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I had a buddy once that swore on his mother’s grave that he and his brother invented the “Circle Game”. A game that has been played the world over was invented in the early 80’s by two brothers at Bryan Station in Lexington Kentucky. 🤷‍♂️
My best friend in elementary school claimed he invented the word “doofus”. Would have been hard to do since according to the dictionary that word was first heard in the 1960's and he wasn't born until '78.
 
  • One thing I’ve always wondered about is what causes teams just have a complete stinker of a game. Not a situation where the team is just outclassed by an opponent, but where it seems like each player plays their absolute worst game.
    • Is it just a random occurrence that each player had a dud game?
    • Or is there some collective thing going on where a bad performance by one play
Well having watched Varsity Blues multiple times, I can say that having an all night bender at the strip joint is one possible scenario.
 
I had a buddy once that swore on his mother’s grave that he and his brother invented the “Circle Game”. A game that has been played the world over was invented in the early 80’s by two brothers at Bryan Station in Lexington Kentucky. 🤷‍♂️

Circle Game Origin

"And then, out of nowhere, something appeared. An article on Wikibin – a graveyard for old Wikipedia entries deemed too worthless or factually shaky to exist – turned up. It was about The Circle Game. It listed the rules, the various monikers – and named a creator: Matt Nelson, of New Bremen, Ohio. According to the entry, he invented the game in the early-1980s."
 
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I invented a game called "Wherever it lands". It's basically TIPS but you shoot wherever the ball goes instead of doing a stupid shot where you have to jump before you get the ball and shoot it before you come down.

It did not catch on unfortunately.
 
Remember the game “smear the q***r”?

I wished I’d have invented that.

What a simple footballing game that could be played amongst many different numbers of friends.
 
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Circle Game Origin

"And then, out of nowhere, something appeared. An article on Wikibin – a graveyard for old Wikipedia entries deemed too worthless or factually shaky to exist – turned up. It was about The Circle Game. It listed the rules, the various monikers – and named a creator: Matt Nelson, of New Bremen, Ohio. According to the entry, he invented the game in the early-1980s."

I knew he was full of 💩.
 
I know everyone here but like 4 of us hate the Cubs, and I guess I get it to some degree…but Pete Crowe-Armstrong is the real deal. He is so fun to watch both in the field and at the plate. He’s our EDC if you will.
 
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Props to the Kahlil Whitney for playing for TBT this summer and props to TBT for inviting him. He did something that was probably stupid as an 18 year old kid. That just makes him human. Maybe the kid never loved basketball enough to be as great as his talent would allow or maybe he just needed to grow up a bit.

Hope he gets an enormous pop.
 
I know everyone here but like 4 of us hate the Cubs, and I guess I get it to some degree…but Pete Crowe-Armstrong is the real deal. He is so fun to watch both in the field and at the plate. He’s our EDC if you will.

He looks like a pedophile.

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- Book rec for those of you who grew up loving baseball in the 80's...."The Wax Pack" by Brad Balukjian. Fun read.
Does the dude stop awkwardly whining about his Ex Girlfriend from 10 years ago or is it constant through the whole book? On the 4th player, and he's going to meet up with her, while currently talking about their lack of sex life, and she's remarried and with kids. So far I would give it a 4/10, half the book is about his OCD and his Ex. Like, dude, give me stories about the players, IDGAF about your whinny ass.
 
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Does the dude stop awkwardly whining about his Ex Girlfriend from 10 years ago or is it constant through the whole book? On the 4th player, and he's going to meet up with her, while currently talking about their lack of sex life, and she's remarried and with kids. So far I would give it a 4/10, half the book is about his OCD and his Ex. Like, dude, give me stories about the players, IDGAF about your whinny ass.

I think he moves on from that in the second half. If he'd kept on about it, I wouldn't have recommended it.
 
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Sheesh. $10B estimated valuation.

I remember taking a sports business/management class in undergrad in the early aughts, and it was a huge deal at that time that the Cowboys were the first “billion dollar franchise.”

(And before some snarky asshole says it, yes I am aware of inflation and the fact that that was 20 years ago. Still bottles the mind.)
 
The Buss family sells the Lakers! Now we know why Lebron/Luka was the play to keep that sell figure as high as possible.

HOLY SHIT!!!
No, I would say the "PLAY" was getting a top 5 talent give to you. Selling the team had ZERO to do with getting Luka. Pretty sure every team in the NBA would have made that deal.
 
If you don’t think that made the team more desirable for purchase at that price then you don’t understand mega investments.

The marketing dollars you are selling with Luka and his global brand is not nearly the same.

Don’t kid yourself and think that owners biggest concern is winning, and this type of transaction has been negotiated probably for at least a year.

This was WAY bigger than “wow Luka just landed in our lap”.

If you believe that then I bet you think Dallas being lucky enough to get that #1 pick was complete luck.


Edit to add: what a coincidence the team Luka was traded to was sold for a 10,000,000,000 dollar valuation, and the team he was traded from won the Cooper Flagg lottery with a 1.8% chance to do so.

Believe what you will.
 
After running into some issues with missed deadlines, people failing to show up, and poor quality of work, I've been trying a new management style at work called the "Tommy DeVito". Seems to be surprisingly effective on Gen Z.

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^ Probably understand them a hell of a lot more than you do. So you think the Lakers traded for Luka because they was going to sell the team ???? Not saying he doesn't add value, only an idiot would suggest that. BUT, selling the team or not, they was taking that deal all day everyday. Same as if it would have been Giannis or any other top player.

And NO, the FKN Mavs winning the lottery didn't have anything to do with them trading Luka. Good GD, and you are trying to give me shit ?? GTFO here with that BS.
 
So basically the last two teams to sell are the Mavericks and Lakers. Those two teams just so happened to have the biggest global star the league has to offer and after one team sold for the highest ever 3.5B with Luka, they then traded him to the Lakers who sold 5 months later for 10B.

You honestly don’t think the league was helping guide that Lakers sell behind the scenes? You honestly think Luka just fell into LA’s lap? You truly believe all that was done and then someone stepped in 5 months later on a whim and bought LeBron/Luka which are the two most marketable stars the NBA has to offer?

A blind man could have told you with how everything played out it’s no wonder Dallas is sitting on the #1 pick, but that’s just coincidence to you.

Perfectly fine you believe that………….but on the idea of conspiracy let’s say the league knew LA had a buyer and just couldn’t see the 10B price tag the Buss Family wanted. You truly think there is no way the league didn’t have feelers out as to who could possibly be traded to LA to boost that sell price and give added equity to every owner?

You don’t think that’s in their best interest and they’d do something like that?


Well as Clyde Davis would say:


Shhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttttt
 
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