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  1. I like what Slot’s done in the Accrington game, PSV game, and today. “Going for the quadruple” is an extreme long shot and under Klopp when we went too strong in domestic cup games in 22 and 24 we walked away without any of the big trophies (league and CL). We’re in the kookaburra cup final and have a great chance of the winning #20 in the league and probably the best odds of winning the CL of any team remaining. I’m sure Slot’s disappointed with some individual performances today but missing potentially 4 more games in this tournament is a blessing for our season’s ambitions.
  2. i’m very much enjoying this game. both teams are really going at it, and unlike the arkansas game our guys are giving just as much as they’re getting. this is the version of the team that we need to see consistently in order for RT to save his job. if we could play with this aggression and confidence (and again, not to mention swagger) every game out then i don’t think anyone here would have a problem retaining RT. it’s when you have one game like this and then a brain dead, spiritless performance like the one against arkansas that you’re too inconsistent to be kept on. but fuck it, we’re playing this way today, so let’s get this win! 🤘🏼
  3. I don't get the math but this seems accurate. This collective fan base brain is going to be fried if we win 2 or more games in March..
  4. Yeah, I'm being pessimistic about Texas' chances today given the injuries and it being a road game. That being said, we probably win going away haha.
  5. yes this is TLDR had a crazy roller coaster session that in the span of about 15 hands I was low and high. original buyin was $300, about 10 hands of me folding and then Sam the used car dealer shows up... and to say hes action is a massive understatement.... hes the type that either drops 3k on the table or cleans everyone out. i top off to 500, and another full rotation goes by where I have nothing and he keeps opening for 15/25/50 and then firing at every flop. hes up/down until finally I am the button with j9cc. hes made it 15 from EP, 2 callers and I decide I want to play heads up with him. I make it $75. clears everyone but him out. flop is J-2-5 he leads out for $50, and I know he likes to call with any draw, so I pop it to $110 to keep him along. he calls, turn is a 3 giving a non-club draw as well. He checks and I bet $140... and he calls river is kind of aggravating, its a non flush 6. he checks again... and that board is so in his 2 pair, straight wheelhouse, I check back and win as he insta mucks. Im sitting aroud 830 the very next hand I get KK. several limps until Sam (who added on $100) makes it $50....next, crotchety old fuck, who overplays his hands a lot, makes it $125. I call bcause I know sam is gonna jamf ro 275 ish. - he always does in this spot. except this time one of the other aggressive guys who has me covered. jams first. sam snap calls , so does old fuck. and with this group no fucking way am I folding KK. we run it once. the jammer had 66. Sam has A8hh, old fuck who had another $400 behind doesnt show... and I table the KK. 3 side pots. Sam in for 270, Old F in for 537, me in for $835. AQ742 board. I win the top side pot. for 596. OF shows AQ to scoop the rest. Sam reboys for 500, wins 120ish on his next hand.. and I then play the next hand with him where he makes it $35 to go from SB.. 3 callers including me with J2dd as last to act. - I want to play hands with him. flop is Kd Qd Th. Sam bets out $50, folds to me, I jam, he calls so fast I have to be dead....nope Hes got 9-7dd. turn K, river.... J... he scoops. fuck. I rebuy for 500, and he loses ~800 on his next hand... hes down to $300 and I promptly lose ~$300 to him when I jam with AK off and he snap calls with A3o.. hits his 3..... sigh. I addon to 500, win a decent hand immediately to get up to $700. very next hand I am BB and 2 limpers, Sam makes it $20 in LP, SB calls, I have JTss.. I just call, 1 other caller. flop is JcTc3s, checks to him, He bets $50, folds to me... I make it $125. folds to him, he calls. turn is a 3d. I bet out $190 he calls. river is a 2x I shove, he snap calls... and mucks when I show top 2. i win a few more small ones but Sam gets felted 1 more time and leaves before I can play another with him. I leave with $1397..... exactly 97 positive. it could have been worse... but dammit poker gods, it should have been so much better. TL;DR, in for 1300 out for 1397. after losing 3 huge hands where I was a 70% or better fav to not lose.
