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Vercingetorix said:
It's terrible. It's by itself out across a highway from the ass end of campus. It's 2/3 the size of a regular stadium and even then attendance sucks. It's open on one end so it's usually windy and (by November) freezing cold. It turns out to be a great home field advantage vs SEC teams not by being intimidating, but by being a depressing and physically miserable experience. Meanwhile the cowfsckers up there don't even notice because that's all they know. I hate that place. I would feel completely different about the game if we were playing them during the day.
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I'm going to the game. There any good restaurants or bars there? There's gotta be at least one neat place in that town, right?
 
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05_never_again said:
I'm going to the game. There any good restaurants or bars there? There's gotta be at least one neat place in that town, right?
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I lived there more or less Z's entire lifetime ago and was mostly too poor to eat out, so I can't suggest much. Shakespeare's Pizza is the iconic Mizzou pizza/bar/hangout joint and I'm pretty sure it's still there. There was a little bar area downtown which I'm sure is still there; at the time it was nothing but the same kind of dive-y student bars but given that craft beer exists now there's got to be something fancy.

There's nothing wrong with Columbia itself, which is a full-on quaint little college town in the sense that there's almost literally nothing in town other than the university. When school was on a break it was a ghost town. The only problem is that it's full of Missourians, who suck ass.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I lived there more or less Z's entire lifetime ago and was mostly too poor to eat out, so I can't suggest much. Shakespeare's Pizza is the iconic Mizzou pizza/bar/hangout joint and I'm pretty sure it's still there. There was a little bar area downtown which I'm sure is still there; at the time it was nothing but the same kind of dive-y student bars but given that craft beer exists now there's got to be something fancy.

There's nothing wrong with Columbia itself, which is a full-on quaint little college town in the sense that there's almost literally nothing in town other than the university. When school was on a break it was a ghost town. The only problem is that it's full of Missourians, who suck ass.
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That's good to know - we're coming into town Friday night and the game isn't until 7:30 ET on Saturday, so we'll need stuff to do that night and pretty much all day Saturday before the game.

I've never been to a game there, but I haven't been expecting much from the stadium itself just from how it looks on TV. It looks like a big high school stadium with really ugly oversized, too-spaced-out yardage marker numbers on it and that big open area behind one of the end zones. That open area in the back with the rock M reminds me of the area at Finley Stadium (I live in Chattanooga) where UTC plays. It seems of out of place at a P5/SEC school.
 
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05_never_again said:
That's good to know - we're coming into town Friday night and the game isn't until 7:30 ET on Saturday, so we'll need stuff to do that night and pretty much all day Saturday before the game.

I've never been to a game there, but I haven't been expecting much from the stadium itself just from how it looks on TV. It looks like a big high school stadium with really ugly oversized, too-spaced-out yardage marker numbers on it and that big open area behind one of the end zones. That open area in the back with the rock M reminds me of the area at Finley Stadium (I live in Chattanooga) where UTC plays. It seems of out of place at a P5/SEC school.
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Make sure you go to a grocery store (like Schnuck’s). Best thing about the state of Missouri is they sell liquor right in the groceries. I was amazed all over again every single time I went shopping.

Maybe the locals will have mellowed after a few years in the SEC but when I was up there the contempt they had for the south in general and Tennessee in particular was ridiculous. I was asked more than once if I’d grown up going to a one room schoolhouse. If I wore shoes as a kid. Etc. They don’t belong in our conference.
 
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Duvall and RAJ are good though with the glove that you can platoon ender and Duvall and use markakis to give guys a blow throughout the year and LH PH

would like the move but still need a C and means Camargo likely at 3b which I’m also ok with
 
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TBrown said:
Duvall and RAJ are good though with the glove that you can platoon ender and Duvall and use markakis to give guys a blow throughout the year and LH PH

would like the move but still need a C and means Camargo likely at 3b which I’m also ok with
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If there’s no money spent at 3B then they have to get Grandal at C, right?
 
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TBrown said:
Duvall and RAJ are good though with the glove that you can platoon ender and Duvall and use markakis to give guys a blow throughout the year and LH PH

would like the move but still need a C and means Camargo likely at 3b which I’m also ok with
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Ha you know Markadick is playing 150 as long as he is healthy
 
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AV_12 said:
Acuna
Ozzie
Freddie
Ozuna
Grandal
Camargo
Ender/Duvall
Dansby

That’s pretty strong
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Idk about lineup construction but I’m with you on the pieces. Ozuna won’t be cheap so I’m afraid it would preclude us from the Grandal market but both would be a play for sure.
 
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