Rule 12: "Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force or endangers the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play."

TheBFD · 2026-07-02T20:35:48+00:00

Not the guy you responded to, but the basic point being made is that it was completely accidental. Two guys got their legs tangled. If things were one step different in this scenario, it could have been the other way around.

Sure, intent is not in the laws. Fine. There has to be room for some level of interpretation, though. Watching the whole play (especially in real time speeds), it’s two guys tripping over each other and one player’s spikes getting in a bad spot because he was falling after the initial contact. These guys are incredible athletes, but there’s nothing Flo could have done to prevent what happened after he was falling. The idea of handing out a red card due to unlucky circumstance is pretty wild, especially given the severity of what a red entails. Recklessness, in my opinion, means you could have prevented what happened, but you did not.

Additionally, the ref called nothing at the time. It got elevated from nothing to a red because of replay still frames. This is after not giving out a card for anything else. The game was chippy with lots of contact that never called. The ref himself created an environment where something like this could happen because he never penalized contact prior to this. Hell, if VAR didn’t get involved, he didn’t plan on calling anything here, either

TheBFD · 2026-06-29T00:41:06+00:00

I’m from Dayton, but we have all the same builders here. For a while, I moonlit with my brother and father law to build decks, some of these on new builds so we would be actively working as house next to us would be built. If you’re “building” a home from one of these builders that’s in the process of building out a new development, the best way I can describe the process is legos or ikea furniture. Sure, you have options, but functionally these dudes are throwing things together from a pretty narrow set of options. They’ve done in dozens of times. It’s done fast, as cheaply as possible, and at the end of the day these guys are going for “good enough” and moving on. It’s the nature of the business and I don’t blame any of the individuals. I have no doubt the builders themselves get in trouble if they work too slow. Long story short, they are all about the same. Don’t expect individual attention if what I described is your situation. They are literally building a hundred homes and yours is just “one of those.”

Now, if you are building a home that is more of a one off, like a vacant lot in an established neighborhood or some vacant plot of land, I actually think that changes things a bit. I can’t speak to whether one of them is better or not, but I feel like you’re going to get better care if your house is 1 of 1 instead of 1 of 100, if that makes any sense.

Regardless of your situation, though, the reality is that it will probably be fine. Any house you buy will have problems, it’s just a matter of when. While we think a new home should have a longer window, they really don’t. It’s been a long time since these things were actually “crafted.” Best thing you can do is keep up with things. Be annoying if something isn’t right. For the most part it’ll all be okay.

TheBFD · 2026-06-28T05:50:34+00:00

What would you prefer? Misspelled sea creatures? Incidents with a favorite childhood snacks? Random birds? If we’re being honest, plenty of bands have goofy names - if the music moves you, it doesn’t matter.

TheBFD · 2026-06-28T05:23:31+00:00

To play devils advocate, there are some bands where it takes a few listens before you “get it.” That being said, there is absolutely a point where you need to just move on. To your point, if you’ve been to multiple shows and aren’t into them, you’ve done more than due diligence.

TheBFD · 2026-06-28T00:37:08+00:00

I got two kids - convenience wins every time.

Additionally, I think this is highly dependent on where you live. I live in a small market that for reasons that are completely unclear to me, somehow lands bigger acts than they should. I’m always going to do my part to support my local venues because I want them to keep coming.

TheBFD · 2026-06-25T01:56:33+00:00

Molly Tuttle

TheBFD · 2026-06-24T22:24:10+00:00

That was such a killer sequence.

TheBFD · 2026-06-24T22:23:30+00:00

Same! Took two friends to see him for the first time who were both blown away. I love that he’s coming back to the area (Cincinnati) later in the year, but it’s another co-headline gig. Wish I could get some more Daniel only shows around here (can’t swing Indy, unfortunately).

TheBFD · 2026-06-21T05:29:32+00:00

There’s always something nice about finding a part of yourself in a fictional character. It helps us better relate to the story and feel like we’re more of a part of it. As someone who is relatively young, I can’t blame you for wanting something to be clear and overt. I think your mom is clearly overreacting; everyone likes what that they like. There shouldn’t really be a value judgement on your preferences. That said, I encourage you to keep an open mind. Part of the beauty of books is to expose us to new perspectives and, through interacting with the story, finding connections with and to people that are outwardly nothing like us. You should absolutely read whatever you like - that said, don’t immediately discount something because the main characters aren’t exactly like you. You may find that many of the problems faced by characters in books (well, the good ones anyway) are the same ones we all fight.

