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Paul Wesley

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  1. So my buddy -- who is a superb recording engineer -- got his first big studio job as an assistant engineer at a big studio (Ocean Way) in Nashville. And it was literally his very first morning in the room for one of these major-label recording sessions. The artist was a female trio making their debut record (no, it wasn't the Dixie Chicks). And I can't remember who the producer was, but it was a very high-power Tony Brown-type guy. Anyway, it's the first morning, and the ladies were struggling to sing some harmony. And they keep doing take after take trying to get a part down, and it wasn't going well. At some point, the producer took a few steps over and picked up the landline, dialed a number, and said, "Yeah, Bob... I think I'm gonna have to punt on this one" (presumably talking to the label executive, obviously). And then, without saying anything to the engineers or to anyone else, the bigshot producer just gathered his things and walked out of the control room. Meanwhile, the band was standing out in the live room in front of their respective microphones --- headphones on, just waiting for feedback and for their next pass, totally oblivious to what happened. The studio had to tell them over the talkback mic, "Ladies, can you come back in here for a second?" and then tell them they no longer had a producer -- and maybe no longer had a record deal. That was his Day One in a major studio.
  2. ... and a lot of motorcycles. Definitely the same era and the same ethos as Ram Jam: "Let's set up our gear as if there's a stage in the front yard of my rent house, and then we'll park our Harleys in a circle all around us." Ram Jam didn't have any friends with a ski boat - that's about only difference.
  3. Pretty sure one of those "offsides" against Texas was when our defense was substituting in response to an offensive substitution, and the refs let OSU snap the ball before our guy was all the way off the field. You never see that penalty, because (by rule) the refs will stand over the ball and make the offense wait until the defensive subs are complete. And one of the offsetting penalties was when Alfred Collins was rushing up the middle and was tackled into the quarterback, and (I think) Collins' hand hit Sanders' helmet as the ball came out. The broadcast never replayed it, and it would be too painful to go back and confirm with a second look, but that contact (which was minor) doesn't happen if Collins doesn't get tackled. Just pointing a couple of these out for the guys who want to say, "When you break it down, it was actually very even." The calls weren't remotely even. There were multiple phantom PI on Texas extending OSU drives that resulted in points that 1) were definitely uncatchable balls and 2) weren't PI even if the ball had been catchable. Texas receivers got zero of those calls. Then, with the game on the line and only a couple minutes to play, Texas gets yet another phantom penalty - a "hold" on the back side of the play, moving us back about 60 yards - from first down deep inside OSU territory to 2nd- (?3rd-)-and-22 way back on our side of the field. Former OU player announcing the game, discussing 14-0 disparity in penalties: "That's just great coaching!" We can't get out of this conference fast enough.
  4. I appreciate contrarian opinions, but we just opened the second half with (yet another) absolute phantom PI against Texas. 11 Penalties enforced to 0.
  5. So is that how ISU fans felt when Missouri bolted the conference? Did ISU fans feel strong resentment from the unmistakeable message of "we're better than you" from Colorado? Nebraska? A&M? OU? Texas has just as much of a right to act in its own best interest as any other school.
  6. Interesting. I’m fine with 3 games in wild card round. Those teams ought to be happy that they got in at all. But it seems like division winners should be harder to unseat. I understand that $$$$$$ is driving these decisions… but moving divisional round to 7 games potentially gives more playoff games. If MLB thinks that makes playoffs go too deep into October, then eliminate an off-day or two (which also rewards deeper pitching staffs).
  7. Correction: I think that shot was from Dunleavy. Reid hit the corner three to tie game 5 vs defending-champion LA in 86 (then Sampson hit the alley-oop inbounds at the buzzer).
