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We shouldn't have to struggle so much against Kentucky. Thank goodness we have some hitting, because out pitching (other than Kavan) cannot be dependent upon to stop anyone, especially the really good teams. Pitching better really improve or I fear we are not going too far in the playoffs. Last week's sweep by OU was eye opening for me. I thought we could at least win one @ OU.
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San Antonio Spurs 2024-25 - Taking it in the pooper for Cooper
C-Man replied to Mitch Cumsteen's topic in Basketball
I knew this day was coming sooner than later. It's still hard. IMO, Pop is the greatest NBA coach/executive of all time. (Spare me the Red Auerbach/Phil Jackson talk today.) I'm sure I've told this story before. (But I'm gonna tell it again.) It's 1996 and I'm fresh out of UT and working for free as a sports intern at KMOL. I was earning some walkaround money covering HS sports for the Express-News. TV was my main gig and what I thought I wanted to do, though. As the intern, I got to cover all kinds of stuff that came through town -- the Alamo Bowl, and Oscar De La Hoya fight, etc. But the Spurs were the main thing in town, for good reason. As the only major pro sport in town, we covered them on a daily basis once training camp got going. With Pete Delgado and Don Harris back at the studio, I was the person they sent out to practices, shoot-arounds and all the home games with a videographer to get soundbites, run tapes at the Alamodome, etc. The 96-97 Spurs were fresh off a second-round loss to the Jazz and Bob Hill was back for Year 3 as HC. The Spurs were two seasons past having the best record in the NBA and a crushing loss to Houston in the WCF. Franchise player David Robinson was coming off summer back surgery (or something). He would miss the first 18 games of the season and the Spurs stumbled to a 3-15 start. Oddly enough, just as Robinson is about to start playing again, Pop fires Hill and names himself head coach. How convenient. I couldn't believe it. I *think* this was his first year back in SA as the GM and he'd never been a HC anywhere that mattered. And he seemed like an asshole. But Robinson is back and the Spurs could maybe win enough to sneak into the playoffs as the lower seed that nobody wanted to play. Well, it didn't quite go as planned. The Spurs were 3-3 in six games and then stunningly we learn that David is out long-term. To this day, I'm not sure if he was healthy enough to have come back near the end of the season but at that point, losses mattered more than wins. And the Spurs were doing plenty of the former. They cycled through players like Jamie Feick and Jason Sasser. As you can imagine, interest quickly waned. It wasn't long before the only reporters at practice or gameday shootaround were myself and the SAEN beat writer (can't remember if it was Jerry Briggs still or if he was on the national NBA beat; it might've been Tim Griffin). That was it. Let's fast forward to the night of March 14. The putrid Celtics are in town. Avery Johnson is out of the lineup because he's having his tonsils removed or something. Second-year PG Cory Alexander gets the start, plays 47 mins, makes five 3's, scores 22 points and dishes out 10 assists. The Spurs win and "boost" their record to 16-47. (The Celtics finished with the worst record in the league and had the most balls in the lottery hopper. Ask Rick Pitino how that turned out.) All I need for the news that night is a nice quote about Cory's game from Pop. We assemble in the post-game press room and I'm sitting on the first or second row. It's me, maybe the guy from the AP and Briggs or whoever from the EN. Oh, there's some videographers at the back of the room who will shout out a question if necessary. I can't remember if I got the first or second question. ME (with a smile creeping across my face): "So, uh, does Avery need to worry about his starting job when he's ready to come back?" Hey Pop, just smile, maybe laugh, and give me a Cory blowjob quote that we can run with 20 seconds of highlights on the 10 pm sportscast. Didn't happen. He thinks for a second and looks at me like I told him to go fuck himself. POP: "Who are you? You're with who? Why are you here?" Or something like that. It's hard to remember exactly. I was mortified. My face went flush. Somebody mercifully asked another question. Unbowed, I fired off another question before we wrapped things up. I wanted to show him I wasn't intimidated. (I was.) As I made my way to the room where we'd send the tape back to the station, KENS weekend sports anchor Chuck Mikitinic runs me down. He tells me he's appalled that Pop treated me like that. Said it was completely uncalled for and very unprofessional. Whatever. He's an asshole, I thought and I didn't think he was long for the franchise at that point. We made it through the year without incident and the Spurs kept losing. And losing. And losing. But I noticed a funny thing. The team competed. Every night. They were talent deficient for sure. But damn if they didn't play hard. I moved over to print journalism full time that summer and remained there until leaving the business In 2006. I left SA a year later for DFW and have not spoken to Pop since the end of that 20-62 season. A few times I was helping out with the Mavericks' playoff coverage but a Spurs-Mavs matchup never materialized before I left the business. I so wanted to pull Pop aside and ask if he remembered that March night at the Alamodome. (BTW, I'm