Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Inflated Pork Bellies Futures Investment Cogitations
I am not feeling it this week! Strange. There is usually a game or three that piques my interest. (I like three; one is hardly worth it, two is liable to be a wash, three breaks a tie. On the other hand if you lose all three...). I'm up $20 on the season.
Games I'm looking at:
No. 8 The University of Our Lady of the Lake plays undefeated A* (24) lakeside Saturday. The Lakers are -14.5.
ElleEsseEw -7.5 Vandy. Don't know where the Bayou Chinese heads are.
Smoo (14) -9.5 at Virginny. Hmm, that's an inn-teresting line.
Nebraska (5-5, 4L) is -2.5 Wisconsin (5-5). I wouldn't make the "Huskers" the fave to successfully shoot themselves in their own head with a loaded six-shot revolver.
ND -14.5 A* tempts me the most. Lakers would have to win my 15 for me to win. Further cogitation.
The air has always drawn earth-bound humankind, led us to imagine, to dream; filled us with that greatest of human emotions, wonder. Basketball is the greatest sport because it is the only sport played in the air.
Every night in the National Basketball Association there is something. Even on a Tuesday night in November there is something interesting and the potential for more. Last night it was Dalton Knecht. Behold.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dalton Knecht
"To succeed in L.A. you not only need to win, you need to be entertaining when you win, and you need to have star power.”
"They didn't 'find' DK. The other 16 teams fucked it up. Did anybody watch him? Shit. They just didn't fuck it up. You don't 'find' a SEC player of the year."--LeBron James.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Kyle Lowry called the 76ers team meeting last night
The 76ers are teetering on a red zone with this one.
It tickles me that losing to the "Heat" is "red zone".
The odd thing is there is no clear resolution to their struggles as of the moment, as the squad has just consistently looked unsynchronized on the floor, really, on both ends.
That's exactly what I got just from reading the play-by-play.
If there is one thing this game proved to everyone, it is that Nick Nurse has become an absolutely flummoxing figure for the team all season long.
When you get blown out by the "Heat" (?!), there's a BEEG problem😂
Before this game, 76ers fans had started bemoaning the decisions of Nick Nurse this season. Unlike in years past, the champion head coach’s imprint on the team this time around has been of the negative variant for the most part.
I'll be DAMNED. What happened to Nurse? He IS a championship-winning coach (Toronto).
ALL respect to the Blood and Pus
FT Beans 120 Cle. 117. Cle's first L on the season. In Boston. Down TWENTY-ONE, getting embarrassed, they outscored the champs 40-28 in the 3rd, pulled to within tyoo twice in the 4th Q before succumbing.
Donovan Mitchell had 35 for Cle.; Tatum & Brown 33 and 17 for the bile and mold.
Did Patrick Mahomes transfer to Kansas. A week after upsetting no. 6 BeewhYEw as a slight road dog, the "Jayhawks" are 2.5-point home favorites agin' no. 17 Colorado. Ain't touchin' that game with a 10' poll.
Leww (18) is -8.5 over my Beloveds at KFC Place.
No. 8 The University of Our Lady of the Lake plays undefeated A* (24) lakeside Saturday. The Lakers are -14.5
Whaddya think the line is on ElleEsseEw-Vandy? I'd a guessed a handful, I think. -7.5 is a little bigger handful. Don't know where the Bayou Chinese heads are.
Smoo (14) -9.5 at Virginny. Hmm, that's an inn-teresting line.
Nebraska (5-5, 4L) is -2.5 Wisconsin (5-5). I wouldn't make the "Huskers" the fave to successfully shoot themselves in the head with a loaded six-shot revolver.
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
Temple: Stan Drayton
Charlotte: Bigg Poffi
UMass: Dan Brown
Florida Titanic: Tom Herman
J-E-T-S FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
Owner Woody Johnson, after axing HC Robert Saleh several games ago, today dropped the axe on GM Joe Douglas. Who deserves firing, retiring, or benching is ancient, entitled, loathesome Aaron Rodgers.
"76ers" tense team meeting after losing to "Heat"
Losing to the "Heat" is that traumatic😂
Electric Maxey criticized Joel Embiid for always being late to practices and meeting, "for everything", and pointed out the effect on team morale.
Players told 76ers coach Nick Nurse they want to be coached harder...
That fits with my note last night that the team is sloppy and undisiplined. Coaching harder probably includes not tolerating lateness. I'm surprised. Nurse Nick is a championship-winning veteran, not the type I would think would be deterred from calling out even an MVP.
