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Mitch Cumsteen

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  1. The oyster bar in Pascal Manales. Eat oysters while you wait for a table and then eat the bbq shrimp once you are seated.
  2. Agreed. I never really thought much of him other than, "Oh hey, look how wide ass open he is again because everybody is covering Smith and Egbuka." Another veteran portal WR in the Spring window would be nice insurance, though. I don't have as much faith in the guys we haven't seen yet or the true freshmen. It seemed over the top that they took three portal WR last year but Sark seems to have a thing for WRs.
  3. It’s definitely not unethical but it feels smarmy, especially when they do shit like not let him pick the games he’s announcing on game day. They purport themselves as unbiased journalists but it’s clearly far from the case. I don’t think it’s a big deal if they just owned it. I’ve thought for years that they should have a play by play guy and then a die hard but extremely knowledgeable fan from each team in the booth. I think it would add so much passion to the game while also having the potential for ridiculous amounts of humor and schadenfreude.
  4. Even if that is accurate, spending 1/6 of your total budget on a single WR -- no matter how great he is -- seems a bit out of whack. Retaining Downs isn't going to be cheap. They already went into the portal for RB, TE and OT. Maybe they don't have to pay as much for roster retention because they lose so many multi-year starters and the backups are less expensive? I have no idea but whatever they do, I hope it blows up in their face.
  5. So Ohio State had a reported $20 million budget for their entire roster last year and Smith is getting $5 million next year? That seems insane to me proportionately, unless there are other non-collective generated funds contributing to that $5 million number.
  6. I haven’t done a deep dive on that trade, but unless I’m grossly mistaken, that’s a disingenuous take. Utah has a ton of young players and they can’t fit three first round picks per year on their roster. They don’t have the developmental throughput. The 2025 Cavs pick is going to be among the worst frp clearly. Going forward though, it’s not just the Cavs pick, it’s the worst frp among the Cavs, Jazz or Twolves picks. If the Cavs have a bad year, Utah will still use their pick. That’s a great trade for Utah. They can’t use them all and they take a flyer on the Suns being really bad a few years down the road. Which based on their current ownership seems like a pretty good bet. It’s a good thing their owner is in the mortgage business because he’s mortgaged the hell out of their future. You’re going to see more and more of these types of trades from the teams like SA, OKC, Utah and Brooklyn that have stockpiled so many future picks. They have to keep pushing them down the road.
  7. I went with a big group and we stayed at Casa Querencia. It was amazing.
  8. It surely doesn’t have the high stakes like the 4 or 2 team playoff, but the way the committee treated losses this year still gives this game some gravitas. If Texas or OSU gets left out with three losses, you can say goodbye to these heavyweight non conference matchups. It would be horrible for the sport, but why play them if the risk is so much greater than the reward?
  9. Johnny Dawkins, too. I'll never forget the day Johnny Dawkins got drafted. He wanted to go so badly to the Bulls and play with MJ, and they picked Brad Sellers in the slot directly before the Spurs were up. Right after the Sellers pick, you could see him shake his head and mouth, "Oh shit. San Antonio is next." He knew what was about to go down. Of course, that moutherfucker's career got sideswiped with the freakiest injury ever -- nerve damage after icing down his leg too long that made him lose control of his foot. I still think he was faking it to get the hell out SA.
  10. What? You don't remember Edgar Jones? The Wild Helicopter? He was one of my all time favorite Spurs. He had like four teeth. He would smile and it would look like he was certifiably insane, which was also exactly the way he played. He would try to dunk everything and block everything, consequences be damned. Or Cadillac Anderson? He was one of my least favorite Spurs. He had maybe the worst hands of anyone who ever wore the black and silver.
  11. I hate it when I'm right sometimes, but the signs have been there for a few weeks. The schedule has gotten tougher and not so coincidentally, their defense has gotten worse. 1-6 in the last 7, and they've given up 122 (in OT), 114, 121, 129, 140 and 128. They can't play at a fast pace and win. They don't shoot it well enough. They are also getting killed in transition off long threes. They need to grind it out on defense and run clock on offense and take efficient shots to win, and they aren't playing like that. Honestly and disappointingly, they look a lot like last year's team. Maybe a few days in Paris will fix them, playing against Indiana who plays as fast or faster than anyone else in the league. Yeah, good luck with that. If this shit continues through the rodeo, Victor may have to come down with a sprained armpit or gluteal stiffness for a few weeks and just hop into the tank. I hate to be that guy but...
