Caitlin Clark could play in an NBA all-star game where no defense is played. She would not be able to keep up on the defensive end in a regular season NBA game. Due to NIL, look for her to stay one more year at Iowa. She can earn as much or more there while shattering all the NCAA records. She's already appearing in a State Farm commercial.
The country seems to have shrugged off Trump's obscene comparison of the murder of Aleksei Navalny to him being afforded every due process by four jurisdictions on 91 charges after having been found to be a rapist by a jury and the perperator of massve fraud by a judge. How far does this monster have to go before the cult members and sycophants turn on him? How much does he hate America when he says the judicial system here is equvalent to the "judicial system" of Russia under Putin?
Re: Sentiment of spectators. I read an article which claimed research to explain home field advantage in sports is attributable to the influence the spectators have on referees or umpires. They researchers believed that refs were not intentionally biased, but as humans the effect of a crowd expressing its beliefs induced unconscious bias. One would expect the same effect in courtrooms on both jurors and judges.
In reference to the journalist who was scammed: one of the biggest helps to scammers is that they can spoof a phone number, i.e. have a number not theirs show up on caller i.d. Phone companies should not allow this. I let my calls go to voicemail before answering because of this. BTW, does this show how ancient I am?
Kudos to Eric for that elegant Animal House reference. Now on to what's really important in the world this morning: Who's the guy on the motorcycle in the Leader of the Pack video? Spoiler alert. I could not figure it out and finally cheated and went to the YouTube video to look at comments. Clearly it was somebody hamming it up for laughs. Answer: Robert Goulet. I wouldn't have figured that out--I think while other people's noses and ears grow with age, Robert Goulet's chin did the same thing. I can't recognize him without it.
Wow, many EZ readers don’t recognize how good NBA players are. Caitlin Clark is awesome but absolutely could not make the NBA. She can shoot, but she’d be among the smallest (only 6 feet tall), physically weakest and slowest players.
Clark isn't quick or strong enough to beat a defender off the dribble (much less finish at the rim against 7-footers), so her defender would stick to her and not allow any open space for jumpers. And on defense, she’d be targeted and toasted on literally every possession.
I hate questions like these because the answer is an absolute, objective "no," but in explaining why it feels like I'm denigrating Caitlin Clark, who is an all-time talent.
I think Mayor Johnson suffers from the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which in essence is people overestimating their own knowledge and/or abilities, which leads to poor decision-making, mistrust among colleagues, and being uncoachable.
Don’t give up on splatter platters just yet — this one from Richard Thompson in 1991 breathed fresh life into the sappy genre. Shame that someone hasn’t added it to a Wikipedia list yet…
Clark is amazing, but . . . Guarded by a 6'6'' NBA guard, she would never get to touch the ball. Her move to the basket would see her shot blocked every time, so it would be just a matter of staying close to her outside and denying the ball.
I once walked into a courtroom to drop off courtesy copies of pleadings for a judge, and the public area of the courtroom was packed with police in their uniforms. It was like a sea of blue. I found out that they were there for the capital sentencing hearing of Ronald Alvine who had been found guilty of the murder of West Chicago police officer Michael Browning. It was quite intimidating. If I remember correctly it was in Judge Mehling’s courtroom in DuPage County. I believe Alvine had waived a jury for the death penalty hearing. I remember thinking it would have been hard for the judge, if he felt that life imprisonment was the proper sentence, to explain that view to the courtroom packed with uniformed police officers who obviously wanted the death penalty.
Scamming has been around since mankind originated (or should I say personkind ?)
The methods and technology have changed, but the principles have not.
1. If you are offered a really good deal, why was it necessary to tell you since people would flock to a good deal without any offers or advertising. For example, Willie Wilson did not need to reach out to people for free gas cards, they came to him in droves.
Also, the purpose of business and scams is to make money, if someone is offering an item for a huge discount, it is a scam or stolen merchandise. Common sense is a great help here.
I am selling you a gold coin for $50 and gold is way over $1,000 an ounce…think about it.
