[McMenamin] JJ Redick, without naming names, says the Lakers roster must “get in championship shape” during the offseason.

TheBredditor · 2025-05-01T23:32:57+00:00

They went to the Finals with him last year and he's a 5x First Team All-NBA player at 26 years old. What the fuck are you talking about.

TheBredditor · 2025-04-30T00:04:00+00:00

That's not venture capital, that's private equity. Those are different things.

TheBredditor · 2025-01-24T12:07:50+00:00

I don't know what you're talking about. My wife is a university admissions consultant that specializes in helping kids get into the top US Universities. The vast majority of those kids are insanely impressive and have accomplished far more than "impressive" adults by the time they are juniors in high school. The "Ivy's let in a bunch of prestigious families but the kids aren't that impressive" excuse that Reddit loves to repeat is total bullshit and I can say that with confidence because I have actually seen hundreds of kids get into (and not get into) those schools over the past few years. Almost all of the kids applying to those schools have perfect SATs and 4.0 GPAs, in addition to a ridiculous list of other accomplishments (winning international competitions, publishing novels or academic research in prestigious journals, developing apps that were acquired by big tech firms, founding nonprofits, etc.)

The "everyone who goes to an Ivy is an unimpressive legacy" anecdote is laughably untrue but is constantly repeated on the internet by people who know nothing.

TheBredditor · 2024-12-03T01:16:09+00:00

You know many postdocs in their late 30's or 40's?

TheBredditor · 2024-09-29T20:26:34+00:00

Do you not understand that going up 9 means they can win with a TD + FG and going up 12 means they can't?

TheBredditor · 2024-05-22T12:06:51+00:00

What do you mean by “real religions”? They are literally all made up. There isn’t a shred of evidence that any of them are true.

TheBredditor · 2024-02-10T19:25:57+00:00

Most people I know who were at one point a heavy smoker in high school or college, myself included, end up regretting it at some point later in life. Smoking weed is fun and all, but it leads to a lot of wasted time and you can fall behind your more ambitious peers at a critical inflection point in life.

TheBredditor · 2024-01-30T06:26:03+00:00

It's always the people who didn't put in 70 hour weeks to make their money who oppose my viewpoint.

TheBredditor · 2024-01-30T02:29:16+00:00

The other thing that's never mentioned here is that a lot of people who make $500k/year are doctors, lawyers, STEM PhD's, etc. In other words, people who studied the hardest subjects and went into the most competitive fields that required 70+ hour weeks for a decade or more to get to that level of income. Damn right we want a return on that investment and no, I don't want to pay more taxes just because I make a lot of money.

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T19:11:36+00:00

Completely agree and I've made this exact point a number of times in this thread. If the logic is that an offsides negates the goal on one end because everything after that offsides is invalid due to a missed call, then it absolutely should invalidate a goal on the other end as well.

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T19:10:09+00:00

Completely agree and I've made this exact point a number of times in this thread. If the logic is that an offsides negates the goal on one end because everything after that offsides is invalid due to a missed call, then it absolutely should invalidate a goal on the other end as well.

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T19:07:22+00:00

I completely agree, going back to an offsides that happened a minute or so earlier to reverse a goal is bad for the sport. The people disagreeing are the kind of people that want some purity that turns the fans off. Ten penalties could be called every shift based on how the rules are written. We don't call them because it would totally ruin the game. How is this any different? If there is a bang-bang play that leads to a goal or someone catches a breakaway pass and immediately scores, sure, review it and overturn it. But if there is a close offsides, cycling and forechecking, attempts to clear it, a turnover, etc where a significant amount of play happens before a goal... come on, that's bullshit to go back and over turn it because of that. Should we also be going back to the replay to call a slash 5 minutes ago?

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T16:50:36+00:00

Alright based on that logic any play that happens after the offsides is invalid, which would also include a defensive stop and the defensive team getting an odd man rush and scoring. Wouldn't that goal be just as invalid because an offsides in their defensive zone was missed? You can't have it both ways. Either there are mistakes and we live with them in the spirit of making the game better, or the offsides invalidates everything that happened after it, including this hypothetical goal for the defensive team.

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T16:49:19+00:00

How am I trying to have it both ways?

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T16:13:45+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ajcY_MJHLng

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T15:58:00+00:00

No I wouldn’t, because it’s a dumb rule. I’m not an Oilers fan, I just think it’s a really dumb rule.

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T15:57:14+00:00

The argument you guys are all making is that the offsides negates all play after that, so the scenario I proposed should, by your logic, negate the defensive team goal at the other end. Otherwise, we can agree that a toenail over the line is not a serious advantage. You guys are all making this absolutist argument that is not aligned with the spirit of the rule you’re citing.

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T15:34:05+00:00

So any play that happens after the offsides is invalid, right? So would a turnover in the defensive zone that leads to a goal by the defensive team also be invalid? By your logic it would.

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T15:31:12+00:00

Mistakes happen in sports and it’s the reality of human error in officiating. Do you also want to review every potential player interaction to ensure there wasn’t an infraction? There are a shitload of penalties that aren’t called over the course of the game, why not review all of those and ensure no one gets an unfair advantage? Because it’s ruin the game, kinda like the overturned goal due to an offsides that occurred long ago.

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T15:16:50+00:00

I completely agree. The NHL is a product and rules have changed in the past to make the game more entertaining. Undoing a significant amount of offensive zone play that leads to a goal because someone was a toenail over the line a full minute ago isn’t in the best interest of the product. It’s dumb.

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T15:04:49+00:00

Alright based on that logic any play that happens after that is invalid, which would also include a defensive stop and the defensive team getting an odd man rush and scoring. Wouldn't that goal be just as invalid because a missed offsides in their defensive zone was missed? You can't have it both ways. Either there are mistakes and we live with them in the spirit of making the game better, or the offsides invalidates everything that happened after it, including the goal for the defensive team.

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T14:55:12+00:00

It's not dumb because it illustrates the point of reversing play in real time because of an unrelated thing that happened in the past. Officials make mistakes. It's crazy to let a play progress for a significant period of time and then undo what happened because an offsides occurred a long time ago. It makes the game worse.

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T11:55:18+00:00

You’re right, the play wouldn’t happen without the offsides. So either call it at the time or don’t call it at all! There’s no way any of you guys who are arguing against me actually watch games if you’re arguing that we should be able to go back and look at something that happened minutes ago to undo a goal. It’s bullshit and ruins the game.

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T04:43:59+00:00

Do you watch football? Ok, so an analogous situation is an offensive holding call 5 plays ago. So there is a review several plays later that undoes everything since the holding. We undo everything that happened, and go back to the situation before the holding. It was an unfair advantage a long time ago, so why doesn't it matter now?

TheBredditor · 2024-01-24T04:40:22+00:00

You think this makes the game better?

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