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Skipper

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  1. I'm genuinely a bit baffled by Trump's strategy here.  His first term it seemed like he almost cared too much about the market and let it dictate policy.   This time, he's hitting like 1000 buttons at once knowing damn well how the market would react.   I think you might could make a decent economic argument for a measured approach as it relates to tariffs, or slashing government spending/workforce, again, in a thought out and measured way (after spending several months evaluating options). And maybe you do one or the other or both but not also at the same time you have blown up long standing international alliances.   He just hitting all these levers at once right after winning the election by making the impossible promise to the mass idiots that he would somehow reverse inflation, lower interest rates but also keep the market and economy at large booming.  That was obviously never going to happen.  But from a strategy standpoint, is he just trying to blow it all up so he can try to blame it on Biden then take the credit for a recovery 2-3 years from now?  I honestly thought the tariff nonsense was always just talk but maybe not.  Interesting times. 

    I'm sure I'll just get a bunch of emotional cloak room responses but curious if anyone has non-emotional "fuck trump" thoughts.

  2. 18 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I recently moved a large percentage of my retirement funds into cash. I would rather risk losing short term profits as opposed to seeing the floor drop out underneath me. I figure that I will soon start dollar cost average buying.

    i understand the sentiment that you can’t time the market but there are also signs that we’re much more likely to go down than up. If I’m wrong, I won’t lose a minute of sleep.

    I was considering same yesterday but didn't this time.  I did this during COVID and went cash pre- market crash and patted myself on the back at how smart I was.  Then missed the fucking runup and didn't buy back in until I was at a loss.   I'm overly liquid right now though non-retirement and slow rolling putting that into the market. 

  3. 56 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

    Um I think the point is there ain’t gonna be no 2025 hurricane forecasts. Don’t know how you label that CR

    There actually was one released recently.  I saw a headline come across the end of last week.  It was the sole reason I clicked on this thread assuming there might be some substantive discussion of the actual topic of the thread.  Silly me.

  4. Just now, royiv said:

    Imagine discussing cuts to NOAA in the hurricane thread. So political.

    Trump/Elon bitching is fucking everywhere.   I get it.  I despise them too.  But it's nonstop for certain posters no matter the topic. I'll just stick to stars thread, 9.95 and food and travel. Only places that have so far been immune.   Continue on.

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  5. Timely thread as heading to Resort (Finest Playa Mujeres) next Friday for a few days with kids.  Not sure if we will get off the resort or not, but if we do would likely be to take Ferry to island for a few hours.  So sounds like there are options to just take ferry over, walk around, find food and beach chairs or also to rent a golf cart and drive around?   Do most places take cards or need to find an ATM?

  6. 18 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    If Cosmo is fully integrated now, I'm gonna try it that way on our next trip.  Last time were were there at the beginning of December, you still couldn't pull up Cosmo reservations in the MGM app.

    Here for a conference now and still the same.  Couldn't check in on the app Sunday.  Line sucked.

    Also for anyone coming in near term, we went late night over to Ellis Island yesterday and currently under renovation.  At least half of the gaming floor is walled off.  They only had one craps table and closed it right as we got in and only like 3 blackjack tables which were full.  Pretty disappointing.   Supposed to last another couple of months for the gaming floor portion apparently.  

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  7. 35 minutes ago, LurkingHorn said:

    I think Nico will be out by the summer after this team misses the playoffs. Who would have guessed that Mark Cuban was the voice of reason in the room between him and Nico? I wouldn't hold your breath on a mea culpa from the Adelsons. They care about the casino and that's it. I'm very interested to see how poor the attendance is going to be next season. That is the only thing that might get any attention from these people. 

    I bet season ticket sales fall off a cliff.  I'll be interested to hear from season ticket holder friends what they do about pricing.   If they were smart they offer up a decrease as a 'loyalty' gesture but my bet is on another material increase given how tone deaf they have shown to be about everything else the last 2 weeks.

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  8. 1 minute ago, LurkingHorn said:

    Once again, what is Kidd supposed to do with 4 out of his best 5 players missing? Effort is all they can do right now and they are doing that. The Mavs do not have a big man they can play right now which is ironic considering how they constructed the roster post Luka trade. 

    I still cannot get over this whole saga. 

    Mavs in 2012: We're not going to bring back a roster that just won a championship.

    Mavis in 2025: We don't want the international superstar that just carried us to a WCF and NBA Finals appearance. 

    What a cursed franchise. Cannot enjoy nice things. 

    At least in 2012 the thesis was plausible if not flawed.  Ownership/front office thought we caught lightning in a bottle, couldn't repeat, and needed dry powder for the 'big free agents' (which of course, never materialized).  So it was a big mistake but at least you could see the argument.   In this case, not only did they trade a beloved international superstar entering his prime that got you to the finals last year, but they got a terrible return and then shit all over him for literally no reason on the way out. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it in sports.  And I wish nothing but the worst for those 2 assholes.  I don't see myself ever rooting for this team again unless both are gone or at least Nico is gone and Adelson does a massive mea culpa for ruining the franchise.

