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by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:27 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Meet Me in St. Louis?
Replies: 31
Views: 307

Re: Meet Me in St. Louis?

Not trying to be an asshole, but STL just isn't known for any particular type of food. Other than, like, something to do with ravioli which is super whatever. I had a trip planned that included being there for a day-night-day and was kind of flummoxed by the lack... "You HAVE to try this!"...
by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:50 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Meet Me in St. Louis?
Replies: 31
Views: 307

Re: Meet Me in St. Louis?

What's the best St Louis cuisine?

Ribs?

Find a good rib joint that specializes in StL rub (or whatever that's called) with some local craft beers.

Or, ask the resident StL expert. He'll know.
by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:58 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

Could Key Bridge collapse been avoided if container ship had tugboat guides?

It couldn't hurt.
by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:52 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

FWIW, Virginia governor saying they can take the Baltimore bound cargo down in Norfolk. Still significant supply chain issues, but not like a catastrophic* level thing. And I don't know what Wilmington DE's capacity is. * - I'm sure many of you guys know, catastrophic in engineering terms means tot...
by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:59 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

FWIW, Virginia governor saying they can take the Baltimore bound cargo down in Norfolk. Still significant supply chain issues, but not like a catastrophic* level thing. And I don't know what Wilmington DE's capacity is. * - I'm sure many of you guys know, catastrophic in engineering terms means tot...
by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:30 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

Im no physician (ba dum pum) but that things a pretty shitty bridge. Straight jersey barriers instead of... sides? More jersey barriers instead of a median. No pedestrian or bike access that I see. Needs a paint job. Not the best. The bridge is part of the freakin interstate system, so no, there wa...
by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:03 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

Perhaps dont build a shitty tinker toy bridge over key access to your international shipping port with trillions in commerce? I met a guy that piloted ships in an out of port of new orleans. has to be a pretty shitty feeling. your only job is not to destroy access to the port. u dumped the load... ...
by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:52 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

Mother in law lives in Catonsville. I can’t in good conscience suggest to my wife to drive west through the city cuz the effort to run I-70 downtown died off a long time ago. We have to either take the tunnel, drive downtown to 95 at OPCY, or take 95N to 695W around the city to CVille. It’d be easi...
by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:11 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

I mean... There are lots of ways to get into B'more that have nothing to do with that bridge. I've driven north thru Baltimore (and back) hundreds of times and I've only been on that bridge a few dozen times. Sure, but I’m guessing those other roads will be much busier now. I just can’t imagine the...
by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:42 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

I mean... There are lots of ways to get into B'more that have nothing to do with that bridge. I've driven north thru Baltimore (and back) hundreds of times and I've only been on that bridge a few dozen times. Sure, but I’m guessing those other roads will be much busier now. I just can’t imagine the...
by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:05 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

Just insane video. Could have been timed so much worse. The rebuilding of the Sunshine Skyway in Tampa Bay (1980) included a much improved (wider) shipping channel as well as pylons that were built out as much as a quarter mile from the bridge’s support beams to protect it from another tragedy. Tho...
by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:57 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

The camera’s angle may tilt the perspective a bit, but it appears that the ship (piloted by a dedicated harbor pilot, btw) was turning when it struck the pillar.
by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:02 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

https://www.twitter.com/dcnewslive/status/1772548737904107848?s=46&t=rKRo5ildsXjOFWkYH7wDlg Thanks for that. It appears like that ship had already suffered damage as smoke billowed from it the entire time. It was way to the right (respective to the ship) of where it needed to be. Three times it...
by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:50 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

bfj wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:41 am I’m good as I live on the west side of town. Scary shit. Cargo ship allegedly lost power and hit the supports.
That is one catastrophic power failure if the backup systems were unresponsive.
by EnochRoot
Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:22 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

:shock:

My wife just woke me to tell me this.

That video.

(I WFH in Canton)
by EnochRoot
Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:56 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Man's Best Friend
Replies: 2243
Views: 103288

Re: Man's Best Friend

I'm so sorry, Duff. Alright, let me through a curveball at you guys. The good... Our new doggo is 7 months old. She is an absolutely adorable dog. She's pretty well-behaved, isn't super food forward (somewhat rare for a Golden) and does funny shit like try to carry 2-3 toys in her mouth at once. My ...
by EnochRoot
Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:21 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Commercials
Replies: 919
Views: 54240

Re: Commercials

The owl making pretend machine noises about the eye-examination equipment being used by the optometrist / tech to evaluate its eyes is pretty freakin hilarious.
by EnochRoot
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:07 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Mutherfucking free throws. Extra annoying to lose that way. Go Coogs or Aggies. Whatever. Back when most of you were in diapers I saw NC State win a national championship over Univ of Houston, because Houston couldn’t make free throws. I was 12. Thurl Bailey! And Phi-Slamma-Jamma was fun to watch.
by EnochRoot
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:29 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Texas A&M jacks a buzzer beating three to send it to OT v Houston.

