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13 minutes ago, Drroogh said:

Try as I may and try as I might, can not get this phone camera to take pictures all of the AI wants to blend everything together to create what it thinks is a good picture?🤮

My son just sent me a picture from totality zone.  It's amazing, but he said the picture doesnt even do it justice.

Starting to cloud up at the Fouls homestead.  Not good.

Scheduled to get 99.6% at my house.  Proballbly slightly better since I'm a little north of town.

Wife and son are taking some back roads to get into some of the lengthier totality time frames. 

Daughter has remote learning from school today, but has to work after.  I has to work th his weekend on a system upgrade, so couldn't very well take the day off in case things go awry.

I am working from home today at least.

3 minutes ago, IUALUM03 said:

Dislike UK with the best of them, but I wouldn't be going after their girls.  Just go to Keeneland this past weekend.  

So,  they look like horses? 

17 minutes ago, Inequality said:

My guess is Arkansas will soon have the 2nd best recruiting class. I feel like those recruits committed to the John Calipari path to the NBA and not Kentucky Blue.

Kentucky, as a program, lost a major recruiting advantage with the onset of NIL.  Since it's no longer illegal for players to receive money, recruits dont have to take under the table payment to afford that BMW they wanted.

Lord knows no players were going to UK for the girls.

Working from home today for better eclipse viewing.  No, I'm kind if sorry I'm not in the office to get the pulse of Big Blue Nation.

Okay.  So, I'm reading about the Helms Foundation Championship that Purdue holds so sacred.  Try and keep up with the math here.  The Helms foundation was established in 1936.  Purdue won the Helms Championship for 1932.  However, they were not actually awarded the Championship until 1943.  So, Purdue won something 4 years before it existed and 11 years after they played.  That's some serious Purdue math going on there.

So, I ask you.  If they win tomorrow night, will it actually be real, or will it be some more 'magical' Purdue math, turning fiction into reality?

MLB needs to change the 5 inning rule for starting pitchers for weather delays.  Imanaga clearly deserved to get the win for that game.  The Dodger starter got the loss, why can't the guy whose team was up 6-0 when the weather came in get the win?  

56 minutes ago, rico said:

Reds suck!!!!!

Fire Mike Woodson!

Team goes 5-4 over 162 and they are a 90 win team.  I'll take it.  

Lazy Sunday.  28.  Didn't want to think too hard on this one.  Struggled with the 30 homer category for some reason.

10 minutes ago, IUDan93 said:

Purdue deserves a National Championship. They have been a good to very good program for the last 40+ years. I also think that if they win a Natty, that will take our rivalry up a notch. 

I'm not rooting for them and I think UConn will win.  That said, I'm not going to become suicidal if they win. I have close family and friends that are Purdue fans.  My kids went to school with TKR.  I've known TKR's grandparents for over 40 years.  Sometimes people around you being happy is more important than a basketball rivalry. 

19 hours ago, Stlboiler23 said:

You’re not a Cards fan?

Most rational people are not.

Oh wait, we're talking about @Zlinedavid.  Applies to irrational people as well.

19 hours ago, Stlboiler23 said:

Clydesales and all the former players coming back is beyond special. Can’t think of another team that does it better. 

I was watching MLB Network on opening day.  Adam Wainright was on. He talked about how St. Louis did it, but went on to gush about Cincinnati.

12 today.  Went old school and Big Red Machine.

24 minutes ago, IU Scott said:

I don't think you would want that to happen. At the state finals me and my brother went over to the outside courts next to the Fieldhouse. I haven't shot a basketball for years and let me tell you my shit wasn't pretty. Back in the day I would take my shooting ability but not now 

I hear you.  Whenever I go out and shoot in the driveway with my son, it gets more embarrassing each and every time.  My range has probably been cut in half and my shooting percentage might be down more than that.

15 hours ago, IUfaninIllinois said:

I feel like everyone is excited about Carlyle and rice. Why is everyone excited? I look at it as two more guys who are mid range players which is also tuckers strength. We obviously can still get a shooter or two but seems like if we get them EVERY GUARD we have just drives the ball. 

