cyfan92 said:

No, I went with those over trading summer and
snow tires. Mpg drop but grip was/is amazing. TBD on their lifespan though

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Yea we have them on both vehicles. So far so good.

CycloneT said:

You would rather hear him insult the roster? Thats how you get no one to come here

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Sorry. I thought it was clear I was joking, my point being it hurts more when you hear how well he was playing. I guess we need to bring the jimlad back.

demoncore1031 said:

Are you into old 60s surf rock? I really dig **** Dale, The Surfaris, The Marketts, etc

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Funny that they x'ed out "Richard" Dale. I do like the surf rock from the 60s, although I admit I'm mostly familiar with hits like Misirlou, Walk Don't Run, and Wipe Out.

1UNI2ISU said:

Summarizes and documents all of my client interactions automatically. I bet it saves me 6 hours a week.

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What are you using to do this??

Used it to tell me what to buy for whole home water filtration. Gave me the final 3 products I needed after a few questions. Read up on the 3 and was exactly what I needed. Bought on Prime Day saved $700.

Very interesting late add. Who knows how her game will translate but can’t teach size.

I deleted iHeart app from my phone. I was listening to Bloomberg radio from the app but I can stream it from their website while I walk/run/bike.

CycloneRulzzz said:

Surprised at amount of people rooting against Argentina. If we aren't in it I want the teams with generational stars going as far as possible.

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I am actually rooting for England now...I've got like 15% English blood or something in me.

Bellingham and Kane...what a combination those guys are.

Hawkeyes have already confirmed the sponsor for their uniforms patch.

Surprised at amount of people rooting against Argentina. If we aren't in it I want the teams with generational stars going as far as possible.

It's great to see Boyd pitch well.

Ok, since the "To Imbibe is to be led astray" clue took out the wine theories, I’m going back to another path I looked at earlier.

On Plate 56, if you move column to column from Old Lavender instead of by row, you hit Flint (Grey). The book’s note for it mentions:

“The flints used for striking the spark in the old flint-lock muskets would also, by reason of the oil and grime, take on some such color.”

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That pointed me toward the Ferguson rifle, the breech-loading flintlock designed by Colonel (later Major) Patrick Ferguson. The dirty Red Coat even had his own experimental unit called Ferguson’s Rifle Corps during the Revolutionary War. He died at the Battle of Kings Mountain on the border of the Carolina colonies.

"Mull over the Colonel’s past" made me look at the name instead: Ferguson means “son of Fergus.” Fergus Mór was the legendary first King of the Scots and founder of Dál Riata, the kingdom that included the Mull of Kintyre.

"Mull over… says your kin." That geographic pun feels very much like the “William’s forest” style of wordplay earlier in the riddle. (Coincidentally, (maybe?) Paul McCartney has owned a farm on the Mull of Kintyre since the ’60s. Wings had a hit song by that same name that was the first single in the UK to sell over 2 million copies.)

I don’t have a solid tie-in to Part Two yet, and this could still be the wrong off-ramp, but it feels worth exploring now that the wine path is closed. Kagavi is having a nice laugh.

Maybe it'll provide someone else with some ideas!

I'd just like to point out, and probably someone already has in this thread since I looked at it last, but if you look at two major American sports today, many of the best players in those leagues aren't even American.

NBA- Lots of elite Euro talent
MLB- Latin, Japanese players
NHL- Canadian, European, Russian

The NFL is really the only league that doesn't have any sort of outside influence.
Soccer in the US as a whole isn't even as popular as High School football.

FriendlySpartan said:

I didn’t know you were a world class coach but I’ll fully respect the fact that you’re damn good at your job.

Were those kids teens or older? Did those kids have perfect nutrition, recovery access, access to the other plethora of coaches where this was their only activity?

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I could have had this in my best physical days and my top speed, jumping height, etc. would not improve much at all.

Improved motion yes, but some things you either have or you don't.

BCClone said:

NC Iowa is pretty flat and tight soils.

I walked quite a few fields this year looking at Chemical effectiveness. The one consistency I saw in the fields was heavy trash residue. The chemicals seemed to be soaked up by the trash and didn’t get soil contact. All the fields were strip tilled or no tilled.

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Seen this with heavy residue and cover crops. UW has an awesome program going right now where they are studying effectiveness of herbicides in heavy residue. Rodrigo Werle at UW is an excellent weed scientist

After all these ups and downs, and decimated pitching, the Cubs are sitting with the 5th best record in MLB. Hard to believe but reason for optimism if the pitching can mend some with no further significant injuries.