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VT loses dual vs Ohio State … but kinda won too. Latona beats the newly anointed Mendez. Big news. Bigger news … Caleb Henson takes out Sammy Sasso in OT. Got two nice TDs on a guy who is hard to takedown. Spent a lot of time on Sammy’s legs.

Start with some Bearcat highlights High school standout Meyer Shapiro won the Bearcat open at 149 with relative ease. Most notable win was Sam Hillegas - formerly VT but now at WVU. Peyton Hall (also WVU) pinned Cornell’s Julian Ramirez in the finals of the Bearcat. Was the end result of a ridiculous scramble. Ramirez was in a bad situation through most of scramble but did his best to not give up a takedown - resulted in getting pinned. Sometimes you have to know your situation sucks. Giving up the TD is better than TD and backs . Or the pin. Stevo Poulin (NCO) of YouTube fame was the champion at 125! Pinned HS phenom Liledahl after being up 6-0 in the semi. Jax Forrest, another HS star, took out Cornell’s Ungar in consi semi. Finished third. Ungar beat his teammate LaJoie 14-2. Figure he is Cornell’s 125 .. no? Cornell’s Fernandez was the champ at 133. Looks like some depth behind Vito. Cornella of Cornell was the champ. Made easy work of it outside the first match vs Penn State’s David Evans. They didn’t do true third. Semi losers wrestled. I bet this Evan fellow was the second best there although he finished 5th. Penn state has done well with him. Cornell’s heavy - Fernandez won a match and the forfeited out. Hmmmm.

They are worried about the company they keep

He is referring to west coast of FL I believe.

Did he get hit for unsportsmanlike conduct?

Perhaps Hammerlock has created yet another alias. @Husker_Du- can you see emails or IPs? Or is that all @BobDole?

You were simply wrong and I pointed it out. You defended your usage again. I showed you were wrong. Again you deflect. Can’t admit you were mistaken. Ok. Read my earlier posts - I am not a fan of crypto. It is fragile. I agree.

The term fiat currency was termed to describe currencies that were declared independent of some stored amount of gold or other rare material. Some currencies, historically, were tied to the value of that rare material. So they did have intrinsic value … tied to that material. Now, that material … the value it had … yes, derived from the value people put to it.

You googled and found a definition that you feel worked. But you didn’t keep looking and you didn’t keep thinking. Well, you probably did a bit but then shut your mind when you saw that you were wrong. Instead you dug in. It is a sad problem many have — avoiding thinking so as to not feel threatened with having been wrong. Again - Google … ‘is crypto currency fiat currency’. … if you won’t listen to me, perhaps the dozens of sites you will find will do a better job explaining it. I just did it. Here is a good link … https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/fiat-vs-crypto-digital-currencies If you find one that argues that crypto is fiat currency, I will be curious.

@Mike Parrish sorry, you don’t understand. you called crypto fiat currency. I am pointing out it is not. Pretty clearly. What organization / government / something is declaring it has value by fiat? None. It is not fiat currency. Your arms aren’t getting tired from the digging. Keep going. On the next point - I also don’t agree that a government can make all cryptocurrency worth zero like you say. A government could make it worth very little by passing certain rules, I agree. But as long as someone is willing to trade something of value for it, it is not worth zero. Blockchains have some value. It is actually pretty cool. Believe it will become more used. Just passing it off as a currency isn’t working all that well.

Ok. Like I said, most consider fiat currency to be back by governments. They declare the value by fiat. Go ahead and use Google again and ask if crypto is fiat currency. Let us know what you find. Being backed by gold / silver implies there is intrinsic ‘value’ - remember, value is derived by what the market will pay for it. One could argue that a mined blockchain has market derived value - it can encrypt information in such a way that can support trade, protect information, prevent fraud in accounting, etc. In other words, there is value there. Again, this is DIFFERENT than fiat currency. Picture a dollar bill. No intrinsic value. If you can’t understand - again, use Google. Or keep digging the hole you are making for yourself. (I quoted the wrong thing above — Woops. This post is to @Mike Parrish by the way)

Most use the term fiat currency as it relates to government issued currency — it relies on the faith and backing of the government issuing it. I don’t often hear crypto described as fiat currency. The value is not declared ‘by fiat.’ Those that back cryptocurrency say that it has intrinsic value - thus it is not a fiat currency if you believe them. It has value on its own. So they say.

There IS value in crypto / blockchain. Question is - how much. Just like there IS value in Tulips. Need to strip out the speculation and hype and see what value remains. For many ‘assets’ people hope to get rich quick on, the speculation and hype is far too much of what the going price is. Most can see that - and know it deep down — yet they still buy. Or they are willingly ignorant and purposefully investing in things they know very little about because it seems ‘cool to do.’ And then they rationalized their stupidity … or blame others …. When it evaporates.

No, but I can imagine.

Elon Musk does not approve.

This is an exciting match! Crook winning 6-4 into 2nd. Cool flurries. Crook riding on top now. Bouzakis showing his is dangerous underneath . Cool cartwheel / granby for reversal in 1st. Crook with a TD winning 8-5. Bouzakis flat on belly. 3rd period - Crook down . Out. 59 sec RT. Sweet TD. 11-5 Crook. RT nearly locked. Crook free releases. TD! 13-6. B is done. No energy to get up. wins 14-6

So, was that the end of the ‘Mendez is the second coming’ era Or ’What the hell is wrong with Latona?’ era … Or both?

Latona had to work for it but gets the TD. With esc it is 2-2 in second. Latona picks down for third. Is that another theme? Latona out after hard hand fighting. 3-2 Latona. Latona needs to avoid backing up here. 30 sec. Stall call. OOB 7 sec to go. Latona wins!!!

‘Being on the bottom in the second period is a constant theme to this dual’

This announcer - ears bleeding

As much as I’d like a team to dethrone Penn State - I freaking love their ‘go get it’ attitude (for many of them). Very entertaining.

Stalling needs to be called on Orndorff. but .. body lock Orn! Pivots Catka down to back … but Catka rolls through and threatens! But Orn gets behind for 2 at the end! Some excitement finally. 3-1 at the end. VT is arguing a point. Not sure what.

Catka vs Orndorff you can probably imagine the score in the third period.

Smith has a leg up … Hoffman hoping. But smith let’s it go OOB. I feel that is a very bad sign for a wrestler if they can’t finish from that position. Really didn’t want to keep it in bounds. Ugh. Isn’t that position drilled relentlessly? Don’t they have multiple methods to bring the guy down? Down you try a couple of them? 3rd period - Hoff up 3-1. Takes down. Esc. 4-1. Outside of the Paddy G flurry … not much excitement this dual

‘Gallagher got his riding time in the final seconds of his match, it wasn’t something that developed over time.’ Holy crap this guy is now starting to annoy. I don’t get why announcers don’t work harder to study the sports they announce for. What this guy is saying can be said by a 6th grader.