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+flirty, affectionate, expressive+ -mischievous, cocky, needy-

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Cyclones' bid to bounce back looks tougher with game sting taking out as many as 5 starters

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Cyclones' bid to bounce back looks tougher with game sting taking out as many as 5 starters

Expectations for Iowa State were already low when the calendar moved from July to August.

They’re even lower now that quarterback Hunter Dekkers and four other projected starters are out, possibly for the season, in the wake of criminal charges filed against them in the state’s ongoing investigation into sports betting by athletes in the state of Iowa and its interstate rival Iowa.

Even if the players were available, the outlook was not bright for a team that has lost eight of its last nine games, beaten just one Big 12 opponent and finished 4-8 in its first non-bowl season since 2016.

The Cyclones, who are 11-14 overall and 6-12 in the league since reaching the conference championship game in 2020, are chosen tenth of 14 teams in the newly expanded Big 12. Eleven of those 14 losses have been by seven points or less.

Dekkers, offensive lineman Jacob Remsburg, tight end DeShawn Hanika and defensive lineman Isaiah Lee have pleaded not guilty to record tampering charges in connection with the gambling investigation. Lee has since left the show. Electronic court records indicated that broker Jirehl Brock pleaded no guilty.

All are accused of hiding their identities on mobile sports betting apps because they were NCAA athletes and under 21 to bet at the time the accounts were created.

Georgia is No. 1 in the preseason AP Top 25 for the first time in 15 years.

ISU has declared the players ineligible and, if proven betting, each faces a permanent ban for violating NCAA game rules. Criminal charges are aggravated misdemeanors that carry penalties of up to two years in prison and fines.

Dekkers started all 12 games last year as Brock Purdy’s successor. Dekkers’ absence has left redshirt freshman Rocco Becht, freshman JJ Kohl and junior college transfer Tanner Hughes to compete for job No. 1.

Cartevious Norton and Eli Sanders are the top two returning running backs, and three promising newcomers could also challenge to start as the Cyclones try to improve a running game that averaged just 3.3 yards per carry.

The loss of Remsburg stings, but new offensive line coach Ryan Clanton’s work to improve the line and build depth has received good reviews from coach Matt Campbell. Although the Cyclones don’t have their best receiving tight end, Hanika, offensive coordinator Nathan Scheelhaase said Gabe Burkle, Easton Dean and Tyler Moore give him plenty of options.

DEFENSE, DEFENSE, DEFENSE

The Cyclones were the No. 1 defense in the Big 12 last season and have had a top-three unit in all but one season since 2017. They have allowed fewer than 22 points per game for four straight years.

Defensive coordinator Jon Heacock’s 3-3-5 system emphasizes strength in the middle, and that’s where ISU looks vulnerable. Lee’s departure has left Domonique Orange and JR Singleton struggling at nose tackle and the competition is wide open at middle and deep linebacker.

Cornerback TJ Tampa is the undisputed leader. Finale Joey Petersen and Trent Jones II are household names for a unit looking to replace school sack leader Will McDonald.

QB SITUATION

Becht is the only quarterback with experience in major college games, having made three appearances last season. He played 29 snaps against TCU in place of the injured Dekkers.

The 6-foot-7, 250-pound Kohl is from nearby Ankeny, Iowa, and was rated as one of the top 10 national quarterbacks by ESPN and Rivals. The 6-5, 240-pound Hughes threw for 25 touchdowns against just five interceptions over two seasons at Butte College in California.

IT’S ALL ABOUT DEVELOPMENT

Creating and maintaining a winning program is more difficult in a place like Iowa State, which often relies on developing two- and three-star recruits to stay competitive.

“We have to go up the rough side of the mountain. There is no easy solution,” Campbell said. “We’re not going to have just human erasers running through the entire movie. Our team has to play together to win football matches”.

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

the cyclones open the season on September 2 at home against Northern Iowa and then host Iowa the following week in the annual Cy-Hawk game. A couple of his toughest games come late in the regular season, at home against Big 12 preseason favorite Texas on Nov. 18 and at Kansas State on Nov. 25.

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Hulu New Releases: September 2021

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September usually means the beginning of the traditional fall TV season. As such, Hulu’s list of new releases for September 2021 contains some impressive TV swings.

For starters, all of ABC and Fox’s (both now united under the Disney banner alongside Hulu) fall season offerings will be made available to stream on Hulu the next day. More impressively, however, two FX on Hulu originals make their way to the streaming world this month.

The first is the long-awaited adaptation of the classic comic Y: The Last Man. The story of a virus that destroys every mammal with a Y-chromosome (save for one escape artist and his monkey) is set to premiere on September 13. Shortly after that, the B.J. Novak-produced anthology series The Premise arrives on September 16. Even those who are fatigued from timely anthology concepts will want to check this one out.

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There aren’t any original movies of note coming to Hulu in September but that’s alright as the library titles are uncommonly compelling. Edward Scissorhands, Gattaca, The Interview, Office Space, and Raising Arizona are just some of the library films this month.

Here is everything else coming to Hulu this month.

Hulu New Releases – September 2021

September 1 50/50 (2011) A Fish Called Wanda (1988) Anaconda (1997) Angel Unchained (1970) The Apparition (2012) At the Earth’s Core (1976) Blue City (1986) Bull Durham (1988) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Cannon For Cordoba (1970) Cellar Dweller (1988) Cold Creek Manor (2003) Count Yorga, Vampire (1970) Crazy Heart (2009) The Dunwich Horror (1970) Edward Scissorhands (1990) El Dorado (1967) Election (1999) Exterminator 2 (1984) Free Willy (1993) Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995) Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997) Free Willy: Escape From Pirate’s Cove (2010) Friday the 13th – Part III (1982) Friday the 13th – Part IV: The Final Chapter (1984) Fright Night (1985) Gattaca (1997) Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) The Glass House (2001) Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) Hoosiers (1986) I Spit On Your Grave (2010) I Spit On Your Grave 2 (2013) I Spit On Your Grave 3 (2015) Internal Affairs (1990) The Interview (2014) Jacob’s Ladder (1990) Just Between Friends (1986) The Killer Elite (1975) Kiss the Girls (1997) The Last Castle (2001) Magic Mike (2012) The Manchurian Candidate (2004) The Mexican (2001) McLintock! (Producer’s Cut) (1963) Miss You Already (2015) Mommy (2015) Mosquito Squadron (1970) Mr. North (1988) Much Ado About Nothing (2013) New Year’s Eve (2011) Nixon (1995) Office Space (1999) The Omen (1976) The Patsy (1964) Phase IV (1974) The Possession (2012) Priest (2011) Raising Arizona (1987) The Ring (2002) Road to Perdition (2002) Salvador (1986) Secret Admirer (1985) Shaun The Sheep Movie (2015) Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Solace (2016) Stephen King’s It (1990) Sucker Punch (2011) Tears Of The Sun (2003) The Tenant (1976) Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005) Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys (2008) Under Fire (1983) Vantage Point (2008) Volcano (1997) The Wedding Plan (2016) The Wrestler (2008) The X-Files (1998)

