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UpperWestside

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  1. Bill Halsey rolling over in his grave.
  2. One Stoops bag o' dicks down and three to go.
  3. As soon as he got the ball I think we all knew he was going to nail it. He should go get a legalized name change to Overrated and have that on his jersey next year. When they were down 15 did anyone think they weren’t going to at least take it down to the wire? This is an incredible run they’re on in this postseason. The right mix of guys doing fun things in clutch moments over and over again.
  4. This was a fun game to watch not only because of the latest ridiculous comeback and Haliburton dagger, but also because there’s no gambling out here. People actually talked about the game and not the money they won or lost. First time in several years that I could talk with someone about the game like that who didn’t want to tell me about their parlay that was 2 points from whatever random player they needed to go over to win a few thousand.
  5. The amount of homelessness I see on a daily basis is astounding and it makes me feel for those who do not have a place to live. I will add that there are a few that I do find to be intriguing because of things I notice. One guy is at the same bus stop and he's always laying under the canopy reading books. Another one I say on the bus last week and he was being his usual loud and obnoxious self. Definitely a former New Yorker in his younger days. Three Australian women were trying to get to a place here and he would not leave them alone on the bus. I gave a knowing look to one of the women and they kinda laughed and just ignored him. Every single time I see someone though I always wonder what was the breaking point in their life that led to being permanently homeless. I feel like we should be doing more to help folks out, especially the mental health part of the equation.
  6. Eritrea is a country of importance to me due to the proximity to Ethiopia and the senseless war between the two this century. I have a really good friend that is from the country next to Chad. He's from Niger (Almost everyone says oh he's from Nigeria.) which was a former French colony. His story about the country's first railroad and the day it opened made me laugh so hard I cried. Niger is on my list of countries I want to see solely for the railroad debacle.
  7. Captain Jack seems like he has plenty of free time to do this.
  8. That was my first thought, but way too brutal. Watching the video of that still makes me cringe.
  9. That’s accurate from what I have seen. I have not watched near as much as longtime WNBA fans, but yeah there is no superstar calls or protection going on. I think it’s going to take one of Clark’s teammates going McHale on Rambis to get this to stop. Otherwise I think the physicality against Clark will not stop. If you’re an opponent and know there are no repercussions for roughing up the star of your opponent you’re going to keep doing it. The league doesn’t seem interested in intervening on this.
  10. I saw several of those play for Nazareth years ago. One got splattered into the goal support in the 98 state title game against Wortham. Leonard Davis threw a massive elbow and the poor kid went flying.
  11. He inserts himself into this for bigoted reasons. That should get called out anywhere. Any decent human being that doesn’t like bigotry should say the same.
  12. Great insult. Really put on your thinking cap for that one. If you don’t understand this it’s on you. You don’t let bigots have a say. If you think that James Woods deserves to have any voice in this you are as bad as he is.
  13. I think it’s an interesting thought, but I think where Clark’s impact will reverberate with her competitors is when she wins the WNBA title. Once that happens I think the dislike from players in the WNBA will subside. The talent coming through plays more her style. At least the stars coming up do. The league really needs Watkins to come back fully healthy. Right now she is the one I would put money on to be Clark’s biggest competition. Her or Bueckers who is doing really well so far this season, concussion notwithstanding.
  14. Am I replying to him on his account? No I am not. No one should “let it lie” when the source is someone like Woods. Not now, not ever. I am replying on this site about him. You condemn these morons each time they crawl out from under their rock and find sources not using this as part of a maga culture war. Clark is no more than that to those morons. I will gladly agree with that criticism from someone that isn’t a bigot. If the leader of the KKK had posted that same thing on X should I use them? Of course not. It’s not hard to figure this out.
  15. You don’t give attention to a bigot, especially one like Woods who is interjecting himself solely because he’s part of the maga cult. I said that the words were an accurate reflection of the situation, but the source is an awful human being. When Derka shares his thoughts on the sport I read them because he actually wants this league to succeed and because he knows basketball. James Woods is neither of those things.
  16. Looks like it happened after she hit her head on the floor near the free throw line. Saw a short clip of her teammates helping her up, but no video of how it happened.
  17. This is all cool and whatnot, but I just want ASU to win the conference again maybe win a game this time in the playoffs. That would be awesome.
  18. My issue with her game, specifically the offensive end, is this. The first time any of us played organized basketball we learned how to dribble, how to perform a chest and bounce pass and then we learned how to convert lay-ups. You don’t have to make 100 percent of them because you will often be contested in the half-court, but Sweet Baby Jesus it looks at times like there is a force field around 3 feet and in. How she cannot routinely make easy layups and instead turns them into a rebound fest that even Rodman would find excessive is incredible to watch. A coach worth their salt would bench her until she figures out how to finish in the paint. So many of those rebounds are completely worthless stat padding.
  19. The point being made here is absolutely valid, but the source, well, there is a 100 percent chance Woods has never seen Clark play ball and is posting only for the maga culture war garbage. I’m also 100 percent sure if you put Clark next to Sue Bird and Taurasi that he would not know who she is out of the three.
  20. As much as I would like to see social issues get addressed, the goal for 2028 should be in having the best candidate that can appeal to as many sane people as possible. There is no telling who might emerge over the next 2 1/2 years, but hopefully not Newsome or some clown trying to appeal to voters you cannot reach because they are all in mentally on the cult of TFG.
  21. Didn’t a vet actually give him their Purple Heart his first time in office?
  22. I believe he’s working as much as I believe TFG isn’t a raging alcoholic and pill addict.
  23. I've interjected this on here before, but the broken government is something you can look back into the WWII era of American politics. The Reagan era was just the point where stupidity had found a permanent home and the growth exploded from that point forward into this monster that it is today. WWII though had some ridiculous sequences on the home front thanks to people like William Randolph Hearst. The 1944 behind the scenes campaign to get MacArthur the Republican nod for president was among the most atrocious things he was a part of. That man was just pure awful, an open supporter of the Nazis in his newspapers in the 1930's and an avowed enemy of FDR after supporting him early on. Hearst and his newspaper handiwork put an imprint on the party and its voters long before the era that all of us were born in.
  24. That was pretty funny to read. Our deputy chancellor Vance lied about his roots in his book and still lies about them. The new pope declared him, for all intents and purposes, a moron who doesn’t know Catholicism any better than he would his backside from a hole in the ground. He is reviled by almost everyone that has the misfortune of crossing paths with him and yet this guy is one well done steak induced heart attack away from the first chair. Well done you orange cult clowns.
  25. The best result would be, and this is from a screw TFG perspective, to have Mexico be in the final. The stream of consciousness racism from the cult and their orange freak show would hit a magnitude we have not yet seen. Yes the odds of that happening and slim to nil, but hoo boy if it did just forget whatever normal rules once existed about how to be an adult in this country.
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