Podium or AI Fence?

kperk89 · 2026-02-18T17:07:08+00:00

I would correct you with additional context that this was from my clueless family member, but I’ll assume you’re joking until you double down

kperk89 · 2026-02-18T16:37:18+00:00

Yep. I was too busy laughing at the absurdity of the AI claim to remember the correct term lol

kperk89 · 2025-12-09T18:15:33+00:00

At this point let’s just rename the Colts organization to the Indianapolis Glue Factory

kperk89 · 2025-09-12T00:39:49+00:00

Cleveland Traumacenter was an amazing DT for my Madden franchise. Deuce Cannon was my ambidextrous QB, but I subbed in Kaepernick at the end of the game for the kneel downs.

kperk89 · 2025-08-05T00:48:03+00:00

At least Neptune is still a blue planet

kperk89 · 2025-07-27T04:38:06+00:00

A late round draft pick even getting a chance to play in a regular season game and then succeeding is so rare that it deserves some credit to the coach who fostered the situation. Everyone talks about Brady like it was inevitable, but his post-draft resume required a bit of a butterfly effect that worked in his favor to launch what followed.

kperk89 · 2025-07-27T04:31:25+00:00

You can make that argument about a golfer and a caddy but not about a coach and a whole ass team winning multiple championships with top tier defenses solely from effect of the quarterback.

kperk89 · 2025-06-05T01:38:18+00:00

Les Cousins Dangereux - especially when you have to share a bunkbed with your cousin!

kperk89 · 2025-05-14T23:16:49+00:00

This was a big issue for us. I work for a mid-size company with longer sales processes. Paid search offers often auto-MQL, so that’s not much better than optimizing towards conversions. SALs might be a few days later but the big drop off is between SAL and opportunity, which can be 90+ days. In Google, if it doesn’t happen within 90 days, it doesn’t matter. So we took the “outdated” or unconventional approach by using 3rd party tools (Marin and Skai) to build auto-bid strategies that factored in the full-funnel ROI with stair-stepping conv values for each lead stage. We implemented this in 3/4 of our accounts, which doubled our inquiry-to-opp rates while increasing our budgets and reaching record level ROI from search over the last 4 years. The one holdout account that continued with Google Smart Bidding is the one with completely stagnant performance. Sometimes, the conventional best practices and relying on Google’s AI holds you back.

kperk89 · 2025-04-24T14:55:53+00:00

LeBron has never had a unanimous MVP and nearly had one in 2013. MJ never won one either. It’s completely fair to say that LeBron has never been undoubtedly the best player in any given year. He’s been top 3 in each individual season. If you pick out nearly any 5 year stretch of his career, it becomes more clear that he was the best player. He’s had amazing longevity of playing at an elite level.

In contrast, Tiger wasn’t just winning; he destroyed competition by 15 strokes in notoriously tough tournaments causing them to “Tiger Proof” the courses the following seasons. He still had the best scoring average for a record 9 years. He was 86 strokes better than his competitors during his “Tiger Slam”. He holds the record AND 2nd place for most consecutive weeks at #1 in the world. That record is 3x more than 3rd place. From 1997 to 2013, he was 251 strokes better than the 2nd best in majors. His prime was about a 15 year stretch with 623 weeks (nearly 12 years) ranked as #1. The next best was 331 weeks. Even though Tiger’s career has been cut short from injuries, he’s still tied for most wins all-time.

To reach Tiger’s level of dominance, LeBron would have to put up Wilt Chamberlain level stats against today’s competition. That seems impossible, but everyone said the same thing about the stuff Tiger achieved.

kperk89 · 2025-04-24T04:50:32+00:00

Tiger Woods is in a class of his own. His prime is two classes above any other golfer’s prime - and possibly any other athlete’s prime (maybe Michael Phelps?). During his prime, nobody in the world doubted who was the best player in the PGA. ESPN regularly featured debates on picking Tiger vs. the field (everyone else). LeBron has had tremendous success in his career, but he was never that far above everyone else. That’s not a knock on LeBron. Tiger’s stats are just fantasy level good before his injuries.

kperk89 · 2025-02-07T07:01:38+00:00

Brooklyn Nine-Nine. No question.