  6. Agreed. It's the old they-hate-us-more-than-they-like-themselves routine. Just as aggy would giddily accept 4th place in the SEC for the rest of their lives if it meant that we would finish dead last, most Republicans would gladly live on teachers' wages if it meant that the people they think are inferior had to be homeless. Deep down, they know they're stupid and they're not going to amount to much no matter what they do. So, the absolute most important thing to them is to have someone to look down on, and anyone different, in skin tone or religion, is always their first choice. The problem is that we have a handful of really smart, really evil people who have spent the last 30 years positioning themselves to give that stupid mob exactly what it wants. And they really shouldn't have to worry about any election for at least a generation because of it. This is what it looks like when the bad guys win big.
  7. Someone mentioned that young adults today grew up with World of Warcraft, so their orcs have always been just green humans, and since those are the new target demographic it made a lot of sense to me why WOTC is changing them up. I don't like it, but there are so many alternate materials to draw from that I don't even view Hasbro/WOTC to be any more "official" as a source any different than any of the army of alternatives. They can do what they want and let the market decide if it was a good idea or not, but I'll be good either way and just pick up what speaks to my interests. I've learned to deal with disappointment from IPs that are far more important to me that my apathy checks are all guaranteed successes, I don't even have to roll the dice. And speaking of IPs that are more important to me, I played Star Trek Ascendancy several times now. It's really Star Trek in a box. All the factions play different and drip with theme. Gale Force 9 currently has a Gamefound on deck that will introduce new factions (including Gorn!), campaign mode, and stream-lined rules (meh), but the star of the show for me is the proposed crate to store everything. I have everything currently available and putting the contents from all those fiddly boxes into one purpose-built Kallax big box with a smartly designed insert that facilitates setup is my love language. The caveat to the annoucement is that the teaser scenario they debuted is sourced from Discovery. We're still waiting to hear more details from GF9, but if it turns out that Discovery or nuTrek material can't be skipped and is deeply integrated, there's a good chance I'll skip getting the campaign and just get the crate. (Apathy +20) Another space-themed game that was awesome to play was Andromeda's Edge. Just look at that table presence! Now imagine gameplay that's just as good as this physical appearance. I also have and enjoy Dwelling of Eldervale, which this game borrows heavily from. Andromeda's Edge polishes up several of those mechanics and introduces a few more. The end result is a superior experience all around, imo. I painted up all the gods for Amun-Re only to find out they are barely in the game. No bother, I'll still paint everything before even opening the rulebook. Lesson not learned. #noragrets Amun-Re is a modern classic, but I ended up liking Reiner Knizia's other Egyptian-themed auction game, Ra, more. We're almost done with every case released for Detective: City of Angels, which spans across 4 expansions over the base game. It'll be a dark day when there are no more new little tuck boxes to solve. Also broke out Kingdom Rush: Rift in Time. Several scenarios in and the puzzles are getting pretty damn hard to solve. Harder than the app (obv. since the app lets you pay to win and I pay to win) The latest Kickstarter arrived not too long ago so I need to finish this campaign, or at least get through enough of it, so I can try the new stuff, which is supposed to introduce a lot of new mechanics and potentially better gameplay. And we are 2 chapters from finishing Oathsworn. The kid are devastated at the thought of finishing it. Hah. Now, I'm going to get back to Ascendancy to try and get good enough to play as the Vulcans. Peace.
  8. I previously owned a little cabinet / millwork shop as part of my general contracting business. I had it for roughly five years, the last three of which it operated on it's own income statement as a division of the larger business, but not as an independent entity. It was always about break-even, but filled a niche for our business, so I kept it around. In late 2023, we started to get pretty slow. So, I sold it to my employees (two brothers) as an asset sale 1/1/24. They bought the fabrication equipment, and a few other assets and took over the rent. No A/R, no liabilities, no nothing. Just an easy transactional sale. It ended up being the greatest thing ever for BOTH parties. I wasn't focused on it, and it was at a remote location away from our HQ, so it was a rudderless ship and never destined to grow with me continuing to be involved. On their side of the fence, their productivity was lousy and we had some quality issues at the end as well. They were paid a great salary (above market), and had good benefits, but I felt like they weren't profitable, so it was hard to bonus off that to drive better performance. And they never saw any incentive to work harder, so they admittedly were doing a half-assed job. So, it was a catch-22. They were also burdened by the overhead of my company, so they didn't feel like they could market / sell to other companies because my target margins were too high to cover those expenses. I saw them last week. They were down YOY compared to 2023 revenue, but they BOTH made way more money. They have their own website and are selling to other contractors and homeowners. I couldn't be happier for them. They don't need/want the benefits we offer. They're now more efficient, produce better quality, and were operating with an independent contractor mindset rather than the perspective of being a cog in a much bigger wheel where they can fly under the radar, and do just enough to keep a paycheck. They're getting after it and cranking out work instead of trying to do things that we needed for our company, but don't necessarily benefit them directly. They're operating a simpler business that's making more money. And, I'm benefitting from it because their prices to me (with their profit built-in), are now MUCH lower than my cost was with them in-house. It's an absolute win-win. Sometimes, we all get complacent. Both employers and employees. I admittedly failed as a leader with my cabinet shop. And they admittedly didn't perform like they should have when they worked for me. It sucks for the people that do work hard and contribute but are faced with losing their jobs. And, I do worry that we'll see the pendulum swing too far the other direction which may lead to disruptions in federal services or worse. But, I think the end result is a net positive. We may be adding more people to the workforce, but hopefully that lifts the bar for productivity and output. Go kick ass in your job, make money (or save money) for your company (or the US taxpayer), and work your hardest to be underpaid every day so you can justify that promotion or raise. Or have the balls to go out on your own and do it yourself. That mindset should be the same in both the public and private sector, and I'm optimistic this is at least a representation of that mindset.
