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Staircase (Michael Peterson) wikipedia includes an interesting "Owl theory" that the show never brought up, nor was it mentioned in court. Series was interesting but dragged a little towards the end. Pos rep for Ernest on the Backcountry rec. You sit through some typical buildup but damn the last 30 minutes are intense

Some of y'all who actually follow this sport closely, how would you draw the bracket if it was a true 1-8 seeding? Ore St-UNC seems like an unfair pairing right out of the gate

This, and I'm not wasting any more time on blogs or podcasts to nerdsplain it to me. This should be a really cool show about robots overtaking their human creators but in order to drag things out they need to mess with the chronology, and also add meaningless distractions like the map.

I've watched up to the backpack and have loved it. The show has a consistent style that is definitely not for everyone, a lot of the jokes don't connect or are lost in the fast pace. But the money ones are worth it imo. Party Monster gets an A grade just for the "Innocence Broject"

Fox gets first pick for Big 12 around half the time CBS is primary for the SEC There is no 6 pm Big 12 game on ESPN (it's an SEC game)

Stupid shit your wives do: Get you ousted from job as NBA GM by using fake twitter accounts

Fox News trying to implicate Zack Ertz as an anthem protestor

I'm about 45 minutes from Delaware Park, but I don't want to be part of this on day one. DE and NJ saw this coming years ago and were ready to pounce once that case got to the SCOTUS. It's good they have a couple months before football to iron out any kinks.

Caps score on PP a couple minutes after Vegas blows an amazing chance on their PP

Saw a comment that wouldn't surprise me if true -- with govt and leagues trying to get a cut, look for vigs to go up as in most basic bets will be -112 to -115 instead of the current -110. Many newbies won't know or care about the difference.

This. I won't insult Westworld with a Walking Dead comparison (yet), but it's giving me the same vibes much of the time. I think there were at least four scenes where two characters faced off, we KNOW neither of them will actually die, but each showdown ends in a miraculous last-second intervention or distraction.

If "vs. other destinations" means south of France or something, then maybe don't bring her to Phila/DE. But if it's just a cool domestic trip you're after, this is a great area in July. Museums, food, beer, sports, festivals...and a bunch of very nice beach towns 60-90 minutes away. Beaches moreso in south Jersey than Delaware, though there is an easy ferry from Lewes, DE to Cape May NJ.

My usual response to this: Pat's and Geno's are both fine, the cheesesteak isn't exactly the hardest thing to create. But while that intersection at 9th & Passyunk is historic and unique, it's still a bit of a hike from Center City. So my recs are: Sonny's on Market Street & 3rd; Nick's on 2nd St between Chestnut/Market; Jim's on 4th & South. If you're near City Hall, there's a hole in the wall called Bill's on Sansom between 13th & Broad. But honestly you have great odds of being very happy with just about any independently owned pizza/sub shop. ETA: Forgot my own go-to which is Lazaro's. Two locations: 18th & South or 7th & Sansom

The scent is now super strong around the wife. Main question now is will he claim she did it without his knowledge? Even if so it's too reckless to allow him to keep his job...

The Athletic did their in-depth feature on Northern Illinois this week. Not expected to do more than maybe contend for the MAC title, but wow their non-conference is a rare example of what a non-P5 team would have to do to get playoff consideration: At Iowa vs. Utah at Florida State at BYU

I think I'd rather watch Get Up on continuous loop for 8 hours than one minute of Marty Smith's America (which I think is monthly)

The NYC move baffles me. Weren't Mike & Mike supposed to move to Times Square about five years ago, and they scrapped the plan because it was too expensive? Now in an even worse business climate (for TV), they bring a lesser show to the city? And I haven't watched more than a few minutes but it doesn't seem like they use the outside scenery much. I guess it's easier to book some guests.

I should clarify that while The Process succeeded, it is not good for fans nor advisable for a bunch of teams to emulate. The Sixers took advantage of the rules at the time. There were years of unintentional failure which made it more palatable to us, at least Hinkie had a plan and executed it. Ideally the NBA figures out a system to discourage another Process attempt. It's also hilarious that Embiid adopted that as his nickname

That all makes sense, but I do give Bryan credit for some of the moves like Redick, Ilyasova and Belinelli, all of whom really solidified a roster that wasn't very deep until late in the season. Noel just ran out of time contract-wise, and they did get another contributor back in Justin Anderson (who really should have played more last week). Okafor was simply a bust, they probably should have traded down but at the time it looked like he could at least score in the NBA. It happens. The Tatum thing hurts. Before the draft there was a lot of buzz that he was actually the most NBA ready guy out there. He wasn't a perfect system fit, but damn don't hand him along with a No. 1 to your rival who is already loaded.

I declare The Process a success, even if they botch this off-season and don't do much in the 2019 playoffs. They have shown that full-on tanking, combined with disciplined cap management even in the tank years, gives you enough draft bullets and money to make a run at the top of your conference. It's a multi-year thing but it doesn't have to take forever. The most impressive aspects to me were keeping the coaching staff together (and sane), as well as identifying a handful of cheap keepers from the tank years like Covington and TJ McConnell. Also the perfect timing on stashing Saric and bringing him over. There will always be risks, like Embiid's health. And there will always be busts like Jah Okafor. I'm really only mad at the Fultz-Tatum (plus a future #1) trade and that's mainly because it was to our main rival. They thought Fultz would be a key piece which is fine, but even if he worked out better why give the Celtics such a lift as well? How they use their salary room this summer is basically the final move(s) before The Process reaches completion.

Curly you lost 99 percent of posters on this thread with "if you're interested in a different perspective" LOL. Malcolm Gladwell also had a column back when all this broke explaining that Sandusky was clearly an expert groomer like many pedos and as such was much harder to detect from the inside, cult or not (though it helps to operate amongst a cult like PSU). Link is here, "In Plain View" but it's TLDR for anyone who thinks the whole story can be summarized with "Joe knew" and "they covered up child rape". I grew up a PSU fan and still root for them, though as a city guy it's very hard for me to relate to the Central PA community in general. Any state election map makes that obvious. All the Paterno era memories are tarnished and not worth celebrating. The Freeh report was a mess but it did get the process underway of purging PSU athletics and giving the NCAA an in to impose their sanctions (which probably wouldn't hold up in court but they did make an impact on recruiting and thus served their purpose IMO). I agreed with nutcase 55's opening sentence that this thread is lame. But it thrived on our predecessor site, with so much of its oxygen coming from Ohio State and Pitt fans but that's understandable. Also really the perfect thread for something like 55's bizarre invasion.

Brett Brown finally made a dent in Stevens armor with double teaming the dribble handoff all the way back to half court if needed. Celts couldn't just stroll through their sets as usual.

Why wait for offseason, it will be fascinating to see how the Celtics respond in the next series (or two). It's staggering how easy they are dispatching the Sixers, but LeBron and/or Warriors are a far different measuring stick. Really wonder if coaching and effort can keep carrying them.