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Aqua Buddha last won the day on May 27 2018
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His team is a 7 seed.
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Even Luka has said he's the best defender he sees. Why is Draymond even on the list?
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Lu Dort not even a finalist is a fucking joke.
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We were going from church to brunch and I glanced at my phone and saw OKC up by like 10 points in the 4th and I didn't check again until they were up by literally 50 points in the 3rd. I'm like "WTF happened?" Shai had a pretty mediocre day, too. Desmond Bane with a -51 point differential. Lulz.
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Here's an idea for the national media. Maybe watch the games before you pencil in the Lakers for the Finals. They're not a good team. They have two great players, one good one, and then a VERY steep drop off after that. They are terrible on defense.
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Same. Did this exact same thing starting at 49 and built muscle and dropped fat. Lots of protein, too. I maybe dropped a few total pounds but body fat % went from 24 to 17. I'm 6'0" and about 215 now. Weight training is key as you get older as you're losing muscle mass.
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One more thing to add on the "connections." They built the small light rail thing there to shuttle people between the areas. For the first year or so it was free and everyone took it. People would drive to downtown just to take the "train." Then the started charging $1 for it and literally no one takes it.
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That's a very good synopsis. You and my wife (no pics) are SME's in this area and she said the same thing. It's the connections that are the problem to your point and the real problem is the downtown office district which has zero function at nights and on weekends outside of the First National building. It separates Midtown, Bricktown, and the arena. I'm not sure if there's anything they can do about it. Scissortail Park is phenomenal, though. It's an interesting trend in urban development, actually. "Downtowns" in our history were strictly office districts but now they're becoming "entertainment districts" with stadiums/arenas for concerts, hotels, restaurants, bars, etc. Detroit has done a very good job with this. San Francisco has not.
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Also, the next 5 years will be interesting. They're about to start demo on the old convention center for the new arena. They'll then demo that and turn it into an outdoor promenade of sorts with shops, restaurants, etc., similar to what Milwaukee did. It's always been a disjointed downtown because the office district basically splits everything up.
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Yeah, the United thing kind of opened their eyes but they commitment really wasn't there, especially with the oil bust going on. I love what they did the the First National Bank building, though, which was one of the MAPS iterations. We ate at Teller's over Christmas and they've trained the wait staff to go over the history of the building. Our waiter said "At one point there was something called an 'oil bust'." I laughed and said "I've heard of this 'oil bust' you speak of." Bricktown really isn't my scene but I could see that.
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Don't discount Dort moving over to guard Kryie instead of Luka.
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I see what you did there.
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I don't know Amy Downs but I know someone who does. If you remember, she was kind of heavy set in the original pictures but not now. After somehow surviving the bombing with no serious long term physical injuries, she made a vow to get in better shape and took up running. Her first half marathon was the Oklahoma City Half and her goal was just to beat the cut off time. With only two days notice, the moved the cut off time up by two minutes, which made her at risk for not finishing. That got up to whoever was in charge and they basically said over their cold dead body were they going to cut her off regardless of her time. In the end, she beat the adjusted cut off time and took up running and tri's over the years. You could tell the entire saga of the Oklahoma City Bombing just through Amy Downs. I'll also add that no other city in America has improved itself over the last 30 years than Oklahoma City. The oil bust hit it hard but the bombing made the people there want to known for something good. Over the years they taxed and spent vast sums of money for public spaces, arenas, etc. It was a hollowed out lower tier cowtown and look at it now and it will look remarkably different ten years from now.
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This. It's why I have a short fuse for people like that January 6 dipshits. Neither McVeigh nor them are smart, nuanced, or original. They have emotional and/or mental problem and have murderous intentions. You are correct about the day care center. They knew it was there and parked the bomb there anyway. Had he done this at 2 in the morning, I wouldn't have agreed with it but he would have made whatever statement he was trying to make without the "collateral damage." We're talking about a guy who probably jerked off to the Turner Diaries the day before, though, so no, I do not find him interesting at all.
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One more thing. (I was explaining this to my wife watching the doc.) You've seen the picture of the building thousands of times but you don't realize that the whole part of town was blown to hell. Probably a 10 square block radius. Saw this in a recap story: In the weeks after the blast, a survey determined 330 buildings were damaged, another 15 were destroyed or needed to be torn down, and that repair costs would top $150 million.
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