RolltidePA

re: Are there realtors who specialize in helping you repair a house to sell?

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/6/26 at 12:57 pm to dyslexiateechur

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Are there realtors who specialize in helping you repair a house to sell?

A portion of my wife's business is doing this. She an interior/exterior designer that has a contractors license as well. She's turned over properties as well as helped prep houses for sale. The work usually comes through contacts with agents that she has relationships with. Since she is both a designer and contractor she can offer turn-key type service where most will have to sub out the work. Makes it easy on them.

She would likely tell you to be very careful about doing any costly repairs unless they are necessary for safety or code compliance. Clean things up, paint the walls white or a close to white neutral and sell it as is. Many upgrades or repairs that people undertake are more costly than they will get in return on the sale.

I'm not saying to not do it, but if you do any of it make sure it's something that the buying market deems as a value add. It's easy to get finically upside down doing this kind of work.

re: Is BYU at #8 the most obvious Notre Dame favor that has happened in a long time?

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/6/26 at 12:39 pm to AZTiger7072

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ND may be elite. But it isn’t because of beating BYU

The real tale of the tape will be if after beating BYU by two or more scores what they rank BYU afterwards. Chances are they keep BYU in the top 12 to hold bolster Notre Dame's schedule and sells it as BYU playing a tough game against a juggernaut.

re: Coach Fran passes away. I saw a post on X and sorry guys

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/6/26 at 11:53 am to mrbroker

Same as I posted on the OT thread. He had Bama going in a really good direction and had he weathered the storm of probation, he would have done really well. His leaving for A&M ended up being a negative for all parties.

His Bama teams punched above their weight at the time and delivered a couple of really good wins and were never out of any games. That last loss to Auburn pretty much came from the lack of focus because of the circus around him leaving. Things eventually worked out for us, but for him he should have either never left TCU and retired a legend there or never left Bama. His ambition got the best of him.

All water under the bridge. RIP.

re: Dennis Franchione has passed away

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/6/26 at 11:37 am to Wellborn

RIP

I still say that he had Bama going in a really good direction and had he weathered the storm of probation, he would have done really well there. His leaving for A&M ended up being a negative for all parties.

SEC Rant

re: What Car Do You Drive?

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/6/26 at 11:28 am to Boodis Man

2025 Mazda CX-50
2024 Mazda MX-5 RF
2020 Ram 1500 Laramie

Only have a payment on the CX-50 because they could offer a 0.9% interest rate and I like free money.

re: No lies detected.

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/6/26 at 9:08 am to Diego Ricardo

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I think towards the end something went awry with the scouting element of the Saban regime. It was most pronounced at OL, WR, and RB. DL problems seem to be less scout and more that we were getting outbid by sneaker and oil money.

Consider the timing and then consider how Saban did his player evals throughout his career.

Saban relied heavily on his camps and time spent with a player to get an understanding of their competitive mental makeup.

Covid happens and affects 2020 and 2021. Camps didn't happen and and in person time with the recruits didn't happen. They had to rely fully on recruiting rankings and and film. They were blind to the true mental makeup of the players coming into the building and you can see why things worked out like they did and why the teams from 2021 on struggled with discipline and mindset. The last of that era filtered out over this last offseason.

re: Zabien Brown

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/5/26 at 1:51 pm to 1BamaRTR

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Bama is 51st in scoring defense. And two of those pick sixes mentioned were from the LBs. I’m not saying the secondary is bad but if you HAD to pick one unit that’s had the most issues they are the answer. But that’s also because every other unit on the team has matched or exceeded expectations

I guess the flip side to this is that the run defense has been elite by every metric; given up less than 2.5 yards per carry, less than 80 yards per game total. Both top 10 statistically. Top 10 in the country in 3rd down percentage as well.

All boils down to so far offenses have little choice but to throw the ball a lot, are often in 3rd and long scenarios and are playing from behind. Only path forward is to start slinging it around. Our opponents are averaging over 30 passes a game.

Kind of a smart play even if doesn't look great for efficiency. Stop the run, make them throw a lot knowing that turnovers happen more that way (we rank #5 in interception percentage 5.25%) , and once they do that there's no way to keep pace with how we can score.

