1. I’m sure the fact that donors to the Bush Library can remain anonymous won’t make anyone at all hit the “panic” button. Although if you do decide to come up with some sort of crazy conspiracy theory, well, I guess it wouldn’t hurt to turn on the comments.
2. It’s a good thing that people will still be talking Cowboys until Jerry fires Wade, because then someone might have watched the Mavs get spanked by the Grizzlies. If you’re just starting to pay attention: it’s a one-game aberration. Everything’s okay. Chill.
3. And finally, if you’re just waking up, yeah, it’s going to be like this outside all day.
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@2.
When the Mavs play well, they can beat anyone, but when they play poorly, they are as bad as any team in the association. The best teams in the league don’t lose by 20 to the Grizz. Sure, it’s one game, and I think the Mavs will be a top 5 team when all is said and done, but there is some angst from this MFFL.
@3. One of my New Year’s resolutions was to comment more on FB so I could get to know all you wonderful people. Dallasites sometimes strike me as such weather wimps.
Zac, did you have to come into the office today, or did you have work from home option? Btw, any other FBvians in Chicago?
@brett: Point taken. When Josh (or someone else) doesn’t step up, they can be quite terrible.
@Michael Bluth: At the office. I’m fine with weather.
Michael, we sure as hell aren’t wimps about the heat, but yes, we are wimps about the cold. In our defense, the cold seems perpetually to catch us unaware: It’s literally 76 degrees on your lunch break, just as it has been your last four lunch breaks, but then it’s 46-and-plummeting with a howling north wind when you get off work and 28 by midnight. Freezing and blustery a couple days, icy rain, then sunny and 64 for a week — until. Rinse, lather, repeat. You get the picture.
It’s a weak defense, but it’s all I’ve got.
The last thing Frontburner needs is more commenters from Chicago. Go form your JO circle somewhere else.
@Daniel
. I honestly don’t think it ever got warm enough to swim outdoors.
Hey, I understand…every city has its weakness, and I say all this as a Dallas native.
I do miss the heat though. It hit 90 for 3-5 days this summer
Plus, despite selling Midway Airport, the Chicago Skyway, and all the parking meters, the City of Chicago is still broke, so they’ve cut back on street salting and plowing. Detroit status, here we come.
The Mavs just don’t have enough defense to stay in a game where they aren’t scoring. If they score 82, they will lose 9 time out of 10.
Brett, are you talking this year? Top 5 in the Southwest Division? Ok, I will give you that. Top 5 in the Western Conference? Doubtful, very, very doubtful. Top 5 in the NBA? Not in Mark Cuban’s dreams. If the Mavs are a top 5 in the NBA team at the end of the year, I will gladly take you and Zac to lunch at the restaurant of your choice (value not to exceed $100).
Top 5 in the NBA is out of reach. Top 5 in the West, I think, is doable.
Only if I throw out 11 teams.
The Lakeshow is clearly the best team in the West. However, after them, the next 8 teams are within 4 games of each other, with the Mavs squarely in the middle on that group. (And that after a 2-7 start…they’re 18-6 if you throw that out) That certainly makes a top 5 finish in the West seem plausable.
1. How about a list of companies/persons most likely to donate to the Bush Shoe Warehouse?
I pick ExxonMobil and Belo (Bob can just lay off a couple of copy editors and chip in their salaries. What’s that? $75K?).
The mavs are currently 6th in the west, just 2 games out of 2nd. I belive that seeds 2-8 will all be within 5 games of each other by the end of the year. If the Mavs are 3rd in the west, are they not then in the top 5 in the NBA. The mavs have one of the best records after their putrid start and they are in a great position to be top 5 by the end of the year…that is, as long as they don’t lay an egg in games like they did last night.
@Michael
“Btw, any other FBvians in Chicago?”
Yup.
The Mavs are an injury to Dirk away from being one of the worst teams in the NBA. I am no Kidd fan, but they also are a PG injury away from being a very mediocre team (some would say they already are that). I can’t fathom this team being one of the top 5 teams in the league at any point in the season, especially after the last 3 games. And yes, I know they won 2 of those 3 games, but collapses by 2 of the worst 7 or 8 teams in the league do not provide me with a warm, fuzzy feeling about the rest of the season.
@JS.
Just like Cleveland is a Lebron injury away from being very mediocre, or a LA being a Kobe injury away from being mediocre. Sure, the Mavs aren’t as solid from top to bottom as LA, Boston or Cleveland, but I like their chances against San Antonio and Tim “who me?” Duncan or any of the other western teams.
GW won’t be getting much Arab money. Clinton, DadBush and Carter tapped them out.
this “library” will have blood-soaked oil money as wallpaper!
library/bush? jeesh! what a fugging joke!
it should be filled with photos of the children his little pointless war he created.
It should have a special alcove with a B-roll of giggly Bushisms featuring a laugh track. And a torture chamber where the kiddies can play like they’re traumatizing someone who prays funny. And at the cafe (do presidential libraries have cafes?), the employees should be instructed to ask, “May I take your Executive Order”? (Try the Veal Schiavo.)
Christopher Hitchens was right
@ Gwyon
3200N 600W here.
Just ran back to check on Kent Jones, from the Rachel Maddow Show. He noted recently the DMN story that the library would be organized thematically rather than chronologically. And the pointed out the themes that a reality-based Bush Library would hold:
Surveillance
Recession
Corporate Welfare
Exclusion
(Hey, it’s a beginning.)
@Michael
4100N 2100W
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Mavs talk – love it.