
LongTime Tiger
Favorite team: | LSU ![]() |
Location: | Baton Rouge |
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Number of Posts: | 2553 |
Registered on: | 1/1/2010 |
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re: Tax weekend I feel bad right now.
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 4/11/25 at 8:38 pm
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If you can read, you know what you paid in taxes
Sorry not true. In business for years and the standard answer by all W-2 workers except highly paid professionals to my question of "how much did you pay in taxes last year" is: 1)"I did ok I got $2300 back", or 2)"I got killed. I owed Uncle Sam $1753.42. I've got to do something better".
No concept of marginal tax bracket, or effective tax rate, or changing withholding to avoid or lessen end of year check writing.
And I mean people with household income over $150k-200 and even much more. Incredibly unknowledgeable.
re: 401k...Has anyone else check theirs lately… I’m down 8500…
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 4/11/25 at 8:28 pm
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Not sure how you could be down this much unless you started your 401k this year.
People never remember their basis or the value 5 years ago. They only remember & reference the high value and therefore calculate their "loss" from that amount.
As I since you know, it's the long game that wins and lots of moving parts are in play that could fundamentally improve the US financial fortunes for generations. We were heading down a dangerous slope without anyone having the guts to correct the stupid mistake politicians have been making for 50 years.
I think we will come out in much better shape in 12 mths.
re: Hahahaha - Big Dick Dutton
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 4/11/25 at 8:13 pm
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LSU made Dutton look like a great pitcher. He is average at best.
disagree. His stuff looked impressive and much improved from last year when he only had 2 pitches.
re: WatchESPN
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 4/4/25 at 9:44 pm
terrible production work
re: Jimmy Ott and Radio Compensation
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 4/4/25 at 8:39 pm
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but I just wish they weren't so slanted towards betting for the entirety of their program.
Agree! I am so tired of hearing about the line and the parlays and Jimmy big timing it in Vegas, Monaco, or whereever when you know that most of the time the sponsors are paying for him to stay and eat. I isn't good enough, IMHO, to be playing big dog if he had to do it all on his money.
But regardless, shame they don't interview people that know the sport for sake of reporting on it instead of those that are selling their picks.
Back in my stupid days I gambled. Buddy and I began to suspect some nefarious activity from the tout service we were using in Vegas. We did an experiment by calling the same oddsmaker on the same day about the same games. He regularly gave one side to me and the other side to buddy. Not on every call but he was hedging so that (we figured) half of his picks had some winners so he could call them back next week(as he always did when I won) to so "I told you about".
re: It’s amazing…..
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 4/4/25 at 8:02 pm
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He’s been consistent and is calling it the same both ways. That’s his strike zone and both teams need to adapt to it.
Easier said than done. If you have ever faced a 90 mph FB you have to rely on all your training in a nanosecond to make a decision to swing or not.
Maybe you were better than me but I never had ability to recondition my years of strike zone education into adjusting to that 2-3 times per season ump who thought the zone started at the ankles and/or ended under the armpits. Its a matter of incompetence if he can't call pitches the way the rule book describes the zone.
re: HVL looks just like she did at LSU. Where is this improvement?
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 4/1/25 at 1:20 am
She has lost weight (or maybe just body fat) and gotten slightly quicker. But still isn't a point guard like she came to LSU to be. Had she stayed she would have been a 2, MW moves to 3, FJ4 is a 4 and AM would have been the 5. That doesn't really work so HVL had to make a move.
Please Kim, sign a real PG
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 3/30/25 at 4:22 pm
We have been killed all year by lack of a point guard. Gilbert can't do anything but sling it up there and looks scared at the first sign of pressure and then turns it over regularly.
CJJ strategy on Saturday
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 3/24/25 at 2:39 am
He was playing with house money by winning on Friday. While I know he wants to win them all I think he was only hoping to win one at UT this early in the season with so many inexperienced arms.
Looked to me like he was giving lots of guys a "tryout" on a big "away" stage, to see how they preformed and give them a chance to step up to pressure situations. Skip did similar "tests" to weed out the "not ready for prime time yet" guys and to toughen the "ready" guys for future big games.
Or, he just might have run through lots of bullpen guys who didn't live up to the hype - this time! Hopefully they will in the future.
Looked to me like he was giving lots of guys a "tryout" on a big "away" stage, to see how they preformed and give them a chance to step up to pressure situations. Skip did similar "tests" to weed out the "not ready for prime time yet" guys and to toughen the "ready" guys for future big games.
Or, he just might have run through lots of bullpen guys who didn't live up to the hype - this time! Hopefully they will in the future.
re: LSU F Corey Chest to Enter Transfer Portal
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 3/24/25 at 2:09 am
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I know a coach in Raleigh who could develop Chest. Wouldn't be surprised if Wade tries to get him.