pretty sure I was one of the first -- if not the first -- to get Pop's legendary "sideline reporter" treatment.) I didn't want to make him feel bad. I hoped we could share a laugh about it and I would (off the record) thank him for fulfilling my childhood dream of seeing the Spurs win the championship. I'd still like to see him in person again. I think the story would be far funnier to him today than it would've been in 2003 or so. Or maybe he'd ask me what I was doing there. Today is a bittersweet day to say the least. Pop is the Spurs as far as I'm concerned and they will always be my favorite professional sports franchise. It's Texas Football and Spurs basketball. Those are 1A and 1B and they're pretty much interchangeable. And that cantankerous motherfucker made the Spurs the envy of American professional sports. Thanks Pop. For everything.- 1552 replies
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The tables have turned, and Putin’s Russia is now in dire trouble Story by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have together pulled off a remarkable feat of high statecraft. They may have averted a strategic debacle of the first order in Ukraine, and with it irreparable damage to the credibility of the West. The long-fraught US-Ukraine minerals deal signed in Washington – actually a shale gas deal – is a radically different document from Donald Trump’s original demand for $350bn (£262bn) of war debt “reparations” and the US colonial takeover of the country’s infrastructure. The full story behind Trump’s Damascene conversion will emerge over time, but Ukrainian officials say the British and French leaders played a critical role in steering the US president away from his pro-Kremlin infatuation, as did Boris Johnson. It was this patient whispering that paved the way for the Trump-Zelensky tête-à-tête on the marble floors of St Peter’s in Rome. Jonathan Powell, Downing Street’s unflappable national security adviser, will deserve his knighthood when the time comes, and something more than bachelor grade if this is indeed the turning point after weeks of diplomatic calamities. The tables have turned: it is suddenly Vladimir Putin who is in trouble, trying to hold together an exhausted war economy as the price of Urals crude crashes to $56 a barrel – from $77 in mid-January – and as the global economic downturn tips the whole commodity complex into a cascading bear market. The spot price of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Asia has fallen 30pc over two months. It comes as China tries to charm Europe, urgently seeking to preempt any EU moves to raise its own barriers against a diversionary flood of Chinese exports shut out of America. Xi Jinping may have to dial down his “no-limits friendship” with Putin – and reduce his covert help for Russia’s war – if he wants a serious hearing. The minerals accord remains a bitter pill for Kyiv to swallow, but at least it is plausibly compatible with the Ukrainian constitution and does not obstruct EU membership. Deputy prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko says Ukraine retains full ownership of “all resources on our territory”. Ukraine will be able to purchase US weapons on a quasi “lend-lease” basis. The first $50m tranche of military support was approved last night. The debt clock starts ticking from today, wiping the slate clean on the $120bn in total American aid since the war began, most of which was spent on production within the US or consisted of semi-obsolete inventory due to be scrapped. Neither side will have a controlling vote over the investment fund. The US pledges to help Ukraine mobilise capital via the Development Finance Corporation, the geopolitical arm of the US treasury and commerce departments. This opens the way for serious investment in the shale gas resources of the Yuzivska field. As I reported earlier this month, an internal study by Ukrainian experts concluded that the carbon ratio, porosity and thickness match the best US shale basins in the Marcellus and Permian. “We could replace half the lost Russian gas exports to Europe,” said Andríy Kóbolyev, ex-head of Ukraine’s energy giant Naftogaz. If so, Russia can kiss goodbye to its European gas market forever. Ukrainian pipeline gas and American LNG will suffice. Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, warned Putin that the deal committed Washington to “a peace process centred on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine”. One never knows quite whom to believe when the Trump administration speaks, but the Kremlin has clearly overplayed its hand, miscalculating how far it could push its maximalist demands and how long it could keep stringing along a prickly and impatient US president. Republican senator and Trump golf partner Lindsey Graham is going for the jugular. He may soon have a veto-proof 67 votes in the Senate for legislation that imposes 500pc punitive tariffs on any country that buys Russian energy or strategic minerals, if the Kremlin “refuses to negotiate a peace agreement, violates a peace agreement or invades Ukraine again in the future”. Russia’s “hot Keynesian” war machine is now in the same state of exhaustion as the imperial German war machine in 1917. Germany had been able to preserve something close to a normal civilian economy over the early years of the First World War but the Allied blockade, chronic shortages, lack of manpower and money eventually forced the military to take over the whole productive apparatus. That too failed, and ultimately