What? You think all the Mexicans quit when they get to SA? Guess we got a few here too! I reccomend a little place on Northwest Highway and Jupiter called Mexicali's, it's freaking great, even my wife loves it! Beef enchilada dinner for just $4.50, but the cheese enchiladas are their specialty. my wife likes it as much as her SA favorite El Tipico.
best tex-mex is in SA, anybody that doesnt agree doesnt know what great tex-mex is
Mark Cuban may do all those nice things but he is still an ass hole for whining all the time (that's why people hate him) that and the fact he thinks he can buy what he wants
AJ is a good coach but he is still to conseeded for me, and will always be overrated
El Tipico is a chain, and not a particularly good one. Good grief. If that's your wife's idea of good Mexican food, well, enough said.
Up here in D/FW the reporters are all ga-ga because the Mavs went on a road trip AND WON FIVE STRAIGHT! Just look at the quality opponents the Mavs defeated:
Seattle - 17-25 (with their second HC on the way out already)
Golden State - 19-23
Portland - 15-26 (and had to go to OT)
Clips - 24-16
Houston - 15-27
Yep, that's impressive. Congrats. Order the championship rings now.
thats embarassing
good dallas area tex mex is joe garcia's, period.
alot of blah blah blah. yeah we haven't beaten the pistons this year, but we beat them 4 times in the playoffs last year. win a big game, make that a big playoff game then start beating your chest. until then cheer on for that lone banner ya'll have up in the AAC. just because ya'll discovered a new letter in the alphabet, D, doesnt mean ya'll are invincible. i respect avery. he helped us get our '99 ring. maybe the mavs will get one. if the spurs go bankrupt and have to close shop. see you in the second round.Ok I've sat back and read many a post talk about the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, Dirk Nowitzki, their fans, their coach, and Dallas in general and as a long time fan and resident of Dallas I'd like to set a few things straight!
1st off some background and where I'm coming from here. I've lived in Dallas all my life, 30 years this year, I'm married to a wonderful wife and I have a 3 month baby girl. My wife is from San Antonio, a Spurs fan all her life, her family is still living there and we visit often. I've been a Mavs fan since I can remember playing pee wee basketball in 84', I remember yelling at the tv "Ro dishes to Aguire for the layin".
Ok so here's my ultimate problem I keep hearing about us bandwagon Dallas fans, well guess what, I remember crying the night we got beat in LA game 7 of the western conference finals. We barely lost that game, Kareem and Magic ultimately beat my Mavs in 87'. That same Laker team went on to beat Bird's Celtics that year. It still was a dagger that I'll never forget, how dejected Donaldson and Perkins looked as they left the court. In the end though I know that as of yet that was the best basketball team Dallas has ever had. This team is good, and maybe they'll do something special this year, but until then that's the best team we've ever had. Think about it, to go 7 games against Magic and Kareem? You gotta be pretty dam good to do that. Unfortunately after that season Brad Davis was injured, Aguire was traded, they blew the team up. Roy Tarpley was ejected from the league for drug abuse and by the early 90's only Blackman remained and we were starting over behind Jason Kidd. Now I'll admit I lost interest at this point, I became a teenager and my friends didn't care much about sports I still made sure I kept up to see what Kidd and Jim Jackson (JJ I called him) would do on any given night but I'd hardly call myself and avid fan at that time. A few years would pass and I matured, I met my wife an avid sports fan, and my love for basketball began to prosper once again. This was about the time Don Nelson was brought in to coach, and Kidd was traded, the Mavs still weren't very good, but I enjoyed watching Shawn Bradley of all people! Anyway the team got better and better, Cuban came in and it's really getting good, it also helps that my wife and I have a little rivalry to talk about(although she's becoming more and more of a Mav fan everyday). So the point is, not all of us are bandwagoners, and personally I don't want to be labled as such.
Now here's something that shocked me while I was visiting San Antonio, my wife's uncle straight up tells me he hates Mark Cuban. I ask him why and he can't give me a real answer but I get the distinct impression that the general feeling in San Antonio is that Mark is "not liked". As soon as this revelation was revealed my wife's father chimed in "I don't like that SOB either". At this point my wife got involved and this was classic mind you. She quickly shouted back, "what the are you talking about?, Mark Cuban is awesome and I won't listen to people in my family talk crap about him!" With shocked looks on their faces my uncle and father in law knew a lecture was coming, and my wife was going to deliver it to them like none they had even received. She starts with, "I don't know what the they are spewing on the news down here (referring to Cuban's media coverage), but I can tell you he gives more back to the community and the fan than any other owner or business man in the country". She went on to say just the other day he and the Mavs were at Dallas Childrens hospital presenting them with a check for $5million. On his show "Benefactor" the contestants took him to Children's Medical Center of Dallas thinking it would be nice for him to hang out with the kids. Little did they know that not only had he been there before, but he'd been there so often that the kids knew who he was and had spoken to him often via email and in person. Ever heard of the "Fallen Patriot Fund"? Guess who started that with his own money? Mark Cuban, just think if you ever had a family member or friend in the military who was injured and needs financial assistance tell him to email Mark. Also I hear people talk about Cuban and his ownership style, personally I couldn't imagine myself being any different. I'm a fan, Mark is a fan, jumping around, yelling in the stand, cussing the refs, those are things I do when I go to games( I do it in front of the tv). So as far as an owner goes, I can relate to none better than Cuban.
Avery has done a great job here, and while he may not be the most liked guy on this board for whatever reason, he's transforming this team into a contender. Besides he's done something Pop hasn't done, he's never lost to Detroit
Ok my rants pretty much over, I'm sure there are some mistakes in it, I don't really care. In a couple months I'll be down in SA for Fiesta, that's always fun, I like SA alot, just not your basketball team!
GO MAVS!!!!
people don't like cubes for the same reason they didn't like jerry jones. he thinks he can buy a team, throw money at it, and have it be good. difference is, it worked pretty quickly for jj.
Amen brother! Oh yeah, while you're at it - Tell Cuban to stop high fivin' the players when they come off the floor and stop participating in pre-game shoot arounds.
Also, tone down the "over the top" game presentations complete with those "tricked up" mics or the rims and your annoying PA announcer/cheerleader.
He may think all that heightens the fan's experience, but it all takes away from a pretty good product that is on the floor.
Oh, and another thing. Tell Cuban to get rid of those puke-colored, green and blue, "special occasion" uniforms. They look like . You guys already have pretty cool=looking blue road uniforms. They would be a classic if he would stop ing around with different styles and soliciting input from the likes of Puff Daddy.
But I digress.
What a ing waste of time to be talking about the Mavericks on a Spurs board. At least take it to the NBA forum where it can be ignored. So now we have another fifth grader that gulps at the open fly of all things Maverick. Give me a break. Jerry Jones had three super bowl rings by the time he'd had the Cowboys as long as Cuban's had the Mavericks, and nobody cuts him any slack. Your team has to do something before they are worthy of discussion.
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