Everything posted by Bateshorn
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Kim Mulkey to LSU
I’m just restating something that has been said many times on this thread: 1. Women experience a double standard in many, many things, including how aggressive and demanding they can be in order to achieve professional success and the way society interprets that behavior. 2. Kim Mulkey is a successful but awful person. Both of those things can be true. This isn’t programming, it doesn’t have to be I/O.
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Kim Mulkey to LSU
I have no idea what they are like behind closed doors, and I would guess they work very hard to keep it that way. I thought most of my childhood that Tommy Lasorda was some genial, good natured guy. I had no idea he had a mouth and attitude that would make a sailor blush.
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Kim Mulkey to LSU
So this scene from Bull Durham, as much as it is played for comedy, is a actually a guide to how to handle the media: There's a reason why you hear so many athletes giving the same boring "110% , didn't get the breaks, faith in God" blah blah speech, that makes you tune out the interview after checking out Erin Andrews: It doesn't create media ripples. Angel Reese decided she wasn't interested in the traditional route to handling the media. She had thoughts, and she expressed them. For better and worse. Winning cures a lot of problems. Reese just found out that losing tends to make things unreasonably and exponentially worse. America is still an incredibly racist and sexist country. And if, as a celebrity, you elect to raise your profile in the media ecosystem, it's going to come with some very real, unfair, and scary consequences. That doesn't make it right, but Reese's post game speech didn't seek to tamp down on an already volatile and awful situation, it poured gasoline on the fire.
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X-Men '97 - Disney+ starting March 20th
I could never get into this series. Then or now. Batman:TAS, Bayman Beyond, and Justice League makes the quality of the Marvel animation look like it was drawn in preschool.
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2024 NFL DRAFT
That last quarter of the Michigan game was eye opening. If you give him a clean pocket and time, he's Mark Rypien and will tear you to shreds. If he has to do it on the go/underpressure, he's also Mark Rypien and his game falls apart pretty quick.
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Vince got knocked the F out
As a 5'9" guy who was very unenthusiastic about fighting in my bar crawling hey day, can confirm that avoiding aggro little dudes is a very wise course of action.
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Most annoying instrument?
Just get fucked.
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The movie you just watched
Lol. When it came out and the controversy about the nose occurred, all I could think about was Tropic Thunder: The Academy has gotten pretty good at sniffing out thinly veiled Oscar bait.
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Poor Things
Este. It was easily one of the horniest movies I've ever seen. Not sexy. Just horny. Either way, I'm totally glad I saw it.
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2024 NFL DRAFT
Rattler is a perfect 4th round pick. He might just pan out and become something special, because he's had to play in hero mode most of college, but if he doesn't, it's not that big a deal. A team that can afford to make him 3rd string and let him grip it and rip it a bit in preseason to see if it will pan is the ideal location.
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Washington DC
Brickskeller bit the bullet year’s ago. when I moved here in 97, on Friday and Saturday nights the cabs ran exclusively between Adam’s Morgan and Georgetown. You could get to the bar, but getting home was a nightmare.
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Washington DC
We all were, brother.
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Fire Chip Kelly
I honestly don't know beyond internet rumor mongering as well, but his rise at Oregon coincides with the Willie Lyles era. All that seems positively archaic by today's standards.
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Washington DC
I haven't been on this thread in a hot minute. That Hawk>T Coast> Smith Point adventure was a fucking movie back in the day. I never cared that much for the Tune. The Shitty service and ass food didn't make up for the cheap ish drinks and it never had the dark, "let's make some poor life choices" atmosphere that the old school Hawk had. Fun fact: I used to live directly across the street from the rear of the Hawk. Ever since the Lounge died, the Hill just hasn't had a lot of quality get shitty drinking options (and it never had as much as other parts of town to begin with). For those that didn't hear, the man that ruled DC nightlife and pretty much sole handedly created H street died in 2020. https://dcist.com/story/20/08/24/joe-englert-dc-restaurant-bar-owner-obituary/
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Fire Chip Kelly
I was always sort of under the impression he talked Knight into pushing Bellotti into AD/retirement so they could implement a pay to play system and let Kelly run wild with the spread attack. Anyway, UCLA definitely backing into the BIG1G rn.
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2024 NFL DRAFT
This. Given the deadmoney hit they just took and everything else, the Broncos are in full tank now mode.
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Shits going down with the Royals
In the upper left corner of your browser, click on the "<-" or "Back" button. You'll be taken back to Daily Texan. From there you can navigate to a thread you give a fuck about.
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2024 NFL DRAFT
This has been rehashed a million times, but the Falcons have effectively given Cousin's a 2 year deal they can (relatively) affordably cut and walk away from in 2026. In effect, they've elected to try and bring in a veteran while they have their core rookies on value bargain deals and hope they can put a run together. The weakness in their division (the Panthers are quickly becoming the most poorly run franchise in the league, the Saints are grasping at straws with an aging core and Derek Carr, and the Bucs are meh) suggests that it's a pretty sound strategy, assuming Cousin's Achilles holds up. It's pricey, but a better option than hoping Desmond Ritter is going to stop being ass or that the 8 pick is going to net them a qb that will get them to the promised land while the core of the team is still cheap. This and the weird Steelers situation are just further examples of teams trying to figure out how to win with talented core's while not attaching themselves to a QB who is going to bankrupt the talent pool of the team. We are likely to see more, not less, creative QB solutions in the future.
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Michael Mann's next film- Ferrari
This movie had it's moments, but it doesn't hold a candle to Miami Vice.
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Shits going down with the Royals
Jesus Christ, how am I the one asking where the gif of Pedo Bear at the bar from the Penn State bowl game? I wasn't even at the game. Y'all are slipping.
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2024 NFL free agency/off season thread
This is an odd trade unless the Seahawks aren’t sure about Geno and would like to see if Howell can do something when he’s not running for his life. Backups don’t cost you a 3rd rounder.
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2024 NFL free agency/off season thread
Because he’s about to be the most expensive RB in the league.
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Time change
This. we just need to start DST later in the spring. A lot of people do not realize how close to our monkey ancestors we are when it comes to daylight. Anyone who has lived through a multi day power outage, and starts going to bed at dark knows what I mean. Humans are not physically or mentally equipped to handle rapid time zone changes. And that’s functionally what we all just experienced.
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“Many” chiefs fans now preparing for amputations after frostbite injuries from playoff game vs Miami
Jesus Christ, they sell heated socks and hand warmers at the Costco. This isn’t rocket surgery.
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Time change
In the least, Spring forward should go back to the beginning of April so it doesn't feel like flying across 3-4 time zones.