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Blending your five eras with my four rules/scoring based eras gets us seven eras. I have Pre-Gable broken into three. And you have 10 weights, 8 places broken into four:

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What an interesting concept. I am all for it. I know this is at least partly tongue in cheek, but I am starting to love the idea.

This is a shadow tax increase. It is a way to raise taxes while claiming you did not raise taxes. And worse, like the attempts to wave student loan debt, it introduces moral hazard where it should not be. Subsidizing poor credit is always a bad idea. It creates a near term bump in activity at the expense of taking on a longer term risk that is not properly priced. Improperly pricing risk has a long history of ending very badly. We saw what happens when the federal government attempts to influence lenders to make loans they otherwise would not make during the last mortgage lending crisis. Let's not repeat that mistake.

"It's better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." -Joseph Joubert I do not need to listen to him to know he is wrong. Next topic.

The impression I got watching live was that they were having a very friendly conversation. Parris has an obvious smile on his face as he approaches Steveson and then they are both smiling while talking and waiting for the final confirmation. Didn't seem like trash talk at all to me.

I ran into him before the 2022 final. I am 5'10" and I was struck by the fact that if he was taller than me, it wasn't by much. I see he is listed at 6'1", but I will take the under (or I have a poor memory, you pick. Or I was in street shoes and he was bear footed. I don't know.). I wished him good luck and patted him on the shoulder. I remember thinking he must carry a bag of rocks under his shirt.

That was a complicating factor, but I cleared it up with a séance.

By the way, I was wrong about the criteria (last score). I just looked it up and least number of cautions comes before last score. Of course, Bartlett got the caution with 3 seconds left. If I recall correctly, they took about thirty seconds to restart the match at that point (with 3 seconds left) I assume because there was a little confusion at the scorers table. And it obviously did not get fixed. If you look at the screenshot posted above, they mistakenly have the caution marker next to Lee's score, hence the confusion from the scorers table.

Leslie Nielsen knows

From the article: The decision to cancel the World Cups was made after careful consideration and analysis of the challenges and complexities involved in organizing such high-profile events during a pre-Olympic year. With many countries focusing on preparing their wrestlers for the 2024 Olympics in Paris, the potential lack of participation in the World Cups in 2023 was a major concern for UWW. Additionally, the World Championships in Belgrade, scheduled for September 2023, would have added further pressure on countries. The lack of local support to host the events during November and December was also a contributing factor in the decision by the Bureau to cancel the World Cups. Finding local organizing committees to host the team competition has proven to be a significant challenge.

How excited were you when you thought of that one?

https://uww.org/article/uww-cancels-2023-world-cups UWW cancels World Cups to have been held in Tehran and Coralville over a concern that no one will show.

Excellent point. I withdraw the question.

Who do we think is making Bartlett better?

Excellent post. If I could pick a single nit, it would be over ESPN showing his mother. That was the time to show Ramos' family and their joy rather than Lee's family and their anguish. In addition to being unfair to the Lee's it was unfair to the Ramos'.

you may want to read some of the above posts

I don't think so because no other sport has a winner when the score is tied. The freestyle rules are very confusing. I thought Lee won, but I certainly wasn't sure. I also wasn't surprised when they corrected the mistake.

Lets reverse that logic. If the scoreboard is wrong, when does it become official? Should the scoreboard trump the rules?

Not a reversal. A mistake fixed.

Exactly. Lee scored last.

Yes, but I thought Lee scored last.

Watching it live I thought Nick Lee had criteria.

That is a shame