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UpperWestside

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  1. Not solely due to this, but Texas you are a failed state. You are somehow more corrupt AND embarrassing than Florida. “Florida man”has nothing on “Texas man.” I think I can go the rest of my life without ever visiting the state where I was born. You absolutely have the government that you want and deserve.
  2. Look who is back on top of the FIBA rankings?!?! https://www.fiba.basketball/usa-back-on-top-and-world-champions-germany-take-top-three-spot-in-fiba-world-ranking-men-presented-by-nike Yes they should probably go back to the drawing board on the amount of years worth that is included in a ranking.
  3. Saw that Vanderbilt was given a four year extension by the Purple and Gold. 12 million a season sounds about right for him.
  4. I don’t know what would be the bigger story. LeBron possibly using peds or that anyone still reads Deadspin.
  5. To be honest here I probably would not want a man’s perspective when it comes to the interest, or lack thereof, in a women’s professional sport. I like Bill Burr though and find him to be really funny. I try to remember that they are still less than 30 years into things. The NBA, which is now a worldwide product with the sport being the 2nd most popular in the world, had finals games on tape delay as recently as 1980. They were about 35 years in at that point and had a very niche following when it came to sports in America. I will say that I was surprised to read that viewership is up 21 percent this year and the attendance figures, while they pale in comparison to the NBA, were around 6600 per game. Expanding to 40 game schedules seem to have helped. That is some significant growth for them. If they could ever completely stand on their own two feet without any assistance from the NBA then I would probably say they would then be a league worth taking seriously. The hardest obstacle they have is that when people want to see basketball they are going to watch the NBA first because of the incredible athleticism. There is not much the WNBA can do about that discrepancy. Again I am not a fan of the league, but I just try to be mindful that they do have a loyal fan base and that in general they do good in the communities they are in, which is cool.
  6. Well one would hope none. It’s just more the sentiment I think. I ran across someone earlier this week that wants to go see the Liberty play. I told her it would probably be an enjoyable experience. I will probably go at some point just to have attended at least one game. I enjoy watching how we all interact with each other and when you get to see the pure joy a child has when they are watching someone they look up to play ball or act on Broadway or any of that stuff it seems worth experiencing. I mean I definitely would not be there for the below the rim play. I can usually count on the Knicks for that.
  7. I have no idea. It is truly a great time to be alive to see it happen. Walking around looking like a character off My Name is Earl while he is paid millions to do what I am not real sure, but here we are.
  8. @Beau Vine next week y’all have Lampasas. I assume that Wimberley has a link to their home broadcast and I would like to watch the game if possible. Lampasas, true to form, does not play a great deal of defense, but can score. They could’ve put 90 on the board against East View from Georgetown, but once they hit 66 with 7 left in the 3rd they let everyone play and wound up with 72. I have no expectation of them beating Wimberley, but Reed Jerome is giving them far more competent play at QB than they have had the last two seasons. I believe they also have a freshman WR named Ty Johnson that caught a 66 yard TD last night against Pflugerville Connally that wound up being the game winner. He seemed to have a bit better speed and height than what Lampasas usually has.
  9. I am not a fan of WNBA basketball, but to disparage it seems to be on the decidedly not cool side. I know people who watch more high school football in Texas than should be humanly possible, but it’s what they enjoy watching. To people here where I live it comes across as crazy that people are that passionate about teenagers playing a sport. I still try to watch my high school when they have their broadcast on YouTube so I see the enjoyment you can get from the sport. The WNBA has a small fanbase and that’s fine. It gives hope to a lot of young girls that want to look to be a professional athlete one day. Anything that is positive in nature such as the WNBA is cool by me. Now OU football on the other hand, well, that can just be bombed back to the Stone Age. Nobody should be subjected to the war crime that is that team.
  10. This guy is some of the best unintentional comedy we will ever see in this lifetime. That he has a mouth-breathing guy like Pat McAfee around to document all of his insane behavior is just incredible. I will also not bet you on any of those things not happening because I feel certain he’ll experiment with bat guano.
  11. There’s a lot of time left for this to still happen. Once he’s up and around and able to go visit his blackout cave the voices might tell him to visit some ancient village in the Amazon built by aliens that left behind a snake venom antidote that cures everything from torn acl’s to cancer. I for one look forward to him chronicling his adventure to self-healing.
  12. Is it the best care or is that just what the mainstream media would have you believe? Rodgers has definitely had this thought.
