Wingos get a 46 from LBJ and Invaders get 39 from the Freak, which is solid but not a blowup number. More significantly, Oladip shoots poorly and coughs up a 26, which could be crucial. Too early to project anything, but I'm sure Mark would be a little nervous if he weren't up touring the weed farms of Northern Cali.
E Team sits his two top centers, Nurkic (36) and Vucevic (31) in favor of Pau (17). We'll see if that comes into play in the NIT final.
I confirm above scoring notes.In reference to Eric's speculation on my part in the cannabis culture in the modern era I would like to make the following remarks. Legality isn't the reasoning for off the grid forays into the emerald triangle(as we call it down here)it's experienced weed farmers washing money due to the incongruity of federal and state law.This is quite frankly the greatest opportunity ever to have huge wads of cultivator cash(and other sources) come out of hiding.The willingness of impoverished municipal and county governments to actively compete for and participate in the unquestioning repatriation of the black/gray market money is an astounding opportunity.This is similar to the huge cash horde that emerged when I was in Europe when the Euro made large amounts of ill gotten German Marks a time sensitive spur to investment. I work with Asian investors who need a front white weed guy to go into distressed rural communities like Weaverville and Hayfork where I was all day yesterday to talk the talk and walk the walk.The partners I represent throwing money from foreign sources into this mix and combining with established growers and licensees..We are buying up nicer acreage with existing licenses to cultivate which is a valuable combination since many counties and communities are limiting new licenses to protect entrenched grower interests.I hope this offers Eric and anyone else some clarification and specificity...I find the whole thing fascinating look forward to expanding on this with anyone wishing to discuss it either here or perhaps more appropriately in a different forum
The highest scoring team in the league by a comfortable margin. The regular-season champion who took possession of the top spot in, like, Match 11 and never gave it up.
The Invaders, who had three chances to get one win against the fourth-place Wingo.
I think the upset, one of the biggest ever, is about to become official.
I feel pain for the Invaders, who have lost to Wingo - 182-176 with KAT still to go - but great joy for Wingo, who pulls off an historic upset and whose place in the final is no fluke.
Great season, Mark. You stand tall. And now you've got a one and done with Tom for third. Don't sleep on it. Winner gets more money than the loser.
Only slightly less grippingly, the E Team defeats P4, who gets a sub-20 from three guys, by 209-160, and moves within a win of the coveted NIT title.
Now there is a big question, since Wingo believes that it beats Invaders without KAT. Wingos need to know, by Wednesday night, if the Thursday scores count in the finals or if they start on Friday. Wingos do not want to game anything, they want an uninetrested party to make the decision, but they do have substitution issue because one of their starters is GTD for Thursday...
Please let SWAT and Wingos know the ground rules for the finals. Wingos also would like to confirm that the finals are an evenhanded best 2 of 3, or understand the finals methodology (since they did not expect to be here).
Wingo says congrats to Invaders as well, and is also pretty fascinated by the latest Invader explanation of the new cannabis economy. Thanks E for your clear explanation of what's up for the finals.
A belated congratulations to Wingos for advancing to the final I confirm 182-176 score with Towns playing tomorrow for NIT I've got ETeam in a rout as posted above...My boss told me tonight our company just came to an agreement and bought the Hayfork property I saw Monday morning and the growers threw in a boat/ATV and other toys bought with their excess cash they can't deposit in normal banks.
A sporting gesture of concession from the honorable Invaders, as we expected.
I tried to send some thoughts about the economics of remote NoCal from my work computer earlier, but that evidently failed. I concur with Wingo about the fascinating nature of Mark's business endeavors in that region. I've traveled that Grants Pass-Redwood Highway-101 to Ukiah route many times and am always awed by its natural beauty and its pockets of squalor. Towns nearly shuttered and hitchhiking vagrants that clearly aren't going anywhere. I always figured it was the collapse of the timber business. It never crossed my mind that the real problem was that the area's biggest economic driver, that other kind of tree, has been completely underground for decades, meaning no revenue for local counties or municipalities. Fascinating.
