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01-26-15, 08:31 PM
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Over in Altamonte Springs stuck in meetings for a few days. And no bike.
01-26-15, 08:36 PM
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01-26-15, 08:38 PM
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01-26-15, 08:40 PM
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The kicking balls are different all together.
MJ paved the way. No, not Micheal Jordan, Michael Jackson.
.....how do all these professional athletes get away with handling, warming, and otherwise manipulating (I presume this included scratching) their balls on national television ? #shocked
01-26-15, 08:41 PM
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I swapped out the rear tire and QR skewer on the Allez, in preparation for Wednesday's Computrainer session.
01-26-15, 08:41 PM
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01-26-15, 08:42 PM
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01-26-15, 08:44 PM
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01-26-15, 08:45 PM
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The tubes I've been running on the Allez hold air pretty well. The bike's been sitting for two months and the tires are still firm.
01-26-15, 08:47 PM
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...how do all these professional athletes get away with handling, warming, and otherwise manipulating (I presume this included scratching) their balls on national television ? #shocked
...how do all these professional athletes get away with handling, warming, and otherwise manipulating (I presume this included scratching) their balls on national television ? #shocked
01-26-15, 08:52 PM
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Nope. I just put a less expensive tire on - took off the Continental and put on a Serfas.
Hmm.
I think a spare rear wheel is called for here.
01-26-15, 09:03 PM
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01-26-15, 09:07 PM
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I use my old Conti GP4000 take offs. Perfect way to squeeze the last few miles out of them.
01-26-15, 09:20 PM
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What if the whole league started looking and finding ways to cheat? The league would become much like the pro cycling league, with rampant uncontrolled cheating, playing on insignificant networks you have to hunt down and pray you find on some remote channel. A fringe sport. Then, without football, what will become of America? Watch hockey?
I don't think so.
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01-26-15, 09:36 PM
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Apparently someone DID check at least one ball during the game, that's how the issue was discovered. Fact of the matter is, here's an OCD coach who will do anything to win, and has shown time and again that he's willing to cheat to do so, if necessary.
What if the whole league started looking and finding ways to cheat? The league would become much like the pro cycling league, with rampant uncontrolled cheating, playing on insignificant networks you have to hunt down and pray you find on some remote channel. A fringe sport. Then, without football, what will become of America? Watch hockey? I don't think so.
What if the whole league started looking and finding ways to cheat? The league would become much like the pro cycling league, with rampant uncontrolled cheating, playing on insignificant networks you have to hunt down and pray you find on some remote channel. A fringe sport. Then, without football, what will become of America? Watch hockey?
I don't think so.
01-26-15, 10:26 PM
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01-26-15, 10:27 PM
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"... I'll watch the cat."
01-26-15, 10:45 PM
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Friendship is Magic
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...what if they actually started randomized steroid testing in the pro football ranks, and enforced the "rules" barring their use ? #sad_day
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01-27-15, 06:48 AM
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Yes, the Pats won. The balls were properly inflated during halftime, and the Pats still outscored the Colts 28-0 in the second half. It really is a non-story - if it were anyone but the Pats, there would be zero uproar. Did you hear the big scandal when the Vikings were caught illegally warming their balls (har har) earlier this year in a cold outdoor game? Nope, you didn't. They did it. They got caught. It was given the deserved amount of scrutiny. It's just that people don't get butt hurt over the Vikes.
And the NFL is being pathetic. The NCAA, much of an issue as I have with them, would say the magic words "lack of institutional control" and come down like the wrath of an angry god. We know the footballs were deflated. We know it didn't happen by accident. In my industry, in banking, breaking the rules goes all the way up the chain, and the Congressional Banking Committee won't listen to "I don't know what happened"; punishment would come down hard. This simpering hand-wringing makes me sick.
Liars, cheaters, and murderer. If the Patriots were treated as the "just win baby" Raiders of old I wouldn't mind half as much.
01-27-15, 07:24 AM
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The first post that I saw on FB this morning was a paragraph-long diatribe that started with,
I read through the entire rant wondering if it was tongue-in-cheek or, failing that, to see if there was even a hint of self-awareness... it wasn't and there wasn't.
Seriously . . . I am sick to DEATH about hearing grown adults whining on their Facebook pages!!
01-27-15, 07:41 AM
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You might want to rerun the tapes for '08 & '09 before using banking as an example of what happens when rules are broken.
01-27-15, 07:44 AM
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The allegations are that this was going on much further back than just the AFC championship game. This is also relevant to their image in the media as the "model franchise" and "best organization in sports" (and the holier-than-thou attitude from the fans). Cheating when you don't have to just makes you look insecure and pathetic. After Spygate, Kraft asked Belichick how much of a difference it made, on a scale of 1-100. "One" was the answer. "Then you're a schmuck" was the reply. What does it say about a person, or an organization, when they cheat when they don't even have to?
And the NFL is being pathetic. The NCAA, much of an issue as I have with them, would say the magic words "lack of institutional control" and come down like the wrath of an angry god. We know the footballs were deflated. We know it didn't happen by accident. In my industry, in banking, breaking the rules goes all the way up the chain, and the Congressional Banking Committee won't listen to "I don't know what happened"; punishment would come down hard. This simpering hand-wringing makes me sick.
Liars, cheaters, and murderer. If the Patriots were treated as the "just win baby" Raiders of old I wouldn't mind half as much.
And the NFL is being pathetic. The NCAA, much of an issue as I have with them, would say the magic words "lack of institutional control" and come down like the wrath of an angry god. We know the footballs were deflated. We know it didn't happen by accident. In my industry, in banking, breaking the rules goes all the way up the chain, and the Congressional Banking Committee won't listen to "I don't know what happened"; punishment would come down hard. This simpering hand-wringing makes me sick.
Liars, cheaters, and murderer. If the Patriots were treated as the "just win baby" Raiders of old I wouldn't mind half as much.
01-27-15, 08:12 AM
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01-27-15, 08:16 AM
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...what if they actually started randomized steroid testing in the pro football ranks, and enforced the "rules" barring their use ? #sad_day