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This is exactly the case and both Kimes and Torres are slurped and adored by LeBatard.
-I don’t think anyone should ride or walk or run or scoot even with both earbuds in, it’s just dangerous. Especially at night and for women.
-One really affective way to make all social media better is to force people to put their actual name on their handle. It would stop a lot of people that solely get on their to troll others which really dilutes actual conversations and exchanging of thoughts. But, then again, there is Facebook and that doesn’t stop people from being flaming morons so maybe not.
-The worst sheriff in America that hasn’t YET been charged with some crime while in the position is Sheriff Grady in Polk County, Florida. Middle of nowhere but he has a decent social following because he loves being on camera and making fun of criminals he’s caught, exaggerating most everything. It’s a whole thing here. I have no doubt he is running some underground ring involving sex or drugs or the occult.
No sheriff should lavish being in the limelight the way he does, something deeper going on there… I’m watching you fella.
-I too, @HymanKaplan, momentarily thought something crazy had happened overnight I missed out on
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-I’ve enjoyed Matt’s podcast so far for the most part. It’s on like episode 8. Do you all think he’s getting Kornheiser or Tom Brady right off the jump? Let the coffee percolate.
And diversity? Maybe, but his show has been all white males (which is totally fine) since the start until Mario joined and he’s barely on there. Don’t see the forcing diversity angle though.
-One really affective way to make all social media better is to force people to put their actual name on their handle. It would stop a lot of people that solely get on their to troll others which really dilutes actual conversations and exchanging of thoughts. But, then again, there is Facebook and that doesn’t stop people from being flaming morons so maybe not.
-The worst sheriff in America that hasn’t YET been charged with some crime while in the position is Sheriff Grady in Polk County, Florida. Middle of nowhere but he has a decent social following because he loves being on camera and making fun of criminals he’s caught, exaggerating most everything. It’s a whole thing here. I have no doubt he is running some underground ring involving sex or drugs or the occult.
No sheriff should lavish being in the limelight the way he does, something deeper going on there… I’m watching you fella.
-I too, @HymanKaplan, momentarily thought something crazy had happened overnight I missed out on
.-I’ve enjoyed Matt’s podcast so far for the most part. It’s on like episode 8. Do you all think he’s getting Kornheiser or Tom Brady right off the jump? Let the coffee percolate.
And diversity? Maybe, but his show has been all white males (which is totally fine) since the start until Mario joined and he’s barely on there. Don’t see the forcing diversity angle though.
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To me it’s not as much a DEI thing although I’m sure that’s part of it. I mean there are plenty of women in sports who know their ****. To me, it’s promoting these obvious non-diehard because they went to elite schools (Yale and Harvard respectively).
I’m sure those alma maters lend themselves to high end knowledge in finance or whatever but not in sports.
When I listen to sports media, I want sports snobs. I don’t want some Ivy League doosh who thought it would be neat to get into sports journalism.
Kimes is awful and Torre is the smarmiest **** ESPN has ever run out there.
I thought Tracy Chapman was a man singing the song my entire life until somethin that looked like a black lady walked out on stage to sing it with Luke Combs last year.
talk about my holey socks bein knocked right off.
Sports talk media/TV/radio/print etc. is and always HAS been awful. It's ponderous and repetitive dreck. Kornheiser and the non-sports segments of KSR are the only things worth listening to.
Put on more weight than I care to admit when I retired, but I'm back on the morning swims, and I'm down 40 pounds since Memorial Day. Pretty much quit drinking (football season will probably change that temporarily though), and cut out stupid carbs.
Coming up on 3 years without smoking a heater. Maybe once a month I'll get a crave out of nowhere but that's it.
Glad to see that rogue is back. He's old skool GYERO now.
Gave some serious thought last week to taking a spur of the moment trip to Wrightsville Beach to catch the storm surge but circumstances wouldn't allow it. My boards are so old now anyway that they'd probably snap. LOL
Put on more weight than I care to admit when I retired, but I'm back on the morning swims, and I'm down 40 pounds since Memorial Day. Pretty much quit drinking (football season will probably change that temporarily though), and cut out stupid carbs.
Coming up on 3 years without smoking a heater. Maybe once a month I'll get a crave out of nowhere but that's it.
Glad to see that rogue is back. He's old skool GYERO now.
Gave some serious thought last week to taking a spur of the moment trip to Wrightsville Beach to catch the storm surge but circumstances wouldn't allow it. My boards are so old now anyway that they'd probably snap. LOL
- Sad to see Hyman the Clown go woke.
