(11-27-2022, 11:07 PM)F Gump Wrote: You can say Cuban should be able to take a joke and not be sensitive - and you are right - but that doesn't absolve these clowns of being douchey and rude.

IN OUR SOCIETY TODAY, you generally can't deride others in front of their peers and laugh at/about them. 40-50 years ago you could laugh at people and everyone would laugh too, but now society is so sensitive and people are so caught up in their own feelings and image, and now you just can't. So having the expectation that they will like it (or you) when you do it, that's just wrong. It's not like Cuban was their good buddy who they always teased with - he was a total stranger to them, who had never met them and owed them no latitude.

That they also did that in the context of asking the guy they are insulting to write them a big check is the height of stupidity.

(11-27-2022, 11:52 PM)F Gump Wrote: If the season ended today, barring some extreme negative lottery luck, the Mavs would keep their pick.

In fact, Mavs are now just as close to the bottom spot as to the top. Just saying. Maybe dreams of Wemby aren't so ludicrous after all!

(11-28-2022, 12:44 AM)ItsGoTime Wrote: Ridiculous. They NOW know that is a joke they can’t make with Cuban, but there are jokes made at many of the shark’s expense that are laughed off. “Douchery”? Only a Mavs fan would say that about the joke, and it wasn’t all that big a deal. They said the GSW logo smelled like winning, sorry Mark. It was more about the GSW than Mark’s team. Making a mountain out of a molehill. Even the other sharks said “oh, come on, Mark”, just as every other non-sensitive Mavs fan said to their TV screen.

(11-27-2022, 12:39 AM)Kammrath Wrote: ONLY this level of disastrous because your coach refuses to sign Dragic for the minimum, who WANTS to be here and gives you 90% of what JB gives you.

(11-27-2022, 12:39 AM)Kammrath Wrote: ONLY this level of disastrous because your coach refuses to sign Dragic for the minimum, who WANTS to be here and gives you 90% of what JB gives you.

(11-28-2022, 01:33 AM)F Gump Wrote: Again, it didn't offend ME because the Mavs aren't my baby.

But I stand by my observation that taking shots at potential investors you don't know personally is not a smart presentation method when trying to get them to invest. Your idea that "now they know" is certainly true, but to me that was NEVER the place you should want to be playing trial-and-error on what might be offensive to your audience. How can you win at that game?

And fwiw, as to the norms on the show ...
1 yes I have certainly seen sharks (and including Mark) joke around.
2 but I haven't seen ANY shark fail to bristle when one of their companies is bashed
3 nor have I ever seen a candidate call Mark and his Mavs losers, ever, in any way
4 I have also seen other sharks who at times have felt disrespected (like Mark felt he was here) and they also said (like Mark did) "Screw you, I'm out." 

Seems to me the normal motif is to soothe and suck up to the obvious hot buttons.

(11-28-2022, 07:09 AM)JamesConway912 Wrote: https://twitter.com/thesteinline/status/1597197977877102592?s=46&t=vtp1fLz32HUtwxO_pcowMg

(11-28-2022, 07:17 AM)Chicagojk Wrote: Does that mean Facu is let go?   Frank?  Theo?

(11-28-2022, 07:21 AM)Jym Wrote: Maybe they'll stick with tradition and release Hardy

(11-28-2022, 07:39 AM)Branduil Wrote: Whoever decided not to pay Brunson the money needed to keep needs to be fired (Cuban). Whoever openly agreed with his decision should also be fired.

Whoever decided, after that failure, to not sign Dragic should also be fired.

(11-28-2022, 07:48 AM)Branduil Wrote: At this point I almost suspect the decision not to sign a Brunson replacement was Cuban-mandated spite, as if to say "We NEVER needed you." The other possibility, that the rest of the front office truly agreed they would be fine without a third point guard, seems beyond belief.

(11-28-2022, 11:26 AM)Kammrath Wrote: https://twitter.com/NickVanExit/status/1597261573407805440

(11-27-2022, 11:07 PM)F Gump Wrote: You can say Cuban should be able to take a joke and not be sensitive - and you are right - but that doesn't absolve these clowns of being douchey and rude.

IN OUR SOCIETY TODAY, you generally can't deride others in front of their peers and laugh at/about them. 40-50 years ago you could laugh at people and everyone would laugh too, but now society is so sensitive and people are so caught up in their own feelings and image, and now you just can't. So having the expectation that they will like it (or you) when you do it, that's just wrong. It's not like Cuban was their good buddy who they always teased with - he was a total stranger to them, who had never met them and owed them no latitude.

That they also did that in the context of asking the guy they are insulting to write them a big check is the height of stupidity.