  9. True to an extent, but they also deal with different pressures: the guy running your local water utility is getting calls from citizen X, and council member Y, bitching at him about why rates are going up, and having to explain that the 70 year old infrastructure that they haven't maintained because they don't want to spend any money is now leaking like a sieve, and all that deferred maintenance is coming home to roost. And if you want clean water without a boil water notice every other day, you have to have pipes with integrity that don't lose pressure. And the council member yells at him because the election is in three months, and he wants rates to stay the same until after the election, and can't you replace those massive pipes with the city crews we have instead of a contractor, and having to explain to the dingbat council member that no, working with 24 inch pipe requires certain specific and expensive equipment that the city simply doesn't have, etc. The pressures are different, but they are pressures nonetheless. Again, the myth that our government is just a bloated tick that feeds off the people and provides nothing is a myth and a lie. That doesn't mean that there aren't wasteful programs, there aren't shitty and unproductive employees, etc. What it means that even if you had a perfect eye and found every such instance and eliminated them....you'd find that you trimmed something like 10% of our overall spending, net. And I say "net" because in fact, you'd ALSO find things like "fuck, we've deferred maintenance on all our bridges for 50 years....we actually desperately need to INCREASE spending on those." Practically speaking, what will happen to a lot of these employees? They will end up in the private sector in the long-run....working for outfits that end up with government contracts to perform the tasks that the government employees were doing previously. Bottom line, today we spend $10 million on the government budget for replacing water pipes with gov't employees. We'll eliminate that department. Then, in short order, when our water pipes start failing and we have boil water notices every week, we'll hire a government contractor to do all that work....for $13 million. So, we'll end up doing the exact same stuff....except with a profit margin built in. Winning for the top 1% who own Mega Pipe Contractor Inc., losing for we the people. Oh, and maybe winning for that former gov't employee who just shifted his job from the public to private sector and got a 20% pay bump.
  10. If we back Arne we’re going to win shitloads of trophies the next decade. Man is a fucking coaching prodigy.
  11. eh, he could win at Vandy and go 3-2 in the last 5 and make the tournament at 8-10. Everyone says 8 wins in the big bad SECSECSEC is assured a tourney invite. or at least that what I've been told. saw CDC at the game. wonder what he thought of that. As literally everyone with a modicum of common sense could tell you before we hired him "This is the Rodney Terry Experience" - 6/7 seed to no tourney is the sine wave you will ride. Good news is he can still get a decent assistant coach gig, make some coin for 5 years or so and retire better than 99% of the people in this country so good on him.