- Analytics has taken the fun out of sports media. I especially hate the nerd sports analysts who didn't play the game talk about advanced analytics to explain why somebody is good or overrated. They're probably right, but it's just boring after a while.
- Bill Simmons (who I really like) loves these sorts of people and hires them left and right. I'm looking at you Bill Barnwell and Zach Lowe.
- I miss the days before advanced analytics where a sports analyst would be advocating for some baseball player on your team because he had a bunch of RBIs or something, but you knew he sorta sucked because you watch him day in and day out, and you'd think, "whatever dude, he f'ing blows". Now some sports nerd will tweet out about how that player ranks low in barrel %, launch angle, expected OPA, etc., proving out what you knew but couldn't explain. Just not any fun anymore.
- Torre and Kimes remind me of a less controversial Bomani Jones. Matt Jones, Bill Simmons and the execs at ESPN may find them interesting and intelligent and want to have them on their shows (or worse, give them their own shows), but at the end of the day I just don't find any of them likeable. Like would you want to go have a beer with Pablo Torre?
- Switching topics, I never understood how old people (like in their fifties) looked like goddamn goofballs when they try to run. But this accelerating progression into becoming infirm is changing my perspective. What they don't really tell you is that things don't heal any more. I recently was told I have plantar fasciitis, medial epicondylitis (golf elbow), and a pulled forearm. The pulled forearm is getting better, but the other two apparently don't get better unless I guess you just don't move for 3 months. I can't imagine what it's going to be like when I'm 75. Probably go visit Dr. Smith & Wesson.
Wayne, just take up lap swimming. I get there at 5:30 and so it's usually just me and a bunch of old people.
I know, compared to most of you, I AM "old people", but not compared to THIS crowd. LOL
I know, compared to most of you, I AM "old people", but not compared to THIS crowd. LOL
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My curiosity wonders who were the experts in the handicapping discussion.
Ha! Not sure if it was anyone famous. Two guys. Just happened upon it the Friday. Came back Saturday. Place was full.Think place was called Matt Dennys.
I used to routinely run 2-3 miles 2-4x a week. Nothing crazy but good exercise and nice way to clear your head.
Between seasonal asthma flareups and achilles tendinitis, I rarely run anymore. Kinda sucks. It’s always something in your 40s.
Between seasonal asthma flareups and achilles tendinitis, I rarely run anymore. Kinda sucks. It’s always something in your 40s.
I tried going early to swim at the Y a couple of years ago. I’m old as dirt, but had to tell the other guys I came here to swim and then go about my day. I didn’t come here to see a bunch of old men just standing around naked or trying to hold a conversation. Geez, put a damn towel around yourself.
Now I just swim across the lake or river I’m fishing until it gets too cold. Do a lot of walking banks in the winter, walking through heavy brush and thickets will give you a good workout.
Throw a casting net from spring through fall for upper body strength. You throw a net for an hour and you’re getting a good workout.
Have never worked out in my life, between working on a farm, other labor jobs and fishing, hunting morels and other outdoor activities, I got plenty of workout. Always been skinny, so no need to do much else.
Now I just swim across the lake or river I’m fishing until it gets too cold. Do a lot of walking banks in the winter, walking through heavy brush and thickets will give you a good workout.
Throw a casting net from spring through fall for upper body strength. You throw a net for an hour and you’re getting a good workout.
Have never worked out in my life, between working on a farm, other labor jobs and fishing, hunting morels and other outdoor activities, I got plenty of workout. Always been skinny, so no need to do much else.
A good physical therapist after your 40th birthday is more important than just about anything. Don't stop moving, just get some of those awful PT moves that will fix it.
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Have you tried to watch a SportsCenter lately? It used to be Dan Patrick, Charley Steiner, Stuart Scott, Craig Kilborn, I even liked the eventual dbag Keith Olberman on there. 10 great SC anchors are escaping my memory as I type. The Sports Reporters on Sunday morning, sitting around smoking cigars, probably with a stiff drink or coffee. Bert Sugar, Hank Greenberg, Mitch Albom, Dick Schaap, who am I forgetting?
Fast Forward to today and it’s a bunch of nerds trying to force an interest and knowledge in the sport that they are talking about. Bland, artificial and contrived. Women on every panel of men’s sports coverage, etc, etc, etc.
Scott Van Pelt is still good and is the only link to what SportsCenter and ESPN used to be.
