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Let’s not get hysterical here-there’s a lot of ways this can play out that don’t point to a Trump victory.

Jesus, that’s awful.

Personally, I'm looking forward to a guilty verdict so I can have a brief moment of satisfaction before the polls come out and show it resulted in a gain in popularity.

I think I'd prefer a manager, at least for this Astros team, that the players all hated but understood was ruthless in search of tactical efficiency. Zero loyalty, zero "he did it last year, back of the baseball card" nonsense and was relying heavily on data. @Wulaw Horn and others (including me) have opined that a championship aspirant shouldn't be breaking in a rookie manager--maybe it's also that THIS Astros team shouldn't be breaking in THIS manager. @Planet HoustonDidn't you have a contact in the GM's office? Do you hear anything that colors Espada as more of a taskmaster behind the scenes?

Maybe--Seth Rogen was on a podcast recently and rebutted that with "people still go to museums." Maybe rather than dying it's just evolving (but certainly the market place for films is de-emphasizing theatrical).

I beg your pardon? I know we like to extol these folks as "The Generation Generation", and maybe they were, but as a USMC OIF veteran I feel reasonably well assured that there's simply no clear condition under which surrender would be considered an option, particularly so if you want to describe it as "we", i.e., it's a unit or a platoon surrender. All of this is just fantasizing, anyway, but I'd far rather have been freezing in Belgium than running patrols through the jungles of South Vietnam. Those guys were very tough and by comparison get little of the glory. I tried to show it to my 7 year old boy and only got through Carentan before my wife caught us and shut it down as too violent. I conceded mostly because I didn't think he was appreciating the parts of it that come along with the violence-the sacrifice for your comrades in arms, the devotion to the mission, the confusion and fear and how that's normal. There's a lot to learn and as a parent you almost have to be a commentary track. I haven't tried to show him The Pacific yet (I was a little underwhelmed, myself), but his great-grandfather survived Bataan so perhaps he'll be more interested.

Oh come on, that's ridiculous. He's a professional politician and totally incapable of remaining silent when there's an opportunity to give himself a pat on the back. The challenge is that the media either a) isn't interested in repeating it or b) they are repeating it but the story of those accomplishments simply isn't that compelling (or both). This may be false hope but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that, as the election nears, all this money he's raised will be used to flood the airwaves with SOMETHING. Unfortunately, the truth is most of the media would far rather report on whatever imbecilic thing Trump has done that day because outrage sells.

Nitpicking but Compton was an officer-it’s an important distinction because the series touches on how it impacts the relationships the men have to one another frequently (and not just with Compton-the salute stuff with Sobel, Winters’ promotions, Nixon’s demotion, etc.)

Well, on the bright side everyone else on the team is doing great tonight.

I’m not sure I would castigate the whole generation, but perhaps your intention was just in reference to those in “the pack”. There’s a ton of versatile actors like Stanley Tucci, Kenneth Branagh and Tilda Swinton that are in the same age group.

The other flaw with @CHIEF’s prediction is its presumption that the central government in China or India have control over their market participants and could enforce transactions in their sovereign currency. The Eurodollar podcast guys have repeatedly pointed out that every time, for example, the Chinese start making pronouncements that this might happen, large amounts of private money flows out of the country. Chinese investors may not like using dollars, but they like them a whole lot more than yuan.

I’m going to presume it wasn’t dictated by the team and was previously negotiated with the player. I guess they could have threatened assignment. For all we know they did, or maybe they didn’t have to, and this was the result anyway.

Granted no one has invested $60m in me with $40m still left to go, but if I sucked at my job I really doubt my PIP would would be nearly so full of support and encouragement as Abreu’s seems to have been…

That’s why I declined to answer-intuitively it seems there would be some limitations on it best answered by a CPA.

Conceptually it doesn’t seem like it would be that difficult to find the source.

I haven’t dug into this but I’m a little surprised we haven’t cracked Russia’s ability to remote pilot those things.

Yeah, I keep seeing him at concerts and evening events and he looks like someone cruising for a second wife. I’m sure “oh yeah, I’m kind of a big deal in politics-I’m the Travis County Republican Chair” plays great with the Austin Bumble coterie.

I like their hush puppies.

Just to clarify, Herman wasn’t fired for on field performance reasons, he was fired because he had substance abuse issues that poisoned his relationship to the AD, recruits parents, and high school coaches, and he had made too little effort with rich alumni for there to be a push against his firing. That’s likely some part of why Pierce is still here-he might be an asshole but not on Herman’s level.

Re: Chaisson, I actually don’t think he was all that great, but UT fans are disposed to overrate him because played fantastic against us. The NFL drafted him on measurables and potential.

Ticket prices are set by demand, not labor costs…

This is what I think-in the short term it’s all going to be donations because most universities aren’t sitting on $20m they have freedom to distribute. Maybe this helps rich private schools and large public schools with established networks of donors and hollows out the middle class. It’s definitely gonna to create drama as stakeholders fight over it-particularly if it’s football taking from non-revenue sports.

I don’t know why PE would get involved unless it was in exchange for a piece of the media rights, and that would be at the conference level.

It might end up there but in the interim we’re going to see a TON of experimentation and that’s going to make college football overall a lot of fun. You’re going to see low revenue schools try out all kinds of strategic program building methods. Maybe it’s hiring a Deion type at a small school and cutting costs elsewhere, maybe it’s only targeting kids that would go to a service academy. Maybe it’s running really specialized offensive/defensive schemes that de-emphasize athleticism for soundness and BYU style 24 year old men. All of it is poised to have cinderellas pop up annually.

I did after college-I finally stopped going after a menu change and because the staff, to a (wo)man, would ask “would you like to add a tip?” with such undisguised hostility that I was afraid to eat the food.