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[UK_fan_41102]

Good morning D-League. It's currently 36° and overcast here in Eastern Kentucky. This afternoon will bring mostly cloudy skies and a high of 44°.

These wild temperature swings have me feeling a little under the weather (no pun intended).

Everyone stay safe on this Saturday.

 

[UK82]

The D League does not show up on my page when I am signed in. I have to go to notifications and find a post by someone in the D League and click on that. Then I can read and post.

Same here.

 

[warrior-cat]

Have you cleared your cache?

No, my ex-wife did that to me years ago. I have since recovered and am doing OK.

Ooops! Wrong post. 😁

 

[warrior-cat]

I hope all had a great day. I have to again give kudo's to my Darling... ala the Beverly Hillbillies...

Pork Belly and turnips (with vinegar and a smidgeon of sugar) turnips cut paper-thin, with some red leaf lettuce... and a little red pepper paste my Darling made...

Sesame seed oil with black pepper, garlic, and salt...

I am not bragging at all, I am thankful. Just truly thankful for what the Lord gave me. I cherish my Darling.

I have learned to control the amounts I eat as I easily could eat all put in front of me that my Darling makes...

If Kings eat better than I do, I'd have to see it to believe it. Yes I consider myself blessed among men... (Just me, I know from your posts you all have some fine, fine wives too.) I am thankful...

God Bless you all...

 

[warrior-cat]

What? It's Game Day!

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Howdy D-League. Hope the Football Cats just play loose and bury Vandy today like the Hoops Cats did last night.

Probably shouldn't read too much into crushing a low-mid major but I've believed all along that Collins would contribute once he got a feel for the game, and that Wheeler had the ability to run a game as cleanly as Ulis used to and both those ideas were reinforced last night. And Oscar is Oscar, whoever is in his way.

Hope its a relaxing Saturday for you all.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

I realize it was in the wooden shaft days but I was runner-up in my HS Regional golf tournament in 1961 (thank you, thank you very much). I played somewhat regularly as a young adult and just occasionally up to middle age. I haven't played in about 36 years.

I never played a round of golf until I started working for the Railroad. I was in Sales and Marketing and I don't know of any manager that did not play golf with customers all the time. The RR paid for my country club membership. Golf, wine and dine.

I played golf until I really hurt my left arm at 60 years old. I like the game.

 

[vhcat70]

So I refilled my 11 yr old Toro mower gas tank Monday as I have probably a couple 100 times. Mow about 50' and notice gas vibrating out of the neck because there's no cap - a first. So I say self, let's follow cutting path back to where I filled tank & pick up cap & put on. NBD, right? Well 10 minutes later after retracing path 10x, no cap to be found searching grass, bushes & groundcover. So tape Al foil over opening & finish cutting. Then Tu I go to HD for a replacement cap, bring home, but cap neck doesn't fit thru tank neck. So go back to HD today & find another size. Hooray, fits! What's the moral? Don't get old & forget crap.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Hey @Bert Higginbotha . I might cancel planned visit on November 20. Our dog tore her leg up last month and required surgery. When pup goes out, I must walk her on a leash. Previously, we just let her out so she could run around our back yard. Wife cannot walk our pup very far because of her COPD. In other words, I tackle majority of stuff requiring activity.

Wife can deal with me taking shorter trips. What might happen is I depart here on November 22 and drive straight to SE KY. I stay around SE KY/East TN until Saturday, November 27. On 27th, I'll head out to Bowling Green area for a quick overnight visit. Plan on driving through Smith's Grove enroute to Anneta. Drive back to TX on Sunday, November 28.

My plans depend on what veterinarian says next Thursday, November 18. Rental car is reserved. I must cancel or change plans by evening of November 18.

At any rate, I'll know more next Thursday and let you and Sherry know. Might reschedule visit to KY until mid-January, 2022 (brrrrrrr).

 

[starchief5]

How was it back in the day at the old golf course? Daughter and I drove past over the summer. I've only visited maybe 2-3 times over the years.

I was a caddy there from the time I was big enough to carry a bag through HS.. Every day in the summer. The money I made went to buy my school clothes. Usually saved about $35 over a summer. Caddy fees were only $1.50 to finally $2 by 1961. Generous guys (not all) might give you a quarter tip. It was an exclusive country club those days. No blue-collar people played there. People only played on the weekend and Wednesday afternoon. Tuesdays were Ladies Day. Lots of businesses closed on Wednesday afternoon and nothing was open on Sunday.

 

[starchief5]

I never played a round of golf until I started working for the Railroad. I was in Sales and Marketing and I don't know of any manager that did not play golf with customers all the time. The RR paid for my country club membership. Golf, wine and dine.

