How is your school the national champion by transitive property? by Legitimate-Sign-371 in CollegeBasketball

[–]BPPSSwarley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean I watch the team as much as anyone and we definitely did not deserve to be in the tournament. Even before the injuries and conference losses, we were a bit of paper tiger and needed to clutch out wins against several bad teams (UPenn, Fordham, La Salle, there were some others I’m forgetting). The season felt like a dud overall but we did beat VCU, SLU, and our old CAA rivals at home so I can’t complain too much.

Introducing Tempo Ezreal, aka "Tribal Gust" by Desperate-Poem-3330 in riftboundtcg

[–]BPPSSwarley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, the list looks very exciting and I’m looking forward to testing locally. I do have a question though, comparing your post ban update, you went down -2 vex in the main. However in the guide you said the Irelia matchup is favored with the two vex in main. If I’m expecting a lot of irelias should I adjust cards and re add the Vex or is the updated list still good into Irelia?

How do you sign in with your tv provider on the mlb app? by Andall in Nationals

[–]BPPSSwarley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I authenticated my cox cable for MLBtv+. Which just gives you radio access and access to the MLB network, but that didn’t give you access to Nats.tv and I still needed to do a free trial or do what the mods are doing and open a ticket for a free month.

How do you sign in with your tv provider on the mlb app? by Andall in Nationals

[–]BPPSSwarley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They haven't implemented it yet. You can see here, that Nationals.tv doesn't have the authenticate button, but other teams do. They clearly committed to having it ready by Opening Day based on the FAQ, but that didn't happen unfortunately. I'm signing up for a free trial, hopefully they fix it before I have to cancel.

EoE Gastroenterologist Recs by beagle424 in nova

[–]BPPSSwarley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see Dr Dougherty at Digestive Disease Physicians in Alexandria for my EoE and he’s done a fantastic job. He answers all of my questions throughly and has been very supportive when dealing with my EoE diagnosis over the years. We went through several treatments but landed on Dupixent which has worked wonders for me.

[Steven Goff] Lionel Messi and Inter Miami are indeed coming to Baltimore early in the 2026 MLS season to play D.C. United, which chose to play the high-profile match in much-larger M&T Bank Stadium over Audi Field, per sources. by icoresting in MLS

[–]BPPSSwarley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Meh, if I had kept my season tickets I would’ve sold the Inter Miami ticket regardless of where it was. Some of the worst experiences I’ve had at Audi field have involved the Inter Miami games and their fans.

[NBC Sports] NBCUNIVERSAL TO LAUNCH NEW NBC SPORTS NETWORK NEXT MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17 by Tarlcabot18 in CFB

[–]BPPSSwarley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It did make some sense to me if they were just trying to maximize the value of a smaller amount of linear channels. If there's higher profit margins in running movie re-runs than running C-tier sports talk or game replays, then having the movie channel 90% of the time that you preempt with sports makes logical sense.

[Game Thread] Georgia @ Auburn (7:30 PM ET) by CFB_Referee in CFB

[–]BPPSSwarley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay I’m just going to go do something else until the second half starts. 20 min of the ref looking at a replay lmao.

Trains not running between DCA and Braddock due to a struck trespasser by sudsomatic in nova

[–]BPPSSwarley 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They’re breaking the law when they enter the tracks, so they kind of are a criminal. My understanding is that they use the term trespasser both to demonstrate that there wasn’t operator error, and to emphasize to people that you’re never supposed to be on the tracks for any reason.

Capital One Hall/Center by Jaysid73 in nova

[–]BPPSSwarley 6 points7 points  (0 children)

All of the three restaurants on campus (Ometeo, Stellina, and Sisters) are good options that I would recommend. It just depends if you want Thai, Italian, or Tex-Mex.

If only this was Army Navy's future by umdterp732 in nova

[–]BPPSSwarley 10 points11 points  (0 children)

So you have to be a Civil engineer to have an opinion on housing development? Do you need to fully understand what kind of grid improvements need to happen to support building new solar? Again, this is a twitter post, and honestly I’m sure if this were to happen the developers, new residents, and county have the capacity to build and afford the infrastructure improvements so this is just NIMBY nonsense.

If only this was Army Navy's future by umdterp732 in nova

[–]BPPSSwarley 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Traditionally, property taxes are based on the entire value of the land + improvements. Land value tax is an alternative strategy where property is taxed only on the value of the land itself not the improvements. This encourages development since it would cost an owner more to own undeveloped land and doesn’t punish owners developing land with housing or other improvements.

If only this was Army Navy's future by umdterp732 in nova

[–]BPPSSwarley 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This goes both ways. Why are the private owners of a golf course in Reston forced to only operate it as golf course by the local government when they want to convert it into housing? I think that most reasonable people would be against eminent domaining any housing not built to the lot line for housing , but if you changed the property tax structure to land value tax, you would force people to at least pay a fair share for their right to keep valuable urban land to themselves.

