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Here you go. an altered or impaired sense of taste. diarrhea. increased blood pressure. muscle aches. abdominal pain. nausea. feeling generally unwell. I don't "care" per se. It's an evaluation that COVID has completely broken some people's brains (i.e., Exhibit A of absolute "lowest" risk (young, healthy, 10+ combined natural/vax antibody and T cell memory creating exposures with no remotely concerning impact to date) yet still fear it as though they are high risk without any ability to differentiate or analyze that distinction). I can't imagine a well informed Dr. would actually prescribe a prescription drug targeted at high risk individuals in this scenario (but any doc in the box quack can obviously if you ask for it).

I'm sorry. Someone healthy, under 40, with 6 or 7X vax antibodies plus 3 or 4X natural antibodies (in a 3.5 year period) getting a prescription drug that is not recommended for them (i.e., no "high risk") is not "cautious". It's a complete inability to understand or evaluate risk.

Just heard the craziest COVID people I know (somewhat friend of my wife and her husband) contracted COVID for a documented 4th (or maybe 5th?) time (I'm guessing they test about 50X per year with every sniffle). Under 40, completely healthy, have gotten every booster within days of it being available, never had an issue with actual COVID beyond a minor inconvenience (including multiple confirmed infections before Paxlovid existed), and I heard they immediately went and got a Paxlovid prescription in a panic. Just blows my mind how some people loaded with antibodies and actual experience with the disease still fear it like its April 2020. It just broke some people.

Echo what everyone else is saying. In prior years this was prime ticket listening. I've tried (including listening to some top 10 on the app) and yet to hear a segment I find really compelling or funny. I mean they are in fucking Vegas. Came here to see if I was just somehow missing the good stuff. Agreed loss of D&J really apparent so far this week.

So what does this do to the YTTV's of the world. I'm assuming they (the new streaming service whatever it will be called) are probably going the Bally's (attempted) model (i.e., no longer negotiate in good faith when contract is up for renewal so eventually you have to subscribe in order to watch sports) except I would also assume they aren't completely incompetent and will wait until their platform is actually operational before taking that step. But if any renewals are up before they are operational it could get messy as the existing streaming services well aware they are losing content in the near term will likely try to max profits while they can.

Had to kill some time solo parenting with the kids (7 and almost 5) this past weekend and took them. They loved it. Already asking to buy it on streaming (which apparently you can). I had zero expectations so going in from that perspective enjoyed it as well. I thought it was really well done overall.

I saw this terrible take on Twitter. I'm guessing it was on the show as well. Bob sucks.

Yeah, I can't handle Cowboys talk on any platform. I just don't give a shit. It's a big part of why my listening flips heavily in favor of XM84 during the fall. I make sure and catch the HL Klatt segment each week and will listen to Mavs/Stars/Rangers or non-sports segments here and there but not near as much Ticket listening in the fall.

Last few pages of this thread are fucking ridiculous. Shit is getting worse than the football board.

Yeah I'm going to check it out. I mean I still enjoy the hardline most of the time despite Bob and Corby's incompetence as it relates to college football topics.

So you are trying to defend lazy and stupid sports takes? I don't care if it's about Texas. A lazy or stupid CFB take by anyone is pretty much auto tune out for me on principle. It drives me crazy when people that are "sports talk professionals" are too lazy to know WTF they are talking about. And it happens with CFB all the time at the Ticket (and apparently still on Jake and Dan's podcast). We all have full time jobs in "not sports" and 90% of this board has more general college football knowledge than these idiots do.

If he said "Texas isn't ready for Miss St" (whether talking about the team or the fans) that's just idiocy. There is really nothing I can't stand more than terrible college football sports talk. I listen to Sirius XM84 90% of drive time during the college football season for a reason. Much better quality than the Ticket (which is just terrible at it). When Corby is your "expert" and I know more about his own team than he does, that says it all. Jake actually used to have decent takes (I liked the BAD radio segment with McElroy at least) but yeah, if they want me to make the effort to find their podcast (instead of just hitting a preset button while driving) going to have to have better takes than that.

It didn't. And I'm not going to pretend to have a strong opinion from before that date. Even at a point 20 years ago I was relatively well educated on the subject matter, I still didn't have a strong opinion that either side was "right". And I did know enough from more recent history to realize that Bibi was a piece of shit well before all of this. But 10/7 was a massive escalation (I would call it unprovoked, others would disagree, and then we would go in circles again) but it deserved a response. Maybe I'm biased as I have clients with family there that were impacted so I heard personal stories. Maybe if I had clients in Palestine instead and heard their stories my view might change. I don't know. But I know you can't have terrorists invade your country targeting civilians and not respond. I'm just not going to have an issue with that.