Shiny new thing syndrome.  As a fan base, we get excited about each and ever commit.  Every recruit is automatically better than what we have now, and most of them would have started for our undefeated '76 team.

Heck, if @IU Scott announced, we would tout his church league stats and pencil him in as the starting 2.

Regarding all the posts about putting TJD on their all-time Hoosier team.  

For me, selecting a player for an all-time team is difficult when taking into account 50 years worth of fandom.  As I get older, my criteria of what makes a 'favorite' changes.

As a kid growing up in the 70's, I idolized players for their performance on the court for the Hoosiers.  Didn't matter what they were like off th he court because in that day and age you didnt really know, and even if you did, the stats were more important to a kid like me.

During the 80's and 90's (late teens through mid 30's) I favored players that I had seen play in high school (Damon, P. Graham, Edwards, Henderson, among others).  I gave special designation to Keith Smart, not only for the Shot, but for the way he dominated the last 6-7 minutes of that game.  

The dark days of the post Knight era through the early Crean years just aren't a tine I look back on fondly.  Even 'good memories' like 2002 and players like Eric Gordon and DJ White are not high on my list.

2010 to present.  Watford was a favorite of mine even before the WatShot.  I loved Vic until the way he left the Pacers.  He lost me there.  Yogi was a slow burn but over time he grew on me and I now consider him one of my favorites.  Romeo I prefer to think fondly of his high school years.  Nothing about the Archie years is a good memory.  I really, really did not care for Archie, and that will forever taint that period for me.

That brings us to TJD.  I can honestly say that as a Jr. and Sr. at IU and this NBA season have pushed TJD to the pinnacle of my personal fan favorite list.  I love everything about the way he plays and represents IU.  He is not only a great player on the court, but someone easy to like by the way he conducts himself off the court.  The only NBA I watch are Warriors games, and that is solely because of him.

Everyone on the list is a Hall of Famer

https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/longest-tenured-players-with-one-team-mlb-history-01hqjrha0dzb

3 minutes ago, Zlinedavid said:

Must have been me selecting him that bumped it up.

Cheater

Yes, that's an empty square.  On Yankees All Star, my brain originally thought Bill Dickey (correctly), but my fingers typed in Bill Terry. And, I'm offended that the grid gave @Zlinedavid a better score for Dan Wilson than it did me.  

12 hours ago, OGIUAndy said:

 

The world has gone mad.  What is the minimum NBA salary for an undrafted rookie free agent that makes a team?

6 hours ago, Zlinedavid said:

Carmel and Ben Davis have higher populations than the town I grew up in. 😲

6 hours ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

Really, what town did you grow up in?

5 hours ago, IU Scott said:

The town I grew up(Carthage) had under a 1,000 people 

I haven't grown up yet.  

1 minute ago, Zlinedavid said:

Know those groups that say that the lizard people are going to take over the Earth? That's the same thing they say. 

In a prior life, this would be a perfect lead-in to a Purdue cheerleader joke.

Just now, kyhoosier29 said:

I agree, but I’m a KY guy. I didn’t grow up hating Purdue. I grew up hating, and still do, Kentucky at an unhealthy level. 

I hate UK 1,000 times more than Purdue.

I dont really care or not if Purdue wins or not on most nights.  I just dont want them to win a National Championship or against IU.

Otherwise, I generally like it when Big Ten teams do well on the National stage. 

14 minutes ago, kyhoosier29 said:

I’m not eating turds or giving up my left testicle for anything basketball related! 

My point is that the Edey 'frustration' by IU fans would not exist if he was a Hoosier. 

My issue is less about people who complain about 3 seconds or getting away with fouls.  A good amount of that is true.

That said, anyone that says he's not really that good and point out he'll never be a great pro are the ones being just a smidge hypocritical.  There is not an IU fan out there that would not love to have him on our team regardless of how skilled he is or what his NBA future looks like.  Are we trying to win games or trying to look pretty  regardless of the outcome.