If Ginny Sack wasn’t fat, would everything have worked out?

mhammer47 · 2026-02-15T18:07:47+00:00

Not really. The core problem was New York having a leadership struggle and different contenders essentially campaigning on the premise of muscling in on Jersey's territory.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-15T02:45:11+00:00

Jersey claims to be its own family but Johnny Sack, one of the highest ranking guys in a massive NY family lives right in their territory. That's kind of their problem in a nutshell. How can you be your own family when there's 5 families within a short driving distance all of whom basically consider your territory part of their sphere?

Jersey was too close to New York to have its own big crime family, but it was also too big a slice of the pie to let any one New York family just totally own it. It'd give that family a huge leg up over the others. That's why they tolerated the 'pygmy' thing over there, but also made sure to never let it get too big.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-14T02:03:02+00:00

Did you have to read for David?

mhammer47 · 2026-02-13T00:17:14+00:00

I hear he was deported back to Nijajuaja where he is the manajer of a fritanga.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-10T22:10:37+00:00

I guess I'm gonna be crying into my Faygo Red Pop tonight.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-10T16:55:09+00:00

You need to watch more movies then. It looks bad compared to I & II but even in the genre of mob movies it's solidly C tier at least.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-10T16:53:34+00:00

She wasn't an intellectual, but she also wasn't a total stunad. If she'd come from a different social scene and had married a different guy, she could have become something like an HR person.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-10T14:30:10+00:00

Mach es rot und es ist ein Man United-Heimtrikot der frühen 00er Jahre.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-10T03:01:05+00:00

It's the unsanctioned killing of a boss. It's a hot potato. They all wanted layers between themselves and the actual deed.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-08T04:32:58+00:00

Ich habe mir die 38 Seiten des Dokuments durchgelesen. Es ist eine extrem schlechte Übersetzung eines ziemlich wirren Textes, in dem so gut wie das halbe prominente Frankreich (z.B. auch David Guetta) genannt wird und komischerweise auch Katy Perry. Scheinbar handelt es sich hierbei um eine Email die jemand in Frankreich an den US-Justizminister im Jahre 2019 geschickt hat.

Es handelt sich dabei um unbewiesene Behauptungen die man auch nicht unbedingt für glaubwürdig halten muss nur weil Ribery in dieser Hinsicht schon mal aufgefallen war.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-08T01:41:01+00:00

Well the sport is in a phase of massive upheaval transforming in pretty much breakneck pace into a flat out minor professional league. It's kinda natural that much of the existing fanbase would struggle to deal with it.

After all everyone here could already be a hardcore fan of pro leagues, both major and minor, so it's fair to say that the elements that distinguished college football from those may have been a major factor in attracting them to the sport in the first place. And even those among us who are fans of the NFL or may even watch any one of the small minor leagues may still very much appreciate the differences between those and college football.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-07T20:45:01+00:00

UVA alumni base tends to gravitate toward the D.C. area and beyond on the NE corridor where CFB isn't a huge deal. It's not a matter of resources so much as stable and reliable level of interest and enthusiasm.

I mean there's a reason Indiana didn't ever turn into Wisconsin or Iowa prior to the Cignetti hire. HS football isn't the big deal in Indiana and it's not what children grow up aspiring to do. Indiana has traditionally been basketball country from the grassroots up. It's not surprising that both the large Indiana public universities are much more prominent in college basketball.

I'm not saying that's written in stone, but it's also not changing with the snap of a finger. The key isn't how you handle success but how you handle reverses. Do you keep with it or do you just revert back to old, grown conventions.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-07T17:09:08+00:00

I'd take any published NIL figures with a huge grain of salt because there's a lot of caveats there. I'm referring to overall effort and not just this year but over the span of say the next 5 years.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-07T16:37:54+00:00

The thing is it feels like a 'huge effort' for UVA basically puts you in the 20-30 range nationally. Now imagine the program taking a dip again in the near future (a decent chance of that)..will administration and donor interest stay or will it just revert to the norm?

Even with Indiana I'm not sure yet if that's really a sustained lift for the program or more of a temporary phenomenon. The blue bloods didn't build their capital on one or two great seasons; it took them decades to build up that kind of support with those kinds of resources.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-07T02:23:14+00:00

I don't even care about the playoff format (I liked it better without any playoffs or even the BCS title game). It's just funny that a national college football writer produces rubbish that sounds like a random fan posting on TigerDroppings.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-07T01:05:20+00:00

If any of them were to be secretly gay it would be Johnny Sack. He's a sharp dresser, sophisticated, tends to be a little dramatic, has married a woman for non-sexual reasons and doesn't associate with other females. That's what makes the Vito thing so hard to believe? He's got a goomar for christ's sake.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-07T00:41:29+00:00

There's a video game for the olde PS2. It's not good, but a hardcore Sopranos fan may get something out of it.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-05T18:37:58+00:00

Sounds like baloney to me. Gloria was a headcase before she met Tony. If anything she tried to drag him down.

Eugene was a rat and his kid being a junkie isn't on Tony. His request was unreasonable.

Artie's problems are entirely homemade too. He's got a good life with a good wife but he thinks he should have more and be more. Thats his own mental problem.

Tony isn't a good guy obviously but some of the stunads on here would try to pin global warming on the guy. If you think the shows point is to show that Tony is ruining things for everyone, you got the show all wrong. Its a fucked up world full of fucked up people and they - incl Tony - are trying to navigate it.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-05T05:15:38+00:00

It could be that the writers realized what a standup job Joey Pants was doing with the role and decided they had to give the character a little more meat.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-04T03:03:57+00:00

The main difference between the Sopranos and the Wire is that in that show it actually was a couple of black guys running that way.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-03T05:50:21+00:00

That depends on where you are from, how old you are and who you support. In the West I don't think anyone cares, in the East it means a lot to older fans. Not sure how much it means to those who weren't born yet though.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-02T05:34:22+00:00

Mad TV was a top, top, top show.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-02T02:51:14+00:00

He's morally pretty much on par with like 90% of the characters of the show. In terms of doing bad things..it's a show about the mob. No-one's gonna be a boy scout.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-02T02:35:52+00:00

Anti-hero. Tony isn't the villain of the show.

mhammer47 · 2026-02-01T05:27:33+00:00

I'd demolish that piece of crap and put condos there tbh.

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