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  1. 17 hours ago, SFGiants58 said:


    That will be $33,355,000 to do a buyout if they want to get rid of him. But hey, I’m sure the boosters are more than capable of solving their “can’t adapt to the NIL and experienced mid-majors” problem with a flash of the checkbook.

     

    Yeah, I can see where NIL is a problem because this is the first time Calipari or Kentucky has had to deal with paying players. Before NIL there wasn't a cleaner coach or program in all of college basketball. (I somehow managed to keep a relatively straight face while typing that.)

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  2. 2 hours ago, BBTV said:

     

    I saw on some show yesterday where the idiots were getting all worked up at how Dave Roberts was avoiding questions, and how that meant he "must know something and doesn't want to blow the whistle", and it's like no - of course he's been instructed to not comment.  I get that media has to ask and hope for a slip-up, but "no comment" doesn't mean anything more than "no comment".

     

    The first thing any lawyer is going to tell their client is to shut up and don't talk about the investigation or the case. Period. Anyone who doesn't understand that is either an idiot or a talk show host. In the case of talk show hosts, it's generally both.

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, LMU said:

    I know that the Padres have a tenuous TV rights situation right now but you'd think they'd actually afford to supply their players with gloves that don't explode on *checks schedule* OPENING DAY.

     

    That'll teach Cronenworth to wear a Wilson glove. No way that happens to a Rawlings.

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  4. 58 minutes ago, sky1324 said:

    That race was fantastic. Don't change a damn thing about the tire. Driver skill actually mattered for the first time in a long time and it showed with Hamlin, Truex, and Keselowski taking the podium. By the end of the race, drivers were getting 60-70 laps on those tires and especially now that teams can prepare for it you'll see the stronger, better preserved tires next time.

     

    I have to wonder - with the calls for increased horsepower, maybe there's another way to get what the fans want. I think the stiff, aero-dependent car bodies are actually the biggest problem. Part of what made NASCAR of the 80s and 90s so great was that the cars were basically giant boxes being wheeled at crazy high speeds. Take the nerds away from the aero sims and let the cars be ill-handling. With some compromise from the involved parties (Chevy/Ford/Toyota, NASCAR, engine makers, Goodyear) maybe we can weaken the aero and tires just a bit and bump up the HP slightly, to say, 750, and then we'd see better racing?

     

    I could not agree more. Instead of running 500 qualifying laps, we actually had a race that rewarded driver skill. As you said, we saw that with the top three finishers in the race. The top five were all drivers who know who to properly run at a short track. The gun it and run it guys never really figured it out. Yesterday was good lesson for everyone on how important the drivers and crews should be in a race.

     

    Horsepower isn't the issue. Trying to fix what has been...I'll be generous here...a problematic car has been the issue all along. If I had my way, the Cup Series would dump the NextGen car and make a Cup car based on the current Xfinity car. (For my money, Xfinity has the best racing in NASCAR these days.) In its quest to make Cup racing less expensive and create more parity, NASCAR left out the main ingredient - good racing.

     

    Finally, to the fans who think anything short of an Atlanta finish every week is an abject failure, a good race is way more than just the final three laps. Do you get upset when you watch a baseball game that didn't end on a 3 run HR in the bottom of the 9th? Do you expect every football game to end on a last second go ahead TD? Point being, there's a lot more to this than "go fast, turn left."  Bristol showed you why yesterday.

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  5. 39 minutes ago, PrimalCookie said:

    I'm scared Goodyear will overreact and go back to the standard bricks they usually make.

     

    If we're lucky, Goodyear will see all the positive reactions to the race and do just enough tweaking that we're not running on cords after 40 laps.

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  6. 41 minutes ago, BBTV said:

    Great coach... or a curse on the organization.  Here me out - if he's constantly going 9-7, 10-7 with 5-12 talent, then it's probably masking their flaws on the personnel side, which is preventing them from making meaningful moves necessary to seriously compete.

     

    I'd argue that it's more a matter of the Steelers consistently being stuck in the dreaded middle than it is poor personnel decisions. It's hard to grab elite players when you're always picking in the lower end of the draft. The last time the Steelers had a top ten pick in the draft was 2019. It was pick #10.

     

    I think the Steelers were a decent QB away from being a real problem for everyone in the playoffs last season. Could they have made a Super Bowl run? Who knows, but I know a Mike Tomlin coached team isn't going to wilt in the spotlight when they see Mahomes like other teams usually do. If Tomlin can crack the code with Fields or find a way to resurrect what's left of Wilson, they'll be in the hunt for the AFC North. Again.

     

     

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  7. 16 minutes ago, See Red said:

    That race was a s*** show but kind of fun watching Hamlin and Truex navigate the lapped cars knowing they were all ticking time bombs.

     

    That race was old school short track stock car racing. It would have been better if the teams had known going in that tires weren't going to be indestructible (like they usually are with the NextGen car), but other than that, it was a good race. Record amount of short track lead changes and they could actually pass...for once.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Red Comet said:

    Mike Tomlin can turn sewage into whiskey and a lot more people need to appreciate that.

