Isn’t it pronounced “hitting a jackpot”?
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Posts made by mayjay
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RE: Chalmers & Sherron
Film clips of events alone during new- and sports-casts of events probably aren’t compensable. Fair use. But using those clips to promote other events and future telecasts of those events might be.
Makes me wonder if the PGA’s contracts with networks results in lots of residuals to Tiger for their Masters commercials replaying that chip shot on 16 at Augusta… On the other hand, Nike stopped making golf balls despite all the free publicity they got from all those CBS commercials.
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RE: Smith
@dylans Thanks for the inspiring story. Yet another reminder that so many people who are facing awful challenges wake up every morning from the peace of sleep needing to be almost unfathomly strong as they face the day.
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RE: Keeping track of the ever changing 24-25 roster
@Texas-Hawk-10 Did I miss a link to the Filipowski story?
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RE: So, Kansas Reinstated the Border War (for the Chiefs)
@FarmerJayhawk Raiders are serial relocators, as are the A’s. How’d they both have controversies with Oakland, and designs on new stadia in Las Vegas in common?
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RE: So, Kansas Reinstated the Border War (for the Chiefs)
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in So, Kansas Reinstated the Border War (for the Chiefs):
If these stadiums provided the ROI claimed to swindle the public to vote for them, then the owners of these teams would have zero issues building and paying for everything themselves because they would make a nice profit from those deals.
Excellent point, PHOF-worthy by my reckoning!
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RE: So, Kansas Reinstated the Border War (for the Chiefs)
@FarmerJayhawk On the other hand, relocating the teams will result in millions of people finally being correct about how Kansas City’s teams “are in Kansas, right?” This will save us ex-KCers from Kansas, now living hundreds of miles away, from untold hours of frustration, resulting in no longer wasting massive amounts for therapy…or bourbon. (Ok, the bourbon is a fixed cost.)
Aggregate savings of hundreds! That is more than 2 billion, right?
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RE: 6 Week Deadtime? List Favorite Sport/Team in Order
Chiefs, KU mens bb, ku fb, Olympics (varies)
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RE: NCAA proposal to expand NCAA tourney to 72 or 76 teams.
@rockchalkjayhawk said in NCAA proposal to expand NCAA tourney to 72 or 76 teams.:
I’m all for some version of all 351 Division 1 basketball schools in the tourney.
The conference tournaments all have automatic entries into the Dance for the winners. So, effectively that is the opening round for any team not good enough to be selected by the committee. So, you already have your all-inclusive tournament!
Well, except that it excludes independents (are there any now?).
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RE: So, Kansas Reinstated the Border War (for the Chiefs)
@FarmerJayhawk But, gee, I thought that every penny of corporate welfare always produces hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue! I so fondly remember how trickle down economics of the 80’s made so made impoverished people into millionaires. Or was that millionaires into billionaires?
And I am soooooo looking forward to the plan of a certain ex-president to eliminate income tax altogether and to initiate 100% tarrifs!!! Our economy will just burst at the seams as inflation goes into double-digits with prices for many consumer goods being doubled! Combined with eliminating numerous agencies and voiding federal regs left and right, there might be a few hiccups associated with throwing 2 million federal employees out of work, and flying will be a tad more dangerous without actual air traffic controllers and because we will let every manufacturer self-certify like Boeing, and without those safety fanatics at the FDA untested drugs could wreak havoc, but those things aren’t as important as making the top 1% richer than King Midas while surfing on the delusions of millions going broke. And gosh, without OSHA we can finally get back to having more emergecy medical care like we have always wanted.
Wow, too bad you don’t understand math, being so confused by all those dozens of impartial economic studies and your years of education and experience and useless stuff like that.
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RE: Oh boy this is getting serious. Good thing/ Bad thing ?
@dylans “All hate State!” is my suggestion.
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RE: I Know it's Pointless, but what if. . .