incubated Weimar hyperinflation. Russia has depleted the liquid and usable reserves of its rainy-day fund. Military spending almost certainly exceeds 10pc of GDP in one way or another and it is being funded off-books by coercing the banks into lending some $250bn to defence contractors, storing up a crisis for the banking system. Is that what Anton Siluanov, Russia’s finance minister, was referring to this week when he advised Russians to read Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls and Anton Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard, the first about fraudulent finance, the second about crippling debts? He has already introduced a string of new taxes this year. He is now drawing up fresh emergency measures. The trade-off between guns and butter can be postponed no longer. Serious austerity is coming for the first time since Putin launched his fateful misadventure. Russia is no longer the proverbial “petrol station masquerading as a country” but it still relies on raw material exports to fund a quarter of the budget. Oil exports fund the war. Kirill Bakhtin, from BCS, says tighter US and UK sanctions on Russia’s shadow fleet – Biden’s parting shot – have pushed the discount on Urals crude to around $15. That lowers the de facto market value of Russian crude exports to $45. Another big drop from here, which may well happen as Saudi Arabia keeps adding barrels to an oversupplied market, would make it extremely hard for Russia to keep prosecuting the war beyond the summer. The latest Russian offensive has largely petered out, at terrible human cost. Russia is not close to conquering the four oblasts so presumptuously annexed. “The movements on the map are tiny, and have nothing of strategic value. Ukraine is big enough to trade space for time,” said a Western military expert on the ground. “The Ukrainians can’t take back lost territory, but they’re not going to get rolled over either. This has come down to a war of economic attrition. It’s what’s happening in the Russian rear that decides this.” Trump may change his mind again. The mineral deal does not give Ukraine a bankable security guarantee. Europe is fractious and weary. But the balance of probability is that Vladimir Putin will now fail to turn Ukraine into a castrated vassal state along the lines of Belarus. He may keep the land he already holds and win legal recognition of Crimea, at least from Washington. But if the far-Right ultranationalist hawks in Russia compel him to hold out for total victory, he may not even keep that.
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Meant to type this up after the late March tournament in Austin, but lost track of time. I'm pretty sure I wrote something like the following… And if I didn't do it here, I'll claim I did somewhere else. There is a progression here: You learn to lose - this means you learn how to learn from your mistakes. Mistakes at all levels - on the court, lineups, coaching prep, off the court, culture You learn to win - this means you're applying those lessons learned, but you don't yet have the focus to win consistently. Therefore, you're above 0.500, but drop games you should win You learn to win consistently - At this point the only things keeping you from winning it all are players maximizing their potential, minor adjustments in strategy, and bad bounces. We saw this evolution with football the past few years. I think Metzger has this team setting foot into the "win consistently" tier. I don't think we're firmly there yet despite the ranking. A few other observations from the [looks at calendar and hangs head] Mar 21-22 weekend. Parmelly has way above average vision/anticipation. Odd to see Ava go from Ct 1 last year to 5 this year, but with all the turnover not shocking. She won't wow you with raw athleticism, but she's pretty fundamentally sound, which works well on Ct 5 where opponents tend to make unforced errors I'm sure I said it last year, but I hope Wright works on her focus because she has a lot of physical talent to unleash if she pulls it all together Coach Akers probably used the word "focus" fifty times that weekend when talking to the girls. Goes back to my point above about winning consistently. Charles has a pretty good left hand Maybe it's just me and who I have/haven't watched, but have the 1s across the country regressed this year? Asking because I'm not recalling the Kraft/VanWinkle/Maple types from recent years getting into AVP main draws I'm curious how our 1s and 2s fare against one another in practice. I'd guess they are about even? There can't be many things in sports fandom more frustrating than sitting at Ct 2, watching your team lose a point, turn to Ct 1, seeing your team lose that point, and then turning to Ct 3 and seeing your team lose a point there all in about 20 seconds. Hell, I probably saw that across five Cts the first season and I blocked it from my memory I really like the three Ct setup instead of 5. You can see more as a fan. I'm sure the coaches prefer it as they can be present at all matches. The tension builds much more with two waves of matches.. Even if one team wins 4s and 5s, you can get compelling comeback potential in the second wave. The first year, I traveled thousands of miles to watch them go 1-12. The next year, I traveled thousands of miles to watch them go 7-8. This year, I traveled thousands of miles and watched them beat the #13, #11, and #2 ranked teams all in the same weekend. On my way to Gulf Shores now to see how we cap off this season 🤘 Anyone else going?
