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formermav43

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  1. It balances the ones who want him hired for simply not completely screwing things up in 3 months.
  2. By those who know it’s “whom.”
  3. Should it carry that much weight? I remember Paul Boyette fighting back tears in defense of Charlie Strong.
  4. Agree. I’d go further-I don’t eat Tabasco at all. It’s not good.
  5. formermav43 replied to HookEm's topic in Basketball
    It seems like that should resolve itself pretty naturally with guys leaving.
  6. That's a different question.
  7. I’d argue that these are actually 2 slightly different questions you’re asking-“earning the job” vs. CDC “offering him the job.” One relates to his actual merits, the other is more about when the pressure becomes such that you can’t avoid hiring him *even if you feel he hasn’t earned it*.
  8. He’s still gonna do football too.
  9. He announced it in the fall. He’s not retiring from broadcasting in general, just from the tournament.
  10. I think he went in looking for a fight. It’s pretty shocking that a federal judge handled himself so poorly (though, as the tweet in the op suggested, that was probably the point). Otoh, the dean seems to be reading from prepared remarks at times-it looks like she went in intending to say her piece too. Basically, no one comes out looking particularly good from the whole fiasco. It’s probably why Stanford already issued that apology.
  11. formermav43 replied to HookEm's topic in Basketball
    Yeah, I dont buy that there’s only two options here. I want the team to win every game, and I want CDC to make the best hire possible. If he thinks that’s Terry, then so be it. I think it’s probably not, and I don’t believe he’ll just cave to pressure because of a couple of tournament wins. We’ll see.
  12. Ah yes, shinshi shinshi. Most lovers refuse on the grounds that it's unclean.
  13. We’re not hiring Dixon, and we shouldn’t. But compare their resumes, and Dixon is absolutely a step up from Terry. (Which is another indication of how considering Terry is absurd, but I digress.)
  14. formermav43 replied to HookEm's topic in Basketball
  15. formermav43 replied to HookEm's topic in Basketball
    You can win a World Series and be pushed out as GM too, as you should know. Didn’t seem to deter good candidates for that job.
  16. formermav43 replied to HookEm's topic in Basketball
    Those are two different jobs. Every sport has numerous examples of excellent assistants who were mediocrities (or worse) as head coaches.
  17. formermav43 replied to HookEm's topic in Basketball
    Pshaw. Look at the Astros winning it all and moving on from their GM. Embrace the hate.
  18. To be clear, no, that’s not the rule. I believe it’s just that 1) all 4 infielders have to have their feet in the dirt (which is now standardized in size at every park) and 2) 2 on each side of 2nd. They’re often lining up against lefties the way Huck described. Someone lined up against Joey Gallo with the LF in shallow RF, in fact. That wedge is something that’s been talked about, maybe even experimented with at some level in the minors.
  19. I agree with Dana. Look at the Astros model, and then look at the teams who routinely give out decade long deals, and tell me again why they “have” to do something.
  20. Then why did you bring it up? The whole tangent didn’t belong in this thread.
  21. “Essentially” is doing a lot of work in that statement. I mean, I think most observers would argue they were “essentially broken” just based on watching him try to catch.
  22. He’ll be coaching somewhere next season. That teams are already sniffing around shows there’s no heat to let die.
  23. formermav43 replied to Hanrahan's topic in Daily Texan
    122/87 this evening before giving blood, ftr.
  24. Yeah, as stated, this has always been his issue. It’s why a lot of the prospect gurus thought (and some still think) he’ll end up in the bullpen.
  25. formermav43 replied to Hanrahan's topic in Daily Texan
    I never thought much about it either until it got really bad like that. Even back when I was at UT, I noticed at one point that I developed really bad tremors - it was first really noticeable one day when I was taking a test, my hand was shaking like crazy while I was trying to write. I went to the doctor because it freaked me out (you know, you're imagining the worst, like you have Parkinson's) - he said it was nothing major, essential tremor, and that stress could exacerbate it. He also noted my bp was a bit elevated (I don't remember how high, but not crazy at the time). So he gave me a beta blocker that would control the tremor--people use them for stage fright and such--and that would also help with my bp, but that way he wouldn't have to diagnose me with it, which would look better for a 22 year old. Anyway, after awhile, it didn't seem like I had those tremors anymore, I wasn't going for regular physicals, I let the prescription lapse. But in hindsight, that was probably a symptom of hypertension, not its own thing. So all that's to say, it had likely been steadily increasing for years, and I even had some symptoms, but they were easy to ignore. I'm fortunate that I actually had symptoms at all and that they finally became severe, because so many people don't have any, and I probably would have already had a stroke by now or something. So to your questions: 1. With the tests, they were just trying to rule out any underlying cause and that hypertension was primary. So much of it was what you'd expect - pretty extensive blood work, EKG, some various scans. They obviously wanted to make sure nothing was wrong with my heart or arteries. The one sort of unusual thing they did was an ultrasound to make sure I didn't have stenosis in my renal arteries, which is sometimes a cause of high blood pressure in someone so young. But everything was perfectly normal. And I have an uncle who had to get on bp meds around 30, so it seems to run in the genes. 2. I'm still only 39, so your situation might be a bit different at your age. But I've been taking this same medicine for 6 years now and it's kept it under control with no known side effects. It's consistently normal (if somewhat toward the high side of normal) - 120-135/70-85. No fluctuations to the point that I don't even check it routinely anymore, and I only go for a checkup once a year now because it's totally managed. I'm actually supposed to donate blood this evening, I'll report back what it reads then for accuracy.
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