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Mitch Cumsteen

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  1. From what I've been told, she thinks she is a lot smarter than she is. With regard to the area around the dome... Project Marvel is supposed to connect all that. And there has been a a lot more development near the Alamodome than you are giving credit for. It's not necessarily because of the Alamodome, but it doesn't hurt that it's there.
  2. Coincidentally I had dinner the other night with a big group including someone who is on staff for a city councilman and my buddy who works for the Spurs. They were both discussing how bad she is. But this is going to get done. She doesn't have the juice to stop it. One of the big issues is that the county already jumped in to cover $300 million. So they're on board and it makes it more difficult for her. It's just a matter of time before this goes through. Having anything remotely to do with the Spurs potentially leaving San Antonio would be political suicide. She's going to have a come to jesus moment very soon, no matter how smart and powerful she thinks she is. Are you implying that the Alamodome was a failure? Final fours and concerts and bowl games and conventions not to mention the Spurs playing there for a few years... that thing was a bargain. They paid something like $185 million for it and has returned close to $4 billion in economic impact. Now, they never should have put the new Spurs arena on the east side. That was a major fuck up. But this city NEEDS to reinvest in downtown or its going to take a turn for the worse. We have had one of the most unique and desirable downtowns for generations, but it's kinda going to shit. The idea of having dinner or a few drinks on the river before/after a Spurs game would be huge for the revitalization of downtown and getting locals down there. Not to mention that expanding the convention center would let them bring in larger conventions. Also on the basketball side of things... my friend told me that he doesn't envision Pop and RC having too much to do with the details of the team going forward. Don't get me wrong, they are still going to be around and involved, but it is apparently nearly completely Brian Wright and Mitch Johnson's show now, hopefully to have an RC/Pop-like run for the next 15 years.
  3. Puro San Antonio. I do think it's a bit weird that they actually got the mayor to comment on a death threat, though. And then she immediately went to the race card. I don't think she quite has this PR thing down yet. /no cloak room
  4. On paper, that Temple game kinda stands out to me as a potential trap. It's a sandwich game (between Michigan and Auburn) on the road with an early start in Philly. Temple hired KJ Keeler to replace our beloved Stan Drayton. Keeler is old but the guy is the all-time winningest coach in FCS playoff history and the only coach in FCS history to win a national championship at two different schools. The QB is in his 6th year of college football and they brought in about 10 transfers. And OU had the ugliest 51-3 blowout in Norman against them last season. They got 6 turnovers so the game got out of hand. But I watched that game, and play in and play out, Temple didn't look overwhelmed. Especially if OU ends up beating Michigan and gets an earful of how good they are, I can at least see that game being interesting. Or at least making a first half wager on the Owls until OU wakes up.
  5. I started rewatching with my 20 year old son, who is seeing it for the first time. Just finished season 2. I forgot how much I went from hating season 2 at the beginning to loving it at the end. The whole show is so good and it's been so long since I watched it, I had forgotten so much.
  6. I too think that we're going to be a lot more explosive with Manning than with Ewers checking everything down, but if you're going to make a comparison like this you have to at least acknowledge the difference in competition between UTSA, ULM and MSU (the three worst teams on the schedule) vs. the rest of the teams Ewers faced.
  7. It's the fall camp equivalent of Greg Davis keeping things vanilla before the OU game.
  8. Making KD live through ring night in the city that he bailed on to go win at Golden State is just a fantastic manufactured storyline.
  9. Yes, it's still a thing and the food is horrible. The Mine Shaft is the bar in the back of the Magic Time Machine. It shares the back parking lot with La Fonda and has its own entrance. It's not a great bar by any stretch, but it ain't terrible either. It's always fun to throw back some beers while Captain Jack Sparrow or Dora the Explorer bring their table's drink orders over. Soluna and Paloma Blanca are definitely better quality / higher end. If you want to go with chicken enchiladas with poblano cream sauce or something a little more exotic, then either of those are better calls for sure. But I think La Fonda as more of an old school tex mex cheese enchiladas, rice y beans place.
  10. It's rather amazing what they've done to the depth chart at DT since the end of last season. Basically, we had Alex January coming off a promising true freshman year and nothing else. Now they have a legit three deep of guys with different skillsets they can mix and match. That would have been impossible in the pre-portal days.
  11. I've thought about creating a separate thread that was comprised only of a comprehensive list of nut punches and fuck ups over the years so that anytime someone brings something like it up, you could just link the thread and not have rehash / relive the specific trauma and thread derail. But it would be too fucking depressing to do it.
