Dutchrudder

Can't believe they held him there, easily would have made it home. Alright, no harm done.

Put out an ad on your local Craigslist with the title "URGENT: CALLING ALL 1ST AMMENDMENT AUDITORS!!!" Advertise his address as the home of a free speech HATER. Someone who will gladly yell at you, get animated and irate and say horrible, sensational things to you! Even if you have a camera, he does not care, AT ALL! Then sit back and let the problem work itself out.

I've seen a bunch of these Jubilee debates, and I'm noticing a lot of the same people keep coming back on both sides. That blonde lady was on some other ones, and she is incredibly unhinged. She's unstable, possibly mentally deficient, and to be continually inviting her to come back and shine a spotlight on her idiocy is not helpful. Nobody is learning from her, she's only there to be a punching bag, much like some of the other guests. I don't find value in that and I think it takes away from the value of the overall discussion. I don't know who owns Jubilee, or what their goal is, but I don't believe it's helping society much. They seem to be watering down a lot of extreme views and allowing them to gain seemingly equal footing in the general discourse, which makes those views appear more mainstream than they ever should be. I'm getting the feeling this might be a more nefarious type of organization, like Ground News, which is operating under the guise of "independent" or "unbiased" and instead is actually undermining the public discourse in the hopes of mainstreaming right wing views. Maybe this is just an evolution of modern media talk shows, where "debate" is mostly shouting matches and corporate talking points, but it all feels very manufactured to me.

Sure, but this was an investment company owned by the guy who eventually purchased full controlling interest of the Lakers, the team he was joining at the time of the first loan. That may not be criminal, but it's pretty blatant corruption, which is the same way I would describe the Kawhi situation.

I honestly think the idea was, "well we can't just give you cash on the side, because that would be wrong. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut there isn't a rule against loaning you a bunch of money for a cheap rate to go invest how you like and then you keep all the profits!" What a world we live in now, blatant corruption is the norm and nobody with authority to enforce the law gives a shit.

The Lebron story about him getting $300 million in loans from the Lakers' owners financial firms seems like it deserves the Pablo Torre treatment too. It may not be salary, but the ability to invest that money and pay a cheap interest rate on it is absolutely benefits circumventing the cap. Not that it matters, since the rules don't apply to anyone with money, but it should warrant an investigation and punishments for all involved.

It didn't even cross my mind that Ohtani could come here, but wow, would that not be the most fitting gut punch to those asshat Dodger fans? What if the Astros got both of them? The wailing and gnashing of teeth in LA would be sweet. I can't really think of a better outcome than the Dodgers being stuck with a bankrupt sports network, a new cheap owner, losing their best player and GM to a hated rival, having their last 2 titles tainted with the illegitimate insurance money scam and still having to pay Kyle Tucker 60m a year to watch him suck dick in right field every day. What a glorious potential outcome we could have. Maybe that's been Bagwell's drunken dream this whole time and he was just waiting for the right time to strike! Make it happen Bagman!

Well he was born in Houston and went to college at Tulane, so maybe?

Maybe they should see if Click wants to come back?

He does like being in the evil villain / disrupter role, so the team might be appealing to him in that sense.

I'm pretty critical of the WB DC Universe stuff, and I have only liked Peacemaker, Suicide Squad and the latest Superman movie out of all their stuff. This show is promising, I enjoyed it a lot and will continue to watch.

Here's a fun thread to read about if you're bored. The number of players all-time who have at least 1/2 of all the base stats of Lebron's career numbers is currently 3. Jokic will probably enter the club soonish, but Clyde Drexler will likely be dropped from it later this season. He's still going and probably has 2 seasons left in the tank. Dude is just an incredible athlete to keep racking up stats at this age. From the comments, somebody posted the stats for his famous teammates and the numbers are quite the contrast to his: If you look at total points, rebounds, assists with playoffs included for LeBron’s super teammates even combined it looks cartoonish: Brown + Embiid + Maxey + VJ ———-(41,969 points, 12,407 rebounds, 6,760 assists) Love + Kyrie ———————————(37,425 points, 13,972 rebounds, 7,219 assists) Bosh + Wade ——————————- (45,696 points, 14,118 rebounds, 8,485 assists) LeBron ————————————— (51,961 points, 14,790 rebounds, 14,184 assists)

It would be great if the Raptors complete the trade for Kawhi, and then don't bother announcing it or having a press conference for him.

The first game I took her to, she was asked by an Astros cheerleader who her favorite Astro was and she said excitedly, "The green guy!!" I don't think she cares who hit the ball, just that she got one. My son got a practice ball that Jeremy Pena was using to warm up, so that's pretty cool.

So a pinch runner and hitter are going in now? Gonna be a weird lineup if they survive to the 11th

***Sad trombone noise***

Slow Joe had got to go

Whew

Imagine if they had traded Abreu to the Twins, probably would have better a couple wins on dumping him alone. Can't believe he finished that inning.

I'm a couple Crawford books in, and I stand by my statement. There's a better chance of him committing a crime in Cooperstown.

Daughter got a Brock Rodden foul ball. Will be great piece of MLB history to own when he's indicted in Cooperstown.

At the game with the family, already got one practice ball from the security guard, and we got to see a few guys warming up.

I assume as much, but I don't think PTOF showed any transactions between RIFC and the Clippers. I do wonder if they have that info, but are saving it for after more statements from Ballmer and co are made about it. He's been setting traps for them for over a year now, and it's pretty entertaining watching them step on them. I think the fact that someone as irrelevant as Daniel Theis was publicly promoted as a minority owner in RIFC, but an actual star player like Kawhi wasn't, says a lot about the arrangement.