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auyushu
| Favorite team: | Auburn  |
| Location: | Surprise, AZ |
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| Registered on: | 1/28/2011 |
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Seems like a pretty easy read actually.
Yeah, it's a pretty easy read as a whole for the series. Gwynne is just good in general. Took me a long time to read that series too honestly, even though I loved his other books.
The Blacktongue thief is a good read, but he's taken forever to get book 2 out.
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re: Chaney Johnson
Posted by auyushu on 3/26/26 at 11:10 pm to RandySavage
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but that team was still good enough to win it all for sure and in a lot of years would have. Just ran into a guy (Walter Clayton) who was on a heater ala Kemba Walker
No doubt, and if Kelly, Tahaad, and Denver weren't all ice cold in that game from three we probably still win that game even with Clayton going nuts.
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That roster was built to win it all.
We were basically a real PG short of a team that would have won it all. Replace Pegues with someone like Ja'Kobi Gillespie last year and we have a title most likely.
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Yes! I could not recommend Night Shift and Skeleton Crew more highly.
Yeah, these are my favorite stuff by King.
re: Project Hail Mary - Discussion (Spoilers)
Posted by auyushu on 3/24/26 at 6:16 pm to CatfishJohn
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get the movie was long, but if they didn't want to do 2 movies, maybe add 20-25 minutes to cover these things a bit.
No way in hell they could have added 20-25 minutes without losing the general audience. My wife has not read the book and enjoyed the movie a good bit, but she already thought it was a bit too long and could have been edited a bit to tighten things up. And making it two movies would be absolutely ridiculous, there isn't nearly enough book for that.
Sure, I wish they could have added more stuff from the book, but a frigging 3 hour version of this movie isn't accessible to the general audience and isn't making money.
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Given how great it was for the majority of it's run, it's easily the worst ending in the history of TV and it's not even close. In just
Pretty much this. I went from suggesting the books and the tv series to everyone to never suggesting anyone read or watch the series ever again after the last season. And I don't see that changing. First 4 seasons are among the best put to screen, 5 and 6 fall off but has some of the best episodes in the series. 7 is straight mediocre fan service and of course 8 is straight hot garbage.
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but you gotta go straight into Noble House after Tai-Pan.
Yeah, as great as Shogun is, Noble House might be my favorite by Clavell, and he has a bunch of good stuff.
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My dad didn't know anything about it going in and when Rocky's arm first appeared he let out an audible "Whoa". It was great.
Yeah, I managed to keep my wife from watching anything about it, and was glad.
They nailed it about as well as you could have transitioning from such an in depth scientific book. All of the cuts and adjustments made sense.
And most Importantly they killed it with Rocky and the Grace-Rocky friendship. Great movie.
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Prichard in Mobile…
This is no lie. Don't forget your bulletproof vest, and hope your teams bus doesn't get tipped over if you are traveling there.
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Since we’re pointing out people being stupid, the following post will be my bad call of the nighy
I think all sports can make people look stupid if they jump the gun with predictions, but baseball more than any other can really do it with random chance, errors, and pitcher implosions always being on the table :lol:.
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Bro really I think I need to concentrate on me
I think you have the right idea on this. After going through what you are right now you've probably gotta figure out who you even want to be going forward, much less what you want in a relationship.
But, as someone who just got married for the first time at 50 this past summer (after being together/engaged for a little over 5 years), it's definitely doable even where we are at once you get in the right place, or even want it.
I have a buddy I work with around your same age (like a couple years older) who went through almost the same thing you are at around 50. Blindsided by a divorce, moving into the apartment, kids just out of high school. He had a hard time for a bit and hit the whiskey pretty hard for a year, but then he got it together and got back into the dating scene and found himself a great wife he's been married to for about 5 years now. He's found renewed faith at his church (in his case Greek Orthodox) and things are going really good for him. Sometimes life isn't a straight path.
Obviously relationships with a decent woman at your age are almost always going to involve some step kids, but you are clearly no stranger to that and at least your kids are almost all out of college, which makes it easier.
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have always been religious. I suck at being a great Christian representation but I am constantly studying.
I think we all struggle with that representation part at times. And particularly online like this where people are slinging opinions around and egos are involved. Too often we let our mouths run away from us (or fingers typing I should say).
Anyway, I know we don't always see eye to eye on here with sports discussions, but I'm sorry you are having to deal with this. I really hope things settle down for you and you can get back on a smooth path, and you can focus on the little things that give you joy right now. At least you seem to have a strong relationship with your kids to lean on.