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This letter addresses a number of vital issues that affect the livelihood of every individual in our community. I’ll begin by looking at Aggie08’s testy orations. That will be followed by a survey of some basics and some history. This letter will finally end with some common sense. Going back to the aforementioned testy orations, consider that Aggie08 is the devil incarnate. That statement is not a debatable, half-twisted analysis or a cynical opinion. It is a fact. It is also a fact that Aggie08 is desperate to peddle the snake oil of frightful miserabilism. This makes me wonder if Aggie08 has lost the part of his brain that processes shame. I can’t think of a better explanation, can you? Viewed from all angles, if you’re like most people around here, you’ve already gotten into an argle-bargle at some point with Aggie08 about where the free exchange of ideas ends and outright stupidity begins. In my case, he was claiming that he’s a secular saint whose every pronouncement is a gospel truth that only the sinful or the sinister would question. I, in turn, made the counterargument that he can get away with lies (e.g., that his spinmeisters are the guardians of absolute moral truth) because the average person cannot imagine anyone lying so brazenly. Not one person in a hundred will actually check out the facts for himself and discover that Aggie08 is lying. At the very least, I am appalled by Aggie08’s serial dishonesty. First, he lied about meddling in everyone else’s affairs. Then, Aggie08 lied about lying about that. There’s a Kikuyu proverb I’d like to recite for Aggie08. The proverb is, “Kari itara gathekaga kari riiko.” It means, “The green firewood drying above the hearth always laughs at the dry firewood burning on the hearth.” Although Aggie08 may be laughing at us now, some day we’ll be the ones establishing a supportive—rather than an intimidating—atmosphere for offering public comment. When that day comes, people far and wide will know that I, speaking as someone who is not a sneaky fence-sitter, regard promoting trust, a questioning attitude, and a receptiveness to raising issues as the basic purpose of my daily life. I am willing not only to consciously work and sacrifice for that goal but also to spread the word that it is amazing to me that Aggie08 would dare to criticize someone or something without carefully reading what was written. Nevertheless, I tip my hat to the bubblingly alchemical creativity of Aggie08’s fans. Who else could have concocted such a cockamamie plan to compromise the free and open nature of public discourse? Even worse, if this plan pans out, it opens the door for Aggie08’s fans to pander to our worst fears. That sort of behavior disgusts me and really brings home the point that Aggie08 and his underbosses have put in place the largest and most effective blacklist in the history of our country. The purpose of this blacklist is to rid various strategic organizations of Aggie08’s denigrators and any other independent-minded people who might interfere with Aggie08’s designs. While such activities are merely the first step towards preventing people from thinking and visualizing beyond an increasingly psychologically caged existence, Aggie08 has long wanted to prevent anyone from stating publicly that we need to settle our disputes with rational discussion—not by moral huffing and puffing. Why do I bring that up? Because by studying his repression of ideas in its extreme, unambiguous form one may more clearly understand why one of Aggie08’s benighted lieutenants recently told the lie of a lifetime. This person said, and I quote, “It’s better to make up things than to discover or deduce them.” Wow. Anyone audacious enough to say something like that has pretty much zero chance of accepting that Aggie08 is interested only in diminishing our will to live. How much more illumination does that fact need before Aggie08 can grasp it? Assuming the answer is “a substantial amount”, let me point out that the primary weapons of Aggie08’s delirious compatriots are lies and deception. This is why, with apologies to Willie Nelson, I offer this warning: Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cranky quodlibetarians. It’s good that you’re reading this letter. It’s good that you’re listening to what I’m saying. But reading and listening aren’t enough. You must also be willing to have a tough conversation with Aggie08 about colonialism. If we were to have such a conversation I’m pretty sure Aggie08 would cease convincing caustic, presumptuous yokels that there is absolutely nothing they can do to better their lot in life besides joining him. At least I indisputably hope for some sort of outcome like that. Although I prefer appealing to evidence and logic, Aggie08 is driven purely by emotion and anxiety. That’s why it’s hard to convince him that all of his foot soldiers are thieves—idle, envious, and ready to plunder and enslave their weaker neighbors. It’s therefore not surprising that Aggie08 has convinced a generation of people that free speech is wonderful as long as you’re not bashing him and the boisterous, annoying hectors in his camarilla. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. For one thing, thanks to Aggie08, the epidemic of absenteeism is spreading rapidly. But more importantly, Aggie08 is guilty of selective moral outrage. By that, I mean that he picks and chooses what he’s going to be outraged about, then turns around and does the exact same thing to someone else. If you think that that’s disorderly then consider that Aggie08 says that the world can be happy only when his flock is given full rein. That’s a stupid thing to say. It’s like saying that drug money is being used to pay for the construction of huge underground cities intended to house both humans and space aliens who serve a secret, transnational shadow government. