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Wulaw Horn

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  1. 1 hour ago, d2o said:

     

    As long as Morey is willing to work for that clown show the Rockets will have a punchers chance. The second he's gone and broke ass Tilman has to find another GM they are basically screwed.  

    I know Morey gets a ton of shit but I think the Rockets have won the 4th most playoff games since 2015, and since he's taken over the team in 2005 or whenever it was I think they only trail San Antonio and Miami in total wins (something like that). They've never had a below 500 season with him at the helm, never tanked, never been bad, and had 2 separate chances to win titles if things wouldn't have gone against them with injury bad luck (Yao/Tmac and Harden/Paul). Were either of those great chances?  Not really, but in a league where Lebron in the east means an auto trip to the finals and dynastic squads in LA, San Antonio and Golden State mean you have to be historically great (other than that little window dallas seized by the short hairs) to win a title you really shouldn't fault him too much for not having a title to his name. The guy is, at worst, with the constraints put on him by 2 different ownership groups being cheap as fuck and refusing to pay the tax a B+ executive.  

    I'm sure Tilman will run him off or fire him at some point in time, but until that happens or Harden breaks this is a 4-6 seed in the west- and there's no shame in that as the west is still pretty fucking stacked, and getting better. 

    Next year you will have both LA teams think they can win a title, Dallas continuing to grow with Luka emerging as a clear top 10, maybe top 5 guy, a pretty good squad in Denver and I'm sure a rockets team that will be pretty good, along with the Warriors having a re-set and adding a piece and getting healthy and maybe being as good as their first title team.  That's a stupid top 6 in the conference, really, if you think about it.  Then, you have Zion coming of age with better coaching, that interesting Suns team, Memphis was fun, not to mention Dame and the guys with a similar roster to the shitty conference title roster they had.  I think OKC gets off of Paul and gets worse, but they are the only playoff team I see taking a step back.  

    Who are the easy outs in the west?  Minnesota who just added the #1 overall pick to go along with 2 young guys who made all star teams. Sacramento (terrible, same as it's been for 14 years or what have you) and San Antonio maybe?  Seriously, it's a fucking blood bath. I'm sure I forgot someone good and someone bad in there somewhere but damn man, this shit is stacked.  

  2. 24 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    I don’t know what strain of corn you plant, but I’ve been getting sweet corn from a nearby farm for 4-6 weeks now.  They are probably laying down the corn maze right now. And we don’t exactly have an extended growing season up here. 

    My ex in-laws in Iowa never seemed to harvest corn until near about thanksgiving- never before Halloween. 
    to be fair- he was usually the last one with his crop still in the field. 
    The ex was a Hawkeye- thus part of my admiration and like of Iowa State. 

  3. 29 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

    I dunno that I fully agree. Yeah the LSU cancellation sucked. Ran into a Tiger in Tampa, FL and he commented as I had a Longhorn shirt that he was super bummed Texas and Longhorn fans weren't coming to Baton Roo. 

    That said, I thought the Texas game on Sat was pretty mother fucking watchable. Sure it was scrubs late..  which was fucking glorious.

    I meant September football unwatchable throughout America. I’d watch us play an 8th grade B team and enjoy. But I ain’t watching other helmet

    schools club baby seals. 

  4. 2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Don Jr’s psychotic wife (maybe just girlfriend) that was speaking at the RNC and went off on this insane rant about the evil left that ended with that gesture, cackling like a coked up sorceress. 

    That’s awesome. I’m glad I didn’t see it and instead have this description to form a mental picture. That has to be better than whatever the reality was. 

  5. Yeah- I don’t think it’s happening, but if it did I think I’d buy a shirt and hat and then promptly forget it ever happened. It wouldn’t make up for losing last year to me. 
    by contrast if Texas won a national title I’d be as excited about that as just about anything short of Vy in 2005. I don’t know if any title could be as special as that one bc it felt like it should count for double it was so badass. 

  6. 3 hours ago, Scraps said:

    I've seen enough to know we are going to suck once in playoffs so I don't really give a shit, but it would be better to make it than not.  

    That’s the spirit. 
    what if we win the World Series?  That’s not likely to happen but it’s a serious question.  How would you feel about this team and season?  
    that’s an off day question for anyone to answer...

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  7. 3 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

    I meant that you're just a maniac in general, not specific to any one particular thing.

