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  1. 49 minutes ago, AnotherUTFan said:



    I'm sorry they got sick, but I'm not sure how much guilt I should carry.
     

    Zero. She’s a bartender. For a year and a half bars have been proven to be one of the most significant spreading locations for the virus. Spending any amount of time in a bar unvaccinated is actively choosing to get the virus. 

    There’s a reason why all of the top 22 outbreak clusters are college campuses. A bunch of people packed together closely and talking loudly is the ideal location for it to spread. 

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  2. My daughter starts kindergarten in 3 weeks. The school district sent out an email asking if parents want the kids to be required to wear masks. 

    Glad to know that the school district is letting Karen who gets her opinions from Facebook get a vote in how the school district handles masking in the fall. 

    I’m not shocked. it’s a purple suburban district and looking at the precinct level data ranged from trump +14 to biden +28. So they are just punting to the parents but I would have hoped that decision would be based more on stats and science.

    side note: I just found out that more of my neighbors suck than I realized. Trump win my neighborhood 346-275. 

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  3. On 7/31/2021 at 2:29 PM, Anastasis said:

    I think that a discussion around preventable deaths state by state would be interesting. Citing death statistics out of context, OTOH, not so much. BTW, the two charts you linked use very different scales, it is misleading to stand them up next to each other without pointing that out.  Below is a better representation.

    It's impossible to have an honest discussion about death rates between states without normalizing to population and a variety of other factors including waves.  What the NY state politician tweets is the same kind of bullshit that the anti-vaxxers spout when they do the "OMG 1/2 of all cases in Israel are occurring among the vaccinated!!" nonsense.  Misleading statistics are misleading, unless I guess we are just politically masturbating. I agree that there are lessons to be learned, and those discussions are interesting and should be had.

     

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    Thanks for that chart. I hadn’t seen them overlaid scaled per capita. But I also don’t think it refutes my point. New York’s winter wave was just as avoidable and frustrating as everyone else’s. The nationwide holiday season “we’re not going to let covid ruin our Christmas” wave and then sharp decline. 

    As you said there are some interesting conversations to be had about different death waves: the southern “covid is bullshit” summer 2020 wave, the South Dakota sturgis bump and subsequent “see it’s not so bad” fall wave, the northeast early spring “the olds are getting vaxxed and we’ve been locked in for too long” wave. 

    But the most frustrating trend of all is the current one that is creating a disaster for the south right now. It didn’t have to be like this, but the antivaxxers are going to get a lot of people killed over the next two months. We’re seeing it born out right now in the difference between NY and TX. New York is ahead of Texas by 15 points in adult vaccination rates. The two states are currently on divergent paths. Cases in texas are 3x ny per capita and rising faster. Hospitalizations are 4x per capita and rising faster. Deaths are 4.3x per capita and rising faster. In NY locations that could turn into superspeader hot spots like Broadway theaters are going to be requiring proof of vaccination for entry. Masks are making a comeback.

    Governors in the south are doing everything in their power to make the spread as bad as possible in their states. 

    Desantis is securing the Republican nomination, or at least Trump’s VP pick, while simultaneously ensuring that he has absolutely no chance to win on a national level. There are counties in Florida that have a test positivity rate of over 25%.

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  4. I think that the data lends to a few different story lines. 
     
    But when a NY politician starts tweeting about Texas surpassing NY in COVID deaths, and posters here start masturbating over that tweet, I think that's is appropriate to point out how foolish it is to compare the NY death rate to Texas'. 

    There are definitely several story lines when you look at the death statistics. The overarching storyline being that most of the deaths were largely preventable. And Texas should absolutely be embarrassed about passing NY in deaths, regardless of other states being worse at mitigating the pandemic.

    Texas and New York deaths timelines:
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  5. 1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

    Texas is 24th in total COVID death rate. NJ, NY, Mass, RI, and Miss are the top 5. 

     

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    So you have a group of states connected to the NYC metro area where the virus was spreading unmitigated for several months at the start of the pandemic and 6 states where the deaths were mostly preventable. 

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  6. 21 hours ago, gurt said:

    I'm dancing with breaking 80...just can't put two good 9s together.  Have had 9s of 40, 39, and 38 recently, just coupled with mid 40s on the other half.  Tantalizing...

    The most recent time I thought I was going to break 80 for the first time I started out even thru 6. Bogey the last 3 holes to clear the front at 39. Was feeling good tho making the turn. 3-putt the 10th hole from 8 feet for triple bogey and proceeded to card a 49 on the back. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, The Dude said:

    For the outside looking in, you can’t understand it.  
     

    so, there ya go

     

    1 hour ago, Axle Hongsnort said:


    To share the pain with the players duh

     

    1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Back when it was an all male school, this little tradition developed where the fans/students squeeze their nuts to feel the same pain the team is feeling by playing hard.  As with all things aggy, it’s weird because it started when they were basically a giant frat for wayward youth but they treat their traditions as dogma. 
    Yes this is a serious post. 

     

    1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

    It’s a tradition. They squeeze their balls so they share the pain of the fighting Texas aggies on the field. Yes, I’m being serious. 

    Spoiler

     

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  8. 1 hour ago, Queen Bitch said:

    Speculative of course, but I truly cannot stop cackling at the possibility of locking aggy into a Big XII pod for the rest of their SEC days.

