The Amazingly Suck Theodore Leonsis Thread

[Frichuela]

Not stopping until I destroy Monumental S&E from the inside.



Although I don't think she understood my sarcasm:



GIVE ME TERD'S DIRECT NUMBER!!

Talk to 'em AFM!!!!

#Turdyasuck

[Wiz99]

Thanks, Ted, for giving us another season of hope-crushing sub-mediocre garbage.

Effin sick of this strategy of “let’s play for one of the last playoff spots so we can get stomped by a real contender”… and missing even that mark too often.

I hope Ted chokes on his dinner tonight.

[Jay81]

I will delete this thread once he

1) gets rid of the medical staff
2) gets rid of Ernie
3) and gets rid of Flip

until then..he is a bad owner of the Wizards. Enjoy the ketchup though!

Lol I started this thread 13 years ago smh

[Jay81]

This coming offseason I feel is when Ted is going to make this "his" team. Buying an NBA franchise is a lot of work and with that comes getting a feel of how things run. It was probably his intention from the break to keep things status quo for a full season then evaluate everything at seasons end.

Ted is doing this right and I'd rather it take awhile to be done the right way instead of being rushed and set us back years.

+1

Rome wasn't built in a day. Ted may indeed need to make wholesale changes, but the fact that he hasn't done so yet doesn't mean he won't. Patience.

We’re running out of patience nate33

[payitforward]

Feels to me like Ted is pretty disengaged from the Wizards, to tell the truth.
Still, failure ends up on his doorstep.

Sadly, Tommy has not made the team better in 4 years of work.
Nor is there a lot to look at on our roster as a potential source to improve us significantly.

At least 2 or 3 players on the roster would have to get significantly better for us to improve next year or the following one.
There's no one on the roster who looks like a candidate for radical improvement of that kind.

Deni & Corey have room to improve, but not to the extent that they can really change the team.
Johnny still has to prove he'll be a solid NBA player at any level.

Thus there's no reason whatever to think we'll be better next year.
Worse yet, there's no reason to think we'll be better in '24-25 or '25-26.

Nothing even hints of an upward path of any kind.
In fact, we are on a downward trend -- not a treadmill but a descent.

Yet, there is nothing whatever to make a person think that the franchise recognizes any of this.
If they do recognize the facts, we are forced to conclude that they just don't care. At all.

In fact, there is reason to believe that at the highest level -- Ted -- the organization does not care. At all.
It is therefore impossible to conclude that the Wizards will change any time soon.

It would be difficult to imagine a worse professional sports franchise than the Washington Wizards.

[FAH1223]

I will delete this thread once he

1) gets rid of the medical staff
2) gets rid of Ernie
3) and gets rid of Flip

until then..he is a bad owner of the Wizards. Enjoy the ketchup though!

Lol I started this thread 13 years ago smh

1. They fired Eric Waters in 2016, they got a new medical staff in 2019, and reshuffled it after the Bubble in 2020. So, check that one.

2. He got rid of Ernie exactly 4 years ago now. But, replaced him with his deputy.

3. He did get rid of Flip for Wittman.

So of all the things, the front office still has a familiar face running it after 13 years. This is madness.

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Read on Twitter

[Endless Loop]

Just saw the headline that the Hawks' ownership has given the "green light" to trade anybody, including Trae Young. Wonder what they know that Ted doesn't, because there's no way that Ted would ever trade a guy the team's biggest name. Ted believes that attendance is all about stars; the Hawks seem to believe that it's all about performance. Or maybe the Hawks feel like their attendance will be good either way, so they might as well do right by the fans and win a few more games.

Ted, time for you to run the numbers again! IMO, it's all about stars only if you have TRUE stars. But those players are rare. There might be 5-6 players in the NBA that have the sort of star power that makes a bigger difference in attendance than winning does.

[FAH1223]

Just saw the headline that the Hawks' ownership has given the "green light" to trade anybody, including Trae Young. Wonder what they know that Ted doesn't, because there's no way that Ted would ever trade a guy the team's biggest name. Ted believes that attendance is all about stars; the Hawks seem to believe that it's all about performance. Or maybe the Hawks feel like their attendance will be good either way, so they might as well do right by the fans and win a few more games.

Ted, time for you to run the numbers again! IMO, it's all about stars only if you have TRUE stars. But those players are rare. There might be 5-6 players in the NBA that have the sort of star power that makes a bigger difference in attendance than winning does.

Read on Twitter

Read on Twitter

[Jay81]

The most telling thing about Ted is he has become a recluse like Dan

No tweets...no interviews...no Ted's take...no Shame. He hates the fans...winning...his basketball franchise

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[FAH1223]

The most telling thing about Ted is he has become a recluse like Dan

No tweets...no interviews...no Ted's take...no Shame. He hates the fans...winning...his basketball franchise

Sent from my SM-A515U using Tapatalk

Read on Twitter

His first tweet since after AllStar

[Jay81]

this was his last post about the wizards. at this time last year

https://tedstake.com/2022/04/wizards-end-of-season-2/

[AFM]

Interesting that he removed his bucket list from his website. I remember it being pretty embarrassing ie “own a painting worth 5M”, just rich guy sh*t.

[montestewart]

Interesting that he removed his bucket list from his website. I remember it being pretty embarrassing ie “own a painting worth 5M”, just rich guy sh*t.

“Swim in a bank vault full of gold, like Scrooge McDuck”

[keynote]

Why haven't we landed a new jersey sponsor? Seems like we're leaving $ on the table that could (theoretically) be reinvested back in basketball ops, without impacting Ted's existing girthy margins.

MSE had previously indicated that they wanted to bundle Wizards/Mystics/Go-Go into a single sponsorship opportunity, but that hasn't come into fruition.

[TGW]

this was his last post about the wizards. at this time last year

https://tedstake.com/2022/04/wizards-end-of-season-2/

in other words, "winning off the field."

It cracks me up how much shxt snyder gets when Leonsis is pretty much as bad an owner.

[AFM]

Brother please don’t use the word girthy to describe Ted again.

[keynote]

Brother please don’t use the word girthy to describe Ted again.

Fair. Still, according to Forbes, MSE's margins are quite tumescent.

[payitforward]

this was his last post about the wizards. at this time last year

https://tedstake.com/2022/04/wizards-end-of-season-2/

"We will be better."

When, Ted?
& how much better? Will we get all the way to, say, 38 wins? Maybe even 39?

[mhd]

The Athletic did an anonymous player survey:

"The crowds inside Capital One Arena in downtown Washington received low marks, too, with one opposing player saying, “It’s dead in there.”"

Thanks alot Turd!

[keynote]

The Athletic did an anonymous player survey:

"The crowds inside Capital One Arena in downtown Washington received low marks, too, with one opposing player saying, “It’s dead in there.”"

Thanks alot Turd!

I wouldn't say it's dead. I can get rather lively -- just for the other team.