September 2 Trolls: TrollsTopia: Complete Season 4 (Hulu Original) Death in Texas (2021) The Unthinkable (2021)

September 3 The D’Amelio Show: Complete Season 1 (Hulu Original) What We Do in the Shadows: Season 3 Premiere (FX) Bolden (2019) Undine (2021)

September 4 Flower (2017)

September 8       Wu-Tang: An American Saga: Season 2 Premiere (Hulu Original) La La Land (2016)

September 10      The Killing of Two Lovers (2020) Transporter 3 (2008)

September 11       High Ground (2021)

September 13       Y: The Last Man: Three-Episode Series Premiere (FX on Hulu) Colette (2018)

September 15      Dark Side of the Ring: Season 3A (Vice) Joseph: King Of Dreams (2000) Love, Simon (2018) Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

September 16       The Premise: Series Premiere (FX on Hulu) Stalker (2021) On Chesil Beach (2018) Riders of Justice (2021)

September 18       Dark Side of Football: Complete Season 1 (Vice)

September 20       Grown Ups (2010)

September 21 9-1-1: Season 5 Premiere (FOX) The Big Leap: Series Premiere (FOX) Dancing with the Stars: Season 20 Premiere (ABC) Ordinary Joe: Series Premiere (NBC) The Voice: Season 21 Premiere (NBC)

September 22 New Amsterdam: Season 4 Premiere (NBC) Our Kind of People: Series Premiere (FOX) The Resident: Season 5 Premiere (FOX)

September 23 A Million Little Things: Season 4 Premiere (ABC) Alter Ego: Series Premiere (FOX) Chicago Fire: Season 10 Premiere (NBC) Chicago Med: Season 7 Premiere (NBC) Chicago P.D.: Season 9 Premiere (NBC) The Conners: Season 4 Premiere (ABC) The Goldbergs: Season 9 Premiere (ABC) Home Economics: Season 2 Premiere (ABC) The Masked Singer: Season 6 Premiere (FOX) The Wonder Years: Series Premiere (ABC) The Eric Andre Show: Complete Season 5 (Turner Networks) Funhouse (2021)

September 24 Law & Order: Organized Crime: Season 2 Premiere (NBC) Law & Order: SVU: Season 23 Premiere (NBC) An American Haunting (2006)

September 25 Gemini (2018)

September 27 Bob’s Burgers: Season 12 Premiere (FOX) Celebrity Wheel of Fortune: Season 2 Premiere (ABC) Family Guy: Season 20 Premiere (FOX) The Great North: Season 2 Premiere (FOX) The Rookie: Season 4 Premiere (ABC) The Simpsons: Season 33 Premiere (FOX) Supermarket Sweep: Season 2 Premiere (ABC)

September 28 The Good Doctor: Season 4 Premiere (ABC) Felix and the Hidden Treasure (2021) Home Run (2013)

September 29 La Brea: Series Premiere (NBC) Minor Premise (2021)

September 30 New Order (2021)

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Leaving Hulu – September 2021

September 1 The Iron Lady (2011) Our Family Wedding (2009) Young Adult (2011)

September 2 Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016)

September 23 An American Haunting (2006)

September 29 Destination Wedding (2018) Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006) Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) One For The Money (2012)

September 30 2012 (2009) 50/50 (2011) A Fish Called Wanda (1988) A Hard Day (2014) A Perfect Day (2006) The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Anaconda (1997) Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008) Anacondas: Trail Of Blood (2009) Angel Unchained (1970) The Assassin (2015) At the Earth’s Core (1976) Australia (2008) Bad Teacher (2011) Beasts Clawing At Straws (2020) Better Living Through Chemistry (2014) Big Fish (2003) Black And White (2000) BOY (2010) Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) Breakdown (1997) Bruno (2009) Bull Durham (1988) Burning (2018) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Caddyshack (1980) Caddyshack II (1988) Cannon For Cordoba (1970) Cellar Dweller (1988) Charles and Diana: 1983 (2020) Charlotte’s Web (1973) The Chumscrubber (2005) The Condemned (2007) Contagion (2011) Count Yorga, Vampire (1970) Coyote Ugly (2000) Dangerous Minds (1995) Daredevil (2003) Desperate Measures (1998) Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings (2018) Don’t Think Twice (2016) Dumb & Dumber (1994) Dumb And Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003) The Dunwich Horror (1970) Eliminators (2016) Exterminator 2 (1984) Fired Up! (2009) Foxfire (1996) Fred Claus (2007) Fright Night (1985) From Paris with Love (2010) Galaxy Quest (1999) Grandma (2015) Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) The Grudge (2004) Gundala (2019) Hard Romanticker (2011) Hideaway (1995) Himalaya (1991) House of the Dead (2003) House of the Dead 2 (2006) Housesitter (1992) I Do…Until I Don’t (2017) I Wish I Knew (2010) Ice Age (2002) In The Cut (2003) Indignation (2016) Intolerable Cruelty (2003) It’s Kind Of A Funny Story (2010) Jacob’s Ladder (1990) Johnny English (2003) Just Between Friends (1986) The Killer Elite (1975) Knowing (2009) Lady Vengeance (2005) Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018) Lost in Hong Kong (2015) Machines (2016) The Man From Nowhere (2010) Maximum Risk (1996) Mercury Rising (1998) Mosquito Squadron (1970) Mountains May Depart (2015) Mr. North (1988) The Nightingale (2013) Nixon (1995) Old Stone (2016) The Omen (1976) Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) Open Water (2004) Open Water 2: Adrift (2006) Places In The Heart (1984) The Polar Express (2004) Pop Aye (2017) R.L. Stine: Mostly Ghostly (2008) R.L. Stine’s Monsterville: The Cabinet Of Souls (2015) R.L. Stine’s Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend? (2014) R.L. Stine’s Mostly Ghostly: One Night In Doom House (2016) R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It (2007) Raising Arizona (1987) Reno 911!: Miami: The Movie (2007) The Ring (2002) Rookie of the Year (1993) Salvador (1986) Scent of Green Papayas (1993) Secret Admirer (1985) Sk8 Dawg (2018) Sleeping With The Enemy (1991) Sleepwalkers (1992) The Soloist (2009) Somewhere (2010) Sorority Row (2009) Space Jam (1996) The Stepfather (2009) Sunshine (2005) Super Troopers (2002) Sweet Bean (2015) Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) Take Shelter (2011) Taken (2009) This Means War (2010) Thunderheart (1992) Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005) Tokyo Rising (2020) Tooth Fairy (2008) Train to Busan (2016) Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys (2008) Under Fire (1983) Universal Soldier (1992) Virtuosity (1995) The Wailing (2016) Whip It (2009) Wilde (1998) Wings Of Courage (1995) The Woman Who Left (2016) Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

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The Last Bandito: Vulture Generation

Part Two: Statement of Purpose

Summary: As adjustments are made to the way life is now, some decide their next move. Warnings: Sickness, mentions of death.   Word Count: 1860 A/N: Book #2 of The Last Bandito series. Prompts are in bold; translations are from Google Translate.

