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I would NOT do it v Cowboys and I would not do it late in season. I’d pick an early season game against a (perceived) weaker opponent like Tenn or Carolina. Chance for good weather is better earlier in year and if you pick a non-marquee opponent you drastically increase home fan %— don’t want #28 getting retired with half the stadium wearing blue giving a courtesy clap.

https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-fake-meat-ban-alabama-florida/?utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_twitter Breaking Bad but it's for lab grown meat now

Remember who he had snapping to him though

Isn't that what the brain worms are for?

I don't agree. People like traditions and are attached to things. I would guess that not every person who preferred the name Stonewall Jackson did so because they are racists or hopes the South rises again. They might just have fond memories of the school they attended, not want history erased, or appreciate some of their heritage being preserved. To jump to the conclusion that this requires a reckoning is a bit extreme. It’s a name of an American…relax.

No, but real lasting change takes time. Sometimes left-wingers want to ram changes through at a very fast pace, and not everyone is on board with rapid change. But a slow, gradual strategy doesn't seem to be an option in the age of social media and instant gratification.

I think people are really sleeping on House. He turns just 21 in 3 weeks. He has cut Ks, about 22% right now, and has an outstanding 12ish% walk rate. Has an .833 OPS right now. I am loving what we have coming. Also, Jarlin Susana: cut BB/9 in half from 5.7/9 last year to 2.8/9 this year, while striking out almost 4 more batters per 9: 8.9 to 12.7 this year. SO/BB ratio is up to 4.6. His ERA is high (5.55) as his his BABIP: .432! Huge improvements this year--he keeps this up, he'll be on the top 100 by the All Star Break.

Witten had an awesome career. That would be awesome.

Should we be afraid to do the right thing because of potential backlash?

I wish we could fix some of the demographic populations of the former states of the confederacy. I chose the word "fix" so imaginations could run wild with creativity.🤓👍

😲 shocked!

What a bunch of crap. This thread bump piqued my interest because I was looking for some reading for the airplane and happened on W.E.B Dubois "The Soul of Black Folk" in 1903. Holy crap - what would he be thinking now (probably "people still trying to create two worlds for black folk in America"). **** anyone who glorifies the old racist institutions. It was gutting for me to read that he felt more comfortable in Europe.

I think part of the reason he feels like an "F" is because he was an obvious WTF?!?!? pick when the selection was made. He seemed like a colossal reach at the time (I think he was late 3rd to late 4th projected, something like in the 80-120 zone (just noticed he was 94th on PFF's big board), and we took him 47th, basically a full round and a half before he should have gone. When you make reaches like we did with Mathis, with Forbes, with Dotson, with Jamin, and none of them hit, all of them even underhit the lower ranking (by far) pff and others had on them you just end up looking like an idiot. When we took a guy projected to go in the compensatory section of the late 3rd, in the early 2nd, in Mathis, we looked stupid, and felt stupid, Jamin getting taken in the teens when he was projected in the mid 2nd? Forbes taken in the teens when he was projected late 1st, and with Gonzalez, a top 5-10 prospect still there, you look stupid. Dotson projected by PFF as a late 2nd, but by most others as a late 1st to early 2nd, we take in the teens, and he's meh, with guys like George Pickens on the board (headcase that he is but still)...stupid. Mathis is the penultimate example of that, like the Jets selections of the 80's and 90's or the raiders selection any recent decade, when either of those teams, or us, go off the board, it's never been because we know something, it's always been because we know nothing. Nice to be in a situation where there's reason to think just about all of our picks had some degree of insight in them (the nickel is a team leader, elite against the run despite size, legit player period, the TE is athletic, and one of the few guys with upside at the position after Bowers, the DT was a top 10-20 talent that slipped due to injury and size concerns, the 3rd rounder Guard is versatile with a high ceiling and played hurt during his iffy '23, the McCaffrey pick tested well and is knew to the position, the LB MaGee looks pretty sick according to a ton of metrics, the OHIO State transfer to Notre Dame edge might have a high rotational ceiling etc....all of them have interesting #'s in athletic score that suggest they can impact on the field, and all have narratives explaining high ceiling potential.... When we picked Mathis: I thought. "That's an obvious mistake." When we picked Forbes over Gonzalez, I thought, "So we're the team that takes the Todd Blackledge of Corners, while the Patriots are the Dolphins that take Marino". When we picked Dotson in the mid 1st I thought, "Nice player, but he has zero chance of being the #1 option in a QB's reads, and why the <expletive> are you using top 15-20 draft capital on a WR that is complimentary 2nd option on his best day? When we took Jamin, I thought, "We have no QB, and we took a LB rated below 3 or 4 guys who still haven't gone, while all of them are projected to go in the 2nd round ALL OF THEM. Why?" Most of us had similar thoughts, though we all indulge some post-hoc rationalizations because hope is an addictive thing in an offseason, nobody wants to step into the starting blocks before the race of a season already assuming they've lost, but we all still knew internally, "Mathis was a mistakes, Forbes over Gonzalez was a mistake (probably system and stupidity based), Dotson that high w/o trading down was stupid, and Jamin over JOK was dumb to begin with and taking either of them 30 picks before they were projected to go with day 1 draft capital was criminally stupid". Well, enjoy the 5th year option not being picked up for the second of four consecutive years ('23, '24, '25 and '26). Great Job idiots (Ron regime).

