FB: Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference

[70_dc_alum]

Sayer - Congrats and 2 bits of advice

1. Yes Dear - learn it, while devastating to the natural thinking cause they are usually wrong its not worth trying to explain the unexplainable.  just store it and it will allow you to be a grumpy old man some day.  you ever wonder why old men are grumpy yet old ladies just become nicer or crazy cat ladies...result years of being "right" makes you happy and far from reality!!!!!!

while you have a joint bank account funded enough to pay all the bills each should keep a separate with spare cash even if just a little from each check.  most money fights which will be the number 1 thing, are over stupid little things when the other realizes something was bought.  with your own account they will never know about 95% of what you do its only when you get drunk and put a round for the bar on the wrong debit card that you get in trouble.

[cave2bens]

Sayer - Congrats and 2 bits of advice

1. Yes Dear - learn it, while devastating to the natural thinking cause they are usually wrong its not worth trying to explain the unexplainable.  just store it and it will allow you to be a grumpy old man some day.  you ever wonder why old men are grumpy yet old ladies just become nicer or crazy cat ladies...result years of being "right" makes you happy and far from reality!!!!!!

while you have a joint bank account funded enough to pay all the bills each should keep a separate with spare cash even if just a little from each check.  most money fights which will be the number 1 thing, are over stupid little things when the other realizes something was bought.  with your own account they will never know about 95% of what you do its only when you get drunk and put a round for the bar on the wrong debit card that you get in trouble.

Sage, sound, and profound advice, 70!

One word of caution, Adam - with time passage, deviations and/or inflections of "Yes Dear" may be misinterpreted (whether intentional or imagined) and a fall back strategy should be available for that contingency. 

A beer frig, strategically located near the lawn mower, weed whacker, and other noisy "man toys" in the garage, and a cheap, folding camp chair provides necessary solitude for at least fifteen minutes.  The smell of oil and gasoline discourages and disengages the XX-linked curiosities.    Regrettably, mother-in-laws show some immunity to this tack, probably due to mutation, so keep that in mind. 

[frank uible]

Footbal season better come quickly, because this thread has been now reduced to a "Dear Abby" column.

[Adam Sayer]

Ha Ha Ha...point taken. And football is just around the bend. I believe training camps start next week for the NFL. Our 2-a-days start the week after next and we have 4 summer camp days next week.

[raiderguy]

Sayer - Congrats and 2 bits of advice

1. Yes Dear - learn it, while devastating to the natural thinking cause they are usually wrong its not worth trying to explain the unexplainable.  just store it and it will allow you to be a grumpy old man some day.  you ever wonder why old men are grumpy yet old ladies just become nicer or crazy cat ladies...result years of being "right" makes you happy and far from reality!!!!!!

while you have a joint bank account funded enough to pay all the bills each should keep a separate with spare cash even if just a little from each check.  most money fights which will be the number 1 thing, are over stupid little things when the other realizes something was bought.  with your own account they will never know about 95% of what you do its only when you get drunk and put a round for the bar on the wrong debit card that you get in trouble.

Ah Yes Dear. I play that card all the time and my wife hates it. She knows it means it might happen in someones lifetime but not necessarily in "Ours".

[Adam Sayer]

I just got pulled over by a cop who stated I ran a stop sign. I told him that I did not run it, I rolled through it...he wasn't impressed with my humor and gave me a $110 ticket. Then he felt the need to have a 2nd police officer show up at the scene (which happend to be when I parked the car in front of my apartment). Seriously...2 cop cars for a person who supposedly ran a stop sign? Isn't there something better to do? I mean, people have been shot and there are a fair amount of robberies, yet they need 2 officers for a guy who "ran" a stop sign. IDIOTS.

[dc_has_been]

Your tax money at work!

[cave2bens]

I just got pulled over by a cop who stated I ran a stop sign. I told him that I did not run it, I rolled through it...he wasn't impressed with my humor and gave me a $110 ticket. Then he felt the need to have a 2nd police officer show up at the scene (which happend to be when I parked the car in front of my apartment). Seriously...2 cop cars for a person who supposedly ran a stop sign? Isn't there something better to do? I mean, people have been shot and there are a fair amount of robberies, yet they need 2 officers for a guy who "ran" a stop sign. IDIOTS.

With the steroid enhanced, marijuana leaf in your avatar - can you expect anything else?   

[SaintsFAN]

I just got pulled over by a cop who stated I ran a stop sign. I told him that I did not run it, I rolled through it...he wasn't impressed with my humor and gave me a $110 ticket. Then he felt the need to have a 2nd police officer show up at the scene (which happend to be when I parked the car in front of my apartment). Seriously...2 cop cars for a person who supposedly ran a stop sign? Isn't there something better to do? I mean, people have been shot and there are a fair amount of robberies, yet they need 2 officers for a guy who "ran" a stop sign. IDIOTS.

