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Wally Fairway

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  1. Don't need anything, on the want list is a e-bike - - but there are a shit-ton of them and I don't have the time to figure out which one.

    Y'all are crazy fucks for this 2 chick bullshit - like I need one more person in my life that I need tot try to keep happy.
    Unless you are talking about professionals, who you pay so that they will leave.  

    And we are giving away Christmas wishes to Rauol, Lupe, and Chang

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  2. 8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    For those of you in the know, if she wins, do her appointees to various city boards and commissions have to be approved by the other council members?

    Because otherwise, she's dragging in the Alex Jones crowd, along with Romeo Rose.

    I'm thinking she appoints Ricky and Chad Briscoe to her staff, a board or commission.

    And does Texas allow same day voter registration - asking for a friend, who could travel to Austin today, if needed

  3. 48 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

    I'm looking at wasting some money on short-term SPY puts (12-16 and 12-21 expiry) because I think the rebalance (adding TSLA, dropping others) will cause a disruption. If I had more stonk funds I'd do it as a straddle/strangle but that just guarantees only being 50% right.

    Well I can't go to the casino this weekend - so let's see how this plays out

    Short-term-SPY-puts-12-11-20

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  4. I'm looking at wasting some money on short-term SPY puts (12-16 and 12-21 expiry) because I think the rebalance (adding TSLA, dropping others) will cause a disruption. If I had more stonk funds I'd do it as a straddle/strangle but that just guarantees only being 50% right.

  5. 2 hours ago, Lobo said:

    There was actually a decent chance we were going to play them in Houston at the Texas Bowl later this month.  Oh well, onward to the Cheez-It Bowl.  

    Also, I was really looking forward to a game in Baton Rouge at night at some point, but I'm really starting to not like LSU overall.  

    I went to a Sugar Bowl many, many years ago - drink & eat all day, go to the game 1/2-way sober up, go back to the French Qtr to drink all night.
    Damned near killed my liver that weekend - it was a Monday game, so I had to get up early to drive back to work the next day, man that was a long hard drive and though I made it to work I was more worthless than normal.

  6. 2 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    The best thing about the BCS was that it made me interested in all of college football. Before that I really only watched Big Ten and PAC-10 games. I never watched Texas-OU, never watched FSU-Miami, never watched Alabama-Tennessee (back when that was an actual rivalry which it isn't anymore because you can't have a real rivalry with a cross-divisional opponent).

    Back then my football reality was: beat Michigan, win the Big Ten, play the PAC-10 champ in the Rose Bowl and let the pollsters name their national champions. I didn't care if they named multiple champions like they did in 1970 when both Texas and Ohio State were named champs. I didn't care about national championships at all. I figure the Buckeyes are going to win some championships regardless of the system. And back then we didn't have the internet so we didn't hear the bitching from other fans around the country so who cared? I don't let that bother me just because I can hear it now. 

    The BCS made all of college football more interesting while preserving the value of the bowls. I love bowl season and it was better before the playoff. I was surprised by how much and how quickly the four team playoff devalued the bowls and I fear the eventual expansion to an eight team playoff will kill them off completely. With the BCS, we let the seniors take their finals, spend the holiday with their families, then play one last game for dear old State U before heading off to the next level. These are real people with futures. It's not a video game meant strictly for our entertainment. The more postseason games we ask of these young men, the greater the risk of some of them suffering career ending injuries. And to the meatheads sitting at home just watching on tv, who don't donate to the program, buy season tickets, and attend postseason games, who just want more football for their personal enjoyment, I say fuck you, your opinion doesn't count. 

    College football is inherently a regional sport. I think the BCS struck the right balance in making it a national enterprise while maintaining the value of the regular season, winning conference championships, and playing in a bowl if you had a winning record. 

     

    1 minute ago, Parliament said:

    OK, boomer

    Hell I grew up when each team could only have 2 TV games a year (plus a bowl - maybe), so I watched whatever game was on and choose a side. This was the era that defined the blue blood programs, because they were likely the teams on TV every Saturday. So I picked a side and a rooting interest - Texas over A&M and OU, anyone playing Notre Dame, UCLA over USC, I even rooted for OU over Corn. Those were games on TV every year. But you had to scour the newspaper for scores and rankings, then Sports Illustrated for a summary.
    Now I can watch 25 games a week (thanks to MACtion), see real-time updates online for any game, and piss and moan on message boards and social media.

    I think there is an eventual expansion to 8 teams in a playoff - Power 5 conferences, a couple of Mid-Majors and an at large. Still makes winning the conference a priority.
    And @Parliament - get off my lawn!!

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  7. On 12/9/2020 at 1:10 AM, Superhero said:

    Did I mention the autopilot camera not available message has been popping up?

    Still an incredible car, and the kids love it when I just floor the MFer from the stop light.

    But yeah... let's see what they can do about the paint when I take it in on Friday. I found a few more paint issues - a chip, some bumps like there's sand under the paint, and a divot or two. It all looks great under the sun, but inside the garage under LED lights is when I found all the defects.

