The Swamp

tennbengal wrote:Yikes. That makes your next play an easy all-in, I guess.

And that's what I did. I actually had pretty good hole cards. The flop came with some trouble though, so I could be cooked.

I got stupid and lost a bundle on a bluff. Down to about $3K.

No human is making those decisions about why a charge is considered possibly fraudulent. In fact, in all likelihood, no human programmed the algorithm either. They consider a shitload of variables (location, place, amount, past history, recent purchases, etc) and let the fancy algorithms figure thin...

Reading about Ben Carson the West Point stuff - I was curious about the dates. It's certainly possible (and kinda reasonable) that he may have mixed up two events and actually met Westmoreland in February, not May. But I checked and found that 1969 was actually the year he graduated from high school...

That website just ate up an hour and a half when I should have been sleeping. Incredible stuff in there. My favorite (maybe the wrong word) anecdote was from that famous pic of the US soldier returning from a Vietnamese POW camp to his ecstatic family. Apparently his wife had delivered divorce paper...

A_B wrote:
Jerloma wrote:No, just a massive Duke apologist.
He did get his MBA there, so that probably qualifies him as a Dukie.

I am technically a Dukie, but I'm not a Duke fan. Not a Duke hater either. Although I did hate Laettner and Hurley. And that little fuck, Wojo.

howard 5-0
Shirley 5-0

I think I nailed the last two in October as well. This might be my best run ever.

howard 3-0
rex 3-0
Duff 3-0
Moreta 3-0
Shirley 3-0
BSF 2-1
chedda 2-1
Pruitt 2-1
Ryan 2-1
Giff 1-2

I didn't know any of these so far, but made correct educated guesses.

Howard 2-0
Shirley 2-0

That's awesome.

Players go down like Lockette on many occasions as well. Happened in the Northwestern-Michigan game a few weeks ago. Yeah, I've seen guys knocked out plenty of times. What threw me with him was they went back to him, and it must have been a minute or two later, and he was still in the exact same po...

OK, he's blinking and talking now. He just moved his hands a little too.

He looks much better now. Awesome.

A player on the Seahawks might be paralyzed or worse. I can't recall seeing someone motionless for so long. He was just lying on his side like he was asleep. They've strapped him to a board now, helmet and all.

Ricardo Lockette

Just awful to watch.

Frank Beamer is going to retire at the end of the season. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/reports--virginia-tech-s-frank-beamer-to-retire-after-season-185117235.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I hate seeing all of these good jobs open up when I'm hoping ...

Holy shit, Marvin Jones nearly got cut in half on that hit. Someone check his spleen.

Fuck. Le'Veon Bell down with an apparent knee injury. (incidentally, I may have torn my ACL yesterday as well. My knee crumpled playing basketball and it hurt like hell. Never had that happen before and it's not much fun. It got a little better after a few minutes, but it's still sore. Not swollen t...

BTW, if you didn't see the game (and I'm sure you didn't - it was Duke vs. Miami), Miami had a slew of penalties on Duke's seemingly game-winning drive. In there were two pass interference calls on the kid who eventually scored the winning TD (the fantastically named Corn Elder). Each PI call was co...

The post game explanation for that play/review will be interesting. I didn't see the refs throw a flag on the play and I also didn't see any blocks in the back, but that play was all over the field, so I'm sure I missed lots of stuff. However, the ref clearly said that there was a block in the back ...

[quote="HaulCitgo"]8 laterals. Picked up flags were right. No penalty.[/quote

Agreed. That was also the longest play review I've seen. It even had a halftime when the head ref went out to announce a verdict and then changed his mind and went back to review for another minute or so.

Holy shit. Duke and Miami just had the craziest ending I've ever seen (well, that I was watching at the time). Duke scored a TD to go ahead by 3 with :06 left. Miami took the squib kick, lateralled it probably a dozen times before breaking a guy free and he scored. And then, while I was typing that,...