@nuleafjhawk said in I Know it's Pointless, but what if. . .:
@mayjay Dude. You’re Wilt bashing?
Never! And it causes me no moral qualms to believe that very few athletes I ever rooted for at KU had chastity belts on their bank accounts.
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RE: Bill Self, New head coach of the LA Lakers!
April 1 is less than 10 months away. Couldn’t wait?
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RE: 2024 MLB Season
@AsadZ Royals doing some 1985/2015 Royals-type comeback things!
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RE: Keeping track of the ever changing 24-25 roster
What happens to Elmarko’s NIL?
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RE: 2024 Portal Madness Thread
I think we need to (again) consider the annual @wissox offer…
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RE: RIP Bill Walton
And who can forget the KU connection…1974 Final 4, when they still played the consolation game for 3rd place. UCLA had lost to NCSt, and KU lost to Marquette in the semis. Bill didn’t want to play, had a huge argument with Wooden, and ended up playing 20 mins with only 3 shots. And beat us. His complaints about the 3rd place game helped accelerate getting rid of it a couple years later, IIRC.
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RE: RIP Bill Walton
@approxinfinity Often attributed to P.T. but might have been Oscar Wilde. Seems more of a Barnum idea!
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/there-is-no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity.html
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RE: College Sports about to change.
@nuleafjhawk Careful, golf was invented to punish us while we tell ourselves we are having fun!
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
@kjayhawks I found the full speech was really pretty standard for the very conservative branch of Catholicism, though. Interesting that he was so angry about clergy nowadays being so close to their parishioners instead of being more removed both physically and spiritually. I had a friend at KU who was part of a movement to get rid of Vatican II, and he explained those issues to Unitarian me.
Butker definitely would not like the modern Episcopal approach.
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
@FarmerJayhawk I grew up a mile from State Line Road and remember the days when Kansas cops were reputed (ah, Jaybate, where art thou?) to go park near KC, MO liquor stores and follow cars with KS license plates back across the state line. Then bust them for bringing booze into Kansas. This was before Vern Miller arrested (or did he just threaten?) airline attendants for serving liquor by the drink while flying over the Sunflower State.
The story about the cops might have been my father just trying to scare us impressionable teens, but I did hear it from others. Did Kansas have no liquor stores back in the good ol’ days?
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
2 Chiefs arrested in Kansas for misdemeanor marijuana possession. Great off-season keeps rollin’ along…
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
@Kcmatt7 Oh, there were a lot of Watson defenders who tried to advance the notion that he was innocent of any wrongdoing because the DA did not press charges.
And I also remember people braying that the women Watson pressured into sexual contact were most likely prostitutes since they were masseuses. These people belong in a very, very hot destination.
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
@kjayhawks said in 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft:
I’m shocked by how much more outrage there is on this than Deshaun Watson signing a record breaking deal after sexually assaulting 24 women.
The outrage about this is a drop in the bucket comparatively. That one played out over a couple years so you might not remember how hot it got.
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
@rockchalkjayhawk The price of winning. At least we get the NFC South slate.
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
@AsadZ “Interesting” is the most euphemistic word in the English language. Think about that blind date your friend tried to set you up with…“Is she cute?” “Oh, wow, she is SO interesting!”
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RE: Lance is COOKING
@approxinfinity said in Lance is COOKING:
My youngest is 5, and has just recently become sufferable. Good luck.
That will last about 6 more years, then you have to wait until they are about 26 for some sanity to return to your lives. Enjoy the sweet times!
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RE: You know it's a big day
We all seem to forget that in the old days few people expected freshmen to do much other than to make mistakes, learn and eventually become sophomores. Extensive changes in strength, training and conditioning both in HS and private programs have made incoming freshmen much stronger over the years. Furphy looked all year like the freshmen we got back in the 60’s and 70’s.
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RE: Keeping track of the ever changing 24-25 roster
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Keeping track of the ever changing 24-25 roster:
When was Perry ever a good defender?
