Ignatius

You soccer people are so clever…

Perez hasn’t been near the the pitcher he was last year, but that was some cajones to fight through that shit early. The younger Martin wouldn’t have even stayed in long enough to get into a jam in the 3rd, much less get out of it. Nice bounce back after a pair of ass whippings; really need to take 2 of 3 from the cheaters…

I’m in for 2….assuming the 12-seater has a pisser on board? I can make it work either way….

Dunning not looking like he’s going to make it out of the inning….

Looked like a separated shoulder when he came off but we may have gotten lucky…. EDIT - On the 10-day DL; sucks but could have been worse.

Nice, crisp, 37-pitch shutout inning!

Fuckin LeClerc man…

What’s the point in getting rid of that rule in the NFL’s current structure? How many 19 year olds would get better development on a practice squad than playing every down at a top D-1 program?

They absolutely do…

Is it any different in the new stadium ?

McGuires a hell of a coach….

Great fucking movie…

If the locations are in order of the games above, your K-State seats are on the aisle. I sat in those same seats one section over in 31 for about 10 years…

If the Rockets had signed Lopez for $25 million and Fred VanVleet for $40 million, then they needed to put together a complex sign-and-trade to acquire Brooks because otherwise they weren’t going to have enough cap room. It appears Houston was well on its way to doing so via the rarely used tactic of under-the-cap salary aggregation. Veterans of the 2014 Ömer Aşık sign-and-trade to New Orleans, when the Pelicans spent several days scraping together the league’s assorted barrels for minimum guys to throw into the deal, may recognize what happened here. The nitty gritty: Normally you can’t trade for a player (such as Patty Mills), and then immediately aggregate him with other contracts (such as TyTy Washington, Usman Garuba, Patrick Christopher and Kenyon Martin Jr.) to trade for a higher-salaried player. League rules require teams to wait at least 90 days before that can happen. However, the fine print contains one exception: if a player is acquired with cap space. In that scenario, teams are free to aggregate immediately. So once the Rockets had a deal in place to acquire Mills, they could use him and the four players already on their roster, take advantage of the new CBA’s liberalized salary-matching bands, and be able to take Brooks back in a sign-and-trade even with a frontloaded contract. It cost the Rockets five second-round picks and cash to put this all together, however, (they got two back for Martin from the Clippers, but still), not to mention drop-kicking three recent first-round picks, and in the end that they didn’t even need the extra wiggle room once Lopez spurned them. Houston pivoted to using that space by inking Jeff Green and Jock Landale to be walking trade exceptions, with fairly large first-year salaries followed by non-guaranteed second seasons. (Landale’s runs four years and is only guaranteed for the first.) Green, in particular, was originally slated to go into the Rockets’ $7.3 million room exception but now will have a larger $9.6 million cap hit (including the maximum allowable 20 percent in incentives), enabling him to be used in a trade for up to $17 million in returning salary come January.

From the Athletic, in the article “The eight nerdiest things that happened during NBA free agency: Perhaps the wildest tale of free agency is the entire construction of Houston’s free agency blitz. The Rockets ended up trading five second-round picks and cash just to build up a five-team sign-and-trade for Dillon Brooks, even though Houston had more than enough cap space to sign him without engineering such a monstrosity. So … what happened here? The tell is in the way Houston built this deal and the contract Brook Lopez signed with Milwaukee. The Rockets were rumored to be very close to a deal with Lopez, and the one he signed in Milwaukee was oddly front-loaded on money, which would have made sense for the Rockets but much less so for the Bucks … it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the Bucks likely matched whatever Houston was offering at the last minute. (Perhaps with, “We’ll sign your barely playable twin brother” as the cherry on top.)

I was in 6th grade when that came out, and in home room sat across from Brigit Allison, who had grown woman tits. I serenaded her with my adaptation of the lyrics to the hit song to the movie: “Every which way but loose/I want my wiener in your caboose” She was not impressed and told her older brother (an 8th grader), who beat me like a rented mule after school. Totally worth it….

In my mind (incorrectly, obviously) Blade Runner was like 3 years before Timerider….

With a name like that you’ll have no problems, honcho…

I thought the media angle would have been stronger as a recurring minor theme through all the seasons than as one of the two major themes of 5. The fake serial killer thing was fucking stupid….

Solid

Lol I live in EST…

Update: It’s not 7:45…

For real; Derka can’t stop, he’s fucked up in the head. The rest of you have no excuse….

I too hope someone on this roster develops into a multi-year MVP, finals winner, and likely hall of famer….