CardinalBacker

My picks? Miller -Silsbee Smith - Jasper

Alright... one of y'all needs to come get your wife. [Hidden Content]

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Now THIS is a story y'all can agree with. [Hidden Content]

If you don't speak it, it doesn't exist, I guess.

Here's the thing... If you're pushing a baby stroller and see a golden retriever, our reaction is "oh, look! A doggie!" But when we see a pitbull, we want to scoop the kid up and use the stroller as a weapon. It ain't no different with people.

Trump possibly being indicted in NYC today? What about that call to arms he issued last weekend? Are y'all too busy dusting off your tactical vest and zip ties to bother posting here? If there was a story of this level about Hunter Biden, Reagan would have already started 76 new threads. But we've got dead silence at this point. I'm not surprised.

All joking aside, those old people will kill you. I worked in an auto center when I was college and one day this really old guy came in and wanted his battery replaced for free because he hadn't had it that long. We walked out to his truck and the battery obviously came from one of our competitors. I explained that we could definitely test it and replace it if necessary, but he'd probably have better luck at Walmart where it came from. This guy went from 0-100 in a flash. He started furiously digging in his glovebox and the look on his face told me that he wasn't trying to find a receipt. I dipped back indoors. They helped him jumpstart his truck and he left, and about 45 minutes later his son called and wanted to apologize... said that his dad came home looking for a gun and they took his keys away. Those really old people lose their ability to reason things out.

That's why I shop at GI Surplus.

And to that point.... He's a first year head coach! What did you expect him to do? Everybody knows that a first year head coach of a bunch of white kids can't make it to state in year one! Jeez.

Oh, yeah? Big whoopty do. Have you seen our baseball record?

Oh, I'm aware that I've fallen from grace here by keeping an open mind.

Son, the smart fiscal conservatives left the room a long, long time ago. Except when it comes to the social safety nets, of course.

Meh.... Both sides share responsibility for this one. Trump definitely set it in motion, but but Biden hasn't done anything to curb it, other than spending even more money.

Like Bobcat was saying... firms took out PPP loans, then had no actual losses from Covid. The loans were forgiven and those firms just had a huge "bump" in revenue for the year. Some gave bonuses, made investments... just spent more cash and the "loans" were forgiven.

The best part of the whole thing is how this is actually a result of fiscal policy in the pandemic era. The tech firms that were the primary depositors in SVB got PPP loans... that swelled the balance sheets at SVB and they needed to park that money somewhere. They bought securities at low interest rates, then inflation happened across the economy as a whole... the solution was for the Fed to raise interest rates, then suddenly SVB was paying more in interest on funds on deposit than they were making on the securities that were purchased. Long story short... the government dumped tons of cash into the economy which ended up in banks like SVB, then inflation happened, then the solution to inflation was to raise interest rates, and now the banks are failing because of that chain of events. We literally dumped Trillions into the economy re: Covid and now we're about to drop billions more to fix the problems caused by the initial dumping. This scenario last happened in the early 80s when inflation and interest rates went wild. The bad news is guys who were around at that point are all dead or retired in 2023.

In 2016 Dubois’s BC team threw the ball occasionally. They hit the tailback and what I’d call a tight end numerous times through the season. I felt like Dubois would have opened it up even more if we’d had more arm on the qb. I have a good friend who played in a wing T system in West Texas all through jh and high school and he came with us to a game or two. One of the things that he pointed out to me was how our qb would pop his head up on passing plays immediately after faking the handoff. He was like "yeah, our coach killed me over and over for that..." Dubois will throw it if he's got a kid that's capable.

I'm going to venture that it was the only year that they had a kid with a decent arm under center.

I don’t think it happens in two years, but three-four isn’t unrealistic. Do the faithful have anything to say about the upcoming season? I was thinking that WOS graduated a bunch of starters, but you’d know better than me.

Nice work.

I'm no sure that Drummer's math is on point. WOS 440/109/3.... 0.7971 SLC 584/157/8.... 0.7797 I'm too lazy to math out how many games would actually have to be won/lost to make a percentage change to favor SLC, but last year the records were 5-6 to 13-1. Since SLC has played so many more games than WOS over history, it's harder for SLC to gain ground by winning, but easier for WOS to lose ground by losing. Another 5-6 season would have WOS at 445/158/8, or 0.790.

Where are you finding those win/loss records?

Other than Clinton lying to Congress, I don't see where anybody was charged with anything. You basically just fired off a list of people you don't like.

I'm going to go out on a limb here... When a politician DOES get run out of town by his/her own party, it's typically a Dem. Like when they ran off Al Franken, Anthony Weiner, etc... The Rs tend to let their guys like Santos keep their seats.

You can't be so naive as to say that a man like yourself who is in favor of the PPP handouts is somehow different than any other man who is in favor of handouts. You's a welfare queen, too.