2. Scams feed on your greed. Give me $100 and some info and you will get $1,000. How can that work, this is not a charity.
3. Know who is making the deal, if you do not know this entity, do not do business!
4. Timing, if this deal has to be done now, under a payment method which quickly has you lose control of your money…red flag!
I have been unsuccessfully scammed a number of times because I am not a trusting nice person.
In fact, I once had an aluminum siding salesman on the phone for 30 minutes until he realized I lived in a 40 story Condo. He said bad words to me and hung up…Yessss!
I find it very instructive that the overwhelming majority of readers concede that Caitlin Clark, although an incredibly transformative talent playing women's basketball, would be unable to even compete in the men's game. I guess we are all acknowledging that biology matters. And that is precisely the reason that the overwhelming majority of Americans are rightfully strongly opposed to biological males competing in women's sports.
Caitlin Clark in the NBA reminds me of this exchange on David Letterman:
Serena Williams: “Actually it’s funny, because Andy Murray, he’s been joking about myself and him playing a match. I’m like, ‘Andy, seriously, are you kidding me?’ For me, mens’ tennis and womens’ tennis are completely, almost, two separate sports. If I were to play Andy Murray, I would lose 6-0, 6-0 in five to six minutes, maybe 10 minutes. No, it’s true. It’s a completely different sport. The men are a lot faster and they serve harder, they hit harder, it’s just a different game. I love to play women’s tennis. I only want to play girls, because I don’t want to be embarrassed. I would not do the tour, I would not do Billie Jean [King] any disservice. So Andy, stop it. I’m not going to let you kill me."
Letterman: “I’m with you. When it comes to tennis, I only want to play girls.”
Yeah, I'm a fan of Caitlin Clark, she is a terrific athlete, and would kick my a$$ in one-on-one or a game of HORSE but 0% chance she could play in the NBA.
Caitlin Clark could play in an NBA all-star game where no defense is played. She would not be able to keep up on the defensive end in a regular season NBA game. Due to NIL, look for her to stay one more year at Iowa. She can earn as much or more there while shattering all the NCAA records. She's already appearing in a State Farm commercial.
The country seems to have shrugged off Trump's obscene comparison of the murder of Aleksei Navalny to him being afforded every due process by four jurisdictions on 91 charges after having been found to be a rapist by a jury and the perperator of massve fraud by a judge. How far does this monster have to go before the cult members and sycophants turn on him? How much does he hate America when he says the judicial system here is equvalent to the "judicial system" of Russia under Putin?
Re: Sentiment of spectators. I read an article which claimed research to explain home field advantage in sports is attributable to the influence the spectators have on referees or umpires. They researchers believed that refs were not intentionally biased, but as humans the effect of a crowd expressing its beliefs induced unconscious bias. One would expect the same effect in courtrooms on both jurors and judges.
In reference to the journalist who was scammed: one of the biggest helps to scammers is that they can spoof a phone number, i.e. have a number not theirs show up on caller i.d. Phone companies should not allow this. I let my calls go to voicemail before answering because of this. BTW, does this show how ancient I am?
Kudos to Eric for that elegant Animal House reference. Now on to what's really important in the world this morning: Who's the guy on the motorcycle in the Leader of the Pack video? Spoiler alert. I could not figure it out and finally cheated and went to the YouTube video to look at comments. Clearly it was somebody hamming it up for laughs. Answer: Robert Goulet. I wouldn't have figured that out--I think while other people's noses and ears grow with age, Robert Goulet's chin did the same thing. I can't recognize him without it.
Wow, many EZ readers don’t recognize how good NBA players are. Caitlin Clark is awesome but absolutely could not make the NBA. She can shoot, but she’d be among the smallest (only 6 feet tall), physically weakest and slowest players.
Clark isn't quick or strong enough to beat a defender off the dribble (much less finish at the rim against 7-footers), so her defender would stick to her and not allow any open space for jumpers. And on defense, she’d be targeted and toasted on literally every possession.