I know you guys have been missing my reviews of old movies I only recently saw, and I apologize. Time to catch up a bit with some I watched in the last month or so. Unless otherwise noted, all of these are free on Amazon Prime. The Getaway - a 1972 Steve McQueen film. I usually like a good heist fil...

Nba defenses don't play pack line. Gotcha, but they do try to cut off driving lanes. But you can't sag in as a team, because there are too many good shooters. Also with the farther line, teams spread their offense farther out, so you'd have to move your pack line out as well, leaving it more spread...

That story about him telling the editors to hide their intentions sounds like typical unfounded rumor bullshit. Or at least, erroneous blaming. At a place like that, if the editors were not on contract, why exactly would they tell a clearly hostile employer that they were planning on leaving? And wh...

howard 16-6
Shirley 11-11

Nailed the last two to get back to .500 for the month.

Brontoburglar wrote:Gone

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Holy shit.

A_B wrote:THat doesn't help your team defense in the nba philosophy Shirley!

I don't get it.

I think a decent albeit imperfect stat to determine a player's effectiveness with his teammates is Offensive and Defensive Efficiency, which works a basketball version of +/-, averaged per 100 possessions. It's not perfect, as it has the same limits as hockey's +/-, but at least it can be quantifie...

I think a decent albeit imperfect stat to determine a player's effectiveness with his teammates is Offensive and Defensive Efficiency, which works a basketball version of +/-, averaged per 100 possessions. It's not perfect, as it has the same limits as hockey's +/-, but at least it can be quantifie...

Jerloma wrote:Scar-Jo reading Deuteronomy. Just trust me on this.

(Any way to embed a soundcloud in here?)

The media tag works. But it looks like this one wants you to go to their site anyway.

Moreta 17-3
howard 15-5
Pruitt 12-8
GPJ 10-10
Duff 9-11
Giff 9-11
BSF 9-11
Shirley 9-11

Actually, I'd say the biggest problem with PER (and to be fair, I haven't studied it much) is that it doesn't really value defense at all. In fact, almost no basketball rating systems do, because it's so hard. The only easy defensive stats you can glean from a box score are steal, blocks and defensi...

Jerloma wrote:Again, I would have went with "root for the Lions."

I have to point out strangers' grammatical mistakes on the Internet.

wlu_lax6 wrote:Aren't All-League teams generally based on league play only.

They should be, but that's too much work for most sportswriters.

Moreta 16-3 Howard 15-4 Pruitt 12-7 Ryan 12-7 GPJ 10-9 rex 9-10 Duff 9-10 Shirley 9-10 Almost missed the last one too. That 1984 question pisses me off. What does "appropriately" have to do with anything there? Like Howard, I guessed Van Halen's 1984 , which seems a lot more "appropri...

My "hot take" on the NBA: Steph Curry is now a better and overall more valuable player than LeBron. Curry's unparalleled shooting ability both makes him a more efficient scorer than LeBron and creates just as many (if not more) open looks for his teammates as LeBron's court vision. I saw ...

Pruitt wrote:
mister d wrote:This is a racial slur away from being a 100/100 summary of why I stopped being an Eagles fan ...

Source: Deadspin
Christ - at least Bills fans are happy drunks.

That was fantastic. He sounded like an angry 12-year-old.

howard wrote:

Answer: What is the Bleeding Heart?
One of the players said 'pansy', which is a great answer.

I saw those "wings" on the outside and went with "wingnut."

From this awesome reddit thread.

I think Al Golden can go ahead and start working on his resume. 42-0 down to Clemson at home. At the half. Oof. He'll have even more time to work on it as he was fired today. Not a shocker. And with USC (both of 'em) already looking, they probably figured they couldn't wait if they want to land a b...

A_B wrote:I don't think Bengal realized it is bills versus jags.

It was hard to tell on his iPhone screen.

(By the way, am I the only with a mental image of the whole Bengal family sitting on the sofa watching the game on Bengal's iPhone propped up across the room right in front of the TV?)

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