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2019-Whenever Misc. Grab Bag Thread

Fayettenamcanesfan said:
PSG outlasts Arsenal in the final. I really wish football would go to hockey and not do stupid penalties in games like this. Arsenal frustrated PSG all day. Yea yea I know arsenal should have just scored more in regulation…. that’s not the point and I’d say the same thing if they won. I texted my buddies in our PL text group before the game started about hoping it didn’t go to penalties. It’s just something I’ve never liked
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This Spurs supporter thoroughly enjoyed this, especially Eze missing the penalty!

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It may not be the best college tournament, but the baseball tournament (the whole thing, not just the CWS) is probably the most grueling and perilous to win. You catch a pitcher on his career day, have a weird weather day that throws everything off, have one of those days where everything is hit hard but right at guys … plus the parity is pretty nuts. Cash for players is a thing, but it’s rolling much slower in college baseball for all kinds of reasons. Revenues are lower, the weird pro draft rules mean there’s several points where players can get off the wheel, and there’s way less rich benefactors than football or basketball. We’ll probably get to the stage where more free spending schools will invest in veteran lineups made up of mostly proven 3rd and 4th year non-draftees, but we’re not there yet so it’s MUCH more of a crapshoot for the name brand schools.
 
#10 FSU goes down
#2 GT up one in the 8th
Heels moved on yesterday easily.

Watching all season (baseball is my 2nd favorite) and I have felt all year GT and UNC were the 2 best teams in the country. Both are ridiculously deep, talented and experienced. There is just so much parity in college baseball…always has been. They could both be knocked out this weekend. Heels get the winner of tonight’s Texas A&M /USC game in Chapel Hill this weekend
 
The three games this weekend between Kentucky and West Virginia have been the best games of all the regional games.

Kentucky just tied the game 5-5 with 4 runs in the top of the 8th on two homers.

I would not want to play either team next weekend.
 
This guy showed up in my backyard a few days ago. Never seen him before and he's not on any of my trail cameras before then. In the 33 years that I've lived at this address and fed the wildlife here, I've never had an albino anything come around. I'm choosing to accept it as a sign...of what, I don't know? But, there you go for some whatever - misc - grab - bag content.

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I live in Wake Forest and we have had albino deer sightings for the past couple of years, although I’ve not seen a mention this year that I can recall.
 
Pucking Lamplighter said:
This guy showed up in my backyard a few days ago. Never seen him before and he's not on any of my trail cameras before then. In the 33 years that I've lived at this address and fed the wildlife here, I've never had an albino anything come around. I'm choosing to accept it as a sign...of what, I don't know? But, there you go for some whatever - misc - grab - bag content.

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Name it Edgar Winter
 
LJG said:
Name it Edgar Winter
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Those were exactly my first thoughts when I saw him. Edgar Winter it is.

My only other experience with a white deer was a long time ago, but it's a good story (IMO).

In 1988, I worked at an animal compound near Pittsboro that dealt with third world endanagered carnivores, (tigers, leopards, jaguars, servals, caracals, civets, etc.). On December 18th, my birthday, we got a call from some women who had rescued a white doe from Jordan Lake. A pack of wild dogs had run the deer into the water and kept following it along the bank, the deer swam until it was almost exhausted. The women got an inflatable raft, paddled out, and recovered the deer (in mid-December!). They carried it to a horse barn that one of them owned, but the deer was stiff, and its breathing was shallow.

They called the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, who told them to let nature take it's course, and that deer weren't endangered. Next, they called NC Forestry, who told them that they were about trees, not animals. Since we dealt with animals, they called us next. I got sent with a volunteer driver to see what, if anything could be done for the doe. When I got there, she was on a bed of hay, covered in a horse blanket. She was cool to the touch, breathing was shallow & labored, and the color was draining out of her lips and tongue. I stood her up on all four legs and she could drive off her hind legs, which proved that she didn't have a spinal injury. Her balance was off and she couldn't stand on her own. We loaded her into the back seat of an Isuzu Trooper on my lap with her legs belted together. We belted her legs, because we didn't need to have that deer come to and start flailing around inside the Trooper. The warmer air inside the vehicle seemed to help, but she was definitely in shock, and incredibly weak.

When we returned to the compound, I carried her into the house, laid her on a sleeping bag beside the wood stove, and hoped for the best. I gathered up about a bushel of honeysuckle off the front fence, raked up about a gallon of white oak acorns, and I stoked the fire in the stove up. I dried her off with paper towels and set a bowl of water beside her. Gradually, she started coming around. Eventually, she ate the honeysuckle like a mower and chomped down about half of the acorns. She got up and walked around, surveying her surroundings, I'm sure wondering where the hell she was.

The next morning, I lead her out to the compound, so she couldn't wander off. The big cats all bounced off their cages, hunting her, and wanted to eat her, especially the tigers. She went down to the best cover in the compound by the lynx cages and feasted on more honeysuckle. We left her alone for the rest of the day. I called a buddy of mine, who owns 300 acres out by the Rocky River, where we released her the following day. They still see white deer out there from time to time. Oh, we named her Jane Doe.

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Pucking Lamplighter said:
This guy showed up in my backyard a few days ago. Never seen him before and he's not on any of my trail cameras before then. In the 33 years that I've lived at this address and fed the wildlife here, I've never had an albino anything come around. I'm choosing to accept it as a sign...of what, I don't know? But, there you go for some whatever - misc - grab - bag content.

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It’s a sign … of something. Frankly, I don’t want to think too hard about it.
 
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