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  1. Fold everywhere but JFC brutal. Edit to add: this is assuming she has us covered and that when you said dealer on other table announces all in you mean a called allin not just someone moved all in. If someone moved allin I would tank til the other players act there.
  2. If you look at the retrospective brackets with this model, it does look really good. Bill Connelly has an excellent one up where he looks at the % chances various teams make the semis, etc. The 5-12 teams aren't all total fodder, there are a lot of solid teams that either got a bad break (really good McCaffery-led Stanford that lost a 9am body clock game week 1; dominant tOSU team that dropped a rainy slog to Sparty) or turned it on late (for example lots of people mentioned OU playing hot at the end of the year last year). Adding home atmosphere to those games will be must-watch. Houston at Georgia in an opening round game, to pick a rando example, is sooooooo much more exciting to me as a fan than Houston vs Georgia in a random Peach or Fiesta Bowl that ultimately means nothing. Adding home field to the quarters so you get top 8 teams playing each other on campus is so sexy, they simply must get it done. The traveling is just stupid otherwise. Everyone is all-in for Penn State at Alabama. Penn State vs Bama in the natty QF in Glendale is gonna be held in front of 30k people, 20k+ being corporate jabronis who got tickets b/c of affiliation with Capital One or whatever the fuck. Bama fans as a 1 seed aren't paying thousands to travel to a fucking QF game, and will be presuming they will be in the SF or natty and will prep for that.
  3. ha yeah if I have 7844 there, someone has KQ or Q8 for the top board and someone has a 5 with any 4, 6, 7, 8, or 9 for the bottom board roughly 125% of the time.
  4. It would allow bowl games to have better teams in them. If the next 5 best non-playoff bowls can't take playoff losers, then those games get teams ranked 13-22. If they can, they get teams ranked 5-18.
  5. No. The subjectivity of the committee slightly edging things is drastically outweighed by the prospect of eight CFP games coming from actual college stadiums on college campuses. I say 8 b/c I presume no way the semis or finals are neutral. Put the quarters on campuses and this is a solid plan. It maximizes meaning of conf titles and reg season: Can't get a bye without winning a conference title. Can't get a home quarter unless you are a Top 4 team. Still a benefit for fighting for a Top 8 spot if you aren't Top 4, b/c you get a home game. Brings more passion and excitement to the playoffs with home crowds/atmosphere. I would be MUCH more inclined to travel to an Oklahoma at Georgia quarterfinal than Oklahoma vs Georgia in the Fiesta Bowl quarterfinal. Who is traveling to neutral QF games? The top teams are saving trips and $$ for SF and finals. The lesser teams not paying to go watch a QF vs Bama in an NFL stadium. Similarly, I'm much more inclined to watch those games on TV if there is home atmosphere and college pageantry.
  6. Barry's Prime at Circa has been well-reviewed everywhere I have seen, and Circa I thought was an excellent environment overall. Andiamo at the D has an Italian flair to it, and we really enjoyed our meal there a lot in April.
  7. This is so completely enraging. The dipshit Arky lawmaker (and tons of other dipshits on social media) all quick to ask why she couldn't just comply, are the same numb fucks throwing their groceries on the ground at Costco b/c masky hurt facey. Also, per the Arky driver manual, she WASN'T "fleeing" you feeble-minded cuntface. The cop could have killed not only her, but other innocent drivers. How fucking many news stories with someone pulled onto a narrow shoulder and either the cop, driver, or both gets killed do you need? Maybe Andy Reid's drunk fuckup kid is behind me and I'd prefer to not get slammed into by him or Johnny Tweetswhiledriving?? And the cherry on the sundae is it was over a fuuuuuuucking speeding ticket, not like she has felony warrants out or something, and even in THAT case, this would be insane. Prison.
  8. Right, I think the bye hate is overblown. I actually really like the 10-team model above. Only change I would make is to have the 7-10 and 8-9 play-in games as a neutral site doubleheader. Then you have 8/9 winner at 1, 7/10 winner at 2, 6 at 3, 5 at 4. That way, instead of the cut line for byes being among the top 2 or 4, you're really giving the bottom 4 a play-in opportunity. If 7 hosts 10 and 8 hosts 9, seems unfair that those teams get the revenue/benefits of a home playoff game but 5 and 6 don't. Same basic model as the B12 hoops tourney. Also can have some good marketing around "Top Ten" or whatever. I would go auto-bids for P5 champs and top G5 champ, 4 at-large. Could have a clause where if the second highest G5 champ is within X spots of the top one, they both get bids, to keep it from being a thing where #11 Houston goes to playoffs and #12 Marshall goes to the Aunt Fran's Dildo Emporium Bowl in Poughkeepsie.
  9. They definitely need to either kill the conference tie-ins for bowls or rotate them more often. So often bowl matchups feel so stale because the same teams end up in same bowls in same matchups (or similar, etc). Plus give the fans more variety in looking at making bowl trips.
