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I hate you. Don't take it personally, it's just jealousy.

Is Neo the Donald Trump of Sabrespace fantasy football? I was going to make a Hillary joke, but we all know she'd sooner deleted confidential information than make it public.

I'm positive #1 isn't bold, and I don't think #2 is either :p

Apparently Kris Vertseeg had insurance issues and won't be playing in Europe. Would it really be a terrible idea to bring him in on a one year vet minimum deal? If the kids beat him out then great, if not, then we aren't in a position to force them into the NHL.

I think we need some public shaming for last place, maybe bottom two. I'm thinking bringing back Pi's recently retired avatar would be a good start.

I was on my way to winning last year too, right up until Charles' ACL exploded and forced me to start Charles Sims. Computer programming? No problem. Joining a fantasy league online? May as well have to build the pyramids alone.

There's nothing slow about the pain the Bills inflict on us. It's fast and violent.

Any truth to the rumor that you guys just all agreed to forfeit the season to me? I don't blame you. Sometimes it's better to end it quickly than succumb to the slow pain of inevitability.

Then it doesn't disprove my point as you initially asserted ;)

So they can't be wrong? They wouldn't be the first NFL front office to believe in Bradford only to be woefully disappointed.

I misread, I thought you were presenting the dropoff as their argument. That it's your argument and not theirs does not disprove my point, however :) And? Do those passes do anything? Are they quality pre-snap hot reads that move the chains? Are they Trend Edwards-quality checkdowns? Sam Bradford has an entire career of pedestrian performance, and one stat in isolation doesn't change that. Maybe he's not, but the difference isn't the difference between missing the playoffs and being a legitimate contender.

There is not a single, solitary statistical argument to be made that Bradford is meaningfully better than Hill. If pro personnel guys want to hang their hat on a tool set or what they saw in college they're more than welcome to, but I'll hang mine on his five pro seasons.

Eichel centering Gaudreau and Saad at practice. I don't care what anyone says about why this tournament exists, you can't convince me this won't be fun to watch.

Interesting approach. I have chosen to dislike Speed because Qwk likes it :p

Funny, that's one of the goses I tried last night.

Hold the phone here. Are you calling JJ a white supremacist? While I think his views on race are misguided and ultimately incorrect, he's not within a star system of being a white supremacist. If you honestly believe this, it's time for you to go back and review some history.

I think the issue is compounded this election because even among Republicans, there aren't a ton of big time Trump supporters. So we have a thread that's left of center generally, and an election where those right of center are less inclined than usual to engage due to their candidate. Any voices from the right are going to stand out more than usual.

Tonight I am diving into the world of gose. And while I cannot say I share the passionate hatred of the style with Smell, nor would I be willing to toss Liger from the Skyway should he make it to the Sabrespace meetup for insisting the style is good, I will say I don't think it's for me.

I don't think they're a contender with Bradford at the helm. Their defense is good, but it's not last year's Broncos or 2013 Seahawks good.

The problem is, you never think race is the issue. I can't remember a single debate where you took the side of race being a factor. I've got bad news for you: for the same crimes with similar evidence, African American defendants are more likely to be convicted and receive harsher sentences upon conviction. In cases where it's an option, prosecutors are more likely to seek (and get) the death penalty. These hold true after controlling for socioeconomics. Want some citations? Willing to read a thousand pages of peer-reviewed research on the matter? And that's without even getting into issues of mandatory minimums and why some things like crack are treated as a criminal justice problem whereas heroin is being treated as a public health issue. You can continue to whistle in the wind because you don't want to accept an uncomfortable truth that race still matters, or you can get informed about the issue and confront the difficult reality. But I'm really sick and tired of you pretending race doesn't matter every single time it's brought up. Some is indeed subjective. But our criminal justice system? Absolutely not subjective. The evidence is clear and consistent over long periods of time: race matters, and not trivially.

Sam Bradford's ability to get handed starting jobs and big money will never cease to amaze me.

And for whatever it's worth, I saw coverage typical of a "normal" natural disaster: news cycle for a couple of days, then it drifts away (on TV anyway). I don't think the disparity in coverage has a lick to do with a lack of named storm. Death toll and human and infrastructure failures in preparedness and response are what drove coverage of Katrina. Right or wrong, those things drive interest and coverage.

On the meta point, I don't think you're entirely out to lunch. But I also don't think the immediate wake of disaster is the time to berate people for where they live.

Football, yes. Sports, no. The basketball team, after all, is usually at least competitive in the MAC and they did just make back to back tournaments. I think hockey could work in a big way.

Maybe not literally anyone, and maybe not 7, but yea. The Republicans absolutely should have been the favorites against Hillary.