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lol @approxinfinity

Judge is a beast. Soto is having his best year. The rest of the lineup is along for the ride.

@wissox did the Sox keep that pitcher that said he wouldn’t pitch in the playoffs if he was traded without a new contract? lol what a weird demand. Extra work load I guess. 🤷‍♂️

Might be needed. I was looking at KU season tickets - only a few good home games, but man are they good - UNC and Arizona. The rest of the non-con slate is garbage (NC State being the top of the heap). Conference has Houston, KSU, and ISU as the most interesting home games.

All the other marquee games are on the road.

Throw in UConn and the conference slate looks a little more attractive.

@jayballer67 Wrong thread. This is a White Sox thread. Look at the top. 🔝 “Giving up the Sox”. I’m pretty sure that Carly Simon song was about Yankee fans lol. Let @wissox wallow in his Chicago misery without gloating.

@jayballer67 I hope KU plays up to our expectations. Recent history is not in our side though. Heck the basketball team beat up the football team when the Morri were around. The rep of a being sorry football program is unfortunately well earned. I hope Leipold can keep it going. He seems to have it turned around.

@nuleafjhawk one decent year in over a decade and we’re all dreaming of glory. He’s not all wrong. Arizona fan - probably voted for the Manchurian candidate.

@BShark need the $$$

The limit goes to 15?!? Hmm not much penalty to losing a scholarship or 3 then. Wow.

Easy schedule is in KU’s favor. Hope they capitalize

@mayjay I’m thankful for the white Sox for that very reason. Also glad the Royals (or mostly Bobby Witt) were able to take care of business.

Prototypical wing vs tweener. Two different players both will play a roll for KU. One is a proven commodity in Bill’s system, the other has unseen potential. The backup QB is wildly popular in a lot of places for silly reasons too.

Congrats White Sox, first team to the offseason! They won’t be playing, but their fate is sealed.

@drgnslayr said in Need Games To Start:

@approxinfinity

Great read. X-axis theories at work! I wonder if basketball will ever grasp the real potential of mastering lateral motion? My 11-yr old gets it. He's playing in the post and not that tall but he's the only one able to get off a shot against bigger competition. He loves Steph Curry and his ability to create scoring space with a simple step in any direction.

In middle school our star player kept telling the coach it says two steps, not two steps forward. He always wanted to do what you see today back in the early 90s but coach said it was against the rules. lol

No asterisks in baseball? lol there is a literal asterisk on Barry Bonds record home run ball.

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@AsadZ Poles is putting together a nice roster.

@wissox If it’s supposed to look like wheat it’s a huge failure. If it’s supposed to be modern art…to each their own.

@rockchalkjayhawk LRZ is practice squad material. He also kicked off one time during the pre-season game to have an extra tackler out there. Special teams might be his way to the roster, but I doubt it’s as a kicker.

I hope it’s not an astrodome type modern marvel. New and shiny wears off quickly, just make it conduct sound well, have good sight lines, and not look trendy with weird stuff going on that will quickly date it - I’m looking at you light stanchions!

@rockchalkjayhawk said in 2024 NFL Season:

@dylans said in 2024 NFL Season:

@rockchalkjayhawk Steele looked good on the few carries I saw. Runs hard. Steele and Pacheco could really wear down a D. But it’s hard to garner much from one pre-season game. It’s all smoke and mirrors until week one. Pseudo-football.

Yea, agreed. One game hard to judge. He didn’t look very big or strong though.

I kinda had the game on in the background, so maybe I missed a few plays and shouldn’t judge him yet. The running play I saw he didn’t look too good. His blocking looked really bad and kinda clueless.

Oh well, new profession for him. Gotta learn.

But crap, the bigger news was the Hollywood Brown injury!!!

@#$&*+-%!!!!!

Why can’t we have nice things?

Hello JuJu?

I meant Steele the undrafted FB. Zammit is the HB/rugby player and sucked.

Edit didn’t see @mayjays post. Sorry for the duplicate

@rockchalkjayhawk Steele looked good on the few carries I saw. Runs hard. Steele and Pacheco could really wear down a D. But it’s hard to garner much from one pre-season game. It’s all smoke and mirrors until week one. Pseudo-football.

Defense is optional these days.

@patoh3 too much ankle for the Amish crowd

The team is playing well. Embiid played well the first half before tweeting his ankle and sitting the second.

@jayballer67 I absolutely love Judge- monster home runs, no roids. Buster Olney is big on Bobby Witt Jr. says he’s the best all around player in baseball.

@Crimsonorblue22 said in Need Games To Start:

@dylans they haven't had the downtown shot for a long time. My son hasn't been the ast meet director for a long time, either. Covid, they didn't want to fund the pros anymore.

That’s too bad

Any legs to this?

The No. 1-ranked high school player in the men’s basketball recruiting class of 2025 has narrowed his list of college choices to Kansas, Kansas State and five other schools. AJ Dybantsa, a 6-foot-9, 200-pound senior small forward from Utah Prep Academy in Manti, Utah, also is considering Baylor, BYU, Auburn, Alabama and North Carolina.

Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/university-of-kansas/article290710064.html#storylink=cpy ↗

@Crimsonorblue22 said in Need Games To Start:

@wissox https://www.cnn.com/ ↗

Liberal biased Trump coverage?

