82-0 might be fun for some of you, but for True & Ethical appreciators of defense, glue guys, vibes, grinders, and “he just does the little things” guys, this game is actually a minor form of torture
There’s something beautiful about the accountability of playoff basketball. Whatever flaw or weakness in your game you try to run from your whole career is going to walk you down and catch you in the playoffs. And you’re going to have to reckon with it.
I'm a lacrosse know-nothing, but a five-pass sequence racing against the clock while traversing the length of the field to score the winner seems like pretty awesome execution and teamwork.
A recap of today’s bonkers events:
1.) NY Post released damning photos of Vrabel kissing Dianna Russini in 2020 while wearing his wedding ring and 6 months before she was married
2.) TMZ releases a 2024 photo of Vrabel and Russini smiling together at a casino
3.) Mike Vrabel calls a last-minute press conference to say very little
4.) Twitter sleuths connect the dots showing that Vrabel may be the father of Russini’s first born son “Michael.” People are calling for paternity tests
5.) Dave Portnoy, a former Russini supporter said “You just can’t name your kid the same name as the guy you are having an affair with. We have entered bananland with this story and nothing is off the table.”
6.) Dianna Russini deletes her X account
I have built a spreadsheet. It has 847 rows. Each row is a community bank in the United States with a market cap below $200 million, a price-to-tangible-book ratio under 0.85, a non-performing loan ratio below 0.4%, and a CEO who has been in the role for at least twelve years. I update it every Sunday from 6 AM to 11 AM while my family attends church without me. I have visited the headquarters of nineteen of these banks in person. I have eaten a complimentary lobby cookie at each one. The cookies are how you can tell. A bank with a good cookie is a bank that respects its depositors. A bank with a stale cookie is a bank that will be acquired within 36 months at a 40% premium. I am never wrong about the cookies. The cookies have never lied to me. The cookies are the only thing left that tells the truth.
my therapist changed my life when he taught me there are 4 types of conversation:
1) small talk (weather, etc)
2) swapping (you tell a story, I tell a story)
3) listening (you tell a story, I listen/validate)
4) problem-solving (you tell me a story, I help solve the problem)
Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work.
In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them.
He literally went on quests where he did things like, tracking a lost variety back to a stump of a long-ago-cut-down tree near an abandoned homestead in remote Appalachia, took cuttings from the green shoots coming out of the stump, brought them back and planted them.
Absolute legend.
Couple takeaways here
1. Hurley has the biggest balls on earth
2. I’m glad this wasn’t a tech, the ref understood the moment. Props.
3. This has to be a tech😭😭