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The US team reads too much and believes too much of their own press. Nowhere focused or hungry enough, and this team just didn't play well together. Echo of the 2004 US Men's Olympic Basketball Team.

I enjoy the comradarie.

Nate Hackett is by all measure, a smart man but a bad coach. The greater NFL fraternity also really likes and respects his dad. Nate Hackett has an air of Luis Castillo coaching invincibility. No matter how bad he is at his job, do not fear, he *will* be hired for another one. You can almost hear Hugo Weaving - You hear that Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability."

Pee-Wee's playhouse was a genius of a show. In our house, it was must see TV every Saturday morning back then. That theme song was stuck in my head. Thought about this show as I endured watching Barbie a couple weeks back. Paul Reubens was comfortable delivering a message through oddity, comedy, (and often double entendre and innuendo) without the lecture and being mean-spirited about it. That's the boat Barbie missed by a mile. He had a pretty good character actor career post Playhouse - I remember his characters in Blow and the Blacklist.

Jim McMahon.

I'd take any decade of my lived life prior to the 2000s. The Matrix movie had it right - the apex of western civilization was the 1990s. The world was arguably "better" before the internet.

I don't like that it feels we've got to impeach every President going forward for something as a means to cripple the White House. The Clinton and Trump ones were all about politics and none of them should have happened. That being said, it's hard to ignore the facts coming out about President Biden. You don't see anybody really refuting the information, we're just ignoring it. My guess is that if the impeachment effort moves to a proceeding, he'll announce he's not seeking another term and that'll satisfy the Republicans. I think the irony here that everyone thought Trump would pardon himself and members of his family as he exited office, and it could be Biden that actually does it - pardoning himself, his sister, brother, son, wife, the whole gang.

There's intrigue there - LVR revised his contract that permits LVR to cut him and be free and clear of the remaining years of the contract due to the foot injury. They can cut him anytime before the end of the season. I can see where they will play him September/October and release him at the trade deadline so he can pick up with another team, if healthy. All he really needs to do to is get that foot dinged, which is inevitable, IMO.

I saw Barbie and IMO, it is a bad movie. A bizarre, cynical movie, with a mean-spirited undertone. It doesn't like anybody, man, woman or the Barbie doll, and it makes all of the characters unlikeable in the end. The theater was mostly silent. The movie mentions the "cognitive dissonance of the patriarchy" at least 20 times. Bizarre monologue by America Ferrarra, dance scene by Ryan Gosling. I don't think all the kids in attendance had any idea what was going on. It's really more like an art house film. Haven't seen Oppenheimer. MI7 was very good. I enjoyed the science fiction angle of the story, but the way Paramount moved the story around falls short - the beginning should have been at the end, like originally scripted. Paramount did it no favors releasing it on a Wednesday afternoon.

Many public pools in my area are closed. Most were built in the 1950s-1960s when the feds were throwing grant money out to municipalities for big public works projects like hospitals, pools and libraries. Had another one just wiped out by a recent flash flood. Back then, they poured pool shells sometimes with just 4-5 inches of concrete. That gives out after years of water pressure and weight. Usually a crack will develop that can't be filled, so it persistently leaks water, and then, in a worst case scenario, a sinkhole of unknown depth, develops underneath the shell, which requires the entire pool to be completely removed. Today it's a minimum 6-8 inches of concrete for a public pool, 12" if the town can afford it.

I can see the USPS becoming the company that delivers prescriptions daily from central pharmacies as Walgreens and CVS roll back retail pharmacy for large central pharmacies. Your day-to-day medicines are processed like Amazon Subscribe and Save and routinely delivered. Since so many people have chronic health conditions and need the same medicines every day, there's a lot of auto-pilot medicine prescriptions to be filled. Not a lot of money in it, but it's a service the USPS is ideally suited to do. I could also see them carving out a niche as couriers for lab draw stations. I also wouldn't rule out Amazon, in the end, partnering exclusively with the USPS for their deliveries. Instead of Amazon spending tens of millions on vans and staff, they will contribute to the USPS. Delivering your $5.30 order of cat magnets is expensive if you factor in the the actual cost of that "free" delivery. I just don't see how Amazon continues to do that.

He's too valuable (and likely too expensive) to/for LVR to trade away for the 1-year tank. Caleb Williams needs somebody to throw to. Raiders will have their work cut out to lose more than the Cardinals, but a season with little to no Jimmy G. should do it.

I think Vegas is tanking this season for the #1 pick so this would be part of the plan.

I think that's due in part to the fact that although technology has allegedly evolved considerably since the 1960s, just flying people around the Earth seems difficult to do today. I've always been amazed that today's NASA can't build a new Rocketdyne F-1 engine, or anything close to the thrust it produced, even if they had an unlimited budget to do so.

The window is right now. This is the year for the Bills. Burn the boats behind you.

A decade from now, history likely reflects that Biden, and not Trump, was the President who committed the felony crime, deserving of legitimate impeachment. Of course, President Biden likely gets away with it and suffers no consequences. I think he drops out of the 2024 race by the end of the year and America and its media conveniently forget about him. "Let the tired old man rest!" they'll say.

The Patriot Way to me was an emphasis on reducing both the mental and emotional errors when the games counted. You rarely saw a Patriot lose their cool and get an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. You also rarely saw the mental gaffes. That was a big part of why they were extremely tough to beat. The hard practices were likely as a means to reduce apprehension and hesitancy. Getting hit with the full force of a grown man is a shocking experience to the body, and it's something that your brain and body have to be accustomed to happening.

All ESPN has to do is make segments like this. 8 minutes and 34 seconds of great television.

What led me to believe it's the dreaded slowdown is that estrogen acts as a fuel to thyroid cancer, which she had sometime ago. She's likely been advised not to take HRT and risk the potential spread to other soft tissue in the body. He was, in turn, likely in a relationship with a beautiful woman that increasingly had no interest in being touched as the hormones fade. With no children to be impacted, why be roommates?

Lamar Jackson. Chronic health issues and a fragile knee that likely isn't right. He's a black box of medical issues. Why Baltimore did that deal, I'll never understand.

She's 51. He's 46. Menopause (and manopause) takes no prisoners on relationships. My completely unsubstantiated speculation is the well ran dry on one end or the other.

An interesting coffee table book would be the homes of the Bills players . No real commentary other than a picture of the house, and name of player. You figure with Josh Allen or Von Miller money, you live in a place like Dana Point. But what if you're Boogie Basham or Dean Marlowe, or James Cook on a rookie deal?

I think his entire career came down to that Jacksonville playoff game because it was an inflection point for the franchise to be in it, and to boot, a very winnable game. I think TT gets the Fitzy treatment if the Bills win that game.

Well, they'd all suddenly take up an interest in minor league baseball. 😀

Voted "not bad." Sure, it would have been great if the Bills won them all. I think fans generally underappreciate how utterly dominant the Bills were in the 1990s. You're very unlikely to see a team go to four consecutive SBs ever again. The Bills went to playoffs in eight of the ten years in that decade. It's also a symbol of how great the NFL used to be IMO - when teams could build teams of great players vs. today where you get to have one great player.