Masterlist

Nico looked out over the district of Dema he presided over as the Heathens returned to their assigned quarters for the evening. They filed toward the buildings silently; one man looked up to the window where Nico was, paused and pursed his lips together, and then continued on his way. 

This man — who was no longer a man, really — had once looked at Nico with eyes that longed to be privy to every bit of truth and knowledge the Bishop held. Now, after the last invasion from the Bandito child and another nemesis they had yet to name, all of the Heathens looked at him differently. Respect and adoration had changed to tolerance and skepticism. 

“You are troubled, my lord.”

Nico turned away from the window. He had been aware of Keons’s presence before the other Bishop had even arrived to his quarters, but had been too lost in thought over the grouping of Heathens to acknowledge Keons before now. 

“They are losing their faith in us,” Nico stated. “This Bandito child coming here, taking away Heathens and humans alike — threatening the Bishops. She’s given them something new to have faith in.”

Keons did not look bothered. “They will return to us, as they always do. The older generations of Banditos filtered out, eventually. It takes time for them to see the truth, but what is time to us? Nothing.”

Nico pondered over the words for a full minute before shaking his head. “This feels different. Do you remember what you told the child’s mother the first time you visited her?”

“I told her that the child would be something new, something different. That was no great prophecy, Nico. A Heathen and a human had not before created a child together, and they haven’t since. We knew that whatever being was born from that woman, it would be a creature the world had not seen before.”

“Perhaps you were more correct than you understand,” Nico suggested. “She is something new. Something different. She threatens our way of life here. If we are to take over the new city, expand the old, then we must have the full faith and trust of every citizen of Dema — so long as she is doing what she has always done, that will not be the case.”

Keons stood a little straighter. He did not want to ask his next question, but he knew he must. “What would you have me do, pochesnyy?”

“Break her. They need to see her broken so we can gain the respect that we deserve.” 

* * * * * 

Tyler was beginning to worry about Ildri. After she went into her tent following the conversation on the ridge, she refused to come out for several days. Tyler brought her food, forced her to eat, and, eventually, slept on the ground next to her. He gave up his tent to a couple of newcomers who had almost nothing, save for the clothes on their back. He wanted to comfort Ildri, but he had to admit that he felt more comfort, too, being close to her. 

One morning, he woke up and Ildri was gone. He told himself not to panic; she was likely around camp, maybe washing up in a cold creek somewhere. The sun was barely visible over the horizon — in fact, some areas of camp were still mostly dim. Tyler rubbed the sleep from his eyes and wandered over to the big fire in the center of camp, warming his hands and his body by the flames. 

The group that had assigned themselves as the cooks of the camp were cleaning up from breakfast before Ildri came back over the north ridge. Her hair was fixed in intricate braids away from her face, with metal beads adorning her stitched locks. Yellow paint was smeared in two upward-pointing arrows under her left eye, with three small lines set over her nose. Yellow dots arched over her right eyebrow, and a thin yellow line divided her bottom lip. 

Tyler jogged to meet her halfway and gestured to her face and hair. “That’s new.”

“I had a dream last night,” Ildri started her explanation, “about the Banditos who used to live here. Generations before we were born. The women did their hair this way, some of them, and all of the ones who rescued escapees from Trench wore the face paint. They all stood at the top of ridge and looked down on a man in Trench, running from one of the Bishops. The Bishop caught up to him, but they made plans to go into Old Dema and get him — not through the front gate like Quinn and I did, but underground. They took him out of Dema and into Trench — Tyler, what if we did that? Some of them can escape on their own, but a lot of them can’t. That’s what I did for New Dema. If I can do it on my own, rescuing some here and there, why couldn’t we rescue more of them together? We gather a group of —”

“Wait, Ildri. Breathe.” Tyler put his hands on his shoulders, gripping gently. “I’m all for this, but you understand, if you start this, you will be the leader Josh said you already are. There will be no handing it off, no going back.”

Ildri took a deep breath. “I know that. And, I think, this is what I was made for. Not to be a victim of the Bishops, not to be a pawn of The Conference, but to do this. To give others a new beginning. I am the last Bandito, Tyler. Shouldn’t that mean something big?”

Tyler could feel the Heathen virus boiling in his blood at the thought of doing anything to go against the Bishops. He had known even when they were young that Ildri was going to do big things with her life; it was an unspoken truth, something understood but not talked about. Never, in either set of memories, did Tyler ever imagine he would be part of something like this — something life-changing, not only for them, but for so many others. 

* * * * *

Faylinn lay awake in her hotel room in New York, wondering at all the noise outside her twelfth floor window. Cars raced past at all hours, voices floated through the hallway at any given time, and the lights of the city were so bright, she often felt the sun never went down. 

She got up to pull the blackout curtains closed. The thick material didn’t block out the noise, but if she turned on the television set, maybe that would give her brain different noise to concentrate on. 

“Comedy,” she muttered, coming across reruns of an old sitcom she had loved as a child, “that’ll work.”

When the sound of the television did not help her sleep, Faylinn pulled the heavy, paper copy of her manuscript from the nightstand onto the bed beside her before opening the document on her laptop. The publisher was extremely interested in circulating her manuscript, but an editor had nearly torn the thing to pieces, marking it all up with suggestions in red ink — although the term ‘suggestion’ had been used lightly. 

Faylinn couldn’t help but feel her past hanging over her like a thundercloud as she worked through the recommended edits of her novel. As she read over the words she had written about Old Dema, her mind wandered back to the night she had followed Ildri and Quinn there, then watched them murder those innocent people. 

That was part of the reason she was still in New York. She could have easily gone home to do these edits, but it was so much easier to keep the distance between herself and what now felt like her old life. 

Then, a wave of realization hit her. “I don’t have to go back. I could stay here, forget everything about my life there. Only this novel would remind me. After all, I betrayed them all. What do I have to go back to?”

Her cousin’s words echoed in her mind then. When you realize who you are, then maybe you’ll understand. Ildri didn’t hold Faylinn to any fault, so why couldn’t Faylinn release herself from the guilt? Perhaps it was the way Josh had looked at her when she said she was coming to New York. Or the way Quinn wouldn’t even meet her eyes. 

“There’s nothing to go back to,” Faylinn spoke out loud, closing her laptop and pushing it, and the manuscript, to the foot of the bed. “So I won’t.”

