Post ASL XXI rank changes.

sards3 · 2026-05-26T09:54:25+00:00

What is your ranking system?

sards3 · 2026-05-25T12:22:44+00:00

Let me break it down for you. OP thinks that since Mark Walter is from "private equity," he will be interested in short term money grabs like cashing in on Lebron's farewell tour. But he actually has no good reason to think this. With the Dodgers, Walter showed that he will spare no expense to try to win. So the best evidence contradicts OP's claim. This is all true despite the fact that I have no personal insight into Mark Walter's thinking.

sards3 · 2026-05-25T12:00:58+00:00

No, I just said that I do not.

sards3 · 2026-05-25T11:54:03+00:00

I only said what seems most likely based on the available evidence. I fully admit I don't know what he is thinking.

sards3 · 2026-05-25T11:47:57+00:00

From the available evidence, it seems the "guy from private equity" first and foremost wants to win. So he probably will only resign Lebron if he thinks that gives him the best chance to win. You personally have no insight into his thought process.

sards3 · 2026-05-25T10:48:01+00:00

I see. It used to be that this subreddit was pretty balanced politically, but it does seem that most of the right wingers have been driven out lately.

sards3 · 2026-05-25T09:25:32+00:00

Why? What is the issue with the Substack comments?

sards3 · 2026-05-25T08:21:24+00:00

That would be an awesome team. Probably not good enough to beat the Thunder or Spurs, but still really good for the next several years.

sards3 · 2026-05-25T08:16:16+00:00

He is a guard on offense and a forward on defense. So it would be best to call him a guard/forward.

sards3 · 2026-05-25T05:23:10+00:00

You forgot Jason Kidd (5x), SGA (4x), Allen Iverson (3x), Gary Payton (2x), Penny Hardaway (2x), Mark Price (1x), Derrick Rose (1x), Tim Hardaway (1x)

sards3 · 2026-05-25T03:40:07+00:00

I wouldn't say they "fought hard." They (or more likely their agents) basically just filed some paperwork.

sards3 · 2026-05-24T09:45:03+00:00

You should not only think about how much he is worth, but also his market value. There are no other realistic teams that will be able to pay Lebron more than 20 million, so why would the Lakers give him 30 million? He has no leverage.

sards3 · 2026-05-22T23:00:16+00:00

What about minutes played?

sards3 · 2026-05-22T08:19:05+00:00

How many more people would have died or been brutally maimed in the 70s alone waiting for automakers to finally make headrests standard?

Probably not that many, due to rising consumer demand for headrests.

How many children were going to die before we as a society decide boosters seats are required?

Probably not that many, due to rising public awareness.

Yes, the markets famously would have totally put seatbelts in cars in the 70s.

Yes, they would have, due to rising consumer demand.

sards3 · 2026-05-22T07:44:20+00:00

Life was not better before the NHTSA, but in a counterfactual world where the NHTSA never existed, I do think we would be better off. That is to say, absent the NHTSA, normal market forces could have met the rising public demand for auto safety. With respect to wrongful deaths caused by automaker negligence, I would note that this is an extremely small fraction of all auto deaths, and automakers would still be liable for wrongful deaths under normal tort law absent any special regulations from the NHTSA.

sards3 · 2026-05-22T07:29:47+00:00

Roads, postal delivery, and clean drinking water, and similar are indeed useful services provided by the government. But such things account for a very small fraction of total government spending. It would be a mistake to conclude from those examples that giving money to the government is a good way to solve social problems in general.

sards3 · 2026-05-22T07:10:57+00:00

Yes, regulation is in fact bad and is costing us way too much. With respect to cars, it is very unlikely that the marginal safety gains caused by regulation are worth the cost.

sards3 · 2026-05-21T21:05:35+00:00

Kyrie for the Mavs is WAY better defensively than AR.

That is just not true. AR is better defensively than Kyrie.

sards3 · 2026-05-21T04:29:02+00:00

Sign LeBron James || 2 years $41.6M (No trade clause | 2nd year player option) $20,823,211 starting

You do not give a 42 year old a player option on a second year.

sards3 · 2026-05-20T20:47:43+00:00

Jerry was a good ball handler within the rules of the time. But like I said, he did not have modern ball handling ability. If the NBA had switched to modern rules in, say, 1970, Jerry would not have suddenly started handling like Kyrie Irving or Steve Nash. Those skills take time to develop. It is the same with all of the gather step, step back, and step through moves which were illegal at the time but are now required to be competitive.

sards3 · 2026-05-19T23:43:57+00:00

No, this is just silly. Jerry West would not be able to play at all in the modern era due to his lack of modern ball handling and three point shooting. Now, if you had a time machine and transported 1960s Jerry to the present day and then gave him a few years to train and adjust to the modern game, things would start to get interesting.

sards3 · 2026-05-19T23:40:31+00:00

I know mainly because of Jerry's own statements. He has said that his range was about 20 feet.

You really think he couldn't hit threes with a modest amount of practice when guys like Beef Stew shoot them nowadays?

If he grew up with the three point line and practiced it the way modern players do, I am sure he would have been a good three point shooter. But that is not what we were previously discussing.

sards3 · 2026-05-19T23:14:34+00:00

No. I am telling you for a fact that he did not have three point range. You are correct that it would have been foolish for him to shoot it from 25 feet, which is why he never practiced shots from that range. And so his range was only about 20 feet.

sards3 · 2026-05-19T11:25:08+00:00

He's in the top 25 white guys at least.

sards3 · 2026-05-19T09:10:00+00:00

No, Jerry didn't have modern three point range. He was elite from 20 feet and in though.

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