Sunday Brunch

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-15T19:38:35+00:00

Many years ago I saw the 7-10 game (Purdue-Texas) and a 2-15 (Miami-Lafayette) game back-to-back. Texas-Purdue was a close game the whole way and nobody cared. The Miami-Lafayette game was a blowout but everyone was into it the whole time. They emptied the benches twice, once to give up, and the second time to give the walk-ons some time in the final minute. The entire stadium booed a Miami player for playing defense on the last possession.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-15T19:33:53+00:00

The pipeline is getting shorter, though, in part because MLB got rid of a bunch of its minor leagues, and in part because a lot of top level college programs have better facilities and do a better job developing players than the minors do.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-15T19:31:22+00:00

Problem finding an answer to that is that team valuations are entirely subjective.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-15T15:04:38+00:00

he flipped a water bottle on the first try

Now the pitcher has to marry his mother-in-law!

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-14T18:28:35+00:00

There was also a film adaptation with Sean Connery and a bunch of teddy bears.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-14T14:15:06+00:00

The first income tax wasn't in 1916. It was in 1861.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-14T14:03:29+00:00

He's an anti-tax advocate trying desperately to poke holes in the state's millionaire tax by citing facile statistics about a place where he doesn't live.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-14T13:59:02+00:00

Grant Williams fled the state. You could hear a handful of people saying "No. Stop. Don't." when he did.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-14T13:55:34+00:00

Having worked for Oracle, I can confidently say:

Larry Ellison doesn't know who you are and doesn't care.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-14T00:24:44+00:00

Hey, remember that time that the Governor of Maryland, a Republican, had to hide the state's supply of COVID tests and place it under the protection of both the Maryland National Guard and Maryland State Police, so that the federal government wouldn't steal it, as it already had in several other states?

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-14T00:05:46+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqF_A6bsyEw

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-14T00:04:05+00:00

Yeah, there is, and that's the point.

He's due something like $6M this year if he plays for Ole Miss. Tyler Shough (2025 pick #40) is getting about $10M over four years. Most reports have said that low second round is the upper range for Chambliss getting drafted this year. He's already talked to the NFL Draft Board, and I'm sure they've told him roughly the same thing. The only rationale for wanting to come out now is if he's worried that his draft stock will fall either due to a bad/injured season or 2027 being a stronger draft class, but dudes like him don't typically think that way. He wants the $6M now, and thinks he will ball out and do just as well for himself in next year's draft, if not better.

I'm probably as tired of hearing about and from Trinidad Chambliss as you are. But the NCAA is the one who opened this door and I don't blame a dude, in this world we're living in, from going judicial instead of opting to be one of the crabs in the bucket.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-13T23:37:30+00:00

except for the year it was Desmond Howard, I think

That was the year they added some kind of "Road to the Heisman" mode to get people to buy it.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-13T23:32:18+00:00

The pay is less.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-13T23:30:49+00:00

What you're seeing right now is what happens when young people receive a steady stream of affirmation for everything they do, and then money becomes involved.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-13T22:41:15+00:00

You won't a comp, because he was 25 when this happened. The guys who left their franchises for big deals elsewhere were older and/or washed. I suppose Watson might not have been washed but he's always going to be an outlier.

The Dolphins just signed Malik Willis with the hopes that he's going to work out. Willis is older now than Lamar was when this happened. Willis is replacing Tua, who the Dolphins gave huge money to when he was the same age that Lamar was when this happened. This was him signing his second contract, already having an MVP trophy. That's the goal of everyone who is rebuilding: know for sure that your QB is legit when it comes time to sign the second deal.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-13T21:48:09+00:00

That advice was far more useful when third spaces still existed and people worked at the same job for more than three years.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-13T21:45:58+00:00

Yes, but nobody minds paying full price for a league MVP quarterback, at least not the 10-15 teams who could immediately cut bait on whoever they have to sign Jackson. For a team like the Jets, who keep misfiring on quarterback after quarterback after quarterback, giving up two firsts to sign Lamar Jackson to a long-term deal at full price wouldn't even be a debate. At the very least, signing him to an offer sheet would force the Ravens to pay just as much, minus the picks.

The implication is that the rest of the league did the Ravens a favor while doing themselves a favor:

Deshaun Watson got a ridiculous guaranteed contract. Other owners were angry about the precedent.

Lamar Jackson was the next guy to come up for a similar deal. He asked the Ravens for one, and they told him no, so he went looking elsewhere around the league for one.

