Agreed. On both.
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more snow. took car to the detailing place which I do every 10 years whether it needs it or not. Historic level dog hair will be removed.
A bit of snow here, too!
It has cooled off here but no snow.
I don't think it's ever going to snow here again!
I was returning from an outing on Saturday and my neighbor was in his yard. Apparently while I was out, a bunny rabbit hopped from my yard to his and came up to him. A domestic bunny, ridiculously cute. Posted on Nextdoor if anyone was missing a bunny, no responses. Spread the news around to the neighbors, nothing. And it could not have been there long. I have hawks in my yard (and did at the time it hopped up to him) and he was very clean and fat. We think someone just dumped him. What a horrible person! If one neighbor does not keep it, another one will, so all is good, but I would still like to kick that person really, really hard!
Over the last five years, both our rabbit and coyote populations have significantly increased. There are so may rabbits that my old beagle just ignores them. (Part of that is age but he still runs off the coyotes.)
Raccoons and feral cats are out issues here.
I need a nap.
“permissive cheese”
Long story.
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
People are pretty testy on DBR today.
I've only ever seen one play like that and it seems to me that Singler did something similar to an opposing player once. But that was before the current flagrant versus intentional rules. Because it was inadvertent and after the play then I understand the no call. Since it is such a singular play I would almost approach it like inadvertent contact from a player running his head into the head of a player behind him when the ball switches possession. It can be called a foul because contact clearly occurs that is foul worthy. But I do understand why they didn't call a foul there. This one is such a special case that I can completely understand why you feel differently and I don't think you're wrong. I just understand why it was officiated the way it was. I do think you have to wonder if there were 7 minutes left in the game if a foul is called there. And if it would have been, then it should have been called in this situation as well.
Yeah, I generally avoid the post game threads after a loss, too much predictable carnage.
The whack to the throat is definitely an interesting case. For sure it was explicitly unintentional, but since when do things have to be intentional for a foul to be called? You can get faked out on a shot and land on a guy unintentionally, but the net result is he got fouled. Can players now celebrate each basket with Whirling Dervish punch throwing to clear their way downcourt?
For what little it is worth, the ACC will need to explain this call. Very bad precedent. In fact many of the flagrant 1 calls we see are not necessarily intentional, guys get rebounds, swing the elbows a bit, sometimes they make contact, sometimes not.
To second guess myself, which is reasonable to do because I'm not married to my response, there is a strong predilection among officials to not influence play in end of game situations. But if your prior is to call a foul except in a late game situation, you are influencing the play. I say to doctors all the time that they are conflating "first do no harm" with "first do nothing". Sometimes inaction is harm.
I took the situation as this: The guy was celebrating and inadvertently hit Flip in the throat. The refs did not see the incident, the one ref saw Flip hunched over in pain. They reviewed, found it not flagrant b/c it was not intentional, and they could not suddenly call a regular foul b/c they cannot be called on reviews if they were not called to begin with.
Or am I completely wrong?
Yes, it sucks, but it was not on purpose and it was not seen/called as foul by the ref to begin with, so nothing COULD be called. Kind of like when Tractor Trailer shoved Wojo out of bounds during a dead ball and nothing was called b/c he was so good at doing that when the refs backs were turned.
Yeah I will admit to having “negative reactions” but they are limited to the privacy of my own couch, and these days they are more just disappointment in the moment (insert OPK honeymoon joke here) than any true anger or disgust. But everyone knows the officiating is always biased against Duke basketball and Alabama football. At least in my house.
You are, I'm sorry to say, completely wrong. This is a textbook Flagrant 1 foul.
I don't see any way this doesn't fall under this provision of the rules, and given that the contact is above the shoulders, it is a borderline flagrant 2. Intent does play an explicit role in assessing a flagrant 2, however, so I would not advocate for that. But a punch is clearly "excessive in nature", and it equally clearly wasn't a "basketball play", so I don't see how it is possible NOT to call a flagrant 1 there. That's a bad enough miss that I honestly do think the league office should be involved. Letting that go sets a terrible precedent.Quote:
Originally Posted by NCAA 2022-23 Men's Basketball Rules Book
January can get [stuffed].
So — should I bother reading it or not?
Incidental to what? It was not a basketball play. He was making no attempt to play offense or defense, so it cannot be incidental contact. He was celebrating, and he happened to catch an opponent square in the throat. It's a defined flagrant 1. It's not even correctly called as a common foul. The refs are required by the rules to assess a flagrant 1. They failed to make the correct call, pure and simple.
Just to be completely clear, it's not the reason that Duke lost the game. Not at all. It was, however, an egregiously bad reffing decision.
My original take. I don't mind if you disagree. Perfectly reasonable to. I even disagreed with me. I think it's how the refs interpreted it.
