Posts posted by UpperWestside
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17 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:I would like to congratulate Kyrie on finally reaching the "find out" portion of his personal journey. From imploding two (and currently in the process of three) franchises to flat earthers to anti-vax bullshit to randomly taking mental health vacation days to Alex Jones to holocaust denying, it was long, long overdue.
This has got be the single greatest find out moment a player in the NBA has ever had. It’s incredible the amount of crazy things he has said and done in his career. I feel like there is still more to come from him as he can’t contain the crazy, at all.
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8 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:1 hour ago, ztejas said:Get him off of that fucking trainwreck team.
He chose this. On his own. He orchestrated the whole thing. He wanted to prove he could do it on his own. He can't.
Durant messed around and found out on this as well. He chose this path. He chose to walk away from the best situation in the NBA to be on a team with someone who belongs in an insane asylum. He chose the head coach and his own words at the time of the hiring indicate that. He made his bed and he can continue to lie in it.
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9 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:
It's piss.
Always has been.
I have never used it because I just do not find any part of how Twitter is set up to be interesting. It has been useful in certain instances like the war in Ukraine, but stuff like that does not seem to be the norm for the platform. It would really be something if he runs it straight into the ground.
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46 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
The one thing to remember about Elon is that he overpaid 24B for Twitter. Without Elons offer, twtr would have been worth 20B on oct 28th but elon paid 44. Now some of this wasn’t all elons fault but rather bad timing but it doesn’t change the fact that 24B of investor money was immediately destroyed last week.
maybe Elon and Co. will turn Twitter around and he sells it or goes public for 100B but the result will never change the he paid double the price. It will also put a 24B hole in his (& his investors) pockets
he just drove Twitter off the lot and the car value dropped in half.
Some folks might say that his ego messed around and found out. Gritty has gotten another victim.
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Kyrie does not and SHOULD NOT play in another NBA game. His pay should be withheld and the league office should dare the NBPA to take them to court over it considering the reason he would not be getting paid.
I am trying to wrap my head around how Durant thought that teaming up with a crazy person, who has now also revealed himself to be a proud Anti-Semite, was a good situation to get into. How is this someone he trusts? How can Irving ever step on a basketball court again for an NBA team when he refuses to disavow his insane beliefs? Thank goodness LeBron didn’t get his wish and get this guy as a teammate again. I’ll take 82 games of Russ doing Russ things over this disaster of a human being that needs to be in a psychiatric ward.
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1 hour ago, Kermit said:
Brooklyn is a dumpster fire.
Excuse me sir, but my Lakers will take you to court for trademark infringement as they have the dumpster all to themselves. Brooklyn is what happens when you mess around, find out and then are insane enough to go back and find out even more stuff. Hiring Udoka is the cherry on top of their crazy sundae.
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3 hours ago, Sbbruin said:
At 1-5, some people might say we're on pace for a 16-66 record. I like to think we're on pace for a 77-5 season.
The glass half-full fan! I like this. For a night he gets a reprieve. I have said and will maintain that Westbrook is a good human being and is one of the more thoughtful guys in the NBA. He just hit the stage of his career where he doesn’t have all of his athleticism and he has not adjusted accordingly. It would be cool if he changes as a player and accepts a bench role for the season for us or another team if he gets traded, unlikely as that might be.
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2 hours ago, ztejas said:
Because he just continues to argue with him and escalate it after asking multiple questions instead of letting the press conference move on. He's just magnifying the distraction. I mean is anyone interested in hearing Kyrie's insane ass explain anything? Like I don't know what he's fishing for.
I'm not defending Kyrie as he's obviously bringing it upon himself just commenting that from the top down - including stuff like press conferences - the entire thing is a circus. They're discussing Kyrie's Twitter feed instead of why the team on the court is a trainwreck.
Kyrie has reached the messed around and found out part of his insanity. You DO NOT get to promote a movie that is blatantly Anti-Semitic and then suffer no consequences. Every single reporter in that room should have continued the line of questioning until he got up and left. He does not deserve to be able to get away with this or any of the other insanely crazy thoughts and conspiracies he believes in.
He has a very public platform and he has decided that promoting hatred, anti-science, the anti-vax movement, aligning himself with Alex Jones and an overall alternate reality that only exists in the head of deranged and mentally deficient individuals is the way he wants to go. I see a whole lot of visits from Gritty in his near future. He will have earned them.
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8 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:He has this inability to take any responsibility for anything he says or does. I do not listen to him speak often, but when I have heard him he has never accepted any blame for his actions. That he would sit up there and say that Alex Jones and his occult stuff is all true is another indicator that we are seeing someone who should be in a psychiatric ward getting help. Instead he’ll just keep playing the victim right up until his skills as a basketball player are no longer worth the hassle for an NBA team to deal with.
As far as the reporter goes Kyrie brought that on himself. You mess around and traffic in crazy stuff, well, you get to find out.
