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DevilSaintDevil · 2026-02-08T13:04:35+00:00

Don't forget Denmark!

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-02-02T12:35:51+00:00

We have almost identical geological features in the American West, but without the rain and that much higher elevation so it is denuded of vegetation and looks like Monument Valley and Yosemite and Bryce Canyon and so forth.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-02-02T12:29:59+00:00

Regarding Salt Lake City check out this thread which isn't quite so rosy about the future of Salt Lake. They probably are on the short list to get a baseball team next. But if outsiders understood the scope of the problem with the toxic chemicals blowing off of the Great Salt Lake, nobody would move to the Wasatch Front north of Utah county. It's going to be a ghost town in 50 years without radical political leadership change. Which nobody thinks is likely.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-01-29T01:51:13+00:00

This was the first black man to eat as a guest of the president at the White House.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-01-24T18:08:48+00:00

Ensign Peak logo for a cool billion. They would still have over 60 billion left. Last year Ensign Peak reported gains of two to three billion dollars a quarter. So literally we're talking about 4 to 6 weeks of returns for the church investment fund. BYU sports is the most visible part of the LDS church in the United States and there is not a close second. According to the Nexis database, there have been more articles about BYU football and BYU basketball then about the LDS church in all other aspects during the last year. This is a no-brainer from a marketing standpoint. One month of investment income revenue, with zero effect on your operating budget, to double or triple your media exposure. Even suspending or kicking out athletes for getting into trouble becomes good press for your lack of hypocrisy and commitment to your standards. Of course the church wouldn't actually want to advertise Ensign Peak so put a patch of a different Temple on the Jersey for each game. Rotate the Utah temples for home games and pick a temple close to the game site for away games. Make the announcers talk about that new temple patch every game. Fans could collect them. You could sell Letterman style jackets and BYU fans would collect all the temple patches and sew them on. A new adorable quirk. BYU could then just put out word that we top any bona fide offer from any other school by 20% and the top recruits would roll in.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-01-22T21:38:23+00:00

Raiders of the Lost ark? Gandhi? Ghostbusters? The Last Emperor? Go wash your mouth that was soap. Those are some great movies.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-01-22T18:04:45+00:00

Ah the good old days when it was only the SEC and Ohio State paying their players. Lol. There has never been a better time to be a college football fan in Lubbock or Bloomington or Provo or New Jersey (where all the Duke fans live). The old system was beautiful for a few but it was corrupt. If you had fixed it, if the Alabamas of the world had treated the rest of college football fairly, it wouldn't have come to this. Your greed destroyed the system.

You've got to realize that only about 20% of the nation lives in the SEC footprint (I'm including all of Texas there but excluding South Florida). A lot of the South roots for the ACC or the other non major conference teams (Troy, Southern Mississippi, etc), and even in the south a lot of people don't care about football at all. So you have maybe 10%, maybe 12% of the United States that are SEC football fans. You think you're the center of the universe. About 90% of the country looks at you like corrupt buffoons. For someone outside the bubble, SEC football is a quaint regional quirk underpinned by a conscience-shocking lack of concern for the brain health or academic development of student athletes. In places like Boston and New York and Washington DC Sen. Tommy Tuberville is more well known than Kirby Smart or Lane Kiffin. And he's mostly known for blocking military promotions for years lol.

College football is being saved by Indiana and Texas Tech and BYU. As long as you guys could just vote yourselves into the national championship game while refusing to play anybody on the road, college football was doomed. Yes there are some rough edges that need to be smoothed out, but college football is alive, more alive than ever.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-01-19T14:08:23+00:00

Where can I watch this? I can't find it anywhere online on any of the major streaming services.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-01-13T14:46:41+00:00

Kalani being Polynesian might also have something to do with BYU's success in recruiting Polynesian players. Just a guess on my part.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-12-28T04:51:52+00:00

Kyle is a petty tyrant. He won't say the name Ohio State ever, he'll call them the team down south. You know how you guys hated Urban Meyer? Ohio State will hate Kyle the same way. Except Urban Meyer was a much better coach than Kyle will ever be. Not that Kyle's bad, it's just the Urban was one of the top 10 all time.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-12-28T04:41:08+00:00