the thing that was voted on, stipulates the funding must be provided by private people. The board will oversee how the funds are spent but no taxpayer money is to be used for it. The thing that always cracks me up is when people care about something that has no impact on them whatsoever. I don’t live there. My kids don’t go there. I didn’t care when they changed it and I don’t care if they change it back. It’s their schools not mine 🤷‍♂️

Just pointing out, the Civil War was 150 years ago. (And they fere fighting against the US, even then.)

Would rather Sinnot be our Sam Laporta

Trump and the GOP were all on board with hailing the vaccine, pointing out that Trump Did It, and our nation had been saved from disaster. Until their polling data said that their triggered Karen base were giving credit to Biden for successfully planning the rollout. Then suddenly the vaccine became tracking chips.

It seems cultural movements are like a pendulum...push too hard in one direction, and it only comes back harder in the opposite direction. While the goals were admirable in 2020, I do think some people pushed way too hard to certain changes to occur overnight, although I don't believe anything should be named after slave-owning secessionists in the 21st century. That pushing from the left also caused this team's name to be dropped and to be replaced with a mediocre name and image which inspires no one. I'm fearing that this country is becoming more like the Balkans.

The first 2 episodes of Doctor Who’s new season will be available on Disney+ after 7pm Eastern. It will be released same time all over world; so the Brits will get it at Midnight.

Schools in One Virginia County to Reinstate Confederate Names After a meeting that lasted for hours, the Shenandoah County school board voted early Friday morning to restore the names of three Confederate officers to schools in the district. With the vote, the district appears to be the first in the country to return Confederate names to schools that had removed them after the summer of 2020, according to researchers at the Montgomery, Ala.-based Equal Justice Initiative. The vote rolled back a decision made four years ago, when the killing of George Floyd prompted nationwide demands for a racial reckoning. At a virtual meeting in July 2020, the summer of pandemic and protests, the board voted 5-1 to drop the names of two schools — Ashby-Lee Elementary and Stonewall Jackson High — that it deemed incompatible with a recently passed resolution condemning racism. The schools were renamed the next year as Honey Run and Mountain View. But a fury had been unleashed in the rural county in the mountains of Virginia. People crowded into school board meetings, denouncing the naming process as secretive and rushed, and voicing deeper resentments about cultural changes they saw as being foisted upon them. After a re-vote ended in a tie in 2022, the name changes stood. But opponents swore that Stonewall Jackson would be revived. And on Friday, he was. Click on the link for the full article

Competition is almost never a bad idea. I think Tress just had a down year, but you never know… I hope he sticks (and bounces back) and gets to fill in his captain “C” (which I never knew about until his jersey announcement on Command Center).