The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.
And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.
Here is what they are discovering:
Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.
Then they found the grocery stores.
Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.
The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.
They finally understand why we do not have trains.
We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.
Why would we need trains.
The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.
Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.
Write that down. 🦋
Dylan Harper (Pisces) would be an excellent fit for San Antonio and, in terms of synergy, he aligns better overall than Cooper Flagg. However, this assessment doesn’t take career trajectories into account. It's simply that Dylan Harper would gain more from being in San Antonio compared to Cooper Flagg.
Connects well with: Wemby, Sochan, Castle, Vassell, Paul
Wildcard: Coach Mitch Johnson, Fox, Barnes
Sure the Spurs have had some catastrophic collapses this series.
But you do have to give them credit for picking themselves off the mat, dusting themselves off, and learning absolutely nothing from them for next time.
Hoy, 13 de Junio, se celebra el día de San Antonio de Padua, razón del nombre de la ciudad de los Spurs y conocido como el santo de los milagros.
Que Dios nos bendiga.
VAMOS NOSOOTROS.
That’s on Mitch for sticking with De’Aaron Fox while it was clear he was playing selfish hero ball down the stretch and throwing the ball away constantly. Fox should have been pulled way before that, but Mitch stuck with him after several TV timeouts. Hubris from both the head coach and the vet trying to make the moment all about himself. Well, he succeeded. Mitch is a truly inexperienced coach. He froze up during that come back. The Fox decision being the worst
The Spurs 3 losses in the NBA Finals:
G1: blown 14-point 2H lead
G2: Wemby turnover & foul in a tie game with 9.5 seconds left
G4: blown 29-point 2H lead, the largest in NBA Finals history
It's the 1993-94 season and Wake Forest has a promising young freshman named Tim Duncan. Also on that team is a back-up sophomore guard named Stacey Castle. Tim Duncan would go on to college and NBA greatness. While the NBA wasn't in Stacey Castle's future, fatherhood was.
In 2004, Stacey's son Stephon Javonte Castle was born. You know the rest.
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