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! [Deep breath.] Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! That’s such a ludicrous concept that I can’t help but respond that Aggie08 must sense his own irremediable inferiority. That’s why he is so desperate to throw us into a “heads I win, tails you lose” situation; it’s the only way for him to distinguish himself from the herd. It would be a lot nicer, however, if Aggie08 also realized that his goal is to replace the morals of traditional Western culture with the depressive emptiness of adversarialism. How bestial is that? How muzzy-headed? How wishy-washy? Aggie08’s philosophies are perpetuated by an ethos of continuous reform, the demand that one strive permanently and painfully for something that not only does not exist but is alien to the human condition. We should note, of course, that what I’ve written about Aggie08 doesn’t prove anything in itself. It’s only suggestive, but it does make a good point that the first lies that Aggie08 told us were relatively benign. Still, they have been progressing. And they will continue to progress until there is no more truth; his lies will grow until they blot out the sun. Let me recite the following phrases as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward towards increased ability to impede the free flow of information: morally questionable, shallow phonies; heartless grobians; Junkerism; Aggie08’s aides-de-camp; Aggie08. My point is that we must be clear and explicit. We must state the obvious: Vilification and guilt by association are not the only two mechanisms that Aggie08 uses to discredit his nemeses. Misrepresentation is another. Consider, for example, how aggressively Aggie08 has been distorting my claim that some malevolent lowlifes are so stingy they believe in vending a lewd mixture of egotism and superstition to a new generation of poxy hoodlums. Aggie08, take a bow here. Finally, any one of the points I made in this letter could be turned into a complete research paper, but the conclusion of each would be the same: Aggie08 cheers acts of wanton slaughter.
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We should go ahead and win the conference regular season title, conference tournament title and the CWS just to leave no doubt about who runs the conference now.
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The conf tournament isn't going to do much for us if we win the SEC regular season. A bunch of single elimination games where every team, even Missouri, gets in don't mean shit. Lose early and rest before regionals.
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Miro officially out tonight. Not surprising. Haven't seen anyone in local media give a real glimmer of hope he's playing this series. Most seem to think if he was going to be able to play this series he would have given it a go in game 5. Robertson listed as "day-to-day" which doesn't mean much as I don't think he's practicing with team yet but still a positive update to the extent we win this series. Leaves in the possibility for a Robo return towards end of next series.
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I didn’t see the game, but Rui is one of those guys I do enjoy watching. He has a pretty good backstory with his family and whatnot. Unfortunately for my guys we have no size, at all. I assume that gets fixed this off-season when we get an actual center and not a Make-A-Wish guy manning that spot. I did say the winner of game 5 wins the series so I got that part of the series correct. Good luck against the Dubs. Going to be hard to play Gobert much in that one. Would not shock me to see Draymond miss a game in this series for an attempted decapitation of Rudy.
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Yep- you nailed it. Frustrating game to lose when we leave a village on the base paths and they get 5 unearned runs, 4 of them on a crawford box wall scraper that was coming straight down. Oh well, good series win against a pretty good team without any of our big boys pitching. Go sweep the White sox for a 5-1 week and we will probably be in 1st. Quasi successful big league debut for Blubaugh- he wasn't in over his head even if things didn't completely go his way on the scoreboard. Now, we get to watch LMJ throw his first pitch in 30 months against a AAAA team in Chicago.
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The Astros team currently is 17 outs above average. I believe that leads all of Major League Baseball. Jose Altuve, in left field- is 2 outs above average. I told everyone he’d be fine if he could catch the ball and I expected him to do so, he has. He went from maybe the worst defensive player in baseball in his position to above average/ that’s what the move to LF was about and it’s paying dividends. in addition to turning tough plays into outs better than anyone else the Astros have the fewest amount of unearned runs in baseball. This is obviously important. Still- with all that good defense going on their FIP is better than their era (or at least it was a couple days ago when I looked) meaning the pitchers are doing their job even better than their stellar numbers would indicate. This team is Yordan and Yainer heating up and hitting to their proven track record away from being a 100 win team (or at least playing at a 100 win pace) for a long time. If we can win today we will end April on a 92 win pace even with an offense that is performing like one of the worst in baseball while being populated with guys that can hit. Cam Smith has been very good defensively in RF. Meyers is gold glove caliber in CF. Altuve, as described above, is above average in LF. Paredes is above average at 3B and the other 3 infielders have all won gold gloves. This is a good team.