Thats Deer Park for ya.... don't mind that the neighborhoods around DP are crumbling, but they aren't paying attention to keep it OUT of their jurisdiction... they are playing around with stop signs.

No wonder cops get made fun of..

[raiderguy]

I just got pulled over by a cop who stated I ran a stop sign. I told him that I did not run it, I rolled through it...he wasn't impressed with my humor and gave me a $110 ticket. Then he felt the need to have a 2nd police officer show up at the scene (which happend to be when I parked the car in front of my apartment). Seriously...2 cop cars for a person who supposedly ran a stop sign? Isn't there something better to do? I mean, people have been shot and there are a fair amount of robberies, yet they need 2 officers for a guy who "ran" a stop sign. IDIOTS.

Well you can be glad your not in Minnesota where we just had a plain clothes cop pull a guy over in his apartment parking lot to give him a ticket for "irratic driving". They got into a fight. Witness said the fight broke up and the two were seperated when then the cop shot the suspect 4 times in the chest. The suspect did not have a gun he was only wearing a bathing suit at the time. Yikes!

[formerd3db]

Footbal season better come quickly, because this thread has been now reduced to a "Dear Abby" column.

frank:

Me thinks you are right, although during the offseason it is fun and we do need to have some "comic relief" at times!   Nothing wrong with that!  Nonetheless, like you and everyone else here of our colleagues, I am, indeed, ready for the football season to start and posting with all of you again this year.

[Adam Sayer]

After looking at the pre-season All American team, I think I'm going to put my money on Mount Union to win another National Championship 

[formerd3db]

HCAC'ers:

You've probably noticed this, but there has been much great and interesting discussion over on the NCAC board about Earlham College probably leaving that conference and some speculation on what, then, might be the situation for Wabash potentially (I won't go into all the details here as it is to "complicated" and too numerous of comments/postings - so you all can review those over on the NCAC board).  At any rate, it is (I would dare say, "going out on a limb") that probably the best and most realistic/sensible (and/or potentially only) option for Earlham is for them to join the HCAC.  I haven't seen any discussion/comments here on the latter potential scenario and am thus just wondering what, if anything, any of you may have heard or know about this as well as your own opinions.  Thanks.

[SaintsFAN]

HCAC'ers:

You've probably noticed this, but there has been much great and interesting discussion over on the NCAC board about Earlham College probably leaving that conference and some speculation on what, then, might be the situation for Wabash potentially (I won't go into all the details here as it is to "complicated" and too numerous of comments/postings - so you all can review those over on the NCAC board).  At any rate, it is (I would dare say, "going out on a limb") that probably the best and most realistic/sensible (and/or potentially only) option for Earlham is for them to join the HCAC.  I haven't seen any discussion/comments here on the latter potential scenario and am thus just wondering what, if anything, any of you may have heard or know about this as well as your own opinions.  Thanks.

They would be a doormat in the HCAC also... probably would beat Defiance about every 4 years when the Jackets put out their terrible team of the decade. 

I don't think this improves the HCAC, except for the academic reputation part.  I think the HCAC is better off courting Thomas More.  But that won't happen after the TMC football team, mens and women's basketball team, baseball team and softball team each won PAC titles in 2008/2009. 

Until then, HCAC will always consider colleges with crappy athletic departments because they want the original teams to feel better about themselves in competition.  Rose Hulman, Transy and now Earlham??  I rest my case..

[formerd3db]

SaintsFAN:

You and I have discussed this "way back" forever!  I realize that others here in the HCAC don't agree, but we've always felt that TMC should have been in the HCAC for a variety of reasons.  I won't go into all that again - don't want to start another "WWIII discussion" on this!  I do, however, respect those other opinions, even if they differ from both of ours.

All that being said, realistically, I see Earlham as having a chance at improving their program in the HCAC.  Granted, some of the schools like Bluffton and now, surprisingly Hanover (and we could include Defiance in there as well), are struggling after seemingly starting to rise for a while - and I mean no disrespect to any of those schools at all in that regard.  Yet, I think Earlham could be competive eventually - it would provide them a chance to do so as compared to where they have been in the NCAC.  It obviously won't happen overnight, and, yes, realistically, it might not ever happen at all - I'm not nieve enough to not believe that the latter is certainly a high(er) possibility.  But overall, as I mentioned, I don't really see any other options for them (other than if they went NAIA) or even dropped the program, the latter option I hope and pray would never happen - in shouldn't (we don't want any more Swarthmore debacles - add to the latter Blackburn and Colorado College situations either)  Anyway, keep us posted you HCAC friends on this potential situation.  Thanks.