Embiid accepted the messages sent in the meeting, sources said...
He would. Joel is a consummate professional.
The "76ers" Big Three, Joel, Electric. and Paul George John Ringo have yet to take the floor together due to injuries.
Monday, November 18, 2024
FT "Heat" 106 "76ers" 89 👏🥳
You's be lacking in one of humankind's best emotions if you didn't have empathy for Philadelphia. From GM to coach to their best players, those are quality people in that org.
Boy oh boy, that 19-point lead Phil. had in 2Q? Mia.'s lead is 16 end 3Q. smh. 88-72.
Jimmy is having a superb game: 24, 7, and 5.
80-69, 2;45 3Q :o ("Heat" 27-13 3Q)
Phil. doesn't have Electric Maxey but does Paul George John Ringo and Joel. They have a good coach, Nurse Nick. But they are 2-10 and they are playing very poorly in this game. They have 10 t.o.'s (Mia. 11) and fouled Tyler shooting three a minute ago. Sloppy, dumb ball. I don't know the issue(s) but there is NO WAY this Phila. team should be 2-10.
HT Mia 53 Phil. 56
Jimmy is game high with 19, Paul George John Ringo and J. McCain lead Phil. with 12. The "Heat" were turnover-prone in the first half with 10. Phil. had more shooting attempts as a result and were more accurate, 48.9%-41.9%. Teamies C-Mart and K-Low started for the bad guys. Caleb had 10 points but Kyle had no Effect.
9-9, 7:42 1Q
This is a fucking reunion of old teammates!
Starters.
Phil:
Paul, George, John Ringo
C-Mart
Joel
Kyle
J. McCain. Thought he died. Rather, he's in Philadelphia.
Mia:
Duncan
Highway
Jimbo
Bamo
Herro
Trump confirms he will utilize US military to conduct mass deportations
President-elect plans to declare a national emergency for undocumented immigrants with help of hardline cabinet
Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration would declare a national emergency and use the US military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
In an early morning social media post, Trump responded “TRUE!!!” to a post by Tom Fitton, the president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, who wrote on 8 November that the next administration “will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program”.
Miami HEAT
@MiamiHEAT
#PHIvsMIA INJURY UPDATE: Jimmy Butler (ankle) is available to play in tonight's game vs the Sixers. Terry Rozier (right foot discomfort) and Jaime Jaquez, Jr. (ankle) have both been ruled out.
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This was the scene and the reconstructed course of chaos of Queen Korat the 11th.
Her Majesty's recent favorite napping place is on the green Publix bag obscured by the cat icon next to the kitchen window. This was the Original Position.
My role in the mayhem was unwitting co-trigger. I walked into the kitchen for reasons obliterated from memory by what followed. Simultaneous with this provocation, a neighbor's door closed heavily. Eleven then took the course described by the parabola, immediately doubling back over the stove, leaping onto the counter and finally spinning out on my papers knocking a quantity of them to the floor and looking up at me accusingly. "Are you an insane animal?" was what I thought to say.
Sunday, November 17, 2024
"This is who we are."
On the Democratic side, members have been so despondent about a second Trump victory — and, in particular, Trump’s resounding win of the popular vote — that the public reaction has been just a sliver of what it was to after his first win in 2016: no massive protests in major liberal cities or on college campuses and no major corporate denunciations of Trump. ...
“Because now it’s very clear who he is. Like, ‘We don’t care that he’s a felon and we don’t care that he’s a rapist. We don’t care that he’s corrupt.’ Whereas before, the jury was a bit out, and now we know. And people are saying — like, literally by voting — they’re saying, ‘Yeah, those things don’t matter to me,’” said Vanessa Wruble, co-founder of the 2017 Women’s March. ...
"We are NOT a better people. This is who we are."
The economy Donald Trump said was broken? All it took was him winning, and consumer sentiment among Republicans soared.
Elections? Suddenly Republicans are on board with the reality that they’re secure. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he saw no evidence of fraud in the 2024 campaign.
...
...Anti-Trump Republicans, who either voted for Harris or sat out the election altogether, are grappling with whether the more traditionalist, Ronald Reagan strain of the party is even worth fighting for anymore, and many of them have lost an appetite for the resistance-style efforts they launched during Trump’s first presidency.