  8. I don’t follow baseball nearly as closely as a lot of you, but I’m curious if this is being discussed on the national level: With all the upsets at the divisional round, is anyone second-guessing the best-of-five division format? That is: 162 games is a reeeeally long season just to establish seeding, and just splitting the first two home games (which happens all the time in sports) makes upsets highly possible. Shouldn’t a team that wins 105 or 110 games be harder to unseat (i e get a best-of-seven)? I say this as a fan with no love for the Dodgers or Yankees, but also one who remembers Robert Reid hitting a mid-range jumper in game three of the “mini series” that not only ended the season for the defending champion Lakers, but also immediately ended the very idea of a playoff “mini series.” To me, the whole reason for 162 games is to reward the deepest teams, and best-of-five greatly subtracts from that reward.
  9. The season is halfway done, and we are underachieving in short-yardage situations. We should have a WAY more successful short-yardage package of plays. Why not Roschon at QB K Robinson coming across the formation, Bijan in the backfield, Sanders and Helm (both good blockers and big receiving targets)? We can force the other team to defend a lot of different places the ball can go (jet sweep, dives, QB keepers/bootlegs, jump passes, old-school option). Roschon got a scholarship here to play QB, and he can make those throws. Instead, we're just lining up with Ewers at QB on 4th-and-one and handing it to Bijan. We're very predictable and we're getting whipped. Effectively, our short-yardage offense rests on the hope that the back can break a tackle after getting smacked in the backfield. We've got these claws and these fangs, and we're just staring at them and thinking, "How do I kill this bunny?"
  10. Reprehensible. It's just perfect that the video captures the moment that the man has to give real-time justification for why he is choking a kid... and he clearly has none. I hope he goes to jail for a long, long time.
  11. they're sold
  12. These are my seats via the Longhorn Foundation donations. This year, I bought another pair in another section in order to be closer to some other friends, and I'm trying to offset that cost a bit. Section 114 Row 26. $210 each, which is slightly more than the face value of $175, but less than similar seats on stubhub (where they'll also tack on another $50/seat in fees). I've been on these boards for decades (back to the 360 days) and I'm a frequent poster in several forums (music, football, etc). I'd prefer to sell to someone with similar track record. Can accept payment via Venmo and I'll email or text you the seats. PM me.
  13. Having Mack tell the kids "let's not get too excited" plus Greg Davis's conservative and profoundly unimaginative offenses = a 5-year losing streak that felt like 50.
  14. It would be an interesting side-by-side comparison. I have an old Super and it's pretty great. But I hardly ever play it because I have to figure out a way to either run an instrument cable into the next room, or mic it up in the next room and listen through monitors. Even if you do the thing where you remove one tube so that it breaks up at a lower volume, it's just unreal how loud those amps are.
  15. I'm too lazy to look up the dollar amounts, but she was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars from right-wing groups to be a speaker/consultant or some other bullshit. Making justices file financial statements - that check/balance is intended to prevent EXACTLY this kind of purchase of influence, and the fact that the Thomas family would omit that considerable income from their filings, screams "consciousness of guilt" to me. (edit to add)... For Ginni to now speak of "iron clad rules" that she claims were followed in the Thomas home so as to do everything strictly by-the-book - it's laughably unbelievable.
  16. Those 1968 babies might be old, grumpy, rapidly declining, and technologically challenged in 2022, but they're not "boomers" under any definition.
  17. Those compressed felt picks for bass work really well. If (like me) you’re not an actual bass player and you don’t have the skill in the fingers of your right hand to pedal 8th notes evenly or to articulate all the notes in a phrase. It’s a great cheat that lets you do those things without the click-y attack of a pick hitting bass strings.
  18. If you were going to teach young players what is/is not targeting, you'd show them how to keep their face up (like Overshown) and not to lower your head and launch (like what we just watched). Just completely arbitrary enforcement... no attachment at all to the wording of the rule.
  19. That clip is unbelievable. "They're putting components of robotics into us." Fucking wow.
  20. Just read the last two pages, and all the talk about QB's throwing deep balls. It's also hugely important to this offense that the screen passes are delivered with a quick release and good velocity. When a receiver gets those extra couple tenths of a second (or whatever it is) to turn upfield as the defense is closing in, that split second is often the difference between a 2-yard gain and at 12-yard gain.
  21. Some of us are a garbage TD from a back door cover. priorities.
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