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Skipper

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  1. Agreed with this take. He knows best case scenario it will take him 2 years to get A&M where he has Ole Miss right now. Leverage A&M for more money with a stable situation for less downside risk and quicker upside to a top caliber job. The only way A&M made sense for Beard is if he wanted to move back to Texas with goal of settling long term.
  2. I genuinely thought the rest of the post was going to criticize the half baked Helobious 'analysis' which would have been equally valid criticism.
  3. Stars need to take care of business and see if VGK/SL can stay hot against the Jets. If so could set up a really big game next week. If not, we 'should' have enough cushion against the Avs at this point to treat our last 2 road games as exhibitions and send Bischel down to get Seguin some ice time before playoffs (I think I read that is the only move we could make pre-playoffs to clear enough space). Avs will have a rest advantage if that is the matchup as we play 2 road games (Mon/Wed) after their last game (Sun) so would think we want to either in a position to clinch the 1 seed by winning or have the 2 seed locked in and rest guys.
  4. The Saturday outcomes gave us some nice cushion with Colorado. And yes, we really needed Winnipeg to lose that game yesterday. Rolling with DeSmith tonight which makes sense to get Otter some extra rest down the stretch. A W sure would be nice to close out this road trip.
  5. I get the feeling Vance is aware he's surrounded by morons but playing his role to step up in 4 years. To be clear, I've always thought he might be more dangerous than Trump because he's not an idiot (and beholden to Thiel).
  6. Watched a few minutes of the 3rd and went to sleep 4-0. Glad I didn't stay up as would have been awake another hour post-game probably with the way it appears to have played out.
  7. This is what is funny to me. How do these guys still not understand that shit really only works for Trump. Don't get me wrong, I don't understand how it consistently works for Trump but it does. He's the only one in the MAGA world that gets the blind loyalty. My initial reaction to Hegseth's initial interview was that it was just a really bad Trump impersonation (lie, deflect, blame the Libs). Waltz the same thing. I mean on one hand they don't really have any other cards to play in this instance, but it doesn't come as natural to anyone else like it does Trump and just doesn't work.
  8. Pink House was a solid meal and cool place. Feel like it is kind of a must do. If not dinner, we really liked the bar downstairs and went there post dinner and another night for drinks. Artillery was a great cocktail bar. It was close to our hotel and hit it up a couple of times pre diner. Perry Lane (where we stayed) had a good rooftop bar. Alligator soul was a good dinner but lacked in atmosphere (we went on July 4th so it was dead). Vic's was a solid lunch. Crystal Beer Parlor was a really good more casual lunch. Collins Quarter was a good breakfast. Didn't work out for us but if you feel the need and are there long enough, there is a guy that does Texas Style BBQ supposed to be really good that was written up in Texas Monthly/BBQ Snob. He was just doing pop ups when we were there and didn't work out but think he was working on a permanent location.
  9. Otter needed a game like last night. All around great effort after what seemed like quite a few C+ / B- games in a row.
  10. Yep. We've been getting points but haven't really played good hockey in 2+ weeks and Miko not doing much at all yet still getting comfortable. Hoping we can start putting some better periods together and see some signs of Miko beginning to mesh. I get that it's hard to have a sense of urgency night to night when pretty much locked in to first round matchup (particularly if we win tonight) but also really need to start playing better hockey before it's on the line round 1 against COL as they are playing great right now.
  11. Ended up not doing the Ferry this trip. But Finest exceeded expectations. Older kids might get bored but mine (6 and 8 ) were at a great age for kids area etc., so we were able to drop them off during the day and go over to the adults side pool for an hour or so and then at night have kid free dinners a couple of nights. Food was pretty solid for an all inclusive, high quality liquor, etc. No complaints.
  12. I missed this just like I unfortunately missed the game (and what a great one to be at). Came down with a bad cold early this week so took it easy. Likely missing Thurs as well as leaving town early Friday morning. Going to make most of the games down the stretch though.
  13. Kind of what I'm getting at. The one predictable thing about Trump is he hated stock market losses. It's why he was going so crazy at the beginning of Covid because it was out of his control (remember the 'stop testing' line as the market was crashing). Someone convinced him to ignore the one thing we always thought he cared about.
