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Bartles

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  1. Me too, going to Nuggets at Sixers. I'll see if I can post from my phone, it's been forever since I tried
  2. I'm back in if there's room!
  3. Not sure how long this has been on Prime, but it's very solid film, mainly due to the acting
  4. https://twitter.com/susanslusser/status/1491565520109277189
  5. To follow up after watching all 8 episodes on Peacock, it sucked after the first episode. Barely any laughs. Felt like a money grab, which is disappointing considering they had years to kick around sequel ideas and all the main players were back for the series.
  6. Great episode. I can't believe I was unaware MacGruber is an eight-episode series on Peacock. I can see why they would prefer 30-minute installments to making a sequel which would probably fizzle at the box office and be labeled redundant by critics. I watched the first two episodes, the opener is very funny and includes a great "recap" song at the beginning by Maya Rudolph. The second one slows down as watching Forte be the same vulgar buffoon over and over gets a little tiring. But the series has the same feel as the movie so I'll keep watching. Probably not worth paying for Peacock unless you also like EPL soccer.
  7. Just starting it. My wife and I both somehow missed the shocking arrest of one of Season 1's beloved characters. (Don't click if you don't want it spoiled, though I assume it was talked about somewhere on Shaggy). Apparently it is the subject of episode 5 this season.
  8. Has anyone seen whether there's a rule for if the replay booth had buzzed down with 1-2 seconds left to re-spot the ball? It should have been back around the 26 yard line where Dak started his slide. Presumably they could have lined up and run their hail mary play.
  9. So many Abe Simpson takes on these seven pages Too many bowls / bowls are meaningless: This is decisively swatted down every single year by TV ratings (sometimes attendance too) Ratings are down: Yes, for everything that's televised. Sports in general and CFB in particular still do incredibly well Best teams spend money and cheat: Yes, for many decades now. Bad teams do it too Conference champions should get in: I thought we were trying to REDUCE blowouts? ESPN ruining sport: The two best games of every week tend to be on Fox and CBS. Their commentators say the exact same BS. And don't blame SportsCenter, PTI, etc., not enough people watch that stuff to affect opinion of the sport overall. Note the recent Clemson, Ohio State and OU ascensions all took place in the SEC Network era. Yes, it's a business, but at least that is being acknowledged now. It's not the end of the world if the whole sport gets broken up so the top of the pecking order doesn't have to keep bowing to the will of the 60s-70s-80s nostalgists.
  10. The two best teams will meet in the championship, as has been the case every year in the CFP era (maybe not 2014) and most years of the BCS era. It is stale and boring, but you can't legislate it away. Especially with middle age and elderly white guys in charge of everything...none of us can explain why it's better to be the No. 5 WR at Bama or Ohio State as opposed to the No. 2 WR at Texas or OU. NIL and the transfer rule should open things up for a few others including UT. But the top tier of the SEC is basically the Lakers/Warriors/Nets right now, recruits/free agents aren't looking much further than that.
  11. Coaches and ADs can still say they made a bowl, often getting salary bonuses. That said, I believe UCLA and others who bail last minute...they test day of game and have to abide by the protocols. And for people saying they should bring another team in, who pays for that and who's to say the new team won't have cases upon arrival?
  12. I was in Sarah Weddington's class probably in '91. It must have been an elective because I sure as hell wasn't a law student. She was in the midst of writing a book about her Roe experience, and one of our assignments was actually to proofread/critique a draft of it. I remember really marking it up - lots of typos and just amateurish writing. But she thanked me for being so thorough. I wish I remembered more of her stories, because the class was Roe-focused even though it had a generic women's studies title (which I also don't remember). I definitely took away her view that Jane Roe was never meant to be the perfect client, and the court's trimester focus was never meant to be read as perfect science...but they were the methods that in the moment could get the votes and get the law on the books. While I haven't followed her later years, I assume she was smart enough to see what was coming once Obama failed to replace Scalia. Still a great feat to be part of a monumental piece of women's rights which held for half a century, and still has a strong majority of public support.
  13. New York Mets of college football. Money and name recognition, completely mismanaged, so easy to beat and laugh at afterwards.
  14. OK State appeal denied, banned from 2022 postseason
  15. I trust this guy, he sometimes airs politics but is obsessive about all things air travel. Good thread:
  16. The WR crumples because he's already dropped it. No way the DB led with his shoulder.
  17. Good odds on another pre-snap penalty now that we're in front of OU crowd
  18. I'd say this show was worth the buzz. The first 7 episodes are very compelling, the last two were more like just show us what happens. So much of the plot was really far fetched, from the premise itself to some of the strategies ("Why didn't he/she just _____ instead of causing unnecessary deaths" in various games.) But the main thing that stuck out to me was the cardboard cutout dialogue of the Americans. I assume it was written by Koreans who don't really know how we talk, and I'm sure the same thing happens in reverse all the time. Those guys were written and performed as such morons it's not believable they had any money.
  19. Love the Miami guy tagging him down two yards in the end zone
  20. Terry Bradshaw narrated over the 66 FG highlight with no idea what happened. "Baltimore hangs on to beat Detroit." Then I'm pretty sure the Fox crew talked another 5-7 minutes and never once mentioned that game again. Are network studios always this awful? Do execs know everyone watches Red Zone or Twitter? Aren't there like 12 nerds sitting just off stage who screamed their asses off when that kick went through?
  21. We saw Outlaw Festival in Philly. I didn't realize it was a rotating lineup, so we didn't get Nathaniel Rateliff, Lucinda Williams or Ryan Bingham. But we did have Sturgill and of course Willie. Heard some of Government Mule as we walked in. Be advised, Sturgill is just doing around an hour acoustic bluegrass. It was terrific of course, but there are no rocking-out moments like his previous shows. No material off the Sound & Fury album, which is what his 2020 tour was supposed to be. Willie as usual put on a great show even at age 87. You can still hear his voice and Trigger play, plus his personality comes through as well.
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