Somewhere toward the end of his 9th year here, I think.
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RE: You know it's a big day
@approxinfinity said in You know it's a big day:
I dont think it’s dumb. It’s just incongruous
It can be both, and here is my proof: There is a helluvalot of dumb…in Congress.
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
List of UFA signings:
Chiefs seem to be a magnet for guys looking to land a spot.
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
@AsadZ A fair grade, but I would go up to A- because they signed about 4 pretty strong guys as UFAs who were not drafted but were considered Day 3 prospects. Essentially the same as having 4 extra 6th or 7th rd picks.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@Jhawk69 One of the Morris twins made up for it with 8 TOs. Just remember, the Gospel of HEM is holy writ that it was Self’s fault because he played Brady instead of better players (who no doubt would have improved our 9% 3pt avg and overall <36% FG avg).
kuballin’ is an accolyte of the Dark Lord…or maybe a reincarnation.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@approxinfinity said in Transfer Rumblings:
@Jhawk69 that guy Bill Self is LUCKY to win 800 games!
And an amazing PR talent, fooling hundreds of sportswriters, coaches, and athletes for some 30 years.
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RE: You know it's a big day
@approxinfinity My wife watched one game when I told her about Furphy. She thought he looked so young and got a kick out of seeing him so happy when he drained a 3. So, 1 more viewer of one game…definition of a marginal increase in viewership! No one from Nielsen contacted us, though.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@BShark said in Transfer Rumblings:
Watching sports with the intention to get angry about it is so weird to me.
That’s why I don’t go to sports bars…
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
The best draft guide I have ever seen is Dane Brugler’s “The Beast” on The Athletic. Hundreds of pages evaluating dozens of players with lots more background than most.
Anyway, by his rankings, KC has managed to pick up 4 of the top 89 draft prospects in this year’s draft. Including his no. 1 safety. In Veach we trust.
Worth the subscription even by itself, acc to many of us!
https://theathletic.com/5399690/2024/04/10/nfl-draft-2024-the-beast-dane-brugler/
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RE: Keeping track of the ever changing 24-25 roster
@Gorilla72 said in Keeping track of the ever changing 24-25 roster:
How do we feel about rebounding next year?
I, for one, think it would be a great idea. Both in the games…and in our season.
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RE: You know it's a big day
I was highly entertained watching the kid come in and exceed initial expectations. Sports is entertainment for us, jobs for them. I don’t get why people get bent out of shape because they think college athletes are required to sacrifice their own lives to give it all for the good ol’ school. “Keep playing as long as I want you to” is a pretty entitled way of being a fan.
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RE: 2024 Portal Madness Thread
@Gorilla72 Pretty important for FedEx to get its name out there. People might forget it despite seeing trucks all over the place every day.
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RE: Fizzou's newest muck-up
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Fizzou's newest muck-up:
@mayjay I don’t think because he was religious or home schooled he was any better of a person, quite the opposite!
Ah, sorry, I misread your comment as implying your approval. We are of one mind on this!
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RE: Fizzou's newest muck-up
@Crimsonorblue22 If he was a moral and self-disciplined kid, something obviously got lost somewhere along the way. But in my experience with people who drastically throw it all away, it isn’t usually a one-time disregard of what they are taught. It is usually just the first time they get caught.
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Fizzou's newest muck-up
So UMizzery alum Jontay Porter earns a lifetime ban from the NBA for providing inside info to gamblers and for altering his performances to ensure the outcome of some prop bets on him.
Definitely heightens our awareness that stupidity keeps reaching new levels of accomplishment. Undrafted, works his way through ups and downs to earning a couple mil, and manages to blow his future.
Who ever would have suspected that the marriage of sports and legal gambling could go bad…
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RE: 2024 Portal Madness Thread
@jayballer67 I think the question mark from @approxinfinity was about your Hurley comment. Ended all his seasons “but one with a loss.” You mean “all but two”?