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    If Kavanaugh's previous classmate at Yale is credible and can account for drinking issues, I would find that highly relevant because of prior testimony from Kavanaugh. We will have to see how it goes.
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    I think they are in absent Daniels becoming a great QB this year and USC peaking late as the schedule looks really good now. Even with one loss to USC, I think they still have a chance.
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    I don't think Warren is the ideal candidate for 2020 personally. (At least for me that is true) There is almost no one that I would not vote for against Trump, but Warren would be really low on my list to be honest. But I'm saying that as someone who is probably an independent swing type voter (very liberal on social issues, very conservative fiscally) and maybe turnout with the base is better for 2020, I don't really follow politics that closely. I think they need someone younger who is a much more exciting agent of change that can also contrast really well against Trump. I also think they should try and find someone outside of Washington D.C. preferably with some executive experience like a governor.
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    I'm skeptical Texas will get any of the really elite backs this year, but that's ok. I think Brown is pretty good, and I am comfortable with Ingram for the next few years too. 2020 have a lot of good targets at RB too. Overall, this is almost guaranteed to be a Top 10 class at worst, with really at this point the lines being the last true concerns to me. Bragg is the biggest miss to me, as a few other misses (Wilson for example) is fine with who else we have gotten so far this cycle.
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    Sam Ehlinger

    UTDD replied to wild_turkey's topic in Football

    Sam may never end up an elite QB to help Texas make the playoffs in the next few years, but I definitely appreciate that he has not turned over the ball in a while now.
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    I think that is the worst play call I have ever seen in my life when it counted -- not sure how you don't give your QB a chance to either run or pass. Wow.
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    Zion has a better handle than I thought after watching him. I think his immediate NBA skill that will translate well is rebounding -- he looks very quick off the ground and his vertical is obviously elite to say the least. His athleticism and unusual height/weight combo doesn't really garner many good NBA comparisons, but maybe guys like Larry Johnson and Charles Barkley are somewhat in the neighborhood. I think he's the best pure athlete I can recall since LeBron although I am sure I am forgetting somebody. Lot of good NBA talent on Duke this year...as usual I suppose.
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    Manchin and Flake will never be the deciding vote. It's really all down to Murkowski and Collins.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    UTDD replied to Washpark's topic in Cloak Room

    So my 97 year old grandmother (she can still drive a golf cart slowly and cognitively all there still!) up in Sun City/Georgetown who has never voted Democratic in maybe 50+ years told me yesterday as the kids saw their great-grandmother that she was voting against Cruz because she thinks he looks like a rat.
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    It's a tough vote for a few Republican Senators. I wonder if privately they just wish Kavanaugh could be quickly pulled for Barrett or Hardiman.
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    Yeah I buy this and agree with what is likely to actually happen, I am only really speaking to how I would vote personally based on their NBA careers. I think Parker (and Gasol to a lesser extent) are what I would call maybe Tier 3 or 4 Hall of Famers. (Top 100 player as a floor, but clearly not in the Top 30 or better as a ceiling)
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    We are going to win

