Hairyducked Idiot

Unless I've Jerry O'Connelled my way into an alternate universe where Epstein took over the Cubs before the 2015 season, that's not the season to start measuring him by.

Check with each course. Some will let you tee off on the back 9 before the 18 hole golfers get to the 10th hole. If you go early enough, you should be able to blow right through those holes pretty quickly. I saw a couple of courses around here do that, but I have a very specific window of time and I can’t quite get there early enough.

I'll just continue to be the Fred of the golf thread. I've been doing the same 9-hole par-29 course. I get up for the earliest tee time, take the nephew, and we're usually home before my kid wakes up, so it minimizes the need for other adults in the house to watch him. But kid starts school in person next week and I'll have 5 glorious 4-hour windows a week in which to do things, many of those things will be golf related. None of the full courses around here have 9-hole options right now, would it be weird to just book a regular tee time and plan on leaving at the turn? I'd like to start branching out to other courses. This morning's round was the best I've ever hit the ball, which was only slightly brought down by how awful my putting was. My last round was 23 non-putts and 18 putts. Today was 17 non-putts and 24 putts for the same score. I finally got past my nemeses: the two par-4s. I had never done better than bogey on either of them, but I went fairway to green to two-putt on both of them. I need to figure out my driver. I'm definitely doing something wrong. I only hit it once today, and felt like I got all of it and it went straight, but the GPS said it only went 160 yards. I don't need to be a bomber, but I need to be able to threaten 200 consistently to have a chance at the larger courses.

all of the following are true 1) Montgomery is behind a terrible run-blocking line and a mediocre at best passing attack so he doesn’t get much help 2) he’s very good at running hard into and through contact 3) he’s unimpressive or bad at pretty much everything else: choosing holes, making hard first cuts, inducing misses, breakaway acceleration Edit: Oh and 4) as always, running the ball doesn’t matter so who cares

Makes sense, at times, as many have mentioned, the offense appears capable, then goes back to not capable, how much of a factor is Nagy' play calling and how much the QB? I'd say maybe 80 - 20, at times he takes his foot off the gas, why? Go for the kill, if you can score 40 on a team do it because, they, sure as horsefeathers, will dump 40 on your ass. I go back and forth on this. Right now, I honestly think it's just personnel and Nagy is getting as much blood out of the stone as he can. Who are the *good* players on the offense? Allen Robinson and ...? I guess Jimmy Graham? David Montgomery is pretty average although I'm starting to doubt that tbh (he runs hard but isn't great at making reads and doesn't have the ability to break open plays), Mooney and Miller can be pretty average. The offensive line sucks, the RBs as a unit suck, and at the end of the day the only thing that really matters in this league: the QBs suck.

Aaron Donald vs. Bears interior o-line. Better be prepared to win 13-10. It's a good thing running the ball doesn't matter, because they won't be able to.

Foles had exactly one TD drive that started outside the opponents' 10. He looks a little better than Trubisky but I think average is being generous.

Foles had exactly one TD drive that started outside the opponents' 10. He looks a little better than Trubisky but I think average is being generous.

If you're going to have a mediocrity hell season, at least we're having the good kind where we might even win a playoff game or two.

I still don’t think they are good

They're gonna win this game by 20 and I still think they suck.

Today I got to check off another of my "now I feel like a real golfer" experiences: Playing on greens that were freshly watered, punched and sanded. First tee shot, I thought I hit it *perfectly* and it was going to roll up for a tap-in birdie. Instead it just plopped down and embedded where it hit, 10 feet short. I'm not nearly good enough not to be happy with a par, though. Nephew had a similar experience on the 7th. Hole is 127, he usually maxes his driver about 110, but he absolutely crushed one perfectly on line. On a normal day it rolls up next to the hole, but it slowed down way too fast and ended up about 15 feet short. (https://streamable.com/9xncpw) Other highlights: After a wet fart drive, I still had 150 to the front of the green on a par-4. My hybrid goes about 135 most of the time, but it's by far more reliable than anything longer and leaving it short takes the bunkers out of play. I hit it as cleanly as I possibly could and it took off like a rocket, perfectly straight. I found it past the green, past the rough behind the green, past the cart path, almost to the next tee box. A full 40 yards past target. Last hole, I hit one proper distance but pull it onto the hill way off to the left. In the rough, on a hill looking down, probably 50 feet from the hole, and I got it down to within 4 feet and made the putt. My first up-and-down that wasn't just from the fringe.

I’m going down with the ship. I still think they kinda suck.

Looking at the video, that is *exactly* what my problem was. I had been doing pretty well getting a slight in-to-out, but you can see yesterday that one frame before impact, I’m almost a full clubhead outside the ball and having to pull it in quickly. And my duffed shots were all off the heel. This is why my irons were all going left most of the time, and I was doing unusually well with my longer clubs, which were starting left but slicing back on target. It all makes sense now.

I mean the team is gonna suck for awhile because we stayed loyal to Our Guys and paid them. Might as well keep that train going with Crawford

Nephew made his first par today: https://streamable.com/ncft8z I had a weird round. I tried a more standard putting grip this week and it helps a *ton*. I went from my standard ~20 putts for 9 holes to just 15 with only one three-putt. I also have more or less abandoned chipping in favor of bump and runs and those went pretty well. But after three straight outings where my full swings were solid, I couldn’t get them going today. I had a bunch of shots where it felt perfect but it just went on a different line that I was expecting, usually ~20 degrees left. Not curving, just a different straight line than I thought I would get. And I had one where I thought I hit a perfect, majestic 8-iron right to the center of the green but it just sailed and went 25 yards further than my 8-iron usually goes. I did manage to do nothing worse than a double, but also has nothing better than bogey.

Just like when the job was open last time, I want someone unestablished. I want someone young, hungry, full of ideas about how current baseball paradigms are wrong and could be done better. Not someone trying to copy past success.

The most reliable predictor of future injury is still past injury.

Pretty harsh to talk down Theo’s third division title like that

Love you too, boo

Maybe someday I’ll share some video. I manage to make a middle-aged fat nerd hitting 105-yard 7-irons sound way cooler than it is. And it doesn’t even sound that cool. Here’s the nephew sticking a tee shot. If you force it to show you hi-def you can see the ball hit near the little mound on the left then roll out to the front center of the green. Mine is in front of the bunker short and right He had two more looks at birdie today. He wants one so bad. Funny, the camera keeps catching him cheating when I’m not looking. But not cheating to do better, cheating to make sure he has cool stories to tell. Like making his missed putt hang over the edge instead of being three inches off, or moving his ball five yards so it ends up right next to mine.

Winning the fake division title means more to me than whether or not we win the first couple of fake playoff series. *Maybe* I'll start to care if there's a pennant on the line.

Kind of a weird brag but I'm proud of it. In this morning's 9, seven par-3s and two par-4s, I needed 11 shots to get to the general vicinity of the green. I didn't actually hit most of the greens, but I got to within chipping distance. I didn't have any tops or shanks or fat duffs that roll 30 yards. I need a stat for GIR-ish. Score wasn't quite as good as I wanted because of one blow-up hole (Managed to get behind that stupid lone tree by the green *again*) and my putting was garbage, but I felt like I'm really playing golf out there.

This happens like 50% of the time Hendricks goes past the 6th inning and people still bitch when he's taken out early.

You guys playing cards?