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His co-owners, who he bought out two years ago, felt at the time that their 40% share was worth $875m. That would value the team at like $2.2b. It’s supposed to worth 2-3x that now?

Folks. Dan went from “never” changing the name to ripping it up and writing “football team” in sharpie in like a day because he literally could not afford to lose another sponsor. He went from taking the franchise to his deathbed to putting it up for sale because his finances were not going to withstand federal scrutiny. Now he wants $6-7b for a franchise whose own partial owners, like a year and a half ago, felt was worth less than $3b. **** is getting real here.

I’ve been watching some of the behind the scenes stuff. Marlene from the games is Marlene in the show. Tommy from the games was the bearded commando guy in Kansas City.

I read something for either Druckmann or Mazin that speculated they would break the second game into two seasons. There’s a spot in the game where it would happen fairly naturally.

See I thought it was one of the better episodes and wish they had a few more like this. I just don’t know how they wrap up in the next two episodes… unless we’ve been lied to and season 1 does not equal the entire first game. Goes back to my complaint last week about how HBO is short changing the show.

Americans really will use anything other than the metric system.

My way too early take on LOU season 1 is that it’s failing to live up to its potential based exclusively on the pace of the show dictated by HBO. 9 episodes is way too short to do a thorough job on character development. The flip side of this is you have shows like Walking Dead that had plot lines just drag out forever in some cases, so I’m definitely not arguing for that. But I think season one could easily have been 15+ episodes, possibly even breaking the first game into two separate 10 episode seasons. Everything about the show is damn near perfect. They’re just leaving me wanting *more* of it, and it’s going to end so quickly at its current pace.

Not really related to anything but I deleted my twitter two weeks ago after like 10yr and I do not miss it. It’s weird because I used it as my primary news source, so I do feel very much out of the loop on current events. But at the same time it’s also nice not being quite so connected.

I will not stand for P51 slander

No, fungus just like the game.

TLOU premiere exceeded my expectations. And my expectations were ridiculously high. This show is going to be incredible.

I’ll throw out a new one: elementary school age kids birthday parties You’re telling me parents actually routinely invite entire ****ing classes full of kids to their kid’s birthday party at the Bounce house or Chuck E. Cheese or whatever? And there other 18 kids in this class so we’re averaging about one party per month (and I have three children wtf am I going to do in a couple years when they’re all in school). oh and of course my kid now wants to have his own party this year after having so much fun at his friends parties, and his friends are too young to just be dropped off at our house so we have to accommodate 8 friends (his closest) plus their parents oh and still separately host a damn party for family members. Kids turning 7 and we’re gonna be out close to a grand for all the **** we’re doing.

The replies to that tweet are absolutely incredible 😂

Basically this.

I’ve experienced a coworker and friend have a seizure at work right in front of me. Eyes rolled back, dropped to the floor unconscious, body convulsing for several minutes, taken to the hospital in an ambulance with no guarantee they were going to be ok. I can tell you that I was an absolute mess for the rest of the day. Completely distraught and distracted, trouble focusing on basic stuff. They could not have finished that game.

I just want to see McCarthy have to move his stuff back out of the Speaker’s office. That would bring me immense satisfaction.

I guess that means Mancini is off the table.

Dems should nominate Liz Cheney for speaker and see if she can pick off the 6 GOP votes needed to win (there is no requirement that the speaker be a sitting congressman).

I love Ron but man that is absolutely brutal.

Ah, because those two play each other week 18. That makes sense, thanks.

I don’t think there is a likely scenario where the last game is not meaningful. If they lose this weekend they will probably getting bumped from the playoff spot by one of the teams behind them. But they can always (hypothetically) retake that lead in Week 18, assuming the other games haven’t been played already. edit- was pointed out that since the Lions and Packers play each other week 18, Washington can be eliminated this weekend with a loss and Lions and Packers both winning.

You mean the guys where it’s actually plausible they might be available? We’ve got a good enough roster now that we won’t be picking top 5 for the foreseeable future. Probably going to have to do the 49ers or Bucs model where we get a midtier guy to hold us over until we can trade a ton of picks for a 1st round rookie, or somehow try to attract a top guy in FA. Not sure how many of those guys are expected to be on the move though.

Agreed. I could see a new owner trying to make a splash though… just hopefully not at the expense of the team’s long term success. San Francisco has 3 QBs that are better than any on our roster. Well Lance is not proven at all but I’m guessing he’s not going anywhere. I wonder what it would take to get Jimmy G in the offseason. He’s probably a better medium term stopgap than Wentz. I’d also be interested in Daniel Jones in the same category if the Giants don’t bring him back. He’s looked a lot better this year with NYG finally having a slightly better supporting cast. Price would have to be right but I think he could be decent.

The concept of a penalty kick in soccer, even not to decide the game, is just insane. You have a sport where you routinely go entire games without scoring. Most penalties result in a free kick that has, at best, a 1-5% chance of scoring depending on where on the field it occurs. But if that penalty occurs *just* inside that little arbitrary box, suddenly you have a PK that probably has what an 80% chance of scoring? For anything, random contact, incidental stuff, referee judgment, etc. It’s just crazy that people are cool with that routinely deciding games.

Four consecutive Delta trips now with flight delays. Two maintenance related, two because their pilots didn’t make it to the airport on time. Two missed connections, one resulting in getting bumped to a red eye and spending 12hr in an airport. Really enjoying the experience.