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My wife got her first shot yesterday my daughter her second dose was on Monday

I am going to be FURIOUS if he doesn't get an offer ASAP. I know for a fact Archie loves the kid. Zero clue what he's waiting for.

Just received my first dose!

Here are some highlights from the Westfield and Zionsville sectional game.

Looking forward to the day we can lock this thread. I feel like we should have a small ceremony or something.

Neil Young- Harvest Tracy Chapman - self titled and I would agree with @IUFLA about Fleetwood Mac-Rumours

The Beatles-Abbey Road Fleetwood Mac-Rumours Steely Dan-Aja Neil Young-After the Gold Rush

Gonzaga (yes, that Gonzaga) and Oregon have reached out after his sectional performance last week. Kid is gonna be a solid 4 year player for somebody...just hope it´s us

We were talking about this one in the audiophile forum because of how great is sounds. Anybody want to share their favorite ‘best mastered/produced’ albums. Dark Side of the Moon doesn’t count. In no particular order some of mine are: REM - Automatic for the People U2 - Achtung Baby Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream: to this day I’m obsessed with the warmth of the guitar on that album. I think I read Billy layered a lot of the guitar tracks 3 times. Re-listen to ‘Hummer’ because it gives you a little of everything...it’s pretty much just showing off. Spoon - Gimmie Friction (One of @IUFLA’s new favorites) ...and this is a single and a simple song, but for some reason Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce always comes to mind of a perfectly mastered song.

Automatic for the People is really well done, so is Siamese Dream. Great choices! I would have mentioned Rumours and Aja for sure. I have a beat up old copy of Aja that still sounds incredible. I have a super fancy 45rpm double album set of Rumours that’s amazing, but I’m not too keen on the songs being spread over four sides instead of two. When I got the new edition of Rumours I put our old one out on the sidewalk one day with a bunch of aother albums for people to take for free. My wife happened to leave right afterwards before anyone had taken it and she texted me “You can’t get rid of Rumours!” Neil Young’s albums are usually very well recorded and mastered. My own additions that hasn’t been mentioned would be: Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot And too many jazz albums to list. Nothing sounds like a good jazz quartet or trio that’s well recorded. Something about the all acoustic instruments just creates magic through your speakers.

We are like you guys, pretty strict lockdown for the beginning and then gradual going out, but maintaining precautions. Feel lucky to have never had it during this all this time, especially here in NYC. But we didn’t hesitate to get the vaccine. Main reason is that you can do everything correctly but there’s always those people who just don’t get it. B/c of them we got the vaccine. Now when I see idiots on the sub not wearing a mask I just don’t sweat it. Before I would have had to get up and move away from them. The side effects are thankfully usually minor, though there will always be cases like @NotIThatLives relatives. I know of a co-worker who got bad face sewlling after the first dose. I had a pretty strong reaction to the second shot, but it didn’t last. And I would take that any day over the lingering issues that so many have had - not to mention death. I also think the more people are vaccinated, the quicker we get out of this thing.

Having had the damn thing, I'm still going to get the vaccination after I get my neck procedure done on 3/24... I know it's mild on some people, but I'd take 20 shots not to go through that again...

I coached in the Bloomington Red system while i was in college. The 2 guys I coached with are now D1 head coaches. Being IU managers really was beneficial for them

Pork Shoulder anyone?

Solid first 2 years. Killer the last 2

I feel like I'm behind but its Indiana so we will get the inevitable cold spell before drought season starts.

That's a good looking list if you are a Colts fan

Was 66 here yesterday. We’ve been enjoying lunch breaks on the terrace lately, but it was too hot and sunny yesterday! I need to start getting all my pots ready for planting and go get some more potting soil. Love the excitement of planting things in the spring.

Ayden had his first golf lesson. We just found out his school won't have a Jr high golf team, so he will have to go practice with rival school and compete as only golfer from his school. His swing is better than Dad's and only going to get better. 20210309_163328.mp4

Supposed to be pushing 70 outside today. Really want to plant something.

Putting this in the music thread instead of the audiophile one. My favorite Dire Straits song.

The yard is greening up. I did notice that my dogs pooped a lot over the winter.

For folks who haven't seen Gonzaga, this kid fits their fast paced offense that values shooters...encourages shooters. Obviously, ball handling skills and passing figure prominently in their offense as well. I don't doubt Few could find a way to use this young man's skills even if he isn't going to likely play in "the league". Then again...who knows? 😊

I could use a few Gumballheads today ha. This was from yesterday, but pulled pork is still yummy! When you get back to Indiana sometime I will give you an open invitation.

was gonna come on here and say the exact same thing about salaries ratcheting up with the recent tags. One guy you haven't mentioned who I think would make a younger replacement for TY is Will Fuller, Jr. Has had some injury issues, but when healthy has been highly productive.

That looks awesome! What time is dinner? I'll bring the Gumballhead

No doubt, but if you have to play UI, or MSU, Wisc... heck even UMCP or RU the next game it is a tough turnaround... Look out our performance after "good wins" if we could follow those up with games against horrible teams (and not tough match-ups) we probably would have a very good record. We have plenty of quality wins... just a few too many mediocre losses following them.

agree. With Godwin and Allen Robinson getting tagged it hurt the Colts IMO cause now you move the rest of the free agent wrs up as there are less of them available. Cap is confirmed to be $182.5 mil this year. Lots of 1 or 2 year deals will probably occur due to such a low cap. We think this current free agent class is about to be crazy just wait till next year when the cap returns close to $200 mil or more.

