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We recently had a pug puppy come into our lives. We already had an 80-lb yellow lab. Anyway, we can't leave the pug unsupervised in the house because she's still not house trained and also chews on everything. So we either take her with us in the car or we put her in a crate. My wife went out to take the kids somewhere and they took the dog. When they got home the dog was limping. My wife told me that she had no idea how the dog got injured; she stayed in the car in the front seat the whole time. She also told me that she put the dog in a new seatbelt/harness thing she had bought because she felt it was dangerous for the dog to be roaming around the car while she was driving. I asked my wife about the harness and how it worked and how the dog reacted to it. She said that the dog struggled with it at first until she realized she was locked in and then just sat there. We took the dog to the vet and they couldn't tell us what was wrong until they did xrays, to start. That was going to cost hundreds of dollars so I said to just wait and see if she heals on her own. The dog is still walking with a limp two days later. The only way something could have happened was when the dog was in the harness in my wife's car. I think she's lying about the dog staying put the whole time. Regardless, this fucking harness thing she bought injured our new dog and no telling how much it's going to end up costing me.

I'll tell a story about probably the worst client I ever had. I was still a baby lawyer and I was getting assigned all of the shit work that came into the firm. We had gotten a call from a guy who was evicted from his commercial space. The case came to me. I looked at it and discovered that the landlord had fucked up the notice. So we went to JP court on a bench trial for the eviction and I successfully fought it off and even got my client a $5,000 judgment for lost business due to being wrongfully locked out. Here's the thing, though - the client was a gay drug addict - meth, I think. He was very high strung, very emotional, very flamboyant. He was also very critical of me, despite the fact that I got his ass out of a crack and got him 5 grand he probably should not have gotten because he had very little evidence of lost business. Anyway, after the trial I had to go to the guy's place of business, which was an antiques/used furniture store in the Heights. It was also where he was living. I was required by the court to take photos of all of the furniture as part of the court's final order. So I show up over there and my client, who had not slept in days until then, answers the door with no shirt on and looking haggard as fuck. He knew I was coming to take the photos, but he was disoriented and got all pissed off that I was there and basically threw me out, but not before I got the photos. He called my boss, the managing partner, and told him how much I sucked. So, he fired me and I never heard from him again. In a strange twist, he had a "benefactor" who was a gay pilot. He owned his own 747 and basically served as Air Force One for a bunch of African countries who I guess could not afford their own presidential plane. The guy had a name that was perfect for who he was and what he did. He was straight out of central casting. Anyway, the guy had money and basically financed my client's life. He paid his retainer too. I guess the guy had a boy toy in every port that he kept more or less on a leash. It was very weird.

I didn't have any undergrad debt because I worked a lot and UT was cheap, but law school cost me about $100K and I took student loans for all of it. I graduated in '06 at age 32 (I was a "second career" lawyer or, to put it another way - I fucked around for 5-6 years before I got serious about my future.) I got lucky ten years in and I had a good personal injury case that I did for a family friend on a contingent fee (not my normal practice area). Generated a large fee that I was able to use to pay off my student loans.

I apologize if there is already a thread out there for this. Seems like there is a shit ton of lawyers on this site. Maybe we can trade wisdom, ask questions, tell war stories, etc.

If Jose Abreu hadn't sucked, if LMJ, Garcia, Urquidy, Javier and Graveman wouldn't have gotten injured, if Tucker and Yordan hadn't been injured, if my aunt had a dick she'd be my uncle. I'd probably re-sign Bregman for whatever it takes. Dude is part of the core in every way - on the field, in the clubhouse, tough competitor, etc. etc. etc. He's only 30. Get him for as few years as you can, but the AAV has to be what it has to be to keep him. I'd also roll with Singleton at 1B. He had an OPS over 700, had a higher OBP than Bregman. His ROI is higher than some big expensive free agent would be. If you do that, you've got to upgrade in the OF. With all of the pitching coming back healthy we should be a playoff team again.

And there it is.

You're kidding, right?

Pressly, you fucktard!

Can I introduce you to one Jake Myers?

GODFUCKINGDAMMIT!!!