  14. I'm genuinely a bit baffled by Trump's strategy here. His first term it seemed like he almost cared too much about the market and let it dictate policy. This time, he's hitting like 1000 buttons at once knowing damn well how the market would react. I think you might could make a decent economic argument for a measured approach as it relates to tariffs, or slashing government spending/workforce, again, in a thought out and measured way (after spending several months evaluating options). And maybe you do one or the other or both but not also at the same time you have blown up long standing international alliances. He just hitting all these levers at once right after winning the election by making the impossible promise to the mass idiots that he would somehow reverse inflation, lower interest rates but also keep the market and economy at large booming. That was obviously never going to happen. But from a strategy standpoint, is he just trying to blow it all up so he can try to blame it on Biden then take the credit for a recovery 2-3 years from now? I honestly thought the tariff nonsense was always just talk but maybe not. Interesting times. I'm sure I'll just get a bunch of emotional cloak room responses but curious if anyone has non-emotional "fuck trump" thoughts.
  15. I was considering same yesterday but didn't this time. I did this during COVID and went cash pre- market crash and patted myself on the back at how smart I was. Then missed the fucking runup and didn't buy back in until I was at a loss. I'm overly liquid right now though non-retirement and slow rolling putting that into the market.
  16. Nico/Adelson's cursed this team and every remaining player on it. I hope the STH renewal rate is abysmal.
  17. There actually was one released recently. I saw a headline come across the end of last week. It was the sole reason I clicked on this thread assuming there might be some substantive discussion of the actual topic of the thread. Silly me.
  18. I keep seeing people say that but guess I've been lucky. I had issues game 1 and never since.
  19. Trump/Elon bitching is fucking everywhere. I get it. I despise them too. But it's nonstop for certain posters no matter the topic. I'll just stick to stars thread, 9.95 and food and travel. Only places that have so far been immune. Continue on.
  20. Shocker. Drive by click to hopefully see 2025 hurricane forecast and it's another Cloak Room thread like this entire board at this point.
  21. Timely thread as heading to Resort (Finest Playa Mujeres) next Friday for a few days with kids. Not sure if we will get off the resort or not, but if we do would likely be to take Ferry to island for a few hours. So sounds like there are options to just take ferry over, walk around, find food and beach chairs or also to rent a golf cart and drive around? Do most places take cards or need to find an ATM?
  22. Here for a conference now and still the same. Couldn't check in on the app Sunday. Line sucked. Also for anyone coming in near term, we went late night over to Ellis Island yesterday and currently under renovation. At least half of the gaming floor is walled off. They only had one craps table and closed it right as we got in and only like 3 blackjack tables which were full. Pretty disappointing. Supposed to last another couple of months for the gaming floor portion apparently.
  23. I'm also not buying the "move to Vegas" conspiracy theories. I think some variation of this is how it played out based on everything I've read (which has been way too much). 1. Nico and Luka clashed and potentially didn't like each other. Luka probably did take advantage of his superstar status (as most probably do) and had his own personal medical team, etc. involved, and yes, did have documented issues as far as conditioning, dealing with refs, drinking, etc. (not unlike Nash and Dirk at that age who I saw out all the time during that era). 2. Nico and new ownership didn't really help the above dynamic by running off long time Mavs support staff that Luka had good relationships with. 3. Nico's surrounded himself with "Yes" men in the front office. 4. Nico's background is AAU driven/U.S. basketball and he's not as comfortable with European influence/European star player. 5. Nico had a longstanding (going back to high school) personal relationship Anthony Davis, and considering all of the above, believed AD to be a much more comfortable "fit" for him and what he envisions for the Mavs. It was always AD or bust for him regardless of reports to the contrary. Lakers able to take advantage of this. 6. There was zero regard for state of franchise post the Kyrie/AD window. Nico has no desire to still have this position once Mavs are in full rebuild. 7. So given the above, Nico convinced himself (without anyone providing strong opposition) that this was in fact a good basketball move. Dumont is fucking clueless about basketball in all aspects and allowed himself to be convinced by Nico that this was a good move. 8. Nico and new ownership aren't from Dallas, have zero appreciation for Mavs history and Dirk in particular. They had no idea what the quote on his statue said and no appreciation for how much the 2 way "loyalty" with Dirk meant to all during the era of star players bouncing around and teaming up together, and thus no appreciation that Luka was, to this fanbase, the more talented heir apparent. Thus, they completely underestimated the fan backlash. 9. Cuban had been frozen out and had no real opportunity to save these idiots from themselves. 10. The entire organization, after completely under appreciating the fan backlash and not expecting the almost universal assessment that this was, in fact, an absolutely retarded basketball move, has managed this from a PR perspective about as bad a humanly possible.
  24. I'm not a litigator but I saw the demand letter from Clare Locke posted on social media and thought it was terrible. Way too verbose, repetitive, unnecessarily aggressive. I read like something I would have written as a first year attorney that would have been ripped to shreds by a partner.
  25. This. Talk about a quote from someone that has been handed 100% of the "success" he's ever had in life but has convinced himself he deserves it. Fuck that guy.
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