TexasTiger08

Great video. 777 will be here shortly to tell you that Junior needs the reps year round against elite competition to make varsity at his 6A HS in North Texas.

Around the 15:00 mark, he makes a good point. If you have to spend money on top shelf equipment, lessons, nutritional supplements, and pay-to-play leagues in the Fall, maybe your kid isn’t cut out to be a D1 or pro athlete. I’d wager that phenoms like Bryce Harper weren’t good because they finished HS early and played with college talent while high school aged, they did that because they were good. Ditto for IMG Academy. You go there because you are elite, you aren’t elite because you chose IMG.

Parents have also taken the fun out of sports. Without fun, your $50K to make Brackstynn a star will go to waste when he’s burned out at 21. Or better yet, it will go to waste anyway when José from the Dominican Republic flashes a glove like you’ve never seen and Miguel from Venezuela parlayed a broomstick as an bat into 40+ home run potential.

Private equity deserves blame, but so do unrealistic parents who buy into the idea that this is the only way.

I mean that in terms of off the court activity. I won’t argue career or accomplishments with Kobe and Lebron. There is some irony to the James lovers getting heat because of the made up story about his gate getting painted, his political comments, and his obsession with validation, while the Kobe fanboys sort of get glossed over for fawning over a guy with a reputation as being this girl dad…who may have raped someone.

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Even constructing a brand new building shouldnt cost this much.

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No…no no no. Constructing a new building, that will undoubtedly look like some shipping container modernist bullshite, would be the worst thing the state could do. The capitol is the most iconic building in the state (other than the Westbank Holiday Inn) and maybe the most unique capitol in the country. Of all the ways that state can piss money away, this isn’t one of them. Pay to do it right.

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It was Tim Duncan 100/100 times until Kobe died. No one had Kobe in their top 10 (outside of obvious Laker homers) before he died.

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Unrelated, but it’s incredible how Kobe may have raped a woman, but died a hero and family man and girl dad less than 20 years later. In that regard, you could argue the Kobe fanboys are worse than Lebron.

BTW - Duncan with the better career, but Kobe could take over a game like nobody else

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I mean what happens if your father has a heart attack and someone wants to let you know but you are at the Masters? What an absolutely pretentious club of douchbags.

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What do you do if your father has a heart attack and you’re on a plane? Or miles off the coast fishing? This idea that you need to tether yourself to a phone because something bad might happen is ridiculous. If someone calls your phone saying your dad has a heart attack going to change the outcome of the emergency?

Don’t worry. Spurs will put them in their rightful place when the playoffs unfold.

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Look at those shitty attendance numbers by the Supersuckers. Thats pathetic

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Maybe so some research before you open your filthy mouth.

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I’ll do some research…it looks like a renovation in 1995 brought the seating capacity to 17,072 for basketball.

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1998-99 426,800 17,072
1997-98 699,952 17,072
1996-97 699,952 17,072
1995-96 697,301 17,007

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And for the next four years they basically averaged a sellout. And it looks like the mighty Thunder barely cracked the top half of the league (14th) in per game attendance last year despite winning the title.

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Weird flex. People aren't going to buccees to get in and out quickly.

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Exactly. There are times I stop, stretch the legs, wander around, maybe even grab something I forgot for my trip. Then there’s times I just need to gas up and drive. If it’s the latter, I stop some place else.

Thread about Sunday Night Baseball and you’re posting pics of the Thunder ring.

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Denham Brown

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Never forget his layup that dropped in at the buzzer to send the George Mason game into OT. “What can Brown do for you?!”

This is right up there with those Gronk sex fantasy novels.