  12. Gonna go out on a limb and say if Arkansas shoots 40 free throws, we aren’t gonna win.
  13. Texas basketball: Who is Devon Pryor, and how has he helped UT climb up SEC standings? When Texas basketball forward Devon Pryor graduated from high school a year early and enrolled in Texas at the age of 17, he knew that the decision would require some patience before he found steady playing time. But that time has apparently arrived for the 6-foot-7 sophomore, who grew up in El Paso and played high school basketball in Houston. His injection of length, energy and athleticism into the rotation has coincided with the recent hot streak for Texas (15-7, 4-5 SEC), which has won four of its past six games in the nation’s highest-rated conference while playing its way off the bubble and into virtually every NCAA Tournament projection. After playing a total of two minutes in the first four SEC games, Pryor has gradually seen more court time in the last few weeks. Over the past three games, he’s averaged 17 minutes a game while posting 19 total points on 9-of-13 shooting to go along with 12 total rebounds. “I just have to play hard and play defense and focus on rebounding,” he said. “I try to home in on those particular aspects of the game so I could find my way eventually onto the court. And all that will open up a bigger role as I progress.” Rodney Terry: Team saw diamond in the recruiting rough Pryor, who just turned 19 earlier this year, apparently has a big role in the rotation right now. In Saturday’s 89-58 win over LSU, he matched a season-high with 21 minutes, pulled down a career-high six rebounds and came within one point of his career-high of 10 points scored in a December nonconference game against Arkansas Pine-Bluff . He also adds some juice off the bench that had been missing since guard Chendall Weaver went down with a hip injury early in January, said Texas coach Rodney Terry. Such development is all part of a plan that Terry and his staff envisioned when Pryor first made an unofficial visit to Texas as a raw, gangly 15-year old with more potential than recruiting stars. That plan accelerated when the Texas staff discovered that Pryor — a standout student in high school and at UT — had enough credits at Houston-area charter school PSAT-XEA Academy to graduate a year early and enroll at Texas for the 2023-24 school year. “Our thought process was, like, hey, this is a kid that has an incredible upside, with a great ceiling,” Terry said. “Let's go ahead and get him to campus right now, start working on his body and start trying to get him physically ready to try to play at this level.” Pryor, who’s now listed at 185 pounds, certainly did his part in the weight room and in Texas athletics’ cafeteria by putting on more than 25 pounds, according to Terry. Terry also said Pryor almost earned regular playing time as a true freshman during last season’s 21-13 campaign. But that squad had veterans such as Dylan Disu, Brock Cunningham and Dillon Mitchell in the frontcourt, which meant Pryor played a total of just 25 minutes in seven games. Even though he burned a redshirt with that limited action, Pryor understood why he spent more time absorbing some lessons from the bench rather than absorbing contact while battling for rebounds on the court. “I did understand the situation I came into with the older team that we had and the guys that were (here) before me,” Pryor said. “Coming in, I didn't have any expectation to really play; I just wanted to get a jump start on the physicality and the understanding and just picking up the pace. I think that decision is starting to pay off a lot.” Texas basketball rebounding better It’s certainly paying off for the Longhorns, who will try to even their SEC record Wednesday against visiting Arkansas in a renewal of a rivalry that stretches back generations in the old Southwest Conference. Pryor hasn’t quite yet reached the pest level of the 6-3 Weaver on the defensive end, but he comes close with his length and quick feet. And his ability to tip balls and get above the rim gives Texas a big boost on the boards; after losing the rebounding battle in each of their first five SEC games, the Longhorns have outrebounded three of their last four opponents. “He's playing terrific for us right now,” Terry said. “He brings a lot of energy and activity when he comes to the floor. And I think the best is yet to come with DP (Pryor).” That best will eventually include more points from Pryor, who gets to the rim and has shown a nice pull-up jumper. He’s also made three of his eight 3-point shots this season, a hint at what’s to come. But for now, Pryor wants to focus on defense, rebounding, the occasional bucket and making what Terry likes to call “winning plays.” “The coaching staff knows what I can do, and I know my ability,” Pryor said. “I feel like my scoring ability can definitely be showcased later on. But as far as the game right now, I'm just trying to keep it as simple as possible. I’m just trying to win.”