@wissox said in Need Games To Start:

Since there's a little Olympic chatter here I'll give my olympic rant of the day now. We've all heard the names Simone, someone who couldn't handle the stress at the last olympics and quit and Shakari, a sprinter who never made it to Tokyo because she failed a drug test. But I was shocked yesterday to watch the 30 seconds of coverage of mens shot put and see an American named Ryan Crouser win his 3rd gold in a row. That's 8+ years of dominance in his sport and unknown to probably many of us reading this today. NBC coverage is really pretty annoying.

Does he come to Mass St when they have their shot put competition? If so he’s fantastic in my books, if not who is this guy? lol shot putters don’t get much shine.

@AsadZ said in 2024 NFL Season:

I am looking forward to plays with new kick off rules. Teams can now think and do a lot of things.

I am too, but after the hall of fame game I’m becoming increasingly worried the new kickoff will be boring. It’s just a glorified run play. The high speed of the kickoff was what made it exciting. False starts will be all too common it appears. And the collisions will be at a low enough speed to reduce injury, but I’m worried it’s not creating any interesting plays.

The Turkish hitman was impressive! One hand in his pocket looking bored, acting like Dash from the Incredibles - don’t do too well just take silver.

Again I say. What a weird world we live in. lol I wish life was more cut and dry. It seems the gray areas get larger the older I get. At 8 years old I 100% knew right from wrong. Now it’s murky.

@BShark That human is a hermaphrodite. XY chromosomes. Not a Tranny or natural born male, but also not a female. No way they should be allowed to compete against women that aren’t themselves on steroids. Look at “her” arms, hips, and chest, then look at the competition. Something is very wrong there. It’s as if there is a very real safety reason for the IBA ruling that the IOC is not upholding.

Teenage boys destroy adult women in competition. Case in point the Texas high school soccer team that embarrassed the women’s national team. In 7th grade we scrimmaged the girls HS varsity team and whooped them - that really reinforced in my mind that whole never hit a woman thing (never have, never will), they are simply built different. Testosterone is a huge advantage and the reason for gender segregation in sports. It’s flat not fair.

It used to be when a man hit a woman he went to jail. But now the IOC will give you a medal! 🏅 Weird world we live in.

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Matchups are key for footers success.

@rockchalkjayhawk said in Vermont Food Musings:

@BShark said in Vermont Food Musings:

Trying Barred Woods for Maple. Best combination I could find of price + reviews. Straight from the farmer is always a big plus. They will ship you a gallon for $61 total price. They sell on Amazon as well, but I'd rather not give Amazon a cut.

Got me :eyes: on some cheese from Wisconsin, but I'll have to wait until my current cheese surplus is gone.

Sharky, we gotta talk about your maple syrup consumption!!! a gallon?

lol a gallon would last me a decade.

I’m also looking forward to the new nfl kickoff. It’s going to be way different. Might be good. Could be lame.

@approxinfinity Pommel Clark Kent.

@RockkChalkk Not a great Olympics so far. Lots of weird, a little bit of good. Hope it improves.

@BShark I want to see Worthy and Wiley. Other than that it’s pretty worthless.

Aug 10. Fake football starts.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/40638009/steve-kerr-team-usa-raise-intensity-paris-olympics ↗

Kerr is right. Lots of unrealized potential.

Now we need someone else to backup @FarmerJayhawk! I see no end to the debate!!! This could be a great (the greatest?!? Squad)…if they played defense. Do we have some advanced stat guy that can put together an obvious angle we are missing?

@BShark said in Dream Team 2024 vs 1992:

@dylans these days our guys seem to think yelling "defense" is playing defense.

😂 😂 😂

@FarmerJayhawk The 2024 team isn’t even the second best USA basketball team that would be the 2012 team when these guys were in their prime.

@FarmerJayhawk that sounds an awful lot like Kentucky every year under Calipari.

@FarmerJayhawk The way you interpret data is interesting. Did you see that they were playing kids and didn’t want to humiliate them? There is a reason they didn’t try. The 2024 team doesn’t try because they are soft and ~~not as good as they think~~ arrogant, not because they are trying to be nice. Will LeBron win another Bronze? Goodnes I hope not. What a disgrace that would be.

@approxinfinity Hopefully this team coalesces a bit and looks better when Durant plays. It would be shameful to lose a game.

@FarmerJayhawk The team who beat Germany by 4 and South Sudan by 1? If you wish upon a star 💫

I wish there was a way to watch them play a series home and home in each era.

The first two games in 2024 are easily taken by the modern team behind a barrage of 3 point shooting. Davis goes down to a non-contact injury proving glass doesn’t belong on the court.

Pissed by the modern officiating and play style the 92 squad evens the series 2-2. Ewing accidentally breaks Embiid cheek bone with an elbow - the mask returns, but hinders play. Barkley mocks him mercilessly. Bruised and battered LeBron slips on his own tears during the press conference. Everyone gets a good laugh.

Game 5 is won by the 2024 squad, but it’s a nail biter as Curry is starting to develop ptsd from all the vicious hand checking back in the 90s.

Game 6 again goes to the home team with defense carrying the team to victory.

Game 7. Jordan says what is this? Never played in one before. Ahead of his 65 point effort in a 20 point win. Magic and Bird get in for the mop up minutes and run the score up a bit.

Barkley gives a speech after the win that offends the alphabet groups. Jordan goes to the front and collects on his gambling winnings. Pippen is still stuck in that horrible contract. Durrant, Curry, and James play a couple more years before retiring. Having been on a court with true greatness Edwards finds that missing gear and goes on to have a career to rival the greats.