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  1. JudasIscariotTheBird
    Lukewarm take: the Bucs pass for less yards and TDs under Brady than under Winston.
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    Yesterday but still relevant enough to discuss. Bills seeing their chance with the Pats QB situation uncertain. Just hadn't seen anyone mention it. It makes sense from the Bill's perspective. Why are the Vikes extending Cousins while trading away their best WR for draft picks? The haul isn't bad, but unless there are more movers after this to get another top notch WR, this move by itself makes little sense.
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    Diggs traded to Buffalo.
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    I felt Graham was done with a capital D two years ago. Nothing I observed in the next two years convinced me otherwise. Really weird. His blocking has actually improved, though.
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    https://larrybrownsports.com/football/adam-gase-privately-blamed-ryan-dolphins-struggles/526641
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    https://jetswire.usatoday.com/2019/11/06/ex-dolphins-ryan-tannehill-matt-moore-thriving-without-adam-gase-jets-jay-cutler/
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    https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-dolphins/fl-sp-hyde-gase-tannehill-dolphins-20191204-gpzlcq2n6zb3hkjfcwjl5zqynu-story.html
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    I think that's a pretty good question. The cat is out of the bag and the spread can't be completely stopped, and there is a tipping point where economic catastrophe (you know, famine and the like) is as bad as stemming the spread. Keeping the hospitals from being overrun is priority 1 now, but I don't think many people should pretend to know when/where that tipping point is.
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    Since I was least excited about this season than any other in the past, oh, 8 years, I'm not too broken up about it. Maybe the cost cutting measures were just galaxy-brained, amazing foresight.
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    I think it actually does a pretty good job of driving home the urgency of the situation. Not that I expect they had that in mind.
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    Blood type is kind of like Japanese astrology, but taken much more seriously. During WW2, Japanese amry units used to be segregated by blood type not because everyone could donate blood to each other or have the correct supply on hand, but because it was believed they would work as units better. They even have laws that you can't ask about blood type before job interviews, and often times the laws are disregarded.
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    I don't understand. Why did this guy have substances the other teams couldn't use on their own? Was he placing it on the mound in a way to make it harder to find out about or something?
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    Embarrassing isn't the word I would choose...are you Laura Rickets? I dont get the reference I would use the word "infuriating." The only reason to be embarrassed is if you had some kind of ownership or management stake in the Cubs.
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    Embarrassing isn't the word I would choose...are you Laura Rickets?
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    I wonder if this is also going to be a Kenley Jansen situation where he can't make the Coors Field trip anymore. I would doubt it.
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    I was told that the goalies on most teams are often amung the fastest skaters on the team. That didn't sound right to me, but I wasn't in a position to argue with the guy, who played in juniors.
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    Have you ever played goalie? Better yet, can you even skate? Goalie takes years to learn. A hard puck moving at 100 mph towards your grill will freak 99% of the population out, not to mention having to brace yourself in a perfect position while on two blades of steel. Literally any other position is easier to learn. I can ice skate and I used to play roller hockey, and I had friends that played fairly competatively in high school and college. You can't tell me that probably half of their roster has some experience playing goalie when they were young. And THEY are the ones used to having 100 mph pucks shot at them, and that's without a goalie mask. Not sure that the rec leagues that these 40 year old, ex-college goalies are getting their reps in has prepared them for NHL slapshots. All that said, I can buy that they would fare better than Joe 4th line defender, but I'm most curious how teams were allowed to use non-rostered players in the first place.
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    I really like these emergency goalie stories, but can someone explain to me why they don't just grab their worst actual hockey player (on the roster), put him in pads, and stick him between the pipes? Not that I want this to go away because its cool, but when did they start this weirdness?
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    If it’s ridiculous, that says more about the culture of baseball than anything. I’m giving Fiers credit for calling it out. He should have. As I said in my post, better late than never. But Fiers overlooked it when he was there, he overlooked it in 2018 and he overlooked it in 2019. He waited until after he got another $20M guaranteed after making only about $5M total through the 2017 season. He also waited until after he got a ring. I’m not saying it would be easy to stand up and call them out for it, but if all you’re risking is your baseball career, well, you’re not really risking that much. Sometimes doing the right thing requires some sacrifice. fiers told jonathan lucroy about the sign stealing in 2018 when they were teammates on the athletics: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28744346/catcher-jonathan-lucroy-says-was-changing-signs-every-pitch-vs-astros a's went to mlb but they did nothing: horsefeathering ridiculous.
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    That has to leave them pretty open to law suits, if true.
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