icegator337

re: Hot Take - What Sergio is doing with his LIV team is kind of admirable?

Posted by icegator337 on 12/3/25 at 2:53 pm to JimTiger72

Puig is a future star imo

Kinda doubt the other two end up doing much.

re: Continued Coach Chris Smoke - Real Estate Related

Posted by icegator337 on 12/1/25 at 3:17 pm to BasedAF

Is anything on South Lakesure Drive available? We need to get the wolf back in the friendly confines near sorority row

Coaching Changes

re: Epstein Files Vote in House - Only one Nay. Guess who it was...

Posted by icegator337 on 11/19/25 at 3:26 pm to XanJohn

Thank you for giving us a choice, Xan. I wish more people would have followed you and voted for you like I did. I look forward to voting for you in every election moving forward.

Political Talk

re: The only thing we need other than Layne..

Posted by icegator337 on 11/17/25 at 4:26 pm to GirthBrooks62

We should give the wolf of west lakesure a look for head coarch imo

Coaching Changes

re: Internet Invitational - part 5

Posted by icegator337 on 11/11/25 at 10:03 am to llfshoals

Course looks like an awful golf course with cool views to me. Does a terrible job of rewarding good shots or punishing bad shots. Seems like it's a lot of luck. Rates are $200 resort guest and $250 public guest

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re: Sandbaggers suck arse

Posted by icegator337 on 11/3/25 at 7:43 am to The Pickwick

I've always thought giving strokes in member guests leads to more sandbagging. They should be flighted and played straight up from there imo.

And the club needs to police it. Ban sandbagging guests and force the member into better flights next time

re: What’s the best golf ball for the price?

Posted by icegator337 on 10/27/25 at 5:27 pm to PenguinNinja

I golf prov1x logo overruns from golfballs dot com for $40/dozen

They're regular prov1 of the latest model you want, they just have random logos or words on them

re: City PRk Golf Carts

Posted by icegator337 on 10/27/25 at 5:24 pm to HarryVardon

City park should prolly be walking only anyway

re: Lafayette/Youngsville golf

Posted by icegator337 on 10/15/25 at 8:26 am to jwal39232

LT and Oakbourne. Public golf around Lafayette isn't good. The Farm and the Wetlands are decent public options, but tough to get a desirable tee time and not much in the way of games and social aspect you're looking for. I'd reach out to LT and OCC for the latest membership info

re: Golf Digest Sources: Reps of two recent PGAT winners are in discussions to join LIV

Posted by icegator337 on 10/13/25 at 11:39 am to The Pirate King

quote:
Under armour has nothing to do with the PGA tour. Spieth would get that whether he was with the PGA or LIV.

Probably not. Even if he doesn't agree to go full team branding and marketing like Rahm and others have, he's going to get less from under armour with less exposure, impressions, and marketability

re: Golf Digest Sources: Reps of two recent PGAT winners are in discussions to join LIV

Posted by icegator337 on 10/13/25 at 11:03 am to hehateme2285

quote:
Potgieter and Min Woo Lee

Two ball speed imposters, good riddance.

I'm doubtful MWL ever wins anything of substance, but he's extremely popular and marketable

Potgieter is still so young it's hard to count him out, but the short game needs tons of work before he's ready to compete with the top guys. The driver is a special weapon though. He'll always compete at the boring bomb and gouge set ups

re: LIV Golf has lost 1.1 billion outside of the US alone

Posted by icegator337 on 10/6/25 at 8:50 am to makersmark1

quote:
All work is essentially prostitution at some level, and all money is “dirty” somehow, so I don’t care whether guys take millions to play golf or not

Baw, what do you do for work that requires this level of mental gymnastics?

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re: Fan Behavior

Posted by icegator337 on 9/29/25 at 8:50 am to nola tiger lsu

quote:
Yes, but when did golf fans become so trashy?

covid

re: DAT 9/25: Astros (Valdez) @ A’s (Ginn): 2:35 PM

Posted by icegator337 on 9/25/25 at 2:12 pm to Floating Change Up

Sucks that a guy who produced 2.5+ WAR for each of the last 5 years and started a world series clinching game for us has to go out like this. He's done it to himself

re: DAT 9/23: Astros (Javier) @ A’s (Springs): 9:05 pm

Posted by icegator337 on 9/23/25 at 3:11 pm to Tiger Ryno

What sucks is our payroll is guaranteed to be pretty high the next couple years with the contracts we've given out. So ownership will want to make the team competitive and try to win. But the team is far too flawed to have a real chance to do anything other than lose in a wildcard series at best. So we'll slowly sink to the bottom and have nothing of value to sell by the time we get there instead of trading Pena, Yordan, Brown, Abreu, etc while they still have value

re: DAT 9/21: Mariners (Gilbert) @ Astros (Alexander) 6:10 We Gather in Remembrance

Posted by icegator337 on 9/22/25 at 10:59 am to DalenSA

Correa, Walker, Altuve, McCullers on the books next year for a total over $90mm in 2026. We'll be lucky if we get positive WAR out of that group.

Yordan, Javier, and Hader on the books for another $70mm with Pena, Brown, Paredes, and Yainer getting more expensive in arbitration. Hard to see where we have any financial flexibility to add anything in 2026

Type to start selling parts while they still have value and start the rebuild

re: DAT 9/18: YFPHA Off Day. .5 lead over M's; 1.5 behind Det for 2 seed

Posted by icegator337 on 9/18/25 at 3:33 pm to TigerFan91

quote:
Three games set with the division all tied. That's pretty sweet

Incredible that we're here and have a chance to get a first round bye considering our injury luck this season.

re: DAT 9/10 Astros (Costanza) @ Blue Jays (Berrios) 6:10

Posted by icegator337 on 9/10/25 at 9:07 pm to 5 Deep

re: DAT 9/9: Astros (Garcia) @ Blue Jays (Berrios) 6:07 PM

Posted by icegator337 on 9/9/25 at 10:48 am to LSUGrad9295

quote:
Altuve is broken

The latest Altuve extension is as bad as Montero, Abreu, and Walker contracts.

The Crane/Bagwell brain trust managed to close the window early

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re: Baby Moon golf trip

Posted by icegator337 on 9/8/25 at 9:11 am to Rendevoustavern

Sea Island will have better spas, rooms, restaurants and golf than pretty much everything you listed. I'd highly recommend Sea Island for something like this.

Kiawah would be great too