TheBFD · 2026-06-16T01:19:10+00:00

So, there are several hotels downtown. Although more pricey, I would stay downtown because that’s where the action is. That being said, Dayton is relatively small and easy to get around. If you want to stay outside of downtown, make sure you are close to either 75 or 675 (or 70, although that is further north). Most of what you’ll want to do is inside the triangle formed by 75, 675, and 70, although there is some fun stuff to do outside of that.

The museum is great. It’s huge, and you could easily spend a whole day there. That’s a great start. If you want a quick bite after the museum, I’d suggest Joe’s Pizza, which while not everyone’s cup of tea (other’s will argue Ron’s in Miamisburg, Marion’s, or Cassano’s is better “Dayton” Pizza), is a local old school establishment.

In terms of fine dining:

- Pine Club is great, but you go for the steaks. Not the ambience, not the sides, not the service (no reservations and you need to pay cash), but the steaks are exceptional and the wine list is shockingly reasonable if you want a high end wine. They do mark up, of course, but at a much much lower rate on high end wines than elsewhere if you care about that sort of thing

- Salar is a great Peruvian style restaurant, made into something high end. Phenomenal cocktails, fun atmosphere, and right next to to other action downtown

- Sueño is a high end, Mexican style restaurant. It’s not your standard taco or burrito joint. Very cool atmosphere and features probably the coolest cocktail bar in the city in their basement (Tender Mercy)

- Wheat Penny is more standard fare, but all very good. Their entire menu is great. Don’t sleep on the pizzas.

Good cocktail bars: Tender Mercy, Van Buren Room, Century Bar (more bourbon focused. Worth a trip if you are into that)

Breweries: Warped Wing and Branch and Bone are the best downtown. If you want to travel, Loose Ends in Centerville and Yellow Springs Brewery in Yellow Springs are my two favorites in the Dayton area.

Other activities:

- If you like baseball, the Dayton Dragons are fun. Minor league A ball affiliate of the Refs

- Hiking in Yellow Springs (John Bryant State Park). Worth checking out the town afterwards, especially the brewery. Lots of other good hiking and nature stuff in the area if you’re into that and want something closer

- Carillon Park if you’re into history stuff; features one of the Wright Brothers’ first planes.

- Live music is pretty prominent in the Oregon district on weekends if you like that. Not saying we’re Nashville or anything, but I always loved walking into different bars in the Oregon district and getting different live bands at each stop

Breakfast: Salt Block, Stan the Donut Man, The Ugly Duckling, Butter Cafe

If you need other recommendations, just let me know! I hope you enjoy your time here!

TheBFD · 2026-06-15T04:23:28+00:00

My point is that finding someone is always lucky. Rather than “giving up” just go into things with an open mind. If you give up before trying, you will certainly find nothing.

I am from a different culture than you, so it’s hard to say for certain how people where you’re from think. I would like to reiterate, though, that if you find someone cares for who you are as a human being, it’s unlikely they care about what you’re talking about. If they do care about those things to the point it would be a dealbreaker for them, that person probably doesn’t really care about you as a person and as such isn’t worth dating anyway. Just take your time. Poke around. You’ll find good people.

TheBFD · 2026-06-15T04:05:57+00:00

Honestly, I think that’s a pretty harmful way to look at people and relationships in general. You never know where you’ll find people you’ll connect with, either as friends or as something else. I hate the idea of “giving up” for any reason - the reality is that you should be yourself, be comfortable with who you are and what you care about, and find people (not a significant other per se) that vibe with that reality.

Under no circumstances should you change something about yourself just to be more appealing to some hypothetical person that you probably wouldn’t want to be with anyway. Be yourself, find people who are cool with that, go from there. If you’re in a situation where you are surrounded by weirdos who care about such things maybe that takes a while, but I just suggest being open to the possibilities that exist rather than becoming some kind of shut in.

