Everything posted by Paul Wesley
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RFK Jr. off the chain and off his rocker
Quite the euphemism.
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Who should we blame for Bro Country?
All true. But my disdain for Bro Country has nothing to do with its newness. There are a ton of even newer genres that I either embrace or am indifferent towards. My disgust for it is based on the distinction between art and commerce. And the fact that the teams of (mostly Nashville-based) musicians/producers/engineers making it actually *could* make great art if they chose to do so. But they don't.
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Who should we blame for Bro Country?
OK, so I'm gonna bump this 6-year-old thread instead of starting my own. The local UT radio station is KVET. Which means that I often listen to the postgame while driving home. It's just about the only time I listen to terrestrial radio. But that means that on Sunday when I start my car, modern country invades my silo. Outside of that, my experience with the genre would be limited to trips to Walmart to buy a new car battery, and maybe the Jumbotron. So anyway... for 20+ fucking years, I am just stunned at how much the music sucks. I have soundhound on my phone, and about half my searches for the past two decades are on autumn Sunday mornings/afternoons, just to find out who the offending "artist" is that *made* this shit. Today, it was the wildly auto-tuned parody-of-itself first line of a song: "A beer has got 12 ounces." It turns out the guilty party is Luke Combs. And I just want to offer this thesis statement: Modern country is the single worst genre of music in the history of America. That would have been my subject headline had I not found a similar thread to bump. And I'm not saying that other genres are good, or that other genres don't have cynical mercenaries producing trash in the name of "art." I'm just saying modern country is the worst, and 100% of the musicians and engineers making it are cynical mercenaries. Just about all of them are ridiculously talented musicians. Mick to Rocky: "You had the talent to become a good fighter, and instead of that, you became a leg breaker to some cheap second rate loan-shark." Yoko Ono spent decades screeching and making dolphin noises, and it's utterly unlistenable, but at least she was making a sincere effort toward producing something with artistic merit.
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The Republican Civil War - it will be because we destroyed ourselves
Even when Christie is 100% correct (as he is here), it's impossible for me to watch him without thinking about how he carried Trump's water for 4 years because HE saw that as his own pathway to more power.
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RFK Jr. off the chain and off his rocker
So RFK blocked her communications for her transgression of making a flirtatious remark? That story is a real-life version of an Onion parody: https://theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819583529/
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Jane's: Perry has mental breakdown on stage
It's pretty close to impossible to sing live if the guitar amps are several orders of magnitude louder than the human voice (including the level of vocal in the monitor). I don't know if he's got a legitimate beef with Navarro or not, but it's not impossible.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Agree that Sark gets a ton of credit, and the "level up" in talent certainly wouldn't have been this dramatic with a lesser coach. But we were definitely going to become more buoyant once we kicked off the anchor of Yormark's Big 12.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
I could put this "told you so" observation on any of about 20 different threads, but I'm putting it here. For nearly four fucking years, every single fan of an SEC school that I know has made it a point to mention to me how "Texas is in for a big surprise," "Texas just doesn't have the linemen to compete in the SEC," "Texas doesn't have the depth to compete in the SEC," "It's a different caliber of athlete," etc. etc, etc, etc But here's the thing that none of those people took into account: Once Texas joined the SEC, there were a whole bunch of 4- and 5-star kids who would have gone to an SEC school instead of one in the Big 12, but suddenly Texas is going to be signing those kids, because they no longer have to weigh the advantages (great city, alumni support, top-tier public university) against the disadvantage of playing in a 2nd-tier league. So yeah, the Texas teams of the Strong/Herman eras would have been outmatched. For fuck's sake, they were often outmatched in the Big 12. I'm not predicting any kind of 17-0 seasons or whatever... the odds are overwhelmingly against that happening. I'm just pointing out that our detractors (and there are a lot) never took into account the fact that SEC Texas is likely to have a monster roster in a way that Big 12 Texas was never going to build.
