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  1. I tried to beat the system once and flew into SNA and rent a car to get to a meeting, and then got snarled in traffic trying to get south to Torrance and Palos Verdes and almost missed the meeting entirely
  2. 6 months ago. The airport sucks, but I’m specifically talking about flight and destination options. You can take LAX -> Anywhere in a direct flight domestically. Try taking OKC -> DTW and you’ll be going OKC south to DFW and then back north to Detroit for example. Or Jacksonville to Phoenix and you are going JAX -> MIA/MCO -> PHX
  3. I should have put a finer point on it and said “most important and biggest player ever” as I’m actually completely uninterested in the conversation around the technicals of woman’s basketball skills. Like MJ, CC undeniably made her league a household name and legitimatized it for the mainstream which allowed the mainstream money to overflow the wnba’s hitherto meager coffers, allowing for a) current legacy players to get a huge pay raise and b) make the wnba a legitimate career aspiration for women thus swelling the pipeline of great young talent and nurturing the young girls who would historically focus on making partner at their Big4 firm after college because the wnba only offered a $70k median salary, no endorsements, and you had to live in Bulgaria in the summer to make a living.
  4. CLT connections will test a man's mettle. Many moons ago (I'll age myself here) before there was a direct flight from DFW to TRI, you had to connect in CLT. Invariably CLT will a) underestimate how much buffer is needed and b) land you at a gate on the otherside of the airport than your connecting departure gate. There were multiple times I had to suck up my pride and look stupid running at a full gait with bags to make the last flight out for the night and being the last man on the American Eagle Bombardiers and hacking up a lung as doors shut. One of the most underrated features when looking to move and live in a new city I think is people don't evaluate the airport situation. If you have to do a decent amount of business travel a first tier airport is worth it's weight in gold. Once you've lived in DFW, IAH, ORD, ATL, LGA/JFK/EWR, LAX, SFO, it's hard to move to a city with an airport that nearly always requires a connection to a hub first-- it makes travel an all day event and pretty inefficient. CLT punches above it's weight to be honest, for all the crap I give it.
  5. This is the decorum. You stay to the right and give a path for those who want to pass, not unlike driving slow/speed limit in the right lane and leaving the left lane(s) for those who need to be at a faster speed.
  6. I mean, it's absurd in hindsight and probably absurd at the time for Barkely to think he's better than MJ (to your point about how professionals are hardwired). However, there are players you can count on one hand who can have that Barkley level delusion in the WNBA. Anything beyond those 4 or 5 (including Angela Reese), and you are in the realm of a reality that is so DeLuLu, the sheer complexity of it makes MCU's multiverse phase look like a children's book story.
  7. I have a pair of crocodlie tecovas (black and not quite $2k) and I love them and they are about a year old. They were a gift and they slam and go hard. I've got some of the cheap spectrum tecovas that are about 6 or 7 years old at this point and they aren't falling apart is the best I can say for them. Maybe with all the VC or PE money they got their quality has gone up is all I can surmise from my experience.
  8. 100% depends on the family for sure.
  9. After typing the above I think I get the conflict which comes from the word I used "value". I think the reason the league is rejecting Clark (like the body rejects a transplanted organ needed to live) is because the implication that they are not valuable. A lot of ink has been spilled about how crappy WNBA was before Clark-- all the same business metrics on revenue and salaries and attendance and popularity in the gutter) and the implication and unsaid message I think they are hearing is: "you women are not valuable", "you, as an individual basketballer, are not valuable", and "you, without Caitlin Clark, are not valuable". And not to get too political or controversial, but it seems like it's an easy leap to go from that to, "black, queer women are not valuable", and "without a straight white hope, a queer black league is not valuable" And when people feel devalued it's a core identity crisis and emotional and psychological issue that can be existential. So that helps explain to me why it feels irrational -- because when most people feel that deeply wounded, most aren't going to respond with logic and math. I could be way off but just a thought that unlocked for me as I wrote the last post and that word "value" jumped out at me.
  10. I think the big difference is that Tiger had to blow the field by 12 shots in order to have the amazing impact on the sport (e.g. growing the brand, growing the adverstising money, fan money, brands, merch, and ultimately purses). Caitlin Clark has done all that already without being 10x orders of magnitude better at basketball than the next woman. She's already brought the increased visibility, attention and money to the league and her peers. A hobbled Clark on a mediocre team having a struggling season (if that's even true) is still orders of magnitude more valuable and popular than a peer not-named Clark who is having a better season.
  11. Yep, I think we have a dynamic and situation, which is kinda interesting (or strange/weird, depending on your view) where we have fans and people who are MORE protective and upset and disturbed by the "hazing" or whatever you'd characterize as a catch-all word for all the garbage she's having to deal with being put on her by her inferiors in the league, than even she (the actual person being put through the crap firsthand) is. I think that actually points to her awesome character and mental fortitude and strength-- and it's likely the privilege of having a great support system, starting from her family and community probably when she was an amateur, which has been supplemented now with the best business and strategist minds money can buy from Nike, professional agents, media teams, etc.
  12. RE: prayer I went to a memorial held for a teenager who drowned over July 4th. The family and loved ones and friends seemed to appreciate and feel comfort and love through all the prayer prompts and worship and outpouring of prayer. Aside from the technical and spiritual debates that go levels deeper, on the surface providing that relief to them alone seems like a strong enough use case for prayer.
  13. I thought Temu Pedro Pascal's inconsistent leg injury was a chef's kiss, though.
  14. Exactamundo. And Tiger Woods to PGA was a lot of the same. I think CC gets it and she knows she is a trendsetter and pioneer and just has to get through the hard first seasons. I think history will look back at her as not only the GOAT but the mythical icon of the WNBA a la MJ to the NBA.
  15. And that makes 1000% sense. I knew it didn't seem like a real possibility knowing what we know and that we all have eyeballs.
  16. I mean, I didn't know Trump was a strapping young man. He's kind of a unit there *pause* *no homo* and you would have no idea if only you saw his photos now.
  17. You have a short memory— curry was polarizing early on and had a ton of haters.
  18. Caught Dazed and Confused on cable last night. I know there are probably dozens of pages dedicated to the movie, at one point in time, and I myself watched it daily on VHS for one whole summer and my friends and I could smoke a joint of mexican dirt weed and say every line, but I hadn't seen it in at least 25 years. Still a pretty good little watch. Looking tough!
  19. Nailed it. 10/10, no notes.
  20. Fair. And I've seen more mental illness, homelessness and general sketch in downtown Houston (Fannin, Texas, Capitol) than SF this summer so far....
  21. nvidia hit $4t today based on the forecast of Derka & Slorch on this thread.
  22. There are 2 or 3 posters who will swear on a grave that I am that lunatic in the face of all reason and evidence. idk
  23. Funny because the bolded, from what I remember, is also the supposed to be the big emotional and spiritual climb in "The Conclave" with Ralph's character says that I think word for word.
  24. Weird, because I am in SF for one week a month, every month, usually on Market but sometimes on Mission near Union Square and Moscone and it definitely still feels gross and sketch (to me).
  25. You know how in Ottawa and Quebec you can buy a bag of milk? A bag of blood orange urine.
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