I hate questions like these because the answer is an absolute, objective "no," but in explaining why it feels like I'm denigrating Caitlin Clark, who is an all-time talent.
I think Mayor Johnson suffers from the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which in essence is people overestimating their own knowledge and/or abilities, which leads to poor decision-making, mistrust among colleagues, and being uncoachable.
Don’t give up on splatter platters just yet — this one from Richard Thompson in 1991 breathed fresh life into the sappy genre. Shame that someone hasn’t added it to a Wikipedia list yet…
https://youtu.be/MOCZwKmjR6E?si=bFiHwsS6r-Vt14It
What fuels my optimism for Caitlin Clark's NBA prospects is that signing her would a marketing slam-dunk (sorry).
Okay Eric, let’s get serious. Half court, you and Caitlin. One on one. ten points. You start with 6 points and the ball. We have a ref call fouls.
Who wins?
Clark is amazing, but . . . Guarded by a 6'6'' NBA guard, she would never get to touch the ball. Her move to the basket would see her shot blocked every time, so it would be just a matter of staying close to her outside and denying the ball.
I once walked into a courtroom to drop off courtesy copies of pleadings for a judge, and the public area of the courtroom was packed with police in their uniforms. It was like a sea of blue. I found out that they were there for the capital sentencing hearing of Ronald Alvine who had been found guilty of the murder of West Chicago police officer Michael Browning. It was quite intimidating. If I remember correctly it was in Judge Mehling’s courtroom in DuPage County. I believe Alvine had waived a jury for the death penalty hearing. I remember thinking it would have been hard for the judge, if he felt that life imprisonment was the proper sentence, to explain that view to the courtroom packed with uniformed police officers who obviously wanted the death penalty.
Scamming has been around since mankind originated (or should I say personkind ?)
The methods and technology have changed, but the principles have not.
1. If you are offered a really good deal, why was it necessary to tell you since people would flock to a good deal without any offers or advertising. For example, Willie Wilson did not need to reach out to people for free gas cards, they came to him in droves.
Also, the purpose of business and scams is to make money, if someone is offering an item for a huge discount, it is a scam or stolen merchandise. Common sense is a great help here.
I am selling you a gold coin for $50 and gold is way over $1,000 an ounce…think about it.
2. Scams feed on your greed. Give me $100 and some info and you will get $1,000. How can that work, this is not a charity.
3. Know who is making the deal, if you do not know this entity, do not do business!
4. Timing, if this deal has to be done now, under a payment method which quickly has you lose control of your money…red flag!
I have been unsuccessfully scammed a number of times because I am not a trusting nice person.
In fact, I once had an aluminum siding salesman on the phone for 30 minutes until he realized I lived in a 40 story Condo. He said bad words to me and hung up…Yessss!
I find it very instructive that the overwhelming majority of readers concede that Caitlin Clark, although an incredibly transformative talent playing women's basketball, would be unable to even compete in the men's game. I guess we are all acknowledging that biology matters. And that is precisely the reason that the overwhelming majority of Americans are rightfully strongly opposed to biological males competing in women's sports.
Caitlin Clark in the NBA reminds me of this exchange on David Letterman:
Serena Williams: “Actually it’s funny, because Andy Murray, he’s been joking about myself and him playing a match. I’m like, ‘Andy, seriously, are you kidding me?’ For me, mens’ tennis and womens’ tennis are completely, almost, two separate sports. If I were to play Andy Murray, I would lose 6-0, 6-0 in five to six minutes, maybe 10 minutes. No, it’s true. It’s a completely different sport. The men are a lot faster and they serve harder, they hit harder, it’s just a different game. I love to play women’s tennis. I only want to play girls, because I don’t want to be embarrassed. I would not do the tour, I would not do Billie Jean [King] any disservice. So Andy, stop it. I’m not going to let you kill me."
Letterman: “I’m with you. When it comes to tennis, I only want to play girls.”
Yeah, I'm a fan of Caitlin Clark, she is a terrific athlete, and would kick my a$$ in one-on-one or a game of HORSE but 0% chance she could play in the NBA.