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Strokin_Bandit

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I think @legalbeagle123 dated my old girlfriend from way back? And I also think he’s the same lawyer that met my best friend at some weird county attorney thing? I could be mixing that up though.

BBBD (Gyero historian) and I met quite a while back. We work in the same town, but I’m pretty sure he’s just a ghost now anyway.

Booker randomly messaged me to go watch the Vandy/UK 2013 SEC tourney game. We didn’t know each other from Adam’s housecat at the time so I thought that was a very cool gesture. I met a few of the regulars that day but it was such a whirlwind to get there, get to the right bar, keep up with where my crew was (my transportation and lodging), meet up with Booker, and then get to the arena.

Sat with Llama after I scalped some Sweet 16 tickets to him in 2019. Turns out that dude really brags about himself. He couldn’t stop talking about some Chick-Fil-A commercial he just finished recording. /roll eyes

Also scalped some Sweet 16 tix to AfroGermanSanta way back in 08 or 09 now that I think about it.

Some other random moments but nothing all that wild. I was at Tin Roof in Indy for the 2014 game with UL but I was with a separate crew and really most everything about that evening is a little foggy.

Stoops first game at UK playing WKU in Nashville? Feel like I ran into an angry/drunk BBdK at Tootsie’s after that one but it could have been just a bad dream.
 

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- It was 2003. I was a little under two years out of university....

I love this line. I envision Chad wearing a scally cap, smoking a pipe in his study and speaking with a British accent.
 
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At some point early on I realized that I knew booker's wife from working briefly together at UK, and then I accidentally dog-cussed her via drunken text message one night. Booker had called me from her phone before and I had saved that number for him. I mean I used every awful name and phrase imaginable thinking I was texting him- and the thought of this poor lady reading that stuff still haunts me over a decade later. It was awful.

Back in the office after a few day getaway at Blackberry Farms in E. TN. FIrst time we've stayed there and it was pretty amazing. I've stayed at a handful of 5-star hotels and resorts and this blew them all out of the water. Highlights:
  • Food was amazing, it was all included and there wasnt anything over 3 days that wasnt perfect. Everything was what I guess you could consider upscale southern cuisine- heavy dishes, but amazing.
  • Spent a good amount of time fly fishing- it was colder than I had hoped and there were spots we were wading into water that was a bit icy- but it was still a good time. I have fished a lot- but never really got into fly fishing until recently. Definitely different and its been more difficult for me, but i'm all in now. Stocked up on rod/reel and supplies, and I live a few blocks from the Cahaba River which is a good spot to cast.
  • They raise Lagotto Romagnolo dogs up there, which are Italian truffle hunting dogs. They were currently on about an 8+ year waiting list for their puppies- which are hand-delivered anywhere in the world by the breeder.
  • Wife spent a good bit of time at the spa and went pretty bonkers at their on-site gift shops. When confronted she simply said- "but these are all gifts" as if that somehow made a difference in the total cost.
  • The stay included what they described as "vehicle access" which I assumed meant if you needed a ride somewhere they would take you- you get a golf cart for the duration, but some things are off-site. While they offered to take us wherever- they also just offered us one of their fleet of Lexus- so I drove an LC 500 that had about 200 miles on it, through the mountains for a few hours. I'm not a big "car guy" by any means- no car payment is better than a nicer car imo- but driving that was quite an upgrade from my Prius.
  • They also had the 2nd largest wine collection in the US. WHich was mainly housed in a temp controlled bunker underneath the property. I dont know much about wine but ti was cool to at least look at it. A corner of that bunker includes their bourbon stock- which was the most elaborate and obnoxious i've ever seen. Not just every Pappy/BTAC/ and all other top-shelf bourbons- but they have them all dating back for years. They had a few dusty bottled in there as well. I had a pour of Pappy 20 yr, but the highlight for me was tasting a flight of some o the Buffalo Trave Experimental Collection bottles which I had never actually even seen before. I was able to drink a Twice Barreled 9 yr, an 11 yr rye, and a 23 yr french oak bottle (of which they made 1 barrel) which I can confidently say was better than anything i've tried before.
Overall a pretty cool trip- highly recommend. We splurged a bit because we have had a few other trips get canceled this year and frankly its been a rough year in regards to some personal stuff so it was good to leave the real world for a few days.

