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Jealousy? I think you’re mistaken. I’m just ahead of the curve. While you see that the SEC is the center of the galaxy known as college football, your criticism of the other conferences is misguided. Think of them as if they were star clusters from the outermost edges to the areas near the SEC center. Once you view it that way it will become clear. Although it takes time, these clusters will inexorably move closer to and become part of, the center known as the SEC. What you fail to realize for now is that once this happens, there is further consolidation to take place. Why put up with schools inferior to the true center…..the black hole if you will…..Alabama? Everything one day must be absorbed so there is only one unified galaxy that is Alabama. It is pointless to be jealous, angry, argumentative or any other emotion that resists the undeniable fact that sooner or later, everything that exists in the galaxy of college football will be sucked into Alabama. Even the disdain and snobbery Alabama fans harbor for all else will become pointless. All of those wasted emotions will simply disappear along with everything else into the singularity. Spacetime will cease to exist in the inevitable oneness that is the Crimson Tide. The singularity. As is true with the astronomical galaxies, there are going to be many violent collisions and much strife along the way, but make no mistake, Sagittarius A* and Alabama cannot be denied. Hopefully for you, maybe the torment and death that takes place as college football collapses in upon itself will disproportionately impact defensive backs. They deserve it anyway. Still, that remains to be seen. I make no predictions about the strength of the grand and glorious Alabama football program when it has to do battle with the real galaxy, but as long as Saban is calling the shots, Sagittarius A* better be prepared.

The Citadel, Uriah State, La-Monroe and Austin Peay scare the heck out of Dabo.

IKF too. I get a little bored sometimes with the lopsided teams talk. Can the Yanks beat the Astros? Etc. plenty of time for that in September. I’m looking at teams that are up and coming or will exceed expectations. I can see the white Sox making a comeback. They were snake bit last year. My “over” team is the Royals. They’ll lose but have a lot of talent and youth.

The non elbowing call ought to draw a fine. What a joke. I’m fine with an OTL getting a point if a regulation win gets 3, but as it stands, an overtime game is worth more total pints…..2+1…..than a regulation game. That’s dumb.

You implied that Araiza had made the team and that the Bills consider the matter resolved once Haack had been cut. This was demonstrably false.

Irrespective of whether Araiza involvement in any incident, if the Bills cut Haack all it it says is Araiza>Haack. It says nothing about Araiza’s status other than he was a better option than Haack. The Bills could have thought everything was buttoned up, they could have thought it was probable to work itself out or they could have been waiting it out. If they had unceremoniously dumped Araiza due to allegations, you’d have taken the opposite stance and told us all how unprofessional the Bills had acted. In reality, Beane approached this entire saga in a highly professional manner up to and including the moment he said it was more important for Araiza to focus on his personal life than on football. He did not absolve or blame Araiza in any way. It was not his place. Sure, goofs like Tim Graham, cited as direct quotes things that were not anything resembling a direct quote in an effort to make Beane look bad. In the end, there was nothing there which is why this all went away from the standpoint of the Bills bearing some sort of blame. Even Tim Graham has shut up about it….but Pats fans gonna Pats fan I guess. Haack stunk. That is clear. It is very plausible, even likely, that the Bills knew he would not make their team under any circumstances whether Araiza was there or not and they gave him a chance to connect elsewhere……which is exactly what he did. Stuff like that happens many times on just about every team every year, but THIS time it was proof that the Bills screwed up. Gotcha.

All of this was covered in the original thread and it is very clear that the Bills management did pretty well under the circumstances regarding Araiza. Beane acted in the manner a professional would despite the trolling behavior and revisionist tactics of people like Tim Graham. Now here you are months later making the assertion that Haack’s departure was a direct referendum on Araiza. Haack’s departure was a referendum on Haack. This was all reviewed ad infinitum in the original thread. I guess the Bills winning the division three years in a row and your team arguably looking like the cellar dweller moving forward leaves you with this crap for “material”, but it’s not a good look dude.

Ah, the famous 92/93 line where the value of draft picks falls off a cliff.

ROR with more production in one period as a visitor than his entire reign of mopiness as a Sabre. 3rd leading cause of this decade behind only Eichole American Murray.

You’ll get Moore from KC in round one.

Any updates on this?

All in regulation, too.

Shirley

It’s a good analogy unfortunately. Seems like the youngsters got their big deals and hit cruise mode. Great to see such character after Eichel departed. WTF? Why can every other team, including two that didn’t even exist when this disaster started, make things happen but we stall every time. It’s one thing to lose these games and I think LA is a good team but Calgary has blown chunks all year and they didn’t just beat us, they both curb stomped us as if we’re a team already running for the end of season bus. Thanks for the effort boys.

What if we think WR1 but we do it in round 6 instead? That would free up earlier picks to be used on OL and other areas.

But sending living beings that require thousands of times more resources makes complete sense to you? No radiation issues there? Any concerns with bone density on a trip to Alpha Centauri? And it’s not “my plan” or anyone else’s at this point, at least not the self replicating part. With that said, why do you think there are multiple go carts and even a helicopter on Mars, and talk of solar sail tiny probes to a neighboring star, but no people going? If you set your irrational fear of The Matrix and V-Ger aside and logically follow the progression of technology and the reasoning of Von Neumann, you’ll deduce that it has a high degree of likelihood to be the best path for galactic exploration. And yet none are there to be seen. And they’ve had 14 billion years to get here. Hmmmm.

