WhiteWonder

#BJM

I do not believe the election was stolen. Somewhat rigged? maybe. I do think there was some shadiness with mail in ballots but not enough to change the outcome. My issue with your statement is that hypothetically, if an election was rigged, stolen, etc the people rigging it are not going to do so in a way that lets the other side "show their work". They are not going to leave open the possibility of being caught (to the best of their ability). So your argument is pointless. You've got 2 parties that own politics and if one does indeed pull something like that off, they are big enough and influential enough to make sure it is never proven. So you can call those people silly, stupid all you like but the nonsense about it being a tactic to protect yourself is dumb and you can stop.

was there a different 2024 thread? not much golf talk Played 18 today as well as last Monday. Same course, exact pretty blah 84 score, two completely different ways to get there Last Monday : 4 birdies, a quad, a triple and 6-7 three putts. Driver was great, irons pretty good. Smoked a 3 wood 250 into the wind to give myself a 25 foot eagle putt (made par). Even with the two blow up holes, If I could have putted less like trash, 79 should have been doable. Today: Driver was all over the place, Irons were so-so. had 5 penalty shots. Made a few adjustments putting and only had 2 three jacks and a bunch of nice one putts. After playing kind of poorly the first 5 holes, rattled off 7 straight pars, a bogey and a birdie. Bogeyed my last 4 in a row. everything will click at once one of these days

How many priests, bishops etc attend these events secretly. Probably quite a few. Nudity around kids right up their alley god bless, amen

Henry not on this list is criminal. He has to start wearing down at some point but his landing spot was absolutely ideal. I tend to think Barkley will be very good this season. Just to spite Giants fans. No issue with Jacobs not on this list. He was not the same back last year. Being very cautious with him and assuming someone else will end up with him at his ADP. Joe Mixon hasn't really looked the same but I would probably buy him in that offense for this season at least.

I like to think Mora would not have accepted but I coincidentally pulled my offer before Harper got hurt.

Funny I was actually coming here to post about the Mets. Rays fan clearly but decent amount of Mets fans in the family. Poor decisions regarding Scherzer and Verlander specifically, but they made the right move dealing those guys, Canha, Pham, etc last year to build up the farm system. A lot of NY media were laughing at the notion that Mets fans could be excited for THIS season as well as the future. I disagreed, which looked bad to start the year, but the team is coming around to closer to what I thought they could be. Lindor, Nimmo, Alonso, Alvarez and a healthy Marte is a nice start on offense. Many of these guys didnt hit at all in May but had much better Junes. Combined with the arrival of JD Martinez, sending Brett Baty down and bringing up Mark Vientos and getting nice offensive contribution from defensive minded Harrison Bader and this feels like an offense that can keep the Mets in a lot of games going forward. Jeff McNeil needs to go. Severino and Manaea have not been bad. The team has no ace though. Even Senga would be better as a #2.... but right now the hope to get him back is another addition that can help tremendously. Bullpen has been so-so. Diaz will ultimately be okay. Ottavino is good enough. Reid-Foley was pitching very well before injury. Fully believe they can be a playoff team after settling in as a team that can win 6 of every 10 games or so.

exactly. trading FOR Lebron is obviously the less realistic option but at the very least I have to assume the Lakers would pay up to get Bronny over to LA for THIS year rather than see him playing overseas.

is a place to store it a big expense? Can you not just store a jetski in your garage? My grandfather used to have a 3 seat freshwater fishing boat, kept to one side of his driveway. I always assumed having a bigger boat that you need to keep at a marina or something was a big added expense but that something like a personal watercraft wasn't much of a big deal. Idk never thought about buying one.

I understand, and this probably partially played into why no team did it. Even without the threat of playing overseas. But the team that drafts him does have his rights for a year, no? Someone like the Pacers who I think had pick 50 and had already made 2 selections could have picked Bronny and tried to orchestrate a trade for Lebron. Lebron is not winning anyone a title as a #1 option but as a #3, he'd make a team like the Pacers into instant title contenders. Or, again, you still own Bronny for a year. See what LA will give you to make Lebron happy. I'm sure he wants to play with Bronny THIS year

so draft him and let him play overseas. Does that not still fock Lebrons plan?

already discussed in the NBA thread but I will chime in here and say that what bothered me the most was no other team having the balls to pick Bronny and ruin James orchestrated plan. I don't blame the Lakers for picking Bronny. James runs the team and the biggest stars run the league. It shouldn't be any surprise. Giannis' brother is on a roster. Rick Brunson works for the Knicks. It's what the NBA is. Of course is he wasnt Lebrons son, he never gets drafted. But there are examples of players no one thought would have solid NBA careers having just that and coming from the second round. Its not impossible Bronny improves, just not likely and I'm sure there were better dart throws out there.

it was a silly nickname a 14 year old had for his favorite football player. If it could be edited, it would have been just Wonder many years ago but thanks for answering the questions

is your issue that he calls them black jobs and hispanic jobs? how is this different from calling them Black Lives? All jobs matter right?

