The Amazingly Suck Theodore Leonsis Thread

[keynote]

The Wizards have been clumsy, but they at least get points for trying to reach out to and honor different communities. The Caps, OTOH, haven't done anything this year -- yet. Some Caps participated in last year's split-screen goodness.



Perhaps the backlash from last year's attempt caused that side of Monumental Sports to fold up shop on this front. If that's the case, it's a shame. BHM isn't "for" Black people; it's an opportunity for all communities (including -- or, perhaps, *especially* "hockey fans") to learn about Black History. Ditto for Latin@ Heritage Month, etc.

[AWIZZINGBULLET]

Has anyone ever attempted to reach Leonsis or Grunfeld via E-Mail or by some other means?

If so, how?

[AFM]

I have, but after a few penile photos were exchanged I started going straight to his spam folder.

[McFilthy]

Ted, waiting for Durant is not turning out so well...

Unless he is really into charity or values coming back home more than championships, KD ain't coming to the Wizards this summer. Acceptance is a really hard step. Where are you in your process?

When the Wizards are no longer waiting for Guffman*, reality can set in and it is time for some real change in leadership. Ted, please don't stop with Wittman. Don't fire the superintendent while ignoring the errors of the architect of the poorly constructed Wizards.

Wizards leadership has been sitting on the fence and not made any major free agent acquisitions since inking Gortat in 2014, supposedly because we are saving money to give KD a max contract. This strategy has translated to lunacy since the Wizards have now been leapfrogged by formerly inferior teams like Boston, Orlando, Detroit & Charlotte... and that is just to name the franchises in the east who have done so. In the KD to Washington thread, The Secret Weapon points our that more than 20 teams with have max money this year due to the new TV contract. Since most teams have the cap space to sign KD, what have the Wizards done to differentiate themselves?

The echo chamber seems to be talking a lot about injuries this season being the reason for the Bullets underachievement. Most of the players missing major time are not our main players except Beal & Nene. Given the injury histories of previous seasons, Beal's and Nene's missed games were predictable.

Look at it from the outside for just a moment... Would you be confident in Wizard's leadership if you were Kevin Durant or any other free agent?

Please don't let an end of the season win streak or squeaking into the playoff deter you from making changes. More than half of NBA teams make the playoffs.

Please replace EG with a new, energetic, GM with a fresh approach. You seem to let the sports people make the decisions, so the new GM can decide on the coach of the future. No GMs moves or inactions work out 100% of the time, but here are a few that I would consider grounds for dissmissal...
- I like the idea of becoming more of a pace and space team, but we made that plunge this year without a starting-caliber stretch 4 Are you surprised that it is not working out so well.
- We have no young big man with upside (unless anyone thinks Blair is improving.) We are constantly manhandled by young, athletic bigs. We have players like Gooden & Humphries instead of a Biyambo or Whiteside.
- No solid bench scoring. How would Isaiah Thomas look on this team?
- EG could have drafted Steph Curry, but Miller/Foye for one year
- wasted first round picks (Vesley, Singleton)
- squandered 2nd round picks (no Jae Crowder, no Jordan Clarkson)

Not everything EG has done is terrible, but the body of works is underwhelming.

Also, for the record, I have attended 0 Wizards games this season. On average, I have attended two by now. I am a lifelong Bullets/Wizards fan and am sorely disappointed.

* Waiting for Guffman is a mockumentary where a small town produces a play with marginal talent, laughable direction and an inane script. The director catches wind that Mort Guffman, a Broadway producer, will attend a performance of their play. The theatrical production's director and, eventually, the whole town become delusional by thinking that if Guffman sees the play and likes it, he will want to bring the play to Broadway, and everything will be okay. Spoiler alert: Guffman never comes. Waiting for Guffman was probably inspired by the 1950s Samuel Beckett play, Waiting for Godot.

[montestewart]

Witt says, "take the 2 point J,"
Ernie says, "trade that pick away,"
Terd says, "let's stick to the plan," I say
"That's the reason I'm a Wizards fan!"