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but Butch is a great baseball coach. He is just now able to play by the same rules as the rest of the league with the goofy arse old 11.7 scholarship bullcrap. 2nd straight Top 10 recruiting class.
Seriously. Imagine trying to talk crap about a coach that has kept us relevant under such severe scholly limitations for years, much less when he has us as a top 5 team. SingleMalt has been doing his best to give Scoper a run for his money as dumbest and most negative poster who only shows up to comment when things go bad.
And talking about Butch not knowing how to handle pitchers is particularly funny given his pedigree.
re: Keyshawn Murphy out vs USA
Posted by auyushu on 3/18/26 at 8:31 am to auburnnyc94
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Steven had several misses this year but punishing Magwood for that was something he got right.
Yep, so have my doubts about Steven ever surviving as our coach due to how we collapsed down the stretch, and was firmly on teal he should have only been interim coach, but this he 100% made the right call on. If you want to say Magwood should have just been kicked off the team instead that is a fair statement, but it was 100% the right call not to play him, you can't undercut your coach like that publicly.
The bigger issue is that Steven seemed to lose a good portion of the team, which points to personality problems on his end long term. But he'll have this next off-season and season to prove us doubters wrong, or not.
re: Over/Under MLB 2027 season
Posted by auyushu on 3/16/26 at 6:39 pm to Tiger Ugly
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owners want a cap and the player are not going to budge on that.
Definitely gonna be a long stoppage until the players budge on that then, cause I don't see baseball coming out without a cap this time. The Dodgers have pulled too many shenanigans to not have one.
Definitely needs to be some sort of salary floor to go along with it to keep douchebag owners like the pirates owner from refusing to spend money.
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I’m starting Frankenstein t
It's not on that list, but I enjoyed Stoker's Dracula much more than Frankenstein.
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don't dislike it by any means but it's just some forgettable fights and not very good dialogue and not as much comedy. It
Yeah, I think this was most of my issue. There was a significant drop off in humor from books 5 and 6, both of those books were hilarious. And there wasn't much memorable about it, which was the opposite of what I was expecting for that level of the game with all the build up.
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You say out here like you are in a women's basketball hot bed
Most definitely not :lol: That's part of the problem. Only thing the Phoenix area is a hotbed of is soccer really, and maybe volleyball.
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Send your girl to me. lol
She's definitely the prototypical coaches love her because she's a motor is always on type of kid who plays crazy good and aggressive defense. If she was crying after games it was due to frustration at losing and/or her teammates not giving as much of a crap as she thought they should.
Problem is she doesn't have my genes (which she complains to her mom about) and is only 5'2 as a junior. She's got a scholly offer to a small NAIA college out here with a coach she really likes, which made her and us happy. Hopefully she can keep developing her offensive game there, as her passing ability and defense is on point.
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but I dont know that I have ever seen a team press all game even in school ball. All you gotta do is bust it.
Out here it's pretty common in middle school girls club ball for 3-4 club teams to just full press all game and smoke the lesser teams because those teams don't have good guard play and passing skills yet.
It was really hard to find my girl a decent club team because of it. As you can imagine the coaches of the club teams that are playing that way are douchebags and not teaching good skills.
As Marshall said, it's terrible for developing skills.
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you havent. Not to mention in that tournament it was three games in one day.
Yes I have my dude, though I was referring mainly to middle and high school ball not club ball. So no three games in one day stuff there. My girls high school team typically has had 7-8 players in the rotation (small charter school) her three years there and typically presses all game unless it's a blowout or they are playing teams it isn't effective against.
Though even in the 3 games in one day weekend tournaments she played in I would see teams with 8-9 girl rotations press all game. This was 12-14 year olds, not 10 and under year olds though.
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highly doubt we got 5% of our points from press.
Which is a good thing. Girls aren't learning the skills they need at that age if you are just pressing your way to wins. You are doing it the right way.
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We just need the next Gillespie
Pretty much. If you add him to this year's team and slide Tahaad to the 2 we would have been a tremendously better team.
Tanner wasn't a transfer btw, he just made a huge sophomore year jump to be a stud. Players like that are an example of why I think we still need to be recruiting good high school players.
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Did I not mention I only had 8 players. lol
I mean, as someone who has watched way too much girls basketball due to my oldest step kid being a ball is life type of girl, I've seen plenty of 8 team rosters press all game, so it's a fair question. And typically the dominant middle girls teams just press and get all their points that way.
Anyway, good on you for coaching girls basketball, particularly that young. That's a rough age to coach both in terms of skills and maturity.
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