Heretic

On Mar 18, 2024:

Heretic replied to "NCAA Basketball 2023-24" at 11:04 am
posted by Ironman92

#3 Creighton vs #14 Akron…game in Pittsburgh

Will be big Akron crowd

See how Akron got in? Poor dude on Kent State didn't realize his team just took the lead and quickly fouled an Akron player with about 6 seconds left. He made both shots and Akron won by 1.

Heretic replied to "NCAA Basketball 2023-24" at 11:02 am

Big East folks seem upset. Guess they were ranked the #2 conference behind the Big 12 and all of their bubble teams got snubbed.

While watching conference tournaments, I figured there would be a lot of people winding up upset with how things turned out due to how it seemed there were a TON of teams with 18-21 wins who all had their ups and downs where they all had some merits, but also had red flags. Like, in just the Big 10, you had Northwestern (haven't been the same since Ty Berry got hurt), Wisconsin (good recovery in conference tournament, but had a long "they suck" stretch late in the regular season), Michigan State (played a brutal schedule and lost most of those tough games -- meaning they are totally that team pundits will be all like "It's Izzo, it's March, no one wants to play them" and then they'll lose 78-69 in a game where they were down by 10 for 35 of the 40 minutes), Indiana (somehow won 19 games despite seemingly having no impact on anything that happened in the sport all year), Ohio State (good finish under Diebler, but those last two months of Holtmann were a killer that gave them no margin for error), Iowa (finished with two losses in back-to-back must wins) and Minnesota (surprisingly in some sort of "barely in it" contention until faltering down the stretch) all in this sort of gray area where you knew which of them were likely in and which ones needed some/lots of help, but none of them felt overly inspiring.

And with there being a lot of teams like that in most conferences, I'm totally looking forward to seeing just how quickly my bracket gets busted to hell! At least let me have fun with it for Thursday, guys! I'll even take a year like one of my friends had a decade or so ago where he was 16-of-16 the first day and then lost his champion in the noon game on Friday because he at least had one awesome day before it all went to shit.

Heretic replied to "2024 NFL Offseason" at 10:43 am

I like the Fields move. Give up basically nothing (since it only goes up to a 4th round pick if he plays a lot and from what I saw, he's not expected to be the starter or anything) for a very athletic QB whose main issue is consistency. If Fields doesn't progress as a player, he's still better than Pickett was, but if leaving the horribly-run Bears and getting a change of scenery pays off for him, he could wind up being a very good player for them.

As far as Wilson goes, no real expectations. Dude hasn't been good for a long time and comes off weird as fuck, so there will be lulz provided by his attempts at being motivational, but I kind of prefer it when those lulz aren't coming at the expense of a team I care about.

Fields is definitely an upgrade over Pickett, not so sure about Wilson, due to his ability with the Broncos to just kill a game with a horrible mistake. The thing about Pickett was that he really just did nothing. It was rare he had a game-killing blunder, but it was also rare that he made a game-saving play. There was the game-winner in the first game with Baltimore last year, which was awesome, but after that, he was back to his typical sort of 13-22, 155, 0 TD, 0 INT performance that just doesn't move the needle any way whatsoever.

On Mar 15, 2024:

Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 12:00 pm

posted by CenterBHSFan

Ben Shapiro, who probably has the softest hands on YouTube, is now also calling to raise the retirement age past 67; barring physical ailments. 

The total disregard for the blue collar class by people with soft hands is catching like wildfire until even Contards have picked it up. While I agree with Shapiro on a few topics, this is the drop off point where he loses favor with people like myself. It's a classism that captures the elite and those with pretensions of elitism.

Imagine telling mechanics, nurses, plumbers, garbage men, the service industry, all the people whose health takes a direct hit way before they even turn 60, that they must continue marching like ants because the people with soft hands won't have the same problems that they do and said so. 

To be fair, if my occupation (or "occupation") was podcast-hosting weenie, I'd never want to retire, either. All I'd have to do is run my mouth about whatever faux-outrage topics pop into my head and occasionally do something wacky like co-perform on the world's worst rap song with some talent-deficient nobody for the lulz, while watching the money roll in.

On Mar 14, 2024:

Heretic replied to "The WTF thread..." at 12:46 pm
posted by QuakerOats

https://www.wsaz.com/2024/03/10/2-women-drove-dead-elderly-mans-body-bank-withdraw-money-police-say/



Heh, the direct-to-video rip-off of Weekend at Bernie's!

On Mar 13, 2024:

Heretic replied to "2024 NFL Offseason" at 01:33 pm
posted by justincredible

A Kennedy/Rodgers ticket 100% confirms we're living in a simulation.

But it does create great jokes! So far, my favorite was a tweet that said this shows how smart Rodgers is, because the quickest route to the presidency is to be the VP under a Kennedy.

Heretic replied to "NBA 2023-24" at 12:02 pm

posted by Laley23

This Cavs team is what I envisioned last years Cavs team to be. I just got a little ahead of the timeline and overestimated the bench (though I begged JB to play Merrill last year. Niang, Merrill (getting minutes), Strus have been excellent. Wade developing into a true 3/D and Okoro taking and making more has opened up the offense.

Not sure anyone in the East truly scares me, it’s mostly JB and his adjustments in a 7 game series I worry about. And potential Knocks pressure to not fold again.