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  9. 1 minute ago, LurkingHorn said:

    Yea, I'm not Kidd's biggest fan but what is he supposed to do here? Something like 4 of his best 5 players were all out with injury. The Kings should have stomped that team by 20 points last night, but the Mavs played hard and could have won the game. 

    Credit to the players that are healthy for appearing to give playoff level effort but that isn't sustainable.

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  10. 52 minutes ago, idigTexas said:

    The Mavs have a million problems, but Kidd isn't one of them.  He has far exceeded my expectations.  

    And he didn't even show for the press conference last night (just like bitch ass Nico refuses to face the local media).  Not sure what that was about.   Players are having to take the full brunt of this implosion which isn't fair to them, but yeah, I want Nico and Adelson to wallow in failure.  Guess this is how Washington fans felt about Dan Snyder.    

  11. I was at one probably 12 or 13 years ago that probably had around 20 and we had a large private room at the steak house in Planet Hollywood for the main dinner.  I either planned it or help plan it and even back then it basically required a set menu per person with a drink package and had to book either entire dinner or like 50% on my card to reserve room.  That ended up being a blast of a dinner but if actually trying to plan something for a group that large, while possible, it's going to be more like hosting a party or corporate event and it's going to require $$ up front, and like others have said, you have to account for inevitable no shows when budgeting. There is still some jackass friend of a friend of a friend that is apparently a doctor now that still owes me like $500 for a 2007 era Vegas trip that still irks me.  

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  12. 5 hours ago, dcar00 said:

    you gotta like the balls on calling what you believe is a bluff by your season ticket holders.  My guess is they aren't calculating that it is going to be a shitshow while Davis is out and not much better even when he gets back(and then Kyrie has to sit out due to a foot or back injury) and people will flip over the pocket aces.

    what prevents them from getting back in later? especially if it craters the team for 2-3 years.  I'm asking because I don't know how the season tickets work with the Mavs.

    I talked to a 25 year season ticket holder late afternoon and biggest die hard fan I know that is not planning on renewing as of now. There hasn't been any formal announcement to ticket holders about this whole $2K rebate (he hasn't heard from his ticket rep at all) and hasn't wanted to bug him or vent. It really sucks for all the people in Mavs marketing, sales, PR, etc. that are having to deal with this shitshow when they are all probably equally furious about what happened. 

    But as for season tickets, new ownership already jacked up season tickets a ton last year.  They probably won't read the room and do the same this year. They are going to lose a ton of the long term die hards.  It's just going to be a completely different fanbase go forward. I mean, it had been trending that way for a while now (and a big reason I'm a Stars and not Mavs season ticket holder as the actual fans to corporate/ Insta crowd skews WAY more towards "fans" at the Stars games) but just going to trend even heavier corporate, Gen Z, Dallas transplant etc. that will jump on and off bandwagon depending on record.    Those of us that lived Dirk's entire career arc with highs and lows of a true superstar that was "ours" feel like we got robbed of watching the same thing play out with his more talented successor.  It's just disgusting.  And I'm sure I'll take my 8 YO son back to a game at some point but not anytime soon (he was mad he doesn't get to see Luka but did not understand why we don't root for the mavs anymore and I decided to drop it for another day).  I can't fathom spending a dime for this franchise or this owner at the moment.

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  13. 1 hour ago, threesheets said:

    I've always been a Cuban fan/defender, but it's become crystal clear that he sold us out to an awful family. 

    This.  Fuck Cuban.  He got his Championship and a big pile of money and turned the franchise over to fucking assholes that don't understand anything about sports or sports fandom.  I have no doubt that he's shocked and pissed off about this move, but he enabled it after selling the fanbase on loyalty for his entire tenure.

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  14. 1 hour ago, 'stache said:

    Even if CR was an echo chamber to the left, who fucking cares? It's there for a reason. The OSU board I frequent also has a politics board and is an echo chamber almost exclusively to the right. I just avoid it and it doesn't come up in sports discussions. I also avoid the news board there too because it's the same. I still pay them for access to the members only boards because the sports conversations are worthwhile.

    This is 100% the reality although I've been shouted down when I made this point once before. The people that like sports and also like to post about politics find the site that largely suits their political flavor and then they all collectively shout down alternative viewpoints leading to the echo chamber pretty much every sports political board is.   I've never paid a dime to Fat Ketch but have had access to my buddy's account for well over a decade and sometimes for the sheer humor I'll read a thread in the cloak room and then the OB politics board on the same topic and it's pretty funny.  I don't have any problem with that in theory, but similarly, on all sports boards, because you have so many like minded individuals, the politics leak out onto other threads.   Imma is probably correct that this doesn't have anything to do with the site dying but for me personally I spend a lot less time on non sports, entertainment or food than I used to.    Probably just the reality of current culture where you essentially can't escape it and social media algorithms are also simultaneously echo chambers. 

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