Hayfork is in a remote mountain valley on highway 3 a connector off of 299 which runs east west from Arcata to the Oregon/Nevada border area. The town appears run down bereft of any recognizable corporate names on the businesses, wrecked cars dot some pockets of the landscape.2000 residents the high school has 85 students. Take a right 4-5 miles up to the Brady Ranch which was cut into 10-20 acre parcels and it's a different universe.Streams running through verdant pasture and forest. Across the road from our property is a horse ranch owned by the town's lone dentist. I lost count how many head.Above us someone has grape stakes for a winery surrounded by an electric fence for protection from deer. Weed growing ranches are the other 2 neighbors but you have to walk across ten acres in each direction to see that. 30 miles away as the crow flies but an hour drive on winding mountain highway 3 is the county seat Weaverville an old gold mining town and lumber town. The county seat, it has 3500 people and the oldest Taoist Buddhist temple in California dating from 1870. That pretty much sums up the extent of it's cultural interest. There's a lot of meth in this town I was told. We viewed a weed growing operation for sale for 950,000 in the hills above the town owned by an odd Russian with criminality dripping from every accented phrase.Why would a Russian live here? The new California gold rush.... The advantage of this location in the Trinity mountains is abundant water combined with a drier climate than found on the other side of the mountains accessed by 101 as Eric described. Redding is the closest bigger city where 299 hits 5. There's an old route 36 which is dangerous and has no cell service so your stuck if you breakdown. It runs from Hayfork to Red Bluff. 3 and 36 are the only ways in and out of the Hayfork valley We were told not to take a chance on 36 it as it's not maintained.This is the heart of the movement to create the state of Jefferson here and in southern Oregon.
Further comment on weed counties....Calaveras county recently voted to make illegal all the licenses that were issued for 2018 this coming May 1 (bribed by existing grower community?) the stunning reversal was blamed on an influx of criminal illegal growers polluting streams and poisoning wildlife. Lawsuits are coming there. In Nevada County the heart of the gold rush (why do you think the main hihway is numbered 49?)which has a long established weed culture,is not giving out any new licenses either....meanwhile my boss is flying down today to negotiate the purchase of an extraction business in Kern County (California City in the Mojave desert near Edwards Air Force base. We are starting construction on an indoor growing facility that was just approved in Coalinga
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E Team:
Wingos get a 46 from LBJ and Invaders get 39 from the Freak, which is solid but not a blowup number. More significantly, Oladip shoots poorly and coughs up a 26, which could be crucial. Too early to project anything, but I'm sure Mark would be a little nervous if he weren't up touring the weed farms of Northern Cali.
E Team sits his two top centers, Nurkic (36) and Vucevic (31) in favor of Pau (17). We'll see if that comes into play in the NIT final.
Rip City, baby.
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I confirm above scoring notes.In reference to Eric's speculation on my part in the cannabis culture in the modern era I would like to make the following remarks. Legality isn't the reasoning for off the grid forays into the emerald triangle(as we call it down here)it's experienced weed farmers washing money due to the incongruity of federal and state law.This is quite frankly the greatest opportunity ever to have huge wads of cultivator cash(and other sources) come out of hiding.The willingness of impoverished municipal and county governments to actively compete for and participate in the unquestioning repatriation of the black/gray market money is an astounding opportunity.This is similar to the huge cash horde that emerged when I was in Europe when the Euro made large amounts of ill gotten German Marks a time sensitive spur to investment. I work with Asian investors who need a front white weed guy to go into distressed rural communities like Weaverville and Hayfork where I was all day yesterday to talk the talk and walk the walk.The partners I represent throwing money from foreign sources into this mix and combining with established growers and licensees..We are buying up nicer acreage with existing licenses to cultivate which is a valuable combination since many counties and communities are limiting new licenses to protect entrenched grower interests.I hope this offers Eric and anyone else some clarification and specificity...I find the whole thing fascinating look forward to expanding on this with anyone wishing to discuss it either here or perhaps more appropriately in a different forum
E Team:
No. It can't be.
The highest scoring team in the league by a comfortable margin. The regular-season champion who took possession of the top spot in, like, Match 11 and never gave it up.
The Invaders, who had three chances to get one win against the fourth-place Wingo.
I think the upset, one of the biggest ever, is about to become official.
Wow.
E Team:
I feel pain for the Invaders, who have lost to Wingo - 182-176 with KAT still to go - but great joy for Wingo, who pulls off an historic upset and whose place in the final is no fluke.
Great season, Mark. You stand tall. And now you've got a one and done with Tom for third. Don't sleep on it. Winner gets more money than the loser.
Only slightly less grippingly, the E Team defeats P4, who gets a sub-20 from three guys, by 209-160, and moves within a win of the coveted NIT title.
Go Blazers.
Now there is a big question, since Wingo believes that it beats Invaders without KAT.
