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re: 2026 NASCAR Season Thread

Posted by bamarep on 5/23/26 at 1:21 pm to
That makes this even more screwed up. Kyle being Kyle trying to tough out a sinus infection let it escalate to sepsis.

More than likely preventable on strong antibiotics 3 weeks ago when all this started.
It blows my mind at the dumb fricks that are actively rooting for Elon to fail and the even dumber fricks that think this was anything but an overwhelming success.

Elon isn't advancing his own companies, he's advancing humanity.
Bubba can't out drive Brexton, much less Kyle.
I have a pair of boxing gloves Roy Jones wore in a title defense.

The gloves are signed by Roy, Bernard Hopkins, and Evander Holyfield (all signed on seperate occasions)
Found several issues with this:

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The ruling does not affect the South Atlantic red snapper commercial season, which NOAA Fisheries said it will announce at a later date.


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Bob Zales’ group, the Southeastern Fisheries Association Southeastern Fisheries Association - Home out of Panama City, filed the lawsuit,


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“You have to be able to project how many anglers you think might want to go fishing,” Zales told Sparvero. “You have to be able to project the number of fish that you think might be harvested during that period of time.”



A 100% bought and paid for verdict by the COMMERCIAL fishing groups.

A cock sucker out of PANAMA CITY that's not even fishing in the Atlantic is the cause of this bullshite.

Both Trump and DeSantis should both issue executive orders for this ruling to not be enforced and tell that judge to frick off.

re: 2026 NASCAR Season Thread

Posted by bamarep on 5/23/26 at 7:40 am to
They aren't going to be racing anytiime soon.
As a lifelong NASCAR fan, these types of events greatly impact our beloved sport.

Davey, Alan, Dale, Neil, and now Kyle. I've been very immersed in the social media response to Kyle's death. Most are overwhelming positive and heart felt. Even those with very public spats with Kyle posted gut wrenching tributes to KB. They may not have liked him, but they damn sure respected him. They knew to be their best they were going to bave to deal with Kyle Busch.

What I'm going to say next probably isn't going to be popular but in the deepest part of my heart believe it to be true.

Kyle Busch was the 2nd best most pure racer of the last 50 years. It's not even really my even my opinion. He literally has the record to prove it. NASCAR literally created a rule to keep him out of the lower series. They created the "Kyle Busch Bounty" for anyone that could beat him.

I've seen multiple posts bitching about the "8" number being shelved for Brexton's arrival in the sport. It's the right thing to do. Dale Jr fans can get over it. Jr can't carry Kyle Busch's jock strap. Dale inherited a legacy; Kyle built one. There is a difference.

I say he's second only to Tony Stweart and only because Tony has not only won in other types of racing, he was Champion in other types of racing. I would have loved to see Kyle try his hand at open wheel racing. I firmly believe he would have dominated that as well.

Kyle was never "my driver" but I wasn't mad to see him win. I remember Kurt Busch boldly stating after some of his success, "if you think I'm good wait until my brother gets up here. Kurt knew how good he was and was going to be. Now we all know and he will be greatly missed.

Rest in peach Kyle. You are forever a Champion.

re: 2026 NASCAR Season Thread

Posted by bamarep on 5/17/26 at 3:08 pm to
Y'all member when the All Star race was actually fun?


Bamarep members


This is horrible.
NASCAR has tried this multiple time with less than favorable results.

Danica (who did actually have some success)

Hallie Deegan

and now, Natalie Decker
Baw if you were any kind of boxing fan, you already had DAZN.

I'm glad Arum and his fighters finally found a home.
I'm not an expert of if a PROFESSIONAL foorball player needs his former coach (or daddy for that matter) to come tell his current coach how to "get the most out of him" that's probably a pretty good indication that said player shouldn't be playing in the NFL.

re: MVP MMA 1

Posted by bamarep on 5/16/26 at 7:40 am to
I've never seen Carano fight. However, I kind of started following her after hearing her story of standing up to Disney and telling them to FO about all the "woke" shite they wanted her to do.

