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Yea! It's almost like we should have conference championship games or something to decide it on the field. And only those teams get to be in the playoff.
*noise in ear*
I'm receiving information that this is not what Kirby Smart or anyone in the SEC means.

Just returned from two weeks at Cape Lookout. I drove down Thursday 7/3 to meet my client (A Hokie) at high noon. Had done preventative maintenance on the trailer, the engine and fixed the fuel issue on the motor, replacing fuel lines, bulb and multiple fuel filters, that had me break down in early June.

One hour into the charter the engine has trouble restarting, yet again. Sputters and will not stay running. I called it right then and there and took him back to the dock to prevent another afternoon being stranded. So I lost out on the $ for that trip. We did get to pole one of my top flats prior to the issue and saw ZILCH. In an effort to fix the issue, I drove into town that evening and dropped $275 on low pressure fuel pump to slap on.

I borrowed my friends boat and guided the morning of the 4th with a repeat client. We saw a grand total of four Drum and got skunked. Spent the entire afternoon / evening of the 4th dismantling the motor. The morning of the 5th I spent hours putting in a new high pressure fuel pump and the low pressure fuel pump, along with new spark plugs, another $60 spent. The high pressure pump is a serious job, if you haven't ever needed to get into the VST on a motor. Finally, the boat ran right. The weather was dogshit the entire week ahead and I got out with another repeat client for two days and out personally one morning. I caught a grand total of one 17" bluefish and saw zero drum. With the client, we saw six drum, one landed. One my one day off, my brand new, worn 4 times Smith sunglasses fell off my head, bounced on the boat and blew into the water at 30 mph. FML.

Saturday, I ran up to Ocracoke to visit some friends and fish. I hit several of my best spots, and saw only one drum. Tons of bait and big mullet. Even went and played in the ocean and Vera Cruz shoals and got nothing. Luckily, I was able to catch every beer I reach for in the cooler and had a wild night out in Ocracoke with visitors and locals alike. I woke up super early Sunday and ran the boat back to Cedar Island because my repeat client really wanted to fish one last day before he went back to Boone. He suggested we look for fish in the Neuse so we tried it, being something new since the Banks had been dead. We ended up with one 25" blue before being chased off by a monster of a thunderstorm. On the way back to my buddies house, I noticed a grinding noise and saw the right trailer wheel wobbling. Pulled over in a gravel parking lot 10 minutes from "home," and proceeded to find my brand new hub that I had put on a month ago as preventative maintenance had disintegrated and absolutely shredded the spindle. A few hours later I was still stuck, covered in sweat, grease and mosquitoes having been laying in the evening sun in gravel. I left the boat for the next day, and returned with multiple power tools and a new $100 hub. The spindle was so wrecked the new hub wouldn't go on so I had to grind it down and smooth out to make it work, just to get it to the boat shop down the street. Took much of the morning and afternoon again covered in grease, grime, sweat and gravel. All the while friends on Ocracoke texting and asking for me to return and come hang on the beach. Finally got it fixed by 4 pm and took it to the shop, where it is now awaiting a new welding job for the spindle / axle.

I packed up and drove back up to Richmond last night after having to move my camper off of the property it has been on for 5 years.

Between boat repair costs and new sunglasses, it was an expensive trip, not to mention the canceled client and future canceled clients this week. As someone on here earlier said, nobody has boat problems like me. My mechanic says it is because I use it more than anyone else. But even the preventative maintenance doesn't always work. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't considering selling the boat and trailer and be done with the headache.

TLDR: The fishing at the Cape right now SUCKS. I continue to have boat problems and trailer problems. The redfish reports out of Poquoson have been very good. That's the place to go right now. Overall I personally caught one bluefish. My clients caught one drum and one bluefish.

I'm back to Colorado next week for another earring selling event. Hopefully I get a few days on the Roaring Fork. I sure as hell am not going anywhere near a boat.

People on here agree. Remember to some Alabama's losses shouldn't count. Their body of work is simply "better".

I am assuming that the DVs are because people are tired of the negativity of every response from DC. It seems that every single time he responds it is negative and at this point its just beating a dead horse. We all want the program to succeed and know that it has a lot of work to do to get to where we want it.

There is enough negative energy in the world. I for one come to this site to be around "my" community and don't want to hear the same negative thing a thousand times. Just my opinion.

Gotcha- and yeah Buck and Davey are the best since then. Earl was actually a manager- his job and skill is literally 180 degrees from Aaron Boone, AJ Hinch, etc. Those guys use an excel spreasdheet and their GM sets the daily lineup. Weaver would laugh at that- literally.

Earl Weaver is the best Orioles manager of all time.

Yeah- you're right....I am 60 so 2/3 not half but it feels like its been even longer. And given the 4-5 times it's been postponed already, it wouldn't surprise me if it got moved back til I'm 82...)

I'm usually much better with math lol.

Didn't the Orioles manager (Showalter maybe?) hold their closer for extra innings in deciding game in the playoffs?

Oh no question. There is no guarantee we beat Wofford at home. They might have tall receivers or a big DT that can blow our whole offense up.

For how quick a process it is, I don't want teams limited on challenges. If someone disagrees with a borderline pitch, challenge it, and 5 seconds later we are moving on. Or if you are going to have limits, do it like tennis where you get 1 or 2 challenges per at bat.

Again, its a quick process. If it starts to bog the game down, work to improve the umpiring, not the challenge system.

No guarantee we win both of those games if they are home games though

This. According to the statistics I've seen reported, 14 percent (13 of 92) of All Star Games have gone to extra innings, two of which have gone to 15 innings (1967 and 2008). That 2008 game was 4 hours 50 minutes long. Since it's an exhibition game, I think it's a good idea that they don't let it go to extra innings anymore, mainly because a manager can plan to use all of his players in nine innings versus saving them for a potential extra innings and then not being able to let them play.