* * * * *

The blood pressure cuff around her arm was tight — too tight, really — and gave Quinn the urge to tear it the monitor off and run far, far away. Her decision to stay in New Dema had been the safe decision; the one she had made after coming down from her bloodlust, unable to believe the carnage she had left behind her in Old Dema. 

And now, she was dying. New Dema’s best scientists were trying their best to come up with a cure for the Heathen virus, and it was Quinn’s only hope at the moment. 

The best anyone could surmise was that the Heathen virus was, essentially, not compatible with the dearg-due genes. The two strains were going after each other, and her tissues were caught in the crossfire. 

“Same as yesterday,” the nurse told Quinn, jotting down numbers on a notepad to later put into a computer. “Feeling the same?”

Quinn shrugged and nodded. “More or less. I think I slept a little more yesterday, but it may have just been the day.”

“Do all the resting you can,” the nurse encouraged, “your body needs it to recover.”

“If I recover.”

The nurse pressed her lips into a thin line. “You know, you’re the first non-Heathen patient here. They brought you down from The Conference, and I couldn’t believe that you had the virus — your eyes weren’t red and you weren’t hungry for blood or anything.”

Quinn whispered, “Not at the time.”

The nurse forced Quinn to look at her. “My point is, Quinn, you are different. Not everyone goes into Old Dema and comes back out, for starters, but the virus hasn’t become who you are. You can fight it. You have to fight it.”

Quinn looked at the other woman with tears in her eyes and hurt in her voice. “How do I fight death? Do you understand, that’s what’s what I’m doing here? I came here to stay in the place that’s become my home, and found out I’m dying. I’ve accepted it, and you should, too.”

The nurse stood from the bed, tucked the note with Quinn’s vitals into her pocket and gave a single nod. “Well, if that’s the way you feel about it, then I won’t bother.”

The lump in Quinn’s throat as the nurse left the room was nearly suffocating. She hadn’t truly accepted that she was dying, not yet. There was still that last, frayed strand of hope she was clinging to, hoping and praying that the scientists would soon find a cure for the Heathen virus and save her life. 

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Jonathan Gonzalez was set to be a USMNT superstar. Now he plays for Mexico.

The USMNT lost an 18-year-old budding superstar to its biggest rival through arrogance and incompetence. It’ll hurt for a generation.

Jonathan Gonzalez could have been a first choice midfielder for the United States men’s national team for a decade. Instead, the 18-year-old Liga MX star will suit up for Mexico. He hasn’t signed his FIFA one-time switch paperwork yet, but this tweet from Gonzalez indicates he won’t be changing his mind.

Si me consideran, estoy decidido a defender los colores de este país. Sería un honor

— Jona (@jgonzalezz25) January 8, 2018

“If I’m called,” he says, “I’m determined to defend the colors of this country. It would be an honor.”

Ever since he started playing regularly for CF Monterrey, Gonzalez has been touted as a future national team starter. His performances on an even brighter stage in the playoffs suggested that he was ready to slot right into the USMNT lineup. Now, that won’t ever happen.

Gonzalez is Mexican-American and was born in raised in California. He has regularly represented United States youth national teams. Former USMNT player Hugo Perez says he knows that Gonzalez always wanted to play for the United States. But due to incompetence on multiple levels of the USMNT program, he’ll be suiting up for its biggest rivals instead.

So, how big of a deal is this?

It’s really bad if you’re a USMNT fan, for a couple reasons. On a macro level, it’s a sign that a lot of people are asleep at the wheel.

“Personally, nobody came and talked to me and let me know about that friendly,” Gonzalez said about the USMNT’s match in November against Portugal. “I just wasn’t called in.”

It’s not abnormal for 18-year-olds to not get a personal phone call after missing a senior national team roster, but the situation in November was a bit different than normal. The USMNT was clearly entering a rebuilding period following its World Cup qualifying failure, with very few veteran players called into camp. Fans and people at the top of the federation wanted to see young players get a look, and they got just that, with the likes of Weston McKinnie and Tyler Adams getting starts. Josh Sargent, who has never played a professional game, got called up. It’s the type of game Gonzalez should have been called up for.

But it seems like he was understanding about not making the squad. He just wanted some indication that he was on the USMNT radar. Following a surprise failure to make the World Cup — which is generally indicative of a lack of talent — it makes sense for a team to reach out to any dual nationals eligible to switch nations to give them some reassurance in an attempt to stop a talent drain that could exacerbate the team’s problems. The United States did not do that. Meanwhile, Mexico actively courted Gonzalez.

Though we’ll never know for sure, it’s likely that all it would have taken to keep Gonzalez from filing his one-time switch this month is a phone call. But with an interim coach, a lame-duck president, and that president’s right-hand man plotting to take his spot, appeasing Jonathan Gonzalez or anyone else like him was the last thing on the mind of anyone semi-in charge.

On a micro level, the USMNT has lost its best defensive midfield prospect. According to Perez, the likes of Bruce Arena, under-20 manager Tab Ramos and interim coach Dave Sarachan couldn’t see what Gonzalez’s club manager, Antonio Mohamed, sees every day.

Knowing Jonathan well and his family I wish him the best he deserves it I wish he would have stayed with us because we need those type of players Mohammed saw in him what we could not in the US that is why he is a starter in one of the best teams in

— Hugo Perez (@hugoperez_07) January 9, 2018

The Mexican press sees it too. Gonzalez was named to the Liga MX best XI last season. Mexico manager Juan Carlos Osorio said he “sees possibilities for him to become an important player” if the Monterrey midfielder picks El Tri, noting that he believes Gonzalez can expand his game and play a box-to-box role, rather than the holding midfield position he plays for Rayados.

Gonzalez was already excellent defensively and solid at keeping the ball, but it looks like he’s getting a lot better at moving the ball forward too. Here are a couple of great moments from Monterrey’s season opener over the weekend.

Connecting passes and advancing possession methodically was not a consistent part of Jonathan González's game in the fall. He did it twice in 3 minutes in the first match of the Clausura on Saturday. #1 http://pic.twitter.com/nmorrZekD3

— Scuffed (@zlebmada) January 8, 2018

#2 http://pic.twitter.com/5qaR1matAw

— Scuffed (@zlebmada) January 8, 2018

So the USMNT lost:

A top teenage midfield prospect

Who is good enough to start right now

And is developing into a two-position player

While rapidly expanding his game

And he plays for Mexico now.

It’s a monumental failure on the part of the federation, and one that could hurt really badly for a long time.

But if he doesn’t want to be here, screw him, right?

[clears throat]

NAH.

That line of thinking is garbage.

The United States men’s national team’s best player at the 2014 World Cup was Jermaine Jones. Its best player at the 2016 Copa America was John Brooks, and its defense proceeded to crumble in his absence 15 months later, causing it to miss the World Cup. Both would have played for Germany if they were given regular places in that squad. There have been numerous other dual national USMNT legends, like Uruguayan-American Tab Ramos and Dutch-American Earnie Stewart.

