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What are y'all using for your sources tonight? I'm using 538's live stream (https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2018-election-results-coverage/#3377), the r/politics live stream on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/live/11wqe9peddka8), and CNN for hard numbers (https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/results/house). I'm told this will be a good, updated tracker as the night goes on. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1z1ydQBJrlnIYqrBiS4M3GQWy_gPeLAPS6Ffd32wmrSQ/htmlview?sle=true# What else should I be looking at?

I think the House goes D by 10-15 seats. Senate is +1 to the Rs (I'm going to say Nelson and Donnelly hold on; McSally somehow comes back and upsets Sinema in AZ, but Rosen beats Heller in NV in a really close race; McCaskill and Heitkamp are toast). Of those 6 listed, in order of confidence: 1) Heitkamp 2) Donnelly 3) Nelson 4) McSally 5) McCaskill 6) Rosen Beto loses by 5 points. Rs sweep statewide elections.

He was in the air and was hit. That's usually called roughing the kicker.

From what I can gather from the MLS reddit thread: The Crew's "technical" franchise will be moving to Austin with Precourt, but the Browns owner is buying an "expansion" franchise and keeping the players, name, records, etc, in Columbus. Effectively, Austin is getting an expansion team. If true, it's a positive outcome for all. Austin's team doesn't come at the expense of one of the original franchises, which is good. I'll wait to see what happens.

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It was definitely both. There was a fundamental difference with the playcalling starting up 21.

Well, we certainly can't claim to be the underdog anymore. Let's see if we can embrace being the favorite.

I think you're absolutely right. OU's first possession looked exactly like I was worried it would look. It couldn't have been a more perfect start if you were OU. It was methodical and dominating. Texas absolutely needed a statement drive to believe that we could hang with the potency of their offense. To do it in big chunks the way we did absolutely set the tone for the remainder of the day on that side of the ball.

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He was a top 10 draft pick by the A's.

I mean, look at the drive chart. We had punted the ball once until our offense went into conservative mode. Those two 3-and-outs and one 6-and-out completely killed any momentum we had. Edit: It wasn't the offense, per se, it was the playcalling.

HEB Lakeline had Terrazas Reserva Malbec for $14.97 this weekend. It's one of my absolute favorites, and at that price it's a steal.

It somehow didn't make it into my post, but fuck OU.

Thoughts on this game after the dust has settled a bit: -Ehlinger played easily his best game as a Horn today. He's done that a few times this year, which means he's really starting to improve. His overall management of the game, ball control, and decision-making have improved immensely from the Maryland game. He made all the right plays today, and put this offense on his shoulders. -Keaontay Ingram is a future Heisman contender, if he can stay healthy. He has that "it" factor I haven't seen from a Texas back in while (probably Charles/Benson). -The defense forced OU to run the ball. For most of the game, Texas' secondary was absolutely stout, not giving Murray the little windows he's used to finding. They were beat over the top once or twice, but you'd expect that against the quality of athletes that OU has at the WR and QB position. Murray can create windows to throw in by sucking the safeties up to respect his running ability. By and large, they kept the game in front of them, which was a huge boost to the overall defensive effort. -This game was not as close as the final score would indicate. Let me be very clear, I was shitting bricks as soon as I saw the comeback begin, and Texas easily could have lost the game. In that sense, yes, it was that close. What I do mean is that Texas dominated the trenches, particularly on the offensive side of the ball. The Red River Shootout usually (not always, but usually) comes down to which team wants it more. That was obviously Texas for all but about a 5 minute stretch of the game. OU is good enough to punish that kind of lapse, but if Texas' playcalling hadn't gone into a shell with 10 minutes to go, and even despite that, if they hadn't committed a few unnecessary penalties in those sequences, we wouldn't be talking about a nail-biter for the ages, we would've been talking about a well-deserved ass kicking. There was no evidence OU's defense could stop Texas' balanced offense had they not limited the playbook, especially when they needed three stops on 3 possessions. I had a bad feeling as soon as I saw Texas running the game clock when we got the ball back up 21 early in the 4th. I knew our playcalling was going to get conservative, and being one-dimensional is a great way to let OU back into the game. -OU is soft. I don't mean this a typical, disparaging way fitting of an arch-rival, but their whole team, save for their RBs, seems to shy away from contact. Murray folds like paper when he feels pressure. He doesn't like to step up in a congested pocket. Their defense didn't seem remotely interested in making any solid tackles. There were multiple 3rd and longs where their unwillingness to wrap-up directly led to Texas finding themselves in a 4th and short, instead of a 4th and 7 or so had they just put a decent contact on the receiver. Both of those led to points. Honestly, it reminded me too much of Texas teams in the early 2000s against OU. Those games came down to effort; both teams were similarly stacked, and yet despite that, it was more often than not a complete ass-kicking. In stark contrast, since Charlie Strong got to campus, Texas seems to have been playing this game with a physicality and intensity it lacked during the Mack years. Sure, we've split the last 6 meetings, but Texas came into all of those as the underdog. And every one of the last 5 games was a one-possession game. All in a dumpster-fire era for Texas. So what's the prognosis? I've still yet to see Texas play a 4-quarter football game this year. We've played three 3-quarter games (USC, TCU, and OU), but I'm still searching for that dominant, 4-quarter performance where the game was never in doubt from the opening kick.

To throw 3 red zone INTs against Kansas?

He gone. Bye, Felecia.

One of the best footy matches I've ever seen. I won't post the result for anyone who may have it taped or wants to watch it later.

Currently on Fox Soccer Plus. 621-1 on DirecTV. Collingwood Magpies vs. West Coast Eagles. Major storyline is Mason Cox, an American former basketball player at Oklahoma State, is on Collingwood and had a huge game against Richmond, the reigning Premiers, that sent Collingwood to the Grand Final. Second best sports final outside the Super Bowl. 100,000 strong at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

This is a good compromise, honestly, especially if you're a swing-state Democrat. You get the investigation, have the ability to come out against the nominee right now, while at the same time having the ability to, if the investigation doesn't find anything conclusive, throw in a YES vote when it doesn't matter since at least one of Flake, Collins, and Murkowski will vote YES. It's a sensible approach. Kavanaugh has no business seeing the Supreme Court with his partisan leanings, temperament, and seeming history of perjury, but at least we can say the absolute bare minimum was done to vet these allegations. You would probably still see some pushback by Democrats from any conservative nominated to the USSC by Trump, and justifiably so after McConnell et al. treated Garland, but there was nowhere near this much fanfare for Gorsuch. I wouldn't expect there to be for another conservative nominated unless they had similar skeletons in their closet. There were lots of other qualified candidates to choose from, and I have no reason to believe Senate Democrats would interfere with a truly good candidate. Gorsuch is example 1 of that.

No. Removal would require a 2/3 majority. Not gonna happen.

He missed it!

Honestly just unfortunate there at the end. Our game certainly elevated from set 1. Hard for it to go any other direction, but still.

Collapsed at the end of the set. 25-22 Tree.

Good little run here. Up 14-13 now.

25-15