But I do not envision a world they are not the 2-seed at this point, and think they have a better shot at the 1, than the 3. Fun times.

FUN FACT: Since this post, the Cavs are 6-8 and most definitely have a better shot at the 3 than the 1. Maybe Ironman has a point with his "go 1000000 miles out of his way to never say anything positive about his teams and risk jinxing anything" tactic.

Now, cue me forgetting this the first time the Pirates have a 3-game winning streak in MLB and praising how they're turning a corner, only to then watch them go 3-25 over the next month.


Heretic replied to "MLB Off-season Thread" at 11:48 am

So, apparently Aroldis Chapman really REALLY loves his mom.

Heretic replied to "Biden vs. Trump 2024" at 11:02 am
posted by BRF

That's him!

Heretic repped a post in "Biden vs. Trump 2024" at 11:02 am
posted by Heretic


Gave me flashbacks to when I was young and some comedian-type whose name I can't remember would be on stuff like the Smothers Brothers variety show as a spoof of a presidential candidate.

Heretic replied to "2024 NFL Offseason" at 12:13 am

posted by BR1986FB

Wasn't sure whether to put this in the NFL, politics or WTF thread but, since he plays football...

While it's a long shot in every sense of the word, I would LOL so hard if Justin's hope that Rodgers will recover from injury to save the Jets gets ruined by him dumping the team to be Veep.
Heretic replied to "The WTF thread..." at 12:11 am
posted by CenterBHSFan

A gang of cannibals pretty much is ruling over Haiti now. Legit cannibals. The leader is aptly named Barbeque.

Now, that is fucking METAL!!!

On Mar 12, 2024:

Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 11:23 am
posted by jmog

You might be correct, bunch of Rs watching CNN/MSNBC to see how stupid they are, and a bunch of Ds watching Fox to see how stupid they are.


Feasible.

Seems like it to me. As someone who watches none of the above, most of the talk I hear/read about any of them comes from people opposed to their political slants looking to bitch about them. It's a lot more rare to see someone talking about how much they love the shows/personalities on Fox or MSNBC and can't get enough of their viewpoints.

On Mar 11, 2024:

Heretic replied to "2024 NFL Offseason" at 01:00 pm

I'm totally looking forward to all the cheesy shit Russ is going to do this time to "hype" up people while acting like an AI creation that's about three huge steps away from accurately imitating a human. I'd be more enthused if he wasn't going to be doing it as a member of my team, but who knows? Maybe the Russ Factor will cause the necessary implosion that will get actual noteworthy changes made to restore them to being legit good again, instead of just being good enough to (probably) make the playoffs.

On Mar 9, 2024:

Heretic replied to "The WTF thread..." at 01:27 pm
posted by CenterBHSFan

I saw something about this a few weeks ago, can't remember where. At the time they didn't know who he was.

Probably by choice. I wouldn't want to know who he was either.

On Mar 8, 2024:

Heretic replied to "2024 NFL Offseason" at 11:24 am

Let's see...

Russ at Denver. List of headlines for things he did really well. Very, very short. List of headlines for either him fucking up on the field OR being a weird goof whose sort of faux-motivational shit would get super-old super-quickly. Almost never-ending.

I'd rather not. Seems like a recipe for not just tanking, but doing so in a way that's really hilarious for fans of rival teams.

On Mar 6, 2024:

Heretic replied to "MLB Off-season Thread" at 05:59 pm
posted by Ironman92

Yeah not enough pitchers to expand. Every team has to have 20 relievers to use throughout the year.

Gotta give teams credit. When confronted with the "pitchers have to face three batters" rule, they just said, "Yeah, well what if we give 13 different guys three batters each in a game?" And now we live in a world where lasting 5 innings is the new 7 innings and 7 innings is the new complete game. 

Kind of like how, once upon a time, a guy hitting 100 on his fastball was a crazy superhuman thing and that guy was gonna be a total stud. Now tons of guys hit 100 and a high percentage of them suck ass because all they can do is throw hard with no real ability to locate pitches, allowing us all to see just how far a baseball can fly when a hitter utterly blasts a 101-mph pitch that's right down the middle.

I love baseball, but some of the ways the game has been altered over time do kind of suck.

Heretic replied to "Biden vs. Trump 2024" at 02:53 pm

In one of the more bizarrely comical things I've seen, Biden lost the delegates in the primary for American Samoa. To some random guy who was described as a "self-proclaimed entrepreneur". By a 51-40 margin in an area containing either 50K people or 50K eligible voters. With said opponent having a platform that seemed to basically be "work for American Samoa". 

Gave me flashbacks to when I was young and some comedian-type whose name I can't remember would be on stuff like the Smothers Brothers variety show as a spoof of a presidential candidate.

On Mar 4, 2024:

Heretic replied to "2024 NFL Offseason" at 05:21 pm

Speaking of released players: Russell Wilson. Broncos are gonna owe him a fuck-ton of money to not play for them.

On Mar 2, 2024:

Heretic replied to "2024 Dead Pool" at 03:19 pm
posted by BR1986FB

Alan Rogowski, better known in the pro wrestling world as Ole Anderson, one of the original members of the Four Horsemen, 81

As did Mike Jones a.k.a. Ted DiBiase's man-servant Virgil. Who also went by about 100 other names and overall didn't have a great career, but did have that one awesome moment where he blasted Ted in the face with his vanity "championship".

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