Do we know much of anything about our football team? If expectations only lead to disappointment, then we should be good, because there is 0 expectation around this team.
If UK Football has taught us nothing else, it's that optimism about it is a fool's errand. If you predict a 5 win season though, no matter the year, you're going to be correct more often than not. We have a large sample size (110 seasons) and that is our average; 5 wins per season.
After looking at this season's schedule though, I'm hard-pressed to even find THAT many.
After looking at this season's schedule though, I'm hard-pressed to even find THAT many.
You speak truth here. I still miss the days of naive optimism in UK football.
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The Sports Reporters also had that round guy with glasses who ended up being a child molester.
-Been pissy enough about how last season unfolded and all the **** going on around the program. Would love nothing more than to be wrong and have to eat crow. Big start would be to go easily handle a good Toledo squad. Do we have a QB1 yet? Just get to 6 or 7 wins, Stoops.
-Weather porn going on right now.
-No kids sports last weekend. Mercy, I forgot what that was like. Unbelievable. Instead spent most of the weekend cleaning the house/garage.
Clean and organized garage is a top 5 feeling in life.
-Weather porn going on right now.
-No kids sports last weekend. Mercy, I forgot what that was like. Unbelievable. Instead spent most of the weekend cleaning the house/garage.
Clean and organized garage is a top 5 feeling in life.6 or 7 wins would be wild. 9 of our 12 opponents are receiving votes, and we're neck-and-neck with Toledo in the power rankings. That leaves 2 "guaranteed" wins, a coin flip, and 9 games as underdogs.
5 wins would be worst case scenario, IMO. Either blow it up or show us the "motivation" paid off and we're rebuilding.
We didn't win 5 last season with Walker, Brown, Key, Hairston, Rybka, Weaver, Silver, Oxendine, Dumas-Johnson, etc. on the roster.
I'm not sure we have anyone in that tier now. Maybe McGowan? Gusta?
5 wins is closer to a best case scenario than worst. 7 would be far-and-away Stoops' best coaching job ever.
I'm not sure we have anyone in that tier now. Maybe McGowan? Gusta?
5 wins is closer to a best case scenario than worst. 7 would be far-and-away Stoops' best coaching job ever.
* I always assume that an adult who is too into running hates their wife and/or family and needs a ready excuse to leave the house for hours at a time.
Just walk. It is probably better for your long-term health than running anyway and doesn't put a ton of stress on your joints.
* I care far more about Kentucky looking like a competent football team again than the final record. For most of Stoops' tenure, we were a smashmouth team that did not beat ourselves and used a tough run game to set up playaction.
We were a joke last year with overpaid players who didn't care to be here and let it show loud and clear. If we see that again, it is time for a change no matter how much it costs.
* How long does Barnhart stick around? Matt Jones said recently that he doesn't expect Barnhart to be here in 4 years. I feel like that could have been said every year since about 2008, so I am rather less convinced than Matt.
If anything, Mitch is on a current heater and may want to let it ride for a while longer.
Just walk. It is probably better for your long-term health than running anyway and doesn't put a ton of stress on your joints.
* I care far more about Kentucky looking like a competent football team again than the final record. For most of Stoops' tenure, we were a smashmouth team that did not beat ourselves and used a tough run game to set up playaction.
We were a joke last year with overpaid players who didn't care to be here and let it show loud and clear. If we see that again, it is time for a change no matter how much it costs.
* How long does Barnhart stick around? Matt Jones said recently that he doesn't expect Barnhart to be here in 4 years. I feel like that could have been said every year since about 2008, so I am rather less convinced than Matt.
If anything, Mitch is on a current heater and may want to let it ride for a while longer.
It's a shame that we can't be competitive in the SEC. Facilities are great, stadium is great (IMO. I go back to he very dark times), fanbase is great (until around November), money is there, it's a huge university, etc. Seem to just be missing players that give AF and coaches that can coach players up. Pretty important missing pieces.
I know millions of dollars is millions of dollars, but at some point if this season goes like we fear it will, pride has to be a decision maker for Stoops. After amassing a fortune in coaching, and based on his age, what else is there to do but get it fixed or move on? It's a shame that the most successful coach (by certain measures)in most of our lifetimes is moving into pariah territory.
Either way. Go Big Blue.
I know millions of dollars is millions of dollars, but at some point if this season goes like we fear it will, pride has to be a decision maker for Stoops. After amassing a fortune in coaching, and based on his age, what else is there to do but get it fixed or move on? It's a shame that the most successful coach (by certain measures)in most of our lifetimes is moving into pariah territory.
