VakAttack

Hoo boy!

Teemer time!

Teemer time?

Alirez.

For Parco to make the finals, he needs to avoid SVN.

I think he loses this year.

That was a weird count. It looked like Block came out of criteria and the ref definitely slowed his count down, then went to 4 when Mendez took Block back to criteria.

A nice testament to the Brands brothers' continued success with little guys.

They're about to make up for it at the next two weights.

It's long been a hot-button issue, especially in the crypto space. Interested to here some of your thoughts.

I said on the Hawkeye board that it feels inevitable he goes to Okie State. Hope to be wrong (only if it's wrong and he and Forrest go to Iowa). I don't usually get caught up in the recruiting too much, but this cycle I'm very emotionally invested in iowa getting the Raney twins and the McCort boys.

And there we have it, seems like we're on track for Coen to go to the Jags now that Baalke is (finally) out.

Basically teams, specifically Penn State and Iowa (Iowa most famously because that's where the "oranges" thing originated) refused to wrestle certain teams.

The inflation wasn't only caused by Biden spending. It was also caused by massive Trump spending before that and huge supply chain issues that stemmed from COVID and Trump's initial handling of it.

I guess. When i've talked to older wrestlers, I have heard some crazy stories about Iowa-Iowa State duals back in the 90 and 00's. Even in modern times, some of the most crazy environments I've seen are some Iowa-Penn State duals, Iowa-Okie State, Va. Tech-NC State, etc. The viewership of duals exceeds the viewership for tournaments...except for the big tournament at the end. So the question is, is that because the NCAA veneer being slapped on increases the meaning of the event, or because of the event itself? I tend to think it's because it's for the NCAA titles (both individual and team) and if we made a separate event for the team title and left the tournament to determine the individual champs, we'd see two high viewership events. Plus, duals are just much more easily digestible time-wise.

From your own article for that city prosecutor: So of course your numbers are misleading. Then you have the federal cases, which seemed to be the primary issue since DOJ was in charge of the J6 protests: https://apnews.com/article/records-rebut-claims-jan-6-rioters-55adf4d46aff57b91af2fdd3345dace8#:~:text=a different story.-,An Associated Press review of court documents in more than,crimes and sent to prison.

Really? All the college wrestlers I've talked to have great dual stories. The NCAA tournament, while awesome for junkies like us, seems like way more of a grind and fewer people get true "glory" moments as compared to duals. JMO.

So how far back are we going to be when it's better off? The majority of economic issues that Biden dealt with were supply-chain related issues that all stemmed from COVID, but he and the Dems didn't get a break for that. Egg price and poultry prices are about to go up again as Georgia has shut down almost all production due to bird flue related issues, are you going to stick those raised prices on Trump, or are we going to show some nuance of thought now and realize that most of those issues are far outside of what the president has power to actually directly affect?

Many, many people were prosecuted from the BLM riots, if that's what you're referencing. As to presidential pardons, I don't think they should even exist, so they all suck as far as I'm concerned, but can serve a necessary purpose for wrongful convictions, because the judicial system moves so slowly on those.

4 years ago our country was shut down and we were dying by the thousands on a daily basis from a poorly handled disease, much moreso than in all other developed nations. It's weird when people go to the "4 years ago argument" without actually acknowledging what was happening 4 years ago.

I agree it's only a theory, but I think the logic is sound. I know my wife's eyes glazed over when I tried to explain tournament scoring and such to her before last year's tournament. Purely anecdotal, I know.

This is a situation where it seems like we are slowly (so ***ducking** painfully slowly) moving towards the team title being a dual championship of some format. I think this is the right thing. People who say that the tournament tells us who "the best" team is make a somewhat fair argument, but it's just based on their own subjective belief of what's "best." The Cornell example is a great one. Obviously Penn State is a heavy favorite in either format, just a slightly smaller favorite in duals because of the variability of small sample sizes. People against the idea of a dual deciding the team championship call this, essentially, a bug of that plan, but it's actually a feature. Sports is all an artificial construct anyway, rules are subjective and not truly based on anything other than the previous set of rules. Why is a takedown worth three now? Why was it worth two before? Because the people who wrote the rules said so. In sports, though, variability is not a bug, it's a feature! The mere POSSIBILITY of upsets increases fan attention and interest, and the dual format is just much easier to follow. There's also the increased fan engagement of the team championship being decided between two different competitor teams! Right now we'll often figure out that some team (usually Penn State) has locked up the title on Friday night because somebody from Minnesota beat somebody from Iowa (just random teams for the purpose of the example). In a dual the champ is decided by beating somebody head to head, just a better product for a team championship. In the end, we're going in circles on this topic (and have been for years). The question for me has always been, what's a better product for the majority of people to watch and understand and get excited about: a 3 day tournament with more complicated team scoring, the team champion typically being crowned sometime before the biggest viewership, or a head to head dual with less complicated team scoring, the winner decided right there between two teams? To me it's an easy call. And I say that as a person who has been to several NCAA championships and love my time there, and have already booked my flight and tickets for this year!

It's a weird thing to be mocking this. There's plenty to mock the Brands about, but recruiting and being helpful? Nah.

His whole presidency is a grift, just like last time. The wins for his working class constituents wil be primarily cultural, not economic, just like last time. They seem happy with this so...

I agree. I do not think that most non-violent offenders need long incarceration sentences as a general principle. I think we incarcerated too many people in general, and that applies here as well.