Brian Fowler
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38 minutes ago, supremebve said:
The Dame thing makes sense for everyone involved. His family kinda fell apart based on the trade. His wife filed for divorce and asked for sole custody of the kids because he couldn't be a parent from Milwaukee. If he didn't get injured he probably would have asked for a trade. The Bucks need flexibility more than an injured Dame Lillard. They don't have any picks, so they might as well get him off of their books so they have money to sign free agents. Dame gets to go home and be a dad, the Bucks get to try to build around Giannis. No one loses in this situation.
Except for Milwaukee having a $22 million dollar dead cap hit for five years, when they likely will desperately need every penny of space they can find to keep a functional team around Giannis.
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The Suns are reportedly working on trying to come to a buyout with Bradley Beal so they can then waive and stretch him. Right now, they can't use that stretch provision because it would exceed the maximum allowed, 15% of the cap (they have a couple small dead cap hits already.)
But they need Beal to accept giving up $13.8 million of the $110.8 million he has left over the next two years. Then they could stretch it over 5 years at $19.4 million.
I kinda get why the Bucks did this with Dame (I do not think it was a good idea, but I get it) but I have no earthly idea why Phoenix would do this. They aren't going to be good next year and probably not the year after, why blow a hole in your cap the three years after that when you might potentially be able to rebuild.
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6 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
And yet the songs on Technical Ecstasy, which is the better album, didn't get a touch. Even Sabbath themselves pulled out "Dirty Women" for the reunion.
I feel like the only reason Dirty Women was such a staple was it gave them an excuse to have video roll of topless women on the screens.
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16 hours ago, Travis Sheldon said:
I thought the same with GnR doing Junior's Eyes.
I can't imagine the odds were high on three songs from Never Day Die getting played would've been very high, but here we are. And by the last two bands before Ozzy and Sabs.
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14 hours ago, zendragon said:
Yes I believe they used meters instead of feet (American's and brits) making it too big instead of inches instead of feet making it too small
Also Chris Jericho did a "which way to the stage" bit in WCW one time leading to him ending up outside the venue
Interesting addendum I just learned: Rob Reiner claims they had written the Stonehenge joke years before the movie and had filmed it in 1982, while the Sabbath album with Stonehenge and subsequent tour with the prop didn't happen until 1983. Which would make this just about the craziest coincidence.
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4 hours ago, Travis Sheldon said:
I have not seen the entire Back To The Beginning show, but I did watch Guns 'N Roses, Metallica, Ozzy solo, and Black Sabbath.
Guess it's been a while since I've heard Axel Rose sing, but he was sounding rough.
James Hetfield sounded as if he was on 4 jet lags. I hate the fact that every song he sings these days is inspired by his Black Album vocal style.
Ozzy, even though he was confined to a chair, sounded the most like himself and did not disappoint with his vocals.
I will go back and check out the Pantera and Slayer sets.
There are probably others worth checking out, but I'll have to get some input.
Definitely check out YungBlud doing Changes at the end of the first All-star band set.
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If you gave me three dozen guesses what Sabbath songs Metallica was going to play yesterday, I never would've even considered Johnny Blade.
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5 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
I did not know that Wild Things (prime porn for a '90s kid seeing it on HBO) was directed by frickin' John McNaughton of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer infamy. Wow.
Such a weird movie. Has a pretty respectable cast, and the script is really fun twisty little number that's smarter than it appears at first glance. But then it's also about half a step away from being soft core porn.
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3 hours ago, Ace said:
I still doubt it'll have the book's ending.
I would be shocked beyond reason if it kept the ending.
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3 hours ago, zendragon said:
The Stonehedge thing actually happened to Black Sabbath
Except in reverse. It was during the Ian Gillan Born Again tour, and they had a model of Stonehenge that was so fucking big it didn't fit through the loading bay doors at most venues, so it mostly just traveled around and never got seen.
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4 hours ago, colonial said:
Tennis is notorious globally for possible match fixing based on bets over individual serves, so betting on specific pitches was inevitable.
I did not know you could bet on those either.
3 hours ago, odessasteps said:See the cricket spot fixing scandal/
And I honestly don't even know what that means. I read a book where cricket was a minor running plot and I literally could not follow anything about the sport from that book. It might as well have been a foreign language.
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16 hours ago, RIPPA said:
I should really stop being surprised by things you can bet on, but I had no idea you could place a wager on individual pitches.
