IMO the fastest easiest way to change the race is flipping the Dem ticket. Have Joe and Kamala switch places.

1. IMO most who would vote against Trump with a feasible candidate would are happy with executive governance this term.

2. While Kamala hasn’t had much of a face at all during her Vice Presidency we know she’s capable of debating well.

3. All of the the mine stays in the campaign.

4. Joe doesn’t have to quit

5. Kamala can’t take the lead publicly while Joe can still deliver his wisdom when it’s needed.

USMNT v Brazil at Stanford Stadium 1994.

I think for a lot of americas it was their first exposure to international soccer.

Don't disagree. He's elite—among the best in the league, Zion, Giannis, Shai, anyone—at getting to the rim. But that's the only thing he's great at. It was shocking to see in a Warriors offense and I think that got a lot of people's imaginations into top gear. He's got a lot of maturing of his game to do. But that get-to-the-rim gene is pretty much just that, you have it or you don't pretty tough to learn and he has that in spades. I think it makes a lot of the stans think if he can learn the other stuff—which is harder than those people think—he'll be an all-star. I'm probably more in that camp than not but realize that's a lot of change and development.

I would absolutely trade him for Lauri though. Wouldn't think twice. As someone who is higher on JK than most, I still don't understand the people who say they wouldn't trade JK for Lauri. Do they not understand that he's more or less a 7 foot Klay?

In My Tree

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Read it a second time. Holy FUCK!!! It's fucking perfect. I might frame this and put it on my wall. LOL.

This might be the best review of No Code I've ever read.

Wow! That's the best description of Bugs I've ever heard that honors the integrity and intent of the song.

Greatest album ever made (in my heart). Greatest Pearl Jam album in my mind. From the first notes of Sometimes, it was clear the band was doing something completely different. That followed my path in life. I was different at that time than I was in 1993. A lot of change took place in my life and I was ready for something different. That album hit hard and I was a fan for life. I think of it as their first optimistic album—a massive change of perspective from Vitalogy which I think of as their darkest album.

There's always been a weird sense of some critics that the band is disingenuous. I could see a lot of reasons people might think this but they are all dumb. There's probably a lot of resentment about how quickly they became the biggest band in the world—when in reality, most of the band had been toiling in Seattle for several years—as long as many of their contemporaries who are always praised by critics and music fans. I think it's that Eddie came from nowhere to front a band that had been led by Seattle stalwarts and only then did they become huge. I can see people grasping to that narrative but it was really just the timing of it all and the fact that the band is insanely talented from Eddie to Stone, Jeff, Mike, and all the drummers.

Basically every album post Yield had mild reviews with "back to form" tones about them. I find that kind of shitty though because it just says, "hey we loved you in 93 but unless you reproduce that we aren't in." When in truth they have become a great and enduring band because they were willing to play with their sound and not stay bound to past successful formulas. There are other contemporaries of PJ who have probably had more commercial and (ironically) critical success by rehashing their early-mid 90s records a dozen times over—Foo Fighters and RHCP come to mind immediately.

Basically from my memory, most PJ records after No Code were chart topping for a week when all of us would by it then disappeared. Dark Matter seems to be the first album that has added measurable numbers of new fans.

For two months last season he was automatic on drives. We hadn't seen that from a player in—ever? But teams started to defend that and he bacame slightly less efficient at it. He's also shown to be a pretty good 1:1 defender in space. Obviously he has a lot of growth to make when it comes to team defense and shooting but his strengths are strong enough for him to be a contributor in a rotation for a long career.

I think Lacob is hanging on to his last great hope of making anything out of the three lottery picks they had over 2 years (I think Moody is going to be traded) and I think Lacob had a big hand in selecting JK. So he's trying to save face by seeing the JK timeline through to him becoming at least a fringe all star if not a full fledged one. I think there's a chance he reaches that and a chance he doesn't. Hard to tell which is more probable.

Here are JKs strengths and weaknesses as I see it:

• Great getting to the rim, Before the refs started calling drives differently, he was almost automatic going to the basket—usually it was a basket or free throws. After the changes to calls and once defenses caught on to what was a new found aggression, he slowed down a bit but was still very good. For a string of about two months he was basically a mini-Giannis on offense.
• Good 1:1 defender—especially in space on the wing. Has been matched up with the best players in the league in that context and succeeded.
• Outside shot is developing. It doesn't look great and he seems to be hesitant with it sometimes and other times pulls the trigger too early when he could easily get by his man and to the rim. He was best last season when he gave up the idea of shooting anywhere but in the paint—and he was elite at that.
• Not a good team defender. Doesn't seem to grasp team defense concepts well and IMO this is what limited his minutes for so much of his first two seasons and the reason he was benched for almost all of the playoffs.
• Not a good rebounder given his size and athleticism. I think this can be improved upon with coaching.
• Tends to foul in post defense.

I think his weaknesses can be coached to improve and he seems to have been taking coaching well this past year. His athletic ability might be unparalleled and IMO he could make a career out of the two things he does well—driving and 1:1 defense. He's good enough at both that with the right roster and coaching his weaknesses could feasibly be improved and/or masked. A smaller Amare Stoudamire with average outside shooting is the type of player I think he could become without improving his weaknesses and only relying on his strengths. If he improves on his defense and shooting, Jaylen Brown is the unlikely ceiling. A lot of ground to make up there on defense and shooting but if he did, that's the kind of player he could be. Very few players have the offensive efficiency he's shown at this age.

Take on anyone!

Won’t Tell.

But Setting Sun, Scared of Fear and Running are getting more traction.

Like, in life?

Fair criticism.

Didn’t say a better player. I think he fits the offense better.

So can’t go over second even to sign your own guy correct?

I think that's more likely obviously. Especially considering the edits I posted in the OP.

This new CBA is fucked.

Hmm.

I was mistaking the first apron for the cap I think.

Current payroll 174M

CP3 walks 144M

If they have to get below the 136M salary cap and have room for the max below that cap, that makes sense. I think that's how it works.

So really, it's trade or it ain't happening. That changes a lot of the shit I wrote in this post LOL. Because in that case If PG wants to stay on the west coast he doesn't have the leverage to say he will just walk, indeed as someone else mentioned here it would basically be Philly or stay in LA. so that does give LAC some leverage for sure and they should be able to command a better return for PG than what I am describing.

So bird rights don't apply at all due to the hard cap? Thoguht that was pretty much allowed in any context?

I've never considered any part of CA the Southwest. It doesn't seem to share the same heritage, tradition, cultural significance at all.

On my screen shift the whole thing over a half inch and you're good.