"I've only ever seen one play like that and it seems to me that Singler did something similar to an opposing player once. But that was before the current flagrant versus intentional rules. Because it was inadvertent and after the play then I understand the no call. Since it is such a singular play I would almost approach it like inadvertent contact from a player running his head into the head of a player behind him when the ball switches possession. It can be called a foul because contact clearly occurs that is foul worthy. But I do understand why they didn't call a foul there. This one is such a special case that I can completely understand why you feel differently and I don't think you're wrong. I just understand why it was officiated the way it was. I do think you have to wonder if there were 7 minutes left in the game if a foul is called there. And if it would have been, then it should have been called in this situation as well."
Lots of meetings
Does everyone have classified information at their house?
I spent 15 minutes going around the house distributing my 10 new pairs of reading glasses, an indication of how busy I am...found easy homes for nine of them...we're talking about $30 investment here.
Pretty evening sky.
Cold in Halifax Nova Scotia with the wind off the water. Beautiful city. Snow everywhere, but a clear night.
And by that I mean they will reply of their own free will.
The worst accent in the world is that upper Midwest Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota accent. Maybe it doesn't help that my chief tormentor from work is from there. Although they have mostly called off the dogs because we had a huge year and I tried to help them a lot and I told my boss to never praise me in front of them because they would hate that.
she makes a damn fine gravy, it is a perfect compliment to my famous mashed potatoes. It’s really the star of the dish tbh.
I’m still taking orders for delivery before St. Patrick’s Day (www.OPKTaters.com). I’ve tried to work with DinK’s people to allow a direct order link for gravy on my site, but her lawyers and the red tape in Topeka have proven difficult to maneuver.
It seems to be down right now, I got T-Swifted with orders. I have my tech folks on it now.
Tell them to check with Donaldson in Kansas Weights & Measures. That pinhead has been the bane of my existence. “Oooh, we want you to ship in leak-proof containers instead of envelopes.”
Pinhead.
They just have:
https://youtu.be/ggGzE5KfCio
I like the term Dink Mountain! Who doesn't love some nice oxymoronic?
LTE is rollin' this Wednesday morning!
Airplane lands with an extra passenger...because someone decided a 12 hour flight would be a good time to give birth!
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/e...023/index.html
However, that's not the part that cracked me up in the CNN article.
1. A flight from Denver to Colorado?Quote:
Last May, a woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy in a lavatory on board a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Colorado, with assistance from a flight attendant.
2. There was a woman in labor and a flight attendant in an airplane lavatory? LOL. I'm calling shenanigans.
This would be my dream emergency scenario. There's a decent chance that if there were an adult in trouble that I would have to contemplate long and hard whether or not I just told everyone that we should get our story straight that he/she was dead when we found them and just let them die. Because adults are gross.
It’s not a memo, it’s a mission statement.
It’s not a manual, it’s a cook book!
It’ll be a fun thread. That for sure.
I think my old grocery check-out dude judged me - correction, I know he judged me - for getting a 4-pack of beer and a bottle of soy sauce and nothing else. He made a funny little comment about this all I was getting and I told him, this isn't dinner buddy, I'm picking up sushi next door.
Weird interaction.
Obviously.
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Slow news day
Flooding earlier and 60 mph winds in Halifax. At least it is in the upper 40s.
Scooby Doo tried to tell us, the real monsters were always human.
Brrrr...
I have been informed that I am late with breakfast.
I refuse to Wang Chung tonight, precisely because everyone else will be doing it.
I’ll die on this hill of non-conformity.
"Baby, I don't want to know..."
Isn't a nearly persistent Buy One, Get One offer an admission that your product is overpriced?
Sign of the times? OPK throws himself under the bus in another thread and no one backs it over him. Does this mean that bus is obsolete?
No more scheduled meetings for the day.
dump (the landfill kind), breakfast with the boys, tax documents delivered, baked good acquired, printer paper purchased (alliteration bonus), dinner purchased, needy person's roof snowraked, three mile walk. Splat. 120 minutes til beer.
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looking forward to my beer and the purchased Godfather Chicken (stuffed with provolone and gobagool).
I hate that movie almost as much as I hate White Lotus.
I screwed up and Wang Chunged tonight.
I feel dirty.
I still am not sure what The White Lotus is, or why Stifler’s mom is associated with it.
It must be because I’m no longer ”hip” if that’s still the term you kids use.
This group is hell on thread discipline on the basketball side.
Black cherry merlot is the best of the scents for soap and hand sanitizer. (Bath and Body Works)
Can't do it; won't do it.
Most of us are wired to take the LTE inside jokes to other threads. It's funny to me. I have received PMs and I have seen complaints within threads when that occurs. Which I find funny, because it's a freaking sports and entertainment website. Also I'm not that nice a person.
So I guess I shouldn't be surprised when this popped up on my Google feed?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...ine-dating?ampQuote:
How Spelling Errors Influence Attraction in Online Dating
The dating profile errors that are detrimental to attraction.
LTE meet up alert: MtnDevil and I watched the game together.