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Who doesn’t understand this? Seems like to me in reading this thread and every other Trump related thread everyone understands this.

1. Field of Dreams 2. Moneyball 3. Hoosiers 4. Rocky 5. Caddyshack By my criteria it has to be primarily a sports movie to qualify. Big Lebowski and Talledega Nights and others don’t count. Those are comedies primarily, sports secondary. This list is perfection. I just violated my own rule

I think Democrats are getting way too bent out of shape for her using the term rigged. You can’t just usurp a word in the english language and have it mean only Trump’s bullshit. I understood she was referencing a Super Pac. Hell Super Pacs and donors are rigging lot of elections these days. But, I guess because people are so dumb, they can’t see the difference between Super Pacs and outright lying about fake voting or vote stealing. Sigh. I’ve just convinced myself that Democrats indeed have to get ticked off at her because people are so dumb. Well, this was a nice thought journey back to the beginning. I ought to just delete this post. Nope. I’m not gonna do that. I’m posting it.

Did she not have to give up her house seat to run?

So I haven’t paid much attention to California politics. I didn’t even realize Schiff was running for Senate. Why has the Democratic Party there allowed these two key politicians go head to head like that? I would have thought there would have been better planning. I didn’t even realize Schiff had a shot at Senate. And Porter had a lot more room to move up in the House.

I want a t shirt. Good quality material. Slim fit as an option. I’m svelt.

But we all still love your Traces of Texas posts.

During the 2022 recruiting season, one of our recruiting group added a guy to the text chain either by accident, or to give him a chance to participate. He made one stupid text, got destroyed in about ten seconds and then unanimously banned from all future recruiting discussions.

The interview with Doocy was great. I always thought Doocy was a little boring when he guest hosted, but in that interview he was hilarious.

But a dead cadaver is still more qualified to be president than the alternative.

Actually I was just thinking about what an incredible pro career he had and flat forgot how good his junior year was. edit: just to add to that, he was a third round draft pick. I think most were surprised by the difference between college and pros. He had a very very good college career but surprised as a pro. I think Worthy does the same.

There are assholes everywhere, but generally firefighters are regarded as pretty high quality people. They also, according to the Washington Post six days ago, have the most physically demanding jobs in the country. I’ve only noticed your existence by the sheer volume of terrible viewpoints you express on this site. So your comment is no surprise and says way more about you than it does the firefighter community.

Stay with me for this comparison, but he reminds me of Jamaal Charles. He has tremendous speed, like Charles, who also showed flashes of greatness while in college. Both guys left the forty acres leaving us wanting more and believing they didn’t quite demonstrate their full potential. But both had the mindset and confidence and work ethic to be great in the NFL.

Correct or incorrect, the perception is that Texas has the most NIL money. I just saw a media story on it yesterday. Every big name player wants to visit so that they can use Texas as a bargaining chip for whatever program they are trying to get money out of.

I always wondered why Owens wasn’t successful given all that speed and athletic talent. I guess it’s because he has a brain the size of a walnut. That doesn’t work well for the safety position.

When I say prep, I refer to the whole gamut of options, from just basic cleanup, to significant renovations, and everything in between. Some clients may end up with more money if they take on some improvement (paint, carpet, etc), but they may not have the time or temperament to deal with that. So I lay out all the options and we select the best for their situation. Heavy renovations is rarely the best strategy but sometimes doing more than just a cleanup pays off big time.

Setting aside the Porter drop, it’s ridiculous to just declare that coaching has nothing to do with fielding.

I know that area well. Lived there for several years. What I’m seeing in the market, buying and selling, is that good/great houses well prepped for sale sell well at good prices. House with a smaller buyer pool or an unattractive attribute can sit for 6-12 months plus. The key is the right positioning and prep of the house. I had a client that wanted to sell quick so I laid out the optimal prep plan to maximize money in his pocket. It went under contract in two weeks, while comparable properties sat for a year. What was interesting was that the seller had another friend who was a realtor and she was giving him bad advice while I was trying to get him to make the right decisions. I would have thought a long term realtor would have a better handle on selling in an unusual market environment, but I guess since Austin had been such an easy market to sell in for so long, these agents didn’t have to figure anything out. I sold in Dallas and Houston too, which had different dynamics than Austin.

There has been a lot of defending of Pierce in this thread, which I understand. The 3 CWS appearances and Big 12 titles look okay at first glance. But when you look at his team more closely, cracks have been emerging throughout his tenure. The inconsistency, the roster gaps, the pitching and hitting ups and downs, the performance in the CWS, the performance against good teams, the coaching hires and fires, the recruiting. He’s benefitted from the reputation of the program and that’s made his lack of performance more difficult to discern.

Why do Twitter embeds now take so long to load when scrolling a thread? They take about 5-8 seconds to load.

I was talking to my electrician Monday. He and his parents were fleeced for $460k by a crooked contractor who was building two homes on a plot of land, one for him and one for his parents. The guy poured two foundations, half a wall and then took off to Dallas where he fleeced others, and then onto Arizona where he’s fleecing people now. I don’t know all of the details, but the electrician said because of the new law, it’s made it almost impossible to collect on judgements from the guy.

I can’t deal with this camera angle. It’s making me nauseous.

I think the mental challenge is the fact that the program historically had very good success getting to the CWS, and when Augie let the program slip for several years, Pierce hasn’t quite gotten back to where it was. As other posters have mentioned, maybe it’s unrealistic in today’s sports to get back to that, but it’s still a hard pill to swallow.

I had to delay it because I forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer. I’m going to try it in the next few weeks.

Yea I stand corrected. I was going from memory and his similar six year stretch wasn’t the last six. It’s a few years off. The point I was trying to make is that Augie at the end was not leading a competitive program, and Piece still hasn’t returned it to the stronger performance of the earlier Augie and Gus years. Maybe the program never gets back to that.