     

    Exactly. Tomlin has made the playoffs with teams that have 5-12 talent. That's not luck or getting all the calls. What's funny is he'll do it again next season and people will be right back here wondering how it happened...again. Sometimes the answer is right in front of you. Mike Tomlin is a great coach.

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  9. 1 hour ago, Sykotyk said:

     

    In the end, this feels like a Tommy Maddox situation. Remember him?

     

    Sure do. He brought the Steelers back from deficits of 24-7 and 33-21 to beat the Browns in the 2002 playoffs. The Steelers scored 22 points in the 4th quarter. I still can't believe the Browns let Tommy :censored:ing Maddox do that, but they did.

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  10. 3 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

    Fine. Bad weather exists.

    How about I put it this way -- if this were such a dire situation, why did so relatively few people develop frostbite? I'll guess it was because they didn't handle the weather properly.

     

    To borrow a phrase, you can't fix stupid.

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  11. 12 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

    There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

     

    Fair enough. What's appropriate clothing for a tornado? I ask because we have tornadoes here in Ohio and I want to make sure I'm appropriately dressed for 200mph wind and flying debris. Got any suggestions for a hurricane? What does one wear to avoid getting struck by lightning?

     

    There is, in fact, such a thing as bad weather and that includes -40 degree wind chill weather.

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  12. 1 hour ago, BBTV said:

     

    Thanks for the laugh.  "Selling out all season long in SLC"?  You're telling me that a small-ass place like SLC is going to sell out 81 games a year?  Games where they'll sell that low-alcohol beer?  Getting to games isn't exactly convenient in a place as sparse and sprawling as the SLC area, and... 81 games.

     

    It's a complete joke.It will never happen.  If you'll excuse me, I'm gong to half for a few minutes.

     

    Not to mention, it's :censored: all hot in Salt Lake City in the summer. Best I can tell, there are no plans for a dome for the new Mormon Municipal Temple Field.

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  13. 31 minutes ago, BBTV said:

     

    I think the committee may need to reach out to the group that handles extraterrestrials, infectious disease, and sea-mammal affairs (I assume that's who handles IT) to work on a system upgrade that will allow for spaces.  Right now I'm not sure it'll work.

     

    We already have a similar committee.

     

    With regard to spaces, See Red Comet above.

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  14. On 3/3/2024 at 8:14 PM, BBTV said:

    There is 0.0% chance of a permanent MLB team in SLC.  I'll change my user name to "I__am_a_flaming_Dbag" for a year (like we made that one guy do) if it happens.

     

    Let's take it to the next level: "I_am_a_flaming_communist_dbag_whore".  We can pressure the 30ish members of the XII to get that cleared.

     

    The new name is pre-approved, but the M-XII rejected the underscores by a vote of 21-6. As a result, should SLC happen, your new name will be "I am a flaming communist d-bag whore." The Majestic X-II Committee on Names of Users, Agriculture, and Transportation believes this is a just and reasonable compromise.

     

    The Majestic XII have spoken.

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  15. 10 hours ago, dont care said:

    He’ll definitely be a backup, or the starter who’s only the starter because they want the rookie they drafted to sit behind him an learn, which has never worked.

     

    Yeah, that kid the Packers drafted from Cal to sit behind Favre for a couple seasons was a total bust. Last I heard, he ended up on the Jets roster last season but he didn't play much.

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  16. 59 minutes ago, dont care said:

    2000 labonte vs Dale, 2005 Edward’s vs. Johnson, 2011 Gordon vs Johnson, yea some were blow outs but that really can happen at any track that isn’t a super speedway. The finish was cool, but does it make up for half the race being under caution? 

     

    Add in 2001 and that's four memorable finishes in the 22 years before the reconfiguration. FWIW, I liked the old Atlanta races too, but I can't blame the track for trying to put on a better show. I agree that there were too many wrecks, but Atlanta is what it is now. It's plate racing and all the stuff that comes with it. We can accept that or we can complain about it, but the current configuration ain't going anywhere.

  17. 1 hour ago, See Red said:

    *shrug*
     

    I like this configuration/package for Atlanta. My only complaint is that I wouldn’t have it right after Daytona. 
     

    It’s been a fun race so far. The kind that I don’t feel like an idiot for watching every lap of. 
     

    edit: what a race!

     

    I like this version of Atlanta a whole lot better than the previous version. It's entirely possible that my memory is failing me, but I seem to remember Atlanta races mostly being pretty boring before the reconfiguration. For example, I looked up the 2008 spring race. Kyle Busch was 3 seconds ahead of the rest of the field. It looked more like he was qualifying than it did like he was winning the race at the checkered flag. In 2018, Kevin Harvick won by 4 seconds. The only exciting finish that comes to mind at Atlanta is Harvick and Gordon in 2001. I'm not saying there weren't others, but I can't think of any.

     

    Give me this over watching the best car cruise around like he's in a different race every time.

     

     

    The new Atlanta is awesome.

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  18. 4 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

    Race was an absolute snooze fest and Austin Hill winning was the NyQuil to end it all.

     

    No argument here. It was the saving fuel thing again. Parade until the last few laps followed by a crashfest when everyone tries to make a move. I suppose we were lucky that the caution came out late and spared us the crashfest.

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