Wingos need to know, by Wednesday night, if the Thursday scores count in the finals or if they start on Friday. Wingos do not want to game anything, they want an uninetrested party to make the decision, but they do have substitution issue because one of their starters is GTD for Thursday...
Please let SWAT and Wingos know the ground rules for the finals.
Wingos also would like to confirm that the finals are an evenhanded best 2 of 3, or understand the finals methodology (since they did not expect to be here).
E Team:
KAT score from Thursday is still part of Round 1, Match 3.
Swat and Wingo will play a straight up best of three for the title.
Final round Match 1 starts on Friday.
Invaders and Ticket play a single match for 3rd place.
E Team has two chances for a win against P4 and the NIT crown.
Congrats to Mark on a great season, regardless of what happens in Round 2.
Congrats to Wingo on his stunning upset.
Play on, people.
Wingo says congrats to Invaders as well, and is also pretty fascinated by the latest Invader explanation of the new cannabis economy.
Thanks E for your clear explanation of what's up for the finals.
A belated congratulations to Wingos for advancing to the final I confirm 182-176 score with Towns playing tomorrow for NIT I've got ETeam in a rout as posted above...My boss told me tonight our company just came to an agreement and bought the Hayfork property I saw Monday morning and the growers threw in a boat/ATV and other toys bought with their excess cash they can't deposit in normal banks.
E Team:
A sporting gesture of concession from the honorable Invaders, as we expected.
I tried to send some thoughts about the economics of remote NoCal from my work computer earlier, but that evidently failed. I concur with Wingo about the fascinating nature of Mark's business endeavors in that region. I've traveled that Grants Pass-Redwood Highway-101 to Ukiah route many times and am always awed by its natural beauty and its pockets of squalor. Towns nearly shuttered and hitchhiking vagrants that clearly aren't going anywhere. I always figured it was the collapse of the timber business. It never crossed my mind that the real problem was that the area's biggest economic driver, that other kind of tree, has been completely underground for decades, meaning no revenue for local counties or municipalities. Fascinating.
Is the place about to blow up on weed money?
Hayfork is in a remote mountain valley on highway 3 a connector off of 299 which runs east west from Arcata to the Oregon/Nevada border area. The town appears run down bereft of any recognizable corporate names on the businesses, wrecked cars dot some pockets of the landscape.2000 residents the high school has 85 students. Take a right 4-5 miles up to the Brady Ranch which was cut into 10-20 acre parcels and it's a different universe.Streams running through verdant pasture and forest. Across the road from our property is a horse ranch owned by the town's lone dentist. I lost count how many head.Above us someone has grape stakes for a winery surrounded by an electric fence for protection from deer. Weed growing ranches are the other 2 neighbors but you have to walk across ten acres in each direction to see that. 30 miles away as the crow flies but an hour drive on winding mountain highway 3 is the county seat Weaverville an old gold mining town and lumber town. The county seat, it has 3500 people and the oldest Taoist Buddhist temple in California dating from 1870. That pretty much sums up the extent of it's cultural interest. There's a lot of meth in this town I was told. We viewed a weed growing operation for sale for 950,000 in the hills above the town owned by an odd Russian with criminality dripping from every accented phrase.Why would a Russian live here? The new California gold rush.... The advantage of this location in the Trinity mountains is abundant water combined with a drier climate than found on the other side of the mountains accessed by 101 as Eric described. Redding is the closest bigger city where 299 hits 5. There's an old route 36 which is dangerous and has no cell service so your stuck if you breakdown. It runs from Hayfork to Red Bluff. 3 and 36 are the only ways in and out of the Hayfork valley We were told not to take a chance on 36 it as it's not maintained.This is the heart of the movement to create the state of Jefferson here and in southern Oregon.
Further comment on weed counties....Calaveras county recently voted to make illegal all the licenses that were issued for 2018 this coming May 1 (bribed by existing grower community?) the stunning reversal was blamed on an influx of criminal illegal growers polluting streams and poisoning wildlife. Lawsuits are coming there. In Nevada County the heart of the gold rush (why do you think the main hihway is numbered 49?)which has a long established weed culture,is not giving out any new licenses either....meanwhile my boss is flying down today to negotiate the purchase of an extraction business in Kern County (California City in the Mojave desert near Edwards Air Force base. We are starting construction on an indoor growing facility that was just approved in Coalinga
And to think I was grounded from making a silly Fantasy Football statement...interesting
E Team:
Dave, you were never grounded. Just made to sit at the table until you finished your vegetables. By the way, who did win your football league? E
Dave won beating my Oakland Roiders
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