Kudos to her. Bamarep is a fan.

re: 2026 Spring Garden Thread

Posted by bamarep on 5/10/26 at 7:09 am to
This week's rain washed away the wood chip mulch I put on all of my tomatoes and peppers. 5.5 inches of rain in 4 hours will do that. I was worried about my beans/peas because I had just cultivated them. Looks like I may be able to salvage them.

Wrecked my driveway too, took me two afternoons on the tractor to fix that.

We needed the ran badly but DAMN.

re: What happened to boxing.

Posted by bamarep on 5/7/26 at 2:01 pm to
Do not agree with this at all. Do we need 5 belts? Certainly not but there's plenty of evidence that the sanctioning bodies (Zuffa will be no different) let those they want fight for titles.

Y'all watch. After the Wardley/Dubois fight, one of the bodies (probably the IBF) will strip Usyk and award that belt to the winner of the Wardley/Dubois fight. Or they'll make the winner mandatory for Usyk and if Usyk chooses to fight someone else (he's already beaten Dubois TWICE) they'll take the belt away.

re: What happened to boxing.

Posted by bamarep on 5/7/26 at 12:15 pm to
There isn't a simple answer to a complex question.

The biggest problem is that PPVs happened. Also, America's prime athletes gravitated to the stick and ball sports. The advent of robust amateur leagues for the stick and ball sports got athletes out o0f gyms in the other sports "off months" so the pipeline of younger talent took a hit.

There's also the issue of the best not fighting the best. In US boxing's hayday 1980s-2000s you didn't have to beg the best to fight the best. They were lining up to fight each other.

Corrupt sanctioning bodies haven't helped but they were corrupt back then too.

I'm a massive boxing fan and do not think that MMA had a lot to do with boxing's decline at all. They are different sports with different fan bases.

But boxing is far from dead as many would like to claim.

Inoue/Nakatani just filled a 55K seat stadium and US fans were up at daylight to watch the fight.

Haney/Garcia II will fill up any arena it's staged in.

Benavidez/Canelo or Benavidez/Bivol will do huge numbers

As a previous posted mentioned, boxing being on free TV again would go a long way to building it back up because fans could watch fighters grow and become more invested.

Also, fighters today seem to lack charisma. Suger Ray, Hearns, RJJ, Ali, Foreman, and ODH were household names with huge endorsement deals. Even casuals knew who they were.

There are very few (especially US) fighters with marketable charisma and appeal. Garcia has it but he needs to not act like a wack job half of the time.
Bad look for Jamo. A lot of people will probably flame this opinion but it sets a precedent if this goes through.

There has to be some guardrails for this shite.
Does any of this affect the "super safety" mechanisms?

Asking for a friend.

re: 2026 Firearm Deals Thread

Posted by bamarep on 5/2/26 at 7:04 am to
Still PISSED I can't find a 9mm lever for less than 2 grand.

Manufacturers are really missing the boat with this one.

re: 2026 Spring Garden Thread

Posted by bamarep on 5/2/26 at 6:53 am to
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I wish my wife would can this stuff.



Do it yourself baw. I inherited my grandmothers and mothers canning equipment because my sister didn't want it. I've actually enjoyed learning how do can different things.

We bought a new (to us) place last summer. When I expand my shop I'm actually going to use some of that space as my "canning kitchen" so I don't destroy the one in the house when I can stuff.
I want to build a lean to off of one side of my shop to put my grills and smoker under.

Do they make a transition piece so the lean to roof will butt up cleanly to the shop siding with all those ridges or do I have to bust out the tin snips?

I just want it to seal up properly without a lot of foam/sealant.

Thanks for any tips.

re: 2026 Spring Garden Thread

Posted by bamarep on 5/2/26 at 6:44 am to
We're at 3.5 inches so far in the gump.

last inch was a slow all nighter.