Might be a little spite in that move but would be very ironic if he became a dominant, multi-skill player. Love to see it for him and WW.
Our hitters have not adjusted to strike zone
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 3/23/25 at 4:22 pm
Ump calling a low zone and giving couple inches off outside edge and we continue to watch and get rung up or give up crucial strikes in the count.
re: Ball caught on line of other batter's box for strike 3
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 3/23/25 at 3:55 pm
And half way between his knees and shoe tops. No way that is a strike. Jay has to have a talk with HP ump over that. Plant the seed
re: Those two calling game again.
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 3/23/25 at 3:19 pm
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They aren't bad at all karen
PBP guy not too bad, just MEH. But analyst talks too much and has an aggravating voice IMO.
re: Competition
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 3/23/25 at 3:14 pm
Shores - when you start every hitter by getting behind, tough to get outs. Got to throw strikes early and often.
re: Jay is the Coach O of baseball
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 3/23/25 at 3:13 pm
Not even close . JJ is 100% baseball, no skirt chasing, no story telling. And he will win many more Natty's before his career is over.
re: PSA regarding SECN+ commentators
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 3/23/25 at 2:58 pm
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So please, for the love of all things holy, can we stop with the "how can ESPN employ these homers" whining every other week?
Don't mind the homers, as I understand that issue but for the love of Jesus, can someone shut up this color analyst who thinks he has to talk ALL THE Fing TIME! He is horrisble AND talks all the time! Who is this Tex Ex player who coached somewhere and now thinks he has to analyze every part of the game.
"That was a great play by Horn SS and notice he adjusted his cup right before the pitch which tipped the catcher to make the ball be hit to him".
re: These announcers remind me a lot of will wade
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 3/22/25 at 7:43 pm
WW and his krewe of BayouBandits were much more entertaining and fun to watch than our Tigers who were packing up their gear to move elsewhere(most of them). And Wade has a great press conference persona!
re: If Morrow is gone
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 3/10/25 at 11:17 am
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I respect what this team has done, but they are not good enough to win a championship. We stink at point guard, and we do not really have a true center on the team.
Exactly
re: Clemson with a galaxy brain move
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 3/10/25 at 11:14 am
Wow! What amazing heckling must come out of that student section:
"Hey pitch, your shoe's untied!"
"Dude, you are the ugliest catcher I've every seen"
"Hey porky, need more salad in your diet and less Raising Cane's"
"Hey #34, they must time your fastball with a calendar!"
"Buddy, warming up with that ShakeWeight looks like you have lots of practice!"
"Hey Aggie, are you still dating the little yell leader?"
"hey you Cout, do all of you have chickens in your dorm rooms for the eggs or the nightime companionship?"
"Hey #77, when I turn 21 maybe we could go out and drink a beer together!"
"Hey pitch, your shoe's untied!"
"Dude, you are the ugliest catcher I've every seen"
"Hey porky, need more salad in your diet and less Raising Cane's"
"Hey #34, they must time your fastball with a calendar!"
"Buddy, warming up with that ShakeWeight looks like you have lots of practice!"
"Hey Aggie, are you still dating the little yell leader?"
"hey you Cout, do all of you have chickens in your dorm rooms for the eggs or the nightime companionship?"
"Hey #77, when I turn 21 maybe we could go out and drink a beer together!"
re: If Morrow is gone
Posted by LongTime Tiger on 3/10/25 at 11:01 am
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We're down 4 with 45 seconds left against a 1 seed without both of them
Yes, that was great to hang around but we don't have the leader like Alexis Morris that can handle, shoot, is athletic, and can take over when in crunch time.
You probably thought UT was the real #1 team in nation but some of us, serious basketball players/coaches/referees knew they were no match for USEe. And the result of a 19 point 'ship loss proved it. Baring a miracle or calamity, USCe will probably win the Natty again cause they are better at every position than LSU, as well as everyone else.
JuJu Watkins, Hidalgo, Fulwiley(my gosh, a dominant PG), Booker, Latson, Crooks, Booker and a few others are all better clutch players than anyone on LSU's team. Our bench isn't deep and our stars (FJ4, MW12, & even AM24) seem to disappear often in crunch time. But that IMO is more of a lack of a great PG and a dominant big that puts so much pressure on the above mentioned 3 that we lose offensive efficiency. And our ball handling is horrific, especially against a team that plays good pressure D.
Still a believer in Kim and staff, love the program, season ticket holder and supporter but this isn't our year. Would gladly eat crow if we get hot and win it all but almost certain that's not in the cards.
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