Really well done and thought out plan. My only thing is If I were a Colts fan I'd prefer to see Ballard spend just once at the WR position. Seems like between WR and CB he never spends on those positions. At least it seems like that. Could be dead wrong.

After the Wentz trade goes through Colts will have approx. $47 mil. THey have money but a good chunk of holes that need filled. They also need to make sure Wentz has plenty of solid good pass catchers to throw to. DE/Pass Rusher - Bud Dupree/Carl Lawson(Bengals)/Romeo Okwara(Lions)/Hassan Reddick(Cardinals). All of these guys had great years last year(Dupree is coming off an ACL injury I believe). You probably get best value if they choose Romeo Okwara or Reddick compared to Dupree or Car. I expect one of the top pass rusher to be signed by the horseshoe. I wouldn't rule out bringing back Autry or AQM. Autry can plan along the entire DL line and AQM would provide great depth as a rotational pass rusher. A defensive line of say Buckner/Grover/top FA pass rusher/Turray/Autry or AQM/Tyquan Lewis and Stallworth offers loads of depth and can pressure the QB as well as stopping the run. Ballard wants to win from within the trenches and he does that with this unit. WR - Kenny Golladay will get ton of money, probably will price his way out of Ballards liking. WIth that being said you could resign Hilton and sign say Keelan Cole(Jags) or Chris Conley(Jags) or sign Corey Davis(Titans) and sign Keelan Cole or Chris Conley. Conley was with Ballard in KC together at one point. I love a Hilton/Pittman/Parris/Keelan Cole or Conley and Pascal. Pascal is due to return and is a great 5th WR to have here before the four listed ahead of him. CB - You HAVE to have a starting caliber veteran besides Kenny Moore at this spot. Resign Rhodes or sign Shaquill Griffen(Sehawks). This is a make or break year for Rock Ya-Sin. TE - Give me Ertz on a team friendly deal, otherwise give me J Smith from Titans. Draft - LT/CB with their first two picks. IMO you can't afford to pay a LT $16 mil especially with both Nelson and Braden Smith due for pay raises next year and Kelly already being the highest paid C in the league. You could slide Braden Smith to LT, draft a RT in the 2nd rd and nab a top CB with your first pick or even sign a RT via FA and draft a Edge rusher and CB with their first two picks. Lots of diff ways this team can go.

Not since 1946 has IU had 3 returning All-Americans on its roster. Their individual goals this spring align well with a team also coming off a very strong season. “We got a lot more that we can accomplish." https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/indianas-all-americans-still-have-lofty-goals-for-2021/

No clue if this is accurate but my aunt always says April 25th is last frost date. She started the seeds already inside so we can transfer shortly after that date. I'm starting early this year. Last year I didn't get stuff in until Memorial Day. Goal this year is tomatoes by 4th of July.

Being almost $70M under the cap I expect Ballard to go after multiple guys in free agency. Positioned perfectly to spend while almost 85% of the league is trying to shred salaries. Golladay, Ertz, Hunter Henry...I expect them to make runs at guys like Bud Dupree as well as tackles that are available.

Exactly. I don't claim to be a talent evaluator but I just don't know what people are missing with this kid. I am shocked the offers are not more but expect them to start rolling in.

Reamer used to run Bloomington Red

Muck Fichigan

Go Irish!

It’s so nice to see

Love seeing some offense in college basketball

He is on Indiana Sports beat once a week talking about high school basketball

That's right! Bloom... He always had some good insight. The Loopers were a piece of work, that's for sure...

Yes. He was Bloom. Omg the Loopers. Blast from the past. I wonder where they ended up? I know he rubbed some people the wrong way but I did like RMKFAN1 though. But then again, I liked GoColts and he rubbed many the wrong way. I value diversity in opinion even if I don’t agree.

I always thought they should have treated the Yugo like those cheap, plastic Bic lighters...Fill em with gas at the factory and dispose of them when they run out...

“We got off the phone and me and my parents were like, ‘He’s (Tom Allen) an amazing guy. That’s who I want to play for.’ It was amazing." @DustinDopirak on how Kaiden Turner quickly knew #iufb was the right place for him. https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/kaiden-turner-was-sure-about-indiana-from-the-beginning/

I am schedule to get my first vaccine shot on April 5

Some recommended reading. 'The impossible is not impossible': The push to make Covid-19 vaccines at record speed It takes about five or six weeks to genetically engineer and then grow, purify, and finish the vaccine before it can be bottled and sealed and sent on its way to be distributed to vaccine centers. Put another way, Dr. Paul Stoffels, chief scientific officer for Johnson & Johnson, told CNN, "you can't accelerate it by yelling at it."

The right of people to keep and bear arms. I have not any problem with the 2nd Amendment. Having said that. After getting out of the Army, during the Viet Nam war. I pledged. NEVER to touch another weapon the rest of my life. And have lived up to my pledge. Again. I have no problem with those that chose to do so, for peaceful purposes. Over and out.