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living through the last 28ish years in this town, i think i might can add some perspective to this post. i also worked for the us census in 2010, so i'm hoping to add some further insight. when i came to town, we had drag worms. some drag worms were homeless, and some were westlake goth kids. i'm not lying. looking back, i'm not a fan of the nomenclature, but that's what it was. i remember in the late 90s, here in school, there was a bunch of folks selling roses in the south of the river area. i dated a girl down there, and we always went to the movies down off stassney. we always joked that there had to be a "rose king or queen" because they were on every corner selling roses. now i feel like the equivalency is the jesus people selling fuck if i know at every south austin intersection, but it all feels similar. anyways, austin has always been friendly to homeless folks, mostly because the ethos of this town used to be "i'm about to be homeless unless i achieve this dream." this used to be a homeless person couch-surfing town. i remember being told that when i graduated in 2000, if i didn't leave for houston or dallas or somehwere else, i would be chronically underemployed here in austin. problem is, i met a girl in austin, and i had a ton of mostly younger friends in austin, and i had a liberal arts degree in 2000 when the job market was...eh....i stuck around. then i met a girl from here, and she had deep hispanic roots here, so that's sort of that, so i stayed. as a result of that, and of a real love for the undercity in a city, i've always kept an eye on counter-culture, graffiti, homeless, and other sorts of lovely austin weirdness. so, aside from a year in japan that was once well-documented, i've pretty much lived here since the mid-90s. i love this town, and what i love most is the goddamn friendliness. even most of the homeless, compared to other cities all over the globe, are pretty goddamn friendly. so i've never really understood the animosity, aside from it being a pretty white-bread provincial town (west of 35 and north of ben white at least) toward the homeless, as compared to what i've experienced globally. a lot of that to say, i was unemployed in 2010. the federal government was hiring for the census, which looked interesting, and paid fucking well. our first assignments were to locate, confirm, and prepare to count the homeless in austin. this would determine federal funding for services on a per person basis. this meant engagement, understanding of the local homeless community, where they actually lived, because homeless people aren't usually actually homeless, and a plan to count the local population. since i don't know how this happened, i cannot assign any sense of blame, but the dictate to count the homeless came down to this: one night, starting midnight, after engagement with local advocates, police, city leadership, etc, the census did this: 1) count occupied homeless shelter beds. give those people free census t-shirts. 2) send us out, starting from 10pm, to known camps. our jobs, with flouro vests, was to walk into known occupied homeless areas and try to count them by audio (you know, asking them questions, which they are so fucking keen to answer from someone from the government) or by visual after dark. the census requires a certain number of criteria to count a person. as i recall it was 3. i could be any 3 of 7 or something, to include, name, gender, race, blahblah, but if as an enumerator, you got 3, you win. but it all had to be volunteered. until we got to the homeless where i got real fucking practical and weird. if i went door to door and asked questions, i needed 3 things, and that's a W. with the homeless, we needed like 2 real things. 1 - is that a person? and 2) can you determine gender, race, or something about this person? yup. why? because the fucking plan was to count them from 12am to 6am while they were passed out. not in the homeless shelters. that was the easy work. i got the assignment of travelling around known homeless encampments and asking questions, or trying to count comatose people in parks, or asking people to control their dogs, or finding entire communitites of people in the city of austin (and i mean 50+) in areas where you'd never. anyways, there was a big local controversy about the idea of government employees shining flashlights into homeless folks eyes in the most vulnerable part of the night; people got fired, fucking apd ran everyone they knew in camps through local jails, and the homeless didn't get properly counted that night. tl;dr: sorry, but they are going to be here, whether or not you like it. where you want them?