  12. I would go with La Fonda on 410 behind the Magic Time Machine (i.e., not the La Fonda on N. Main). And the walk over to the Mine Shaft for a drink after.
  13. I know Sacramento gets about the least amount of pub in the league, but do you even watch basketball? Fox is one of the best 25ish players in the league. I can't imagine how much playing next to Wemby is going to open up his game.
  14. First, it's not the super max, it's the max. Huge difference. And if you will notice, every all star level player (and some non all stars) is getting the max these days. You see the comparisons to Luka's salary over the next three years. Well, when Luka comes up in 3 years, the Lakers are going to have pay him something like $83 million a year. I promise you Fox's next contract (if he's even still on the team) will look much differently. Secondly, Harper is 19 years old and has never played a minute of an NBA game. I doubt he's one of the best 25-30 players in the league right off the bat like Fox is, and there's almost zero chance he's the better player right now. The Spurs are trying to compete for the playoffs right now. Also, they just locked up Fox for the absolute prime years of his career (age 28-32) and he has no option in year 4. If Harper turns out to be that much better than him and Fox becomes disposable, he's still a tradeable asset. And again, it doesn't blow their cap because the rest of their core is on rookie deals. Worst case is that they end up in the tax one season when Harper's extension kicks in but that's four years down the road. With regard to Clutch... you also need to consider what the Spurs had to give up to get Fox, which was hardly anything for an all star point guard in his prime. Look what Orlando gave up for Bane. Look what the Knicks gave up for Bridges. You gotta give Clutch some credit for the way they played their hand in Sacramento. The Spurs gave back a highly protected Chicago FRP that was likely never to convey. They gave up an even more protected Charlotte FRP that ended up converting into two seconds. They gave up their own 2027 pick which should be in the 20's if Wemby can stay healthy. They gave up the Minnesota unprotected in 2031. They didn't even have to give Sac their own FRP pick back that they fleeced them out of to facilitate the Derozan/Barnes trade. And they got to unload Zach Collins and his shitty contract on top of that. Would I have liked Fox to sign for less? Sure, but this is just the way business is done in the NBA today. I don't get the criticism at all. And like I said, I promise this extension was baked into the deal in the beginning when they made the trade. Now, I don't know that they make the trade in hindsight if they knew they were going to luck into the number 2 pick in the draft, but so what? Hindsight is 20/20. That they got Harper is gravy and yet another asset.
  15. Like I said in the spurs thread, the Fox extension was assuredly negotiated before they made the trade. It’s a lot easier to swallow while Wemby, Castle and Harper are on rookie contracts. The Keldon Johnson and Devin Vassell contracts are probably worse deals if you want to criticize the Spurs front office.
  16. I’m not surprised at all. This was negotiated back when they made the trade, I assure you. I like it that Fox is on a little bit of a different timeline than the rest of the team. This is the time to give a vet big money while you have Wemby and Castle and Harper on rookie deals. Next contract for Fox is going to be a different deal. If he’s still around, that is.
  17. Bryant doing damage in these practice sessions. And that's a nice use of the off arm btw.
  18. Maybe we've moved beyond all the historical rat poison media hype with Sark, but holy shit I've never seen so much Kool Aid flowing. Especially when they haven't even practiced in pads and started hitting yet. How the hell can you judge anything about the offensive or defensive lines right now?
  19. I think it shows how much he's matured that there was no gun play involved.
  20. I always figured Terry for the inside. Is he just not big enough, yet?
  21. Did PK tell the media he would see them in December too? That's the last we will hear from that guy until the playoffs.
  22. Anybody else slightly concerned about DT? We've gotten very spoiled there the last three years. I know there are a lot of new bodies and highly rated transfers to throw at the position and the future looks really bright, but I can't imagine we won't see a little step back there. The only guy we've actually seen play is January, and he's a true sophomore.
  23. I think Venables will cobble together a good defense. And I think their QB transfer will be pretty good. But that offensive line and lack of talent at the skill positions is going to make it difficult for them. They are going to have win ugly rock fights and hope they win the turnover battles and special teams. Going to need lots of Sooner magic. I think they are going to be better than we think, generally. The schedule that looked so brutal last year doesn't seem as bad this go around. Or maybe I still have PTSD from the Sam Bradford seems like he sucks thread from god knows how many years ago. I'm still trying to figure out how they waxed Bama 24-3 and ran for 257 yards on them.
  24. I think the move is to let him commit to OU now, then flip him at the last minute leaving OU empty handed with no replacement.
  25. They must have some special kind of math in Georgia.
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