Everything posted by MrX
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Surly #Stonks
In the same vein, MVST up 10 percent to 4.26, approaching all time high again. This chart is looking solid. Batteries, bitch!
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2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
Taking Colin was a mistake, then a compound mistake by trotting him out there in foursomes with an obviously bad pairing. Then you played him again in singles when you had the option to sit him after Hovland withdrew. Harris English was really good this year. Yeah he looked bad in foursomes (thanks Colin!) but he never got to play his own ball in the event. JJ Spaun won at Oakmont, almost won the Players, and won a playoff event like a month ago. How is he not involved in all five sessions? Cam Young’s been pretty much lights out for three months and is a local guy. How do you not have him out there Friday morning? Why set up the event to be easy on the short game when Europe always has a better short game? Europe decided to ride their horses into the ground on Friday and Saturday. All those guys were gassed on Sunday, but they built up a big enough lead that it didn’t matter. Meanwhile Bryson had four different partners. The organizational details matter. Probably not a massive amount, but certainly enough to provide an edge when the talent is equal. Look at the 2021 Europe squad. Insane talent disadvantage so Stricker probably didn’t have to do much beyond get the US team safely to the golf course each day.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Kirby (but tell him Bobo can’t come), Dan Lanning, DeBoer - probably in that order.
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Surly #Stonks
ONDS still going brrrrr and is looking to break through 8.00 as it builds support in the mid 7.00s. This stock is insane. MVST had a solid day today as well.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Franklin also has three 6 loss years, a 5 loss year, and a 4 loss year at Penn State.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
No talk of Luke Fickell at Wisconsin? 15-15 overall, just lost to Maryland, and the schedule is BRUTAL. They could go 3-9.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Arkansas tried that same route before with Chad Morris and it was disastrous. Not saying Traylor is Morris, but the similarities probably have them go a different direction.
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2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
A Scottie, Xander, BDC, Cantlay, Cam, JT, Morikawa core is still relatively young and, if in decent form, going to be competitive in this event for the foreseeable future. Xander had a significant injury (and then just had a kid) which turned this year into a lost one, JT hasn’t been right in two years but showed flashes in the spring, and Morikawa is wildly talented but went off the damn rails for whatever reason this season. That’s half the team, so I don’t think it’s dire. But I agree the secondary guys are a big question mark right now. Spaun seems like he can hang and then contribute for another cycle. But those last four spots are totally up for grabs in ‘27.
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- 2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
- 2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
- 2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
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2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
Probably not but Reed hasn’t done shit really on either tour in two years. You can’t out him on the team. The LIV thing is interesting. US has seemed to totally shun it (BDC was AQ) while Rahm is a clear Euro leader and is paired up with Hatton and dominating. I do think Phil would be a great captain. Because that guy would go in the lab for a year trying to maximize a W. But he’s basically been exiled after being the heir apparent because of LIV.
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2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
I’m in no way a Bryson fan, especially after he defected to LIV. But he’s an asset in this event and I can root for him for three days. Figure out the best way to deploy him because his talent is undeniable. Felt similarly to Pat Reed back in the day who is a dick of the highest order. He killed this event and made a great pairing with Spieth until Spieth (probably) bitched out on him which says a lot about the American mentality. Coddling over killing. Please note I am in no way advocating that Pat Reed should have anything to do with current affairs.
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2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
Oh agree. Keegan’s been terrible. But I was talking about the player leadership aspect. Everyone calls JT the “heart and soul of the team” but he needed a pity invite to make Rome and couldn’t AQ this time around and played like shit the back half of the year. Meanwhile Rory is a clear top 3 guy who just secured a point while getting ruthlessly heckled for four hours…against JT.
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2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
Bryson can fucking play. JT (terrible pairing for him btw) was awful yesterday morning, then Bryson dragged Griffin around and almost pulled a half point by himself against the Rose/Fleetwood juggernaut yesterday afternoon. Then when they paired him up with good partners he dominated this morning with Cam and stayed in a match with Scheffler that any other pairing would’ve been closed out by hole 12 with the way Rose played. Saying you don’t want him on the team moving forward is quite a take. He’s a weird guy but guess what, he AQ’d anyway so put him with a mellow guy that can stripe his irons (Cam, Scheffler, JJ) and let him cook. Pretty clear Scheffler isn’t an alpha team leader type of guy. That’s fine. But the problem is there’s a leadership vacuum that needs to be filled, and unless JT can get back to being a top 5 player, I’m not sure who’s filling those shoes.
- 2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
- 2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
- 2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
- 2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
- 2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
- 2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage
- 2025 Ryder Cup -- Bethpage