Spaceman Spiff

Watching the Iron Claw on HBO...really great. Had to stop partway through to finish up work this afternoon but plan on finishing it later today or tomorrow. When the **** did Zac Efron become a pretty good actor?

I think I'd be in favor of trading this #2 pick if this draft were loaded in order to get some more picks down the line but since this draft is being panned as not being that strong, I'm not sure what they'd get for this years #2. At some point, you gotta just hope the Wiz catch a break and a little luck. It figures they get the #2 pick in a year where the draft isn't strong.

Yeah, but I don't know if OKC knew that SGA was going to be the player he turned into. I mean, they probably had to have had a feeling because they traded a bunch of picks for him. But I don't think there was anything he did in that first year with the Clippers that clued anyone in on the scorer he'd become. So I think you're right to a certain degree, you gotta trade for one but you've also gotta give value to get value. It's kind of hard for me to remember what the Clips like were a few years ago when they made that trade but IIRC, it was essentially for Paul George...so they wanted someone established and weren't waiting around for rookie SGA to develop. The Wiz unfortunately don't have anyone on 2019 PG's level that they could trade to get a young but unproven SGA type. I mean, what could you get for Kuz? Hope that Coulibaly makes a big leap in year 2 and that the #2 pick is someone that they can pair with him and you're off to a good start. They're probably picking in the lottery again next year though.

Pretty sure OKC traded for SGA. But they traded a lot of picks for him so you could say that he was their pick.

Wooooow Murray with the buzzer beater!

Looks like the Nuggets might have woken up.

Who the **** is Nikola Topic

The only way this team will ever get good is to draft a generational superstar and make some smart trades and maybe a signing to get talent in around that player. If Milwaukee and Minnesota can, we can too. But they drafted Giannis and Ant.

Dude let’s draft Bronny and get LeBron to come here. @Dr. Do Itch Bigsaid he couldn’t hurt his legacy but I beg to differ.

Isn’t it supposed to be a weak draft?

Alabama has to be thrilled that Florida exists.

I will check that out. Should be a good listen.

Comedy gold! NSFW language and probably offensive.

I think the 2012 Orioles had more veterans and more names you’d recognize on that team. I can see why you’d make that comparison though.

That was a good series and the Nats certainly look better than they have over the past couple seasons. I like the aggressiveness on the basepaths in particular. Your team reminds me of the 2022 Orioles, a team that won 31 more games than they did the previous year. That team played a lot of close games, came from behind a lot and had that never say die attitude. I really, really like CJ Abrams, that's a great piece to build around. I hope the Nats rebuild goes well and it'd be awesome to see a Nats/Orioles World Series in the near future.

Man, RIP Steve Albini.

Finding out that Macklemore’s real name is Benjamin Hammond Haggerty might be as close as I’ll ever come to a real life “his real name’s Clarence” moment.

Wemby unanimous rookie of the year. Unanimous dick riders.

Yeah, I don't get the "I missed a graduation so boo ****ing hoo" aspect of it.

Politico doing nothing to dispel the George Soros boogeyman that the conservatives love to bring up. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/05/pro-palestinian-protests-columbia-university-funding-donors-00156135

Three Year Letterman has made his way into the Palestine protests. Well done.

Well I wanted to ignore this thread but since you asked... I really don't care about the months/years, I really care about the reasons why they left and I look for patterns if there are any to be found. Sometimes people have had a few horses shot out from under them and their reasons are something like "they hired me but then they lost a few clients and couldn't afford to keep me anymore, so since I was the most recent one hired, I was the first to be let go," "we merged with another company and there were layoffs," "my company said I could work from home when Covid started, I moved, and then all of a sudden they said I had to be back in the office," etc. If it's line after line of "I didn't like my boss/my boss didn't like me" or "I had to stay late on a Friday because a server went down and that really upset me," I'm probably not interested in continuing the conversation.

Kendrick is swinging on Drake like Mike Tyson in '87 and I am here for it.

The best recruiting call I ever heard happened 8 or 9 years ago when I was working at a boutique IT recruiting agency. There were about 10 of us in the office and only one of us was on the phone. That was kind of rare, but it allowed us to listen in on one particular call. The recruiter that was on the phone was probably the greatest recruiter I've ever met. At the time he was about 30 years old, had been a former track star in college, had 3 DUIs under his belt and bragged about the chicks he picked up on the weekends in an effort to stay in the closet and truly just did not give a **** about anything or anyone and depending on the day could let you know exactly that. But he got more people hired at our clients than anyone. So he's on the phone with a candidate who wants a job at a client we're working with and he's asking question after question about why this candidate hasn't been able to hold a job for more than 6-8 months at a time for the past several years. "Okay, so in June through October of 2014 you were at this company, why'd you leave?" He stops asking questions and then repeats the candidates reasons back to him. "Okay, so you left this company because you had a problem with the manager. And you left the next one because you didn't like the boss. And you left this one because you had a disagreement with co-worker and couldn't stand working with them....You left this one because..." And then he summed it up. "I can't do anything for you. You have a 'you' problem. You're the problem in every reason you've left a job, you are the common denominator." So yeah, Ren, it's the responsibility for each generation to teach the next generation lessons but sometimes the truth hurts. A wise man once wrote, "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest," and that statement rings true in a lot of areas but it especially rings true in work environments. I've spoken with hundreds of clients over the past 15 years, and thousands upon thousands of candidates. Anywhere from three to ten calls a day listening to people explain why they want to leave their current job or why they feel like they deserve something or what they want out of their next career move or why they can't find a job, etc, etc, Monday through Friday for 15 years. To say I'm a bit jaded and cynical would be an understatement. And to be clear, I'm jaded and cynical just not with candidates but the clients, too, so I'm well aware about the bull**** that's on their end. But I do know one thing for sure; in the similar vein of how it never hurts to be the best dressed person in the room, it also never hurts to be the hardest working person in the room. These things said, I am still cynical and jaded and I really don't give much of a **** past this. So I'll let you have the final word and continue to ignore this thread.