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But I’m sure the MIB will fap to this regardless.

I have been mildly watching this year. Last night there was nothing on so I flipped to survivor. One contestant has autism, and trusted a tribemate with the info in the event she had an episode. They were later split onto different teams and after a competition, she had an episode. How it bothered her former teammate and his response was pretty cool. Brought Probst to tears for the first time in over 20 years of doing the show. If this doesn't touch you, your heart is full of shit and splinters.
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Iowa is expected to bring in Omar Young to serve as its next running backs coach.

A coach that has been in the profession for just under two decades, Young brings NFL experience to the Hawkeyes coaching staff.

From Rick:

Hi Everyone!

It’s a blizzard outside here in Iowa City as I write this. It must be college baseball season! Hopefully, our flight can get out of Cedar Rapids in the morning, and we open the 2025 season in Tampa, Florida with a three-game series at The University of South Florida. Here is a pre-season update. Practices and training have gone well, and I believe we are ready to go. You reach a point as a player where you need to compete against someone with a different name on their jersey, and we are to that point. With a great deal of inexperience on this year’s team, this “old coach” wouldn’t mind another week or two to keep preparing!

We were able to get outside for a full week, two weeks ago. All the pitchers threw to live hitters that weekend outside. We’ve been inside since then but even having a few days outside this time of year is a bonus. The team is in good shape health wise with only a few minor injuries.

I always wish we had a spring training type weekend or two with real games to experiment with line ups and pitching roles before we do it for real. Unfortunately, we don’t have that luxury in college baseball. All the games count. This team will have plenty of new faces in the lineup this weekend. Over the next three weeks we will be doing our best to put the right pieces together. The “new “Big Ten schedule starts league play week four this year. In the past, league play began week six. This year is the start of a 10 week Big Ten schedule (vs. eight in the past), You play three non-conference weekends before starting Big Ten play and will have a bye sometime during the season. There is an odd number of teams in the baseball league, 17 teams, with Wisconsin not playing baseball.

The captains and returning players have done a fantastic job with helping bring everyone together. Not an easy task with 22 new players. This year’s captains are Gable Mitchell (Jr., Iowa City, Iowa), Andy Nelson (Sr., Winfield, Illinois), Brant Hogue (R-Sr., Sioux City, Iowa) and Jack Whitlock (R-Sr., Cumming, Georgia). When we play Friday night, Mitchell, Nelson, Ben Wilmes (Sr., Johnston, Iowa) and Reese Moore (R-So., Van Meter, Iowa) will be the returners likely in the starting lineup. On the mound Cade Obermueller (Jr., Iowa City, Iowa) will take the ball in game one, with Aaron Savary (Jr., Dubuque, Iowa) and Reece Beuter (R-Sr., Cedar Falls, Iowa) starting on Saturday and Sunday. Anthony Watts (Jr., Clive, Iowa) has pitched great, and we will use him in a “long close” situation, hopefully in game one. At the back end of the game, you will likely see Ben DeTaeye (R-Sr., Clive, Iowa) who has pitched fantastic.

South Florida will have a new Head Coach this season. Mitch Hannahs was hired over the summer. Mitch took over for me in 2014 at Indiana State when I came to Iowa. He did a fantastic job at ISU. His son Derick played for us when I was at ISU. Mitch is a great guy and coach. It’s a bit ironic we will face each other in his opener at USF.

The Bulls traditionally have a good program, and we last played them in 2017. We will see some good arms this weekend. LHP Corey Braun is a transfer from Ole Miss (90-93 w/ crossfire action) and will go on Friday. RHP James Hill is a JC transfer who is coming off Tommy John surgery in 2023 but pitched some toward the end of last year. He will go on Saturday, and we don’t know a lot about him. They are TBA on Sunday. Offensively, they will have some experienced hitters back led by Marcus Brodil (.319, 8-2B, 3-HR, .500-OBP), Jackson Mayo (.262, 15-2B, 8-HR, 36-RBI’s) Rafael Betancourt (.302, 10-2B, 20-RBI’s).

This weekend’s games will be streamed on ESPN+ and we have John Leo and John Evans on the radio again this season, they can be heard here.

I know we will have a lot of Hawk Fans out to see us the next few weekends on the road. We are looking forward to seeing everyone!! Week two we will be in Deland, Florida playing in the Stetson Tournament (Notre Dame, Stetson, UMBC). Week three, we play at a neutral site in Cleburne, TX. It will be a Thursday-Sunday, four game series vs. Washington State. Week four we are on the road to open Big Ten play at Rutgers. It will be great to see some of our east coast fans and alums that weekend!

Our annual Iowa Baseball Golf Outing will be held Friday, April 25. The opponent that weekend will be Indiana. It will run in coordination with our annual Alumni Weekend. Iowa’s graduation is the same as our final home series vs. Oregon. With hotel availability and expensive rooms that weekend we decided to move it up.

The Iowa Baseball Golf Outing/Alumni Weekend sign up link is below:
https://birdease.com/Iowabaseballgolfouting

It’s exciting to get the season rolling!! We look forward to seeing a lot of you in the next few weeks!

Thanks for everyone’s support and please let me know if you have anyone to add to the e-mail list.

GO HAWKS!

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Is one better than the other? If so, please tell me how.

I will comment later if this thread moves at all. Just want to keep it open without my input at the start.

I am a very regular (input pun here) customer of Chipotle because they offer high quality ingredients and a healthy alternative for fast food if you do it right. Plus, it tastes damn good.

A few years ago I stumbled on to what is essentially the employee subreddit. It is fascinating to read about the inner workings of the place. How they view their local management. Chipotle corporate. Secrets of how things actually work behind the scenes. Shit customers. Shit employees / coworkers. Etc.

I feel like a fly on the wall of the place and love the drama. Anybody else a regular somewhere and keep tabs on things via Reddit?

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https://sailgp.com/

What is SailGP?​

SailGP came about after the 2017 America’s Cup between Larry Ellison’s Team Oracle USA and Emirates Team New Zealand and is now in its 4th season.

During the Bermuda America’s Cup there had been much discussion about creating an America’s Cup World Series in foiling catamarans, a discussion led by Ellison and supported by most of the Challengers.

But when Emirates Team New Zealand delivered their shock win in 2017, they instead announced a return to monohulls for Cup racing (the spectacular AC75s raced in Auckland for the America’s Cup in 2021 and set to be raced again for the next AC in Barcelona, 2024).

Ellison, boss of technology giant Oracle, and Russell Coutts, a five-times America’s Cup winner, decided to launch a brand new multi-stage global circuit in foiling catamarans: Sail GP.

SailGP is raced in equally matched foiling, wing sailed, 50ft catamarans, known as the SailGP F50, which are based on the AC50 design that was used for the 2017 America’s Cup

This guy is best known for his geopolitical analyses a la STRATFOR, and isn't what you'd call a liberal, but here he tears into Trump's Ag and HHS appointments on the topics of bird flu and the new hemorrhagic fever in Africa. Worth paying attention to what he says.

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The UAW and the democrats are the same thing. All the UAW dues goes to democrats all of it. How can this clown now pretend he supports our great president Trump. Guy is a liar like every democrat. He won't be around much longer as the head of UAW.

Caught up with Gavin Day yesterday about his Iowa offer/visit to campus.

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