I played golf until I really hurt my left arm at 60 years old. I like the game.

Golf became too expensive a hobby for me. I have been a literal relatively poor for most of my life. I never made more than $24K in my life and my wife didn't work for most of those years. We learned to live frugally. I made it through though and have been fine since retiring.

 

[starchief5]

No, my ex-wife did that to me years ago. I have since recovered and am doing OK.

Ooops! Wrong post. 😁

My laugh out loud moment for today.

 

[bertfan31]

The Paladins knock off the Cards. The man in the upper left corner of the picture is wearing his mask incorrectly. I am not sure if that had anything to do with the loss but stranger things have happened. "Wear your mask correctly or do not wear it at all."

6 players, 2 press members, 1 fan. I go over to their board when I get thirsty and most of them that post there, about 8 people altogether, know they are about to get hammered by the NCAA. They no longer have Denny Crum to protect them.

None of this could have happened to a more deserving group. Rest In Piss ul basketball.

 

[awf]

I was a caddy there from the time I was big enough to carry a bag through HS.. Every day in the summer. The money I made went to buy my school clothes. Usually saved about $35 over a summer. Caddy fees were only $1.50 to finally $2 by 1961. Generous guys (not all) might give you a quarter tip. It was an exclusive country club those days. No blue-collar people played there. People only played on the weekend and Wednesday afternoon. Tuesdays were Ladies Day. Lots of businesses closed on Wednesday afternoon and nothing was open on Sunday.

I used to caddy for my two uncles at Shawnee Golf course.....one was4'-11" the other one was maybe 5'-2" if you measure him jumping........$.05 a hole........I was always tall, even as a boy I was several inches taller than most......I would carry a bag on both shoulders.......and they would buy my lunch after the round was over.....but I could do a lot with $3.60.........and they would always pay me in nickles.......it felt like a lot of money.....I would have accepted pennies.....

 

[Kai Slater]

Golf became too expensive a hobby for me. I have been a literal relatively poor for most of my life. I never made more than $24K in my life and my wife didn't work for most of those years. We learned to live frugally. I made it through though and have been fine since retiring.

Same here with the golf. Back in the late 80s through about 2007, I played golf pretty regularly, including countless trips to Florida, Myrtle Beach, etc...I never did become very good at it, occasionally I might have scored in the low 80s, but not much improvement considering how much I played. I guess I just didn't have that natural timing or hand-eye connection to be really good. Anyway, golf started become pretty expensive for the green fees and decent set of golf clubs.

One summer, over in South Carolina, I was playing with some guys and had a miserable day, maybe shooting 100, hooking shots all over the course out of bounds, in the water, and all over the place. I repeated that performance over the next week and just realized then that I pretty much suck at golf and wasn't going to get better, even playing and practicing regularly. I'm the type of person that, if I don't play well, it's not much fun, so I thought to myself......."self, why are you paying so much money, just to be bad at it?" If I'm going to suck at something, I don't want to add insult to injury by having to pay lots of money for the experience. Right then and there, on that hot, humid, muggy, South Carolina day, I quit the game for good, took up tennis, and have never looked back.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Speaking of golf, I never got into it. My mother's cousin owned Indian Rocks Golf Course and we had free everything. Just show up and play. I did not do it one time.

In my early 20's I took up racket ball and played that for a long, long time. I played in tournaments and got pretty good at it. I slacked off in my late 40's after messing up both of my shoulders. But it kept me in excellent condition for over 20 years.

With my aching bones I may be paying for it today.

 

[Kai Slater]

Speaking of golf, I never got into it. My mother's cousin owned Indian Rocks Golf Course and we had free everything. Just show up and play. I did not do it one time.

In my early 20's I took up racket ball and played that for a long, long time. I played in tournaments and got pretty good at it. I slacked off in my late 40's after messing up both of my shoulders. But it kept me in excellent condition for over 20 years.

With my aching bones I may be paying for it today.

That's how I'm feeling many days now, with the aching shoulders and elbows. I still play in a tennis league each week for much of the year. It's a good way for me to keep moving, especially playing against a couple of good regular players. One guy I play against often is a former college level player. He's in his 60s and can still hit really hard, sometimes so hard I can barely see the ball when he serves. Another guy, older than me, is really good as well and used to play frequent "underground tennis betting matches" throughout South Florida and Miami. He mentions big money riding on matches that he played in along with big drugs back in the day and lots of pressure to play well. He hits all the tricks shots, which keeps me on my toes.

 

[BBUK]

To the working men of the D. No matter where you are or your situation you be working men...

 

[BBUK]

Speaking of golf, I never got into it. My mother's cousin owned Indian Rocks Golf Course and we had free everything. Just show up and play. I did not do it one time.