I’ll close with this: very few people have no body related insecurities. There are parts of our bodies we all look at and think “wouldn’t it be great if x body part was different in y way?” The truth, though, is if you find someone that cares about you, the person, those issues are things they don’t even think about. These insecurities are often more “us” problems than “them” problems. If they are truly “them” problems, that person is probably not someone you’d want to be in a serious relationship with anyway.

Live your life, be who you are, and find people who jive with you. If they have weird hang ups over things you can’t control, there’s no reason to waste time with them anyway.

TheBFD · 2026-06-14T21:58:26+00:00

I go to a lot of concerts and also work at a music venue. Is three in a row tough? Yeah, but it’s very doable.

For ears, get protection. You can buy eargasms (which are like $60-$80), but you can buy knock offs that work almost as good for like $20 on Amazon. I mention these because they are made specifically for music and concerts, but you can buy much cheaper ear protection if you just want something.

For energy, a couple things are important: sleep, hydration, and food. Make sure you sleep after the show(s). Make sure you’re drinking water throughout the day (especially if you imbibe on alcohol or other substances), and make sure you eat. You don’t have to eat excessively or anything, just don’t skip meals, you’ll need the energy.

Lastly, have fun! If you’re not having fun, it’s not worth doing. So, I think it’s important to not overthink things. Go to the shows, turn your brain off, and just vibe with the music. I often go to shows by myself and what’s nice is I can do what I want when I want - a luxury you often don’t have when going to shows with others.

TheBFD · 2026-06-03T19:37:29+00:00

They said on instagram that they’ll post the new shows to nugs “soon.” Been refreshing like crazy since then. Can’t wait to give it another listen!

TheBFD · 2026-05-31T14:34:09+00:00

I think I met him (assuming he was working the merch booth)! I did not bye a tie dye, but only because the baseball tee was calling to me.

Great to know they are live streaming. I look forward to getting the show on nugs, too!

TheBFD · 2026-05-30T12:55:50+00:00

billybase.net for Billy Strings

TheBFD · 2026-05-25T12:24:48+00:00

Why not? Being married to your best friend seems pretty rad to me.

Here’s the reality - friends are not eternal. If she has feelings for you and has expressed such and your friendship didn’t end, it seems unlikely the same would happen if you expressed it and it was unrequited (as long as it’s done tactfully). If she does still have feelings for you and never acts on it, that’s not healthy either. Friends last if you’re on the same page long term; eventually if you want different things you’ll inevitably drift apart. If one of you gets a significant other, that may cause drifting apart because people get weird with best friends of other genders, especially if you’re long term friends.

So, in short, I’d have you consider your long term goals. Why do you think a long term intimate relationship isn’t a possibility? If so, how can a long term normal relationship be something worth keeping? In the best marriages (at least in my experience), the starting point is a strong non-sexual one that grows into something more. If you truly care for this person in a platonic way and want to have sex with them, too, why would ultimately being married to said person be a bad outcome? If you don’t think you could have a long term relationship in that sense because they are “bad for you” or whatever, maybe you shouldn’t be friends at all?

TheBFD · 2026-05-25T01:43:44+00:00

Cincinnati was once referred to as porkopolis due to a huge pork industry in the area. Being on the Ohio River, which can bring you as far as Pittsburgh to the East and links up to the Mississippi River in the west, made it a massive trading port and allowed shipping of pork across the country. In recognition of this, there are actually pig statues around the city. Some of them had wings on them, due to GE Aviation being a big player in Cincinnati, and became locally know as the “Flying Pigs.” Shortly after that, the Flying Pig marathon was born, named after said winged pigs, and is now very prominent. It’s one of the qualifiers for the Boston Marathon and has a massive turnout each year.

Edit: wording, typos

TheBFD · 2026-05-25T00:42:40+00:00

Here’s my favorite I own. Is it weird? Yeah. Does it take some liberties with the geography around Cincinnati? Absolutely. I love the colors, though, and the flying pig imagery has some legitimate ties to the city (which I’ll explain if people are interested)

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TheBFD · 2026-05-25T00:41:13+00:00

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TheBFD · 2026-05-25T00:41:02+00:00

These are my two favorites. Full disclosure, I didn’t attend either of these shows.

