‘Don’t meet your heroes’

Have you met Shawn Kemp!? That man is a sweetheart. He was incredibly nice when I met him.

It's more like they're paying him like a top-20 WR because the guys just below him are getting paid pretty similar dollars to what he is (if you want to argue DJ getting $20m is meaningfully different than Kirk getting $18m, have at it).

And most people consider it a slight bargain contract because its front-loaded and his base amount drops every year from now on. And because WR is highly valued these days - you can see that in the draft and in the contracts guys are getting.

We were able to eradicate those diseases because we created vaccines for them to prevent their spread. We don’t currently have an HIV or AIDS vaccine. We can treat HIV to the point that someone with it can’t spread it, but they would still have it and would be on medication for life

Happy to see this. I met Kemp at his shop in Seattle, super nice guy, very friendly. I told him I was from TX and we talked for a bit about how he used to live in Katy (Houston). I had met Steve Kerr on the sidewalk a few hours prior, I told Kemp about it ‘yeah man, I saw Steve Kerr on the street and he told me to come see you’ “Steve said that?” ‘Nah, but he’s in town. (Showed him my photo of Steve and I)’ he had a big laugh. I always thought of Kemp as a terrifying person when he was a player because of his swagger in the paint, but he was also with Gary Payton who was a bully and in the Top 5 Greatest of All Time Shit Talkers. Stoked for Kemp, he’s a real one

Him being that old is really fucking with me.

I can see that happening considering his weed business in Seattle and how active he is in its store operations. Seems like he would be a target for that

This is wholesome as fuck, but could you imagine living in a system where this doesn't have to happen?

Like, fuck. We wiped out Smallpox. We've damn near eradicated Polio. Cholera is essentially nonexistent in many places in the world and the path to eradication is clear.

Why the fuck can't we stand together like we used to in order to wipe out another disease? Are we more stupid now? Are we suddenly somehow incapable? Did we somehow get a mutation that makes it harder for us to survive?

The mailroom at the White House was once literally overwhelmed with letters containing dimes in order to combat Polio. Why the fuck are we incapable of replicating what we did less than a century ago?

I hope he gets to keep as the person who highest bids decides it is a charity cause!

So I raced in high school, was on the mogul team, and skied park and big mountain regularly. I never took competition too seriously because I saw the gap between my level and the top .01% and didn’t care enough about those disciplines to push hard in any one direction. I was friends with a lot of skiers that were racers and I worked as a liftee on the night crew at Park City when the racers would do their training. I watched Sarah Burke’s crash that ultimately took her life and called it into ski patrol while working on Three Kings lift. I’ve been surrounded by ski culture my entire life.

Like I said not every all mountain skier could be a racer, but it would be easier for an expert non racer to get into racing, than someone that focused on racing growing up trying to get into big mountain/park skiing. When you know what you’re looking for it’s really easy to pick out who the former racers are from the lift than people with a racing background. Racing requires a different technique that changes your style and it’s hard to break those habits. I personally know people that switched focus to raving later in life and vice versa, and the general consensus from both groups is that it’s harder to unlearn racing than it is to learn.

It makes sense for something like car racing to consider the best driver someone that exceeds in racing (despite there being many types of driving), because cars are more or less designed to operate on a road/track. With skiing it’s different because you have the freedom to go anywhere and do anything. It’s a whole different beast to do things like drop a cliff, straight line a face in Alaska, or have enough control to throw a trick while skiing through trees. It’s much more subjective, but anyone that has some real experience skiing can pick out what a next level skier looks like. Racing still takes a ton of discipline and I’m not diminishing the accomplishment. Like I said being the best racer is just that, being the best racer, but it doesn’t mean they’re the best skier.

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That’s the crazy part of this deal… there are at least three solid QBs… and a good chance of one of them still being available at pick 5-7. So they didn’t need to give up this much to get a QB.

One, there's no way to objectively determine who "the best skier" is overall, so it's really just a silly topic. On the flip side racing produces concrete results so deciding who the best ski racer is is a much more manageable thing (you did make a distinction between best skier and best racer here). Second, I really don't think many pro big mountain skiers could switch to racing and be competitive at a pro level. There is so much that goes into technique and skiing in a race course no matter the discipline requires you to be near perfect and then some. I just don't see anyone that hasn't been seriously training in race courses their whole life to stand a chance against pro racers.

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And Messi is still sitting there with just one… smh

It’s a shame really because Moore really lit it up end of the season. There was so much focus around CmC that I think it bottlenecked the team. I wouldn’t have ever traded him away, but considering the season they had I thought they did an incredible job.

Then today happened, now the Bears are set for the foreseeable future.

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Because Moore wasn’t good in fantasy last year and that’s all people notice now.

So they got a QB and gave up the 1 guy who can catch a football. Ok then.

BRB crying ❤️

I agree. Lives of some Ukrainians are not going to be saved this way. One life is not going to be saved.

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Hell yeah picabo street! That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time

You got Olympic Medal money?

No doubt how can anyone watch Moore last season and not think he is elite? He’s definitely one of the best WRs in the league atm. Fields isn’t the best case scenario for him, but if the play making is there, Moore can get open.