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Good luck!
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Hard game to pick is Auburn at Ole Miss. Auburn can usually run the ball against anybody but Ole Miss has a defense built to stop it if anybody can. Something's got to give. Kansas State did a better job than anybody of stopping Auburn but they had the best fundamental techniques I've seen in quite a while. Seldom do I watch a game these days without getting disgusted with the defensive techniques and discipline but Kansas State was an exception (at least in that game). Ole Miss has better athletes on defense than Kansas State so we'll see if they can play as fundamentally sound. If they do they will win the game. On the other hand Auburn's defense is less than impressive but Ole Miss' offense is inconsistent.
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Single digits...how to get there
MS256 replied to TheFinnster's topic in Instruction and Playing Tips
I don't know but your question made me curious enough to see what I could make, or not make, out of my round yesterday. My ball striking was below average (even for me). My chipping was a little below average (and I'm usually pretty good at it). My putting was better than average even though I did have to make a few longer second putts than I would normally have but I made them. GIR: 6......Total putts on those holes: 10......1.67 putts per hole.....Extrapolated to if I had hit all 18 greens: 30.6 putts. No GIR: 12......Total putts on those holes: 17......1.42 putts per hole..... Extrapolated to if I had missed all 18 greens: 25.6 putts Shot 4 over par on a course I rate at 65, which is between 2 and 3 strokes higher than my better ball striking rounds. -
Winning the last 3 conference games is more than a long shot so I've accepted that it's not going to happen. If I watch the Tennessee game but insert Dak Prescot for Joshua Dobbs in my imagination it turns into a nightmare very quickly. At this point I'm just hoping it's anybody except FSU.
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From the good ol' days when I did live on the road.
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And that's why losers are losers.
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Well my hand is inching toward the remote control. Somebody forgot to tell Louisville that there are 4 quarters in a game. The way they were playing in the first half I was wondering why/how they had lost two games but now I know.
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And a kick in the butt for fumbling the ball after intercepting it.
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FSU at Louisville: Long way to go but early in the second quarter it certainly looks like Louisville can hang with FSU. Score 7 to 0 but could/should be 14 to 0.
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Single digits...how to get there
MS256 replied to TheFinnster's topic in Instruction and Playing Tips
I can really lower that putt total if I'm chipping for bogeys most of the day. -
Single digits...how to get there
MS256 replied to TheFinnster's topic in Instruction and Playing Tips
Look at it this way. If somebody wanted to give me a million dollars if I could have less than 20 putts in a round, regardless of score, I promise you that if I hit a green it would be by accident. I would miss the green in regulation by enough to let me chip to the fringe and then chip again from the fringe to as close to the hole as I could get (or chip it in). Hmmm. Come to think of it I've have had rounds just about like that unintentionally just because I was playing like crap. Total putts give no indication whatsoever of how well I'm playing (or what score I shot), except that if total putts is absurdly low I know I played like crap and didn't hit any greens. -
Ha ha ha ha! My wife is a Cubs fan and thinks the same thing. If it can happen for that 2 year old maybe it can happen for her. I always like to remind her that they are only in their second century of the rebuilding project and anybody can have a bad century.
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LOL!
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Will Ebola become a big problem in the United States?
MS256 replied to MS256's topic in The Grill Room
Right there is where you and I are on separate planets. Members of my family that are still in the military enjoy getting on with their lives just as much as anybody else. They sacrifice time away from their young kids by choice out of a duty to their country but are no less happy to get home to their wives and kids. -
Will Ebola become a big problem in the United States?
MS256 replied to MS256's topic in The Grill Room
Not a chance in the world I would make a separate quarantine policy just for the military. Basically just because I could and they have to follow orders? The way I see it either a quarantine is necessary or it's not necessary period. Those soldiers like to get home to their families every bit as much as civilians do. -
The Giants made most of the defensive plays they needed to make and too much Bumgarner for the Royals to overcome. On another note: I've never understood the need for idiots to riot after winning something. http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/san-francisco-giants-fans-trash-the-city-after-world-series
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Royals only hope now is if they can replace an umpire with Don Denkinger.
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Will Ebola become a big problem in the United States?
MS256 replied to MS256's topic in The Grill Room
I wish they would do something fairly nice like that for the soldiers that come back (since they've already said they were going to be quarantined). Maybe lease out a nice resort on an island somewhere with all of the shrimp and lobster they want. Edit: Which reminds me. I'm not getting why private citizens should be regarded any differently regarding quarantine than our military is. Right or wrong if it's necessary for one group it should be necessary for all groups. -
Maybe if there was some sort of natural slope so it could release around without building up too much. That would be fun to play with too. As a coal miner I would have to go with what I know and that's cutting a bench with dozers and scrapers. If there was time and money for a 2570 dragline to be erected I would be 100% confident but those were about 35 million dollars the last time I worked on one and take about a year to erect. Of course that's pocket change for the Federal government. If it was Washington D.C. they would probably buy several of them.
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Not a dike. A better, and intentional, path of least resistance. Anything can be diverted with enough equipment, enough time, enough capacity in the path of least resistance, and gravity. Probably 30 million dollars to save a million dollar town plus what you have to pay adjacent land owners. Where else could you have that much fun for that amount of money?
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Could be it. I did see one clip of one bulldozer out there pissing in the wind by himself but he needed a fleet of help to do any good. Plus he seemed to be a day late and a dollar short in the attempt.
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Definitely not but I see no risk at all there. The lava flow has been coming for months at a relatively steady (and slow) pace. I'm not saying it could be done and I wouldn't know without seeing it but I've worked at coal mines where we moved tremendous amounts of dirt and I don't see the difference (from here).
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Every time they show this lava flow I wonder why I'm not seeing tons of heavy equipment digging a diversion. Maybe they didn't have the time or available equipment. Might be a lost cause but 8 or 10 D11s and some pulls could at least give it a decent try. http://www.vox.com/2014/10/27/7078801/volcano-hawaii-kilauea-lava-flows-pahoa-evacuation
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Will Ebola become a big problem in the United States?
MS256 replied to MS256's topic in The Grill Room
And in this case they don't even all agree or claim to know it all. Doctors and scientists usually deal in probabilities and leave knowing it all to internet bloggers. -
Will Ebola become a big problem in the United States?
MS256 replied to MS256's topic in The Grill Room
So am I. I happen to think the disease is very hard to spread and unlikely at all to get from surface contact or sneeze droplets. If it was able to be spread easily it would be spreading much more quickly in West Africa (and probably elsewhere). There is a difference between thinking something is a very low probability and statements of no probability and "we know everything there is to know" (which is silly).