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roguemocha

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-Ever since owning a hatchback and then small suv I really like them. Of course I’d love to have a big sweet black Silverado but I can’t justify the cost in my head.

The Kia Niro, Hyundai Kona, and those tiny SUVs they aren’t selling here yet like the Casper and the Picanto I really dig just having it me, my dog and some groceries or a bike in the back for the most part.

I also am not a car person so whatever is cheap, good on gas and gets us around is perfectly fine with me.

Also, haven’t had a car payment in my life so paying cash is important. I can’t imagine paying $500/month for something that’s decreasing in value every day.

-Speaking of finances, as much as I plan on continuing to buy houses to rent it’s tough not enjoying watching one of my Schwab accounts RAKE this year and not want to dump more cash in there. But that’s also where quite a bit of cash for down payments will be coming from…

-Bought a 750W E-Bike and had it sent to SP. Can’t wait to check it out. It may be way more power than I need but pulling my #225 fatass and my #80 dog around will take some effort.

-Very fair point by wcc, those 3-4 hour pods are always going to have parts people don’t care about. Like Segura, Rogan, Callen, Schaub, etc talking cars is like the last thing I care about. I usually listen through it, just don’t care at all.

But then you have some rando like Randall Carlson and graham hancock and now I’m well-versed in the Younger Dryas and Pleistocene periods.

-Eating lunch at Drakes and nice dude from phoenix comes in and asks, “what areas of town do I need to stay away from?”

Me: “You’re from phoenix? 😆 You’ve got nothing to worry about here unless you like getting rowdy downtown after midnight. Go drive around Keeneland and horse country.”

Him: “Yeah I saw driving in, apparently there’s a rich guy here and his fence alone cost more than my house.”

Me: “Yeah there’s a bunch of those guys and they own everything surrounding Lexington and all the farms look like that my man.”

Him: “there’s that much money here?”

Me: “You have no idea.”

Always get a kick when out of towners come to Kentucky (Lexington specifically) and their mind is blown about the money here. I mean, they could shop at Saks daily and still be like, oh THAT mfer has money, not me.
 
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krazykats

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- If there is a time to catch and pass the Brewers it’s the next 2 weeks. They have the Dodgers, Rangers, Twins, Padres, Cubs and Phillies. They should be below .500 on that stretch.

- First week of NFL preseason has me even more primed for this football season. The first full weekend of Saturday/Sunday all day football will be treated like Christmas by the time it gets here.

- Wayne did spark my thoughts as to who really needs competition. ESPN that’s who. With most big sports carrying their own channels now I’m not sure it’s possible for a competitor to come in and get back to sports, highlights and talk shows but it’s severely needed because ESPN is terrible.

- After roughly 1000 ABs in the backyard little man is mashing the baseball. He can’t catch a ball and really doesn’t want to either but I’m ready to get him on a field at this point.

- This Michael Oher story is crazy. He is the kid the Blind Side movie is about. If what he claims is true the Tuohy’s are scum.
 
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WayneDougan_rivals170043

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Let me get this straight

  • Oher was in high school and over 18 when he signed the conservatorship. This was before NIL existed.
  • He was in college when Michael Lewis wrote a book about him
  • He was in the NFL when they made a movie about him.
  • The family didn’t make any money off of Oher’s endorsement deals or NFL contract
  • Oher has stated many times how the Tuohy’s at his family.
But now, at age 37 and out of the NFL, the Tuohy’s are the bad guys?

Pretty good foresight by the Tuohy’s to “trick” Oher into signing that knowing all of this was gonna fall into place.
 
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PTI Anon1640710541

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The Tuohy's aren't bad people. Didn't you watch the movie? They are angels. Saints. They found a dirt poor kid who just so happened to be 6-foot-5, 340-pounds with massive hands and great footwork and took them in like he was their own.

I'd like to adopt the next Michael Jordan, personally. Because I'm a good guy.



NOTE: Sean Tuohy and Michael Lewis both graduated from the Newman School, which is a few blocks from my house. I think they were even in the same graduating class, so they've certainly known each other for decades.
 
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krazykats

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Making money based on the premise you adopted the kid knowing you didn’t is a complete fraudulent scam.

They knew damn well he wasn’t adopted. He only recently found out when explaining how he was adopted, but was told that wasn’t the case.

It isn’t like at 18 when adults say the adopt you and are taking care of you that the legit paperwork is something you concern yourself with.

Furthermore, as they profited 2.5% from a 300 million movie and had everyone sign that “the family” would be paid 225K each plus some of the percentage, but knew damn well Oher himself was not apart of their family.

That’s shady AF. That’s real life, and like I said if it’s proven to all be true the way Oher is filing then they are scum!
 
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WayneDougan_rivals170043

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krazykats said:
Making money based on the premise you adopted the kid knowing you didn’t is a complete fraudulent scam.

They knew damn well he wasn’t adopted. He only recently found out when explaining how he was adopted, but was told that wasn’t the case.

It isn’t like at 18 when adults say the adopt you and are taking care of you that the legit paperwork is something you concern yourself with.

Furthermore, as they profited 2.5% from a 300 million movie and had everyone sign that “the family” would be paid 225K each plus some of the percentage, but knew damn well Oher himself was not apart of their family.

That’s shady AF. That’s real life, and like I said if it’s proven to all be true the way Oher is filing then they are scum!
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You are only hearing Oher’s side of it.
 
