Raging Laker

A raging male Lakers fan who has seen it all & can never deny the truth when it comes to the state of the team.

[Arc. Áyòmídé George @vangeorgh]

What if the sun exploded? This one is interesting because it’s supposed to happen in about 5/6 billion years.

[Milley Michael @MilleyMich39119]

Pablo is in town and everyone is feeling the heat

[Shegun 🌪️🌟 @ShegunTweets]

dang, these boston legal writers were really predicting the future

[Jovan Buha @jovanbuha]

Three takeaways from the Lakers’ preseason win over the Kings

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

Adversity will always test the space between teammates.
Connection is easy when everyone is winning.
The real test comes when frustration, pressure, and adversity show up.
Great teams don’t splinter.
They tighten the circle.

[EddyFisher Studios @EddyFisher240]

The funniest part of this sketch is that OJ never really hides what he's talking about.

He just says it with enough confidence that Amelia keeps questioning her own understanding of the conversation.

“Orenthal James.”
“The Juice.”
“Witness.”
“Counselor.”
“Trophies that weren't mine.”

Every reference gets more specific, yet he delivers them like harmless small talk.

That's what makes the sketch uncomfortable.

The joke isn't simply that OJ is making suspicious comments.

It's that people will tolerate an unbelievable amount of weirdness when the person saying it acts completely normal.

Sometimes the strangest thing in a conversation isn't the person saying something disturbing.

It's how long everyone else tries to convince themselves they misunderstood it.

[Jordan Schultz @Schultz_Report]

I can’t remember the last time I saw an NFL head coach orchestrate a team meeting DURING the game. Usually it’s a position coach…

But Sean McVay did it here, and the #Rams flipped the script to come back and beat the Eagles on the road.

[Los Angeles Rams @RamsNFL]

Dug deep for the dub!

[Raging Laker @Occupy_Staples]

@DionApollo @sarahbarshop @LATimesklein @DA_JAC_ @HugoLakeshow It started on that Thursday night game last yr in Seattle, right after Puca opened his big mouth, just facts. I can point out several plays since then.

[ThaReal1 @ThaRealCards]

So McDuffie can get his helmet ripped down twice and mcduffie has a t shirt.

And one is called

[Raging Laker @Occupy_Staples]

@LArams4L Agree but on the second one, that was blatant PI on Nacua, wasn’t it?

[Zynex @0xzynex]

A dead MIT professor accidentally destroyed the $20 billion executive coaching industry with one hour of lecture, and ten million people have already watched him do it.

He filmed it once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.

Executive coaches charge fifteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in that one hour for free.

His name was Patrick Winston. He ran the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 and wrote the AI textbook every computer science major in the world read for thirty years.

Every January for four decades, he gave a lecture called "How to Speak."

His entire framework fits on a napkin.

Do not read. Be in the image. Keep images simple. Eliminate clutter. Start with an empathetic connection. End with a punch line the audience can repeat over dinner. Never open with a joke. Never end with "thank you."

That last rule alone has probably cost the executive coaching industry a hundred million dollars.

"Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."

That is the actual opening line of the lecture. Winston believed it strongly enough to spend fifty years teaching computer scientists how to talk.

Founders spend $80,000 on an MBA and then hire a communications coach to teach them the same material Winston filmed once for free. Engineers write brilliant code and lose promotions to teammates who watched this lecture on the train.

The lecture is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The textbook is free on his page.

Winston died in 2019. Almost none of the ten million viewers have actually implemented the four rules on the napkin.

The napkin is free. The willingness to actually use it in your next meeting is the entire edge.

[Creepy.org @creepydotorg]

Before he created "Breaking Bad," Vince Gilligan co-wrote a TV episode about a hijacked passenger plane flying straight toward the World Trade Center.

It premiered six months before 9/11.

In the story, a secret group inside the U.S. government takes remote control of a Boeing 727 full of passengers. The plan is to crash it into the Twin Towers, blame foreign terrorists, and start a profitable war.

More than 13 million people watched it. The show was canceled a few months later, and most people forgot it ever existed.

On September 11, Gilligan watched the attacks on CNN like everyone else. As he looked at the smoke rising from the towers, one thought hit him:

"Wait a minute. We wrote this."

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Full at bat between Tom Seaver and Pete Rose. I think it took Pete 1.5 seconds to round the bases after hitting the HR.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Brock Purdy gave a great explanation of why quarterback play is about so much more than arm talent.

He said NFL quarterbacks can actually see where they’re throwing only about 60% of the time.

Think about that.

Nearly 40% of the time, you’re throwing into a window you can’t completely see.

So what allows you to make the throw?

Preparation.

You know the coverage.
You know where the safety is likely to rotate.
You know where your receiver should be.
You know the timing.
You know where the linebacker should be.

And then you trust it.

Purdy talked about knowing before the snap that he might have one hitch, and no more, to get the ball to where Deebo is going to be.

Not where he is. Where he’s going to be.

That’s the part I love.

The great ones don’t always react faster. They recognize faster.

A combine can measure arm strength, speed, size and athleticism.

But the game asks a different question:

Can you process what’s happening fast enough to trust what you prepared for?

That’s true in every sport.

Great players prepare so well that when chaos shows up, it doesn’t feel completely chaotic.

They’ve studied it. Repped it. Seen it before.

And when the moment comes, they don’t hesitate. They trust their preparation and play fast.

Preparation creates anticipation. And anticipation slows the game down.🏆

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Tom Brady explains why he’d rather have a less talented teammate who is dependable every day than a gifted player who’s unpredictable

“What ended up being my biggest weakness became my biggest strength. There’s a physical, mental and emotional part of us that allow us all to be successful.”

“We oftentimes over-evaluate the physical. Emotionally, you bring a competitive stamina, energy, enthusiasm and optimism to the team every day.”

“There’s nothing worse than a teammate that one day he’s fucking great, and the next day, what happened to him? When you have that athlete or teammate that you know every day is going to show up…”

“He’s going to be on time. He’s going to train hard. He’s going to be good in the locker room. He’s always going to be dependable. Those are the type of teammates you want.”

“You would take someone like that over the more skilled player that has more volatility because you know what you can count on.”

“To me, mentally and emotionally I was off the charts. Physically, I needed to catch up.”

[Excellent @ExcellentG100]

Vito becoming a capo is one of those moments that feels almost funny until you remember what it actually says about the life these guys chose.

He didn’t need to be the loudest guy in the room. He became valuable because he could earn, handle business, and stay useful to Tony. In that world, money and results can make people overlook almost everything else.

And that’s what makes Vito’s rise so interesting in hindsight: the same organization that rewarded him for being useful would eventually turn on him when they discovered a part of his life they couldn’t accept.

The Sopranos was really good at showing how quickly status can change when the rules of the game change.

[Arc. Áyòmídé George @vangeorgh]

I saw this video about what would happen if the earth stopped spinning.

[BeatinTheBookie.com®️ @BeatinTheBookie]

I inject this Nick Saban speech directly into my veins at least once a week to get the blood PUMPING. Let’s have a day!!