It's a long way to say that while the numbers don't look great for the secondary, so far its been very complimentary football.

re: Oh boy, We are Jane Doe has started.

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/2/26 at 1:52 pm to BoomerandSooner

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Brad Bannon is a legend. He was a young lawyer that learned everything he could about DNA in a very short time and destroyed the DNA expert for the prosecution and showed they hid evidence.

Mike Nifong, the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case was a real piece of work. They found years worth of him hiding evidence and manipulating facts in order to get convictions. He had several wrongful murder convictions because of hiding DNA evidence. He ended up getting disbarred and doing some jail time, but it wasn't anywhere near enough.

Political Talk

re: Most arrogant/obnoxious fan bases you have personally interacted with

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/2/26 at 12:41 pm to Amarillo Tide

Most obnoxious: Ohio State, by far.

I had a run in with some of their fans and they kept crowing about 2014, meanwhile the last time we were on a field with them it was one of the ugliest beatdowns I've ever witnessed.

Most frightening fanbase: WVU

Have friend that went there and have been to games there. While they are mostly friendly and fun, man they take things to a level thats... well, unexpected.

re: I tip my hat to the marketing efforts of Big Toothpaste

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/2/26 at 11:14 am to weagle1999

Differences? Sure. My dentist told me to read the labels and make sure I'm buying toothpaste with Stannous Fluoride rather than Sodium Fluoride. It's a wide spread between products as to what they use.

In other countries, like Japan, they use toothpaste with HAP (Nano-hydroxyapatite) which effectively remineralizes teeth meaning that it actively repairs enamel and other cracks and weak spots. Naturally the FDA has not approved its use as an anti-cavity. You can find toothpaste with it on Amazon and some retail places. It's pretty pricey though.

re: The "downfall of EV's" appears to be propaganda and overhyped

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/2/26 at 10:56 am to East Coast Band

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All I can add is that Mercedes has all but abandoned their EV program.

That's not accurate. They have to continue their EV program for Europe since they have a governmental mandate for 55% CO2 emissions reduction by 2030 is in place. The only way to achieve that is with EVs.

Mercedes has a 60 billion Euro annual budget about 40 billion of that is slated toward EV production. Even thought they've changed course some, they've reduced investments into ICE and Hybrids by 80% over the last 5 years.

"Despite re-introducing flexibility, legacy investments into purely traditional, non-electrified combustion engines and plug-in hybrids have been systematically reduced by 80% compared to 2019"

re: College Football Viewership Down 11% Through September vs. 2025

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/1/26 at 2:50 pm to medium_okra

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Blame the B1G and ACC for their incredibly soft schedules. Almost all of them have been blowouts in tune-up games.

When the defending national champions, the team typically with the most eyes on it starts with:

North Texas
Howard
WKU
Northwestern
Rutgers
Nebraska

You can pretty much expect garbage viewership. Viewers like the big matchups and the B1G isn't scheduling many of them.

re: Phil Mickelson is no longer seeking treatment in a rehab facility

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/1/26 at 1:23 pm to lsupride87

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OJ is the only one I can think of that was universally loved and would have been the face of the league through death that just completely became a pariah like Phil

Pete Rose or Lance Armstrong probably fits in here as well. Not quite as murdery as OJ, but had significant falls from grace. Lance was loved by everyone, probably can't say the same for Pete. Maybe universally respected, but not loved.

re: Phil Mickelson is no longer seeking treatment in a rehab facility

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/1/26 at 1:18 pm to lsufball19

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Pretty wild that the two most influential and best golfers, by far, of a generation both have had disastrous off the course lives, and with striking similarity as to their central issues (chasing women, addiction). Phil's seems even more ridiculous considering he was thought to be the affable character of the two in their primes

A tour caddy lives in my neighborhood and I've played golf with him a few times in our club mens league.

He's said that most professional golfers are scumbags of the highest order and people that you would likely want to avoid in regular life. He did give a special shoutout to Phil being a purely awful human being and a generally slimy frick.

He also said that if you want for your kids to root for someone it should be Matt Fitzpatrick, he's apparently a genuinely good person.

re: Ryan Fitzpatrick: Burrow is 1-34 when trailing late? That doesn’t tell the story.

