Quote (Vilify @ Feb 28 2019 12:51am)

The way the Celtics are playing, quite frankly my dude, yes.

Quote (GiantTony @ Feb 27 2019 09:53pm)

Fair call.

Abalone>shell fish (lobster)>prawns>squid/calamari in that order

Quote (Vilify @ Feb 28 2019 01:25am)

What is abalone?

Hard vouch on the rest. Calimari is a nope for me.

Quote (Vilify @ Feb 27 2019 09:51pm)

The way the Celtics are playing, quite frankly my dude, yes.

Quote (GiantTony @ Feb 27 2019 10:27pm)

I had it for the first time ever on the weekend. It's like a clam... looks like a wrinkled old vagina but if cooks up fuckin yum as

Easily the most scrumptious food in the ocean

Quote (AmineA @ Feb 27 2019 10:41pm)

Yes. New England has the best seafood (especially Maine Lobstah or clam chowdah). Come to maine i'll get you so stoned you won't remember which NBA team you bandwagon 😉

Quote (Vilify @ Feb 27 2019 10:53pm)

Its clams in a chowder lol

Look up the ingredients in chowder. Its actually very good.

Its like a chunky soup but thicker.

Quote (AmineA @ Feb 27 2019 11:04pm)

Something to do with housing/apartments for poor people. Surprisingly i'm not a section 8 dude rolf.

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There's a lot of hand-wringing over the Celtics' disappointing regular season. Everybody's frustrated, but here's another way to take a step back and look at what's happening.

Many of the top teams in the East have all, to some extent, mortgaged their futures to compete NOW:

- The Sixers' future draft capital is basically exhausted, in order to get Jimmy Butler and Tobias Harris. Their front office claims they intend to retain both, but most people believe they're most likely to lose butler and retain Harris on a max contract. You scared of Simmons, Embiid, and Harris going forward?
- The Raptors are gambling that they can retain Kawhi Leonard beyond this year. Otherwise, going into next year they'll have a 35-year-old Marc Gasol on a player option at $25m, Kyle Lowry in his final year making $33m, Serge Ibaka in his final year making $23m, and Normal Powell and Fred VanVleet making a combined $19m.
- The Bucks will have Middleton opting out this summer, and will likely have to sign him to a max deal. Brook Lopez, who's a major reason for their leap this year, will also be a free agent. They're likely coming back with much the same team next year IF they successfully retain both players, but their flexibility will be limited.

I think Ainge is probably looking at this situation and is happy to let these teams load up on this season, knowing that even if the Celtics can't match them in the playoffs this year, the NBA title probably isn't coming out of the East anyway. Right now 538 has the Raptors and Bucks' chances of winning the title at 15%. Meanwhile, the Warriors' title odds are at 58%. What are the odds either of those teams beat GSW this year in 7, you think? And what could Ainge have realistically done at the deadline to move the needle on the Celtics' title odds?

Whether we like it or not, Ainge is thinking long term, and is prioritizing winning titles, not competing in the Eastern Conference Finals in 2019. I'm sure he's frustrated with the way this roster has performed just like everyone else, but I never assumed this year was the franchise's principal focus.

Thoughts welcome.

Quote (pAiLiXziX @ Feb 28 2019 09:25am)

This should be renamed to General Chat: Culinary Arts :D

Scallops are bomb Kim, you need to try it. There is a recipe from Gordon Ramsay, Scallops with Cauliflower puree, used to make it a lot when I went to Culinary school.

Real crab, especially dungness, (basically if the crab was the Juggernaut size), meat shits on imitiation crab. They don't taste anything a like.



I lol'ed.

I didn't know there was like 1938581918231 types of different chowders lol. New England, Clam Corn Chowder, Manhattan, Rhode Island, Long Island, lol, tf. All dank as fuck tho.



Used to stay in a Section 8 building when I was young and broke.

I witnessed this one kid I used to chill with get stabbed in broad daylight. I called the cops, but saw him pass away before they came. Shit was crazy.