“I think that people who have been opposing Trumpism have viewed this very existentially — not from a policy perspective, but from a character perspective, from the hope that we are a better people than this,” said Mike Madrid, a co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project and a longtime GOP strategist. “At a certain point, you can compel people to speak to their better angels, but if they don’t want to, you’re never going to win that fight. We are not a better people. This is who we are.”
FT Ind. 119 Mia. 110
Third quarter again. Pace Cars 33-26. Ind. led 76-60 with 3:50 left in the quarter and it was done.
So the "Heat" complete their midwest road trip 2-4 and are 5-7. They play tomorrow night in the Bus agin the 7'6"ers.
They're in...guess?, yep, 8th place in the Eastern Conference, right where they were seeded the last two seasons. They are what they are: the 45's.
Okay, so I looked up "warm bowl of milk for cats" because that's the image!
While cats enjoy the warmth of milk and it can soothe their throats, milk is generally not healthy for cats and can cause gastrointestinal problems:
- Lactose intolerance: Most cats are lactose intolerant and can't properly digest milk.
- No. It may seem like a good idea, but “milk can cause GI upset, and adding it to your cat's food can cause them to fill up on milk alone and not consume enough food to meet their nutrient needs,” says
Purina nutritionist, Karina Carbo-Johnson, MS. So I don't add milk to Eleven's food and she doesn't fill up on it. I just let her lick the whipped cream when I buy key lime pie, which is like 6 times in my life. She has never gotten sick: no diarrhea or vomiting.
- Offer in moderation: Limit milk to a couple of sips at the bottom of the bowl. That's what I do.
If you want to give your cat milk, you can try these tips:
- From reddit user equivalent-cry-5175 1yr ago
Look at it as a treat and don’t do it often.
Back in the day when there were a lot of farms feral cats used to hang around because there was an abundance of food for them. When a cow milker would spill milk they would lap it up it has a lot of fat in it and they developed a taste for it. However they are lactose intolerant still and it plays havoc on their digestive system but if you only let em have a lil bit occasionally and he gets a regular proper diet I wouldn’t worry too much.
That's exactly what I do.
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Connor Hughes
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Aaron Rodgers wants to play in 2025. Whether or not that's with the #Jets is far more complicated.
This loss to #Colts makes wholesale changes inevitable.
Stability & continuity are believed to be the deciding factors on Rodgers returning for a third year with New York, which makes it increasingly more likely New York will have a new QB in addition to HC & GM in a few months
For @snytv
: https://sny.tv/articles/jets-aaron-rodgers-where-play-2025
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Well, no, that abortion in Pittsburgh was't the marquis game of the season, THIS is
Buffalo (8-2) 6 Kansas City (9-0) 0, end 1Q.
And then there's Fast Planes...😂
Leading 24-16 in the 4th quarter at FetLife Indy scored two TD's to win 28-27.
J-E-T-S THREE AND EIGHT!
Baltimore scored a TD but missed a two-point conversion to tie Pittsburgh's six field goals. Pittsburgh will win 18-16. Baltimore has scored two touchdowns in the game to Pittsburgh's zero. I wish Baltimore had won. The way I'm going to keep score Baltimore did win this game, 14-0. I'm not counting FG's anymore when that's all a team can do.
Baltimore fumbled at their own 19. "Steelers" recovered...this is earlier, not now. The "Steelers" got the ball on the "Ravens" 19 on the turnover. You know what happened, FG. You know how many yards the "Steelers" gained before giving up on scoring a touchdown. Five. Eight plays from the 19, two five-yard penalties, one by each team, one offensive play resulting in positive yardage, a five-yard pass. I would say I hope Baltimore wins because I hate this football but they don't deserve to either. It's just disgusting.
Beeg game in the National Concussion League right now
In a lonely field beyond Fort Pitt, the Stillers, 7-2, lead lead the Bal-tee-more Nevermores 3-0. Two elite teams who hate each other with elite coaches.
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Yeah!
LSU's Kelly screams at one player, gets yelled at by another
And the LSU fan base might be out of patience with Kelly.
In fact, apparently for one ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ recruit next year he'd be gone now.
Fighting Jewish Mormons (6) ($5 -2.5) 10 Rock Chalk Fuck Off 7, 7:59 2Q
You're covering, BARELY. Don't cheat me out of my money!
😂
In the clip, Lacy could be seen letting Kelly have it. The coach's eyes widened as he seemingly realized what was happening. The ABC camera quickly cut away from the interaction. (AP for ESPN)
🤣
Tigers head football coach Brian Kelly wouldn’t last another year at LSU but probably will because of 5-star QB recruit Bryce Underwood – who received a $10.5 million NIL offer from Michigan and is on flip watch right now.