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I've said for years now I think the networks screw this up trying to maximize complete game windows. I'm sure someone is making decisions off data but I'm convinced they are wrong. They should treat this like the NCAA tournament first round with staggered starts. Even in a 2 game window like last night, they should have scheduled puck drop for a little before 8PM CT targeting 2nd intermission of the early game. They should go to studio for a 2 minute recap then go to "puck drop" of our game on ESPN during 2nd intermission, have our game air on ESPN 2 until early game concludes, then it should work out where, absent OT, the early game would finish right as our 2nd period is about to start. So in addition to getting more casual viewership in central cities (only real 'fans' are going to stay up until 11:30 on a Monday), you might get more east coast hockey fans committed to actually finishing the late game. For example, I have a NYC client that is a big hockey fan that watched our first period but called it a night after that considering 2nd period would start around 11ET. Also, for us locally, the late starts really hurt building fandom for the kids as they can't stay up for this. If we win, when I get home, I leave a rally towel and a glow bracelets (they hand out at playoff games) set to green outside my son's door as a signal that we won (and if not there he knows we lost). He told me he asked Alexa what the score was before he fell asleep and it was 1-0 so I'm glad Wyatt scored fast enough he got to hear that before dozing off LOL.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Derka replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
^^^ case in point re: “the qb is the only one responsible for the wins” mentality which is the genesis for all of the divisiveness. arch could throw for 500 yards and 6 TDs and we could lose 52-51 on a missed fg, and rholl here still anticipates that “the haters” will just shit all over arch, because the only way that he (and a shockingly high percentage of people in this thread) can figure out whether or not the qb did well is whether not not the team won the game. it’s this same asinine idea that nobody could possibly criticize quinn ewers (or sam ehlinger, or shaka smart, or ted lasso, etc) without having some major axe to grind, some ulterior motive. the very idea that the object of their affection is actually deserving of criticism is too far fetched for them to handle, therefore anyone who does so is just a delusional hater who hates just to hate. shit is dumb. Arch is gong to be one of our best players next year. this isn’t going to be an issue. and i have a strange suspicion that when Arch gets out there next year and looks like colt mccoy and vince young had a baby, that the QE zealots will suddenly “not have time for this”. -
This may the best of the texags banter on the Max Weiner thread and he is only reason that former coach is successful. I kind of thought he was pretty good at TCU with Saarloos as the pitching coach. He did also then hire Weiner as his pitching coach. Lots of fun delusion here. The best part is that karma is going to get Texas as the #1 overall seed to lose in the Regional and the Super Regional. If that happens, I will then believe totally in the BOMC. He is right though because if Texas did lose in the Regional and the Super Regional, they most likely won't make the CWS. dcg4403 In reply to Adam87inSA • 10:04p, 4/26/25 AG Agreed. Always said...what REALLY pissed me off is not having my Maximus Weiner. My 12 year old today even said jokingly...."losing you Weiner is the worst" Def what was most painful for us as a big family of fans. And what sets sips apart. Cause it certainly is NOT their bats. Texas is legit. Very legit. This also means that we are close to as good. Just didnt go our way. Could be completely different next time. If karma actually exists, sip will go down as overall #1 losing in the Regional and the Super. Not make a CWS. And this year for them becomes a stain on Schloss. No F-ing way they keep winning like this through the season and into CWS. Statistics won't allow it!!! That hitting roster is not that talented to keep doing it.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
SL Xpress replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Mackovic dipped his toes in recruiting other areas. Well, his assistants did, in any case. Ricky Williams case in point. Eric Metcalf recruited us as much as the other way around. But we've never really flexed as a national recruiting power the way other schools do because of the perception we didn't have to. There was also the fact high school coaches ran recruiting in the old days in many ways. You had to stay on their good side or you weren't going to have much of a chance with their players. A good way to piss off that fraternity was to bring in a bunch of out of state players. Everything is so transactional now. Not just NIL, although that's obviously a critical part of it. But high school coaches have seen their influence diminished by trainers, 7 on 7 programs, and other 3rd parties even before agents got involved. One of the big reasons why Texas was so fiercely opposed to A&M heading to the SEC is that as an institution Texas spent decades trying to keep the SEC out of Texas as a prominent presence. But once A&M broke that seal the floodgates were opened. We'll never go back to the days of instate schools dominating Texas recruiting. At the end of the day Texas and the coaching staff at UT do not owe their loyalty to high school coaches. Their priority is to build the best roster they can. There are going to be years where different positions of need are going to have a weak in state class. I love the idea that Sark and company have created enough in roads in hotbeds outside the borders that they can go get the best regardless of geography. There was a feeling that in the 2000s Mack Brown had an opportunity to do the same thing. The brand after 2005 had never been hotter. Vince in football, TJ Ford and especially Durant in basketball. Baseball winning a national championship. Instead he sat on his laurels and allowed Saban to take the recruiting momentum away from him while he acquired a lot of summer camp bread to build recruiting momentum, and ended up with very average classes that were overrated because the commits had "Texas" next to their name. This is honestly the best I've felt about the program in my lifetime. I was too young for the glory wishbone era. But I remember the 70s, and all the decades since. This is the best shape the program has ever been in during that time in terms of long term sustained success. It feels like this is the way it always was supposed to be, and we even got a little glimmer in the mid 2000s. But that was a mirage, and I knew it at the time. This feels good, man.- 8114 replies
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I’ll give you one guess how many times that was debated in the thread. That going 11-2 and winning “their cotton bowl” is more impressive than playing in the SEC title game. Winning 2 playoffs games and making the Semi Finals. I mean we didn’t have Johnny Football's Heisman or have to play a “tough SEC schedule”. we also didn’t finish 11-3. We went 11-1 in the regular season. 11-2 if your count the SEC title Game and only had 3 losses after we played 3 more games than that and went 2-1 in the playoffs. Like WTF?!?