     

    I had no idea so many schools had a dedicated baseball logo.  Seems stupid. Get 1 good logo and run with it. 

  9. 9 hours ago, HornyPony69 said:

    Various stages of grief and delusion 

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    One of the things that I love about this board that drives me crazy on other boards, and texags seems to be the absolute worst about is keeping topics to a single thread. 

    Almost every thread on their front page should all be in a single topic. But they are all such self important cunts that they think every thought they have merits it’s own thread instead of just posting it into a single thread. 

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  10. 7 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

     


    That’s a bit of an overstatement. It’s just us and OU having an average of 1-2 bigger games each season. Depending on how pods/divisions work out, some years maybe more and some years less. We’re not adding Bama, LSU, Georgia and Florida every season

     

    No, but when you’re in the sec games against tenn, sc, and the Mississippis get billed as top tier matchups. 

  11. 12 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    I think it's sinking in for me how huge this is going to be. This is THE dominant national sports news story right now along with the Olympics. 

    TEXAS and OKLAHOMA in the SEC. Just bananas. The gap between the SEC and whoever is 2nd - the B10 I guess - is going to be hilariously massive. 

    The TV money, ratings, merchandise sales are going to be insane. The recruiting edge is going to be insane. Basically every weekend you are going to have a crazy slate of games in conference play. Some weekends are going to resemble a playoff slate in October or November. 

    If this does happen - the fallout is going to be something to witness. There's going to be a mad dash from all the other "power" conferences to try and put together anything that can compete. 

    Plus you guys will be able to move the games against UTSA to November for a late season breather as per sec tradition. 

  12. This move solidifies the SEC as the top conference after Saban is gone. After Urban left Florida and Cam Newton left Auburn, the sec has largely made its name on 1 team. As we’ve seen with Texas, Michigan, USC, etc. It’s more likely than not that they dip for a spell. Outside of Bama’s run under Saban they really have been just another conference that kept its reputation by what 1 team was doing. Remember in like 2014 when people were trying to say that when the first playoff rankings came out the top 4 should be bama, ole miss, miss st, and auburn? And then all 4 went on to lose their bowl games. 

    Having Texas and OU there all but guarantees that after bamas dynasty fades, that collection of schools is still always the best conference, rather than comparable to the B1G or the old B12 or anyone else. 

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  13. 5 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    There is a reason why I said - I'm not saying it couldn't happen. It surely could happen in today's crazy world. Imagine a conference with Pitt/WVU/State Pen and Maryland. The ease for fans to get to games would be incredible. It'd be awesome.

    But, there are differences in experiences for folks who have gone to Morganhole for games. Try doing it as the fan of one of their traditional rivals. It is usually not very pretty, especially at night. And the comment I posted did not come from a walk-on to WVU football. It came from a guy who made the NFL. And he is kind of in the know. He has no reason to lie to me about what he was told.

    WVU already trying to remind western PA that they still exist in their OOC. In 2023 their nonconference games are Pitt, psu, Duquesne. They also have a game against Robert Morris scheduled. One step away from adding slippery rock. To their credit, at the opposite end of the spectrum they have a home and home with bama scheduled. 

  14. 3 hours ago, alphahorn said:

    if it happens the first fucker who starts an sec chant is banned for life

    No one here will do it on the board. But we all know that the first time Texas wins a bowl game as an sec team there will be thousands in the stands chanting sec-sec-sec. 20 years from now, the younger set of Texas fans will be full-on “sec über alles”.

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  15. On 6/17/2021 at 7:01 PM, Lurch said:

    IMO making a 60* part of your roadmap is less than ideal, much less trying to spin a 60*

    If you routinely putt that well, transitioning that same feel to chips would be much more successful, much more quickly

    I can attest to this. For years my 60* was the only club I pulled inside of 70 yards down to the fringe. I had a lot of comfort with it, but I was constantly leaving the ball short. For every holed chip there were many that never got close. After about the millionth 2 putt for bogie after leaving a long chip halfway to the hole I decided I needed to re-evaluate my short game thinking. I’m currently trying to find as many ways as possible to take the 60* out of my hands. 

    It definitely has its place, and I’d never take it out of my bag, but it’s not for everywhere or everyone. 

  16. 9 hours ago, ztejas said:

     

    I meant to reply to Dewey earlier, and yes he's still an asshole, but Bryson is 100% right. This course just hasn't punished fairway misses. He was all over the place off the tee but he was always about 350 from the tee taking his 2nd shot. And he carded a bogey-free 68. 

    Whether he wins or not or capitalizes on his findings we shall see but his strategy is pretty on point. The rough and fringe just aren't that punishing this week and there are a lot of holes where distance plays into scoring in a major way. 

    In fact - Rory's 67 today wasn't all that dissimilar. I'd have to check his fairway % but he's always one of the longest hitters and sprayed at least a few off the tee today. He probably putt a bit worse than Bryson but put more balls in the fairway. 

    Just as a point of discussion, Rory was 23rd in fairways hit, Bryson was 35th. 10th & 2nd in driving distance. Tied for 8th in GIR. 21st and 15th in putts.

    Hughes and Oosie are 60th and 18th in fairways, 53rd and 61st in driving distance, 8th and 41st in GIR, 6th and 2nd in putts. 

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