Canzano: Old Rose Garden blueprints proves Paul Allen sucks.

Yes, someday I hope to hang with the legendary jlprk: experienced message board poster. Over 4000! Impressive.

 

Somebody is pretty proud of their new middle-management position at Burger King!

 

Actually I manage a taco stand. We make the finest Tuna Tacos. Your mom is my #1 employee.

 

Would there be something wrong with that job? Curious, since you seem to be a free-market guy who believes in capitalism.

 

this fucking thread. Starts nowhere, goes nowhere, but uses up a shitload of words.

 

Perfect for a thread about a Canzano article... it's almost homage.

 

At least the thread has some Sonic history about Ackerley. His success came totally from Bob Whitsitt, who should be an NBA GM somewhere.

 

Yeah, I'm amazed there aren't owners who want to follow the Jail Blazer model. Spend tens of millions of dollars over the salary cap and pay tens of millions more in luxury tax, never manage to acquire a single franchise-type player while somehow earning the moniker "Trader Bob:, ultimately force a tear-down of thn entire team and organization because of the cap/tax/fan sitution, leave a legacy that throws the owner's arena into bankruptcy, all while not not having an NBA title to show for any of it.

I'm surprised NBA owners aren't beating down Bob's door!

 

Interesting logic. A guy is successful, leaves, the team then sucks, and so that doesn't show he was good--that shows he left a "legacy" that forced the team to get worse after his ouster, so it's HIS fault. Okay, I see...Strange they were doing fine till he left, then a couple of years later became the worst team in the league...Right, it's his fault...Many businesses borrow money, so what. The next CEO has to have the talent to sustain the business, not cry about it as you do. Does Obama just give up because of what he inherited?

So you think that every failed moment in history can be blamed on the successful preceding moment, because it set up the failure. Is the Vietnam War the fault of George Washington? Is the Libya War the fault of the dinosaurs for becoming extinct?

 

It was Paul Allen's decision to spend that money, and to fake the bankruptcy long after Whitsitt left. (In the article in the current Canzano thread, your hero castigates Allen for faking the bankruptcy threat.)

 

I think Trader Bob's lack of an NBA job speaks rather loudly. Not sure about the other gibberish you wrote, though.

 

Whitsitt left in May 2003. Allen filed for bankruptcy in 2/2004. For someone who prides himself on writing, I'm wondering how you managed to misread what I posted about the bankruptcy. As for Canzano's take, it doesn't matter to me. He's off his rocker on the Willie Lyles non-story, and has missed the mark many, many times.

The only times Cazano is correct is when I agree with him.

 

You defend him every time. And when did I ever say I pride myself in my writing, as you've now claimed about 4 times in 4 days? Speaking of gibberish, after reading your post #29 I was going to post a bad synonym for gibberish, but to be polite, I then wrote out post #30. I need to remember that useful word gibberish to save me from writing about bulls.

 

Hogwash! Also, it's not my fault that you get confused and post incomprehensible analogies.

 

This.

 

Paul Allen's new autobiography is being played as an attack on his former partner Bill Gates. But they remain friends. Allen just wrote his litle complaints, and let the cards fall where they may. When you're that big in business, you become tough. Neither one cares what people think.

title: "Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft"
will go on sale on April 17
excerpt released today March 30 by Vanity Fair
review from Wall Street Journal:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576232051635476200.html#ixzz1I5G4yfrB

The Canzano take: He finally has a real current event on which to base one of his dumb opinion articles, instead of making up some current angle like watching Oden exercise.