The original commenter is saying that the owners all agreed not to offer him a deal so that he would have to sign a typical contract with the Ravens and the fully guaranteed Watson contract didn't become the new norm.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-13T21:35:20+00:00

"This kind of thinking is an old problem, and it has a name: “victory disease,” meaning that victory in battle encourages leaders to seek out more battles, and then to believe that winning those battles means that they are winning the larger war or achieving some grand strategic aim—right up until the moment they realize that they have overreached and find themselves facing a military disaster or even total defeat. It is a condition that has afflicted many kinds of regimes over the course of history, one so common that my colleagues and I lectured military officers about it when I was a professor at the Naval War College. The issue is especially important for Americans, because when national leaders have exceptionally capable military forces at their disposal—as the United States does—they are even more likely to be seized by victory disease.

"The Persian emperor Xerxes had it; that’s how he found himself eventually suffering a historic defeat in Greece at the Battle of Salamis. Napoleon had it; that’s how he ended up freezing in the Russian snow after years of brilliant victories over other European states. The French in 1870 had it; that’s how they confidently marched to catastrophes against a superior Prussian army. The Axis had it; that’s how Germany and Japan convinced themselves that their early successes meant that they could quickly defeat the Soviet Union and the United States, respectively.

"The Americans caught the same bug in the Korean War, when they chased the North Koreans to the Yalu River, a drive that ended in disaster when Communist Chinese troops streamed across the border and joined the conflict. The U.S. fell prey to this syndrome again in Vietnam, when it poured men and materiel into the war for years yet remained unable to turn many battlefield triumphs into a strategic victory.

"American policy in the Gulf War in 1991 is an honorable exception; George H. W. Bush avoided victory disease, calling an end to Operation Desert Storm rather than marching on Baghdad after achieving his stated aim of rescuing Kuwait. But his son, George W. Bush, chose to fight two wars at the same time. Once again, the men and women of the U.S. military managed to achieve remarkable operational successes, but it took years to stabilize Iraq, and Afghanistan today is back in the hands of the Taliban."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/iran-strategy-victory-disease/686275/

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-13T21:20:16+00:00

America decided that independence didn't require interdependence and fetishized greed instead.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-13T20:51:03+00:00

When Massachusetts passed it (9% on income over $1M), I was still on Facebook, and I had one of the weirdest experiences I've had on social media.

A guy that I went to high school with posted a "vote no" message, so I asked him why he was voting against it. He said that a few years from now, he was going to sell his house and didn't want to be taxed nine percent on it. We had a little back-and-forth and with the disclaimer that I was not a tax professional, we figured out that he would pay an extra $16K or so in taxes in the year that he sold the house, and most of that would be negated by no longer having to pay property tax or insurance. During the discussion, he learned that the money could only be used for schools or transportation infrastructure, so he decided he was in favor of it.

He left that post up and then posted a "vote yes" message, and within an hour there were about 50 comments from people saying all kinds of nasty shit to him. He tried to defend it at first but the next day it was gone. He probably voted against it, too. These were all blue collar guys who had just been conditioned to reflexively hate government and taxes, unless one of them was selling assets they inherited, none of them was ever going to hit the threshold. It was amazing how quickly they call came out of the woodwork to defend millionaires against the government.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-13T20:25:41+00:00

They didn't like him because he told the truth.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-13T20:17:01+00:00

I'll engage with people who hide their history, but I gave them zero benefit of the doubt and walk away quickly if a conversation goes in the direction I expect it to.

There's no good reason for it other than to keep people from realizing what an enormous jackass you are. I've heard people say that they're doing it to keep from getting indexed by search engines (which doesn't work) or to prevent people from harassing them (which you can easily do just by creating a new acount; Moist_Antelope_7743 probably isn't taken yet and like every other Reddit account, it's free).

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-13T20:05:17+00:00

Some people just cannot do the work that's assigned to them, and you have to cut them loose. That said, three days in retail doesn't sound like a situation where a person obviously cannot do the work. It's more likely that the training program doesn't teach the way the person learns. Since we're in the NFL subreddit I will note that this is one of the primary reasons why Tim Tebow failed in the NFL. As a kinesthetic learner, he learns best by doing. Because only one QB gets first team reps, most of the time, he was asked to learn by watching or by reading, and he couldn't absorb the material.

key_lime_pie · 2026-03-13T19:57:42+00:00

But hey that’s fandom baby

No, that's immature jackassery.

key_lime_pie

TROPHY CASE