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Royale with cheese

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  1. At Abilene Christian with Bob Shipley and Brad McCoy.
  2. Cher wasn't too covered in that picture above, either.
  3. Paradise Lost was composed in a basement?
  4. Yeah, I put it on autopilot. I know better too.
  5. How he's still employed is one of the world's great mysteries. With print media dying and the likelihood of his longevity-enhanced outsized salary, I don't see how they haven't replaced him with an autistic sixth-grader, which would be a win-win: payroll costs go down, article quality goes up.
  6. Well, we all know that SEC stands for "Sure, Everybody Cheats."
  7. It's the Darrell K. Royal "we."
  8. The NCAA is a toothless tiger. P5 should break away and form a successor organization, since the Stony Brooks and The University of Texases (is that a word?) obviously have little to nothing in common. An organization of, by, and for the big boys makes overwhelming sense from both a theoretical and practical standpoint. Of course, such a successor organization would find itself in exactly the same position as the NCAA does now when it comes to enforcement. Biting the hand that feeds them--i.e., hitting the big-boy violators (tOSU, N.D., ou, the entire SEC) with serious punishments for cheating--won't be any easier then than it is now for the impotent NCAA. It's another fine mess you've gotten us in . . .
  9. Should have used Elmore James.
  10. That's about the size of it. Two highly unliklies: a catcher legging out an infield "hit" and Kennedy hitting one over anybody not an infielder.
  11. Cars? No Trucks? Don't tell me the world is getting back to normal . . .
  12. A truly great Texas guitarslinger. Note, also, the loping bass of Tommy Shannon, later of SRV and Double Trouble, absolutely carries this track. If anybody wants to learn how to play bass, this is as good as anywhere to start. The studio version of this track on Winter's eponymous first album is firmly ensconced in my list of all-time top ten blues songs. (BTW, so far I've got 83 on that list. And it's growing.)
  13. Or whatever he fabricates out of thin air and then claims he's been told.
  14. He was a good college football player. He was a great 'Horn.
  15. * * * crickets * * *
  16. Yeah, sometimes things just work out. Deloss wanted Barnett here. Thank God Daryl, Jim Bob Moffett, and some others wanted Mack. You can dog Mack all you want, with much of it deserved in his later years, but imagine how bad things might (probably would) have turned out if we'd gotten Barnett instead of Brown. Just sayin' . . .
  17. The worst they ever had was wonderful. Oh, wait--that was pussy.
  18. The knee-jerk interpretation of this is that Sark & Co. or someone on their behalf is tempering expectations, ("Well, we've inherited some talent but not as much as we thought we were going to, so don't expect so much so soon.") There's another way to look at it, however: It could just be that Herman & Co. didn't develop the talent we recruited, so that yesterday's legitimate 4-star isn't performing like a veteran 4-star should a couple of years into his college career. This scenario is fixable; the first, not so much.
  19. Yes, they'll all come to meet me,Arms reaching, smiling sweetly.It's good to touch the green, green, grass of home
  20. Aggy never had an original thought, they just try and shine by the reflected light of the SEC. But if you look closer at that light you find that the SEC mystique is born out of a philosophy of almost exclusively playing cupcakes out of conference to bolster the conference's collective W-L records. They rely on the fable that buying cheap wins is justifiable because of the murderous SEC in-conference schedule, conveniently ignoring the fact that the bottom half of the SEC is about like the bottom half of any conference and not a hell of a lot tougher than your average G5. Aggy has seen how this canard, enthusiastically promoted by their ESPN masters, has worked for the SEC over the last 8 to 10 years, so they eagerly jumped on the bandwagon. I suspect that as cord-cutting progresses, competition for eyeballs escalates, and the public's appetite for televised sports becomes more discerning, aggy vs. Kent State or Prairie View (along with Alabama-Mercer, Florida-Samford, LSU-McNeese State, I could go on) won't generate enough viewership to sustain this model. Until that happens, however, we'll be subjected to aggy crowing over a 8-4 or 9-3 schedule in which the best teams they beat were Tennessee and South Carolina, and both of them at Pyle.
  21. Young John Rhoades strides to the mound. Nebraska farm boy. Blazing left-handed speed.
  22. It's a big website with information but that's not important now.
  23. I'm shocked, shocked to find out that he pretentiously hangs ornaments around his neck.
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