Thursday Bird Droppings

I’ve already got a few hundo wrapped up in pools and F leagues

Does your article go out on a limb and predict all options in a truth table as the possible outcomes for Jonesy?

You’re at the point where I was TWENTY years ago, when during the Duke-UNLV ’91 semifinals the refs got word from upstairs, “Do NOT let Tark repeat!”

If I may borrow from Frank Zappa, the NCAA is an organization of rules, poorly written & randomly enforced. The random part is the key. The point is to make it impossible to run a consistently competitive program without SOME kind of violation, so that keeps coach & AD criticism of the NCAA to a minimum. Call it the Tarken Doctrine, “Fear will keep the locals in line.”

2 possible solutions -

1. Pay the players outright. Of course the schools wouldn’t like that because if their employees are actually called employees rather than “students”, the IRS & the Soc.Sec. folks might start to take an interest.

2. (my favourite) Establish a professional minor league system in football & basketball just like they have for baseball & hockey. It would destroy the myth of amateurism, which doesn’t exist as soon as coaches, network guys and advertisers start getting paid. And also the myth that everyone “needs” college. College programs would still exist for those interested in both athletics & academics, and the minors would be there so the ones who aren’t interested in both won’t waste everyone’s time.

Might not necessaraly work for basketball, given the popularity of the sport and the (alleged) economic viability of the league. But football? It’s popularity is at batshit insane levels. It would be a very simple thing indeed to quickly turn a profit on games every Saturday in every Bumblefuck, Nowhere town in the country.

… Nationally Corrupt Athletic Association.

But the unspoken condition was that Vick would never try to publicly excuse and rationalize what he did, and that’s what makes these quotes so troubling

Here ya go!

Tell me that shit isn’t funny.

Also, as always, fuck Mike Vick.

Also….if he returns, he needs to tell me if he’s up for a CC surviva’ pool.

Not much going on out there.

Just shy of Hagerstown on the other side of Frederick.

Check it out… it’s an outdoorsy area, very safe and close to Route 70 for the most part.

Gotta say there is pretty much nothing I miss about that town. To me, it’s just such a depressed area that has very little going for it in terms of nightlife, culture, entertainment, etc. It was a WW2 manufacturing boomtown that has seen better days.

I’d say as you go further east – the opposite area of where I grew up – it gets a bit more happening. My parents own a business in Hagerstown and I still have friends in the area, whenever I get back, it doesn’t seem any better or different than it was 20 years ago. Like anywhere there are pockets of nice neighborhoods, but I struggle with coming up with compliments for the area. Krumpe’s donuts are absolutely kick-ass.

I’ve always had trouble differentiating Hagerstown/Smithsburg/Boonsboro, etc. because those places felt about the same. I know there have been movements to try to spruce up the downtown area in a way similar to the Frederick did years ago, but I also have heard that it’s a slow process and businesses are still moving in and out of the space. I still end up going to the same pubs that have always been there whenever I go back. WW might be able to speak more to that.

The outlets were supposed to help revive the local economy but they are struggling. There is a ton of cheap real estate out there because people thought it was going to be the next Frederick, tried to build up the area in the early 2000s, and then nobody moved in. Many huge developments (I’m thinking the one on rt. 40 behind the shopping center) are still sitting mostly empty.

There’s certainly room for outdoor activities in the area – lots of green space, parks, mountains, rivers, etc. If that’s of higher importance than the drawbacks that I mentioned, it could be just fine for you and your family.

I’m inclined to say look for some places closer to and outside of Frederick like Myersville, Walkersville, Urbana, New Market, etc. just because you can still get the outdoorsy stuff without being so far away from areas that have more going on and feel…nicer.

Hate to be such a debbie downer about my hometown, but it’s just one man’s opinion, so take that for what it’s worth.

She and her husband like it. We were there this past father’s day and it seemed like a pretty livable place, but then I’ve found things to like whereever I’ve lived.

i’m glad i could not actually watch any of that game. this gif’s alone are pretty brutal

if i could go back 8 months and go tell happy-go-lucky me to run before signing his life away, i totally would

It’s not far from Axl touring as Guns N’ Roses.

And he recorded at least one whole album by himself (machina? Can’t remember off the top of my head). Plus D’arcy is a dope head, Iha wants nothing to do with Corgan, and Chamberlain has battled addiction too (causing him to leave the band at one point). Chamberlain did tour with Corgan when SP first “reunited” though, so I’m not sure what’s stopping him this time.

What’d it say.

it usually gets out between 8:45 and 9. if we could do 9 i could just leave a little early, but if you could move it up to 7:45 i can just take my laptop and do the first few rounds from class and then jump back on when i get home. but don’t let me inconvenience everyone else if they have issues with moving it up.

9. still, good for 15.3 BB%.

Vlad only has 13 on the SEASON

Don’t forget about the motorcycle thing tomorrow. Massive delays expected.

’s poor performances!