    Fair enough.  I'm really just a contrarian. And that's because most people are wrong and stupid so the money is to be made betting against CW. In pretty much any situation.  Except RV clearance with a low bridge.  The bridge gonna win that every day of the week and twice on Sundays. 

  8. Swoops and it's not even remotely close. If you want to talk about least physically talented it's Case and that's also not close- but beat OU & forever scoreboard for A&M in the same year and I won't ever talk shit about you, no matter how shitty/limited a QB you are. 

    Gilbert was wretched. I think Ash basically could have been as good as Sam if his head wasn't a melon.  Heard- yikes.  Buschele- just physically limited- but he would have been a perfect guy to play a chance Mock role in a healthy program. Not a him thing. 

    Boy this has been a fun walk down memory lane. 

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  9. 8 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

     And you're just a maniac. But neither of you sounds like a parrot for the constant Trump propaganda and deflections and "squirrel!" distractions.

    It's funny to me that being ideological, non-partisan and caring about character in a leader makes one a maniac, but I'm ok with it. And also recognizing that our individual actions as it relates to a country of 330 million add up to almost nothing in the grand scheme of things. 

  10. 7 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

     

    - Super team built by AD forcing his way off of his former team even though his contract wasn't up
    - LeChina

    But most importantly, I'm a Spurs fan, as is ztejas. We will never stop rooting against the Lakers. They can EABOD.

    Hey, I grew up as a run TMC fan where the showtime lakers would son my boys and I hated that. I get the hate I guess.

    And you know which side of the aisle I'm on politically so LeChina isn't my favorite guy to root for- I don't stan for him at all, but he's pretty good.  Unibrow is pretty boring but I have nothing bad to say about him.

    The lakers have been hot garbage for 10 years. I've got nothing invested in hating them anymore, right now. 

  11. 1 hour ago, TonyTexas said:

    It’s time we stopped worrying about the Oakland and focus on the Mariners. So go A’s! Sweep Seattle! Biggest series of the season. 

    Yep. In this absurd season (don't get me wrong- I prefer some baseball to no baseball) with 60 ish games played, no fans, maybe a playoff bubble etc., I can't see any benefit to being the 3 seed vs the 6 seed vs the 8th seed or whatever the hell it is how this thing is set up.  Just get in. Nothing else matters. Go Oakland.  

  12. 5 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

    Did he get his siesta?

    My jaw hit the ground. I sort of stammered. I got him out of there as quick as I could. I asked the receptionist (hispanic lady) if she heard him and she was like- yeah- no big deal. I was like ok. i Have no idea if he went home for a siesta. Just a surreal moment for me as I'd never experienced anything like this before from a stranger. 

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  13. 2 hours ago, BradInATX said:

    Yeah, at least Jokic and Murray (and MPJ) are draft picks. I'm not super familiar with how they built the rest of that roster, but I can't recall any marquis free agents.

    They'd have a really really difficult time with the Lakers if they get there. It's a poor matchup for them. But even if they could just knock the Clippers out, it makes the odds of the champion not being an LA or Boston team that much better, which I think we're all rooting for. 

    There's a very real path to not having an LA champion if the Nuggets finish the Clippers off. The Lakers don't match up extremely well with Miami, but the Clippers do. So even if Denver is just the sacrificial lamb that got rid of an LAC team that would give Miami/Boston fits, they've helped the cause.

    We are all Nuggets, Heat, and even Celtics if we need to be.

    Look- I'm a Longhorn fan first, last and forever.  Beyond that- I root- ish- for the Rockets, horns in the pros and just shit that's interesting or fun.  I don't see anything wrong with Lebron winning a title with the Lakers, especially if it's over the Celtics. Or Celtics over Lebron and the Lakers. 

    I'd rather the Clips not win a title b/c Leonard seems like a bitch, and I'd rather he not drag his nuts across the rest of the leagues faces with two different titles, in 2 years, with two different teams, both in the first year with them.  I don't see anything about Miami or Boston that's particularly fun to watch, but gun to my head I guess I'd slightly prefer Boston to Miami if the Lakers are in the finals for purposes of nostalgia. I guess.  But yeah, Miami and Denver aren't compelling to root for unless they are your guys, so I don't get this at all. 