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So, Diamond owes Dynamite over a million dollars. They also have virtually all of Dynamite's inventory of comics in their warehouses. A judge denied a motion to expedite the upcoming hearing currently scheduled for the 16th. Dynamite is saying that they won't be able to make payroll this week.
Further, Diamond's inventory of comics is quite possibly going to be liquidated to cover their debts, meaning Dynamite is unlikely to even get back the comics that Diamond isn't moving and not paying for.
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1 hour ago, supremebve said:
He's made $60 million and he's only 28, how the fuck do you need to borrow that kind of money? That's an insane level of irresponsible spending.
The presumptive answer is he gambled it all away.
It's absurd though. He was probably looking at a new contract with like $12-15 million aav for probably three years. Easily enough to cover his debts and I'm assuming a hell of a lot more than he might've made off any bets he placed on himself/any money that he was paid to rig prop bets.
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23 minutes ago, supremebve said:
He owed over 50 grand to a barber in Milwaukee, which would be crazy on it's own, but he's never played for the Bucks and he's from Atlanta. How the hell do you get that many haircuts in a city you don't live in? As a 44-year-old black man in America, I can't see any possible way to rack up that much money in haircuts. A crazy expensive black barber might charge $200 per haircut. So, he'd have to get a fresh haircut once a week for five years straight without ever paying in a city he doesn't live in. Based on the barbers I know, I can't possibly believe that any of them would let that shit slide. A huge percentage of barbers I know are dudes who used to be in the streets and it's a legitimate job that is kind of built on the same foundation of knowing people in the neighborhood, word of mouth marketing, and getting paid in cash based purely on your ability to satisfy your clients. One thing not in this foundation, taking you to court over unpaid debts. They aren't cutting your hair for free twice. They might hook you up once, but the next time you sit in that chair, you better have their money. I really need to see the evidence the barber presented in court to get this debt resolved, because those numbers do not make any sense.
I haven't looked into it at all, but I had just assumed the barber loaned him money, not that he got a billion free haircuts.
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Yeah. He did a lot I like (and I like a lot of the more measured takes on him as EIC basically being "he fixed things that desperately needed fixing, but once he had everything on track, he just couldn't stop trying to fix things that weren't broken."
But it's hard to get past the twin issues of "explicitly banned homosexual characters in Marvel Comics" and "Despite this wrote the first two explicitly gay characters in Marvel history... With them trying to rape Bruce Banner."
Still, an absolute prodigy as a writer and clearly one of the more important figures in post-Golden Age comics history.
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I'm auto-in on anything Wright does, and I knew already that bleak and depressing isn't his brand.
But, while clearly going to be way more faithful than the 87 book, we're still a long long way from the out of shape asthmatic protagonist and the movie looks like it has about 5,000 times more jokes than the book.
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On 6/12/2025 at 5:04 PM, Brian Fowler said:
So did the Knicks literally fire Thibs with no viable plan for his replacement? Cause it sure looks that way.
With the benefit of three weeks of hindsight and the apparent end of the coaching search, I think we can definitively say the answer to this was "yes.'
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It'll always be Rayesh to me. I don't care if Denny got it wrong linguistically, he created the character so I stand by how he wanted it.
Plus it sounds cooler.
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Deandre Ayton is a Laker. He has talent, but he's a flake and immature. CP3 couldn't reach him as a teammate, and Chauncey Billups, who had a lot of success in his career helping focus head case teammates, bet he could do it as a coach and failed.
So I guess the question is... Can LeBron?
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Indianapolis's only real strength is location. It's the perfect city for everybody in the Midwest to congregate. Which is why it's a convention town more than anything else.
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Oh hey I had totally missed that Detroit also brought Caris LeVert back to Michigan. That's fun, reuniting him and Robinson as a bench duo.
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27 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
SGA is officially the first person to go to Oklahoma City and want to stay. He's signing a supermax extension.
4/285
To be fair, after saying nobody should trade for him that wasn't in L.A., Paul George did sign a new deal instead of bolting OKC. Then the Clippers offered roughly everything for him a year later.
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Though it still feels like cosmic balance should put him in San Antonio, I would like to officially welcome Duncan Robinson back to the Great Lakes state.
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Banging the head that does not bang
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Also, GnR did play It's Alright.
What a weird set of four Sabs songs from them.