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Yeah, I'm not advocating one way or the other. Just responding to your question with a pro-Mendez argument.

Like a child. Who gets on stage in front of the people he is trying to woo back and tells them to go F themselves? A petulant child.

Your timeline does not hold up to scrutiny. The Media Matters report came out on Nov 17, 2023. Musk was tweeting support for antisemitic conspiracy theories prior to that. The one that got the most reaction was on November 13. But Musk had been feuding with the Anti-Defamation League for months at that point. And as a result companies like Disney and Apple had already been pulling ads from Twitter prior to the Media Matters report. Perhaps the Media Matters report increased the momentum, but the problem was one of Musk's own creation. He created the problem, and the atmosphere that allowed Media Matters to even get noticed. He would love nothing more than to take the blame off himself by trying to blame others. That he wants to do that by silencing an opposing voice also demonstrates his hypocrisy when it comes to being a free speech absolutist.

They were definitely not the same field. See above.

Mendez wrestled a tougher schedule in 2024 than Alirez did in 2023. For example, while they had identical bonus percentages against D1 opponents who did not forfeit (66.67%) Alirez did it against wrestlers ranked 62 on average while Mendez did it against wrestlers ranked 47 on average. Mendez wrestled a tougher slate of opponents in the regular season, at the conference tournament, at at the NCAA tournament (though the average seed Alirez beat was higher than Mendez at NCAAs). Mendez scored more bonus points than Alirez at NCAA's. And Alirez's only bonus (the elusive pinfall) came against a wrestler with a losing record. Mendez did it more recently than Alirez.

Rather than edit to correct I thought I would do the thing I hate, the self-quote, in order to preserve my prior wrong statement. Alirez's ELO did not go down at all during his redshirt 2024 season. It was just frozen in amber. Meanwhile, Mendez's ELO took big jumps at the end of the 2024 season with Big10 (dual and tournament) and NCAA results. So really what the algos said was Mendez had a more impressive season in 2024 than Alirez had in 2023.

He is on wrestlestat. And wrestlestat also has Alirez three behind Bartlett. Clearly the algo values current results, so skipping a year penalizes Alirez. Flo says it is because Mendez suffered two loses last year while Mendez was undefeated the prior season. That strikes me as the weakest of reasons, such that it feels more like justification for what they wanted to do. I call bullshat (once again) on their performative claims of a rankers oath. But as for Intermat? Ya got me. @InterMat Staff, any thoughts here?

I am partial to: The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: "Stink! Stank! Stunk!"

I am a poster without a soul

He is the one who knocks

So it is written. So it is done.

The point I made is Media Matters is irrelevant. Musk used them as a distraction. If he needs someone to blame he should find a mirror.

My thought is it limits his scoring possibilities. He can escape or reverse and then a takedown is still available to him. By going neutral only the takedown is available.

Seemed like it

Dog on bone

Keckeisen needs to pull up his socks

I heard they are moving it to Netflix

Haines finishes with 4 NF

Haines has him stretched and wants a stall, but gets a blood stoppage instead. Generous from the ref.

DeVos inches from the reversal, but Haines resecures.

DeVos springs a leak. Lots of blood.

Can I intereat you in a blue circle with a white W?

Haines looking ALL of 174

@flyingcement well, that was the fat lady you heard singing.

Yes, indeed, Farrah. And Cheryl Ladd, and many others. I was very unfaithful.