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Morey's gonna get fired if Embiid says he'd leave. 

On 8/19/2023 at 10:35 AM, The Evil Genius said:

If legit..good for him for finally getting in shape. Missing 50+ games a year has to be getting old.

 

 

What's the Vegas over/under on how many games this guy plays this season? 

I don't get why any NBA team, that is serious about trying to win a championship, would want Harden. 

1 hour ago, 88Comrade2000 said:

I think Manchin won’t run for reelection. Justice is leading by 20 points.

 

Joe the WV Dem is now a republican.  Parties change all the team. The gop is now a power hungry facist party.  The Dems are moving more towards the progressive direction.

As long as Joe keeps passing Biden’s judges, I can live with it. 

6 hours ago, 88Comrade2000 said:

All you need 3-5 % taken away from Biden.  There’s a lot of Dems very dissatisfied with Biden for various reasons. If Joe M peels enough votes in key states, Joe B will lose. You don’t need a lot to peel away 3-5%.

 

Joe B would probably lose reelection if he faced someone other than Trump or Desantis or any other crazy goper.  A sane goper would beat him. Christie, Haley, Scott- 3 people who would never get nomination In reality would beat him. I think Mr Vest- Youngkin would beat him.

 

 

Biden is only president because of Trump and if he wins, it would be the same.

This is mostly nonsense. People may gripe an issue here or there but overall Biden's been a terrific president and Democrats understand that. Biden isn’t losing to any of the GOP candidates. They’ve all shown themselves to be Trump-lights and being in a post Roe world now is going to continue to hurt the GOP nationwide. 
 

Manchin is just trying to figure out the best way to win in WV. I’ll happily take another 6 years of him over any GOP candidate. 

14 hours ago, Mr. Sinister said:

I'm convinced that if that fight were to happen 10 times, Anderson would wash Ramirez for 9 of them.

 

Ramirez threw a wild, lucky punch, that was like an unblockable Mortal Kombat X ray special attack, and destroyed him.

Anderson's punches weren't really great and dude got KO'd by someone who was in the process of getting grabbed by another player. No reason the same outcome isn't a likely outcome if it happens 9 more times. 

Ramirez moved and Anderson had his jaw wide open with a hit me sign on it.  

9 minutes ago, EmirOfShmo said:

...especially Rapinoe. 

She was bad on corners and free kicks after coming into the game. 

1 hour ago, Maxito said:

Honestly, I am glad that we didn't get Verlander even if he waived his NTC.  Giving up the farm for a 40-year-old pitcher on a 2-year deal is not worth it.  I know Verlander is a great pitcher, but imagine who would the Mets want in return. My guess is either Rodriguez, Kjeristad, or Holliday with another player(s) included.  

Considering the Astros gave up no one close to G-Rod or Holiday, there is zero chance that we even discussed. They didn't even give up someone as highly ranked at Kjeristad. 

55 minutes ago, codeorama said:

So, I want to upgrade to a new PC.

1. I use it to create videos for school. Over the past few years, I've used my video gaming prowess to create videos for student remediation and the school district pays me for them.  It pays really really well as the majority of teachers are not gamers etc.. (think of using assassin's creed, COD, Flight SIm (for geography), and numerous other games that show elements from history that draws students in. 

2. I'm going to be playing starfield and want more power. My current PC is very good and I'm going to give it to my son.  I genuinely need more power for the video editing more so than gaming.  

 

So, I bought my current pc 2 years ago from Cyberpower PC and I'm extremely happy with it and unless I'm convinced othewise, I'll probably do the same. 

Feel free, share in good places to buy from.

But the main part is this.

I know I want an i9 processor, I currently have an i7.

I currently have a 2060 super vid card and I keep hearing bad things about the 40 series RTX cards.

Regardless, I'm getting a bigger SSD drive and a big HDD drive just to store video elements that I don't need fast access to.  That's the biggest place my current PC is lagging.  I only have a 500GB SSD and a 1 TB HHD.

 

Any help would be appreciated!!

Thank you in advance.

What is the age/grade level of kids for whom you making these videos? Sounds like an excellent idea. 

Watched top-ranked boxing tonight. Used to love this sport. Just a reminder that boxing is fixed. Even this dudes mom knows he lost the fight. Just embarrassing. 
 

Check out this email I got regarding a school board policy we are working on. The policy has to do with a parents ability to challenge materials (really books). Don't worry, 7 out of the 9 of us oppose book bans. 

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Please vote tonight to reflect the majority of parents wanting you to respect their rights to observe protection of their children's innocence (not Woke Secret behind their backs Trans Grooming).

On 7/13/2023 at 3:30 PM, Fergasun said:

So B-Cool is always going to be compared to: Black (Wizards wanted this guy), Jarace Walker (Wizards traded for this guy), and Cam Whitmore (Wizards could have had this guy). 

