LinvilleGorge

I just don't understand setting kids up for disappointment and failure trying to live vicariously through them. I'm all about getting your kids involved in sports. I think it's great for both physical, mental, and emotional development. But keep it fun. Having an eight year old kid prioritizing baseball over everything else and filling his head with bullshit about playing professional baseball is just wildly irresponsible parenting. Even if the kid was a prodigious athlete the odds of playing pro sports is still slim to none. All those guys in the pros were prodigious athletes. Tons of guys who never made it were too. It just never came together for them for whatever reason be it injuries, off field stuff, choosing other pursuits, or working their asses off all their lives just to find out that despite how good they are they're still not quite good enough. And that's the prodigious athletes. If you're an average athlete like this kid, you literally better off spending all that money you're pissing away on baseball development on scratch off lottery tickets.

If your choices are here or Seattle that's an easy choice. Yeah, Seattle is going through a rough patch but they do have a coach who has proven he can win and win big in the NFL. I have no idea how I'd sell anyone on coming to Carolina right now outside of simply paying them significantly more than anyone else is willing.

Yep, if you're sitting on cash your patience might pay off. If you're having to rely on a mortgage prices are going to have to absolutely crash for you to come out ahead.

And honestly I wouldn't even blame him.

If this kid is the real deal this might put Texas football back on the map. Outside of the Mack Brown (Vince Young) years they really haven't been a national factor during my lifetime and I turn 40 on a couple weeks. Their fanbase still thinks they're current Alabama though.

I can't remember the details but I seem to recall the owners having the ability to essentially vote him off the island and they likely had the votes to do it.

For whatever reason he owners REALLY wanted Tepper to have a team ASAP. The team was never really "for sale". It was only going to go to Tepper and they pretty much made that fairly abundantly clear throughout the process.

Yep. It isn't just the obesity factor it's the overall size factor. The larger individuals of a species tend to be shorter lived. You don't see a whole lot of geriatric 6'5"+ dudes even of obesity isn't a factor.

If the Seahawks are willing to trade for him and extend him we just need to walk away. I'm done with spending significant future resources (picks and cap space) on a coaching staff I wanted fuging gone.

Or the local gardening store...

I wouldn't think they would but then again I wouldn't think they'd doctor cocaine with it and they are. The poo is so cheap it seems like it's going in everything. Well, that and it's so potent that even trace amounts of the stuff if it's near it can still be impactful. The poo is terrifying. I wouldn't touch anything off the street right now.

I think it's a lot less a bar for Rhule and much more of a question of when Tepper will swallow his pride and admit his colossal mistake. Man, he sure was proud when he thought he'd pulled off stealing Rhule out from under the Giants' noses. He was trotting Rhule around showing him off like a proud new papa. That sure turned into deep embarrassment and Tepper hiding out from the public in record time.

Hmmm... what else could've been happening there? Might it have had something to do with why those vaccines were developed in the first place?

Yeah, a 55 year old morbidly obese man is exactly the same as a 26 year old in his prime professional athlete. C'mon man. You are REACHING.

No, I'm not. I'm acknowledging that they're definitely a very small minority. Let's see the study. Let's also point out that you're ignoring the fact these vaccines didn't launch in 2019. Not ready in 2019 (possibly 2018 depending on lag time of the study being published) doesn't necessarily mean not ready in December of 2020 when the first COVID vaccine was approved after a massive yearlong global effort.

That's all you're left with. Dismiss me as "woke". FYI, you're not going to find very many on the Huddle who will agree with you that I'm "woke".

Says the guy who thinks he's smarter than the overwhelming vast majority of doctors and scientist who specialize in this very subject.

I said "overwhelming vast majority". It's these types of critical reading skills that your tinfoil hat interferes with.

Yeah, the overwhelming vast majority of doctors and scientist have it all wrong and right wing bloggers are the ones who have it all figured out.

https://cchd.maryland.gov/alert-counterfeit-street-pills-and-fentanyl-related-overdoses-in-carroll-county/ People may not know if the the street medications they purchase contain fentanyl, which is cheaper and more potent than other drugs, because the pills are made to look exactly like prescription medications such as Xanax, oxycodone, Percocet, Norco, and others. Carroll County is just outside of the Baltimore beltway.

You're free to think whatever you want. Just as I'm free to make fun of you for thinking stupid poo.

@Peppers90 NC and @rippadonn Check the linked tweet in my last post. You may need to readjust your tinfoil hats up out of your eyes so that you can read it.

BTW, the drug speculation is t just coming out of thin air. It would be wildly irresponsible (but not impossible) for the Baltimore PD to make that type of statement unless they were pretty damn certain this is going to end up being OD related. Remember what I said about street acquired prescription drugs?

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You're not wrong in principle but fentanyl is a real game changer in the likelihood of overdose. Yeah, addiction and drug abuse has always been a problem but then you throw in an extremely deadly synthetic opioid into the mix and it's gasoline on a fire. And yeah, it's definitely a weird tangent but it wouldn't be a Huddle thread without a weird tangent.