabbed to death by another 17 year old at Frisco track meet
Probably the kind of piece of shit that would bring a knife to a fucking track meet and stab someone is also the kind of piece of shit that would go sit in another teams tent hoping someone would 'disrespect' him. Lock him up and throw away the key. Good riddance.
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College basketball coaching carousel: 2025 edition
Agreed with this take. He knows best case scenario it will take him 2 years to get A&M where he has Ole Miss right now. Leverage A&M for more money with a stable situation for less downside risk and quicker upside to a top caliber job. The only way A&M made sense for Beard is if he wanted to move back to Texas with goal of settling long term.
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Netflix Recommendations
I genuinely thought the rest of the post was going to criticize the half baked Helobious 'analysis' which would have been equally valid criticism.
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
Stars need to take care of business and see if VGK/SL can stay hot against the Jets. If so could set up a really big game next week. If not, we 'should' have enough cushion against the Avs at this point to treat our last 2 road games as exhibitions and send Bischel down to get Seguin some ice time before playoffs (I think I read that is the only move we could make pre-playoffs to clear enough space). Avs will have a rest advantage if that is the matchup as we play 2 road games (Mon/Wed) after their last game (Sun) so would think we want to either in a position to clinch the 1 seed by winning or have the 2 seed locked in and rest guys.
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
The Saturday outcomes gave us some nice cushion with Colorado. And yes, we really needed Winnipeg to lose that game yesterday. Rolling with DeSmith tonight which makes sense to get Otter some extra rest down the stretch. A W sure would be nice to close out this road trip.
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
I get the feeling Vance is aware he's surrounded by morons but playing his role to step up in 4 years. To be clear, I've always thought he might be more dangerous than Trump because he's not an idiot (and beholden to Thiel).
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
Watched a few minutes of the 3rd and went to sleep 4-0. Glad I didn't stay up as would have been awake another hour post-game probably with the way it appears to have played out.
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
This is what is funny to me. How do these guys still not understand that shit really only works for Trump. Don't get me wrong, I don't understand how it consistently works for Trump but it does. He's the only one in the MAGA world that gets the blind loyalty. My initial reaction to Hegseth's initial interview was that it was just a really bad Trump impersonation (lie, deflect, blame the Libs). Waltz the same thing. I mean on one hand they don't really have any other cards to play in this instance, but it doesn't come as natural to anyone else like it does Trump and just doesn't work.
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Savannah for a few days....?
Pink House was a solid meal and cool place. Feel like it is kind of a must do. If not dinner, we really liked the bar downstairs and went there post dinner and another night for drinks. Artillery was a great cocktail bar. It was close to our hotel and hit it up a couple of times pre diner. Perry Lane (where we stayed) had a good rooftop bar. Alligator soul was a good dinner but lacked in atmosphere (we went on July 4th so it was dead). Vic's was a solid lunch. Crystal Beer Parlor was a really good more casual lunch. Collins Quarter was a good breakfast. Didn't work out for us but if you feel the need and are there long enough, there is a guy that does Texas Style BBQ supposed to be really good that was written up in Texas Monthly/BBQ Snob. He was just doing pop ups when we were there and didn't work out but think he was working on a permanent location.
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
Otter needed a game like last night. All around great effort after what seemed like quite a few C+ / B- games in a row.
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
Yep. We've been getting points but haven't really played good hockey in 2+ weeks and Miko not doing much at all yet still getting comfortable. Hoping we can start putting some better periods together and see some signs of Miko beginning to mesh. I get that it's hard to have a sense of urgency night to night when pretty much locked in to first round matchup (particularly if we win tonight) but also really need to start playing better hockey before it's on the line round 1 against COL as they are playing great right now.
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Just got back from Isla Mujeres
Ended up not doing the Ferry this trip. But Finest exceeded expectations. Older kids might get bored but mine (6 and 8 ) were at a great age for kids area etc., so we were able to drop them off during the day and go over to the adults side pool for an hour or so and then at night have kid free dinners a couple of nights. Food was pretty solid for an all inclusive, high quality liquor, etc. No complaints.
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
I missed this just like I unfortunately missed the game (and what a great one to be at). Came down with a bad cold early this week so took it easy. Likely missing Thurs as well as leaving town early Friday morning. Going to make most of the games down the stretch though.
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The Trump Economy
Kind of what I'm getting at. The one predictable thing about Trump is he hated stock market losses. It's why he was going so crazy at the beginning of Covid because it was out of his control (remember the 'stop testing' line as the market was crashing). Someone convinced him to ignore the one thing we always thought he cared about.
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The Trump Economy
I'm genuinely a bit baffled by Trump's strategy here. His first term it seemed like he almost cared too much about the market and let it dictate policy. This time, he's hitting like 1000 buttons at once knowing damn well how the market would react. I think you might could make a decent economic argument for a measured approach as it relates to tariffs, or slashing government spending/workforce, again, in a thought out and measured way (after spending several months evaluating options). And maybe you do one or the other or both but not also at the same time you have blown up long standing international alliances. He just hitting all these levers at once right after winning the election by making the impossible promise to the mass idiots that he would somehow reverse inflation, lower interest rates but also keep the market and economy at large booming. That was obviously never going to happen. But from a strategy standpoint, is he just trying to blow it all up so he can try to blame it on Biden then take the credit for a recovery 2-3 years from now? I honestly thought the tariff nonsense was always just talk but maybe not. Interesting times. I'm sure I'll just get a bunch of emotional cloak room responses but curious if anyone has non-emotional "fuck trump" thoughts.
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Markets still falling like whoa
I was considering same yesterday but didn't this time. I did this during COVID and went cash pre- market crash and patted myself on the back at how smart I was. Then missed the fucking runup and didn't buy back in until I was at a loss. I'm overly liquid right now though non-retirement and slow rolling putting that into the market.
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2024 - 2025 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - This time we're not happy to just be here.
Nico/Adelson's cursed this team and every remaining player on it. I hope the STH renewal rate is abysmal.
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2024 Hurricane Season thread of DOOM
There actually was one released recently. I saw a headline come across the end of last week. It was the sole reason I clicked on this thread assuming there might be some substantive discussion of the actual topic of the thread. Silly me.
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
I keep seeing people say that but guess I've been lucky. I had issues game 1 and never since.
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2024 Hurricane Season thread of DOOM
Trump/Elon bitching is fucking everywhere. I get it. I despise them too. But it's nonstop for certain posters no matter the topic. I'll just stick to stars thread, 9.95 and food and travel. Only places that have so far been immune. Continue on.
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2024 Hurricane Season thread of DOOM
Shocker. Drive by click to hopefully see 2025 hurricane forecast and it's another Cloak Room thread like this entire board at this point.