Rod G Smith

Husband, Father, Businessman, Attorney, Energy Sector, Capitalist, Kingdom-Person and future President.

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

Wow, u know as much about Mexican food as @RealSkipBayless knows about sports…

[RiffRaff3232 @Riffraff3232]

Fight with me if you want…

But this is the greatest Mexican food restaurant in the history of the world

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

Is Tony Brothers the only referee in the entire league?!?! It is ridiculous!$&?!
Bet the house on OKC…

[Will. Power - Dragon🔥🔥 Truth Bringer @KIR_bigg50]

Here we go.. You already know..

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

U call yourself a sports journalist - wow, anything for clicks

[Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayless]

These Spurs are a bunch of home front-running cheap-shotting fake tough guys led by Wembanyama who sent his goons after the Thunder when he got HIS ass kicked in OKC.

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

Agree - totally shilling for SGA.

[Will. Power - Dragon🔥🔥 Truth Bringer @KIR_bigg50]

Reggie act like he’s on SGA payroll and gotta defend him no matter what

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

Every single post u make shouts your ignorance about all things sports - it is shocking that u had made a career talking about something u know nothing about!!

[Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayless]

CASTLE FOULS SGA EVERY SINGLE POSSESSION. JUST ALLOWED TO PLAY FOOTBALL. NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT. HE KNOWS THE REFS WILL LET HIM GET AWAY WITH IT AGAINST "THE FREE THROW MERCHANT." TONIGHT SGA IS DOWN HIS 2 BEST CO-SCORERS AND HE'S UP AGAINST AN 8-MAN DEFENSE.

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

Exactly right! One of the very best follows on this site!!

[Will. Power - Dragon🔥🔥 Truth Bringer @KIR_bigg50]

Bitch it ain’t “racist”

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

Yes, yes he does…SIGH

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

SGA’s signature move is the offensive foul push off into a pump fake that gets the defender in the air that he then jumps into them and ends up at the free throw line. He gets them every time.

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

2001 - A Space Odyssey

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Movie everyone considered a masterpiece, but you never understood why🤔

I’ll go first: Forrest Gump

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

This is a very astute post!!

Also, add Bryant in at 14 last year. A 6’8” athletic guy who loves to play D and can hit 3’s…

All 22 or younger. I trust this front office saw what happened to OKC with Durant, Westbrook and Harden…

[Eric Salinas @EricSal_7]

It’s weird and funny how the narrative shifts.

The moment Wemby got drafted, every national talking head and half this app demanded the Spurs trade for “immediate help.”

“ Vic is generational, get him help NOW.”

Then Castle gets picked at 4, not only after THREE teams passed on him, but also after many voices preferred Dillingham, Matas, Holland, some even Clingan at 4 — and the same time voices wanted him flipped for Dame or Trae. “Experts” were saying Dillingham was the better fit. Even some Spurs fans said Steph was just a 3&D wing who couldn’t shoot and they preferred someone else.

Many were even calling Holland the best player in the entire class.

Spurs avoided all that noise and drafted Steph. But make no mistake during Castle’s rookie year we also heard it all..

“Trade him for Lauri.”

“Trade him for Trae.”

“He should be included For Fox.”

Now to Dylan — once Dylan was locked in at 2?

The noise began again.

“Package Castle or Dylan for Giannis.”

“Package both for Giannis.”

“Trade down to the Nets.”

“Trade down to Utah for Lauri.”

“He’s not a good fit because hE plAyS tHe SaMe pOsiTiOn aS FoX & StEPh.”

“They need a better fit now.”

“Just DO something.”

It.

Never.

Stopped.

Since the moment Vic was drafted.

Now those same voices are calling the Spurs “lucky” to have all three.

Lucky.

Credit to the front office for not flinching.

For not chasing approval.

For not buying the lazy take that Castles value would never be higher after winning ROTY.

Some Spurs fans even compared him to
Michael-Carter Williams.

Patience is a skill. Most franchises don’t have it. This one does.

Not only that but they picked Steph in a “bad draft with a lot of parity from 1-10” and they also avoided traded him for an old shiny name like Dame or an overrated shiny name like Trae.