Came back home and am pretty shocked to see that our basketball team is unwatchable and getting mocked by in-state regional schools. Its been a long time coming and obviously there were a few that saw this happening years ago- but its still a bit surprising to see just how embarrassing they are.
 

SAECATFAN

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-Wonder what flight that was. Suppose it was the Coke and Newsweek that gave me away.

-Picking up Beavis and his backpack at a gas station in Corbin en route to Columbia 2007 was probably my defining "WTF am I even doing right now" gyero moment.

-Really like this Thurs-Fri drinking/rest Saturday schedule I've settled into.

-For reasons I don't care to get into I was in Cincy yesterday morning. It's always somewhat startling seeing two stadiums of loser franchises next door to each other like that. It's like bumping into chief and UKO in the Keeneland paddock. You obviously wish that could have been avoided but that's what you get for leaving the Clubhouse.

Anyhow, driving home in my ***** liberal Volvo SUV with a Biden/Harris sticker a trucker honked until I looked up when he flashed a Trump sign and flipped me off. So that was nice being Christmas and all.

-Nothing like a good old fashioned pandemic to put the duration of winter into perspective. 60 days or so of misery is a F'n breeze at this point. I might not even get the sweaters out this year. March is around the GD corner.

-Christmas Day drinking schedule: Bloody Mary, couple mimosas, red wine, maybe a bourbon but usually cold beer sounds most refreshing at that point.

-That Ocean Course block K hat was dope. Didn't fit all that well but I enjoyed. Appreciate it again.
 

anthonys735

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-For reasons I don't care to get into I was in Cincy yesterday morning. It's always somewhat startling seeing two stadiums of loser franchises next door to each other like that. It's like bumping into chief and UKO in the Keeneland paddock. You obviously wish that could have been avoided but that's what you get for leaving the Clubhouse.

Anyhow, driving home in my ***** liberal Volvo SUV with a Biden/Harris sticker a trucker honked until I looked up when he flashed a Trump sign and flipped me off. So that was nice being Christmas and all.

This take completes my day. I'm so happy.
 
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BBdK

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Don’t push the panic button on Kentucky guard Devin Askew, his mentor warns



By Kyle Tucker 4h ago 2

Darren Collison is uniquely qualified to analyze Kentucky’s biggest problem in this early season: the point guard. See, not only was Collison an All-America point guard who played on three Final Four teams at UCLA and then enjoyed a decade-long career in the NBA. He also trained the Wildcats’ starting point guard, freshman Devin Askew, before he arrived on campus this summer. Back then, Collison raved about what a special player UK was getting, as did NBA star Russell Westbrook, who sponsors Askew’s Nike grassroots team.
So where’s the disconnect between that hype and what we’ve witnessed? Askew is pushing the plunger on an offensive implosion, averaging 6.0 points, 2.0 assists and 3.3 turnovers as the team’s preseason top-10 ranking turned into a nightmarish 1-3 start. Critics and fans have already reached a near-unanimous conclusion: Askew, who has logged the third-most minutes on this rudderless team, must go to the bench. It is time, most outsiders agree, to put the ball in the steadier hands of Creighton graduate transfer Davion Mintz. But what does Collison think?
“It’s early,” he said. “Just because it’s Kentucky basketball, there’s a lot of scrutiny and panicking involved when the team is not doing well.