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I for one am just glad Michael Oher is finally saying what I have been telling my wife for years. She loves that stupid *** movie & its zesty message of the savior white people helping the poor 5-star athlete. Give me a freaking break. Cant wait to send that article to my dumb little wife & (hopefully) ruin her day.

Taylor swift looks like a dogwood tree compared to airplane girl. No contest!!

I have never even heard of leadoffs in coach pitch, & makes absolutely no sense. Would be hilarious tho.

That guys song is fine, but hes mostly just screaming? Its like hes trying to be alt-right tyler childers. I would like to hear a few more songs from his catalogue but the conspiracy theory that hes an industry plant is probably accurate. Also, the folks at fudge rounds gotta be happy with all this publicity. I may even grab a box (bag??) on my way home today.

Both my boys need new baseball bats & new team dues, so I will be selling my plasma & canceling cable for a couple months. Let me know how the football cats look.
 
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Ribsandwhitebread

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The Oher story brings back some memories. I think I did the first recruiting piece on him. (I had completely forgotten about Freeze being his HS coach.)

2/26/2004 FOOTBALL

Offers roll in for Tennessee OL​


Jeff Drummond
Rivals100.com Recruiting Analyst

Memphis (Tenn.) Briarcrest Christian offensive lineman Michael Oher is well on his way to being one of the Volunteer State’s elite prospects for 2005.

Oher (6-5, 330, 4.9) has picked up early scholarship offers from Tennessee, Ole Miss, N.C. State, Memphis and Oklahoma State, according to his coach.

Featured on Rivals​

“Those are just the first ones,” Briarcrest coach Hugh Freeze said. “Every school in the nation is going to want this kid.”

 
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PTI Anon1640710541

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The re-telling of The Blind Side is a tale as old as time -- rich white folks step in and take away a poor black athlete's money from him so he doesn't mess up his life by blowing it all on himself. I believe this is the NCAA's motto, actually.
 
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It’s a good movie, one of few Bullock had made. But if you think whether white black yellow anything people are bringing you athlete *** in, well you’re wrong. Mfers always want money. I’ve learned that heavy.
 
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wcc31 said:
Sandra Bullock is the most overrated chick on earth.
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No. Way.

Julia Roberts is the most overrated woman in history. Women are convinced she's the most gorgeous woman ever and she's a Hollywood 5, tops. Sandra Bullock is an absolute smokeshow who can pull off a girl next door role.

Terrible, terrible take.

* I'd like to thank the Census Bureau for threatening me with jail or whatever if I don't take some dumbass survey about my business that seemingly never ends. It even asks about AI and whatnot. I need to get ChatGPT to fill out this repetitive ****.

#TeamLibertarian

* By not listening to local radio or watching the news, I've managed to almost completely ignore political ads thus far. Between the governor's race this year and the presidential race in 2024, I'm sure my respite will be brief.

* Do Croatians count as honks?
 
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Maybe the Tuohy's are sleazy, Hugh Freeze sure is but I think it was pretty well known the movie added.a.lot that didn't happen. I'm pretty sure the Tuohy's said they sought legal guardianship which is not the same as adoption so why he thought that, I don't know. Oher has been married less than a year so I imagine he's got her in his ear about the money. But you know the world don't move to the beat of just one drum, what might be right for you, may not be right for some.
 
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WayneDougan_rivals170043

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The entire story comes down to one thing and it's not the conservatorship. From ESPN.com.

According to the legal filing, the movie paid the Tuohys and their two birth children each $225,000, plus 2.5% of the film's "defined net proceeds." The movie became a critically acclaimed blockbuster, reportedly grossing more than $300 million at the box office, and tens of millions of dollars more in home video sales. The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, and Sandra Bullock won a Best Actress trophy for her portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy. While the deal allowed the Tuohys to profit from the film, the petition alleges, a separate 2007 contract purportedly signed by Oher appears to "give away" to 20th Century Fox studios the life rights to his story "without any payment whatsoever." The filing says Oher has no recollection of signing that contract, and even if he did, no one explained its implications to him.

The deal lists all four Tuohy family members as having the same representative at Creative Artists Agency, the petition says. But Oher's agent, who would receive movie contract and payment notices, is listed as Debra Branan, a close family friend of the Tuohys and the same lawyer who filed the 2004 conservatorship petition, the petition alleges. Branan did not return a call to her law office on Monday.

So Oher apparently did sign away his ability to profit from the movie (not sure why he would have done this). His agent was Branan who knew the Tuohy's, but I don't see how this impacts them at all. It seems the real villian here would be either 20th Century Fox or Branan. Or Oher is just a moron.
 
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WayneDougan said:
That tool wasn't even really AI - all marketing.
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AlphaRoute is out of Massachusetts and helps with planning routes and assigning bus stop locations. The program — developed by graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — uses artificial intelligence to generate the routes with the intent of reducing the number of routes. Last year, JCPS had 730 routes last year, and that was cut to 600 beginning this year.

https://www.wdrb.com/news/education...cle_448ccd7a-3783-11ee-a2d8-dfef3db3eb07.html
 
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The amount of scrubbing that has to be done to raw map data to keep accurate location/delivery points is so far over that company's head it isn't funny.

Congrats on selling the dream to a school board that has no idea either. I'm sure taxpayers will get their money back.

No telling what other slapdick decisions get made like this without such public failure. Good on those guys for their Political Science degrees tho.

Dreaming of Trevin Wallace dropping LAD coming across the middle like a sack of potatoes between the hedges.
 
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