LOL. I've seen enough of your shit post history to know this will be my one and only time to engage with your dumbass. 80% of your posts are just lazily bitching at people that don't agree with whatever bullshit opinion you have. Particularly if you have groupthink support on this forum. So good luck with all of that.

I certainly have no desire to debate the history. I dug into it college and didn't have answers then and certainly don't have answers or strong opinions on that now. But I'm absolutely not critical of the initial response. What happened on 10/7 deserved a massive response in my view. Obviously it would be great if Hamas and other Jihadi assholes had their military bases and operations separate from civilian housing and infrastructure but that's not who they are. Civilian casualties were unavoidable. It's intentional Hamas strategy to maximize civilian casualties to gather indirect support (i.e., opposition to Israel) just like we've seen in this thread every time I check in. If we want to discuss a point in time it was appropriate for Israel to scale back operations (or for the U.S. to scale back it's support), I'm certainly open to that discussion. But the vast majority of posters that are overtly critical of Israel in this thread drew that line in the sand way back in October (and for most, absolutely based on how they viewed regional politics and the history pre 10/7).

That being said, I don't think there is a reality where they could have conducted surgical operations and successfully eliminated Hamas. What Hamas did in October 100% deserved a massive initial response and there were inevitably going to be civilian casualties. It's war and Hamas (knowingly and intentionally) brought that shit on the people they govern. Not just with the initial attack but with an entire strategy of forcing Israel to kill civilians if they want to kill Hamas. Some of the rhetoric from far right in Israel is concerning and given where things stand it's certainly open to debate what the rest of this "war" should look like, but I have a hard time criticizing Israel taking hard measures against nutjobs whose stated goal in life is to kill every jew and who have openly stated they will do it again.

Which is why it doesn't bother me personally that they entered a hospital to take down those assholes because they use civilians as shields and particularly doesn't bother me because from what I've read no civilians were harmed in the raid. I would prefer creative raids even if they bend the "rules of war" (whatever that is worth in a conflict like this) to indiscriminate bombing. That being said - 956 raises a good point in the post above mine regarding that putting israeli medics at risk, although do we really think if Hamas has an opportunity to take out a jew they are going to give a shit it's a medic? I think if a known Israeli of any gender, age or occupation in firing range of Hamas they are pretty much all at equal risk.

Was strongly considering getting back in to their podcast. If it's full of idiotic takes like that then never mind. Get enough absurd anti-Texas bullshit from Corby

Why does it matter where terrorists are killed? If they are hiding out in a "hospital" and only Hamas and Palestine Jihad assholes were killed (i.e., not a bunch of hospitalized civilians) - it sounds like a pretty good operation from where I sit. Not a 'bad look'.

I never understood why they built that stadium with only 65K seating capacity. I generally agree with the whole "smaller venue" movement but Vegas is such a destination for both visiting fans and obvious travel destination for big college games (or you know, Super Bowls) that it could easily fill 20 or 25K more seats. Such a terrible decision.

What are we setting the over/under for NCAA still governing major college football at? 3.5 years? Their lack of any guidelines or clarity around NIL (vague policies that are seemingly constantly changing and now in direct conflict with laws of multiple states), combined with now attempting to enforce "policy" at large programs, might be the nail in the coffin.

Don't even start looking until August. Season ticket renewal emails haven't even come out. Nobody (including Michigan fans) will get tix until July or August. The only sellers are brokers short selling tix to anxious Texas fans.

I agree tix in the Texas allotment will be scarce. But I'm not remotely concerned about getting tix generally in a stadium that sits 100K+. I'm guessing ticket prices will be comparable to any of our other big games the past couple of years (Bama (both places), TX-OU, Sugar Bowl). It's pointless to even start thinking about tix this point as the only people selling are short sellers looking for suckers.

Is there a market for game day charters? I know when we played Notre Dame we (and tons of Texas fans) stayed in Chicago and went on a party bus. Hell, if I remember correctly either the guy advertising was on shaggy or at least got linked there and ended up filling like 5X his typical busses with Texas fans.

I caught part of the hardline segment talking about the party. Dave noted it was great that they were out mingling with the PI's, just chatting, taking pictures and giving autographs. What? Imagine being a grown ass man asking one of these guys for their fucking autograph. Dear lord.