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That must have been like watching the Iowa Hawkeyes on offense for the better part of two decades (except on turf)...it works, to a point, but falls apart against elite athletes/higher competition. Short passes like that can work if you have the likes of a Tyreek Hill or Kamara on the receiving end, but certainly not three interceptions. Too many are just waiting to jump those shorter routes on him now.

NY Times is already reporting at least 100 pardons being announced on Tuesday, and four close to the the Trump orbit (including Dowd and Guiliani) are receiving fees is the $50-100,000 range (starting out) for bringing them to The Donald's personal attention...and one would think the total flowing to Trump-connected entities will be the teens (of millions of dollars) by the time that history sorts these last 2-3 months of the Trump presidency out. He already has that $200-250 million fundraised but not spent to fight or contest election results.

Yet, going Lynn/Keuchel doesn't feel like an automatic win, either. I guess that recency bias of what happened this past fall is going to be used against Keuchel after being so strong for most of the year. The offense and bullpen is going to carry this team, especially if we can keep Crochet healthy and he emerges as a multiple innings guy.

If they don't sign a starting pitcher, they're REALLY relying heavily on Cease/Kopech/Lopez and that what looks to be Top 3 AL bullpen... Can't imagine the price would be any cheaper than $10-12 million for Cruz, though. If not $13-15 million, since it's quite likely to be prorated like last year.

I think you mean that ball over towards the right sideline? Yeah, that last offensive series was quite strange...maybe if Hunt catches the ball in rhythm he picks up 3-4 more yards, but Mayfield had the hot hand and was converting in every 3rd or 4th down situation.

You’re referring to the first half? Because the only obvious point the second half was punting there on 4th and 9. And letting Chad Henne of all people get out of contain in a third and really long situation.

Henne was actually doing fine until that interception. Browns finally have a chance to take the lead. What a momentum shift. KC D gets a huge stop, wise not to go on fourth down and see if they can get another miscue from Chiefs’ offense.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mypillow-guy-presents-trump-china-015719953.html Seems the MyPillow guy’s conspiracy theories were even considered by the WH as too ridiculous...

World peace/peace in the Middle East, starvation/hunger. Find proper balance between Sabes and old school.

Jared Kushner and his posse of PPE experts/Ivy frat buds are in trouble...

The two for one special is probably going to be off the table when he realizes he’s lost 60-65% of his customers...

The question is how many American workers are 1) willing to work hard enough for degrees in those areas, 2) willing/able to take out loans or can borrow from their families, and, mostly importantly, 3) work 9/9/6 schedule, which basically in China means from 9 a.m. through 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday? At least 72 hour work weeks...and we're not talking about earning a partnership in a law firm, we're talking about the competition at the bottom and mid levels of a Top 10 worldwide technology company (at least the more "gladiatorial" competition here in China, compared to the US). We'll see soon enough in Texas. If schools like UT-Austin, Rice, etc., can produce enough talent to feed into the industry there like you have Stanford, Cal Tech, Berkeley, UCLA, USC, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, UC-Santa Barbara, UC-Davis, UC-San Diego in the UC system as well as a community college system with many or a majority of those students aiming for Silicon Valley jobs upon graduation.

Something like 90-95% of those who applied for loan forgiveness over the last decade for doing public interest work (especially teaching) never got the promised benefits because of paperwork/bureaucracy/fine print/red tape/bank and loan consolidation....and it REALLY got bad the last 4 years under DeVos, because her goal was to collect every penny for both the banks and for-profit/online universities. I did a program similar to Teach for America where I earned a second Master's degree (and certification) while working during the day as a teacher (and getting paid a regular salary at the same time, instead of having to go through one semester of student teaching, which was done over the summer before we started full-time). They provided a significant discount off the tuition at University of Missouri at Kansas City. I also did AmeriCorps National Service for two years/terms, so each year, we accrued $4,725 in scholarships (not so practical because the stipend, not pay, was set at the Federal poverty rate back then, around $8,000 per year.)

https://news.yahoo.com/assimilated-china-plan-over-global-113007372.html There's the bleak future unless 1) US STEM education and venture capital keeps up, or 2) the immigration faucets are turned back on to inject more foreign talent into the system to compensate for "native deficiencies" in those areas. Very simple. We now know pretty much exactly what China wants to do, but what is our counter? School during the summertime? Unions will never go for that, unless pay is 2-3X higher. Saturday school? Middle school supplemental/after-school education until 9-10 p.m. (from Sunday through Thursday nights)? Training centers specializing in tutoring for Maths/Chem/Biology/Comp Sci/Physics, etc.? Starting education at age 3.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/11/columbus-drivecapital/ Between Ohio State, Ohio University, Oberlin, Carnegie-Mellon, Case Western, Michigan, PSU...there's at least some hope for the Rust Belt in advances like that, but it's not going to do much for blue collar workers without university degrees or advanced training who have increasingly become redundant ever since the Reagan administration.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2021-nfl-draft-mac-jones-despite-gaudy-statistics-at-alabama-lacks-in-key-areas-as-a-prospect/ If it's mostly scheme, then someone in the NFL needs to hire Lincoln Riley with Mayfield, Murray and Jalen Hurts all making their presence felt over three consecutive draft classes.

https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-man-arrested-following-capitol-insurrection-has-died-by-suicide/TYSJF7II6JG63G7K6JGON522JQ/ Make that six deaths, although this was more of a repercussion setting in for one of those who got publicly identified

Another unspoken Trump tenet is derision for the establishment GOP guys like Bush, Powell, Romney, McCain... they're largely getting lumped in together with Biden, Obama and the Clintons as globalists.

Another unspoken Trump tenet is derision for the establishment GOP guys like Bush, Powell, Romney, McCain... they're largely getting lumped in together with Biden, Obama and the Clintons as globalists.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/tech/deplatforming-trump-parler-effects/index.html Pros and Cons of Deplatforming Trump, right wing extremism

Is he moving up enough now on draft boards to be in the Top 10 or still in the middle or bottom of the 1st? A month or two ago, most mock drafts had him at the 25-40 range. The Bears have a shot at him still? J.Fields is definitely going to take a hit tonight...who else besides the BYU QB (Wilson?) and that kid from the Dakotas (Lance something) figures into the QB draft discussion at this point?

Have to enjoy the overall level of patience that mods typically extend to posters, allowing them to properly and publicly humiliate themselves first before disappearing them. WSI, if you even looked at a mod in the wrong way, you'd be quickly banished. PS: This is in no way, shape or form intended to spark a "Free Speech/1st Amendment" discussion as it currently pertains to internet sites or apps.

Man, seems like the bottom tier NFL teams would be giving up double digit points to Alabama the way they're steamrolling over Ohio State right now... Clemson had their run with Trevor Lawrence and Watson prior to that, but the only thing that can stop this juggernaut is Saban retiring and/or running for political office like Tuberville. I guess later on experts will argue that the ONLY way OSU could have stayed in this was with a healthy Trey Sermon, but there's just such a falloff now from Alabama and the next tier in college football.

NL grindiness?