I can’t tell you how many arguments I’ve had with people the past 2 years on all of these topics with big names on this app and loud voices on Spurs Twitter.

Saying they were simply lucky in hindsight is such a lazy way to put it.

I understand Sam gave some credit for them being smart, but there’s so many in recent weeks just harping on luck.

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

Yet again - u prove that u r the least knowledgeable sports journalist ever!! Did u ever play any sport?!? Sheesh…

[Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayless]

Spurs just can't shake the TWolves. Just can't consistently score. Just feels like they're going to blow this home Game 5 ... unless maybe Wemby goes Alien. But it's now obvious Minnesota just has the psychological edge, just thinks it's better.

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

I’m a Spurs fan, but u need to slow roll that almost beat the “greatest team ever” nonsense…
Might as well say, “I never watched ball before 2000”

[Spurs Culture @SpursCulture]

Wemby has been a professional basketball player since he was 15

Played in the Olympics at 20, and almost beat the greatest team ever assembled

At 18 lead the Metropolitans 92 to the Finals when nobody thought they would make the playoffs

I think he's gonna be fine

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

I like u Jason, but who gives a shit what color the teams are…that is as bad as a @Realrclark25 take. Race is irrelevant - if u can ball, u can ball.

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

Nebraska, Purdue, Iowa, Iowa State....

Exciting Whites have replaced Cinderella.

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

Agree totally!! I saw that and couldn’t even waste my time responding to that nonsense. Harper is 19 and is going to be a star. We are guard heavy and we don’t need another great guard who needs the ball.
I want a beast of a 4…Charles Oakley 2.0 to have Wemby’s back and get rebounds a play D…

[SpursCave @SpursCave]

Declined.
Spurs hang up

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

Easy - Corkscrew BBQ in North Houston (Old Town Spring). It was great before the Michelin star…

[BrilliantlyDumb @RobbyBerger]

Headed to Houston, first time really don’t know much about it but would love some BBQ recs. Got way too much time on my hands. #FeedBob

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

No photos - but etched in my memory. Dark, dark brown head…almost black. Red face with gold screws. “Tony Penna” written in white script on top of the head…simply beautiful!
DM for a quote for a custom project. Thank you.

[John Hayes Persimmon @JHCBpersimmon]

@rodgsmith Sorry to hear that. Do you have photos of your dad's Driver?
I could remake it, maybe engrave his Signature on there, etc..

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

OMG - I have been looking for a Tony Penna persimmon driver exactly like my dad had that was stolen out of his storage unit before he died. My father was in baseball and there was a lot of baseball memorabilia stolen (Hank Aaron ‘69 jersey) but that driver was beautiful.
Now that I play, I have always missed having a chance to hit that…

[John Hayes Persimmon @JHCBpersimmon]

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Good Luck!

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

Tweet of the month…easily.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Let me tell you about the greatest unintentional science experiment in the history of progressive governance.

Zohran Mamdani — the brand-new mayor of New York City, population TEN MILLION — decided the city needed emergency snow shovelers. Simple enough. He went on TV, promoted it city-wide, and set up signup sheets at sanitation garages across all five boroughs.

You know how many people showed up at the Manhattan location? ZERO. Brooklyn? ZERO. One Queens garage? Not a soul — and I quote a city worker there: "I haven't seen anybody sign up yet today. No one."

One Brooklyn location managed to scrape together 35 volunteers before the snow even started falling.

35 people. One city. Ten million residents.

Now, I teach biology, so I recognize a failed experiment when I see one. This is what happens when reality collides with ideology at highway speed.

Here is the part that would be funny if 19 people had not died freezing on his streets during the PREVIOUS cold snap. Mamdani was asked about those 19 deaths — "unhoused" people, pardon me for the crime of using plain English — and his response was essentially: well, some of them died from drug overdoses, so... not all my fault?

Remarkable crisis management. Truly.

But back to the shoveling. This is the same man whose political identity is built on screaming "LIVING WAGES" until his voice gives out. The same movement that tells us $15 an hour is poverty and $20 is barely survivable in a major American city. So when an actual emergency hit his actual city, the very best he could offer was $19 an hour — in a place where a bagel costs $7.