  13. LeBron Instagram: We need our big men to run the floor like Kareem. Is LeBron trying to bring Kareem out of retirement to join the Lakers for a title run? -Bill Simmons probably
  14. I spent almost the entirety of summer reading about the war in the Pacific. I will post more of the books that I read when I have time, but a set of books that are just an absolute must read is Ian Toll’s trilogy on the Pacific War. It’s around 1800-1900 pages of reading in total and it’s completely worth the time spent doing so even if you do not read real fast. It took me about a month and a half, but I was doing most of the reading on the train to and from work. You can buy the hardcover as a set or do like I did and buy them individually. Toll is local to New York and I am going to attempt to find out when he will be speaking because the work put into these books is just incredible. I find the Pacific War to be more interesting so I gravitated towards these books pretty easily. Toll is a great storyteller as well.
  15. Pos rep for using an Endeavour gif!
  16. No man knows when Gritty comes for them, but tomorrow would be a good start with this guy. Absolutely delusional stuff to be saying.
  17. I don’t disagree with his defensive deficiencies. However, there was not a whole lot of cohesiveness to much of what the team did defensively. Reaves is a guy that plugs into a team based defensive scheme better than a guy who you can isolate on someone and know they aren’t going to score. I’ll take his shot making and find someone who can play that backline and be cool with that. The US needs continuity and he showed he can score and if given an actual big man behind him a lot of those deficiencies are covered. Having the JJJ Experience behind him as the last line of defense was a nightmare. He should never put the uniform on ever again.
  18. Turf is just horrific for the career these guys chose. If it can be done you spend the more year to get a grass field again. My old high school is still playing on the same grass field they have been on since FDR was in his first term in the 30’s. Grass is superior in every way to turf. Watching football on a grass field is better and the injuries are fewer. That the owners won’t just do this on every field where it is possible is insane.
  19. I just kinda try to be polite to people I come across in life that have praise for Musk. He is one of the most intentionally destructive human beings alive. He will not change. He is incapable of even attempting to do better. He is who he is and anyone supporting him in any way is someone you just cease to converse with. There are better ways to spend our extremely short time on this planet than being a mouthpiece for him.
  20. We all have the capability to be that. I do not always spend time attempting to understand everyone that acts like that, but there is usually a reason for someone being that way. I naturally find things like this interesting though so thinking about a person’s reasons for their behavior is probably not going to be as interesting in the types of encounters you have. Having daily face-to-face encounters doing my job makes it fun to me.
  21. Criminal, war criminal, narcissistic head case, clownfraud, irredeemable human excrement. You can pick a ton of labels for this coward and all would fit. I have detailed my biggest issue with him, but to the rest of the world he needs to be remembered as a cowardly criminal that backed down in the face of authoritarianism because it is what he respects and aspires to be. He’ll never be the hero that he is in his mind (Absolutely has delusions of grandeur), but if you can control the narrative you can be whatever you want people to see you as.
  22. Schroeder wound up being the MVP of the tournament and deservedly so. Taking out his horror show game in the quarters he was the leader for The Deutschland and seems to take a lot of pride in that. He is the ideal point guard in FIBA basketball. He is what every country needs in a floor general. It really is pretty cool how he takes control of the Germans when he he has the ball in his hands. Germany will be better in the Olympics if Kleber play. Playing far closer to home in Paris will also be big for the Weltmeister. I am still not sure Fox would fit the profile of what you want in that style of play. Curry is even at his age the kind of player that can play well despite no experience with the FIBA game. When 35 feet is your range you can be on the court despite defensive limitations. His relationship with Kerr will be a big plus for him, especially if they bring Draymond aboard. When Curry is on he’s the most dangerous guard in the game. Halliburton would be someone to have, especially with the experience in the World Cup. The US needs some continuity. Reaves needs to be brought back and given a bigger role.
  23. If I compared someone that said 2+2=potato they would also be in the stand up guy column when compared to Favre. It’s a 7th Circle of Hell level bar Rodgers is higher than. Such a waste when you consider the good he could have been doing this far in his life. I kind of feel like Rodgers has done his family a favor in being estranged from them.
  24. I don’t wish injuries on anyone, but this one seems fitting for Rodgers. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed and his embracing of quack science vs. now having to embrace doctors who will be using actual science to get him back to full health is quite the 180. Rodgers comes across as a really uneducated human being when he starts talking so I can only imagine some of the eye-rolling a few doctors and rehab specialists will be doing in dealing with him directly for at least a full calendar year.
  25. Kawhi can just avoid all this and move to Europe and play a cool 30 games or so every year.
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