Avon and Stringer.

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Avon giving up Stringer to Omar and Brother is the harder one to figure out unless it's just about squaring up for D'Angelo.

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Avon's motivation was to quit dealing with the Prop Joe/Greek/ Co-op bullshite and get back to his New York connection.He still had good credit with NY, but they were sour on Stringer since he put the hit out on Brother. Getting his old source back he wouldn't have to play nice with Marlo or the Co-op and he had more muscle then anyone at the time (even though he did hire some). He also had Marlo dead to rights at the rim shop, but Stringer was a bitch.

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I don't see Avon giving up String for death just to cut out of the New Day. Sorry. I can't come up with anything other than D'Angelo.

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it doesn't make sense in a logical standpoint, especially with the superior/cheaper prop joe product and the efficiency and cost-reduction of the peace that stringer/the co-op organized

but, as RonBurgandy once yelled at me via Blondie's phone, i apparently don't' know shite about this

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Avon knew all along that the co-op was doomed to fail

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bullshite.

Avon never thought that far ahead. Did you even watch the show? Avon was street and Stringer was the brains with the long view. The show was never ambiguous about that. After the towers came down and The Barksdale Crew had to go back out and fight for corners, Avon was pissed that he had a crew that he couldn't run off and his street pride got up in his head and he couldn't let go of it. Stringer saw that and tried to send Avon up for a couple of years because Avon's obsession with Marlo was gonna bring it all down because the war was bringing heat from the cops.

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he Stringer led Barksdale crew made more money with a cheap product because they controlled the market(via more shops).

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but after the co-op, this model wouldn't work. remember in season 2 when they had all the corners and couldn't do shite b/c of their weak product? they'd be in the same boat, while all the others selling joe's stuff would be taking that market share

that's just basic economics

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Avon knew all along that the co-op was doomed to fail(and it did).

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self fulfilling prophecy. avon's war led to the destruction of the co-op. avon destroying the barksdale crew let marlow become too strong, b/c the co-op didn't have the barksdale crew to be stronger as a whole

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He knew the market would return to equilibrium and real estate would matter most in the drug game of Baltimore.

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marlow only joined the co op to work his way back to the greeks. product mattered. he didn't have the most corners, but he had control over all of baltimore b/c he had teh connection with the greeks once he killed joe

who had more real estate, all the other guys in the co-op or marlow? the co-op. who backed down? the co-op, not marlow

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Avon would have his corners back and the same connect that allowed him to rule West Baltimore before.

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the only thing that saved the barksdale crew was prop joe's product

this was before the co-op

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it doesn't make sense in a logical standpoint, especially with the superior/cheaper prop joe product and the efficiency and cost-reduction of the peace that stringer/the co-op organized

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To me that was kind of the point. It was not logical. It was partly emotional because of D'Angelo. But Avon just wanted to do what he knew how to do (the old game) and Stringer was a major obstacle to him being able to do that. It was kind of an act of desperation by a person that couldn't totally make sense of or come to terms with the world he'd stepped back into.

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Subtext. Avon had more vision and had no quelms about being gangster. If Stringer was so smart, then how come from the moment he took the reigns did he make decisions that ultimately led to his demise? Because he was short sighted.

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Avon called String on that in one of the best scenes in the series. He told String he was too soft for the streets and not smart enough to get over on the legit side.

That challenge to String's manhood from Avon was 50/50 in why String admitted he had D killed. Avon challenged His hardness and String went out of his way to point out taking out D proved his hardness.