In my early 20's I took up racket ball and played that for a long, long time. I played in tournaments and got pretty good at it. I slacked off in my late 40's after messing up both of my shoulders. But it kept me in excellent condition for over 20 years.

With my aching bones I may be paying for it today.

Sir, I was a racquet ball master,... or so I thought. I was getting good in my late teens. Not sure how I got so full of myself playing that game when other sports I played I was contained and in control. (I was never really any good but I thought I was. Got graded as a C but for some reason I had potential in my own mind.

Yeah, one day I was showing off a little swinging that racquet with some serious torque and spinning it around.... I was warming up one day and showing off, I swung that metal racket around (Had recently bought it.) and swung it up in style..... until the edge of that racquet struck me above my own right eye in my eye brow.... four or six stitches later my expertise in racquet ball was over. Never picked up a racquet again... I have a couple tennis rackets and a bag of tennis balls in the garage. Racquet ball is a thing of the past. High School boxing going against black boxers with six to ten inch reach advantages never caused me as much pain as that unwarranted expertise I carried in racquetball... (And that's the rest of my story... ala Paul Harvey..) (My worst injury in any sport, was self-inflicted...)

 

[bertfan31]

Looks like the Cards have beaten the shit out of powerhouse ACC opponent Syracuse. They just messed up in the broadcast and showed a shot of the stands. Maybe 30% of capacity. It's funny when you look back at all the unwarranted, misplaced hubris that group has displayed over the years.

Looking forward to the game in a couple of weeks. We'll have more fans there than they will. I wish I could go but Louisville has become a cesspool and I don't go anywhere there anymore unless I'm armed. They won't let me carry in the stadium.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

That's how I'm feeling many days now, with the aching shoulders and elbows. I still play in a tennis league each week for much of the year. It's a good way for me to keep moving, especially playing against a couple of good regular players. One guy I play against often is a former college level player. He's in his 60s and can still hit really hard, sometimes so hard I can barely see the ball when he serves. Another guy, older than me, is really good as well and used to play frequent "underground tennis betting matches" throughout South Florida and Miami. He mentions big money riding on matches that he played in along with big drugs back in the day and lots of pressure to play well. He hits all the tricks shots, which keeps me on my toes.

Back in the early 1970's I played a lot of tennis but it was a different swing than a racquet ball and I never advanced as I should have. I played racquetball almost every day during the lunch hour. I did not work in an office so four of us would meet at a racquetball club during the lunch hour and work out. Then on Saturday our team practiced and had meets. It was a good cardiovascular exercise and thankfully I never received a serious injury playing. I have seen some though. That little blue ball is moving fast and hurts if it knocks you upside the head

 

[OHIO COLONEL]

I only played racquetball a few times. Had a friend from Michigan that I played with a few times in Atlanta. Wish I would have played a lot more. Why you ask. Because the club where we played...was also where the Atlanta Falcons cheerleaders worked out and practiced. Was hard to keep my mind on the game.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Looks like the Cards have beaten the shit out of powerhouse ACC opponent Syracuse. They just messed up in the broadcast and showed a shot of the stands. Maybe 30% of capacity. It's funny when you look back at all the unwarranted, misplaced hubris that group has displayed over the years.

Looking forward to the game in a couple of weeks. We'll have more fans there than they will. I wish I could go but Louisville has become a cesspool and I don't go anywhere there anymore unless I'm armed. They won't let me carry in the stadium.

If the Cats can just take care of business we should be OK. Our Cats need to feel like lions and finish this season out with a roar.

 

[Kai Slater]

Back in the early 1970's I played a lot of tennis but it was a different swing than a racquet ball and I never advanced as I should have. I played racquetball almost every day during the lunch hour. I did not work in an office so four of us would meet at a racquetball club during the lunch hour and work out. Then on Saturday our team practiced and had meets. It was a good cardiovascular exercise and thankfully I never received a serious injury playing. I have seen some though. That little blue ball is moving fast and hurts if it knocks you upside the head

Yeah, I’ve vaguely remember your racquetball days. It’s been a while, hasn’t it?

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Yeah, I’ve vaguely remember your racquetball days. It’s been a while, hasn’t it?

About 25 years since I played, maybe more. I doubt I could return a serve now. NOT with these bones.

 

[UK82]

Well hell! CJ Frederick will undergo hamstring surgery and most likely miss the 2021-2022 season. I was really looking forward to watching this young man. Cats are loaded but it sure would have helped having one of the best 3-point shooters from last year.

 

[bertfan31]

About 25 years since I played, maybe more. I doubt I could return a serve now. NOT with these bones.