Like many people who have spent time living in two countries and who have family from two countries, Gonzalez feels strongly attached to both of them. The idea that he is incapable of giving as much to a national soccer team as someone who only feels attached to one country is easily proven wrong by the likes of Jones, Brooks, Ramos and Stewart.

There have been too many great USMNT players who started their careers abroad to list in this article. The USMNT does not have a problem with dual nationals not playing hard. Bruce Arena is wrong. Any talented player who wants to represent the USMNT should be courted by U.S. Soccer.

And U.S. Soccer shouldn’t feel like it’s too good to do some recruiting. Spain, while defending European and World champions, worked to convince Diego Costa to switch allegiances. Germany, with its country having one of the most liberal immigration policies in Europe, is constantly working to convince dual national players to pick Die Mannschaft. The best teams in the world don’t consider themselves above this, so why should the United states? The USMNT is not special.

There is no silver lining here. Arrogance and mismanagement caused the United States to lose an 18-year-old budding supertstar — a player with program-altering potential — to its biggest rival.

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Ramblings: 80s Night in Brooklyn; Jets Flying; Get A. Dell – December 2

Columbus beat Anaheim 4-2 on Friday night in big thanks to the line of Pierre-Luc Dubois, Artemi Panarin, and Josh Anderson. The three of them were involved in the team’s first three goals, with Panarin and Anderson managing one each. They dominated possession – each forward was above 65 percent – continuing their solid play. In a small sample this year going into Friday’s matchup, the trio was bordering at percent possession (72 minutes played), and nearly 70 adjusted shot attempts per 60 minutes. Those are monster numbers. I’m very interested to see how they perform over the long-term. This is only about six games’ worth of ice time, so no determinations should be made yet, but this is a great start for the trio.

Of course, we can’t forget about the inept Columbus power play. They did score tonight, but went 1-7 overall, and the one goal was a breakdown off the rush created by Dubois. It’s not like they were moving the puck with efficiency. Here’s a stat for you: in the 11 seasons of data we have since the start of 2007-2008, going into Friday’s action, this year’s Columbus team was last in goals per 60 minutes while on the power play. The gap between them (3.02) and fourth (the 2016-17 Avalanche at 4.35) was larger than the gap between 4th and 47th (the 2013-14 Jets at 5.67).

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It might look like the Rangers blew out the Hurricanes at MSG on Friday, but it was a one-goal game with 135 seconds left in the third period. Michael Grabner scored two (yes, two) empty-net goals for the hat trick. Paul Carey added a late power-play goal to give us the 5-1 final.

We probably should have known early on we were in for weird things in this game: Scott Darling allowed an early second-period goal to David Desharnais while the diminutive centre was forechecking on the penalty kill. Well, “allowed” a goal might be generous:

darlingggg pic.twitter.com/T10rCmR9DT

— Michael Clifford (@SlimCliffy) December 2, 2017

Remember, it was just a little over a week ago the Carolina starter whiffed on the puck that was dumped in on him by Mika Zibanejad. Darling is probably just happy to get away from the Rangers.

Grabner is on pace for some history:

Six empty net goals his season for Grabner. Just three off Pavel Bure’s record of 9.

— Adam Herman (@AdamZHerman) December 2, 2017

Ryan McDonagh returned from his strain in this game and played just under 23 minutes, adding an assist and five blocked shots. He was back on the second PP unit, so it seems he’s going to be used as he ever has right out of the gate.

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Aaron Dell faced 40 shots in San Jose’s game against Florida and stopped 39 of them for the win on Friday night. That’s his second win this week thanks to Martin Jones cropping up with a minor injury. Dell’s save percentage is now a stout .933 on the season, and .931 for his career in 30 games (24 starts). Should anything happen to Jones at any point, the Sharks seem to be in good hands. Small sample size alert, as always.

Jones may be ready to go Saturday night. If he’s healthy, he’ll get the bulk of the starts. However, if you picked up Dell for the week, the Sharks have another back-to-back next weekend. It’s prudent to hang on to him for now until we get more news on Jones, or if you need a likely home start next weekend in a winnable game (Minnesota and Ottawa are coming to town next Saturday and Sunday).

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It was old-fashioned 1980’s night in Brooklyn as Ottawa skated away with a 6-5 win.

Sure, we could talk about Anders Lee’s two-goal game (now 15 on the year), or Ryan Dzingel’s two-goal game, but Thomas Chabot had a goal and two assists.

Don’t get too excited about Chabot just yet. Yes, great fantasy production in this one, but he played the least of any Ottawa blue liner (15:23). He could play his way up the lineup, but with Erik Karlsson, Dion Phaneuf, and Cody Ceci all being clearly ahead of him on the coach’s depth chart, ice time will be sparse. The future is bright, just don’t get too hopeful for this year.

Mike Hoffman had a goal, his ninth of the year, and the fourth on the power play. He’s now fallen off a 300-shot pace (297 to be exact), but it appears he should get his usual 25-30 goals and 60-ish points.

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Pittsburgh went into Buffalo and embarrassed the Sabres. Honestly, I’m just tired of talking about Buffalo. Their offence is horrific and there’s not much hope it’ll improve this year unless they go on a shooting binge. If this team is going to win some games, it’ll be grinding out 2-1 and 3-1 scores. Good luck with that.

Evgeni Malkin returned from injury and assisted on Jake Guentzel’s goal, his 12th of the year. Guentzel is back to shooting 18.5 percent, which is actually below his mark last year. Hopefully the trio of those two with Phil Kessel stick together; going back to last year, that specific three-man group has the highest expected goals of any Pittsburgh forward trio that doesn’t feature Crosby, meaning they do better than with Patric Hornqvist or Bryan Rust or whomever.

Tristan Jarry managed the 31-save shutout here. Does Pittsburgh ever not churn out a franchise goalie?  

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Winnipeg went idGod mode on Vegas in the third period of their game scoring five goals in the final frame to manage a 7-4 win over the Golden Knights.

At the morning skate, Patrik Laine talked about not having much confidence right now, which naturally translated to a one-goal, two-assist, five-shot night for the teenage Finn. I have more on him down below.

Blake Wheeler, Mark Scheifele, and Kyle Connor had three goals and eight points. The broadcast intimated that Wheeler is closing in on Ilya Kovalchuk for the franchise lead in assists. I suppose it matters what iteration of the Jets franchise you mean.

Colin Miller continued his solid play for the Golden Knights, picking up a goal and an assist. Out of the four Vegas d-men who have been regulars most of the year, Miller leads them in adjusted on-ice possession, shot attempts against per minute, and expected goals against at five-on-five. I’ll give you one guess who led the Bruins blue line in all these categories from 2015-17.

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Tyler Toffoli scored twice in Los Angeles’ 4-1 win over St. Louis. He now has 13 goals on the year. Not only is he rebounding, he might set a career-high. Hopefully you smart fantasy owners weren’t scared off by one bad year.  

