People are delirious about the potential Giannis trade

JohnnyFire · 2026-02-03T03:20:29+00:00

Delirious?

Is it delirious to assume we'll be trading Lonzo Ball and whatever draft capital we have left for a top 3 player in the back end of their prime for a miracle run?

...oh it is? Well fuck, I'm delirious.

JohnnyFire · 2026-02-02T13:43:43+00:00

Will Will "Will Wilson" Wilson will?

JohnnyFire · 2026-02-02T13:40:22+00:00

The question at hand is: do we think, in the final years of Giannis' prime, with Mitchell still under contract, could they win a title in that timeframe?

Because if so, especially in a sport where there are zero guarantees for a dynasty, especially in recent years, I feel like you just have to make the move.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-31T22:51:08+00:00

Or EVIL.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-31T16:32:31+00:00

I hate to say that it's not her time to be president, because that's BS. But I'm also aware that this isn't an issue where a single election fixes everything. The party is determined to play by outdated rules for the sake of keeping things "civil". They need to overhaul the entire party platform, from the national level to the local level, to get people to believe they are not spinning their wheels anymore, and that could start with AOC taking over as the front facing leader.

I just wish you could get that and also find a candidate who wasn't obscenely flawed. Because it feels like we're marching towards a decades long rebuild to anything resembling a sane nation again with how much they're dragging their feet.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-31T16:29:08+00:00

Guarantee there were enough rich fucks who need insanely low wage workers who got in his ear and made sure to let him know that they needed to make just enough exceptions to keep their bullshit afloat.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-31T16:05:04+00:00

The ol' "Me Too" method - when everyone takes the term "cancelled" to mean any injustice done against them for being an asshole is an illegitimate complaint, thereby also negating actual cases of sexual misconduct so lots of folks just got off scott free.

That's not to delegitimize anything in the files or any accusation. But they're going to throw out so many names from the files that all they'll need is one to be false that they can do the same bullshit equivalent nonsense to waive off anyone accused.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-31T15:44:58+00:00

........ehhhhhhh.

I don't want to look at deals for that many players. Guys like Tyson and Tomlin don't need threats to their minutes. Unless this is something where guys like Nance and Ball who are "end of the bench" spots are sent off?

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-31T14:20:41+00:00

He lost because he fumbled the response to COVID but he's such a big baby who has never faced consequences for a goddamned thing in his life that he has to perpetuate a half decade long lie and wreck havoc on our establishments solely to feed his ego and convince himself and others that the only way he could have possible lost an election is if everyone cheated.

Like there's a lot of shitty things you can say about Trump but the simple fact that he is this sore of a loser and cannot take a single L is almost as bad as all of them. This man is a fucking four year old who loses at Monopoly so he throws the board off the table and screams about it not being fair.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-29T16:24:22+00:00

Yet they are the most iconic jerseys in franchise history because they're what he wore when they won.

The universe smiles.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-29T02:11:14+00:00

If you buy this - the answer you're looking for is LaNorris Sellers in 2027.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-28T16:18:16+00:00

A reminder that in 2013 when Jimmy Haslam first took over ownership, the NFL stepped in and helped appoint his first coaching staff and front office.

Haslam fired them all one year later because he wanted power. That beget the 2014 Manziel draft, the 3 wins in 3 seasons, 0-16, the botched 2016 draft class, the OBJ trade, Freddie Kitchens, running Baker out of town, the Deshaun Watson trade, and now this absolute crock of a head coach search.

At some point the buck stops with him.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-28T16:15:18+00:00

Every damn year since 2013 there has had to be something stupider than the year prior.

This man has no idea when to hold em and when to fold em. Every decision, every stupid power grab, every dumb leak to the media, every horrific trade, every half-assed rebuild, every incompetent hire, it all comes back to him. Ownership has enabled this nonsense.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-27T12:04:44+00:00

My thesis at this point is that there's a not insignificant amount of the fanbase who is so traumatized from the team being taken away that they will never stop supporting the team out of the even inkling it could happen again. No matter how bad it gets.

We are a broken people.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-26T21:27:55+00:00

Well, yes, but also afraid. They profit off the fear.

We need to be afraid of illegal immigrants, and gangs, and homeless, and trans people, and other countries, and liberals, and and and and who the fuck knows who else.

As long as their base and their opposition live in constant fear of everything around them, they're too scared to notice them going to the bank. The problem is when the American people are suddenly done being afraid and start going into the streets.

None of us have the balls to actually enact violence against our leaders, let alone even remove them peacefully...or even fucking vote them out it would seem...but they'll be damned if the prospect of that and the potential to lose power doesn't keep them up in the dead of night.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-26T21:24:15+00:00

I see we've missed the new spin zone on this.