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22 minutes ago, ztejas said:I mean he can at least fucking ball. The Lakers would kill for a hate speech propagandist that could put up 27 a night on 50/40/90.
/s - in case y'all needed it.
I’m cool with 0-5 if it means he is not on the roster. I said I would actively root against the Purple and Gold for the first time in my life if he were on the roster. His ability to score would not change that stance. He is a mentally unwell person that the Nets should suspend indefinitely.
Should’ve said originally that I noted your sarcasm. I would like Westbrook also suspended for conduct detrimental to the playing of good basketball, but that might not fly with the Players Association.
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Oh wow this is a big loss in the music world. I can recite a true story that happened to him. It’s one that Lewis retold quite a bit and is well known at the school. I attended college at SAGU in Waxahachie. When it was just a college in the 1950’s, he was going to school there and got kicked out of school for playing his rock-n-roll music on the piano in the old chapel. They were going to kick a resident assistant out as well, but Jerry Lee took full responsibility for it.
I remember attending class there thinking how different would life for him been had he only played gospel music instead of what he did do on that piano. RIP KILLER. You and Johnny and Carl can reunite and play the gospel music all of you loved to sing together.
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I was at work today and a younger guy I work with out of nowhere thanked me for the messages I put in our group chat. A good chunk of the summer I would post stuff on Sundays when I would go to the beach where I would try to make everyone laugh a little that was working on those days. I always let everyone know they can talk to me if they feel like they can’t talk to anyone else. I have had folks take me up on that and I do the best I can to help them through what ails them.
The young guy today asked me if I wanted to go skiing in January. I said that I am going to be gone on vacation and when I mentioned where it apparently motivated him to explore getting out and seeing more of the world.
The point of saying all that is that your words have meaning to someone and often when you do not expect them to. A kind word could make a world of difference to someone who needs to hear it.
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1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:
"A lot of people get hit with hammers"? Really?
Why yes many people are assaulted with hammers. This morning as I left my apartment a guy in what appeared to be an Antifa shirt threw a hammer at me. Luckily it missed and took out a window. Just to get on the subway I had to run a gauntlet of hammer wielding homeless guys who were just let out of the 103rd Street precinct moments before. Imagine, if you will, the terror of seeing two dozen angry homeless men with hammers. It was mortifying! Thank God I made it to the subway just as this mob made it to the platform!
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These people are just, well, they are acting exactly like they are portrayed to be. Attack an 82 year old man AND you ostensibly were there to attack his wife, because, reasons?
I really do not care about how unkind history is going to be to Republicans. They willingly took in these mentally unstable people because they needed every single voter they can get, mentally impaired or not. The statement from Gov. Youngkin was just, Christ on a cracker, just pure trash. Just say you don’t condone violence and leave it at that.
If you are willingly supporting the Republican Party right now then you are also willingly supporting domestic terrorism, racism, hatred towards minorities from sea to freaking shining sea among so many other horrific things. Alex Jones is on your side! Glenn Beck is with you! The Proud Boys, neo-nazis and the klan all align with your party. Think about that for a second. If you support the same thing that all those people do you need to seriously rethink the life you have lived and how much of it you have wasted and will continue to waste. This party and these people need to be tarred and feathered and barred from living amongst the rest of the population.
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18 hours ago, gsoda3 said:
lebron's reaction.
I was as against getting Westbrook as I could possibly be because I saw no way he would change how he plays. He has only further regressed as a player and he is flat out unplayable and it is best to just pay him to stay at home. He is just going to get booed at home all year and heckled mercilessly.
Westbrook seems by all accounts to be an upstanding guy, but he is done as a basketball player. I also do not feel bad for LeBron because HE CHOSE THIS GUY over players who could actually help the team win games.
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On 10/21/2022 at 12:13 PM, slorch said:
The point is that the announcers and the post game host are saying anything except praise for the Astros pitching dominating the Yankee hitters. Play on happy days on the Fonz couldn’t say he was wrong about something. They aren’t capable of talking objectively about the Yankees opponent.
New York is not being beaten. They are just running out of time according to these loons.
Well they’re being beaten and it’s because Houston’s pitchers are superior to the Yanks hitters so I completely am with you on that. If the announcers are going full aggy that’s just silly on their part. My mom is as die-hard as it gets as a Yankees fan since Mantle, but she said yesterday that the Astros are just a better team and I completely agree. Should be fun to see who they will be facing in the World Series.
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@ROFL BOX Thank you for sharing all of that, as hard as it can be to do so. I am sorry for what is happening with your job. I feel profoundly sad for what is happening with your dog as I am sure everyone else who read that is. I’d rather spend the day with my dog over a person 100 times out of a 100. We don’t deserve how nice they are to us.

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I would be willing to give it until the trade deadline before I would attempt to find other pieces to put around those two that might make their lineup better. Sometimes guys need time to adjust to one another to make things work. They may well not fit together at all, but they need time together to find that out.