[Earth2Ted]

Can we just have Dan Snyder and Ted swap teams already? Danny would probably fire everybody, spend a trillion bucks and hire John calipari, sign KD, and trade for DMC within like 48 hours. Ted would just leave the skins exactly the way they are. they're already his favorite color after all.

It would be a good deal for both teams.

[closg00]

The strategy to make a run at KD is indicative of how cheap and 2nd rate the Wizards organization is. Ernie and Ted were so focused on bean-counting that they forgot to build a team good enough to make us worthy of consideration, not just to KD, but any good FA. They really botched-it, clumsy and bumbling in that EG way.

[Earth2Ted]

You could say the whole KD situation is a perfect setup that allows Ted to cut his payroll, make no personnel moves, sit motionless as the team slowly circles the drain, and then at the end of the day, when the hometown kid turns his back on the DMV and goes elsewhere, to shrug his shoulders, and pin all of the responsibility on Kevin Durant, and not on the Washington Wizards.

If you wanted to be cynical about it.

[ptptpt]

* Waiting for Guffman is a mockumentary where a small town produces a play with marginal talent, laughable direction and an inane script. The director catches wind that Mort Guffman, a Broadway producer, will attend a performance of their play. The theatrical production's director and, eventually, the whole town become delusional by thinking that if Guffman sees the play and likes it, he will want to bring the play to Broadway, and everything will be okay. Spoiler alert: Guffman never comes. Waiting for Guffman was probably inspired by the 1950s Samuel Beckett play, Waiting for Godot.

Waiting for Guffman is the perfect analogy to this season. This is exactly how I felt like folks were acting these past few years on the bandwagon on KD2DC.

[Higga]

Can we just have Dan Snyder and Ted swap teams already? Danny would probably fire everybody, spend a trillion bucks and hire John calipari, sign KD, and trade for DMC within like 48 hours. Ted would just leave the skins exactly the way they are. they're already his favorite color after all.

It would be a good deal for both teams.

Yeah because running a team like that proved so successful for Snyder...

But Ted should take a page from Snyder's book and do what Snyder did last off season: hire a real professional GM with a track record of success. One year under McLoughan and the Skins are already back on track.

Fire Grunfeld and hire someone who has a clue.

[ptptpt]

Can we just have Dan Snyder and Ted swap teams already? Danny would probably fire everybody, spend a trillion bucks and hire John calipari, sign KD, and trade for DMC within like 48 hours. Ted would just leave the skins exactly the way they are. they're already his favorite color after all.

It would be a good deal for both teams.

Yeah because running a team like that proved so successful for Snyder...

But Ted should take a page from Snyder's book and do what Snyder did last off season: hire a real professional GM with a track record of success. One year under McLoughan and the Skins are already back on track.

Fire Grunfeld and hire someone who has a clue.

Only thing I would say about that is, that Snyder MIGHT get closer to a ring because he doesn't mind spending money. But the Nets owner is the closest thing to Snyder at the moment so yeah, it wouldn't work out.

[queridiculo]

This thread imnsho should never leave the first page. Leonsis, more than anybody else, is responsible for how poorly this franchise has performed since he's taken over the reigns.

Much like he did with the generational talent of Ovechkin, Leonsis is well on his way to waste the prime of yet another lottery selection in John Wall.

For as much as the local media coddles Uncle Teddie it's nice to see a piece like this from time to time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2016/02/16/john-wall-is-in-the-prime-of-his-career-the-wizards-are-wasting-a-year-of-it/

Of all the sad numbers from this melted ice cream cone of a Wizards season, this may be the saddest: 0.95. That’s Washington’s average local TV rating, fourth-lowest among the 27 teams whose ratings were available. And that’s as dispiriting as the team’s league-leading man-games lost to injury, or its worst-in-the-NBA three-point defense, or its games-out-of-the-playoffs counter (three, as of this writing).

Local TV ratings are down 34 percent from last season — the second-sharpest decline in the league. The NBA franchise is again last in viewership among Washington’s four biggest teams. That means the Wizards are somehow making an up-tempo team led by a three-time all-star point guard unappealing to watch.

