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If you lose one game that way, you can call it a fluke or unlucky. When you lose every game in a similar way, it is what they are. As Bill Parcells famously said (I paraphrase), "you are what your record says you are." In addition to the handling of Parsons, a few other examples. 1. Seven seconds left in the first half and they intentionally kick into the end zone, giving the Pack the ball on the 35. Pack completes one pass for 22 yards and makes a FG to end the half. That was the difference in the game, as the Cards would otherwise have been able to kick a FG at the end to win. All they had to do was put the kick in play, tackled the guy, and the half was over. 2. Going for it on 4th and 1 near midfield. I don't so much mind going for it per se. But Gannon was outcoached. They lined up for a QB sneak/tush push. GB then called time out and put in their goal line package. The Cardinals made no changes, stuck with the play, and went backwards. A good coach would have had a secondary play at that point. Pitch wide to Bam Knight, or roll Brissett out with a TE pass option. Anyway, Cards on bye next week than Kyler will be back. The offense has been flat out better with Brissett at QB. Brissett is nothing special, just a competent journeyman QB who is tall enough to absorb hits and throw over the line. IMO it shows that the rest of the offense is good without the novelty of Kyler-ball. Other than Harrison, who reverted to his generally crappy self. I have no idea how the son of a HOF receiver learned to catch balls against his chest and face mask, but here we are.

I have no idea if the videos are authentic, but saying that multiple media outlets used the same aerial footage isn't terribly compelling evidence that the footage is authentic. Many (most) media outlets slurp up whatever the Hamas Information Minister says and repeats it as gospel. (Drink!) Thinks normalizing a call for assassinating the president is funny.

I don't think they were all paid, but regarding the bolded... bless your heart.

Places don't organize rides, people do. Paid people. But you bring up a good point. Since @The Real timschochetasserts that one of the tangible goals of these protests was to raise funds, did the DNC and/or some other organization pay for all of the public resources needed to put on these fundraisers errr... protests?

I said assertions. The pic in my link makes it seem that the eager, organic protestors shut down exactly at quitting time. @Frozenbeernuts also reported seeing a bunch of buses and supply trucks off of a freeway near Chicago.

It's never Hamas's fault. It's Trump!

I honestly don't know. I've seen a lot of assertions of paid protestors. I will say that the sheer number of them was impressive, although I presume the majority were an old couple sitting on their front lawn with a "no kings" sign. Also the lack of violence was impressive.

Well sure, some people went before working their shift at the hospital, and a handful brought their kids. But certainly more people took their kids to kid event than to a protest. And there are countless other exclusions. People who are sick, traveling, don't have transportation, etc.

OK, let's try this again. 7M is 2% of 350M 1/2 of country is Trump supporter: 350M * 0.5 = 175M 30% of country works on Saturdays: 175M * 0.7 = 123M 13% are 10 and under, yeah a few went, but presume 0: 123M * .87 = 107M So far we're at 6.5% of the available and potentially interested population, not accounting for all of the adults taking care of young children, taking them to sports/events, etc. Still unrealistically high IMO.

My bad, 7M is 2%, not 5%. But more people than I thought work on Saturdays -- 30% according to ChatGPT. I need to think on that math before I goof up again.

Yeah, that seems like Hamas Information Minister numbers. 7M is 5% of the total population. Take out the 1/2 of the country that supports Trump, the very young and old, the people working or watching the very young or old, that would be what, 20-25% of the available population? Lots of fish eye lenses in squissy's X posts making crowds look bigger than they were.

I thought about REM -- they were huge in my college scene, but I graduated in 1989. Probably should have grabbed a song. Shiny Happy People would have gone with my list. Also thought about AIC, specifically Would. I'll say that I wasn't that into AIC during the 90s (got into them more later), plus I was generally looking for a more up-tempo list.

Oh yeah? Well your list is so bad that @BiffTannendidn't even include it.

@MikeMatt

I'm going with a band that @BiffTannenmentioned for the future 2000s draft... but this album actually came out in 1999. My wife and I played he crap out of this CD, and.0 since I can't have it in the 2000s, I'll take it now. 20.09 Creed - Higher

Great value at this point! Aenima was the Tool song I thought you'd take. Interesting that @iam90sbabylikes both of our playlists. This was on my short list for the last pick. I also was looing at Barenaked Ladies One Week, then realized that you picked that already in round 11.

$25/hour? And when you disagree, please tell us what tangible objective is the goal of these protests?

That's all that happened!

I said anti-ICE riots. Let me know when the right sets up 2000+ anti-trans protests around the country.

There are anti-trans riots from the right? Great analogy, gutter.

Yesterday I was on a Zoom call; we were discussing politics in general and somebody commented how polarized they had become. A woman chimed in, "yeah, ever since Trump!" I thought but didn't say: politics aren't polarized because of Trump, politics are polarized because of YOUR REACTION TO Trump. It's a same with the ICE riots. It's not the rioters' fault -- ICE instigated them by being there$#@!

The protests are organic! @EternalShinyAndChrome, beware the word "protestors." I think Tim used that specifically so he can differentiate later between protestors and rioters. He's already laying the groundwork.

Maybe not next because it's too similar, but in my research for our current draft I hit on a ton of great songs from the 2000s. I'd be up for a draft of that decade at some point.

Dang, that stuff looks awesome! For lunch: My wife just got back home after being at a conference all week. The kitchen was sorta bare at lunch, so I just munched on some charcuterie meat and cheese on crackers. Usually on Friday for dinner we get oysters on the half shell and mussels at Whole Foods. The oysters are $1 each if you buy at least 10 and have an Amazon account (maybe need to be Prime as well; dunno but we are Prime). Wife cooks the mussels in a butter and wine sauce. That's usually... today, as often happens when she comes back from being out of town, she feels like she ate like crap so she just ran to the store to get some veggies to go with scallops which are defrosting.

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