Here’s the concern: this is five straight games with less than 16 minutes in ice time. I would feel a lot better about Toffoli getting to 30 goals if he were playing 17 minutes a night rather than 15. They’re really trying to spread the scoring and ice time out. Good for the team but bad for fantasy.

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There really wasn’t much to talk about in the New Jersey-Colorado game. As I finish this write-up, there’s 13 minutes left in the third and there are 38 combined shots. Nail Yakupov started the game on the top line with Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen but JT Compher was eventually moved into his spot. I suspect that’ll just be a rotating opening until Gabriel Landeskog returns from his suspension.

The game finished with 44 combined shots. 

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By the time Monday rolls around, a lot of teams will be around the 26-28-game mark which puts us one-third of the way through the season. It seems like only yesterday we were cursing Vadim Shipachyov being sent down to the AHL for the first time.

There are some stories that have come to the forefront over the course of the season that are very pertinent to fantasy owners. Aside from “Edmonton: Bad?” and “Vegas: Good?”, here are some I’m monitoring from a fantasy aspect in both the short-term and over the rest of the year.

  Going into Friday night’s game, Patrik Laine was on pace for 36 goals this year. He scored 36 last year. If he can get to 36 goals this season, he’ll be one of five NHLers ever to score at least 35 goals in each of their age-18 and age-19 seasons, and only he and Sidney Crosby will have done so outside of the 1980s.

Doesn’t feel like he’s having that kind of season, or start to his career, does it?

Two problems are cropping up here, and they’re related. First: he’s only seen 15:04 per game in ice time over the team’s previous 10 games. That’s not good for production. Second, since Mathieu Perreault’s return, the team is really spreading around power-play time:

file under: concerning left pic, PP TOI/game with Perreault out, right pic PP TOI/game with Perreault back pic.twitter.com/dWsDiN6CgA

— Michael Clifford (@SlimCliffy) November 29, 2017

That affects everyone, but Laine in particular needs power-play time if he’s going to live up to fantasy expectations. He has six PP goals, and that’s good! But if the team really spreads out the PP TOI, him keeping up that goal-scoring pace will be hard, given he won’t be picking up five-on-five minutes, apparently. His future is extremely bright, but the concerns for full fantasy value this year are valid.

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For a few years, the only thing that was really missing from the Hurricanes roster was a goalie who wouldn’t consistently lose them games; from 2014-17, the team was last in the NHL in five-on-five save percentage, but were 12th in adjusted corsifor percentage. Carolina was playing well, but the goaltending was bad, and the playoff drought continued.

Then, in the 2017 offseason, they signed Scott Darling. Hurrah! Everything’s fine! Unless, that is, Darling doesn’t perform to expectations, which he hasn’t.

He’s improved slightly over his previous 10 games, posting a .911 save percentage in November (it was .897 through October). However, the team is now nearly mid-pack in goals per game. They’re finally scoring enough to win games. If Darling can at least be average, with how good this team is defensively, those with suffering plus/minus ratings will (hopefully) right that stat for those in fantasy leagues using them. We’ll see. 

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Finally, I wonder if people are noticing Chicago’s resurgence. For those that follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed me talk about this. For anyone who hasn’t, this team is in the midst of a turnaround.

Remember, remember… November 5th was the first time this year Brent Seabrook played under 20 minutes in a game. He’s played under 20 minutes in 10 of 11 games since and including that day, averaging under 18 minutes. In the team’s first 14 games, when Seabrook was playing his typical workload, they were 28th in adjusted shot attempts allowed, with only Anaheim and New Jersey worse, and 16th in adjusted corsifor percentage. In the 11 games since his workload was reduced, and guys like Gustav Forsling and Jan Rutta were given a bigger role, the team is 20th in adjusted shot attempts allowed, and 1st in corsifor-percentage. That’s big.

Seabrook has been declining for a few years now, and his reduced role (obviously) is far from the only factor here. If the team can keep improving defensively, however it should only help Corey Crawford’s goals against average. 

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To the above point. Crawford’s numbers could only improve if he’s healthy, which…

Goaltender Jean-Francois Berube has been recalled from the IceHogs and the #Blackhawks have placed goaltender Corey Crawford on injured reserve. #Blackhawks

— Chicago Blackhawks (@NHLBlackhawks) December 1, 2017

That’s not good. Hopefully it’s nothing too long-term. Anton Forsberg would be the guy to grab for now. There was no solid update on what, exactly, is wrong with Crawford. 

‘Hawks fans and fantasy owners will remember a few years ago when Crawford “missed a step” at a Rise Against concert, and ended up missing a few weeks with foot injury. About that…

Oh my god pic.twitter.com/uhpd2x2LDU

— ABL Insider Dinger (@atf13atf) December 1, 2017

Now, Chicago was playing on Thursday night so he probably wasn’t at the concert. Still, the coincidence is phenomenal. 

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Bakersfield’s Youthful Banger Gang Is Disturbing The Peace In Style

Youth.

Anyone who’s attended Famoso Raceway’s March Meet or the NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion during the last decade has seen them. You can’t miss the whippersnappers prominently positioned near the finish line. Are they the real deal or merely posers playing the role of traditional, blue-collar, junkyard-scrounging hot rodders twice each year? Are their primered, primitive Model A and Model T Fords just noisy props? Contrasting with hundreds of highly powered, flawlessly finished cars displayed just behind the bleachers, are these weather-beaten beaters the in-progress projects they appear to be, or are the mismatched panels cleverly arranged to create that impression? The cars are suspiciously positioned along the pitside fence at the crack of dawn, before spectators arrive. Hmmmm, do these local kids actually drive stock four-bangers on the “Streets of Bakersfield” immortalized in the Buck Owens song, or does a buddy working a secret back gate sneak their trailered relics through the pits before an unsuspecting public shows up to witness the deception? HOT ROD Deluxe determined to learn the truth. We even followed two of the youngsters home, just to be sure.

You know it’s a young gang when the de facto boss is all of 33. The gang’s vehicles of choice were manufactured in the late 1920s or first two model years of the 1930s. Their preferred powerplants are nothing like the big, powerful V8s flexing muscle in the car-show area. No, these miniature motors are just like the underpowered four-bangers that those other hot rodders jerked out of their Models T and A and junked.

“A ’32 is way out of touch, pricewise,” explained Tyler Weeks, leader of the pack, at the 2017 March Meet. “From the ’32s on, the cars get expensive. Deuces are iconic, they make beautiful hot rods, and not many were made. That was the depths of the Depression, you know. A lot more Model Ts and Model As had already been built, and there are lots more parts around today. Our cars were all put together with swap-meet stuff. In fact, most of it came from right here in town, either at Famoso’s nostalgia races or horse trading with older guys in the Model A Club. Building a banger is far easier than a flathead, for a fraction of the cost. They’re just so simple: air and fuel in; spark, ignition; exhaust out. With a V8, you’ve got twice as many cylinders, two heads instead of one, more parts to buy, to break, to wear out. A stock Model A engine will run for a long time, as long as you don’t modify it radically, or try to turn it much over 2,500 rpm. Some guys will spend the money to make one breathe and spin higher, but these aren’t race engines.”

