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  1. 6 hours ago, FondrenRoad said:

    Bird retired in 92. Jordan retired in 2003. Jordan won 4 of his 6 titles in a post Bird NBA. They weren't even the same era really.  

    IMO there was a lull in casual fans’ interest in the 2000-2010 decade post-Jordan, with not as much national interest during the Shaq/Kobe and Spurs era. Obviously many Lakers and Spurs fans would disagree, but I don’t think people cared and would be interesting to see if the tv ratings were down during that period. It may or may not be a coincidence that that was the decade when NFL and NCAA FB absolutely exploded in media coverage and $$$.

    Lebron’s superteam formation in Miami gave casual fans something to love or hate. The GSW were an interesting team to root for and then hate after they became a dynasty and got KD. NBA is certainly very strong now. 

  2. Get over yourselves, Surly elitists. Has the quality gone downhill? Almost certainly. But it is nostalgia. When we were kids our parents ate at nicer Italian restaurants when it was them and places like Pizza Hut when they were taking the kids and their friends. As previously mentioned, there’s no replacing the memories of playing pinball or Ms. Pacman while waiting for your pizzas to come out, sneaking crackers from the salad bar as an appetizer, drinking Dr Pepper from the clear pitchers into your transparent red cups, celebrating the end of little league or soccer season with your friends. 

    People here really don’t understand why others eat at chains? Why would someone eat at Dickey’s with a family of 4-5 instead of Franklin? The difference of about fifty fucking dollars, that’s why. Two pizzas at Home Slice? $50...or two at Dominos or Pizza Hut with a coupon is like $12 and they throw in some cinnamon sticks. Hop Doddy burgers and fries for four, $50...or Whataburger for $25. Not everyone is Shaggy 1%.

    I appreciate them for what they did during the formative years of Generation Xers, providing that neighborhood gathering spot, programs like BookIt! that had a positive impact on reading in elementary school kids. Seeing that commercial for $10.99 Bigfoot pizza in 1992...is pizza the only industry without price inflation? Maybe that’s why they all taste crappier now than we remember, along with the nostalgia effect. 

    Also, definitely had that Final Four ball from around 1991, I remember two of the teams on it were Duke and Arkie when Grant Hill and Corliss Williamson were playing. 

    13 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Yeah who the fuck still eats Pizza Hut? That shit is fucking disgusting. 

    Hey now buddy, look at what/who you eat before casting stones. 

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  3. On 5/21/2019 at 1:02 PM, Gil Bang said:

    This isn't the thread for this discussion, but shit's about to get real.  Builders are sitting on a ton of unsold inventory. 

    Let me know when these poor developers are ready to eat their hat and take 25¢ on the dollar. 

  4. This thread is incredibly insightful and useful. I wish I had a lot of this knowledge a year ago. 

    For a few years, my wife and I had our own SWA premiere cards, but with my work travel (2-3x per month mostly on SWA) my card was sufficient for status, companion, and necessary points to book recreational domestic travel. We canned my wife’s card to avoid the annual fee and put her as an AU on mine to get more spending points going to my RR account. However, I changed jobs in late 2017 with significantly less business travel, then lost SWA companion status starting 1/1/19.

    I contemplated canceling my SWA card, waiting a month, then reapplying for a new 50k point bonus, but the stupid bitch at Chase told me my wife could open a new card and direct all points to my RR account. 60 days later, we see the bonus hit her count and we were like WTF? Chase says the first lady was incorrect and points can only go to account with same SSN between card and frequent flyer holder. Now we are almost halfway through 2019 and I don’t think I’ll hit companion soon, so might as well wait to run the “SWA scam” in early 2020 to get companion through 1/1/22. 

    We plan to continue taking ~4 domestic trips per year for us and our two young ones between family visits and vacation, but we are completely reassessing our credit cards right now from ground zero. We don’t put a lot of travel expenses on our personal credit cards, but we do eat out a fair amount, so not sure about CS/CSP/CSR. The conservative play for our lifestyle seems like a cash back card like Freedom or some Discover card. I have always enjoyed Southwest, and would do the personal and business SWA cards if I get the full bonus (when I called this year for a business one, and I have a legitimate but very small $ consulting business, chase gave me shit about not having an LLC # from the State of Texas and wouldn’t issue the card. How do you normally deal with that to get a business card?). Or are we better off doubling down in the “Thunderlounge” method and applying CSR points towards our SWA travel? Most of our trips will be for 4 people, not 2, so companion only gets us about 25% free airfare (before cashing in points) and limits our travel to SWA (probably our favorite airline so not a deal breaker).

    I have no new issued credit cards in >3 years and have never had a Sapphire. My wife’s only recent new card was the SWA (above) that she had for less than 90 days, we tore Chase customer service a new asshole, then they closed the account, refunded her the annual fee, but let her keep the 40k SWA points for the trouble. We have pretty evenly distributed expenses between dining, grocery, department stores, and shit off Amazon. From 2013-2019, we had traveled for free solely off SWA points (and free Marriott nights via business trips). Should the wife and I divy up the Freedom, FU, and CSR between us and can the SWA?

  5. It’s the time of the year to again bring up state income taxes and how pro athletes don’t seem to understand it and agents disregard it because they only get paid on the contract value, not the take home pay. 

    When Lebron, Wade, and Bosh “took $2M less”, they were playing in Florida with no state income, saving them as much as $2M per year vs playing in NY or CA. 

    Up to 10% more take-home pay is a selling point for HOU, DAL, SA, ORL, MIA, MEM that always seemed overlooked by media and players. 

  6. On 6/7/2019 at 10:30 AM, formermav43 said:

    I’d rather they did that than the patch, it would be a nod to 150 and the 69 team.

    So who’s going to tweet CDC and Herman to request the 150 sticker rather than the 150 patch?

  7. On 6/18/2019 at 9:52 PM, David Dennison said:

    And the homeless women and children? Do we murder them, too?

    Is it murder when the vet puts down your dog or cat who are or will be suffering with little hope of recovery? What if a physician assists a neurodegenerative patient with suicide?

  8. Team is cursed because now-dead owner didn’t want to admit first ever draft pick was a bust (yet not as bad as Joey Harrington, J.P. Lossman, Jamarcus Russell, Matt Leinart, Brady Quinn, and a few other first round QBs of that era), and took what was thought to be a generational DE to get after Peyton Manning. 

  9. Income tax savings obviously means virtually nothing to pro athletes because it never stops players from wanting to go to teams in LA and SF. It doesn’t seem to drive players to teams in Texas, Florida, or Tennessee. 

    Although it’s funny when athletes nickel and dime in contract negotiations over that last million, and they could have taken less in Texas or Florida and put more after tax money in the bank. 

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