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"Of Fatboys and Frauds" -aggy vs Florida game thread
Yeah, I was just thinking that he's not gonna make it to Austin this year.
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Brian Kelly LSU Football: Corndogs, Corruption, and Cameramen (dead)
Yeah, with the timeout in your pocket, you try to get some real estate
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Is there a thread to talk about how much Bon Jovi sucks?
Ha ha. I was just scrolling the music board to get caught up, and I got all excited to respond to this thread title. And then I realized the thread was started by... me. So, let me just say this:
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Week 3, 2024: UTSA @ Texas
Just an aside here, but that example speaks to the absolute transformation of our roster under Sark. Under Herman, how many 1-score struggles were we in with the Baylors, Iowa States, and KUs of the conference, and we'd have a critical 4th-quarter possession, and we're running out there with a scrappy walk-on at one WR, and on the other side, we've got Epps? In 2024, if we have a 2nd-half possession and (for whatever reason) we wanted to rest our starters, we'd be rolling out there with some combo of Wingo, Golden, or Bolden. The talent level and depth of some of these position groups is just crazy... RB the last couple years, WR this year.... you're talking about a room full of guys where the 4th-man-up has NFL potential. It's Alabamesque.
- Texas vs. Michigan - 11am on Fox
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Texas vs. Michigan - 11am on Fox
Also, I just had a chance to re-watch the game, and it was even more of an ass-kicking than I remembered. I mean, two possessions into the 3rd Q, and Texas had 24 points while Michigan had 10 yards of offense. That's the kind of box score disparity you see when a great team plays Southwestern Tallahassee Night School... except we did it on the road against the defending national champion. Crazy.
- Texas vs. Michigan - 11am on Fox
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ESPN Channels and Disney owned ABC affiliates pulled from DirecTV right now
Hmmm. I sign up for everything using a gmail account, but maybe that's it. Maybe ESPN isn't defaulting to gmail once it verified my cable provider. It's probably been a decade since I set it up.
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ESPN Channels and Disney owned ABC affiliates pulled from DirecTV right now
I tried to use the ESPN app on my phone to watch one of the late games yesterday, and it blocked me. In the past, the app has asked who my cable provider was (it's ATT). So even though I had turned off the wifi on my phone and was using a cell signal, it *STILL* gave me an error message saying, "your provider is not available" or something like that. In other words, just because they're having a fight with the company that gives me cable television, they decided to completely block **all** ESPN access on my phone EVEN THOUGH I WASN'T AT HOME AND WASN'T USING ANY ATT WIFI. Such bullshit. I feel like this could be cross-posted in the "great enshittening" thread.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Yeah, he's pretty clearly grinding an axe. I think he was one of two people who had Notre Dame ahead of Texas last week... which was already absurd had you watched either of those teams play.
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2024 Random Games thread
Last week vs Aggies, the network was putting up ND schedule, and pointed out "favored in every game the rest of the way!!!" It was laughable in real time. Anyone who had watched that game would have projected 2 or 3 losses, minimum.
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2024 Random Games thread
Worst call since the Oregon onsides kick?
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2024 Random Games thread
Looks pretty indisputable to me
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Gus Johnson sucks
Klatt has been generous when speaking of us for a long time now. He has a ton of affection for Sark, and for Sark's support of his sobriety.
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The importance of the portal
Both teams in playoffs last year. Michigan sends 13 guys to NFL. Texas sends 11. Only one of these two teams looked "gutted" (as described by ESPN). We went out and completely reloaded our WR room. Added Mukaba, who was everywhere today. I know coaches must hate having to recruit every player in the country in every off-season (including their own roster), but since teams have to address their *immediate* needs every off-season, it's gonna be only slightly less consequential than recruiting high school kids.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
Yeah, Michigan was "gutted" by the draft, but apparently we weren't.
- Texas vs. Michigan - 11am on Fox