Jackpotting Around - Trick or Treat

[LogGrad98]

So what is everyones favorite candy? Mine is caramello candy bar.

For the most part I only like candy that is chocolate based (snickers, kit kat, milky way, reeses peanut butter cup, nestle crunch, etc) and I almost never like anything that lacks chocolate. I dont like twizzlers, sprees, starbursts, nerds, etc etc etc. But the one exception are those nerd clusters. Those things are amazing. They probably land in my top 3 which is crazy because they have no chocolate.

Brother from another.....you get it.

Mine are also caramello and nerd clusters. Crazy! I will get a bag of those caramello individually wrapped singles from Sam's or Costco and it will be gone in 3 days. Those are the candies I always take to the movies with me, caramello and nerd clusters. Craziest is I do not care for basic milk chocolate and I will not eat caramel, except in the caramello which must be made with crack or something.

But I also really like basic licorice, even black licorice, with Wiley Wallaby my favorite. They make small ones like Nibs in small packets again perfect for the movies.



I am also very fond of dark chocolate in every form imaginable. Especially Ghirardelli squares, dark chocolate raspberry. These don't last at my house either. Those and any form of chocolate truffle. Yep.

 

[infection]

Nah... that ain't it. I have almost no doubt we could have gotten a deal somewhere between 25-30m. Issue is they didn't try... so they don't really know. Even if you think you know, go ahead and let the market fall into place and as you do have meetings with him.

They are not sure on Walker still. You can go listen to the end of the pod that Sarah Todd did. There is some indication there too. He likely cools off from three, but if he plays like this the rest of the season he will push towards $40M. I think there is a reasonable chance he is moved but will be hard to rationalize his value with the return if he keeps playing this well.

I genuinely think management really messed this one up and am not afraid to call it out plainly.

Would you say that this is a page out of the KOC playbook of "not bidding against yourself" that worked out so well with Millsap, Matthews, and by extension in his first off-season in control with DL and Hayward?

 

[infection]

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No clue what the hell this is but it looks like a package of cough drops.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Would you say that this is a page out of the KOC playbook of "not bidding against yourself" that worked out so well with Millsap, Matthews, and by extension in his first off-season in control with DL and Hayward?

100%. I compared it directly to Hayward and DL. Flexibility is the new "keep the powder dry". Think I said it sounds great until you are dead on the battlefield with a lot of dry powder.

The Dante Exum trade value paradox also applies here. Maybe the plan was to move him and his increased level of play makes that value a touch higher... but he's playing better so you want to keep him.

I feel like this story ends with us paying an amount above the amount we were uncomfortable with this summer. I genuinely believe something in the 25-27M range was VERY doable. I think hitting the free market while also showing some increased value... I won't be shocked at 35+ and think there is a chance a team comes with max deal (basically).

So we used our flexibility to paint ourselves into a corner... but it will all be worth it when we sign Austin Reaves to a max. He's been looking to get out of LA for a while (sarcasm for those that don't pick up on that type of thing).

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Brother from another.....you get it.

Mine are also caramello and nerd clusters. Crazy! I will get a bag of those caramello individually wrapped singles from Sam's or Costco and it will be gone in 3 days. Those are the candies I always take to the movies with me, caramello and nerd clusters. Craziest is I do not care for basic milk chocolate and I will not eat caramel, except in the caramello which must be made with crack or something.

But I also really like basic licorice, even black licorice, with Wiley Wallaby my favorite. They make small ones like Nibs in small packets again perfect for the movies.

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I am also very fond of dark chocolate in every form imaginable. Especially Ghirardelli squares, dark chocolate raspberry. These don't last at my house either. Those and any form of chocolate truffle. Yep.

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Nibs go hard for the movie.

I think there are like my favs that I will grab at the gas station... but then there are some I associate more with halloween. 100 grand, almond joy, etc. Not my favs but some of my favorite halloween treats.

 

[fishonjazz]

Take 5 is the best "mainstream" chocolate bar imho. Pretzel, Carmel, peanut, peanut butter, salty, yum. Tough to find outside of Halloween. Smiths sells it now but not so much the rest of the year

Swedish fish are still my favorites though. Especially when they are dry.

Take 5 is my wife's number 1 pick.

 

[LogGrad98]

No clue what the hell this is but it looks like a package of cough drops.

Soft and chewy cough drops? You get some weird cough drops.

 

[LogGrad98]

Nibs go hard for the movie.

I think there are like my favs that I will grab at the gas station... but then there are some I associate more with halloween. 100 grand, almond joy, etc. Not my favs but some of my favorite halloween treats.

If you like nibs you need to give the Wiley Wallaby minis a try. Mostly found them at Walmart. The classic red are really good.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

If you like nibs you need to give the Wiley Wallaby minis a try. Mostly found them at Walmart. The classic red are really good.

The thick ones are good so I’ll have to give em a try.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

Brother from another.....you get it.

Mine are also caramello and nerd clusters. Crazy! I will get a bag of those caramello individually wrapped singles from Sam's or Costco and it will be gone in 3 days. Those are the candies I always take to the movies with me, caramello and nerd clusters. Craziest is I do not care for basic milk chocolate and I will not eat caramel, except in the caramello which must be made with crack or something.

But I also really like basic licorice, even black licorice, with Wiley Wallaby my favorite. They make small ones like Nibs in small packets again perfect for the movies.

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I am also very fond of dark chocolate in every form imaginable. Especially Ghirardelli squares, dark chocolate raspberry. These don't last at my house either. Those and any form of chocolate truffle. Yep.

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I need to give those minis a try, they look amazing.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Apologies for the mic difference, could tell immediately Chad’s was too quiet when editing. Normally it is pretty spot on.

 

[Elizah Huge]

I do think Chad is exaggerating the “secret messages” a bit.

tldr; FO and Walker were about 50M apart in talks

No clue if that means 5/100M vs 5/150M or 5/135M vs 5/175M.

I did a poll with on Twitter and 70% voted Walker was worth 5/125M max.