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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. I went to a Spurs playoff game (don’t remember against who) during Tim Duncan’s prime. The team was great. Best coach in the league. After the game, riding down the escalators was like being at an A&M football game during the wrecking crew era- less about their own team and more about Dallas this and Mark Cuban that because the Mavs were out of the playoffs but in the news that day. I was shocked by how insecure they were. This is the worst moment in the 45 year history of a fan base that really loves our team, doesn’t care about national media or bandwagons, and doesn’t really care much about yours other than as an regional rival and admiring the success you had during your best years. And you’re in here bitching about what? Fuck right off, Chad.
  2. Bloomberg and CNBC Guests, November-today:
  3. He did? Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure he does, but I haven’t seen anything he said publicly. He likely has contractual obligations that prevent him from criticizing team decisions.
  4. Nico Harrison is many things, but “green” he is not. It is more likely that either he’s playing 3D chess and the Mavs will actually benefit from this or he is personally positioning himself for something 3-5 years out than it is that he got “taken” by anyone. Rob Pelinka is clever enough, but In an ocean of sharks, Nico Harrison is 20ft Great White.
  5. My grandfather grew up in East Texas during the depression and went to work picking cotton when he was about 7 years old. Like a lot of people in those days they didn’t have enough to eat and often lived on small game, especially squirrels, and he developed a real taste for it. When he came back from WWII he met my grandmother in Dallas where she had grown up, and when they got married she put a stop to the whole squirrel business because she found it repulsive, not to mention trashy. I think I’ve mentioned here before that he was a crack shot, even into old age. She died in January of 2000, and when I went to visit him a couple months later, he had squirrels in the freezer. Starting about a week after she passed and until a few weeks before he died 22 years later at 100, he would walk around his neighborhood in Oak Cliff early in the morning, shooting squirrels out of pecan trees with the single shot, smoothbore Diana 25 he “liberated” from a house during the Battle of the Bulge. I’ve got it in my safe today, in good working order. This machine kills squirrels.
  6. Because revenue is at risk of declining if viewership continues to drop and they can’t afford to dilute it further. The league doesn’t want to abandon Dallas, but they want the lakers to have a big stars and contend every year.
  7. Well, I don’t think it’s a miscalculation. It’s a win-win for them. This trade ruins any chance that Dallas will support building a new arena, but it also gives the Lakers their next global superstar at a time when the league needs it. So as mad as Dallas is, the league is very happy with the Adelsons right now. That’s relevant because: 1) the local fans are going to turn their backs on the franchise and the city will NOT support a new arena anymore, and that’s when the league green lights moving teams (see also Seattle, Golden State). And the Adelsons now have the ability to go to the lege in 26 and credibly say “we can’t build a new arena because the fans won’t vote for it. Give us a casino and we will build it, or we take the team to Vegas and build a new casino around it there”. 2) if the leg says no, the league will permit the move and the Adelsons win. 3) if the leg opens yes, North Texas gets casino gambling and the Adelsons win.
  8. I wish they would move to Vegas tomorrow.
  9. I thought about that. But at least Rob Washington was right about that being just how baseball goes. This is worse
  10. I wish they would go ahead and do it at this point. When the Adelsons bought this team, I felt it was an angle on the potential for Casino Gambling in DFW, and moving the team to Vegas was plan B. Now that it appears the Dunn/Wilkes wing of the GOP* apparently won't allow casinos anytime soon alienating the fans will make moving easier, so phase I is complete. *DON'T give me the "NO CR" bullshit, it's relevant to this moment.
  11. I'm numb. I feel nothing. Ive been a fan of this team for 44 years and nothing comes close to how low this moment feels.
  12. This week I read an economic outlook paper from a large and widely respected investment firm about how they are thinking about allocation in 2025. It suggested that a Trump admin might unleash economic growth and optimism based on what he said he would do from a regulatory and bureaucratic standpoint, but also speculated that Trump might not mean what he said he would do with tarrifs and besides, Biden didn’t roll back the last Trump tarrifs on China and that turned out OK, right? It’s awfully crowded at the hopium den these days.
  13. No offense, but while unions provide a mechanism to do those things, none of that is the primary utility of unions*. The utility of unions is to enable efficient price discovery for labor among non-management workers. It isn’t good for the market on any level for capital (even public capital) to have the ability to collectively negotiate if labor does not. That’s not to say I necessarily think public sector unions are always good, just that the sellers of labor should be able to negotiate collectively as long as the buyers of labor can. Show me a bad union and I’ll show you bad management, and vice versa. Always. .
  14. So the inflation will be … transient?
  15. My goodness. Remember when Trump got on Truth social and said he was sending the military into California to turn the water back or whatever? I thought that was just some crazy talk. However, it seems to have had a grain of “Truth”, as it were. It appears the Army Corps of Engineers was ordered by an appointee to drain full reservoirs into flooded farmland without telling anyone or coordinating anything, and sent farmers, local politicians and others into a scramble to stop it before it destroyed equipment and crops. For the record, Tulare County voted 60-40 for Trump.
  16. Not how I remember it going down, but neither of us are going to actually dig through it, so let’s agree that Major was better and part as friends.
  17. The dream of the 50’s is alive in Grand Rapids
  18. I don’t remember the details, but something like 4-5 of Chris Simms “victories” as a starter are in games where he was bailed out by Major Applewhite.
  19. Anglican Catholic- split off of the Episcopal Church in the 70s over women in the priesthood and rejected the adoption of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. They kept the 1928 book and mostly use the along James Bible. Basically it’s an idealized American version of what the Church of England was like in the 50s.
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