It's been about 20 years for me. I think I was 41 last time I played. I was working in Pennsylvania and a young guy in the office wanted to play at the local Y. He was 22 and pretty athletic so I told him he would catch on pretty quickly. I took it easy on him and tried to teach him not to chase the ball.

After we had played nearly every day for a couple of weeks and I was letting him score enough points to keep him interested but never enough to risk losing, he goes to the office and starts bragging that I had been playing for 20 years and he had been playing for 2 weeks and he was going to beat me soon.

That afternoon we went to play and the scores were 21-0, 21-1, 21-2. I was getting tired toward the end and the 3 points he got were due to my mistakes on easy shots.

The next morning after our meeting I told the entire office to ask him about our racquetball game yesterday. We never played again.

 

[UK82]

Looks like the Cards have beaten the shit out of powerhouse ACC opponent Syracuse. They just messed up in the broadcast and showed a shot of the stands. Maybe 30% of capacity. It's funny when you look back at all the unwarranted, misplaced hubris that group has displayed over the years.

Looking forward to the game in a couple of weeks. We'll have more fans there than they will. I wish I could go but Louisville has become a cesspool and I don't go anywhere there anymore unless I'm armed. They won't let me carry in the stadium.

Yeah I have no desire to enter downtown Louisville. Unfortunately some of my Dad's doctors have offices there so I have no choice. 21 straight months of double-digit homicides, 172 total so far this year and that's only 1 shy of last year's record. On pace to hit at least 190, maybe even 200. In fact, Louisville outpaces Chicago and Philadelphia in homicide rate. Nothing to be proud of and our mayor is doing nothing.

https://www.wave3.com/2021/10/15/louisville-outranks-chicago-philadelphia-homicide-rates-data-shows/

 

[berniecarbo]

It's been about 20 years for me. I think I was 41 last time I played. I was working in Pennsylvania and a young guy in the office wanted to play at the local Y. He was 22 and pretty athletic so I told him he would catch on pretty quickly. I took it easy on him and tried to teach him not to chase the ball.

After we had played nearly every day for a couple of weeks and I was letting him score enough points to keep him interested but never enough to risk losing, he goes to the office and starts bragging that I had been playing for 20 years and he had been playing for 2 weeks and he was going to beat me soon.

That afternoon we went to play and the scores were 21-0, 21-1, 21-2. I was getting tired toward the end and the 3 points he got were due to my mistakes on easy shots.

The next morning after our meeting I told the entire office to ask him about our racquetball game yesterday. We never played again.

I'm a pretty quiet guy. We were playing fast pitch softball. We beat a Korean team pretty bad in a double header and I'd had a good day and was feeling my oats pretty good. Our pitcher/manager pitched batting practice the next day. He had beat Eddie Feigner of the King and his Court Fame at one time. He bore down on me and I was lucky to foul off a few. I had a little humble pie that day.

 

[bertfan31]

In 1493, Columbus brought some steak to we! If you listen to some people, Columbus is a name to be reviled. But he's the dude what done brung the beef to America!

Just ate some roast with taters and carrots I had made and frozen a couple of weeks ago. Texture was different but the taste was awesome. Got enough to eat again during the game tonight

 

[UK82]

One less undefeated. Oklahoma goes down. UTSA struggling with 1-8 Southern Miss.

 

[BBUK]

Little Caesar's 5 dollar carry-out, cheese with extra cheese... $5.88..... I am thankful... Washed it down with some coffee.... (Ye Ole microwave is handy...)

 

[bertfan31]

I've just turned on the pregame. Been watching Alton Brown and Good Eats all day long

Last time I looked UGA up on UT 24-10 late in the 3rd. UT scored their 10 in the 1st quarter.

Clemson beat Ucon 44-7 in that murderers row we know as the ACC.

 

[bertfan31]

Just checked on Outback Bowl tickets. $170 for club level and $80 for all others. Lower vs Upper basically. A friend's daughter has been the manager of an Outback for about 10 years now. Gonna see if she can get me a couple of tickets. Was a hoot the last time we were there, of course I was a lot younger then and will not play it the same way. Married now too. No Ybor City on New Years Eve!

Win the next 3 games and it appears we'll be going. They want us there for sure. Last time was a sell out and we drank every beer they had in the stadium before the 4th quarter. The beer guy told us he'd never seen that before. He also told us that the next time we come back it wouldn't happen.

I guess we didn't want to wear out our welcome.

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

Go Cats!!!

 

[bertfan31]

I'm still watching iowa state and texas tech. Been a good game and just tied up with 1 minute to go.

 

[UK82]

Wow! 62 yard field goal for Texas Tech. Saved me from watching the ESPN app.

 

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[warrior-cat]

 

[bertfan31]

Touchdown Kentucky!!!