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TreatyOak

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  1. I don't know how they arrived at their decision to hold Canoe Slalom and Softball in OKC, but since LA was successful in securing the first Summer Olympics to be held in the US for over 30 years, I am going to trust their judgement. We had better freaking clean house in the 2028 3v3 basketball medal standings, or I am sending an angry letter to The NY Times.
  2. The largest softball stadium in Southern California seats 2000 peeps, whereas the facility in Oklahoma City is world-class. Also, a rowing event will also take place in Oklahoma City, which maintains a great facility, whereas LA had none. With baseball returning to the games in 2024, perhaps the committee was only able to reserve one large stadium. I honestly don't know. But the stated goal of these LA Olympic Committee (and one of the reason they won) was a promise not to build any additional infrastructure. Paris accomplished the same goal. The idea is to avoid the horrors of Athens and Brazil, with large, expensive facilities being built, then permanently sitting vacant. There are articles about it and I will read up on it.
  3. Apparently, it was done in an effort to keep construction costs down, since an expensive, new softball facility might not be sustainable for LA in the long term. Seems very random, but it does give people a once-in-a-lifetime ability to attend an Olympic event.
  4. Who is heading with me to Oklahoma City in 2028 to watch the Olympics? if you've always wanted to attend, this may be your chance.
  5. I am seeing a very positive sign repeat itself. Daily Mail was making an entire industry out of their almost-hourly attacks on Biden, with article after article focused on his mental gyrations. Now, they have little to pick on about Harris. There simply isn't enough material to attack her in any sustainable way. Being the shameless, opportunitive whores that they are, Daily Mail is now switching their attacks to Trump. I see this as a good sign, as it also happened in 2020, when the conservative mood shifted against him.
  6. Major shout-out to the trans boxer for depriving China of another gold medal, which allowed the US to claim victory using the overall medal count.
  7. He could play the same role that Ross Perot did.
  8. Is it a conventional wisdom that we want RFK on the ballot? Seems to me he more likely to pull votes from MAGAs which can help defeat Trump.
  9. Were the coaches vaping THC? They really let down Brittney Griner by locking her up. She got cold during her imprisonment on the bench, which felt like a life sentence. She might has well been in Siberia when we needed her most. I bet they wished they could have done a player swop with her and Caitlin Clark.
  10. My fave unhinged comment about Caitlin Clark: After Clark broke the NCAA scoring record, the former scoring record holder, Lynette Woodard, going on stage and claiming she feels she is still the record holder!
  11. Word in Washington is there's going to be a congressional hearing on the 3 v 3 debacle. It could really ugly and make the 1950's McCarthy hearings look like a game show.
  12. Australia is the new Aggy. "if you count gold medals by population and only count the top ten small populations, and tally the medals for only the first week, we won the Olympics!"
  13. Westlake starts and ends with their offensive and defensive lines, which will be good, but not the best ever. We have a good QB who will play at the next level. We lost our great little running back, who went to Army. We should get to the state quarterfinals, and with luck, the semifinals. We can't get past North Shore these days.
  14. Paging @Helobious My beloved Chaps are opening at home vs San Benito. Can you please provide me any info about what to expect, players to watch for, etc? Thnx in advance.
  15. Depends on whose rules you played with. The 92 game was more physical. Today's game allows less physicality. The '24 team is more athletic overall and better at shooting 3's.
  16. I'm not sure. The 2024 team has had to play much better competition. The Dream Team played nobodies with just a few of the teams lucky to have one mid-NBA player. There were 9 NBA players on other teams, with some of the opponents, like Angola, with none. This year, there are 139 NBA and WNBA professional players competing in basketball. Mighty Lithuania was sponsored by The Grateful Dead to raise money so they could attend the Olympics.* The Dream Team's '92 opponents would be crushed by teams like Serbia and France today. *Lithuania beating their hated, former Russian masters for the Bronze was the actual best story from the 1992 Olympics basketball.
  17. Shout-out to super-great Cedric Baxter. My boy will be back stronger than ever! I love that he's already thinking about a career in branding and apparel after football.
  18. As I said, Ultimate Frisbee SHOULD be an Olympic sport. It’s awesome! And if we don’t bring the gold home in Break Dancing, which is an Olympic sport this year, then you’re gonna see me get REALLY ANGRY! I used to work on the US Olympic committee ad campaign. One of the clients told me they pulled softball/baseball because offically, the stadiums would then sit empty if it was held in weird, pansy countries that didn’t play baseball, like Greece. He said the real reason was because Eurosofties were trying to find a way to deprive the US of more medals. Screw them. Baseball is coming back in LA in 2028. USA, USA!
  19. Here are the facts: FIBA-sanctioned 5 on 5: Hugely popular sport. International stars generate hundreds of millions of $ for the sport. One of the most visible sports in the world results in: 2 gold medals. 3 vs 3: Lame sport that no one cares about. Best players don't play in it and gets very little visibility, also results in: 2 gold medals. They have the exact same importance in the medal count. I like to see the US stick it to China, just like we did in Tokyo four years ago, 39 to 38 gold medals USA, USA! Winning the medal table means a lot to both countries, probably even more in China. We should be able to win a lame 3 v 3 tournament in the sport we invented and is played everywhere in our glorious country.
  20. This is a brand, new version of the old post. I'm too lazy to scroll down through my old memes, so I recreated it, as it's one of my faves. Collect 'em all!
  21. This team rolls the Dream Team. Prove me wrong.
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