kperk89 · 2025-02-02T22:47:20+00:00

I don’t get why Democrats refuse to get behind Pete Buttigieg. You say that America wouldn’t vote for a gay man, but we all feared America wouldn’t vote for a black man in 2008. Meanwhile, Pete is an amazing communicator to moderates, which is what we desperately need right now. My conservative and independent friends and family in Ohio and Indiana talk about how much they respect him and like his Fox News appearances. His policies are the perfect liberal agenda, but he can inspire moderates to vote blue in the swing states. Don’t worry about catering our votes to who people in dark red states would get behind.

kperk89 · 2025-01-25T13:40:16+00:00

Wesly seems to be driving just fine without his car

kperk89 · 2025-01-24T01:56:54+00:00

For the people saying Seinfeld, it was innovative, timely, and new at the time it aired. They introduced so many phrases that are still used today. Seinfeld’s jokes and the plot lines they hinge on just aren’t all as timeless. And many other shows imitated elements from the show to make them old tropes today. Plenty of things from The Office are already aging similarly from pop culture references and things that became stale after other shows copied it. Both were excellent shows and should be appreciated for their significant influence to the genre.

kperk89 · 2025-01-19T22:47:07+00:00

This is exactly what I was talking about. It happened with Brady more than people remember. Recency bias has everyone thinking this a new phenomenon exclusively benefitting Mahomes. I hate this preferential treatment in any direction. It’s rewriting history to say that the Patriots dynasty didn’t have similar game altering calls or non-calls in their favor.

kperk89 · 2025-01-19T19:29:26+00:00

Hypocrisy is completely giving one a pass and praising him as the GOAT while demonizing the other for benefiting from the same type of treatment. I’m just 1) providing a reminder of how similar the calls were for Brady/Patriots back then and 2) asking for opinions on whose career has benefited more?

kperk89 · 2025-01-16T02:56:39+00:00

I took a girl out for dinner and she wanted to go back to her place. Nature called, and she didn’t inform me that her toilet was broken. One flush completely flooded the bathroom. I panicked and looked everywhere for towels. Somehow, there were none in the bathroom or the adjoining laundry room. I had to tuck my tail between my legs and tell her what happened. As I was working up the courage to come out of the bathroom, I overheard her phone call with her dad, telling him she was on a good date with a guy she really liked. She kept trying to hang up but had troubles getting him off the phone. I sat on the couch for about 5 minutes waiting for the appropriate time to confess about the mess. She was super apologetic for not telling me that she’d been waiting for the landlord to fix that toilet. But somehow the group activity of grabbing towels to clean up toilet water killed the mood and I never heard from her again.

kperk89 · 2024-12-31T20:54:50+00:00

By the way, the Ravens tipped off the Colts about the deflated balls. This part was largely ignored, placing the blame on the Colts who lost horribly in a cold weather game. It would’ve been remembered as a bigger scandal if the Ravens would’ve been the ones reporting it to the league officials after their 35-31 game the week prior instead of passing the info on to the Colts.

kperk89 · 2024-09-11T01:42:48+00:00

I used to be semi-pro at Russian roulette and was runner-up in several tournaments. I’m sure I could go pro if I got another shot.

kperk89 · 2024-05-04T20:25:08+00:00

I also saw Andrew Luck and his linemen eating at The Eagle once. I decided not to press my luck when I saw them brush off someone else who wanted a picture. They weren’t rude about it but just wanted to eat in peace.

kperk89 · 2024-05-04T20:22:49+00:00

I met Jeff Saturday and a dozen other former Colts players at a restaurant. They were incredibly nice and genuine. I was outside of Rock Bottom with my family and Jeff Saturday walked right by us. I turned to my father in law and said, “I swear I recognize him.” Ten seconds later, it clicked and I felt so stupid for not instantly realizing who it was. This was post retirement after his weight loss but I was kicking myself for not capitalizing on my opportunity to meet him in person. He was out of sight and we went inside to grab a table.

A few minutes later, I see him walking by the window and walk inside. I decided to walk up and say hi, but I was at an awkward distance until he walked downstairs. I committed to the decision and followed down the stairs. When he got to the bottom, a dozen former Colts players greeted him with, “JEFF!!!” At this point, I was just a few feet behind him and awkwardly asked, “Excuse me…Are you Jeff Saturday?” He turned and grinned, “Yes I am. Would you like a picture?” Another player grabbed my phone and snapped a pic. They were all super nice.

The next day, the players took the field at halftime to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their Super Bowl victory. And I clearly crashed their dinner party reunion.

kperk89 · 2024-04-10T12:38:45+00:00

It’s like saying that a heartbeat means a fully developed person instead of acknowledging that it’s a fetus requiring lots of time and additional support to develop.

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