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But some still go off the deep end. They are still terrible, and we will still prevail in the end. Stone44 9:27p AG The lying degenerate POS stuck it to us all 3 games. He stuck it in and twisted it. Beat us in the worst possible way. This hurt bad, BUT it don't mean S### if you fail to get to Omaha and win. Cow will not win the CWS. Guaranteed. We can shock the world.
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Has texags crashed yet? First it was going to win this series easy, maybe sweep the sips. We can still win this series after the first loss. Then it was all we really need is one win, we are playing the #1 team close, we are just as good as them. What now sage texags and Looch? Texas is 37-5 and 19-2, while Aggy is 24-19 and 8-13. One of these things is not like the other.
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After coming all the way back, its going to hurt even more if we lose. Need to find a way to win....
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
BurntEyes replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
I agree with this entirely and will add something two aspects. At the most pivotal moments of his career, he failed spectacularly. In the business world if you do very good work 90% of the time, maybe even great work, and at the pivotal moments in your business fall flat on your face, the other 90% is forgotten. You failed the big moments, thats not great for your career nor image particularly if you're the primary contact leading the enterprise. You'll be remembered for your failures not the rest of the 90%. In fairness, if there were signs that you would fail, multiple, and the CEO didn't put someone else in charge, a big part of it is on him too. As for those who think fans here want him to fail in the NFL, you aren't reading the room. We are pointing out that the most critical assessors of Quinn's abilities side with OUR view rather that the raw raw Orange Glasses opinion that so many here have and continue to illustrate. I won't speak for them all, but for myself, I WANTED to be wrong all along. I WANTED Quinn to lead us to a national championship, hell I bought tickets and had a room for the game. I'm in the minority here that actually attended the SEC championship game. I hoped Quinn and Sark would prove me wrong, but I was pretty damn sure my hope was misplaced and it turns out I was right. I am pretty confident no Longhorn fan here actually wanted Quinn to fail. I don't know many fans that would rather be right and not see their team win a championship than be wrong and see it happen. I don't think any fans here wanted Quinn to drop in the draft as it ultimately is a net negative for Texas Athletics. We weren't cheering that he was drafted late. What we were cheering was the validation of a very long period of being shit on in this very forum for expressing concerns and issues regarding Quinns capabilities. Of being told over and over that Quinn was great, had no flaws and none of the failure fell to Quinn, rather time and time again nearly or completely by some that 100% of the blame for those failures were placed on his teammates. Never holding Quinn accountable. And now, because we are grateful for that validation we are "hoping Quinn fails in the NFL, are ungrateful for what Quinn provided, told how dumb this thread is and that it should die", and that in essence we hate Quinn and any success he brought to Texas Athletics. I don't, I dont think most posters here feel that way. What we (or at least I) wanted was the validation of the concerns and issues we saw all season post Michigan. Over and over and over again. For which we were called haters, stupid and bad fans. That's an extremely reasonable and rational desire. For the record, I hope Quinn does amazing in the NFL, I would have like to have been wrong and seen him go higher in the draft, would have liked to have been wrong and have another NC trophy. But I unfortunately I doubt he will, didn't and we don't. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
whereiend replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Quinn is the guy that got us back to being a top 5 program so I appreciate him and will root for him in the NFL, but on no planet was he a better college QB than Sam Ehlinger. IMO we win the NC the last two years if we had Sam. Quinn vs Chris Simms is a better debate and I probably go with Quinn there given the Bama games. -
When we were in the red zone, or had a must have 4th down… Sark would put Arch in. The fact that he didn’t trust his starting QB to be in the game in critical moments should tell you about his confidence in Quinn. Sark didn’t want to have a “5 star” on his resume and have to explain it. I get it. I’m sure there were aspects to Quinn’s game that were better. But I’ll trust my eyes. Arch in his limited snaps made a mistakes…. But our offense was light years better and defenses struggled to defend us. Quinn going in the 7th isn’t a good look for Sark. I’m hoping he doesn’t have blind loyalty in the future if a talented backup gives you a better shot to win. Saban has benched NFL QBs if it meant winning. You gotta be a little cut throat Sark!
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They were riding high after taking dosn Tenn and Arkie, and thought they could take down another #1 team. They only problem with problem with that is that we're legit. We crushed their hopes. They truly believed that they could walk in and just win. Then whem they lose it's the umps were paid off, not that they couldn't hit because of our alite pitching Ask Georgia and LSU how that worked for them. Georgia came in leading the conference in home runs, and I believe that got none get zero. Auburn thought they were the shit until we fucked then up. 3 top 3-qp teams got a lessen in how great pitching leadas to great run support. Aggy had zero chance of winning. Even if we take the day off and play just rotational pitchers they're still going to lose. Max Weiner is a fucking baller.
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