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@RobWrightImages I think there will be a lot of unintended consequences. It might work out for the best, but there will definitely be some issues to deal with

@patkellyd I’ll be interested to see what changes are made to school start times, etc. Why do we think we can change the clocks but can’t change when kids go to school? The arbitrary nature of what can and can’t be changed is wild.

I think our generation needs to experience what a winter or two on Daylight Saving Time would be like in order to really decide how we feel about it.

@costplusdrugs @mcuban Incredibly happy with CostPlusDrugs. CVS wanted to charge me $834/month for a prescription my insurance refused to cover. Costplus delivers for $11.23/month. Thank you Mark Cuban!

@CrossingBroad Michael Allman played a great free concert last night in Pastorius Park, what a summer

The Philly Fan Fest Organizers are on a Generational Free Concert Run crossingbroad.com/news/trending/…

@smerconish Not shocking at all - ballots cast by election day should be counted as much as in-person voting on election day

Im shocked by how lopsided the early voting is:

@TronCarterNLU But we'll watch every shot Scottie plays regardless of his position....

Tommy Roy must have an axe to grind with Fleetwood. -1 thru 11 and has only missed one fairway and one green and hasn’t sniffed coverage in well over an hour.

@fried_egg_golf I had forgotten that Paddy had won his three majors so closely together.

17-year-old Miles Russell is playing with 54-year-old Padraig Harrington today. Paddy won all three of his majors ('07 Open, '08 Open, '08 PGA) before Miles was born.

@tomcuzzins @GolfLibrary Let me know if you find it! Thanks

@GolfLibrary Where can I find this full video?

The stunning natural beauty of National Golf Links of America in 1948. The greens running smoothly. A neighbour of Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. The quality of golf on Long Island is incredible.

@GolfChannel Golf is not a verb

@GAofPhilly WhiteMarsh number 16!

It's Friday Fly time!🚁🎥 The GAP Major spotlight shined on this toothy par 3 just a few years ago. Can you guess where it is? Drop your guess in the comments.⬇️

@Philly_Weather1 Ugh

Ugh Can't believe people root for swamp ass weather 199 days until meteo winter

@HappyPixr Joyous photo

There was lots of bird activity around a lake cove, but I became laser-focused when I spotted this Prothonotary Warbler. Then I heard him sing his "sweet-sweet-sweet-sweet" song. #birds #nature #wildlife

@Kevin_Kinkead Yes yes yes

as a thought experiment, please answer this series of questions: Villanova is a Philly school: yes/no Aronimink is a Philly golf course: yes/no the Union are a Philly team: yes/no

@mikeclaytongolf Looks amazing, when we were there it felt half-dead. Course was in similar condition to my Philly Crickets St Martin's course at the time....both have improved greatly since!

@patkellyd It’s transformed now - thanks to an ambitious and passionate owner.

After is always better. The Addington 13. 1999 and today.

@garrett_TFE He basically said the same thing at Philly Cricket last year

Unstated here, sadly, is that if the only way you can generate strategic interest off the tee is by planting trees in the line of play and fundamentally changing the nature of a 100-year-old Donald Ross design, your problem is bigger than the tree-removal trend.

@ronsirak Amen

It’s easy to make a golf course harder but hard to make a golf course better.

@CollinGrossWx Great point....and the oceans are equally shallow in that sense.

What a stunning picture of our home 🌎 Zooming in, you can see how thin our atmosphere is. If you shrunk Earth down to the size of an apple, the breathable atmosphere would be about as thin as the apple’s skin.

@jessicahadwin Sweet @PCC1854golf hat!

We don’t always leave spring break early, but when we do it’s because of a missed cut ✌️

@mcuban It's 1976. I'm 8, my brother is 7, we live in Pittsburgh. My parents took us to 15 Pirates games at Three Rivers that summer, where we could each bring a friend. Affordability creates memories and lifetime fandom. Affordability is #1 issue facing pro sports today

I made the point that “tanking” , IMO, is not as important an issue as affordability. I wanted to give some context. I think some in this discussion are underestimating the long term value, and importance of families changing from being committed to a team, to following players. When a family can afford to come to a game, they do. It’s a unique, bonding event, that creates incredible memories.  When they come as a family, they not only become a fan of a team, and the players, they become a “Mavs family”.   It’s this connection that makes sports different than every other business.  It’s a connection that drives an emotional link, hopefully for decades.    This is why the Mavs had $2 tickets for a while.  It’s why David Stern put in place $10 tickets after the lockout in the 90s.  It’s why every  Mavs game had 4k tickets under $19.   The math is the marginal revenue of an increased ticket price vs the incremental value of families committed as “Mavs families “.   I gave up probably $15per ticket or $60k per game.  $2.4m  a year.   That is a lot of money,  until you compare it to what it costs in marketing, advertising and promotions to try to connect to all the families you priced out of games.  And then add the cost of being able to watch games on streaming and legacy tv.  Also not cheap.  Which meant we delegated our connection to fans, our ability to connect to families for generations, to social media, streamers, podcasts, email newsletters and the declining influence of legacy media.  IMO, that’s a huge mistake.  If you look at only this year’s revenue , I was wrong in my approach.  If you look at it across decades, my goal was to make every family in Dallas a Mavs family.  Not to maximize this year’s P&L. I thought that would result in far more than just financial value. Nothing hurt me more than seeing fans in the other team’s jersey.  Or pricing our tickets so high that fans sold their tickets so they could afford season tickets, or would rather profit than go to the game.  Leading to the other team’s fans being louder than our fans.  IMO,  this was the greatest insult to an owner and to the players who take the court.  If your home game isn’t a home game, it’s a failure.  This is why i sat in the stands and not in the suites.  It’s why i made my email public. So I could connect. To ask. To listen.  One thing about Mavs games during my tenure,  we put affordability and game experience first.   We may not win every game, but we were going to find a way to make sure every parent got the joy of a lifetime,  watching their kids beam the whole game.  Or the couple on a date had plenty to talk and smile about.   The memories we can create, can last a lifetime.  And those memories create Mavs families.   Thats far more valuable to the team than anything. No player will play forever. But the pictures in homes of families together at a game, all in mavs gear, when the kids were in school. Then when they had kids. Then generations and extended families together, all connected by the Mavs. All in pictures around the house. What is possibly more valuable to an organization than that ? IMO, this made perfect financial sense as well. We live in an uncertain world. Every sport and league will have its ups and downs. Any sport, if it can sustain its connection to families, can survive whatever happens. If it becomes like any other business, maybe not