  14. I will give a whack at disputing it. When Gingrich became speaker, he told told every republican congressman not to argue policy with their Democratic opponents, but to demonize their opponent as bad people: enemies of the country who wanted to hurt the country with their policies - that they were socialist communist liberals who were against God and American values. That was a very effective strategy for the next 30 years. Because dems telling Bubba that they are NOT a godless atheist socialist will not win the day. It’s like the LBJ story about how he told his political advisor to spread the story that his opponent was having sex with barnyard animals. When they told LBJ that it wasn’t true, LBJ said “Who cares? let’s get the son of a bitch to deny it!” So debate content was no longer about issues so much as it was about God and country and “family values” And people like Karl Rove perfected the art by having wedge issues like burning the American flag become pivotal in an election. The Republican senators and congressman knew that the first amendment gave you that right, exactly the same right as standing on a soapbox and saying, “ I disagree with my countries long-standing racism”, or “ this country sucks because our foreign policy is literally killing people who are innocent.” Republicans back then knew that the liberal position was true, but they also knew it was not politically effective to agree with supporting the constitution when Bubba wants to beat up the guy who would burn the flag. It was brilliant, because taking the mature responsible position on preserving our constitutional liberties will get your ass defeated in an election. The second thing that the Democrats were not responsible for is Rush Limbaugh and the advent of conservative drive time talk radio, and Fox News becoming what it is. You are blaming the Democrats for not being effective communicators when the other half of the country are sworn to not listen to Democrats or any news that Democrats might be on, because it is “fake news”. The active communication you blame democrats for failing requires two parties, one of whom agrees to listen to the other person communicating an idea. They don’t do that. In fact, listening to the other side or reading something from the other side’s news source is an act of treason that is against your team. The other problem is that there are numerous studies showing that people on the right embrace black-and-white simplistic ideology. They have no time to learn why the Middle East is not all Arabs, but also Persians. They have no interest in learning about Sunni and Shia and Wahabism - they are much more receptive to “bomb the desert into glass”, and “ make Gaza a beachside resort”. The short way to put it is that nuance and complexity is not something they have an interest in. That is why “drain the swamp” has such an appeal. that is the only thing they need to learn to say. They don’t even have to know how to explain it to someone. There are other tangential issues like diminishing education, a total lack of emphasis on critical thinking and the liberal arts (the biggest sin being the word “liberal”, which does not mean what Cletus thinks it means). The other thing is the rise of the toxic fundamentalist evangelical Christian community, and their desire to push theology over secular debate on issues. If the magic sky fairy du jour tells you what rules to put on in vitro fertilization legislation, who are mere mortal democrats to oppose that? The more the GOP took the low road the more successful they were. I do not know when it happened, but we reached a tipping point. We should’ve seen snowbilly Palin‘s popularity as the canery in the coal mine. But alas, what she was selling is exactly what the voting population wanted. If the economic crisis of 2008 had not happened, McCain would’ve likely won. Finally, I’m not saying Democrats don’t have a lot of old and new feet wounds from their shooting. But I disagree that they could overcome those other factors. and I did not even go on a tirade against social media, another huge promoter of tribe thinking. TL;DR Apparently, we get the country we deserve.
  15. Nono, everyone can get on board with fuck Notre Dame. You missed his specific 4-5 posts of pussy rubbing so hard it bled all over the thread, having to do with his fear of notre dame once again becoming a resurgent giant, how we won’t be able to compete, etc etc. here we go, it’s gonna poke through like his moose curtains: Ah yes, the “I don’t know why I’m the only one who can see this, you must have a mind spot. I remember it well, right down to you and others implying that posters didn’t like charlie strong because we were racists. Of the two of us, one has a track record of seeing the future and correctly sugaring it on this website. It’s not you. There’s an infinite possibility of outcomes in the future, maybe even one where Aggie starts winning championships. Just like notre dame consistently being back on top is possible. But you pissing your pants at the idea and claiming that Ohio State is not as near a threat as notre dame is, despite vastly superior NIL, vastly more wealthy living alumni, and oh let’s not forget a recent history of the last 15 years winning national titles regularly, including just last year, is a bad take and you should fucking feel bad.
