Randy Buehler

Seattle Storm fan. Magic the Gathering Hall of Famer. Competitive board gamer.

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@WNBAStormChaser Who would you trade Ezi for? Who do you think our starting point guard should be next year if we don't win the lottery and get to draft Juju or Hannah Hidalgo?

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@ringer @brianphillips Really well-said

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@VanLathan Our chants are the worst

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@CirclingSports I think you misspelled “because”

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You might enjoy this well-loved kit @MenInBlazers

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Currently marching to the match. This is my favorite jersey I have seen. (He wore 17 before he was a star.)

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New from Rain City Rebound!: Storm Week 9: Heavy Legs and Hard Lessons https://t.co/jeOAc7gRNz

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@LASparks OMG Storm should windmill slam a dev team contract for her

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@VanLathan Have you watched Welcome to Wrexham? They're not a top side yet, but it's a great docu-series and it might be fun to adopt a team that's fighting to earn its way into the Premier League.

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@ZachLowe_NBA or 7

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New from Rain City Rebound!: Storm Week 8: Now We’re Having Fun! https://t.co/jwcJ7THSTz

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@WNBAStormChaser I want you to put the word out. We back up.

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@robertawbb They totally win that game if they have Jordan Horston and her defense playing Katie Lou's minutes.

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@NekiasNBA What's the fastest anyone ever accumulated 1000 rebounds at all? forget about to start a career!

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@CirclingSports @USMNT 6 US shirts in this car of the light rail headed over from Bellevue at 7:15am as well as one adorable Australian couple with 2 small kids running around in yellow

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@VanLathan "Besides Messi" is gold - that's why they pay you the big bucks.

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@DavyJonesLR Any chance you misspelled Laila Edwards?

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@NateSilver538 Christiano Ronaldo's salary and talent do not seem remotely correlated at this point (much less his impact, which was probably negative in that game).

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Seattle Storm Week 6 recap, including lottery rooting rankings: https://t.co/Rybh4V7l14 #WNBA

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USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.