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#1
Quote from: hazzben on Yesterday at 09:34:18 AMFollow up question. What's the Australia version of Sioux City or St. Cloud in terms of meth production? A guy on my team has a brother on the St Cloud SWAT team, man are there some interesting stories coming out of the Granite City.

I honestly don't know.  Probably Geelong.
#2
Quote from: hazzben on Yesterday at 09:27:59 AM
Quote from: OzJohnnie on March 26, 2024, 10:07:05 PMA potential major situation brewing in the Australian Football League over the last few hours.  It's come out, and the AFL has admitted, that they are faking injuries in order to keep players who fail secret AFL-arranged drug tests away from World Doping Authority testers and, thereby, avoiding a doping ban.

Apparently, players call the league CEO or Commissioner or other executives (sometimes at 2am we've learned) and let them know they have been blowing coke or smoking meth or whatever.  The AFL then fires up their private testing lab to see if the players will fail and arrange fake injuries if needed.  All the while keeping clubs in the dark and avoiding club doctors.


Genuine question. They've been covering up the testing. Do we really think it's "only" for blow and meth. My gut reaction was, there have to be guys also taking PED's, and this is a method of covering that up. Which is what WADA really cares about to begin with.

The rabbit hole could be very deep. PEDs, of course. But now that you're facilitating one crime's cover-up, why not another?  Once you have convinced yourself that you're doing the right thing evading WADA rules, it becomes very easy to convince yourself that it's OK to evade other rules.  Perhaps the league should supply the drugs to make sure players aren't getting crap off the streets?  Or maybe the league should test a player's supply to make sure it's not contaminated with something even more dangerous. Maybe inform players which dealers are the 'good ones'?  Yes, the rabbit hole could be very deep indeed.

Todays reveal is that over 100 players' drug use was being managed by the league, facilitating consumption without being caught.
#3
A potential major situation brewing in the Australian Football League over the last few hours.  It's come out, and the AFL has admitted, that they are faking injuries in order to keep players who fail secret AFL-arranged drug tests away from World Doping Authority testers and, thereby, avoiding a doping ban.

Apparently, players call the league CEO or Commissioner or other executives (sometimes at 2am we've learned) and let them know they have been blowing coke or smoking meth or whatever.  The AFL then fires up their private testing lab to see if the players will fail and arrange fake injuries if needed.  All the while keeping clubs in the dark and avoiding club doctors.

The AFL is claiming (and the AFL-access-authorised media is spinning) that this is for player health (so they don't risk injury playing while stoned) and World Doping integrity (so players aren't trying to avoid tests on their own, instead using the League office to do it).  And... betting markets.  Ah, the real news is there.  The AFL is evading independent doping tests in order to keep players eligible.


Anyways, we'll see where this goes.  It's a hell of a scandal.  It wraps up business, politicians, media... a whole slough of people were needed to keep this quiet.  They will work hard to make it stay that way.
#4
Quote from: hazzben on March 24, 2024, 09:35:48 PMHazzben Jr. 1.0 had a "time trial" meet at UST for freshman track on Saturday. His first time competing in the hurdles, 400, and high jump. He admitted it was hard to run the quarter holding his breathe the entire time. I think I've mentioned this before, but I've trained all the kids to hold their breather each Sunday morning as we drive through UST on our way to church. Made me chuckle when he said that  ;D

Hazzben Jr 1.0...  Chuckle.  You're like George Foreman.  Six kids.  All Georges.
#5
Stinking' cake eaters of Edina. Rapids was so close to another shot at the state championship. Well, for third place we go.
#6
Quote from: faunch on February 29, 2024, 09:18:32 AM
Quote from: art76 on February 28, 2024, 10:43:47 PM
Quote from: faunch on February 27, 2024, 07:12:26 PMWant to venture a guess what was the only tap beer selection at the Butcher Shop?

I'll bet it was brewed by a guy named Angus...

No idea...who was Angus?

First name was Bernhard...from Detroit.

#7
Quote from: DuffMan on February 26, 2024, 03:16:18 PMPretty wild that there is outdoor baseball being played at SJU this afternoon!

In '91 we got a little over three feet of snow on Halloween night.  The school actually stopped classes for a day or two.  Dominos even stopped delivery.  We were fortunate that the cafeteria workers managed to get to campus somehow or we would have all mummified in the underclass dorms waiting for someone to feed us.
#8
Quote from: DuffMan on February 23, 2024, 05:27:05 PMNot sure if non-SJU people saw this, but Syverson is returning at QB for SJU this season.  I'm glad to have a tested QB but can't help but feel for those those guys (Dittbenner, Downs) who are in line behind him.  I, for one, will be happy when all the "COVID years" are behind us.

#9
It's a shame that Bartch didn't get a Super Bowl ring this year.  I hope he is retained by SFO.  It's a contract year for him, coming off the rookie deal.  A big cutoff point for many players.
#10
Ah, it's good to be back. Thanks, Pat. And apologies again for the rudeness on Twitter.
#11
Also, Bartch had a couple snaps with the offense at SFO last weekend.  He's got a chance to play in the Super Bowl this year if the breaks go his way and the team's.  Amazing.
#12
This year felt like it was a victim of overconfidence.  The team seemed to me as if it played like it would just happen.  A lot of big-time returners meant it stacked up really well.  But, it ends up it wasn't the case.  I reckon two years of hard labor to get back into a top-five ranking.  Lots of graduation this year.  Some new ordinary guys are needed to do extraordinary things.
#13
Many congratulations to Cortland. I'm amazed that NCC went full Tommie and tried to win with a two-point play.  Everyone knows you never go full Tommie. Just as Sean Penn.
#14
NCC goes for two?

Edit, yup.

And stuffed!  Wow. I thought they would kick after the time out. Go cortland!
#15
If Cortland beat NCC then that will be amazing. Great work for them. They just took the lead with under two minutes to go.  If they win, the East won't be the D3 whipping boys anymore.

Even if they lose from here you can't call them whipping boys.