I prefer to use PPG and throw away outliers (Mike Williams who only played 3 games for example). Keenan Allen was a top 3 WR who didn't come back to action because the team was out of it. Wilson was also only WR32 (removing Mike Williams), so truly a WR3. He needs a 4 ppg increase to crack the top 10 based on 2023. Thanks, god bless

Mark Cuban

You’re mostly a troll so

If the CC in question is the nicest one in the area and there are not several options really close by, it could be good idea for what you are wanting it for. Like I said, the wealthy connections you will make directly at the club will probably have wealthy friends who are not members. It's certainly not a bad way to gain access to people with excess money looking for a cause. I just know there are more and more "country clubs" that are super affordable and its more about guys just being able to say they belong to a club. You won't really be tapping into potential high wealth donors at those types of places. If you love golf and your family will make great use of all the other amenities, I say go for it.

where you gonna pull the over/under's from and on what date

I really don't know. Growing up, one of my dads best friends was a member at one of the nicer clubs in our area. Wait list, had to be recommended by another member to even apply, etc. Annual membership fee was a lot and there were other expenses to consider, for example there were minimum spend requirements on the non golf stuff (at the bar, dinners, etc) and it was not mandatory but highly encouraged to take a caddie, which when I caddied there it was 60 or 70 per bag plus tips. My dad could have joined. His friend would have recommended him but my dad is not a country club person. He wants to golf and maybe have some golf friends but he's not into the club lifestyle of it. His job didn't require him to network. You were not going to see him and my mother at fancy events in the banquet hall, stuff like that. So he stuck with his local Saturday golf league that plays several courses between two counties. For business purposes and networking, I always felt that Country Club memberships were more useful for someone looking to bring clients to a course they otherwise couldn't play and show them a good time and help close deals. In terms of meeting new, well off people who might be willing to donate to your cause... you're giving yourself a big expense to get exposure to what is really a fairly small amount of wealthy people at a single club, and that is assuming it's an actual wealthy country club and not one of those places with cheap memberships or semi private. I suppose those wealthy people will have wealthy friends who are not members of the club, etc.... but these people don't live at the country club. I think there are other ways to rub elbows with potential donors. But if you love golf, specifically the course of the club you'd be joining, and your wife and kids wants a clubhouse, pool, tennis courts etc... then go for it.

How often has it been tried? I get what you're saying and obviously if he gets injured its a moot point, but I dont think he needs to be 40+ Brady to give Wilson the bump he needs to be a top 10 fantasy WR. Drew Brees was like 41 his final season and he threw more touchdowns than the Jets entire offense scored last year and he only played 12 games that season.

First off, I never said he was a savior. Top 20 offenses were scoring 38+ touchdowns last year. The Jets were dead last with 22. No one seems to think that Rodgers is cooked in terms of arm talent. So even if he doesn't make them a title contender or even a contender to win their division, from a fantasy standpoint it's very hard to envision him only being marginally better than what they had under center last year. I think it's hard to argue that he wont significantly boost Wilsons production.

I dont like getting messages to make an offer because most of the time it is coming from an owner who has been pestering me to part with a specific player or two and low balling me. When they say "make an offer", you can be sure they wont accept that offer. Rather, they will pick 1 player you included and reconstruct another low ball offer that includes that one player you "showed interest in". they will then point to the fact that "hey, you were asking for Player A! Just trying to give us what we both want" when in reality you have no urgent desire to trade at all but you came up with a fair offer for the hell of it.

Well, in the sense that in most states your vote doesn't matter, then I guess you didn't waste it on Biden or Trump. You instead wasted it on a 3rd party candidate so you could reserve the right to play that card when it suits you ... ie. when Biden is no longer defensible . It's hard to believe that voting 3rd party sends any message. No one cares what message MDC is sending (or any specific voter)... it would take enough people to push a 3rd party candidate to legitimately serious contention late in a presidential race for any message to be impactful. Do we see that happening? If something like the geek club is a microcosm of society, people would rather spend all their free time bickering about the standard party candidates and then just casually mention 3rd party late in the game.

I hate to be a pessimist but history says this will never happen. There can be and arguably have been viable third party candidates and they simply have no realistic chance to win in a country that is so rooted in a 2 party system. In 2016 I did not vote... because my vote in NJ doesn't matter. The state was going Hillary who I would never vote for. In the back of my mind I was hoping Trump would win, if for no other reason than to deviate from the typical, career politicians we'd been used to. I hoped he wouldn't be quite so brash and quite so blowhard... but like you I agreed with a majority of his policies. Those who want to say he benefitted from a booming economy are likely those who would claim Obama created that (when in reality Obama came into office at the perfect time for things to take off as the height of the financial crisis was around september 2008)