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8 hours ago, Pariah said:

 

What's the NBA equivalent of the Raiders these days?

Well, he is going full on Antonio Brown.

5 hours ago, unclevlad said:

 

Well it's a combination of factors too.  Harden's got a massive contract...3 years, about $130M in salary, and almost $140M in cap hit.  As much as I hate his game and attitude, he's one of the top...10 for sure, probably 5...players in the league.  So the demands have to be high.  

 

And one can't ignore the point that Harden isn't a great fit on a lot of teams.  We hear about the Nets, but good gosh, get serious.  Irving and Harden together would be massively more toxic than Westbrook and Harden.  THEN you have Durant.

Yeah, philly was the only team i could see as seriously doing it. And i would rather have Simmons.

I got a day off from work.

Dont worry, i will make up for lost time this weekend (16 hours over a 28 hour span of time)

On 12/24/2020 at 8:49 PM, Pariah said:

Merry Christmas, and most fervent wishes for peace on Earth and good will toward men in 2021.

On a more serious note, this year has left me fresh out of good will.🥺

4 hours ago, unclevlad said:

The NBA stars know they have basically ALL the power;  their team has very little.  Yeah, he's a little brat I wouldn't want on my team.

Yeah, if i was a Gm, and got a message on my phone from Houston. IT is going to be "accidentally" deleted.😉

I have heard the Simmons and 1st rd picks for Harden a few days ago. I wouldnt do a straight up trade for that.  Simmons is younger, and most of what you would gain on offense, you give back on defense. And, again, migraine headache walking.

On 12/3/2020 at 3:28 PM, Michael Hopcroft said:

Harden reportedly wants out too -- politics is a big factor here. I don't think anyone has value to give to the Rockets in exchange, so he's sort of stuck for a while. I imagine he could hold out for a trade, but that won't help.

Cant imagine any team crazy enough to take on the walking migraine that is Harden.

10 hours ago, archer said:

 

I understand.

 

I've been a Cowboys fan but have been rooting for them to lose since Jerry Jones brought his dumb "run the ball, keep the score close, and try to pull it out in the end" philosophy to the franchise. That's a great way to go 8-8 every season in this league.

 

I have more of a "run the score up, crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their cheerleaders" philosophy.

 

Maybe if JJ loses enough, he'll lose interest and sell the team.

Well, a few years ago, in the Demarco murray era, they went different, get ahead by 3 tds at half, and come out passing all the time, despite averaging 5 yards a carry.

They would 3 and out a couple of times and it would a one score game halfway through the 3rd.

8 hours ago, Pariah said:

After the strip-sack touchdown, one of the commentators mentioned that the Broncos are the only team in the NFL with a turnover in every game this season. Ouch.

 

And yeah, it sucked watching the Broncos get blown out again, especially since it guaranteed the team's fourth consecutive losing season, a streak not seen since the Nixon administration. But losing to the Bills guaranteed that the Patriots weren't going to win the division for the first time in forever, and that softens the blow a bit. 

 

The season ends with winnable games against the Chargers and the Raiders, so the Donkeys might just be able to match their 7-9 record from last season. Woo-hoo. 

Make sure the Chargers take the early lead, easier to beat them that way.

The less you have to live for, the more they will try to take from you.

11 hours ago, Old Man said:

The Raiders were already on the outside looking in after losing to the Colts last week. Good thing they traded Khalil Mack away for magic be— I mean, draft picks. 

It was the reverse, of what a James Harden trade will inevitably, which, selling away your future for a walking tumor.

On 12/17/2020 at 11:09 AM, BoneDaddy said:

Yahoo News freaked me out a bit this morning, re-publishing Aretha Franklin’s obituary. 
 

it freaked me out a bit because I clearly remember that Clint Eastwood died shortly after finishing The Mule. I recall the news reports, the obits, a brief blurb on NPR about the funeral. I don’t know what to think about it, aside from the fact that I was clearly mistaken as far as what we call objective reality is concerned. 
 

do any of you remember a woman briefly playing for the Toronto Bluejays back in the ‘80s? For like half a season? Newsweek wrote an article about her?  She chewed tobacco somewhat messily, cursed a bit during interviews, and frankly wasn’t a very good fielder, but it was the ‘80s and Toronto wasn’t exactly on fire back then.  I can’t find any evidence now on the internet that this actually happened, but damn I remember it pretty well. 
 

do any of you have anything like this? Not part of a mass mis-remembrance of history, but some historical event you remember that doesn’t seem to have actually happened?