Naturally, nobody showed up. So in a full-on panic, he rushed out a new video bumping the pay to $30 an hour.

Oh, and he required TWO forms of identification to participate.

Let that sit for a second.

The political party that has spent YEARS insisting that asking for ONE form of ID to vote is Jim Crow 2.0, segregation reborn, a fundamental assault on democracy — that party's mayor is now requiring TWO forms of ID to pick up a snow shovel for thirty bucks.

I teach science. We call this a logical inconsistency. Other people call it something less polite.

Quinn's Law #1 applies here like a surgical instrument: "Liberalism always generates the EXACT OPPOSITE of its stated intent." Champion of the working class cannot get working-class people to work. Advocate for living wages offers wages nobody will accept. Opponent of voter ID demands more ID than a polling place.

And Quinn's Law #25 deserves a bow too: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money." Notice it was $19 of TAXPAYER money, not Mamdani's own. The moment it was HIS administration's crisis to manage, suddenly the generosity of spirit evaporated faster than the budget surplus.

Bernie Sanders ran a presidential campaign on $15 minimum wage while paying his own field organizers an average of $13 an hour for 60-hour weeks. Now Mamdani runs a city on "living wage" rhetoric while offering emergency pay that would not cover the subway fare to get there and back.

Same energy. Different decade. Same results.

What is next — Mamdani holds a press conference on income inequality... wait, I just heard he already scheduled one for Thursday.

The man has been mayor for roughly two months. In that time: 19 unhoused people died on his watch, the city is heading into a historic blizzard with a QUARTER of the snow removal staff used in prior storms, and his great mobilization strategy produced 35 shovelers total.

This is what you get when you elect someone whose entire qualification is performance. Everything is theater. Everything is a press release. Everything is racial grievance politics dressed up as governance. The moment the snow actually falls and the city needs someone who knows how to RUN something — you get an emergency video and a $30 plea.

New York City has one of the largest municipal budgets on the planet. They could have rented equipment. They could have contracted crews. They could have activated protocols that actually existed BEFORE the blizzard radar showed up.

Instead, the mayor's plan was to crowdsource manual labor from random citizens and pay them in wages that the mayor's own party calls "poverty level."

Quinn's Law #5: "When liberalism conflicts with reality, reality must give way."

Reality did not cooperate this time.

But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who understands that experiments with a 35-out-of-10,000,000 participation rate are called FAILURES, not pilot programs.

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

So, you can bring 2 forms of ID just to go outside, including married women and black people, but we can have ID verification in our elections because that would be racist…got it!

[Red Line News @RedLineNewsUSA]

“So Zohran Mamdani just issued a travel ban in New York City shutting down the bridges, the tunnels, the streets saying ‘you better stay your ass in your house’… isn’t that interesting?”

“If you do want to come outside, you gotta bring your documentation. Bring your papers. Bring 2 pieces of ID, social security card”

“The only way you can come outside is if you’re working for us. You’re shoveling that snow.”

“It’s so interesting how socialism feels so much like authoritarianism.”

“Ah, but don’t worry, you’ll have the warmth of collectivism to keep you comfy”

New Yorkers are SICK OF ZOHRAN!

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

He had game, no doubt, but I see your Brian Winters and raise you Paul Westphal!!!! Another great 2-guard from that era was Kevin Grevey…

[ValidHaitian @haiti4eva]

Ppl always talk about great shooters but never mention this dude.

Brian Winters could shoot going left, right, on the move, off glass, over both shoulders, catch & shoot; all consistently with a hand in his face.

1 of the best pure shooters ever, yet he’s rarely mentioned.

[Rod G Smith @rodgsmith]

I loved the Doctor and I am an “MJ is the GOAT” guy, but this list doesn’t contain any guys that have played in the last 30 years…no Kobe, no Steph. Not so sure…

[Sergeant--Sarge for Short @SergeantMartee]

You don't get to argue with a hall of famer about his list. Those are the rules!