  10. I legit don't understand this mentality. You want Texas' schedule to be the exact same 9 teams for the next 50 years? How fucking BORING. Those games also mean less than nothing since Texas is obv in the tournament every year. Also how do you seed teams when they all play in isolated pods with no crossover games? Any playoff system should include: 1) Potential for at-large bids. If conference champions and only conference champs get in, OOC games become meaningless. 2) Incentive to get top seeds. This can be byes, home games, or some combination of both. A playoff of 8+ teams with all games at neutral sites totally diminishes the achievements of the very top teams. 3) If auto-bids, conferences need better ways to determine champions. I prefer pod scheduling and/or elimination of title games. It's going to be stupid and annoying when 11-1 Team A plays 11-1 Team B in the conf title game and wins, and now 11-1 Team C, who Team B beat to earn the title game bid, gets the at-large bid over Team B. I don't want a super rigid rule that only teams in the conf title game can go, b/c maybe Team C beat Team A, then if B wins title game, C should go over A, not A just b/c they were in the title game. I doubt title games are going anywhere, so pod scheduling can mitigate at least some of this.
  11. Wife and I did honeymoon in Charleston and Savannah and hit up John Lewis’ place. It was great.
  12. Yeah, suck it up. I manage to be completely shithammered in the Cotton Bowl before 11AM every year. I'm going to OU-Tulane, and not so worried about being able to be shithammered in NOLA before 11AM for that game either.
  13. We went in late April and walked right into a cab.
  14. Yeah, OU has had a bit more than its fair share of 11am kicks, but the reaction from fans is ridiculous. OU had one 11am home kick last year, but every time a home game gets 11am, there is a group that says that OU "always" gets 11am home games. I honestly thought the Joe C quote was a photoshop at first from his original message when Nebby was trying to back out. That also feels like a big overreaction. I know OU had a lot of recruiting activity and celebration of the 50 year anniversary of the Game of the Century stuff planned, but Jesus. OU-Nebraska in 2000 was #1 vs #3 and was an 11am kick. Also, it feels like people have to be told every single time that on Fox, the 11a game is the featured game. There is always the relentless "OMG we aren't getting respect blah blah" when they are in the featured position. tOSU-Oregon and tOSU-Michigan are already both announced for 11a kicks.
  15. I still have much love for Country Tavern in Kilgore, but the star of the show is the baby back ribs. If you don't wanna just gorge on ribs, and can't have a BBQ meal without brisket, it drops a couple notches. But the large ribs plate with their beans and potato salad is very good eats.
  16. http://www.scjc.texas.gov/
  17. Nope. Rule 500.4: A corporation or other entity may: (1) be represented by an employee, owner, officer, or partner of the entity who is not an attorney; (2) be represented by a property manager or other authorized agent in an eviction case; or (3) be represented by an attorney. The officer should have probably understood and not cited you. Once cited, you go to the court and say "I was insured at the time of the citation", then they have to verify the coverage, and if covered, they must dismiss. No DA needed.
  18. It is a violation, but the citation MUST be dismissed without requiring any fees etc. if proof of insurance that was valid at the time of citation is provided. They should have called Wulaw's insurance, asked "would you be covering him if he just bought a car the day before", they say "yes" and so done deal.
  19. Last trip, we walked from Venetian to Planet 13 and walked by Trump. It's so weird being a pretty janky area then there's just this garish giant gold building. I remember back in my Hotwire days it was considered a 5 star, so if you were hunting for Vegas, you had to make sure any 5 star booking had the little CASINO icon to make sure it wasn't Trump.
  20. If wearing a seatbelt increased your chances of surviving an auto accident from 93-95%, would you wear it? The vaccine is free and easily accessible. It is marginally better for each individual person than post-infection immunity. If you add up tens of millions of "marginally betters", it is HUGELY beneficial for society at large for everyone to be vaxxed.
  21. Oklahoma is taking some of their allocated money from the jobs bill and giving $1200 bonuses to anyone who was on unemployment and works for at least 6 weeks of 32+ hours a week. So he couldn't reallocate the unemployment funds, but could implement a similar program.
  22. Currently only open for breakfast/brunch Fri-Sun, otherwise I agree 10000%
  23. Mon Ami Gabi (Paris) The Henry (Cosmo) Peppermill (North of Wynn) Wicked Spoon Buffet (Cosmo)
  24. BTW, wanted to clarify one thing as it could read like a "no shit" moment. For example, my buddy and I are gonna play Wed, June 30 in Vegas. So I looked on Tue afternoons and Wed mornings for what courses tee sheets look like for that Wednesday. Theoretically, should be roughly similar on Wed the 30th as well. I realized it could be read as to look at the actual date you were playing and see if it was wide open haha. That is a good strategy though if booking last minute rather than planned ahead.
  25. Lodge just had 320 entires for their $215 tourney yesterday, $15k up top. They have been pretty consistently busy. Can’t speak to anyone else.
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