    So the solution is to park it outside, and not look at it in the dark or under indoor lighting - problem solved (send your $9.95 to the wreath fund)

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  8. 3 minutes ago, Landomatic said:

    Because, under the poster's hypothetical that I replied to, it assumes USC will be 6-0 at the end of the season with a conference championship game win. Plus they're a household name and from the west coast so you've got that for TV purposes.

    Winner of the SEC with one loss, winner of the ACC with one loss, undefeated winner of the PAC and undefeated winner of the B1G. All very household names in different parts of the country for TV purposes. Sorry, Big 12...your 2 loss teams (especially if one is named Iowa State) don't stand a chance. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

    got it, don't like it, not sure I agree with it - but i get it
    IMO Ohio State needs to play a game this week to stay in contention for a playoff spot, hopefully not a rematch but hell it is 2020 so who the fuck knows

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    19 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

    we all shit on the big 10 for how they handled this and now they're going to get a team in the playoff that played half of a regular season.

    Well preseason polls dictate starting points - it is a shitty system, always has been

    16 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

    Other than Indiana OSU has played:

    Nebraska 2-4

    PSU 2-5

    Rutgers 2-5

    MSU 2-4

    It was basically a 1 game season to get into a 4 team playoff.  

    The B1G is awful, there is no way to analytically say any deserve a playoff spot
    Only OSU beating Indy and NW beating Iowa is a good team beating a good team (NW loses accolades for losing to a bad MSU team)

    12 hours ago, Landomatic said:

    In that scenario, pretty easy...

    Florida

    Clemson

    Ohio St

    USC

    Why USC - they are 4-0 and have wins against AU & ASU both winless and 1-2 Utah and WSU - opponents have combined 2-10 record (both of those wins come against Oregon St)

    Seeing more Trojan love in this thread than I ever thought I would on a Horn-board

  10. Sorry for invading your politics board. But I'm amazed to see the Texas AG has nothing to do in the great state of Texas, so he filed a lawsuit to disqualify the Michigan electors appointed by the Michigan Republican led legislature. Apparently Ken Paxton he has seen the fraud from across the country.

    https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/08/texas-supreme-court-disqualify-michigan-electors/6489232002/

    In a motion seeking approval to file a complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asks the high court to stop Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin from certifying their election results and nullify or disregard their electoral votes, citing large increases in absentee ballots cast in those states.

    In the complaint, Paxton falsely alleges that Michigan, along with the other states, changed election laws related to absentee ballots by "executive fiat  or friendly lawsuits, thereby weakening ballot integrity."

    Michigan significantly altered its election law related to absentee voting through a 2018 referendum approved by Michigan voters, which moved Michigan to any-reason absentee voting, among other changes

  11. I love this story because it is a Christmas classic and because it reminds me of the first time Mrs Fairway & I went to London. 

    we are staying at a small B&B somewhere in metro London, and she books us for a day long bus tour to Bath, Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral. But the catch is we have to get to the bus depot by 7:30 am, so we are up early, before 6,  to get on the tube to go across London to the bus. Promptly at 7:30 the bus take off on our adventure, stopping a 3 big hotels to pick up more of us tourists, a little after 8;30 it pulls up to the last hotel which happened to be about 100 yards from our B&B and all I could do was laugh my ass of as it took us over 2 hours to go the length of a football field, and Mrs went back to get a sweater.


    For the record Bath is cool, Stonehenge is super-overrated and the Cathedral was great the Magna Carta is in an anteroom of the cathedral - not really a copy as they made 4 originals and one is there for all to see.

  12. 1 hour ago, BradInATX said:

    In continuing the theme of 2020 being dog shit, we're forced to root for an Ohio State team that has played four games to get in the playoff to keep aggy out. 

     

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    1. OSU has played 5 games (but your point is spot on) - however the results are closer than it looks
     - OhioSt has beat 1 ranked team (I don't count PSU who was ranked but is now 2-5, and was only ranked because "blue blood")
    -  Aggy has beat 1 ranked team - a very unipressive 7-1 (beating Vandy, MSU (the other MSU), Arky, SC and a mediocre LSU) and a decent AU (how is a 5-4 SEC Auburn not rated?)

    2. They would play Bama or Clemson in the 1st round and lose by 30+ (because there is no way they make Bama and Clemson play in the first round)

  13. On 12/4/2020 at 10:50 AM, Wally Fairway said:

    Oh no doubt that adding TSLA to the S&P 500 is going to force some of the largest funds/ETF's to buy the stock, so it gave everyone a months notice to front run the buying spree; and just another dagger into the wallet of anyone who has been a TSLA short or call seller/put buyer. Hell there is no reason it doesn't go up another 15% before the 21st - hell Elon should have used this as another chance to have the company sell more shares and stockpile cash at peak prices


    Although if you want to swing for the fences, there can be an argument made that after the run up there will have to be some air let out of the TSLA stock price balloon ..... many have played that game, and most have lost.

    man was I wrong - TSLA only went up >7% just today, the squeeze on funds to find shares to add to their portfolio in 2 more weeks is going to keep sending this higher and higher; leading to the question what happens once the mutuals/ETF's are done buying?

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