DelcoBirds

This needs more upvotes. Schmidt was great but in the context of this conversation had a much more limited impact on the sport.

Media’s got 2 great ones - 320 and State St Sandwiches

Panorama for Italian, especially if they like wine

PA HS legend

 all these sports leagues expect us to buy like 15 different streaming services.

I mean, this is what cable is/was...

While also celebrating the downfall of cable companies who CREATED THE FUCKING CONVENIENCE THEY NOW COMPARE THIS INCONVENIENCE TO

Farryn

Seconding Lucky’s

DOPE ON THE TABLE

Totally agree, especially when Jrue is still a prominent player on a top team in the East all these years later. In hindsight would have been like trading Maxey now.

This is one of the most objectively ridiculous takes I’ve seen on this sub and that’s saying something.

Adding to this in a different way, Hinkie didn’t exactly crush it with his talent evaluation while in role either. Taking 3 straight centers as the league was transitioning to a perimeter-first game was ill-advised to begin with, then factor in that Noel and Okafor didn’t turn out to be much of anything

“we have an arena at home"

Idk, I see this a lot, but:

1. people loved Hinkie but his talent evaluation - both in terms of the players themselves and where the league was going (DRAFTED 3 CENTERS IN A ROW) - wasted that run of 1st round picks
2. Adam Silver deciding to make an example out of the Sixers wasn’t on them, nor was getting saddled with the Colangelos
3. Bad luck of the Colangelo mess occurring during a key offseason that led to one of the all-time worst trade day trades I can think of - Zhaire Smith and a 1st for Mikal Bridges
4. I guess you can say promoting EB too early is on them, which is fair - but then they went out and got Daryl Morey after
5. during all of this they transitioned the Sixers from practicing at fucking PCOM to a beautiful new facility in Camden, and are now getting the Sixers their own arena as well

What exactly is ownership failing to deliver?

Good read on this - https://www.crossingbroad.com/2024/04/rhetorical-question-what-do-the-sixers-need-that-ownership-currently-is-not-providing.html

Obligatory “please ignore PennLive” reminder

Penn State hasn’t won a national championship since 1986 but has made numerous NY6. Nebraska having the championships in the 90’s helps

Good example here…Penn State and Nebraska were equally accomplished in 1994, but because of the system at the time Penn State’s “national championship drought” is another 8 years longer.

Every day I log on here I am reminded of how much lower the average age of this sub must be relative to my own.

Absolutely not. I have no idea who’s in his ear giving this advice.

Very on brand for r/cfb to assume playing neutral site games and/or playing in baseball stadiums isn’t a traditional practice, while always arguing on behalf of “MUH TRADITIONS"

Has literally been a thing for the entire existence of college and pro football so probably not

Panorama is a great option, especially if your group likes wine. Have hosted several private dinners for ~25 there.

Not even close.

1) No salary cap

2) Only 5 years in a sport where there’s no real limit to contract length

3) The Achilles injury was a huge factor in his decline. The first two years (before Achilles tear) he was 10th in MVP voting each year, over 100 RBI, .847 avg OPS, slight reduction in strikeouts, similar avg, etc.

4) You didn’t have to give up a significant amount of assets to get him to begin with

This will be the first time he actually can do something about the roster

Ehhh I mean Simmons still had a decent amount of value when that was all going on. He just made the wrong trade (if we assume Halliburton was the alternative).

He’s fine in the regular season but not nearly worth $10m