Tyler had some history with small, cheap, four-cylinder powerplants even before spotting the $3,500/OBO classified ad for the blue ’30 coupe that changed his life at 22. “Volkswagens were a good start for me,” he said. “I had one in high school, when those cars were still affordable. It was lowered, had dual Webers, a merged header, Centerline wheels. I had no experience with old Fords. My coupe came with a Model A motor, laying sideways in the framerails, that I wrongly assumed was no good. I even bought a 2.3L Pinto engine to replace it. That’s a pretty common conversion, one I thought I could handle. The previous restoration project stopped in 1966. The car had been sitting, all apart, for 41 years. A member of the local Model A Club introduced me to Rick Davis, the owner of Vintage Restorations, who talked me out of the Pinto. Rick invited me to bring the engine to his house. We pulled the head and he said, ‘This thing’ll run!’ That same engine is still in the coupe.”

We were pleasantly surprised to hear that HOT ROD Deluxe was among his earliest influences. “When I was 14 or 15, I saw the first two issues and got interested in these cars. My high school library had the Hot Rod Yearbooks, all bound inside hard covers. In 2001 or ’02, I showed the librarian that most of them hadn’t been checked out since the ’70s. I asked if any were for sale. I got them all for next to nothing. They taught me about bodywork, fiberglass, paint, everything. Tex Smith’s books and Pat Ganahl’s history books are awesome. Club members have passed down some great old books, too.”

Backed up along Famoso Raceway’s spectator fence, it’s the four-cylinder cars and trucks that seem to attract the most attention from both extremes of the crowd’s age span. Really old guys will stop and stare and smile, reminded of something from their own automotive experience. Whenever a young guy or gal works up the nerve to approach the banger gang, questions are answered fully and respectfully. If the kid seems serious, he or she might be invited to try out a driver’s seat, work the shifter, listen to the little engine pop and bang. Just like them, the owners themselves were in their teens or early twenties when they got hooked. We wondered aloud about the appeal of almost-100-year-old jalopies to a youngster who’s never ridden in a vehicle not equipped with at least one smartphone and cupholder.

“Maybe it’s Great Depression–era thinking,” Tyler speculated, “wanting to learn, not having to rely on somebody else to come do it. You can figure something out, mechanically reverse-engineer the problem. Do it for yourself! I was able to take shop classes—auto shop, welding, construction, ag—that a lot of schools don’t have now, unfortunately. But young people have all kinds of different ways to start, without necessarily spending much money. Kids might start out with BMX bikes or radio-controlled cars, learning the mechanical aspects of something. They see our stuff and say, ‘I want to build a hot rod like that! How’d you do it?’

“I tell them the same thing that I say to older people who want to get a hot-rod project going: Get something that’s complete and running and make it your own. It doesn’t matter what, as long and it runs and drives decent. That’s better than trying to piece something together, especially when you don’t have the space or tools. Otherwise, it might end up sitting, like a lot of my stuff. I had a ’40 Ford pickup that was too far gone, beyond my space requirements. I would’ve had to take it completely apart and it would’ve been all over my driveway, because I don’t have room in my garage. I had to sell it.”

Tyler also suggested getting help “from people who are looking out for your best interests. Older guys like to be asked. The [Model A] club did that for me. I don’t know why. Maybe they saw how much I wanted to learn, how much a young person appreciated all that they’d learned. Our oldest member is 95, a World War II veteran. He drives his Model A to the meetings. These guys want to pass along their knowledge, and their parts. If they see you working on something and they have a piece you need to accomplish your goal, they’ll usually work with you on price. I once got a good Model A motor for two bucks and a beer! I was hanging around Rick Davis’ restoration shop one night. He had an industrial T engine, covered with all kinds of junk, that I wanted for its standard bore. The block could’ve been cracked, for all Rick or I knew. I said, ‘C’mon, sell me that engine,’ and he said, ‘Well, get me a beer from across the street—and two bucks.’ I thought it was a joke, but I walked to the market, anyway. I brought back a tall can, pulled two dollar bills out of my wallet, and he sold me that engine.”

“Almost everything that my friends and I own was cheap, or free,” Tyler added. “A hot rodder will always find a way. I tell younger people that if you want to do something badly enough, and you’re willing to work hard enough, you’ll get to where you want to be.”

The gang’s latest banger is the remarkably original ’31 slant-window sedan that David Abla, 27, imported from the family of a late Michigan man who’d owned it since the 1950s. David replaced the blown head gasket and hit the road, ever so slowly; top speed is 55 mph. His only other repair was getting the original heater working.

Tyler Weeks, 33, is the old man of the banger gang and its go-to guy for early Ford parts and guidance. He’s also the youngest member, by a quarter-century, of the Ford Model A Club of America’s oldest chapter. Ali Dyess, a valued member at large, writes newsletter and magazine articles, keeps the club’s books, and handles hospitality. Her laptop and spreadsheets have modernized the group’s record keeping, replacing cardboard boxes full of handwritten ledgers dating back to the Bakersfield chapter’s 1957 formation. (Yes, she kept all of those files, stored lovingly at home.)

Along the top-end fence at Famoso, the old Fords that attract the most attention are the simplest and least-powerful in the lineup. None of the owners is striving for period perfection or car-show points, obviously. Affordability and practicality prevail. All of the owners proudly pointed out parts that restorers and other rodders discarded as unusable. These are working-class hot rodders on young people’s budgets whose main mission is keeping early iron on the road, by day and night. Alternators are among the few concessions to newer technology. Scrounging for usable six-volt starters helped inspire these 12-volt conversions.

The ’30 coupe was Tyler’s first hot rod. It was taken apart in 1966 and remained in pieces until he started putting the puzzle back together in 2007 with guidance from older Model A Club members and especially a local restorer, Rick Davis.

Of the many early Fords that Weeks acquired during a decade of haggling and horse trading, these two were the only two rolling under their own power when we visited Bakersfield. Passersby overheard dissing the crude roadster pickup do not offend an owner who repurposed restorers’ cast-off junk into what he calls the P.O.S. Special. He bought the cab section, originally a ’29 roadster, and bed just to get an included ’32 grille shell that nearly matched the patina’d blue of the coupe, and now adorns that car (background). The chassis previously supported Debbie Launer’s street rod. “With a few exceptions, it’s the accumulation of pieces discarded by members of the Model A Club,” Tyler said. “These are all parts that were either on their way to the scrapyard, about to be melted down or cut up, or used to make patch panels that match the thickness of original steel.”