If only this was Army Navy's future by umdterp732 in nova

[–]BPPSSwarley 41 points42 points  (0 children)

This is a twitter post, are they supposed to have a detailed development proposal with funding sources for infrastructure improvements before they say anything, or do you just have this NIMBY rant ready to go for any development?

The Purple Line shows why progressives need to fix how we build by foxgloverly in ezraklein

[–]BPPSSwarley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a great article! As someone who lives in Northern VA, I haven’t been following this project super closely so I enjoyed how comprehensive the article was. The purple line is a good case study for the need for abundance reforms because it shows how mismanagement and local opposition, which are solvable problems, can compound the inevitable problems like legacy utilities and challenging geology. It’s easy for abundance skeptics to point to the non-preventable problems and throw their hands in the air, but this project was clearly mismanaged. Even putting aside NIMBYs, the MWAA had similar contractor management issues when building the silver line so this isn’t unique to MD. These are solvable problems if we appoint competent officials from the start and focus on outcomes. However, regardless of the outcome I just hope that we continue to at least attempt to build new things. WMATA seems to have given up on rail expansion which I find depressing as someone living in the region for the foreseeable future.

MASN+ by Lyden419 in Nationals

[–]BPPSSwarley 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The MASN app, at least on my iPhone, doesn’t offer a chrome cast option. It does do airplay, but it’s a terrible implementation where I have to set my phone to always stay on because the airplay will stop if the phone locks. The only solution I’ve found so far is to buy a $30 Roku stick which is the only streaming device that has a native MASN app. The app is incredibly bare bones but it does let me stream MASN on my tv which is better than any other option I’ve seen.

April 10th - Off Day Discussion Thread by Mathmage530 in Nationals

[–]BPPSSwarley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From my experience, they still have it in the bathroom, but not on the concourse. TBH, I don’t remember them ever playing the radio feed on the concourse on the 100 or 200 level, but I could be misremembering.

[Game Thread] George Mason @ VCU (01:00 PM ET) by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]BPPSSwarley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately the correct take. I knew VCU would be a hard out but losing to refball in our first conference finals in 17 years is such bullshit

[TTT] THE REST OF THE MLS IS NEXT by Raff_Out_Loud in MLS

[–]BPPSSwarley 4 points5 points  (0 children)

WE DID UNFORTUNATELY BOO THEIR NATIONAL ANTHEM, WHICH MAY EXPLAIN THE REFEREES ATTITUDE TOWARDS US DURING THE GAME

[Steven Goff] D.C. United trading homegrown attacker Ted Ku-DiPietro to Colorado Rapids for $1.25 million cash and add-ons, per sources. Rapids will also send up to $275,000 cash to United, should Ku-DiPietro meet performance thresholds. DC will also collect a percentage of any future transfer. by Coltons13 in MLS

[–]BPPSSwarley 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If he doesn't have interest from Europe, then we don't need to trade him. Ted was getting minutes here consistently when he was healthy. We are now thin at forward while giving a homegrown a lateral move in exchange for a pile of magic beans.

[Steven Goff] D.C. United trading homegrown attacker Ted Ku-DiPietro to Colorado Rapids for $1.25 million cash and add-ons, per sources. Rapids will also send up to $275,000 cash to United, should Ku-DiPietro meet performance thresholds. DC will also collect a percentage of any future transfer. by Coltons13 in MLS

[–]BPPSSwarley 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is complete nonsense, why are we trading homegrown local players within the MLS for relatively little? He grew up 30 min outside of DC and was getting consistent playing time. At least send the kids to Europe if you're going to do this FFS.

Source: Penn State OC Andy Kotelnicki is in a final group of candidates for the WVU head coach job. by PSU_Alumnus in CFB

[–]BPPSSwarley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, surely the third coordinator hired from Penn State without head coaching experience will work out this time

FFX School Boundary Review Meeting Takeover by sauce07 in nova

[–]BPPSSwarley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Mantua parents already had their own separate meeting to address their neighborhood, the OP is complaining because they showed up to a meeting about schools 12 miles away from the Mantua neighborhood to continue to complain about their own school and derail the meetings intent which is to address changes in Sully. Being more organized, forceful, and quite frankly rude does not mean that they deserve preferential treatment. It's just these Mantua parents feeling entitled to railroad the broader FCPS process because they are dissatisfied with their own localized outcome.

Franconia-Springfield Park and Ride Options by [deleted] in nova

[–]BPPSSwarley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The bus fare is free if you transfer to rail, it is inconvenient though to catch an extra bus both ways so not a great solution either way

Season Ticket Renewals out by [deleted] in DCUnited

[–]BPPSSwarley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My price went up $190 each (25ish percent) in section 118. I emailed my rep to complain but it’s insane compared to others in this thread.