  12. I'm holding my nose and rooting for Ohio State. The last thing I want is Notre Dame truly returning to the national stage, coming into Texas for recruits, and having their mythology shoved down our throats for the foreseeable future. And believe me, their Touchdown Jesus / holier than thou / higher admissions standards / divine right / win one for the Gipper bullshit is the absolute worst in all of college football. And while I do like Freeman, I don't like him enough to endure that shit again. It was awful to listen to that crap in the 1980s. They were Duke basketball on steroids of college football. If they lose again, and hopefully in embarrassing fashion, they revert to their current status as an afterthought who can't really match up athletically and a product of a weak schedule and injuries to their opponents (i.e., Carson Beck). On the other hand, an Ohio State win doesn't really change much. They are what they are, no matter what happens tonight. I mean, fuck those guys and their fans, but they are still going to be a top 5 program win or lose. And maybe a blowout makes us look better as the clear second best team in the nation, for whatever that is worth.... which ain't much.
  13. It’s just the next stage in the evolution. He will be overrated as hell, only a product of the system and/or his teammates, not as good as whichever jag starts at qb for them, and then after endless shit talking about him for the next two years while he drags his nuts across their collective faces, he will magically become irreplaceable when he moves on to the next level. Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
  14. OKC is fairly frightening. They are destroying the league without Holmgren and for the most part, without Hartenstein too. They are just small balling it with crazy shit like Jalen or Jaylin Williams playing center and crushing teams. Mobley and Allen should have dominated last night. Of course, it was a one off and OKC definitely had the motivation from the previous loss plus home court. Regardless, the depth and perimeter defense are pretty ridiculous. Also, they are doing all this while not shooting it great from three. They shot 39% last year and are at 35% this year. If the long ball comes around a little more... jeez. The only thing that would concern me long term a little is how dependent they are offensively on SGA creating on his own. Don't get me wrong, the dude is a fucking witch, but there's a ton of one on one. It's much more difficult to play like that in the playoffs when the refs allow more physical play and teams can really dial in on tendencies. It may not make a difference as good as they are defensively and as good as he is individually, but I'm just not wild about the offense they run.
  15. Well, not everybody.
  16. I'm still on board with Sochan. I just thought the record with and without him was interesting. He hasn't seemed right to me since he got injured. He really started off the season well. They need he and Castle on the court together and it's a big spacing problem. Hopefully Castle becomes more consistent from outside and the problem goes away because those two plus Wemby make for hellacious defense when you need fourth quarter stops.
  17. There's nothing worse than when mom and dad fight about Tight Ends and their willingness or lack thereof to block.
  18. I get where you're coming from. I really do. But this was personal because former teammates Chris Paul and JJ Reddick are reportedly very close friends. It was a friend lifting the spirits of his friend's kids who just lost all of their sports memorabilia that they had been collecting their whole lives. I have a hard time viewing that as tone deaf, despite how wealthy they all are.
  19. I saw the previews for this a few weeks back... and I was just so damn confused.
  20. Spurs this season with Sochan: 9-13. Spurs this season without Sochan 10-6.
  21. @Navin R. Johnson I know you are a random son of a bitch and a run of the mill bastard, but can you please stop quoting the longcats from Frenzy? Also... they have had a helluva lot more than 12 peasant years, with or without us in the same conference.
  22. You just put up the @Js1 bat signal.
  23. This thread has unsurprisingly reached a new low. And now, I have too, googling Carson Beck's Snapchat sexts. If only we had an actual football game coming up to distract us.
  24. Rough night. I think this team is due for a market correction on their record. I hope I’m wrong but they’ve had a home heavy schedule and a negative overall point differential. I think they’re a bit due to rack up some L’s. Ending up in the lottery again wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.
  25. Love the Cavs role players. They get so much out of Wade, Levert, Niang, Jerome, Strus and Okoro.
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