  16. bbc.com Jeremy Bowen: Trump's Gaza plan won't happen, but it will have consequences Jeremy Bowen 6–7 minutes Jeremy Bowen International editor Watch: Trump says US could 'take over' Gaza and rebuild it Donald Trump's plan for the US to "take over" and "own" Gaza, resettling its population in the process, is not going to happen. It requires the co-operation of Arab states that have rejected it. They include Jordan and Egypt - countries that Trump wants to take in Gaza's Palestinians - and Saudi Arabia, which might be expected to foot the bill. Western allies of the US and Israel are also against the idea. Some - perhaps many - Palestinians in Gaza might be tempted to get out if they had the chance. But even if a million left, as many as 1.2m others would still be there. Presumably the United States - the new owners of Trump's "Riviera of the Middle East" - would have to use force to remove them. After America's catastrophic intervention in Iraq in 2003, that would be deeply unpopular in the US. It would be the final end of any lingering hope that a two-state solution was possible. That is the aspiration that a conflict more than a century old could be ended with the establishment of an independent Palestine alongside Israel. The Netanyahu government is adamantly against the idea, and over years of failed peace talks, "two states for two peoples" became an empty slogan. But it has been a central plank of US foreign policy since the early 1990s. The Trump plan would also violate international law. America's already threadbare assertions that it believes in a rules-based international order would dissolve. Russia's territorial ambitions in Ukraine and China's in Taiwan would be turbocharged. What will it mean for the region? Why worry about all that if it is not about to happen - at least not in the way Trump announced in Washington, watched by a grinning and clearly delighted Benjamin Netanyahu? The answer is that Trump's remarks, however outlandish, will have consequences. He is the president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world - no longer a reality TV host and political hopeful trying to grab headlines. Short-term, the disruption caused by his stunning announcement could weaken the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. One senior Arab source told me it could be its "death knell". The absence of a plan for Gaza's future governance is already a fault line in the agreement. Now Trump has provided one, and even if it does not come to pass, it presses very big buttons in the minds of Palestinians and Israelis. Reuters A family search for belongings amongst the rubble of their destroyed house, after returning to it amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, January 30, 2025. Reuters It is estimated that two-thirds of Gaza's buildings were damaged or destroyed in the 15 months of war It will nourish the plans and dreams of ultra-nationalist Jewish extremists who believe all the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan river, and perhaps beyond, is a God-given Jewish possession. Their leaders are part of Netanyahu's government and keep him in power - and they're delighted. They want the Gaza war to resume with the longer-term objective of removing the Palestinians and replacing them with Jews. The finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said Trump had provided the answer to Gaza's future after the 7 October attacks. His statement said that "whoever committed the most terrible massacre on our land will find himself losing his land forever. Now we will act to finally bury, with God's help, the dangerous idea of a Palestinian state." Centrist opposition leaders in Israel have been less effusive, perhaps fearing trouble ahead, but have offered a polite welcome to the plan. Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups may feel the need to answer Trump with some kind of show of force against Israel. For Palestinians, the conflict with Israel is driven by dispossession and the memory of what they call al-Nakba, "the catastrophe". That was the exodus of Palestinians as Israel won its war for independence in 1948. Follow live updates Analysis: Trump's real-estate instincts clash with America First view BBC Verify: Can Trump really take ownership of Gaza? More than 700,000 Palestinians either fled or were forced from their homes by Israeli forces. All but a handful were never allowed back and Israel passed laws it still uses to confiscate their property. Now the fear will be that it is happening again. Many Palestinians already believed Israel was using the war against Hamas to destroy Gaza and expel the population. It is part of their accusation that Israel is committing genocide – and now they might believe Donald Trump is adding his weight to Israel's plans. What could be Trump's motivation? Just because Trump says something, that does not make it true or certain. His statements are often more like opening gambits in a real estate negotiation than expressions of the settled policy of the United States. Perhaps Trump is spreading some confusion while he works on another plan. He is said to crave the Nobel peace prize. Middle East peacemakers, even when they do not ultimately succeed, have a strong track record of winning it. As the world was digesting his Gaza announcement, he posted on his Truth Social platform his desire for a "verified nuclear peace agreement" with Iran. The Iranian regime denies it wants nuclear weapons but there has been an open debate in Tehran about whether they are now so threatened that they need the ultimate deterrent. For many years Netanyahu has wanted the US, with Israeli help, to destroy Iran's nuclear sites. Doing a deal with Iran was never part of his plan. During Trump's first term, Netanyahu waged a long and successful campaign to persuade him to pull the US out of the nuclear deal Barack Obama's administration signed with Iran. If Trump wanted to throw the Israeli hard-right something to keep them happy as he makes overtures to the Iranians, he has succeeded. But he has also created uncertainty and injected more instability into the world's most turbulent region.
  17. I don’t know who is leading this party, but Schumer needs to go. Chanting “we will win” to cameras along side a near 90 year old Maxine Waters is the Dems problem. That does absolutely nothing and its infuriating.
  18. yeah, if kidd and nico are bitching about Luka's prep work/conditioning/availability/etc it also makes it easier for the owner to just say well are we really going to give someone you keep bitching about a supermax? I'm going with Occam's Razor. They just didn't want to pay him and Nico thought he had to do it on the downlow to keep anyone from scuttling it and his buddy took him to the cleaners because he knew the owners didn't want to pay him. I don't expect Davis to be here long either. the whole defense wins championships is a smoke screen. Yes, they could have a long game of moving to Vegas but I think they are just cheap.
