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    From 26B.X929@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 9 22:06:15 2023
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    https://www.foxnews.com/sports/rudy-gobert-punches-timberwolves-teammate-timeout-gets-sent-home

    Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert had to be sent
    home Sunday after punching teammate Kyle Anderson during a
    timeout in the team’s final regular-season game.

    Gobert and Anderson were seen talking on the Timberwolves’
    bench during a timeout in their game against the New Orleans
    Pelicans, and it was clearly a heated exchange as their body
    language appeared animated.

    But things were brought to another level when Gobert stepped
    forward and punched Anderson in his chest.

    . . .

    Things just keep drifting more and more Mad Max ...

    Everyone seems angry, but most don't seem to know
    about WHAT exactly. What did Carter call it, "malaise" ?
    Seemed funny, at the time.

    'Civility' was already low, and then the Covid debacle
    kind of seems to have delivered the final blow. It was
    never THIS bad even in the 60s - and the "Peace-n-Love"
    has been thrown in the trashcan and set on fire.

    The far left is GOOD at its work. The GOP likes to
    blather, but to DO something, take countermeasures,
    does not seem to be in its skill set.

    Short of a massive Sino-Russian invasion, what can
    pull us back together again ?

    Thing is, they've ALREADY invaded, LONG ago. Their
    plans to set us against ourselves are the soldiers.

    The only funny bit is their domestic helpers, who
    seem to think they'll be "beloved comrades" when
    it goes to hell. You can never trust those who
    will betray their own countrymen - so guess who
    will be the first up against the wall for Xi's
    firing squads ?

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 10 05:56:50 2023
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    On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 22:06:15 -0400, 26B.X929 wrote:

    Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert had to be sent home Sunday
    after punching teammate Kyle Anderson during a timeout in the team’s
    final regular-season game.

    So B-ball is getting to be more like hockey? Step in the right direction.
    Now if they could do something to make baseball more interesting than
    watching paint dry...

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  • From 26B.X929@21:1/5 to rbowman on Mon Apr 10 04:04:59 2023
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    On 4/10/23 1:56 AM, rbowman wrote:
    On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 22:06:15 -0400, 26B.X929 wrote:

    Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert had to be sent home Sunday
    after punching teammate Kyle Anderson during a timeout in the team’s
    final regular-season game.

    So B-ball is getting to be more like hockey? Step in the right direction.
    Now if they could do something to make baseball more interesting than watching paint dry...

    Baseball is kinda supposed to be that way.
    Kinda like cricket - slow and deliberate.

    The problem with BBall is that they don't have
    any big sticks to beat each other with. Maybe
    they can combine it with hockey - you don't
    so much dribble the ball around as whack it
    with the stick to pass or score :-)

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 10 15:27:04 2023
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    On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 04:04:59 -0400, 26B.X929 wrote:


    Baseball is kinda supposed to be that way. Kinda like cricket - slow
    and deliberate.

    Slow is right.


    The problem with BBall is that they don't have any big sticks to beat
    each other with. Maybe they can combine it with hockey - you don't so
    much dribble the ball around as whack it with the stick to pass or
    score

    Hurling would be good but it helps if you're Irish. Back in the day I hung around an Irish mafia bar that made book. It was interesting watching basketball there. People had money riding on the game so they cheered on
    their team despite thinking the players should be repatriated to Africa
    via a leaking garbage scow. Talk about cognitive dissonance...

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  • From 26B.X929@21:1/5 to rbowman on Mon Apr 10 20:44:02 2023
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    On 4/10/23 11:27 AM, rbowman wrote:
    On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 04:04:59 -0400, 26B.X929 wrote:


    Baseball is kinda supposed to be that way. Kinda like cricket - slow
    and deliberate.

    Slow is right.


    The problem with BBall is that they don't have any big sticks to beat
    each other with. Maybe they can combine it with hockey - you don't so
    much dribble the ball around as whack it with the stick to pass or
    score

    Hurling would be good but it helps if you're Irish. Back in the day I hung around an Irish mafia bar that made book. It was interesting watching basketball there. People had money riding on the game so they cheered on their team despite thinking the players should be repatriated to Africa
    via a leaking garbage scow. Talk about cognitive dissonance...


    Hey, The Team is The Team !

    Now 99.9% of the time and they may be racist hood-headed
    NAZI scum (interesting since the Irish rated BELOW 'blacks'
    on the social ladder for a time) - but when it comes to
    The Team ........

    Dissonance ? Yep. However, eventually, such dissonance may
    lead to more lasting modes of thought.

    But not while the far left is hellbent on setting every
    possible group/faction against each other. Shit, they've
    been AT that game for over 100 years now and NOBODY seems
    to catch on. Apparently you CAN fool all of the people
    all of the time (well, more than enough of them). Every
    generation is convinced that IT is *SO* MUCH more savvy
    and sophisticated than the stupid old-time people ; THEY
    won't be fooled ! THEY won't make the same mistakes !

    And thus, NOTHING is learned and history "repeats". Same
    kinds of BS today as you'd see in clay tablets from
    Babylon. Different names, same old shit.

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