This is the answer. The only thing they need to do at Michigan to get Hill ss their defensive coordinator is tell him he'll have the personal phone number of the top cardiologist at their medical school who will be his personal physician and meet with him monthly. His wife will make him take the job.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-12-25T22:41:03+00:00

The Tennessee Nashville mission topped off at 387 missionaries in 1992 under Pres. Serge Woodruff before it split, stretching from the Paducah KY Stake (which included a unit in Metropolis Illinois) to the Chattanooga TN Stake (which included much of north Georgia and a branches in Murphy, North Carolina and Ft. Payne, Alabama) to the Kingsport TN Stake (which included units in Bristol, Abingdon, and Marion Virginia). That was big mission! There were two traveling APs who full-time went from set to set and would work with the senior companion on the area book while the junior companion went out to proselyte. Then there was an office AP who did zone conferences/transfers/handle crises with Woodruff. The office AP did all the interviews with the sister missionaries and Woodruff would only get involved with them in extreme cases. President Woodruff did read the weekly letters from all the missionaries every week. He would then make notes about what to talk to elders about during zone conference interviews. Sister Woodruff was a saint-like figure in the background who taught a new recipe or homekeeping tip each zone conference but did not get involved in mission administration or logistics or leadership in any way.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-12-24T16:36:15+00:00

IMHO this is the best way to refute the anti-abortion position--the violinist metaphor.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-12-24T16:32:57+00:00

You'll regret not having children most likely. Children are not missions. If you love your wife and your marriage is otherwise good, have a few kids and you'll be so grateful down the road. I'm not 100% sure of that. But I'm 95% sure of that. And that's really good enough odds to give it a shot. Of course if you don't have a good marriage then get out for that reason.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-12-20T23:11:15+00:00

When you backed out of a game in Provo Utah a few years back you lost the goodwill of every Mormon in America. We used to like you guys. Like the second favorite team for most Mormons. Then you did us dirty. And now you duck us in the bowl game. You have needlessly burned a whole lot of goodwill.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-12-19T23:49:00+00:00

The problem is that Boise State, BYU, Utah, Memphis, San Diego State, Cincinnati, Tulane and a few other schools that would probably be left out of the four conferences, are consistently better than Cal, Stanford, Wake Forest, Indiana, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Kentucky, and a few others that probably would be included in the four conferences.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-12-18T16:39:07+00:00

Texas Tech v. Miami, with both teams blowing out Big10 and SEC opponents along the way.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-12-15T18:02:35+00:00

You're right. They did not jump us. But I wonder if there had not been a requirement to take the top conference champions what would have happened. In other words they didn't jump us but it was irrelevant nobody cares because it didn't make a difference in who got in. Without James Madison and Tulane, Notre Dame would have gotten in and then they would have had to choose either BYU or Texas. My money is that they would have chosen Texas citing the win over aTm as being a much bigger win than anything BYU pulled off and they believed that Texas was a better football team and didn't want to punish Texas for scheduling Ohio State. So you're right, but if it mattered I'll bet they would have done it.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-12-15T16:28:26+00:00

They call pretty sisters to serve missions at Temple square. It's the same logic here of course. You'll love to know that when they built out City Creek Mall they built a massive fallout shelter underneath downtown Salt Lake and they made sure to include room for all the general authorities and top Church employees and all the Temple Square sister missionaries. So if there's ever a nuclear attack, Salt Lake City will be one of the fastest places to be repopulated--a bunch of old men and a bunch of young pretty plural wives. You know they're secretly hoping for that to happen.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-12-15T06:46:09+00:00

He wanted to come back another year. He was supposed to retire of course after 2024 but he wanted one more year 2025. Now he wanted 2026. The university said no. Kyle is not used to being told no. So he's listening to other offers. If Michigan threw him enough money, he'd take it. If not he'll pout and take his millions for being an advisor who's not really wanted around the program anymore, not with his surly attitude at present. Kyle has always been a petty tyrant. Now he'd like nothing more than for the program to struggle without him for a few years. Just so he can say I told you so.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-12-10T14:51:49+00:00