Like Kliff?

And 250! Is bigger.

.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 is close enough to certainty.

I think where we disagree with what level of certainty exists, I will grant that nothing that ever has 100% certainty. Look at local weather predictions as an example. With that said, there are things that APPROACH 100%. You don’t need to know everything to draw conclusions. For instance, I don’t need to know the lottery numbers for the next 6 drawings to be veeeeeeeeeeeeeery close to 100% certainty that the same numbers I play every week aren’t going to hit 6 times in a row. Those are the type of odds we’re looking at with intelligent alien life existing. And this is based on relevant known factors. Math. On top of that, almost all of the new things we learn point away from life, not toward it. Yes, the Sheldon’s of the world disagree, but they are demonstrably wrong.

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@LeGOATski down thread a few posts you linked a study and eventually asked me what I thought of it and/or to disprove it. I told you I had essentially already done that and you could scroll up a bit. For unknown reasons, you didn’t bother. Perhaps it was to avoid wear and tear on your scrolling finger so here is your silver platter. After you read this and before you reflexively post that either I didn’t refute your study or refuted it poorly please stop and think for a minute. Just give it a minute but actually think with logic, not alien wishfulness. If you still feel the same way, please explain why. The portion below is unedited from Feb 13. I appreciate you refraining from calling me a troll for irrational reasons as others have. It’s like I took their lollipop because I don’t agree with their illogical conclusions that sound like a stoner saying whoa dude what if blue was really red and red was really blue. Augie is an exception to this but sells short what we actually do know about the universe and life, which while incomplete, is considerable. I have explained many mathematical facets within this thread which lead to and overwhelming set of odds that intelligent communicative life beyond Earth is extraordinarily unlikely to the point of being beyond our comprehension. The counter has consistently been the “argument” based on the sitcom math known as the Drake equation pointing out that many stars exist. Now a new twist is that we’ll someday be exploring beyond the observable universe because some appear to be coming to grips with the notion that the observable universe, while immense, isn’t big enough. I won’t review everything in this reply but I will highlight a few in appreciation of your thoughtful post. They are not meant to be seen as proof of anything on their own, but they do add up. There are many. I’ll use just two. 1. Factorials and large numbers. You may have heard the at first unbelievable fact that it is highly unlikely that in the history of the world two decks of playing cards have EVER been shuffled in the same sequence. There is stuff about this all over the internet, feel free to look it up. The number of ways a deck can be shuffled is 52! Which which 52*51*50………*3*2*1. At first blush everyone realizes that produces a large number, but the true scope is hard to grasp. One Illustration I still find astonishing is that there are more ways to shuffle a decks of cards than there are ATOMS on planet Earth. Amazing right? Well, when you look at something called the Rubisco function, it connects amino acids in a way that enable photosynthesis. For this to happen, sequencing of the acids, and the way they fold together, as far as is known to us, have to happen in ONE specific way from a number of possibilities that far exceeds 52!. No one knows the exact number of possibilities but it is something along the lines of 250! or more. That is a number that is beyond inconceivable. I posted a video about this not very far up this thread. That is one component of real math that no one refuted beyond calling me a troll because they reeeeeeeeeeally are hoping for aliens. The Emperor’s New Clothes in a nutshell. 2. Von Neumann probes. Mathematician John von Neumann understood a lot more about math than anyone on this board as well as anyone named Sheldon on any sitcom ever made. At one point, in a Fermi paradox sort of way, he observed that despite the difficulties of living intelligent beings traveling through space, an intelligent society or even an intelligent individual could design and deploy self replicating robots capable of surveying the entirety of a galaxy the size of ours in an expedition that would take roughly 250k years. We are arguably 50-ish years away from being able to create this ourselves. The Earth is 4 billion years old. The universe, roughly 14. If life were so prevalent, why no VN probes, ever? There are many more factors that point away from, not toward life. The rare Earth hypothesis, the prevalence of flare prone red giants, quasars rendering entire galaxies lifeless, detection of exactly zero evidence of alien signals or signatures during our admittedly brief era of space exploration and on and on. I just chose two of my favorites for this post. I think what this boils down to is humans inability to understand large numbers. The people who want aliens to be there inevitably point at the imperceptibly high number of stars and make assumptions from there. But that is only the beginnings of a numerator. The denominator, as we learn more and more, gets inconceivably higher. It would be easier to understand if each number got a lot lower. If I were to play a shell game with you and there were a thousand shells, then asked you to lift one…..there is a pea under it. Would you assume there were more peas under some of the remaining 999? Probably. Then if I told you that the pea had spontaneously spawned and that the odds of a pea being under any given shell were 500 trillion to one, would you still think one of the 999 shells MUST have a pea under it? In this thread no one has come to grips with that………math. Just the Sheldon stuff.

Do you recall what our defense was like right before Rex got here? How about right after? His defense is made for the early 90s and given the changes in the NFL it is more out of date than the average Betamax player.

Get Reggie Ragland on the speed dial.