  14. 6 hours ago, WBT said:

    Why does it have to be all or nothing?  Can't the B1G teams that want to play just play each other home and home?  Maybe pay to bring in a couple of sunbelt/conf usa teams?  BYU probably still has a couple of slots open too.

    BYU absolutely has a crappy schedule of 8 games that I'm sure they'd be happy to play some legit teams.  HBU has 3 teams on their schedule- I'd imagine they'd be willing to play some more.  Stuff like that. 

  15. 2 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

    Plenty of people on this board vote for trump they either don’t post or lie about it.

     

    So anyway I was sitting at the bar in the restaurant next to my office eating lunch. Only 2 people are allowed at the bar at a time but the other guy was a friendly gregarious old white guy and liked to talk. 
     

    After some conversation about work, Austin, etc.  he asks me if I watched NFL football yesterday. I said sure why not. He then says “because of all those fucking damn niggers kneeling at the flag is why I’m never watching it again.” Said it loud enough for plenty of people in the restaurant to hear. 

    I wasn’t really stunned and just quickly changed the subject. In fact I was actually anticipating and waiting for that kind of moment. 
     

    I thought this was the best thread to put that  story in. 

    About 8 years ago I had a client come in and yawn (port lavaca) and say, I must be a spic b/c I need a siesta right now. In an office full of hispanics.  I couldn't fucking fathom a stranger would say something like that out loud. I guess the only thing I can say in his defense was he was probably born in 1925 and the world is a lot different now than it was then, but damn, I can't fathom casual racism in public around strangers in 2020. It blows my fucking mind. 

  16. 6 hours ago, BradInATX said:

     

    Now we just have to decide whether or not he actually isn't voting for Trump. The numbers show us that 53% of men voted for Trump last time, and yet there's not a single Trump voter on this board! How strange.

    Surly must have the absolute best luck. We completely defy logic and statistics. If you figure we have 20 or so vocal anti-Biden folks, statistically speaking, the odds that zero of those people are Donald Trump voters is one in 7,629,619,621,922,640,000,000,000. In English that's one in seven septillion six hundred twenty-nine sextillion six hundred nineteen quintillion six hundred twenty-one quadrillion nine hundred twenty-two trillion six hundred forty billion

    So we've either created one of the most significant breakthroughs in probability and statistics in human history here, or, well, there' s a lot of people on this board who are completely full of shit when they say they're not voting for Trump.

    Dude this string of words you put together is nonsensical.

    1) There are plenty of Trump voters on Surly. 

    2) Most of those have no desire to come into here to talk I'm sure. I've been anti Trump, vociferously, for 5 years now, and for 20 years on these forums I've talked about how I'm comfortable no voting or voting third party and I've been called everything from the dumbest mother fucker on the planet to a Nazi, b/c I'm ALSO not voting for Biden (and probably not voting at all).  Now, a normal well adjusted person would say, I think I might just go ahead and not wander into that steaming ceaspool of shit. Note how many people say NO CR on this board.  Assume 80% of them are voting for Trump, they just aren't comfortable talking about politics outloud (remember- in polite company it has always been considered uncouth to talk about politics, religion or her- Sammy Kershaw taught me so).

    3) Those on this board are more likely to be attracted to some form of political discourse- the fact that this is in no way a representative slice of America negates all that non-sense.

    4) Really, what you are getting down to is the idea that a small hand full of people are liars.  I choose not to believe that as I've "known" Slorch for years now, or Anastasis or a couple other people on here. If they tell me they didn't vote for Trump I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt. Are some of them lying?  Probably. Do I want to live my life figuring that they are all a lying bunch of liars who lie?  Not really. I bet it's way fewer of them lying than whatever you think it is.  Not that we'd ever be able to prove that. 

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  17. On 9/12/2020 at 10:20 PM, aggie08 said:

    What if I told you...a team gave up draft picks to trade the 3rd worst contract in basketball for the 2nd worst?

    I’d tell you player empowerment is a real thing and they wanted to keep their all nba guy happy and engaged. 
    sucks but is what it is.  

  18. On 9/12/2020 at 7:35 PM, Sbbruin said:

    Haha.  Fuck the Rockets.  Small ball is all fine and good unless you play a big team that is also skilled.  Good night Gladys.

    I mean if the worst you can say about a team is they couldn’t get past the dubs juggernaut or vintage Lebron teamed with AD, uhm, ok?   Nobody else has yet either. 

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