I may get negged for this, but I hope he succeeds. I don't think he will because he's too much show and too little substance. But he makes a good villain and is a certain kind of character. I like characters in college football. Same reason I liked Mike Leach. He may be an immoral piece of shit and his kids may be spoiled, entitled brats with huge egos, I don't know. They certainly wouldn't be the only ones.

What YouTube has proven to me is that you can be a hot girl and do literally anything and monetize it. Hot girl fishing, hot girl camping, hot girl sailing, hot girl driving boat recklessly, hot girl giving massages, hot girl speaking softly into microphone, etc. etc. etc.

Feast your eyes, boys. My best one yet. Hook 'em!

Yes we do.

I would ask, "Is that real!?," but I don't have to.

As my earlier post indicated, I'm most interested in how this all ends. That would tell us how things are likely to be for the next 5-10 years. Money is the only thing that matters here, really. Regionality, longstanding rivalry games, travel difficulty, stress on student athletes, etc. - none of that shit matters. So if it's all about money, that means more eyeballs on TVs and butts in seats. That means better games, which means fewer matchups against cupcakes and lower tier, overmatched opponents that have less interest and lower ratings. Everything that has already happened is leading in that direction. So, yeah, two conferences with a combined 48 teams or so. Those two conferences are currently vying for all of the highest value properties. ACC is doomed; it's just a matter of time. Same with Big XII. Once it all shakes out, it's going to be an AFL/NFL type situation with perhaps a merger in the future to create a whole new governing structure and financial model. I don't know if all of that is good, bad or indifferent. For me, I don't want college football to become NFL lite. I don't watch the NFL now. Just too sterile for me and I don't relate as well to the fans. Potential obstacles or things that could warp the gravity: ND - will they be better off as an independent even if there ends up being two super conferences? Antitrust issues - the lower tier schools who benefit financially by association with the bigger, more successful programs will have huge incentive to prevent this from happening and being left out of a spot at the trough. And what happens if the SEC gets the ACC schools? The SEC would be more way more powerful and richer than the B1G. Would that give the SEC total control to dictate the future of college football?

I didn't mean the old regional conferences with all the same teams. What I intended to say was regional conference made up of only P2 teams, or whatever we're calling them - revenue positive teams? Attractive media property teams? So, for example, the new regional conference for us would be: UT, OU, a&m, LSU, Arkansas, OSU, Missouri, Kansas, Kansas St., Colorado.

What does the endgame look like? If FSU and Clemson leave the ACC, the ACC is the new Big XII without banner programs. They go where? SEC? At what point do the SEC and Big 10 become the new NCAA? Why wouldn't they just become the new Division I? The NCAA already doesn't award the national championship in football, right? Why are bigtime football programs still following NCAA rules? What leverage does the NCAA have in football? I hate realignment. I liked the old regional conferences. There is an organizational solution that would be better for the athletes and fans, but not as good financially. The best financial solution is what we currently have, with everyone's sole goal of maximizing revenue. Is there any end where all of the schools in the former Power 5 form a new division, the G5 are in a second, lower tier division, and the schools are grouped regionally again? Edit: I didn't consider enough how much TV/ESPN is pulling the strings here. The last couple of posts made me realize that. If TV/ESPN is driving the train, then they would want better games, which means more good teams in fewer conferences and less cupcake games and uneven matchups to get more interest and eyeballs.

The umpires are having far too much of an effect on the outcome of games. It's maddening.

I don't hate this. Would I like to have Vlad, Jr.? Sure. But as a roster piece that would allow us to extend or sign other dudes, this could work.

Texas 38 Michigan 17 Michigan receiving yards - 224.

I fly fish freshwater rivers and tie my own flies for that. Recently got a Renzetti rotary vice that I love. I still use a casting rod in saltwater and fish about half bait, half lures. I have a saltwater fly rig and I've tied a few saltwater flies. I'm definitely heading the direction of doing that exclusively (if it's not blowing 20 mph). I have the ALPS wrapper.

This year I took up rod building. It marries two things I really enjoy: fishing and making shit in the garage. I'm still very new. I've only built two rods from scratch. I've added thread wraps to several rods I already had. Here are some pics:

Here, lazy ass.

In a bind with a scheduling conflict. I have six tickets to Saturday's game I'd like to sell at face value. Sec. 107 Row 17 Seats 3-8. $120.56 each.