Danny Ainge played for the Blue Jay's back then.

54 minutes ago, IndianaJoe3 said:

I have a memory of the Shazaam! movie with Sinbad, but not the same one other people do. I remember hearing a vague bit about it being in development, but nothing further. I assumed it had been cancelled or had gone straight to video without me hearing any more of it. (I'm not a fan of the comedian.) I was surprised to find out that even that fragmentary memory was imaginary.

I remember hearing about a Highlander sequel. Pretty sure that didnt happen.

Never walk around a nudist after 5hey have dealt with a bout of dysentery.

3 hours ago, Bazza said:

Does anyone have any leftover conspiracy theories, all mine are coming true. 

2020: I dont even care anymore.

Note: does that help

4 hours ago, archer said:

 

To be fair, none of the Bushes have come close to me....

You arent an old man, back from his car ride, whose bladder moves faster than his feet.

If O'Brien was still around he would to make a Watson for Trubisky trade.

3 hours ago, Pariah said:

I figured that with Brady and Gronkowski gone, rooting against the Patriots wouldn't be nearly as much fun.

 

But then they signed Cam Newton...

Bill Belichek was my biggest reason anyway.

You know those pajamagram commercials.

If you are thinking getting that for your wife, dont, it will save your marriage.😉

Ok, I joke about that every year.

We need to have a team sign Antonio Brown and Dez Bryant.

Just to see what happens.

Grandma got ran over by a reindeer

What?

In Las Vegad you will find plenty of Elvis impersonators

In your local grocery store you will find plenty of Jabba impersonators.

39 minutes ago, Old Man said:

Now that the season is mostly over, I have decided that the Washington NFL franchise has gone from having the worst team name, to the best. Washington Football Team is self deprecating and even subtly ironic, poking fun at the entire idea of sports fandom with its sheer genericness. 

I have theorized that Snyder may keep it that way, more to troll the NFL than anything else.

2 hours ago, death tribble said:

 

Just to let you both know that I have seen this.

 

I was wondering what I could ask Lolth for as a gift this Christmas. Now I don't...........

I didnt know you and Lolth were dating.

8 hours ago, Starlord said:

Michigan AD blasts ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit for suggesting Wolverines might try and avoid Ohio State

 

I generally like Herbstreit, but this was an irresponsible claim on his part

It isnt his year.

16 hours ago, Cancer said:

*sigh* When testing an array of phase-coupled devices, you have to test each element in the array individually.  Is this really that difficult to understand?

Why do you want ruin our fun?🥺

On 11/30/2020 at 1:50 PM, Starlord said:

The best essential oil for calming down friends and family is chloroform.

Or just a bonk bonk on the head.

21 hours ago, unclevlad said:

 

Broncos got what they deserved.

Ravens?  Debatable.  If they broke protocol, they deserve a major fine and loss of a draft pick...like, 2nd or 3rd round.

 

They're STILL showing new positive tests, tho.  So one has to ask:  if the game had been played before this, how much would the *Steelers* been at risk?  And obviously they don't deserve that.

 

Part of the problem is the policies;  part of it is the intransigence to forfeit, and some of that is the debatable policy choice to not pay players in the event a game's cancelled.  To be sure, that policy could get complex, but it should've been manageable.  

 

Much of it is contracts, tho.  Media contracts.  The power of the media is clear tomorrow:  the game's being played at the incredibly odd time of 3:40 local.  Why not later?  NBC has the tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center.  THEY set the priorities here.  I figure a lot of this is that they've got a lot more leverage because of the multiple shifts, but still, it's remarkable.

Despite, my harping, the Broncos did deserve it.

Unfortunately the 10 others this year, including the current Ravens situation, they were let off easy.  But, most of these have better playoff aspirations. So, that downtrodden team was perfect choice to courageously drop the hammer on.

What probably should have been done all year, you cant, you got X days to get your crap together or you forfeit. The Broncos may or may not have qualified, but at least we should have had a solid damn rule.