Yowza.
by EnochRoot
Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:26 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Since the tournament shifted to having every game televised in its current manner, CBS has had an exclusive window for the first two games of the second round on both Saturday and Sunday. They choose the doubleheader that they want for air, usually based on a combination of grabbing high seeds and ...
by EnochRoot
Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:30 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

So uh…Why is there a half hour layover between the first and second games today?
by EnochRoot
Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:26 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Oregon only played two bench players tonight.

What the ... must it feel like to be the other guys on the Oregon bench as they watch the Oregon players look like zombies in that 2nd OT?

ETA - a third bench guy got into the game tonight for two minutes in the second OT.
by EnochRoot
Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:21 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

brian wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:18 pm Pittsburgh crowds got lots of extra basketball.
Cousinard and Dante are freakin dog-tired.

What's the elevation in Pittsburgh? :lol:
by EnochRoot
Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:22 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

In the Oakland game, I thought the ball did hit the NC State guys pinkie, but I thought it happened before the ball left the Oakland guy's hand. Not one announcer mentioned that though. Yup. It took the guy who gets turned to explain ref decisions to make that point. FWIW, I hate when a team gets t...
by EnochRoot
Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:09 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

You’d think the crowd would be behind an 11 seed in a second-round game. Omaha is like a home game for Illinois (as it also was for Iowa State). Sorry, I was talking NC State - Oakland. But yeah, I hope Illinois gets the crowd. I really want to see them get through. Oakland is more cinderella-y.
by EnochRoot
Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:29 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

I've watched just about every Gonzaga game this year...they are NOT this good. Curious if Spokane (1843’) being an extra several hundred feet above sea level compared to Lawrence (991’) mattered, cuz Kansas looked like they were tired in the 2nd half. Driving home just now I heard Self saying his p...
by EnochRoot
Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:26 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Similarly, I always thought that the Nuggets should just run-and-gun and make that their identity. Outside of the Doug Moe years, and when they had Carmelo and AI, I don’t remember them playing that way. Being up in that altitude has to be a huge advantage in terms of conditioning. The Nuggets abso...
by EnochRoot
Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:51 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

DaveInSeattle wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:24 pm I've watched just about every Gonzaga game this year...they are NOT this good.
Curious if Spokane (1843’) being an extra several hundred feet above sea level compared to Lawrence (991’) mattered, cuz Kansas looked like they were tired in the 2nd half.
by EnochRoot
Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:02 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

The word “they” is doing a lot of work in that tweet. He realizes it’s the universities themselves that did most of the “killing”. There’s blame to be had at the commissioners office to be sure but this was more about the greed (and yes, insecurity) of the member schools who decided to bolt. There ...
by EnochRoot
Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:01 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Interesting how a felled Gonzaga player clearly in pain doesn’t warrant a stoppage of play like when FAU’s Goldin flopped like he was on a broadway stage yesterday. Hell, that whistle stopped a Northwestern fast break.

Good to see the rules are applied consistently, whatever they are.
by EnochRoot
Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:04 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: MLB 2024
Replies: 109
Views: 1543

Re: MLB Spring Training 2024

Giff wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:25 pm
EnochRoot wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:09 pm Life size bobblehead day!
Right? Missed opportunities!
Oh my goz! I took home the real Jose Altuve!

WHERE'S MY BOBBLEHEAD!?
by EnochRoot
Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:09 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: MLB 2024
Replies: 109
Views: 1543

Re: MLB Spring Training 2024

Life size bobblehead day!
by EnochRoot
Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:05 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

mister d wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:01 pm Gonzaga Generosity! Florida Friendliness!
Florida Man!
by EnochRoot
Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:47 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

FAU is puzzling. Like, if you're going to foul, FOUL. Don't let them dick around for 10 or so seconds.
by EnochRoot
Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:41 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

LOL at the refs not calling a foul there. And now the announcers are saying they can't call a foul. Despite the fact Goldin flopping to the ground caused a stoppage of play several seconds later, and then they decided the no-call was actually a technical foul. But the intentional foul by FAU can't b...
by EnochRoot
Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:26 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

I never realized Goldin was such a prima donna.
by EnochRoot
Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:15 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

So the lesson kids is to flop like a bitch to get the refs attention if they miss an errant arm that slaps your face.

I honestly didn't know they could review a blown call and apply a penalty in the past. I know about upgrading penalties, but not that.
by EnochRoot
Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:04 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

govmentchedda wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:07 pm
Yeah that tweet didn't age well.
by EnochRoot
Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:51 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: MLB 2024
Replies: 109
Views: 1543

Re: MLB Spring Training 2024

Sorry - I saw his right knee did go down, but it was after or around the tag (not the typical 75% of the bag taken up when the MI drops the knee while lowering his body to make the tag). The fact is Lindor was blocking the basepath as he positioned himself to field the ball. No longer allowed.
by EnochRoot
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: MLB 2024
Replies: 109
Views: 1543

Re: MLB Spring Training 2024

Huh? What kind of rule is that? You can't block the bag if the ball is in the glove? So are they only supposed to do swipe tags now? And no more blocking the plate when the catcher has the ball? You can’t block the bag. Lindor’s knee went down, forcing the runner to the OF side. That’s out. SS/2B h...