Do something you sanctimonious prick!

[miller31time]

This thread imnsho should never leave the first page. Leonsis, more than anybody else, is responsible for how poorly this franchise has performed since he's taken over the reigns.

Much like he did with the generational talent of Ovechkin, Leonsis is well on his way to waste the prime of yet another lottery selection in John Wall.

For as much as the local media coddles Uncle Teddie it's nice to see a piece like this from time to time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2016/02/16/john-wall-is-in-the-prime-of-his-career-the-wizards-are-wasting-a-year-of-it/

Of all the sad numbers from this melted ice cream cone of a Wizards season, this may be the saddest: 0.95. That’s Washington’s average local TV rating, fourth-lowest among the 27 teams whose ratings were available. And that’s as dispiriting as the team’s league-leading man-games lost to injury, or its worst-in-the-NBA three-point defense, or its games-out-of-the-playoffs counter (three, as of this writing).

Local TV ratings are down 34 percent from last season — the second-sharpest decline in the league. The NBA franchise is again last in viewership among Washington’s four biggest teams. That means the Wizards are somehow making an up-tempo team led by a three-time all-star point guard unappealing to watch.

Do something you sanctimonious prick!

I don't remember the last season in my 18 years of Wizards superfandom where I have watched less games than this one. Hell, even when we were absolute trash, at least you could watch to see the young pups and to see how bad we'd be (and how good of a pick we'd get). I just get so little enjoyment out of this season for a variety of reasons.

[payitforward]

I'm hoping attendance is down to match TV ratings. It's our only chance to dump Ernie.

[Jay81]

does anyone know why Ted stopped blogging about the wizards on Teds take? Nothing on the morris trade or wizards in general!

[Ruzious]

does anyone know why Ted stopped blogging about the wizards on Teds take? Nothing on the morris trade or wizards in general!

It's weather related; he's afraid of the reactions of fair-weather fans. <rimshot>

[queridiculo]

Remember this gem?

http://tedstake.monumentalnetwork.com/2011/04/06/learning-to-win/

Oops, the post is gone, I wonder why?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/post/leonsis-wall-crawford-and-blatche-are-new-big-three/2011/04/06/AFqIwapC_blog.html

A new big three has announced its arrival - Wall, Crawford and Blatche. Big minutes - big productivity - big results. And wins, too. We are short-handed and so players are getting bigger minutes to show the world what they can do.

We have two first round draft picks next off season. We have cap space. We are young. We have upside. We are becoming an exciting team to watch. The sun is shining out today.

Admit it. It feels good to be Wizards fans watching the rebuild unfold, yes?

Not good enough for his blog, but somehow Grunfeld still got himself an extension.

Shame on you Teddie.

Edit:

Never mind it's still there, took some digging.

http://tedstake.monumentalnetwork.com/2013/01/14/learning-to-win

[closg00]

Notice how Wizard teams are perpetually "short-handed"? Come-on Ted, wake-up.

[TheSecretWeapon]

Remember this gem?

http://tedstake.monumentalnetwork.com/2011/04/06/learning-to-win/

Oops, the post is gone, I wonder why?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/post/leonsis-wall-crawford-and-blatche-are-new-big-three/2011/04/06/AFqIwapC_blog.html

A new big three has announced its arrival - Wall, Crawford and Blatche. Big minutes - big productivity - big results. And wins, too. We are short-handed and so players are getting bigger minutes to show the world what they can do.

We have two first round draft picks next off season. We have cap space. We are young. We have upside. We are becoming an exciting team to watch. The sun is shining out today.

Admit it. It feels good to be Wizards fans watching the rebuild unfold, yes?

Not good enough for his blog, but somehow Grunfeld still got himself an extension.

Shame on you Teddie.

Edit:

Never mind it's still there, took some digging.

http://tedstake.monumentalnetwork.com/2013/01/14/learning-to-win

That blog entry reads an awful lot like millie.

[tontoz]

Pretty comical, or sad, that 2 of the "big 3" are no longer in the NBA.