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Timby posted:They don't have beef, per se, they're just very distant from one another, partially as a result of their upbringing (their father was a drunken, abusive piece of poo poo). That explains Skip, anyway...
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Redgrendel2001 posted:That's actually pretty mild for him and yeah the brother thing is weird. Totally opposite personalities.
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Dr_Strangelove posted:That explains Skip, anyway... Skip by all accounts is a pretty nice but very private guy off camera, and has done everything in his power to keep himself pretty closed off from his family. He seems to know that his on-camera/twitter shtick is exactly that but he's committed to it.
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I read something a few years ago, and I don't remember where, but Skip's siblings don't talk to him because he left to go to Vanderbilt to get away from his hosed up parents and they resented him for it. And IIRC he tried to patch things up with them and they're the ones who refused. And I believe there was something in it about his dad making him drink beer when he was a little kid (like 8 ish) because he thought it was funny.
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sportsgenius86 posted:I read something a few years ago, and I don't remember where, but Skip's siblings don't talk to him because he left to go to Vanderbilt to get away from his hosed up parents and they resented him for it. And IIRC he tried to patch things up with them and they're the ones who refused. And I believe there was something in it about his dad making him drink beer when he was a little kid (like 8 ish) because he thought it was funny. I've definitely seen that last part mentioned in a couple profiles on him.
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I feel conflicted about Rick Bayless because Frontera is completely underwhelming but the Ahogada at Xoco is amazing
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morestuff posted:I feel conflicted about Rick Bayless because Frontera is completely underwhelming but the Ahogada at Xoco is amazing That habanero salsa is good though.
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https://twitter.com/RohanNadkarni/status/930842364981186560 Finally, I can pay for the content I mute as quickly as possible every time I open a Sports Illustrated link
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morestuff posted:I feel conflicted about Rick Bayless because Frontera is completely underwhelming but the Ahogada at Xoco is amazing I only know Rick Bayless as the guy who does Mexican food cooking shows on PBS, so he's aces in my book.
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DJExile posted:Skip by all accounts is a pretty nice but very private guy off camera, and has done everything in his power to keep himself pretty closed off from his family. He seems to know that his on-camera/twitter shtick is exactly that but he's committed to it. Skip was the very first voice heard on KTCK in Dallas in 1994. He was let go by the station after about two years, when it was sold by the original owners. He didn't really fit with the rest of the station's show's laid-back, conversational tone. KTCK has become a juggernaut in Dallas radio since then, dominating the ratings. Skip is apparently really bitter about this. He refuses to speak with anyone from the station if they pass one another at a media event or anywhere else. He never mentions his time there, and immediately cuts off anyone who brings it up. He's a weird dude.
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morestuff posted:I feel conflicted about Rick Bayless because Frontera is completely underwhelming but the Ahogada at Xoco is amazing Tortas Frontera is like the GOAT of airport food though and as someone with the misfortune of frequently flying through O’Hare I cannot thank him enough. He has a restaurant out here somewhere but I can get good Mexican food super cheap in like every strip mall so eh.
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MourningView posted:Tortas Frontera is like the GOAT of airport food though and as someone with the misfortune of frequently flying through O’Hare I cannot thank him enough. This is the truest loving thing.
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sportsgenius86 posted:This is the truest loving thing. Oh my god yes.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:How many Bayless' are there? Skip, Rick, Jerryd, maybe a couple more.
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MourningView posted:Tortas Frontera is like the GOAT of airport food though and as someone with the misfortune of frequently flying through O’Hare I cannot thank him enough. I’m never in the right terminal for this. I’m getting there crazy early for a flight today so I might give it a shot, but I’d feel bad cheating on The lovely Chili’s
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morestuff posted:I’m never in the right terminal for this. I’m getting there crazy early for a flight today so I might give it a shot, but I’d feel bad cheating on The lovely Chili’s There’s one in each terminal now I think. The one I always go to is near B11. Also, that loving sushi bar near F is loving fantastic too.
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Trump is beefing with LaVar Ball via Twitter. That sums up 2017 pretty well.
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DJExile posted:Deadspin and The Naked Truth have a deep dive in to bootleg basketball prep schools, notably 22ft Academy I remember reading an article about a multi-sport "prep school" like this a while back, the article focused mainly on the baseball team but man it was hosed up and sad.
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Inspector_666 posted:I remember reading an article about a multi-sport "prep school" like this a while back, the article focused mainly on the baseball team but man it was hosed up and sad.
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I witnessed a signing for one of these fly-by-night schools this spring. Sketchy as poo poo. The kids who signed with this school had no chance of playing anywhere else, including a larger high school, and perhaps couldn't have even qualified academically for even the nearby community college. And like the College of Faith schools, belongs to the NCAU, which has this for a Facebook page. This is official website of the NCAU. It's a free Wix site. I can't determine if the NCAU is the craziest or second craziest thing I've had a chance to indirectly experience covering prep sports. A tiny private religious high school was raided one spring by the Department of Homeland Security for terrible conditions, a few days after it played an area regular private school. It boarded Latino baseball players by crowding them into a moldy gym with limited electricity and to basically fend for themselves. Apparently the basketball program was semi-legit in that one of its graduates got into a Division I major school and was arguably the team's best player for a couple of years.
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The saddest part to me is that there will be no accountability, because our president literally ran a scam private college and as a result is perfectly fine with others doing the same.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I witnessed a signing for one of these fly-by-night schools this spring. Sketchy as poo poo. The NCAU's facebook is good: quote:If you don't understand what this is really about then here it is! Keep young men interested in they're educations!
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Deadspin did a report on Prime Prep a few years back that was really excellent. I remember reading it recently and it was probably brought up when Deadspin was reporting on other prep schools like this. https://deadspin.com/the-miseducation-of-deion-sanders-1684905268
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Is Hoop Dreams still on Netflix? I intended to sit down and watch it for forever and never did.
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Holy poo poo Ringer this is impressive work, a little long, but impressive work nonetheless https://twitter.com/jga41agher/status/933007260590030849
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howe_sam posted:Holy poo poo Ringer this is impressive work, a little long, but impressive work nonetheless Why is the ringer doxxing me
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Peanut President posted:The NCAU's facebook is good: Oh. My. God.
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howe_sam posted:Holy poo poo Ringer this is impressive work, a little long, but impressive work nonetheless That is really well done. Guy who played the Kemper character was spot-on in his impression.
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Dude, if the actor who plays Ed Kemper ever dies or soemthing, they can just plug that Tyler guy in and never miss a beat. Holy poo poo.
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I wouldn't believe in any such glitch unless they laid out in detail how it worked. CBS should be ashamed of themselves.
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Yea I can’t process how that would even work.
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sportsgenius86 posted:Yea I can’t process how that would even work. Probably supposed to be like a news feed where it quotes part of the article and links to it. Still very loving shady with exactly how poorly it was done. If not intentional, it looks like a WIP that hadn't fleshed out many of the features was deployed.
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Yeah a ton of news feeds have auto-posters that pull from various feeds these days, so it's not impossible, but I've got a very hard time buying it.
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