But those guys are young. They’re four games into college basketball and out of high school. So just give it some time. I’m not worried about Devin. This is not going to faze him one bit. If you know what kind of player and person he is, how hard he’ll work to get it right, you know he’ll figure it out. Him and Cal will turn this thing around, and then they’ll quiet this chatter. I can’t wait to hear the talk when he gets it going.”
The question for coach John Calipari, of course, is just how patient he can afford to be. The Cats, with their unprecedented 10 new players, already lost the opportunity to play two exhibition games and four more cupcake nonconference games that are usually helpful in working out the kinks. They’re already in a hole, with games against Notre Dame, UCLA and Louisville still to come before conference play. Factoring in inevitable COVID-19 cancellations, it’s not unreasonable to figure Kentucky might only have about 20 regular-season games left, if that.
None of that is fair to Askew, who turned 18 in late July and would still be in high school had he not reclassified, certainly aware of Calipari’s pressing need for a point guard. But these are the facts: Of the Wildcats’ top six players, Askew has the worst offensive rating (78.6) and highest turnover percentage (41.3) — by a lot. Among the 83 SEC players who’ve been on the court long enough to qualify, Askew ranks 82nd in turnover percentage and 76th in offensive rating, per KenPom.com.
And yet, “I just think it’s premature to be critiquing anybody’s game on that team,” Collison said. “It’s not as easy as everybody thinks it’s going to be, walking into a big-time school with that kind of pressure on you. It takes time to adjust to the pace of the game, to the first-time scrutiny. You’re used to being the guy and only hearing nice things about yourself. But now it’s a whole new level and you have to adjust. Fans don’t want to hear it, but that takes a minute.”
Collison, who had the luxury of sitting behind Jordan Farmar as a freshman on UCLA’s 2006 NCAA runner-up squad, made just 5 of 14 shots in his first four college games. He was barely above water in assist-to-turnover ratio. It’s not exactly uncommon for young guys at that position. Marquis Teague had 11 assists and 18 turnovers in his first four games at Kentucky, then 35 assists and nine turnovers in the next six, and then he was off and running. That shaky freshman point guard turned into a reliable floor general for the 2012 national championship team.
“He held the ball too long,” Calipari said of Teague early on. “He picked up his dribble. He turned it over at a high rate. What does that sound like?”
Sounds exactly like Askew, who has eight assists and 13 turnovers. To call him underwhelming would be putting it mildly for the consensus top-30 recruit who some considered the No. 1 point guard prospect in 2021 before he moved up a class. But that’s kind of the thing about Askew: He grows on you.
“First time I saw Devin, I thought he was OK,” said Victor Martin, director of the Westbrook-sponsored Team Why Not. “But the more you watch him, it goes: Oh, he’s pretty good. Hey, he’s good. Man, he’s really good. Wow, he’s really good. He shows you something different he can do every time he plays — and he just steadily keeps growing. You don’t even know what his ceiling is going to be, because he never stops improving.”


One thing that appealed to Askew was how hard Calipari coached the point guards. (Trevor Ruszkowski / USA Today)
Kentucky is certainly banking on that. Its fortunes seem to hinge on figuring out how to run a functional, efficient offense without giving the ball away. In consecutive losses to Richmond, Kansas and Georgia Tech, the Wildcats have surrendered 73 points off 58 turnovers. Askew has been at the heart of that problem, too often crossing half-court and suddenly picking up his dribble with no apparent plan for what to do next. To the casual observer, he looks uncomfortable at best, overwhelmed at worst.
“I’m not sure uncomfortable is the word,” Collison said. “He’s just getting acclimated to how college basketball needs to be played. He doesn’t look uncomfortable at all to me. He’s played some great defense, and the offense is just going to take some time. Uncomfortable to me would be somebody who has played 20 or 30 games and they just really haven’t shown a knack for it. Devin is a much better player than I was my freshman year and he’s dealing with a scrutiny that a lot of people will never understand. He’s learning the pace and the physicality, the play calls, the sets, what works and what doesn’t, what moves he can get away with at the college level. You’re going to see turnovers because he hasn’t figured out yet that some moves that worked in high school aren’t going to work in college. You need time to work that out.”
Collison and Askew have been in steady communication in these first couple weeks of the season, but Collison hasn’t offered much in the way of advice. He trusts the youngster to figure it out with his Hall of Fame coach. He also hasn’t felt the need to play counselor, because Askew’s attitude has remained positive even as social media is abuzz about the need to bench him.
“He’s not complaining one bit,” Collison said. “He understands he needs to play better to help the team win, but he isn’t feeling sorry for himself or blaming anybody. You won’t hear that from Devin, and that’s the mark of a good player.”
Remember, Askew signed up for this. For the hard road, bumps and all. Last fall, he told The Athletic what really sold him on Kentucky was watching a practice in which Ashton Hagans, Tyrese Maxey and Immanuel Quickley battled each other while getting crushed by commentary from Calipari on the sideline.
“Cal was so much harder on the point guards, because that has to be your leader,” Askew said at the time. “When I saw that, it was like, This is where I need to be. I’m going to get pushed here. I need that. I want to be pushed. I need someone telling me what I’m doing wrong and never letting me settle. That’s what I love about it here.”
Askew hasn’t spoken to reporters since things have gone sideways, so it’s impossible to know how much he’s loving it now, but Collison said his former protégé has not blinked. Throughout the summer they trained together in California for several days a week, several hours a day. Collison was certain he was sending the Wildcats a future star, and he remains confident of that.
“You have to have a certain build to be great,” Collison said, “and what I’m trying to tell you is Devin has that build. He will figure it out. The impact he’s going to have on that team is going to be tremendous. What I loved about him from the beginning was his work ethic and his toughness, and that toughness is what still gives me high hopes he’ll have a successful career at Kentucky. Once it starts to click, I don’t think we’ll ever have this conversation again.”
(Top photo: Jordan Prather / USA Today)


