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I paid my tribute. Jimmy is dead. Long live Jimmy.

I am still upset they did not bring you back for FRL 1000

I think conference seeds are based on conference results. They are both 8-0 in conference with 5 common opponents. Hamiti's results against those five are marginally better than Messenbrink's.

Not 70. That would be his father if he were still alive. In this story, Bunji is the son.

Ahhh, bringing your act here from GIA. Welcome.

Clyde Thomas "Bunji" Fretwell III and his late father have a pretty unsavory past. https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2007/09/28/authorities-say-woman-85-lost-thousands-in-home-repair-scheme/28580346007/

I seem to remember coaches could only argue to move up one slot, but maybe I am wrong.

Nope. There is just one inflation per time period, regardless of what marketing terms you are workshopping.

Different starting points.

You have your priorities straight.

I am saying you sound like an old man yelling at clouds. Pointless. Yes, wages have exceeded inflation. As much as that does not serve your narrative, it is true. As for retirees, every retiree ever has had this same problem. It is the hazard of retiring. It is why a financial planner will insist you take into account inflation when figuring out how much money you need to retire and maintain your lifestyle.

He was #19 on the 2017 Big Board

But you are still looking at an incomplete picture. If things cost more and you are making the same, that is bad for you. If things cost more and you are making more, that is not necessarily bad. What you ant to look at is real wage growth (i.e. wage growth minus inflation, also known as purchasing power). There the US has done quite well since 2019.

That list misses the biggest of them all, Cargill, because it is privately owned. Cargill had revenue of $165 billion in 2022 compared to Pepsico's $86 billion. If you want to talk control of the food supply, it starts and ends with Cargill.

Level setting for the conversation. General inflation: Food inflation: Between the 1970s and early 2000s, food-at-home prices and food-away-from-home prices increased at similar rates. However, between 2009 and 2019, their growth rates diverged; while food-at-home prices deflated in 2016 and 2017, monthly food-away-from-home prices rose consistently. Differences between the costs of serving prepared food at restaurants and retailing food in supermarkets and grocery stores partly explain this difference. In 2020, food-at-home prices increased 3.5 percent and food-away-from-home prices increased 3.4 percent. This convergence was largely driven by a rapid increase in food-at-home prices following the onset of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, particularly for meats and poultry, while food-away-from-home price inflation remained similar to its 2019 inflation rate. In 2021, all food prices increased 3.9 percent as prices began accelerating in the second-half of the year. No food categories tracked by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS) decreased in price in 2021 compared with their prices in 2020. In 2022, food prices increased by 9.9 percent, faster than any year since 1979. Food-at-home prices increased by 11.4 percent, while food-away-from-home prices increased by 7.7 percent. Food prices rose partly due to a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak that affected egg and poultry prices and the conflict in Ukraine, which compounded other economy-wide inflationary pressures such as high energy costs. All food price categories increased by more than 5 percent, and all food categories grew faster than their historical average rate. In 2023, food prices increased by 5.8 percent. Food price growth slowed in 2023 as economy-wide inflationary pressures, supply chain issues, and wholesale food prices eased from 2022. Food-at-home prices increased by 5.0 percent, and food-away-from-home prices increased by 7.1 percent. While prices increased for all food categories except for pork, prices grew more slowly in 2023 than in 2022 for all categories.

@cowcards is your man. He has amassed an amazing database of biographical info to go with results.

To be clear, there is no medical default. There is a medical forfeit or an injury default. And the two are treated very differently in the rules.

No, I think I have done enough to illustrate the silliness of your original comparison.

If wrestling is so great why doesn't the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA have seven minute games?

I agree. Push out point is great. No more backing to the edge to hedge your bets. I love criteria as someone is always losing and incentivized to attack, but I am also ok with folkstyle, war of attrition, OT. But the point lost for a lost challenge is the best to me, but only in a setting where the review is done independently. No more lungers.

Hmmmm. I wonder what the NM in your username stands for.