Blown-fuel racing at Famoso remains a 1,320-foot affair, and this prime parking area beyond the last grandstand affords the best, closest look at top-end action. Sisters Ali (left) and Sara Dyess enjoyed the last March Meet from Tyler’s P.O.S. Special.

It doesn’t get any more real than this pair, pictured on the day in 2013 when Tyler Weeks brought home his roadster pickup. The shortened bed is now attached to buddy David Abla’s T roadster. Vintage Restorations’ delivery truck is an original ’30 AA roadster pickup that shop owner Rick Davis (driving) purchased from a California artichoke farm. (Photo: Tyler Weeks)

Twice as many cylinders power the traditional roadster pickups of John Wright (seated) and David Abla (who also owns the stock ’31 sedan). Starting with just the black ’26 T shell, Wright, 28, and buddy Bob Gleim gradually located a Model A frame, ’26 bedsides, 300-inch Buick, and Turbo 350. John, a truck driver, says that the combination cruises Highway 99 happily at 75 mph.

The gray-primered ’27 roadster pickup on ’31 rails is David Abla’s interpretation of the hot rod that a young guy like him might’ve built from scratch in 1956, right down to its ’56-coded 265 Chevy block, ’39 Ford gearbox, and ’39 Columbia two-speed rearend. In overdrive (2.92:1, vs. 3.78:1), the car reportedly cruises at 110-plus. All he had five years ago were a rusty cowl and two doors. “Ninety percent of the rest came from swap meets at the drag strip,” said David, a 27-year-old crane operator.

When the garage door is down, there’s no hint from the street that the neat, suburban property shared by Tyler Weeks and Ali Dyess contains what Tyler calls “my personal junkyard of pre-1940 Fords.” At left is the Deuce grille shell that prompted his purchase of the roadster pickup at right.

That’s a Model A chassis under the ’22-’25 roadster that Weeks is building for F.A.S.T. time trials in Santa Margarita, California.

Tyler identified it as a “late-’31 Model A Deluxe doodle bug out of Rosamond, California.”

Weeks is one millennial with yard art almost a century old. Tucked out of sight are a ’26-’27 roadster and ’22 touring.

A lifetime’s worth of future projects are as close as the carport behind the house. The roadster is a bone-stock ’26, complete down to its original wooden wheels.

What stories a retired dirt-track coupe could tell! Behind the four-inch-chopped Model A are two Model A pickup beds overflowing with T and A body panels.

No pool party is complete without decorations. A hot rodder never knows when he’ll need a flathead six out of a ’37 Chrysler, right?

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Zach Britton receives AL consecutive saves file as Orioles defeat Astros

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Zach Britton receives AL consecutive saves file as Orioles defeat Astros

BALTIMORE — Environment the American League file for consecutive saves converted demands a impressive display of consistency.

Persistence also performed a section for Zach Britton, because the Baltimore Orioles nearer went extra than fourteen months this season concerning tying the mark and breaking it.

Britton converted his 55th straight help you save option Sunday, blanking the Houston Astros in the ninth inning to seal Baltimore’s nine-7 victory.

He struck out the very first two batters and issued a stroll ahead of pinch-hitter George Springer bounced into a power participate in to end it.

“I under no circumstances believed I could put with each other one thing like that at this degree, with how fantastic these men are,” the still left-hander stated. “I will mirror on it ultimately. I just want to get back to pitching like myself regularly.”

Britton earned his fifth help you save on April fourteen and endured extra than two months on the disabled checklist with a strained still left forearm ahead of returning on July 5.

At that level, manager Buck Showalter refrained from employing Britton in the closer’s role until he was completely ready. Britton at last got the probability Sunday — and produced the most of it.

Britton broke the AL mark held by Tom Gordon, who notched 54 straight saves with Boston from 1998-ninety nine. Britton commenced his operate on Oct. 1, 2015, added 47 in a row very last season and is 6 for 6 this calendar year.

“A whole lot of us were being right here to see all of them and know how hard that is to do, primarily about that lengthy a time period of time,” Showalter stated.

The important league file of 84 is held by Eric Gagne of the Dodgers from 2002-04. Will save became an official statistic in 1969.

Baltimore broke a tie with two operates in the eighth in opposition to Luke Gregerson (two-three), employing a sacrifice fly by Manny Machado and an RBI single by Jonathan Schoop.

Britton produced the direct stand up, employing sixteen pitches to retire the AL West leaders.

Mark Trumbo homered and Adam Jones had 4 hits for the Orioles, who prevented a three-match sweep. Baltimore had lost 8 straight to Houston, dating to very last calendar year.

“We are not excellent every match. We are not without having our very own flaws or items we can do superior,” Astros manager A.J. Hinch stated. “There have only been a couple of nights where by we got it handed to us. Most of the time we’re in the match.”

The Astros 2 times fell driving by three operates ahead of coming back. Jose Altuve‘s 15th dwelling operate — the very first of his 4 hits — produced it three-all in the fourth, and Nori Aoki linked with two on in the sixth to knot the score at 6.

Houston added a operate in the sixth, but Trumbo tied it with a shot to still left top off the seventh.

Mychal Givens (7-) worked the eighth for the Orioles.

Astros starter Lance McCullers gave up 6 operates and nine hits, walked two and hit two batters in four two/three innings. In three commences this thirty day period, the appropriate-hander is -1 with a nine.88 Period.

“It really is up to me and the coaching workers to enjoy some online video and determine out what is heading on,” McCullers stated.

Extra Hinch: “He’s heading by a rut appropriate now and items are not heading his way. He’s not getting defeat all-around the ballpark as substantially as he is developing some havoc for himself.”

Baltimore’s Dylan Bundy allowed seven operates in 5 1/three innings, which includes both Houston homers.

TRAINER’S Space

Astros: 3B Colin Moran was positioned on the disabled checklist with a facial fracture. The harm happened Saturday evening when the rookie fouled a ball off his cheek, and he remained hospitalized Sunday. Houston recalled 1B Tyler White from Triple-A Fresno. … LHP Dallas Keuchel pitched 5 innings in his 2nd rehab appearance Saturday evening. He’s been on the DL since June 5 with a neck harm.

Orioles: SS J.J. Hardy, who’s been on the DL since June 19 with a fractured wrist, is having grounders but not but throwing. “Ideal now, the phase is getting the mobility back,” Hardy stated. He will see a hand expert in a 7 days, then look for to improve the wrist ahead of starting off baseball actions.

UP Subsequent

Astros: RHP Brad Peacock (eight-1, two.forty nine Period) aids Houston start a three-match interleague sequence in Philadelphia on Monday evening.

Orioles: Kevin Gausman (6-7, 6.11 Period) seeks to degree his file for the very first time since April 18 when Baltimore opens a three-match sequence at Tampa Bay on Monday evening.

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