College Football Report
@CFBRep
If Bryce Underwood decommits (which he probably won’t), Brian Kelly will get fired instantly. Underwood’s commitment is the only reason he has another year or two at LSU.
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College Football Report
@CFBRep
If Bryce Underwood decommits (which he probably won’t), Brian Kelly will get fired instantly. Underwood’s commitment is the only reason he has another year or two at LSU.
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LSU star wide receiver screaming at head coach Brian Kelly:
kyren lacy brian kelly
Kelly giving wide receiver Chris Hilton, Jr. what for:
kelly, hilton jr
Hunter McCann
@mccann_hunter
I am not a professional lip reader…. But… Sure did look like Brian Kelly told Chris Hilton this on the sideline… “Don’t walk away from me! You are f**king uncoachable. Who the f**k do you think you are?”
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Kelly giving wide receiver Chris Hilton, Jr. what for:
kelly, hilton jr
Hunter McCann
@mccann_hunter
I am not a professional lip reader…. But… Sure did look like Brian Kelly told Chris Hilton this on the sideline… “Don’t walk away from me! You are f**king uncoachable. Who the f**k do you think you are?”
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Georgia (12) 0 Tenn. (7) 10, End 1Q
FT USC (5-5) 28 Neb (5-5) 20. Nebraska's not going to make it. That's 4L. That's right, they were 4-1. Nebraska is broken. They have had five full head coaches in 20 years, well-respected names: Bill Callahan, Mike Riley, Scott Frost, Matt Rhule, and another, Mickey Joseph, who coached 9 games, yet they have gone 132-118 in those 20 years. Take out Bo Pelini, by far their most successful coach (2008-2014) and they're 65-91. Nobody is going to be able to put them back together again. Nebraska is done.
FT SMU (14) 38 Boston College 28
Up $5/day, with the other investment, BYU -2.5 Kansas. +$25 season.
Thank you, BC. SMU, what you did was disgraceful. You're still an outlaw program. Go join the SEC. At least the Airplane Conference isn't paying you for seven years.
Florida Beats ElleEsseEww (22) 27-16
Can't wait for Brian Kelly's press conference! He's in trouble. You don't lose four games in ten down there.
FLORIDA IS GOING TO BEAT LSU! "Gators" just scored, 27-16, 3:48 to go
This will be Brian Kelly's FOURTH L of the season. That gumbo don't go down too good on the Bayou.
Wild Horses 31 Majestic Soaring Eagles ($5 +19.5) 28, 5:58 4Q
I'm gonna win some money,
I'm gonna win some money!
I have a unique animal. My (second) ex-wife said it, "definitely wild"; definintely more wild in her than the normal house cat. I. am very proud of her. Just now she jumped onto my shoulders from the kitchen floor as I was standing at the sink. She is so tiny, her athleticism astonishes me. Her looks and features are so striking. Unique. Everything about her, I am so proud of her. I FEEL chosen.
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President Biden and China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, have sparred for years about how the world should be ordered.
Mr. Biden, who has described Mr. Xi as a “dictator,” has said the preservation of democracy was the “defining challenge of our age.” Mr. Xi has accused the United States of being the “biggest source of chaos” in the world and warned against dangerous Western liberal ideas.
Now, as the two meet as world leaders for probably the last time in Peru on Saturday, it is Mr. Biden’s vision of the world that appears to be in retreat. The U.S. president is exiting the global stage with his stature diminished after Americans voted Donald J. Trump back into power.
Mr. Biden, who has described Mr. Xi as a “dictator,” has said the preservation of democracy was the “defining challenge of our age.” Mr. Xi has accused the United States of being the “biggest source of chaos” in the world and warned against dangerous Western liberal ideas.
Now, as the two meet as world leaders for probably the last time in Peru on Saturday, it is Mr. Biden’s vision of the world that appears to be in retreat. The U.S. president is exiting the global stage with his stature diminished after Americans voted Donald J. Trump back into power.
Normally at this time of year on this day at this time of day I would have turned the page to college tackle football. But the NBA season is so fascinating and I am stuck on last night. I won't be making another bet on college football. The NBA season is so long, the games come so quickly, and there are 30 teams. No normal can keep track of what's going on everywhere. Fannies, even cognos, scrutinize our favorite. The rest are an impressionistic painting. But there are things going on in every one of those 82, every night, with every team.
-There's something rotten in the Big Apple.