 

Jarace Walker just had 20 in SL. 

I think Whitmore is averaging more than 15... 

 

Other rookies yesterday.... 

Gradey Dick put up 22. 

Ausar Thompson put up 17.

 

Black didn't to great his last game though.

 

I am just saying and it was said before, he is not that great putting points up.

 

Put up 19 this afternoon.  on 5/10 FG, 1/1 from 3 and 8/9 FT.

I hope he gets asked about it. What I don't get is why he did it. I thought he had plenty of big money investors already on board. I didn't think cash flow was an issue but maybe it is. 

35 minutes ago, Fergasun said:

So B-Cool is always going to be compared to: Black (Wizards wanted this guy), Jarace Walker (Wizards traded for this guy), and Cam Whitmore (Wizards could have had this guy). 

 

Jarace Walker just had 20 in SL. 

I think Whitmore is averaging more than 15... 

 

Other rookies yesterday.... 

Gradey Dick put up 22. 

Ausar Thompson put up 17.

 

Black didn't to great his last game though.

 

I am just saying and it was said before, he is not that great putting points up.

 

Walker had 20 on 19 shots. I would love for BC to get that many shots in a game. Last game he scored 10 on 8 shots. Regardless of the points scored, I want to see more shooting. 

Ryan Rollins took 17 shots and JD took 15 shots last game. Bilal should get that many. 

12 minutes ago, Fergasun said:

My thoughts on B-Cool:

He looks the part on defense.  Very raw athleticism.  Seems like there are times where he is playing at half-speed... moving effortlessly around. 

 

He needs to shoot better.  Should be averaging 15 to 20 in Summer League as an offensive threat... but his finishing around the rim and decision making look really good. Scoring will need to come up. But if he grows into that in the NBA it'll be fine.  

 

Stats wise and fit wise... I hope he is a better scoring version of Boris Diaw... 

Scoring between 15-20 in summer league as a rookie? Very few actually do that and most that do are doing it on volume shooting. 

I can't be the first to have thought of this. Creepy AF. 

6 hours ago, PleaseBlitz said:

 

My daughter turned 8 last Saturday.  She is not rambunctious, she is basically a Disney princess.  Small woodland creatures follow her around, birds land on her, I don't recall her ever punching anything. During covid, she took close to a year of jiu jitsu (I posted about it on page 17 of this thread), but when it came time for her to actually learn a choke hold and apply it on someone, she wouldn't do it. 

 

She and the 3 year old are a even matchup right now despite her being literally twice his size. in six months he'll be able to demolish her (until I teach her the double collar tie technique). 

Just be prepared for the day when your son understands that punching or kicking you in the balls is painful to you and hilarious to him. And that's all I have to say about that. 

2 hours ago, PleaseBlitz said:

Some wisdom that I’ve recently learned. If you have a rambunctious 3 year old boy who likes to wrestle and punch things, an extremely effective technique is the double collar tie (in wrestling), also know as the thai plum (in kickboxing and jiu jitsu) where you use both hands to grab the back of their head when facing them from the front. A 3 year old will have no answer for this and be completely helpless. 
 

You may recognize this as the technique Anderson Silva used to demolish Rich Franklin in their first fight. Knees to the face are optional and may depend on the current disposition of the child. 
 

 

Do you have any kids older than 3? Specifically a boy older than 3? 

26 minutes ago, Going Commando said:

 

I hope you're right, and I wish I had your optimism.

 

He was god awful in this one.

Did you actually watch the game? Did you see his game tonight?

7 hours ago, Going Commando said:

Anthony Black looks good to me.  Nice left hand, smooth handle, good first step, confident shooter off the dribble, smart defensive player.  Very tall for a ball handling guard.  I'm already afraid that we will look back on this draft one day and see that we were one damn pick away from getting the special player.

wiz have a special player in Coulibaly

1 minute ago, CRobi21 said:

Umm did they find a 2nd round gem in Vukcivic? You can see the Jokic light comparison with his passing and shooting ability.

 

And he looks much more comfortable and active from last night's game.

I hear ya, but Jokic is trending toward an all time great. I’ll take a solid big man with range at this point with Vuk.

21 minutes ago, Ball Security said:

What time do they tip?

8 ET on EPSN 2

Hyped to see Wembanyama's teammate this evening. Seriously, how many times will ESPN bring up his teammate instead of just talking about Coulibaly?

Wemby and Holgren are gonna be fun to watch. Hopefully they both stay healthy. 

14 minutes ago, BRAVEONAWARPATH said:

 

Kuminga should come join the Wiz in a couple years. 

4 hours ago, PleaseBlitz said:

 

That's interesting.  I was actually curious to see if it was still an issue so I Googled it and most of what I saw was about a "soft landing."  I haven't seen nonstop talk of a recession.  I looked at it yesterday, so possibly the narrative has already changed?

I'm not surprised to see this from the NY Times.