    UTDD replied to Slacks's topic in Football

    If Texas doesn't have a losing turnover margin, I think they will win. I've never felt confident about a game there, but this year I am 80% confident with only mistakes being the major concern.
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    I agree with what you think will actually happen, and I also generally agree with this thought process for most of what I would call the country club/corporate faction of the Republican party, but I also believe there is a smaller faction within the party that truly wants to change the law (I'll call it the Pence wing even though that is not entirely accurate) at all costs. I think this is also true of the immigration debate in that it's a good political issue for a lot of the party but that a smaller faction is extreme on the issue. To be fair, I also suspect this was true of the Democrats in roughly 2010 with immigration as well in that they could have really turned up the heat on it with the control they had but maybe didn't for political gain.
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    I'm wondering this big time now. I have always thought Thomas and Gorsuch were certainly conservative in their principles and analysis, but not too political in the worst way, but I really wonder with Kavanaugh. I had wondered whether he could end up slightly more moderate than it seemed when he actually got on the Court, but I do not really feel that way anymore. I think this entire process has definitely damaged the Supreme Court as an institution as the entire point of the judiciary on one level is that it is apolitical (we know in the real world it has some impact but at least the analysis is guided this way as much as possible) in a good way.
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    The court will shift some with Kavanaugh there, but I do believe Roberts will shift slightly on some crucial cases that will end up 5-4 in ways even Kennedy might not have voted at times. Robert's ACA ruling was very telling in how specific cases might break and I think at least for abortion (at least at its core the issue of fundamental right of privacy under the 14th) he won't go all the way, although you certainly could see further chipping away at it. I think Roberts was actually a solid choice for Chief Justice considering how he was nominated and by whom all things considered.
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    I think if two one loss teams come out of the SEC championship game, both could make it absent multiple undefeated teams.
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    I thought Fallout 4 started too slow (although I liked the very start with vault exit) and the Minutemen stuff was not the best start, but over time I think it had a lot of good content. The best thing about FO4 is that like Skyrim there are some pretty good mods to make the game a lot more fun. I didn't like the dialogue style as a lot of times it just felt like 4 variations of the exact same choice and FO3 had a lot more depth in dialogue. New Vegas had better dialogue as well, but the combat in FO4 is vastly better than both of the others in my opinion. Still, it was a cool world and it easily gives you hundreds of hours of play so it's a good value to me for sure. What the studio does next with Starfield is the interesting question for me right now.
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    Oklahoma doesn't exist for me until next week. Worry about Kansas St first. A 4-1 start going into that game being honest is better than what I would have expected at the start of the year, so I hope it comes to pass.
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    Honestly, I feel bad for anyone close to him that has to live with him day to day. You don't have to be a psychiatrist to glean that this kind of behavior likely translates to a very bitter and unpleasant person that is not happy in life for whatever reason. VY moving on and both writing the letter and coming to grips with his own failings in the past is exceptionally good for him whether anyone responded or not, and I am pretty confident he is the happier person right now, which is all that counts frankly.
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    I think Tony Parker is pretty easily in the HOF, but I wouldn't vote him first ballot because I don't think was nearly that dominant. He made four All-NBA teams in his career, but never a single 1st team All-NBA team, zero All-Defensive teams, and he was never clearly a Top 3-5 player in the NBA for multiple years, which is kind of where I personally view a first ballot standard. In contrast, Duncan was I think ten times first team All-NBA (not to mention multiple other years at second team All-NBA), eight times first team All-Defensive, the other accolades of course. I think first ballot is at minimum Top 30-40ish player all-time and I think Parker isn't close to that standard personally. For another modern comparison, maybe the difference between Pau Gasol and Dirk in that I think both are HOFs, but Dirk is first ballot and Gasol would not be for me if I was voting.
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    Why would three women risk so much under penalty of perjury and of course outright public scrutiny for this situation? Either they are telling the truth, one or more is true but one or more is false, or everything is false but possibly somehow they are getting some other type of motivation to come out? It's hard for me to fathom that everything is a lie but on the other hand I can't see how much evidence might exist at this point now either absent corroboration.
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    If I am Minnesota I am trying to offer Dieng and Butler for Whiteside, Josh Richardson, and Adebayo. Bam is locked in two more years and Richardson four and best of all, Whiteside has a team option so they can free up cap space and dump him after this season or get him cheaper. They get rid of Dieng who has three more years locked in so that also frees up their space and they can let Teague go too if the price is not good. I don't think Miami wants to give up Bam but Minnesota should try. Minnesota's fatal flaw right now is they have a max slot used up for a talented player with a terrible heart, brain, and motor for the game of basketball (Wiggins) and there is nothing they can do about that right now.
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    Clemson could have been really nasty and informed Bryant after he played five games, but it worked out for Bryant in a way. I think Clemson loses the A&M game without him, but I also think it's possible Lawrence by the end of the year will be a better player than Bryant would be at the same time. I'm not sure Lawrence is better right now but he's clearly an elite talent that was a huge five star recruit for QB for a reason.
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    I think it might make some teams try and use a little more depth at times to preserve players staying on the team and on the macro level, you may see some teams actually lose some critical depth if they handle their players poorly. It's so hard to say as it's so new and it opens up possibilities that for the most part are giving players more empowerment and the ability to try and control their own future a little better than in the past.
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    This is the article I read a while back on this -- haven't heard of anything changing... https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2018/06/12/there-are-no-npcs-in-fallout-76-only-other-players-and-robots/#5a25f48641c9

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