-Everyone knows what's wrong in Beer and we just glance occasionally at the train wreck. Giannis wants out. They're 4-8.
-Cleveland won their 14th straight last night. There are 68 games to go. That's one take. 17% of the season is in the books and Cleveland is undefeated. That's another. Both are correct.
-Philly is 2-10. They lost to an Orlando team who are very good when they have talisman Paolo Banchero. But they didn't last night. The 7'6"ers couldn't beat them with their stars Embiid and George playing together for the first time all season. Embiid got physical with a reporter.
And that's just impressionistic. If even I followed the play-by-play of any of one of those teams' games even I would see some van Eyck detail. This is the elite level of the most artistic sport. It goes by too fast for the eye to take in.
There's something wrong in Manny Hatty. They're 6-6 after a last minute dub against Rust. They traded a surplus Nova Knick and Julius Randle and let Isaiah Hartenstein go. Shouldn't have made this kind of impact, got a good KAT in the trade, but the infredients haven't melded yet. No earthly reason for 6-6.
Last Night
For sure with Jimmy out the other team gets a look they haven't seen and that can take a minute. It's the coaches though, Riley with Ewing when he was lamed, his disciple with Jimmy, who make the silk purse out of the sow's ear. Spo last night was the master bricoleur, starting K-Love, playing him only 12', giving way to Jovic--Ira Winderman wrote that may be the recipe going forward (it's not)--bringing Josh Richardson, a typical "Heat" stiff, off the bench at just the right moment. Spoelstra in these circumstances is the definition of a great coach. he can take his'n and beat your'n and he can take your'n and beat his'n.
AP for ESPN:
Friday, November 15, 2024
FT Indy 111 Miami 124
We got the lead in the 2Q, kept it game-long, and the home team never really got close.
As I wrote in an earlier post, I really do think that this will jump start the "Heat."
The "Heat" have been "intentional" so far in this game. They sometimes get a steely resolve outside Bang Bus.
The last two games, won and lost by Erik Spoelstra, make this game particularly difficult to project. I will, however. I project that we will lose. But if we win, it reasonably could jump start this season out of its stall.
Miami has a good chance of winning when the other team fouls Herro when he's shooting the basketball
Evidence. Herro: 1/5 (0/1) 5/5.👈😉
That worked. 8-6. We can say that TO worked.
The 45's have a good chance to win when the other team doesn't make baskets.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Two years ago Pitt played UCLA in the most colorful Sun Bowl ever. Pitt is something of a feature in the Sun Bowl so it made sense a couple of weeks back when I saw a projection for for this year's game. I salivated: Pitt and USC. I verily hope that that comes to pass. It could surpass Pitt-UCLA for most colorful. The "Trojans" have had a disappointing season and are not yet bowl eligible at 4-5. They need to win two of their last three, at Nebraska Saturday where they are heavy favorites, then at UCLA, concluding against Notre Dame. They will probably win two of them, setting up another technicolor dream in El Paso.
Inflated Pork Bellies Futures Cogitations
Smoo (14) -19.5 Boston College. $5 on Majestic Soaring Eagles. Bill O'Brien benched Eagles talisman Thomas Castellanos in favor of a backup. Castellanos is now transferring. Castellanos will live forever at BC as the player who said after upsetting Half Ass U, "I go to Boston College. I have class tomorrow" when asked what he would be doing during the week after. Such is the eminently deserved trust in O'Brien and his NFL coaching staff that one player said, “I expect this transition to be seamless." Last week, after losing to BC Syracuse coach Fran Brown said he was so distraught at being outcoached that he didn't even wash. "I don't deserve soap." Brown's hygienic coping mechanism was DEFINITELY a case of "too much information" but makes the point that Bill O'Brien can do that to you. I'm not saying that BC is going to beat the Ponies, only that I'm confident enough to put give a practical dimension to my thoughts that O'Brien won't let his Eagles get blown out of the skies.
COCKS! (21) -13.5 Missouri (23). I won investing in the "Tigers" last week (barely, by a fluke). I think that line flatters COCKS! unwisely but I am not ready to call the House out. Yet.
BeehYveEw (6) -2.5 Kansas (3-6). What, 'cause "Jayhawks" beat Cyclops last week? Because BeehhYveEw had a near death experience in the Holy War? They're fucking 9-0. That line is insulting to the "Cougars". Further cogitation.
I'll take a gander at the under the radar, outside the top 25 games later.
Note to self: up $20/season.
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