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/1/26 at 1:08 pm to Choupique19

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And the Bengals qb has either tied or taken the lead with scoring drives 17 out of 28 times when given the ball with under 4:00 left

This seems more like the Bengals coaching staff being utterly terrible with clock management and closing out games.

Bill Cower has a 108-1-1 record once he got up by 10. The one loss was against the Bengals from a bad snap for a FG that would have won the game. That's masterful game management with a lead. For comparison Taylor has 4 10+ point blown leads in his last 20 games, now 5 including the loss to the Steelers this past Sunday.

It's not Burrow, it's coaching mismanagment.

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re: 100 largest US cities ranked for Greenest City - Baton Rouge ranks #94

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/1/26 at 12:50 pm to Shexter

This list is purely idiotic. The "Energy Source" rating points are almost exclusively given by use of renewables, which aren't very green.

They have Raleigh ranked at 80th for clean energy. Most of the city power consumption is from nuclear. Ridiculous.

re: Cowboys send Steelers 2027 sixth-round pick and 2028 second-round pick for Joey Porter Jr.

Posted by RolltidePA on 10/1/26 at 12:29 pm to Bestbank Tiger

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Maybe it's a nagging injury he doesn't want to aggravate.

It's a fake injury. It's the exact same playbook that his agent has done with other players including Micah Parsons and Jalen Ramsey. Oddly enough both teams involved know about dealing with that.

End of the day, Porter wants All-Pro money for one year of Pro-Bowl production. He's the most penalized DB in the league since he came in in 2023 and led the entire NFL in penalties in 2024. He also doesn't generate turnovers. Don't get me wrong, he's a solid DB, he just isn't worth top 3 money and the Steelers (and likely the league) have him pegged as a top 10-15 DB.

re: Tesla launched high volume production of it's Semi truck

Posted by RolltidePA on 9/25/26 at 8:56 am to Darth_Vader

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If they can produce an EV that can go 300+ miles, recharge in >10 minutes, and be ready to go another 300+ miles, I’ll buy it without hesitation.

Mercedes tested a EQS with a new lithium metal solid-state battery made by a US company call Factorial last year. It went 750 miles on a single charge.

They say the new battery tech hold at least 25% more usable energy at the same weight as current batteries. The cool thing is that the test was mostly on highways where EVs are typically least efficient.

They are looking to get to market with these by 2030. At that point, you almost have to make the switch to an EV with that kind of range.

re: Why does Gen Z want to work in the dark?

Posted by RolltidePA on 9/24/26 at 2:36 pm to slidingstop

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Probably because you're not very important and wont ever be.
The oldsters I know working that hard are usually well paid and pretty essential to to the business. The oldsters who work with the ethic you described never progressed much beyond their original position. They also tend to be the first to be let go.

My personal experience is that most times what is praised as a strong work ethic is simply inefficiency rebranded and worn as a badge of honor. I manage a large team and the people that are most essential are those that don't often need extra hours to manage their responsibilities.

Now, there are a few true dedicated folks that can stay zeroed in on task for large amounts of time. But usually it's just low-trust micromanagers looking over their staff's shoulders all day and then spending those extra hours to take care of their actual responsibilities. It's real easy to look essential to a business when you simply don't let others make decisions and work to their full capability.

re: What are your thoughts on females being commentators in televised men's sporting events?

Posted by RolltidePA on 9/24/26 at 2:05 pm to Tiger Ugly

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As I said earlier, most play-by-play guys in most sports never played the game either so to say a woman can't do it because she never played it - in that instance is a bit disingenuous.

For sure, play-by-play, in studio even some front office discussion there are women that would be perfectly capable.

The radio shows I'm listening to I imagine are pretty niche and get into pretty deep technical details. Earlier this week Trai Essex (former Steelers G) was on with Todd Haley (Ex-Chiefs HC / Steelers OC) and they were going through OL concepts that they used including blocking leverage, hand placement, how to scheme against different defenses. Really in the weeds stuff.

Today I turned it on the woman filling in was talking about Patrick Mahomes hair. Off the station went.