I didn't choose the Barning life. The Barning life chose me.

A few things have changed since I posted this, but Auburn remains the last power school from Alabama to win a cws baseball game - in fact the only one this millennium. Lol.

I was told today by a 17-year-old that there was no way people were writing 10 page papers without Al. Dude, I was writing 10 page papers without having read the book.

Unironically it is the most remarkable city on earth. People are nicer there than most southerners think. As big of a city as it is, you're also a drive away from the beautiful countryside and mountains or the beach. Are there negative things too? Sure. But that wasn't the question. As a native southerner, New York is a city I begrudgingly respect.

What if Jimmy Carter just stuck to his instincts instead of listening to Brzezinski?

Banks did have much lower rates and that created a giant housing bubble that blew up in 2008. We're paying the prices for that and other mistakes now. Yes, some of these grievances are fair (although it's also true that people's standards/expectations have risen), but the solution isn't just "make the banks lower their rates".

Someone explain this outcome to me in Auburn sports terms.

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It seems the past few years we've either had someone who may be an okay coach but is terrible/doesn't even try at recruiting, or someone who will recruit but would coach his way into a loss even if you gave him peak Tom Brady and Bo Jackson. I'm hoping, desperately, this is the real deal and you can have both.

It's important to remember that this was a dig on the University of East Mississippi, commonly known as uat, not Troy. Don't come at my troy fans, I don't mind seeing y'all do well.

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In fairness I will add this: most northeasterners are actually nice. At worst, it's the kind but not nice thing. Maybe exceptions in certain places/ways but overall good people. And sometimes they even find the south endearing. Turns out, people are people wherever you go and if you get a chance to just see people as people, they're not that bad. The northeast and the south are both better than people think. And the US as a whole is actually pretty damn good. And most of the problems we do have will be found anywhere else in the world, they just may be repackaged slightly. Quit falling for what divides people and focus on what unites us instead.

A couple weeks ago I saw the trend here where there would be a picture of a state (usually a non-destination type of state) and above that it would say "say something nice about ___" (eg nice about Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin). Well, then a European soccer player shows up, visits some of these states, and says a litany of nice things about them. We do take a lot of things here for granted.

Yes, who would have ever anticipated the American South is welcoming and friendly.

Not having a line run through Birmingham is one mistake. I know Atlanta is the bigger city in the region, but Birmingham is more regionally central. Birmingham connects to Atlanta, Nashville, New Orleans, Memphis, Chattanooga, Huntsville, Montgomery, Jackson, and Mobile.

I don't doubt that she's a gifter really, (like a lot of people with large followings online), and I'm generally more than happy to see grifters get exposed. But I don't see the issue here. It sounds like she's going over what to say for an ad. This seems normal.

Georgia is finding weird, creative ways to score.

I think Georgia may win it all this year. They're good.

Auburn remains the last team from the state of Alabama to win a baseball CWS game, and the last power team from the state to score a run in the CWS.

Vanderbilt, LSU, Florida, Mississippi St.