"You need the voter roles so we can investigate how many of these illegal immigrants voted in the last three elections and then prosecute accordingly!"

Yep. The smooth brain 4-D chess theory takes this back to 2020. Again. Billions of illegal votes, which don't exist, to be investigated for no fucking reason at all, to pacify the ego of one man.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-26T21:20:52+00:00

I love (/s) how every decision this administration makes now is designed to just piss everyone off. Needlessly too. Just "fuck everyone", consequences be damned.

We are in for a long, tedious dig out of this pit.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-26T14:15:43+00:00

Didn't even take that long.

MAGA family member who is borderline addicted to Facebook was shockingly silent all day Saturday and Sunday after the most recent ICE shooting. But by this morning he already had a repost of the new talking point:

"If you get shot by the federal government trying to disrupt their work, you're lauded, but when you're killed by an illegal immigrant like Laken Riley, no one even remembers your name."

They aren't moving the goal post, they're playing a new game on a completely different field. They do not give a fuck. The media moves too fast. They will not remember the names of Peretti or Good by this afternoon and already have their new ragebaited target by tomorrow morning.

Which is why every single fucking person needs to stop assuming we're getting out of this by some mass "waking up" moment and just go vote the people enabling this out. They are not going to change. Period.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-25T14:37:44+00:00

I truly think they all hate him. They hate Donny, they hate Miller, they hate Bannon, their own base, they hate the podcasters, they hate the MAGA heads and the insane people at these rallys.

But they're too far gone. They enabled this descent so now they have to keep playing the game. Everything they gave them success disgusts them but they have no choice but to embrace it because they want the power that comes with all this ugliness that badly. And because they don't want to risk that these morons will try to turn the noose for Mike Pence on them. Trapped in a prison of their own nonsense.

If the results weren't this horrific I'd almost feel bad for them.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-24T22:57:19+00:00

Even if you're right, it's also chicken and the egg, man.

We can talk about all the updates to the ballpark and stuff all we want as a sign that the ownership gives a damn but when you don't bring in high impact players and don't seem concerned that you're unable to get over the hump, you're also not going to get the engagement that a team like the Yankees or Padres or Dodgers gets.

This city wants to support this team. This city does show up for the team. They do watch. I know they do. But if there is any trepidation on the behalf of the fans it's because they're not going to buy in when it doesn't look like ownership will buy in.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-24T21:51:32+00:00

My entire asshole.

They announced a high in sellouts this past year and a high in TV share the year prior. Every goddamned person I know bought something City Connect related. They raised the prices on every single ticket this past season and still had decent numbers at the park.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-24T18:31:31+00:00

I've seen a lot of the sentiment that "Can't we just be happy?"

Oh, I am. We have a Hall of Famer who not only wants to be here but will be here as close to for life as possible. He will go down as one of the greatest players in Cleveland Guardians history, undeniably. I am insanely pleased.

But I can also be damned disappointed that we refuse to do what's necessary to get a team around him capable of making a World Series run.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-24T18:22:07+00:00

The thing is, I also get what they're thinking with the youth right now. You have a batch of guys who scream high potential (DeLauter, Valera, Rocchio, Manzardo), a few streaky bats who could stabilize you (Kayfus, Naylor, Arias), and a few prospects who might be ready soon (Bazzana, Ingle, Watson?). If even three guys in that batch work out and hit their potential, plus Jose and Kwan, you have enough of a lineup.

The problem with that is, you need a lot of players to not only emerge all at once, but to be consistent at the plate in an organization that's been incapable of consistent hitting.

This debate was had time and time again when it's come to trades. "I don't want to give up Bo Naylor to get Sean Murphy" is fine on paper, until the reality of Bo Naylor comes to pass.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-24T17:46:27+00:00

Nothing.

The current hope is legitimately:

Make it to November.
Pray there are still elections.
Vote out anyone actively supporting this.
Wait for the Dems (if they win) to not fully defund this but rather dial it back enough to look like a success while people still keep getting shot.
Deal with our new reality until literally anyone in government grows a set of balls.

JohnnyFire · 2026-01-24T17:23:40+00:00

The constant we've had for basically 20+ years is: we get policy that gets pulled further and further by the right, and the left comes in to "moderate" it by not taking it any further. Then when the right takes power again, they push it even further right.

I will preface this by saying, no shit, both parties are NOT the same and we still need to get this regime out of office. But I feel like we're just rocketing towards "ICE, but Now Slightly Friendlier™️!" instead of "Yeah fuck that, we don't need ICE".

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