The Swamp

So, in effect, college athletes are on one-year contracts. I wonder if the next logical step is multi-year NIL contracts that tie the kids to one school for the period of the contract? I don't think there's any question that that is coming. And back-loaded NIL contract as well. The schools need to ...

HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 3:47 pm Vini kinda shanked that in

Yeah, do you think he meant to hit the top of the ball and have it hop up like that? I know that pros often hit down on half volleys, but I don't recall seeing that on a regular shot off the grass.

psunate77 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 4:06 pm This guy is President.

https://x.com/usminitru/status/1796979678709682550?s=46

lol. You came back after two years to post that?

I’m pretty sure this means he can’t vote for himself in Florida. Lol

The hope is that this trims just a few more Trump voters off. He won in 2016 by getting non-regular voters out for him. I have to hope that Trump fatigue and, dare I dream, distaste will lower his numbers. Of course, there's also Biden fatigue and the extremely poorly considered attacks from left on...

I misread that as DIII, not DII. Definitely fewer schools there. Still, it's pretty cool. Sorta like Denver winning in D1.

Holy shit. It was wild watching that come in live on CNN.

I've had an email thread the last couple of days with an old friend of mine. He was probably my best friend in high school and for several years after. We faded apart after he got increasingly more aggressive about his increasingly right-wing politics. We hardly every communicate anymore even though...

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 10:29 am For as long as I’ve been practicing French, I could never get that French “R” correct. When I try it always comes out like the rolled “R” in Spanish.

Yeah, it's a back-of-the-throat thing unlike the Spanish r.

brian wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 10:52 am Not allowed to discuss our loads but my next pickup is in suburban Denver and would make a certain fictional “bandit” proud.

I'm gonna punch your momma in the mouth

Instagram videos not having a volume control in the browser is the single worst product design of the last 20 years. Drives me fucking nuts.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 9:05 am UT(ampa) women just won the DII natty.

Interesting. It's great to see the spread.

The NBA era of large, dumpy looking European dudes ruling the league is astounding and highly entertaining. (Watching Doncic is just... What am I watching? I absolutely love it.) Aside from his height and weight compared to those who are smaller in one or both of those categories, Doncic has no phy...

Bill Walton Twitter has been incredible the last couple of days. I always liked him, but I grossly underestimated just how universally loved he was, by both fans and peers. I can't recall too many deaths that have triggered such overwhelmingly positive posts. What a man.

CarMax is easy, but their prices usually are a bit above what you can get elsewhere. I always use edmunds.com to calculate an expected price. They have actual data from actual sales, so it's much better than Kelly Blue Book (which is intentionally biased towards dealerships). Use Edmunds to calculat...

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 9:35 am It would be Man U winning an upset FA Cup final after an 8th place epl finish so TH getting replaced talk is more debatable.

Knocked Chelsea to the Europa Conference League. Thanks for nothing, City.

I saw this threat title and I thought "I bet that thread is about parking right-hand-drive cars!" I was totally right.

Who the fuck dips a cheese-flavored chip in something else? That's psychotic behavior right there. Yes, who would make cheddar and sour cream flavored chips, aside from Lays, Ruffles, Uncle Ray's, Herr's, Utz, Wise, Our Family, Market Pantry, Uglies Kettle Chips, Old Dutch, Guy's, Nick's, Casey's, ...

Yeah, the common application has made it super easy to apply to a ton of schools. Colleges love it because it helps them boost their application numbers and lower their acceptance rate (in theory), but it doesn't mean more kids are going. Some of my sons' friends applied to well over 10 schools My w...

Guess he won't be meeting Virginia or Maybe it was the wind that swept him off his feet https://www.msn.com/en-ph/music/news/charlie-colin-founding-member-of-the-pop-rock-band-train-dies-at-58/ar-BB1mSAGu?ocid=BingNewsSerp I very nearly blasted this dude for writing "Hey Soul Sister," but...

mister d wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 12:29 pm
I think the principle is "liberalism is the greatest danger facing rich people in this country."
There we go. America explained.

It's mostly NOT rich people who have this attitude.

Yeah, I hate that song too. Otherwise, I can take or leave Seger. Never did anything for me. But that song has always pissed me off. And of course, "Like a Rock" was also forever ruined by those truck commercials. I do like "Hollywood Nights" and "Turn the Page" though.

I've been telling my wife that a small-college apocalypse was coming for a while now. The rise of online education and the decades-long higher-than-inflation tuition raising just made it inevitable. There are SO MANY little colleges out there that have no reputation, but cost over $60-70K per year t...

Who the fuck dips a cheese-flavored chip in something else? That's psychotic behavior right there.

I don't remember Cage being part of that scene at all. Didn't his career come a bit later? Cruise was definitely the right age and in some of the same movies, even if he wasn't part of the tight friend group.

Nikki Haley endorses Trump. She's getting raked on social media for being a coward. Calling her a coward implies she’d rather see Biden win. We have no evidence of that. Haley acted out of principle with this. The problem is that her principles are terrible. The principle being thinking she could f...

I admit I'm pretty interested in seeing that one too. I don't think I've seen any of those movies in a long time either.

I imagine that if you told an elementary school teacher that they had to die at school one day but they get to pick a day, none would choose right at the end of the school year.

If you base a big part of your identity on "America, fuck yeah!' and fly flags and shit ... you should be able to recognize the shape of the USA on a map. I mean, that's the lowest fucking bar. I'm amazed these people can dress themselves. They wrap themselves in the flag and Jesus and haven't...

Think about how many things you learned in school to repeat on a test. Think about how many of those you gave forgotten. Think about how many more of them you would have forgotten if you had no interest in that topic, even if that interest was for something as inconsequential as "playing along...

That's pretty amazing.

So how does the creation of this work? I know you write the lyrics, but how much control do you have over the music, voice, etc?

And he just loved pissing off moose. "Fuck off, moose!"

A_B wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 3:11 pm Pretty great. I am surprised the fact that the US is not on the right side of the map would trip some people up. You can't find fucking Europe?

Yeah, I'm guessing that contributed a bit, but come on. They can't recognize Australia? Or the US?

The Algorithm spit this one at me today.

Baloney wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 1:09 pm Pochettino out at Chelsea

Shit, I hadn't seen that. Seems like a mistake to me.

I’m a Sebastian Stan stan. Yeah, I misread that tweet as implying that Stan thought it would be a flattering portrayal and I was very confused. Glad I had that backwards. If the actor thought it was going to be a flattering portrayal and it wasn't, either it's the worst actor of all-time or the wor...

brian wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 9:30 pm I’m a Sebastian Stan stan.

Yeah, I misread that tweet as implying that Stan thought it would be a flattering portrayal and I was very confused. Glad I had that backwards.

I came to Pavement relatively late - just a few years ago, I think. I love them.

Earl Weaver's great grandson

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