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An assistant men’s basketball coach at Lamar posted this on Facebook. Good, good stuff from a young man about to become a father: “Been in thought The last couple days as I’m sure everyone has. In a few weeks I’ll have a daughter. She will be born during one of the scariest and most uncertain times in our worlds history. And I will have to have conversations with her as she grows up on why the world is the way it is. It might be conversations as to why there is so much hate, and divide. Why certain groups won’t associate with others and a list of other things. About how an unseen enemy divided our world even further than what it is now. However, I hope that in ten years I can tell her she was born during the most proud time in our worlds history. A time that our world and country turned to God, turned to decency and turned to eachother. When politics, and differences were put aside and the world came together for a common goal and prevailed. And in turn those conversations aren’t difficult but they’re prideful, talking about the pivot point in our worlds history! Pray for eachother, pray for our leaders and pray for our future. ‘If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, and PRAY, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways. Then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land’ “

Look at you starting a really good, helpful thread and all. Stay safe my friend.

Beat Yates by a 50 piece and could have been much worse. Yates can recruit with the best of the Houston schools but the Montverdes and IMGs of the world do that on a whole other level.

[Hidden Content] update from a conservative Repunlicensed county judge and a doctor who I know to be a conservative Republican voter. This from a media source that would be far from “liberal.” The problem is that both sides now seem to want to politicize everything. Both sides of the aisle pointing their little fingers at the other. It’s dumb, sorry. As is the mass panic that is supposedly caused by the media. I would argue the overreaction is more the fault of the people than whatever media they are following. So & so made me do it never worked for me growing up. And why people apparently think they will wipe their behinds with greater frequency during a quarantine is beyond me. These folks also, at least in my area, are overwhelming red voters and Trump supporters. If the “liberal media” caused them to buy every roll of toilet paper in sight, welp...

Equating this to the flu, which I guess people are going to continue to do until Trump tells them to stop, is irresponsible. I’ve got nothing but love for you baddog and it sounds like you are doing your part whether it’s by your normal life or out of an abundance of precaution. But there are unquestionably those that are looking for any reason to keep their heads in the sand. And that would be somewhat okay if it wasn’t for their irresponsibly and/or willful ignorance potentially catastrophically affecting others. I have zero problem with someone drinking themself into oblivion in their own home - that’s their problem and their prerogative. When you get behind the wheel, it becomes “our” problem. And c’mon - at this point, to compare this thing to influenza is to basically say President Trump and Governor Abbott both have no stones and/or no brains. We don’t know HOW bad it will be yet. But it’s already way worse than any flu strain.

Sounds like you went with the majority of the scientific opinions given you. Smart man. (Also, glad the original doc was wrong.)

Great post

Denying science has replaced baseball as a national pastime in this country...

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4th time on the all region team for Bush. Should be an absolute no brainer for his 4th All State team. There aren’t many kids, anywhere, who have achieved that.

It’s gone up from 10k and change to over 13k in the US in the last few hours. That’s about 10 percent an hour for those mathematically challenged. Of those 176 have died and 108 have fully recovered. [Hidden Content]

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I have a solution. Accept it and buy gift certificates to local restaurants, and then do with them what you like (you could even donate to local “feed the hungry” type charities). Win-win. Besides, while declining may be noble (well, IS noble) in principle, I know good and well you’ve paid more than your fair share in taxes.

So serious question - would you rather be like Coldspring and have gotten to finish your season, albeit a loss? Or would you rather have been in the 4A and other classifications shoes where you never got to play a game at state? Personally, I’d rather be in Coldspring and the other teams that lost on Thursday. It’s the unknown, what ifs that drive me crazy. At least the teams that lost finished tremendous seasons and got closure. But I realize that may be a minority opinion. Is it something I was pondering in my social distancing today.

This is the point. We can’t even come close to valid numbers at this stage due to the minimal testing which has been done. There have likely been way more people who have had it than we even know. This is beyond the great hoax the amateur infectious disease “experts” were spouting even a few days ago. It’s also likely way less than the gloom and doomers were preaching. Like most things, the truth will likely be in the middle. As I was told last week by a couple of different friends who are in the field, some of us will get it, and almost everyone will know several people who contract it. And most will even know someone who didn’t survive it. But we will get past it. It just likely won’t be as soon as most hope.

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Whenever we get past this isn’t a big deal (which it could or could not be depending on where your bar is set), this is a really cool explanation of “flattening the curve.” Quarantines and event/school cancelations aren’t about trying to prevent the spread of the virus, it’s going to happen regardless. It’s about trying to slow the spread so our health care system can handle it (see Italy for what NOT to do). [Hidden Content]

I enjoyed watching (and listening lol) to him coach as well. I heard early in this season that it was likely he would not be retained as coach. Not saying the decision was made then but it sounded like he needed to have something special happen to retain his job. Basketball and WOS is a peculiar thing.

I don’t think there is any sense to be made of that.

I don’t listen to Rogan religiously but he’s a pretty conservative podcast host who, according to one of my son’s, has one of the most popular podcasts out there. I do occasionally see a clip that I’m interested in and obviously this was one of them. .

NCAA won’t lose any sleep canceling the season of the third most popular sport that the two most popular sports pay for.

Maybe the best point I’ve read on this subject yet. And I’ve read wayyy too much.

So this isn’t a thread about southeast Texas basketball officials?