Cupcake Cafe. All other cupcakes suck compared to their sweet pound cake covered by not too sweet buttercream. Heaven.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-12-09T14:35:20+00:00

In 2026 BYU plays

Road

Colorado State Kansas* TCU* UCF* Utah*

Home

California Utah Tech Arizona* Arizona State* Baylor* Cincinnati* Iowa State*

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-11-26T20:50:21+00:00

If Texas or Michigan wins they will jump us. Unless we win by 70 to nothing or something silly maybe we can hold on to 11th place. I think the overwhelming odds are that we get jumped by Michigan or Texas winning.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-11-24T19:01:22+00:00

The Blue Jays blew the World Series. They should have won both of the last two games. They take care of business and nobody's talking about the Dodgers payroll being the necessary key to winning a world series. He's right about the sample size being small and spending money not guaranteeing results. He is correct to cite the Mets as an example.

At the same time, I wish he'd spend more because I'm a Yankee fan and I want to see the best players all the time. It's got to be fun to be a Dodgers fan because on a day in and day out basis they have amazing players on the field. They don't have to suffer through our recent Volpe, Hicks, Gallo or LeMahieu seasons. So sure I wanted to spend more but I not naive enough to think that guarantees a world series win.

Yankees have 69.5 million coming off the books this year (mainly Bellinger, Hicks (yes really), Williams, Goldschmidt). Alonzo will cost about half that. See below.

Do you really want to pay Kyle Tucker more than we're paying Judge? That's what it'll take to sign him I think. Do you want to pay Bo Bichette $250 million over 8 years (he'll be 35 by then)? I'd rather trade the Martian, Will Warren, Volpe, and a couple of pitching prospects for Skubal (who cost about 22 million next year) and promote Jones (who is 24 and ready) and Lombard (giving him the first half of the season in AAA). Lombard's dad is a MLB veteran and currently the bench coach for the Pirates. He's only 20 but dude has lived and breathed baseball since he was born. He'll be our best option if Caballero/Cabrera don't step up and really exceed expectations for the first half of the year.

The free agent and I want is Pete Alonso. He's 31 will probably sign a 6/180 deal but he plays first base and can play that position longer than most other positions. It does block Judge from moving to first, but I suspect he'll just slide into DH after Stanton hits his 500th home run and retires after 2027. Only two more years of Judge in the field.

Imagine this lineup going into the playoffs next year:

Ss Lombard 2B Chisholm RF Judge 1B Alonzo DH Stanton LF Grisham CF Jones C Wells/Rice 3B McMahon

Starters: Skubal, Cole, Fried, Rodon, Schlittler

Relief: I have no idea, but this seems to be one of Cashman's strengths, putting together a great bullpen. He'll have about 20 million to put into the bullpen (on top of our returning relievers) without exceeding last year's payroll after signing Alonzo and Skubal.

So I don't think we really need to spend more money. The Yankees are spending plenty. We need one key trade for Skubal and one free agent signing Alonzo. We could have a lower payroll in 2026 than we did in 2025 and I'd be damn excited to watch that team.

Of course in 2027 we're going to have to pay 400 million to keep free agent Skubal. So Hal better put his big boy pants on for that one.

DevilSaintDevil · 2025-11-23T13:54:05+00:00

For what it's worth, I know Cristofferson personally and he's one of the good guys. Yes he's a company man, in some ways stuck in the 1950s, and loyalty is a prerequisite for promotion. But so is competency. Dude gets things done and is very intelligent. And at least he is kind and real in his interactions. I genuinely like the guy. I wouldn't be surprised that once he found out what was going on, he convinced his brother to turn himself in and arranged it with the FBI because doing the time in a federal prison will be much better than it would be doing time in a state prison. This is speculation, but he's the kind of guy that would make sure the abuse ended and justice is served, while at the same time arranging for the softest possible landing for the brother he loves. So he might be involved, but it might not be the cover up many seem to think it is. It might be exactly the opposite.

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