*apologies for the copy/paste **** catsfanbgky formatting.
 

anthonys735

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^How you going to drop something formatted like that right before my randoms? FFS :mad:

-Volvo SUV is the ultimate white family SUV but those suckers are DOPE. Easily the best of what we looked.

-I'm booking Blackberry ASAP. Almost booked last year, but with sloot being a pirate hooker and getting knocked up, she didn't want to go when she couldn't booze. Hussy.

-I don't know where it will be but as soon as I get away sans kiddos will be a banger. Can't recall when the last time that actually happened. Vegas 2019?

-Fly fishing is hard. Gimme a ultralight setup all/air.

-Been a bit since I've had a lurker experience but we've had at least 50 over the years. Favorite is still the dud at BoomBoom Room who's girl went off on Wodie and I. So we told the bartender to make the most disgusting shot he could come up with and gave them each one. Last we ever heard of them.

-I'm trying to stay on a Fri-Sat drinking rotation.

-When will we know our bowl destination?
 
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BBdK

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I remember giving them cement mixers, but don't recall anything about the situation, who it was, or why they were mad.
 
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_Chase_

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Read the first paragraph and gave up on reading the rest. Very similar to our team's effort.

I'm just going to assume it said: "BE PATIENT HE IS A GREAT PG" without acknowledging that he won't actually be good until he is gone.
 

_Chase_

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anthonys735

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I remember giving them cement mixers, but don't recall anything about the situation, who it was, or why they were mad.
I can't recall his name but she thought we were taking advantage of him because he had bought all the drinks, he hadn't. So when he went to the bathroom she ripped into us. She was also Russian and a little intimidating. So we called the bartender over and gave him a 20 to make the most disgusting shot he could come up with.
 
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drxman1

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Regarding bar tab controversy, still hard to top Champagne Tom buying over $300 worth of fireball shots for everyone on his moms tab at the Troll bar before NCAA tourney...boy was she pissed.

Then the public house incident in Chicago...we don’t split tabs BS.
 
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_Chase_

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When I lived in Hilton Head we frequented Wild Wings Cafe several nights a week. They also wouldn't split tabs. So we all decided that we'd take turns paying the full tab, and on nights when it got a little out of hand you're just f*cked. Believe I spent $500 in there one night, and I didn't catch the worst of it that summer. Not great on a cart attendant's wages.
 

drxman1

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Volvo’s are nice, but pricey. Wife was eyeing one, but fortunately decided the Acura was best for her.

Im on my 6th grand Cherokee, waiting for the next body style. It’s nice having no car payment.
 
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