Paul Wesley

Just as a reminder here: Garcia hit a 3-run shot, does about as much showboating as you're ever going to see. Stands forever in batter's box. Carries bat to first base and slams it down. Does a big slow-motion stomping thing as he gets to home. After all that nonsense, Verlander gets the ball back and throws a strike to the next hitter. Half-inning later: Altuve hits a 3-run shot, takes his bases with none of that bullshit. Leclerc gets the ball back and like a little bitch he throws the very next pitch right at Dubon's head.

Babers said on his podcast that he (himself) knew exactly what the play was going to be based on Texas' personnel and alignment - we had run the same routes from the same formation vs Bama (and maybe others). He agrees that the OU defense acted like they knew the play. I would bet the house that most/all of our opponents are trying to steal signs... but that particular play might just be opposing players who watch film + a failure in self-scouting.

I don't know either, but I know that the scandals that become sticky and permanent are the ones that line up with already-held grievances. And it seems like a lot of people already don't like Harbaugh's demeanor. On a side note here: if I were a coach getting paid tens of millions of dollars to coach for a school whose brand is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, I'd be 100% aware that there's an information war happening as part of the game -- programs are trying to get a competitive edge. They had better act accordingly (e.g. don't use hand signals like you're at a division III school in the 1970's). Shit, Ed Biles was doing this as the Oilers' defensive coordinator in 1979. https://vault.si.com/vault/1980/01/07/the-stolen-signals-caper

If you're trying to do the Nile Rodgers 16th-note funk thing with lots of muted chukka-chukkas, it's better to hit the compressor on the way in. He used bridge pickup of a Strat to an 1176 straight into the board (no amp) for most of those iconic parts. I've never played the Corey Wong Wampler pedal, but he is quite the Rodgers disciple, so I'll bet it's great for that. I think compression also helps on a lot of 80's clean tone things... either before or after the chorus.

Now that I think about it, I think my mxr distortion pedal was purchased from one of the older guys in my church youth group. He joined the army at the end of high school, and he obviously got some kind of bonus, because he showed up at church the next week with a sunburst Les Paul, a Fender amp, and the most awe-inspiring rainbow of Boss pedals. I think I bought his old mxr distortion from him, and saved up for my own Boss chorus pedal (what with it being so futuristic and all).

Just wanted to add: Joke turned out to be on the older kids, because I took that shitty pedalboard and fucking rocked it.

I think it's more than twice that number, right? And there are almost certainly a few "Jordan" voters who are now going to switch their votes away from Jordan, because now they can tell their MAGA voters, "Gosh, I really tried." It could still happen, but I think the consensus is that it's way worse for Jordan than we thought.

Tip of the hat to tbone in the RS guitarist thread - who posted his first distortion pedals. First three pedals I ever owned below. I have no idea where they came from, but I can tell you there was no auditioning involved, and likely these were sold to me by my "older" friends who played guitar (older = 16 or 17).

I remember my first fuzz pedal.

Jeffries is going to outpoll Jordan. Maybe by a lot.

I was too depressed to read any sports stuff last week, but I’d guess that Texas-OU out-drew the other 12 schools combined.

Having an old hound dog as a college mascot is like finding some old bullshit trinket in your house and giving it as a wedding present.

that looked like a fumble

If you want to work on your own mix/mastering skills, then sure, buy all the software and put in your hours. If you want your stuff to sound its very best, then hire a pro. Mastering engineers have gotten absurdly inexpensive compared to 10 years ago. Ozone 11 "advanced" is $299. For less than that, you can get a true pro like Ryan Smith (Adele, Coldplay, ACDC, Beyonce, Bob Dylan, etc) to master your single, and he'll do it in a couple business days. That's who I hired for "Boomtown." There's also an argument to spend more on a mix engineer, and (arguably) then the mastering gets less and less crucial because there's less for them to "fix." Just putting that out there for perspective.

Yeah, obviously Gabriel is really good. I’m fine with anyone thinking he’s better than Quinn. But “if you knock the shit out of him on every play, he’s less effective” is a “no shit” statement you could say about anyone in any sport. It’s the “Quinn panics” stuff that seems detached from the facts. Also, he’s just a system guy with an average arm.

I've watched about half of the Ikard/Lehman videos this year, and they're generally really complimentary of this Texas team. They had a few critiques of Texas that are already widely acknowledged on this board: our safeties don't have great foot speed, neither does Watts. Also, the Texas ends are not elite pass rushers. But they had some extended commentary on Quinn that seemed pretty homerish and absurd: Gabriel is the better QB. Quinn is the product of a system where Sark is the one getting guys open. Quinn panics under pressure. Quinn has average arm talent. If they blitz Quinn early, he will come unglued. The red-zone struggles at QB show how Quinn is limited. Sometimes what your critics say about you is true (slow safeties, average edge rushers), but they seemed like they went way over the top there. I think the advanced metrics rate Quinn as elite on plays where he gets blitzed. I guess we'll see on Saturday. They also had some extended criticism of Kelvin Banks. "Kansas really got after him." You think we had a 200-yard rusher and 660 yards of offense (despite playing without our 2nd best offensive player) while our left tackle was getting dominated? Hmmmm. They also claim the OU LT is better than Banks. Can't comment on that, because I haven't watched their guy, but I know Banks is pretty good, and that seems like nonsense. Again, we'll see. I hope somebody shows it to Banks though.

I watched CNN for an hour or so before I went to bed last night, and they interviewed numerous Republican congressmen during that hour, and every one of them had their prescribed talking point about making the McCarthy ouster a "both sides did this" issue, and then blathering for another full minute or so about "both sides" dysfunction, blah blah blah. "A few people from my party plus all the Democrats did this disgraceful thing." And I was kind of shocked at the number of times the host let their bullshit go uninterrupted and unchallenged, and let them go with a cordial "Thanks for being here!" Maybe that's the informal agreement for getting interviews? "If you ever interrupt our intellectually dishonest diatribes, we won't go on your network anymore."

If only there would have been some way to know he was a clown.

Am I the only one who didn't know Tesla's "Little Susie" was a cover?

Thanks, guys. I am a huge Baerwald fan as well. That song started out as acoustic guitar backed by a string quartet. But it wasn't sounding as cool as I had hoped, so we ended up bringing the strings back to add a bunch more layers mic'ed at a distance (sound of an intimate string quartet becomes sound of a huge orchestra), and instead of rock drum kit we used all orchestral percussion, including a massive bass drum and hand-held cymbals. Also tracked some flutes and oboes. The string score (which I didn't write) is still doing 99% of the heavy lifting in the arrangement. It was fun to work on. I have always loved the song.

Check out what the rest of the league looks like when the two revenue-generators play against one another... And keep in mind that last week, the Tech vs UH game drew 3% of the audience that the Texas game did.

So Tech vs UH got 3% of the viewership of Texas vs Kansas? That disparity is incredible.

I hope Yormark gets a good, long gander at that. Next year will feature 13 weeks of those ho-hum matchups with regional (at best) interest. That's your future, asshole. Imagine generating half the fucking revenue for a league where the rest of the schools don't merit a worthwhile TV slot on their own, and then having that league's commissioner openly mock and root against you year after year... Someone should start a thread and call it "The Big 12 is fucking awful."