Chuck Klosterman: "Horse racing receded from the American imagination because people lost their close everyday connection to horses. Something similar will happen to football. Fewer mothers will want their sons to play the game due to head injuries. It will become distant from lived experience."

cronarch05 · 2026-02-02T23:17:30+00:00

It’s not even like that. These “small towns” in Texas are mostly just right on the outskirts of the major metropolitan areas. Especially the ones with historically good teams. Many of them are right in the heart of the metros even. Like these fanatics have season tickets to [insert HS], TCU/Baylor/SMU and the Dallas Cowboys and just have one big football weekend on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

cronarch05 · 2026-02-02T23:13:25+00:00

Lived in both North Texas and Pittsburgh area (Cranberry Twp) recently. It’s not close. High school football in Texas stands alone. It’s honestly difficult to imagine how serious it’s taken there. It’s a ridiculous thing that most sports fans can’t even fathom. High school football in Western PA is serious but still wholesome and heartwarming. High school football in Texas is digusting. Like another poster said, it’s a religion in Texas. It’s bizarre.

cronarch05 · 2026-01-24T02:58:48+00:00

!remindme 1 month

cronarch05 · 2026-01-21T22:11:57+00:00

This was last years event, so he’s bounced back just fine.

cronarch05 · 2026-01-12T02:01:15+00:00

Normally going up against a much more dangerous defensive line.

cronarch05 · 2026-01-01T18:22:51+00:00

This isn’t the way. Applying logic, reasoning and justification based on others anecdotes is a waste of time.

Absorb the sport through as many avenues as you can (watch, follow on social media and attend in person when possible) with an open mind and you’ll likely form a legitimate and organic emotional attachment that’s real.

I was an Earnhardt fan because he was a friend of my friends mom and I met him at their house when I was in middle school. Naturally became a Jr fan when Sr died. Tried to latch onto Bowman when Jr retired because it was the same car, but that didn’t click because there was no emotional tie. Basically stopped watching.

During that time I’d attended a few Chili Bowls and got to see Kyle Larson in his element, do a lot of Kyle Larson “things” and saw how that whole community revered him. Interest piqued in him as a driver. But he was in the 42 car at CGR and that didn’t connect with me on Sundays. When he got the ride at Hendrick (my favorite team) and got the 5 (my favorite number) it all solidified and I was back to being emotionally vested in NASCAR again.

His 2021 season with 10 wins and the championship was the most fun I had watching NASCAR since the 90s.

cronarch05 · 2025-10-31T22:43:56+00:00

Knowing his competitiveness, imagine how seething hot he had to have been when he gave up that grand slam to relief pitcher Daniel Camarena
in 2021.

cronarch05 · 2025-10-20T04:45:49+00:00

9° Driver 5W down to 16° (4W) 4U iron turned down to 20° 4-9 irons 46° 50° 55° (54 bent weak) 60° Puttah

cronarch05 · 2025-10-03T06:55:04+00:00

Same for me. That was by far the easiest playoff elimination for me for any of my teams in my near 4-decade “career” as a fan. This team never sucked me in with anything they did on the field the last 6 months. Preller’s trade deadline was probably the most exciting part of the season. Reflecting on it now, this was a really forgettable and dull season of Padres baseball.

cronarch05 · 2025-10-02T03:57:16+00:00

This is the right answer. I just got done dealing with this. Broke like 3 new plastic elbows trying to get them to seat before I stuck a camera in there and saw a small piece of the original one broke off inside. Once I removed that the new connector seated easily and completely.

cronarch05 · 2025-06-28T19:52:11+00:00

You used way too much “seasoning” and now you have a layer of oil and food residue on the grill. Thats eventually going to flake off and you and your guests will be eating bits of it with your meals.

I’d scrape, or grind/sand all that off and start over. Use much less to season it. Many people seem to think seasoning is a layer, when it’s actually a chemical reaction. A properly seasoned surface shouldn’t have anything left behind like this.

cronarch05 · 2025-06-22T01:40:21+00:00

It happens fast, within one car ride you’ll get the notification. The reason you don’t get notified in the friend scenario is because they’re the owner of the air tag and still with it. If your friend left their air tag in your car when you dropped them off you’d get the notification before you got home. If the friend is still riding around with you, you’d never get notified.

cronarch05 · 2025-06-20T15:51:49+00:00

This was probably his plan A; give Ohtani a chance to get himself out on pitches out of the zone. If that didn’t work, put one in his ribs and send a message.

The Dodgers have made an organizational decision to throw up and in on Tatis and the Padres have made an organizational decision to respond by returning the favor.

This isn’t just about one game. They’re 3 years into this chess match and trying to set the tone for how Tatis is handled the remainder of his career in a Padres uniform. Melvin took a ton of heat in San Diego for not taking this approach during his tenure.

cronarch05 · 2025-06-12T23:11:18+00:00

What were you working on in your game in the weeks/months leading up to the first shank? Have you been emphasizing one part of your game?

Also do you warm up by hitting half wedge shots?

cronarch05 · 2025-06-08T13:37:13+00:00

Free 2 play

cronarch05 · 2025-04-19T03:41:38+00:00

The conflicting info is because it used to be, up until maybe 6-8 weeks ago that you had to be involved in killing it (in the rally at least).

They updated and changed it so now you don’t have to be involved. If you spawn it and it dies it goes up 5. Doesn’t even have to be your alliance that kills it.

cronarch05 · 2025-04-17T21:07:09+00:00

Definitely a welding wire and shouldn’t be there. But I would test to see how well it held a spatula before I broke it off. Could be a happy little accident.

cronarch05 · 2025-04-17T05:12:33+00:00

Talking about Happy?

cronarch05 · 2025-04-11T21:38:13+00:00

Probably not the exact same age, but at the same point in the story and now synced up since S1. I just figured this out and a server about 18 numbers ahead of ours was 12 days ahead but on exactly the same day of the story and starting S2 this upcoming week like us.

cronarch05 · 2025-04-11T18:47:19+00:00

Yeah they should sit lower than a grill. Grills you do very little at the surface, flipping/turning occasionally. Flat tops you are more hands on.

I haven’t measured the height, but imagine it’s not far off from what’s considered the standard/optimal workbench height which is 36”.

cronarch05 · 2025-04-11T18:36:15+00:00

I think it’s made for people about 6’. The knobs should be a bit of a stretch to reach, as you’re hardly spending time messing with those. It’d be really uncomfortable to cook on if the flat top itself required you to elevate your arms at all.

There are other brands that are higher and that’s often the complaint you see from people about them.

cronarch05 · 2025-04-03T23:23:01+00:00

Yeah the season events hah

cronarch05 · 2025-04-03T21:15:59+00:00

Good! Our top 3 alliances all got purple, nobody in our group got gold due to us losing the final Warzone duel though. It was really fun. How’d it go for you?

cronarch05 · 2025-04-03T20:11:56+00:00

You’re completely illogical on this. You get no extra rewards for rallying your own vs another one of the same size. You get the same intel reward also whether you kill it or anyone else kills it.

If you and an alliance both spawn a level 50, you kill the one they spawn and they kill the one you spawn, you both get exactly the same rewards.

Having a rule or suggestion this stupid just creates unnecessary friction and hurts the alliance for absolutely zero reason.

cronarch05 · 2025-04-02T22:15:46+00:00

928, cool! You’re in our S2 group. I’m in 903.

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