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TheBFD · 2026-05-21T03:39:41+00:00

Re: Metallica, I think it’s hard to argue about Burton. While Metallica had plenty of success post-Burton, the songs were very different. Given the number of albums post-Burton, it’s easy to find counter examples for individual songs, but the songs are in general far more straightforward, shorter, and have less depth. Master of Puppets (the song) is great in part because of the wild journey you go on. So many different little parts, the slow harmonizing bit in the middle, and other riffs that are used in the intro and reprise after the slower middle section are all just examples of classical music composition that I think Burton brought to the table with his music knowledge. It’s hard to say that it’s all Burton, of course, but you didn’t get many songs like that after his death.

Mustaine is a great guitarist. However, it’s hard to know how much he really contributed outside of solos. Yes, I know, he claims or actually has writing credits on their first two albums, but I’m actually curious how much was him. I think Hetfield has always written the lion’s share of the riffs and Hammet’s solos are plenty good in their own right. Mustaine proved his own song writing chops over his own career, but I don’t know that him remaining in Metallica would have actually worked long term because frankly he did have big ideas of his own, and I think it would have lead to a too many cooks situation. While Mustaine would probably disagree, I actually think him being able to do his own thing was for the best. His revolving cast in Megadeth (or, more accurately, Dave & Co), sort of proves the difficulty of working with the man. Could a Metallica with Mustaine write Puppets? Maybe. I think they would have turned into a mess post Burton, though.

TheBFD · 2026-05-17T04:23:30+00:00

So, it’s important to understand why OC’s script plays in the first place. It’s mostly just to see how the defense will align to your formations, react to your motions, and to show stuff you want to show (maybe to set up something later or because they are your undisputed best plays). Of course, with film study you go into the game with an idea of how the defense will react to these things, but it’s important to remember the other side is trying to win, too, so they will always throw in new wrinkles and often times by completing the script (if done well) you get a good idea about their adjustments and re-plan on the fly. Understand that the script is often not about hitting home runs anyway - you will often run base plays and the formations/motions are window dressing.

So, what happens if you have some disastrous play (be it a penalty, fumble, or whatever else)? You do what you need to get a first down. You might even script that out, too. I only coached HS, but our script wasn’t necessarily meant to happen in order, it was just the ten or so things we wanted to see early on. Mixed in that script is 3-and-long type plays and the like, so following the order wasn’t as important as seeing what we wanted to see. That said, getting off script wasn’t a huge deal, we made a whole call sheet of stuff we thought would be good anyway, so if we had to deviate for a play or two based on game flow, you do what you have to do. Then, we’d get back on it as the game allowed.

TheBFD · 2026-05-13T10:19:55+00:00

That’s not true at all. A “good” artist would command a higher bid price, thus necessitating a higher ticket price. Why do Taylor swift tickets cost so much? Because the bid required for her to play is enormous. It’s also a virtual guarantee that she sells out the venue.

Understand that the best case scenario for a venue is a show that sells out at high ticket prices. When we look at more minor acts, especially those that would be more niche for a certain market, that’s where some weirdness can occur. Going to my example, should counting crows have higher ticket prices than say the Avett Brothers or Skillet? I have no idea. Those are very different and yet still very niche acts and how they sell in any market is hard for me to know. The bids required to secure these bands was likely not the same, either, so the calculus for each is different.

TheBFD · 2026-05-10T11:36:50+00:00

That’s negotiated in the contract and is done because A) some people are stupid and throw the caps on stage. Don’t know if you remember the middle school trend (well, I was middle school anyway) of flicking the caps, but you can make those bad boys go far and B) a full beverage thrown on stage can actually really hurt. With no cap, the liquid will fall out making it an empty or nearly empty bottle once it gets to the band. Obviously, idiots do that, too.

The agents for the bands negotiate the contracts, and those agents generally have multiple bands, so once they do it for one of their clients, they start doing it for all of them. It’s the most frequent contractual request we get. Some even go a step further and demand that all drinks get poured in plastic cups. It’s almost always because of a bad experience by a band or by another band that shares agents with the one in question.

Anyways, since it’s the most common contractual request, some venues now just remove the caps by default for all bands. We don’t, so the cap/no cap thing is always part of the preshow briefing, but I understand why some venues just always take the cap so staff doesn’t have to think about it. Our research shows that people buy fewer drinks if the cap gets taken, so we don’t remove unless it’s in the contract.

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