  19. Not that it matters, but the thing that is killing us in the poll rankings is the opening loss to Ohio State. We were #19 and dropped out. Win that and we are 8-0 and likely ranked around #10 going into the UConn game.
  20. Things Trump touches turn to shit for everyone. Him included. Eventually. If they didn't he would be the richest man in the world. Lord knows it's not for lack of trying. Trump has been around a long time, and very few things in his atmosphere have stuck. Musk is winning right now but hang around awhile and watch. The thing about all your money being tied up in shares is all it takes is a 1929. It's coming my friend. Read the tea leaves. Trump is playing with fire right now. He IS going to kill the economy. Get your money right! Get your passports in order. Nothing is forever. We are about to fold.
  21. Same. I want him to get the respect he deserves there. Multiple MVPS....but no titles. Let him move on to win those. This isn't close to true. Ya'll just overreacting because everyone hates Nicole now. I'm here. And social media is going nuts about how grimes is better. Cool. He might be. But he's getting phased out by Christie(who's younger and might already be as good and a much better defender) and Exum(better ball handler, better defensively) than Grimes. Grimes was also going to get a nice big contract this offseason. Even if the Mavs weren't cheap, they wouldn't have the room to sign him. Martin is also a 3, bigger wing which the Mavs needed. And he has a very tradable contract under control for 3 more years. It's not some "win" trade...but a decent "along the margins" trade of role players. They got a good contract, for a type of player they need, and gave up a guy who won't be here next season so actually found value in him. I know why we all hate the Judas Nicole....but this was not a bad trade in the slightest.
  22. gotta have a win tomorrow. after that we go on the road to Vandy where they’ve been typically tough at home, followed by bama and UK. these next four games will tell us a lot about this team. thinking about it this is probably the perfect time to play arkansas. they’re a shitty offensive team that appeared to be nosediving only to miraculously walk into rupp and just dominate UK. i love getting them on the bounce back after that adrenaline high, and at home too.
  23. A pub scored an own goal with a promotion offering a free pint every time Nottingham Forest scored - only for the Reds to win 7-0. The Gedling Inn, in Nottinghamshire, came up with the promotion to spread the word after it started to televise local Premier League games at the venue. But the incentive backfired after Forest scored seven without reply against Brighton on Saturday - and almost 300 free beers were handed over the bar. Landlady Beccy Webster said: "When the final whistle went, I just said 'phew!'" The Main Street venue had only decided on the offer on the day of the game. Miss Webster, who has run the pub for six years, said they had only just started televising the game when they decided on "a crazy offer". "Never in my wildest dreams did we imagine they'd score seven goals. "I was upstairs feeding my baby when I heard the first goal go in, then the second quickly afterwards, and I had just come downstairs when the third went in - I thought 'here we go'." But despite handing out so many free drinks, Miss Webster said it was still "a good day". She said: "People were singing, and people were respectful with the offer - lots of people were still buying drinks, people stayed for food, and lots of people have been asking if we'll be having any more offers on! "It's just nice to get behind the team - it's good for the whole city, they're putting us on the map." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xq90788j5o 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
  24. i have TJO and Lloyd in a tier above mccasland. i know that people think that TJO will never leave ISU, but they thought the same thing about The Mayor. we can offer him everything that ISU can’t, and he can coach here for 10-15 and still have plenty of years left to go back to ISU and win there. whenever we do hire a new coach, i hope we go after him hard.
  25. Well, I don’t think it’s a miscalculation. It’s a win-win for them. This trade ruins any chance that Dallas will support building a new arena, but it also gives the Lakers their next global superstar at a time when the league needs it. So as mad as Dallas is, the league is very happy with the Adelsons right now. That’s relevant because: 1) the local fans are going to turn their backs on the franchise and the city will NOT support a new arena anymore, and that’s when the league green lights moving teams (see also Seattle, Golden State). And the Adelsons now have the ability to go to the lege in 26 and credibly say “we can’t build a new arena because the fans won’t vote for it. Give us a casino and we will build it, or we take the team to Vegas and build a new casino around it there”. 2) if the leg says no, the league will permit the move and the Adelsons win. 3) if the leg opens yes, North Texas gets casino gambling and the Adelsons win.
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