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  1. Have you seen a podiatrist about your collapsed arch?
  2. There is a reason they say Washington D.C. / Politics is Hollywood for ugly people.
  3. You guys are welcome: https://hellohelium.com/
  4. The only way forward I can see for me is a) draft a Luka 2.0, but that's a generational talent so unlikely to happen (though we did have Dirk and then Luka, so who knows) or b) go ahead and relo the Mavs to Las Vegas and I'll give a new franchise with a fresh start my fandom.
  5. What he said and what is reality aren't necessarily the same thing....that's his point, I think.
  6. Refiners are already operating on thin margins. That's what I'm watching right now, how do refineries like MPC, P66, etc handle all this.
  7. already happened/happening. we've hashed this out already pages ago.
  8. Are you wearing a 36 inseam navy pair of slacks?
  9. I wouldn't characterize him as that. My personal opinion is that Cuban, like any and all of us, care more about our money and bank accounts than a sports team or job, and priortized a nice exit for himself and that he thought he was clever and could have his cake and eat it too, knowing there was a risk of it not happening. But he also calculated that if the Adelson's didn't honor a verbal agreement, he's still okay with the deal. What I think changes the above calculus is that he never once even considered it a possiblity of what happened. Heck nobody did, everyone thought it was a joke or fake news, it's talked about as the worst, one-sided, bone-headed deal ever. It's essentially a force de majeure event what happened and not something you seriously consider in any way before doing this deal. With hindsight 20/20 I do actually believe Cuban would not do the deal with the Adelsons. Even if not for the love of Luka and Dallas, for his own brand that's been very tarnished, on a go forward basis. I think he waits it out or seeks out an alternative partner as the money will still be there (as seen by the Boston deal).
  10. Agreed. Cuban is a billionaire. Money will always come before the Mavs. He looks bad either way like you've mentioned. Either he didn't do his research on this group and he's dumb or he knew and just didn't give a shit because.... Money. I'll go with the latter. He was given certain assurances, a gentleman's agreement if you will (lol aggies), that basketball decisions and running the basketball ops would still largely go through him. His exact quote, "Mark Cuban: "I fully expected to run basketball. The NBA wouldn't let me put it in the contract. They took it out, I thought the Adelsons would stick to their word because they didn't know the first thing about running a team. Someone obviously changed their mind." He didn't get it in writing because apparently the NBA doesn't allow that and so this verbal agreement amounted to squat and the Adelsons went back on that and Cuban is pretty neutered.
  11. To further put a point on my being out of touch @Thatguy, I have zero idea who Jonah Williams is and what hte Galveston Ball is. I'm assuming it's either a debutante ball thing or a kappa sea wall party or something in between. ETA found it! Jonah "Island Boi" Williams (his self-identifed sobriquet, not mine). Star Baseball player and hopefully one day star footballer as well!
  12. I don't have current high school athletes so my observations are second hand from friends and colleagues who still do, specifically at these schools and in this area, but I'll defer to you since you are living it right now and these kids are always changing and confounding us olds.
  13. That's about the long and short of it for a lot of us. My son is still trying to be a Mavs fan but he's lost a lot of..I don't even know what you'd call it-- faith? trust? respect? for the team and it's definitely a more muted emotional investment. I truly think if Cuban had a magic 8 ball and could see the future, for all his faults, he would not have sold his majority stake to these clowns and I think he'd have waited and done another deal if he wanted out. Right or wrong, this is a stain on his legacy whether he had the power to stop it or not-- perception is reality. And some for Nico. I'm in the camp that Nico was largely the empty suit on this and it was drive from above his paygrade and he was the fall-guy and patzi and is being paid to wear this scarlet letter. But if that's the case, he's not a very sympathetic victim in my eyes. He sold out his integrity and reputation and he will wear this albatross around his neck for the rest of his career. I would be surprised if he could reinvent himself when this is all over. He's going to need to just take his money and retire on a beach somewhere.
  14. This makes me both sad and makes my blood boil.
  15. Is the belt tightening cancelled now?
  16. That's how I understood it as well. @Thatguy also to note, from what I've seen in the area (Frisco/Prosper) these kids like the victim Austin Metcalf and others aren't track atheletes and hypertrained and focused on the sport. They are football players who do track in the Spring because their coaches ask them to and to maintain conditioning and training. They aren't growing up together as competitors in some AAU-version of track and have grown relationships around their competitors. Maybe for Karmelo Anthony it was different and there's a different sub-culture that I'm sure exists where there are kids that train and compete like your daughter, but I would venture a guess that your experience is not germane to what we are going to find out happened here when the dust settles. But until it plays out I guess we can all spill a lot of ink about it and listen to each other's Tent Talks.
  17. I'm laughing at the image of a self-described middle aged divorced suburban dad using AAVE to pick up the middle aged suburban mom.
  18. Good points and I honestly don't know with respect to Houston and the culture of highschools and track meets that you are describing. Maybe it's a universal experience with all teens and schools as you seem to suggest, but what makes you so sure of it? I moved to this area a few years ago and can say from my firsthand experience I'd never seen anything quite like it from my stints in other areas of Dallas, Austin and Houston.
  19. I get the sense that people from Austin and Houston are not able to grasp just how insular the communities and schools of Far North Texas are. I get the sense the watchers aren't there because teens are giggly and flirty with each other @Thatguy. These areas it's more likely there are watcher because they want make sure the kids zoned into their schools via apartments aren't stealing their things. I mean, the Fisco mascot was the Coons for the longest time and it was a running joke.
  20. Would love to hear more about this blackballing. Sounds like there is some government blackballing by tagging a SSN for getting a job?! That sounds so fake and dystopian, but I guess I could see it in this environment. Normally I'd say this is 100% your daughter misinterpreting but who knows now.
  21. Praise God the end of our national nightmare is over (for now). Never thought I'd say that with seriousness, but my portfolios are green for the first time in a while and my calls are calling and life is good again for a brief moment. "one shining momeeeennnnnt"
  22. Wick and Bond
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