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  2. Reading comprehension. I said "Kentucky played about as well as they possibly could" I did not say "Kentucky played well"
  3. I've seen enough football to know the script of some games. Yesterday was a classic Underdog Outplays and Outperforms the Favorite, Gets Multiple Chances to Win, Loses in Heartbreaking Fashion games. I won't go so far as to say I knew we were going to win all along. I felt the pit in my stomach that we were going to lose. But I never felt like our team was less talented or victory was totally out of reach. Kentucky played about as well as they possibly could, but they made one mistake and that's all it took. They should have fully capitalized on the opportunities we gave them, and they didn't. I actually expected Mark Stoops to fake the FG at the end of regulation and hit a wide open receiver for the go-ahead TD. That's the kind of night it was, until it wasn't.
  4. I have a feeling we will look better at Miss St, but Miss St is not terrible so an improvement might not be enough to win.
  5. The impact is that, if we're being bullshitted (because the guarantees in the term sheet aren't actually targeted at the immediate geographic vicinity of the proposed arena) then a bunch of wealthy people will get to make a lot of money without paying their fair share of taxes. It's the same problem with UT announcing a scholarship fund for poor kids, but the fine print of the scholarship fund has a bunch of loopholes that allow rich kids to qualify. Everyone supports scholarships for poor kids! Nobody should be against that! The problem is whether what we're being sold is different from what the actual deal is. To bring this back to your question, the city would unnecessarily lose out on substantial sources of tax revenue for decades, so the only way to balance the budget would be to cut spending (much easier said than done in the age of police and firefighters unions) or to raise taxes on everyone else. The term sheet I want to see should have firm financial commitments instead of "trust me bro, we promise to build all this stuff" and it should include binding geographic, time, and use restrictions on what construction activities qualify and what activities don't qualify, as well as key performance indicators of this project so that the people who stand to gain from this share in the risk and are held accountable if the promise of revitalization isn't kept. Right now, it feels very Simpsons Monorail Episode and is more or less holding hostage the community's love of the Spurs with the implied threat of moving the team somewhere else. It's a fucked up thing for the ownership group to do, and it's a fucked up thing for Gina Ortiz-Jones to risk having done to the city. In the end, I don't think the owners would leave the city without trying to put a better offer on the table. If a better offer is made, then in hindsight Gina will have been smart to call their bluff and save the taxpayers millions if not billions over the years.
  6. https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000010468254/gaza-strikes-israel-ceasefire.html
  7. If the Hemisfair TIRZ is expanded, you're looking at the potential for a forever loophole for private developers to spend $1.4 billion on projects virtually anywhere in central SA, without any mechanism of accountability. Nobody to blame if the promise of revitalization goes unfulfilled. The argument is that the private developers were going to spend this $1b, regardless, and should not be given a tax break that was intended to incentivize deals that otherwise wouldn't have been made. Those projects need to be taxed. https://www.sacurrent.com/news/cityscrapes/cityscrapes-project-marvels-open-ended-term-sheet-will-cost-every-san-antonio-property-taxpayer/ Here are some more concrete problems: The only specific development commitment outline in the document calls for “a boutique hotel meeting the NBA’s requirements for visiting teams.” The $500 million doesn’t have to come just from the Spurs. It can also come from unspecified “private developers.” Same thing with the balance of $900 million. Not necessarily from the Spurs, just from “private developers.” They could be any developer building in the area defined by the term sheet. And that area doesn’t have to be in the immediate vicinity of the new arena, convention center and the Alamodome — defined as the “sports and entertainment district.” The Hemisfair TIRZ goes from Commerce Street to the north to Lavaca Street beyond César E. Chávez Blvd. to the south, from I-37 on the east all the way to Navarro Street on the west. and its boundaries could change in the future (and City Council has a history of changing them since the TIRZ was first conceived in 1999) The term sheet also doesn’t define when the period for the new development starts. Would it include the longstanding but unrealized plan for converting the former CPS Energy headquarters on Navarro to a hotel? the estimated $750M for the city’s plan for a new convention center hotel on the site of the SAWS chilled water plant between Commerce and Market Streets?
  8. Graham Platner is badass af and I want him to be the next Senate majority leader
  9. I must have missed the Wisner injury. Was it the fumble at the endzone?
  10. Just run the ball. That's all they need to do. How fucking stupid are you Sark???
  11. Back in the day it'd've been swept under the rug
  12. I'm glad you didn't have to watch the semifinal last season
  13. Sark is so stupid. Just run the goddamned ball
  14. Ballgame. 23-21 Vaqueros lose
  15. "they called that pass incomplete" no shit
  16. fuck this is sloppy
  17. Lamar drills a long FG with a 1:03 to go. Cardinals up 23-21. RGV gonna need to find points
  18. Vaqueros score again! They lead in Beaumont 21-20 with 9:38 to go
  19. Marburger hits paydirt early in the 4th quarter. 20-14.
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