Either way. Go Big Blue.
- @creeksman I don’t think anth saying winning 5 games was the worst this team can do record-wise, it’s the worst case scenario because then your stuck with Stoops due to improved record just good enough to have to keep him. If he wins 4 or less you have all the leverage to push him to hopefully take another job or fire him. Otherwise your stuck saying, “well he improved against a hard schedule and it’s going to cost 40 million or whatever to buy him out so I guess we’ll do another year of this.”
-I completely agree the non-sports segments are KSR’s best radio, even they obviously realize that. Need the UK talk too of course but it’s best during season with a mixture of both.
And I see what Chad is saying now with the university elites not necessarily DEI, that makes sense.
-The ESPN is horrible take is and has been legit. The fact they all give each other ridiculous nicknames just shows it’s a bunch of no-sports-playing wannabe goobers that finally have the ear of sports fans only by default though.
- @Wayne Dougan I know you stay active, just saying this in general. That’s one reason why I run stairs, lift, do sprints/scissor sprints/split jumps/lateral squats and lunges/put some torque on the spine/etc. Sure I may get hurt but so may anyone else doing muchanothin’ past a certain age. If your body is accustomed to recovery and movement it’s going to heal much faster and honestly less likely to get hurt period unless you’re overdoing it (between me and you I def probably do overdo it). I’d rather get hurt from lifting than stepping one inch too far laterally to put the dishes away and my meniscus tears though.
Best way for people that have been immobile for years to get hurt, go outside and just for 10 yards sprint as fast as you can one time… something is popping or you’re probably falling.
-I completely agree the non-sports segments are KSR’s best radio, even they obviously realize that. Need the UK talk too of course but it’s best during season with a mixture of both.
And I see what Chad is saying now with the university elites not necessarily DEI, that makes sense.
-The ESPN is horrible take is and has been legit. The fact they all give each other ridiculous nicknames just shows it’s a bunch of no-sports-playing wannabe goobers that finally have the ear of sports fans only by default though.
- @Wayne Dougan I know you stay active, just saying this in general. That’s one reason why I run stairs, lift, do sprints/scissor sprints/split jumps/lateral squats and lunges/put some torque on the spine/etc. Sure I may get hurt but so may anyone else doing muchanothin’ past a certain age. If your body is accustomed to recovery and movement it’s going to heal much faster and honestly less likely to get hurt period unless you’re overdoing it (between me and you I def probably do overdo it). I’d rather get hurt from lifting than stepping one inch too far laterally to put the dishes away and my meniscus tears though.
Best way for people that have been immobile for years to get hurt, go outside and just for 10 yards sprint as fast as you can one time… something is popping or you’re probably falling.
The absolute worst on ESPN is Monica McNutt. When someone comes on the set wearing a #20 blue football jersey with the name Sanders on it and you think it is for Shedeur Sanders, well you should probably not be interviewing anyone or speaking on sports topics. Just embarrassing she did not know it was a Barry Sanders jersey.
They're rarely right, especially in baseball. Eye test and the numbers they put up are still the standards. You can do a deep dive into each without getting into advanced bs.
Barry Sanders retired in 1999... the same year Monica McNutt was ten (10) years old.
Great point.
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I was 9 and I am very capable of spotting a Barry Sanders jersey in the wild. She works for what is at least portrayed as a sports network. Thats intro level stuff there bub.
- Running is a billion times better for you than walking. My Vo2 max measurements bear this out. When I run for a consistent period of time, they go way up. When I stop running and just walk, say, 16.000 steps per day, they fall. Running gets a bad rap. Yeah, you need to lift as well. And no, doing what PTI does where you run 40 miles a day isn't ideal. But a good 25 miles a week is fantastic for you.
- Broke two fingers playing softball yesterday. Still hit a triple after I broke them. I'm like Ronnie Lott.
I haven't played softball for 20 years, but my swing hasn't changed. For some reason I'm terrible at generating the backspin on a ball to go yard. I spend a large portion of my day right now just watching YouTube videos to improve that.
False. Does diddly poo as far as getting your heart rate up. I get it if you can't or are an old, but running's benefits far outweigh the benefit of just walking. 2-3 miles 3-4x per week does wonders for your cardiovascular health. Walking does no such thing.
Just messing with you.
15 years for me. Would be scared to blow a hamstring the first time I hit one in the gap.