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tokamak

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  1. 3 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

    You know, who gives a shit beacuse they are essentially lottery tickets that cost pennies on the dollar. You give them 1-2 years to see if they develop while not having to ultilize a lot of NIL funds on them, so you have more money for the portal and roster retention. You may not like the idea but it's prudent given that money is finite.

    Of course the problem is that we've ended up with these "lottery ticket" types starting on the OL this year when they in reality should never have seen the field, or at least not any time soon. It's a fine strategy if we fill in as needed with the portal and the occasional 5-star high school blue chipper. For whatever reason, we've been skipping that 2nd part of the plan, hence a major reason why we started the season #1 and are going to end up in the Whogivesashit Bowl.

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  2. Just got my email saying no tickets for this draw.

    It's hard to overstate how much my interest in this tournament has done a 180 from where it was like 2 years ago. It may very well - and let's be honest, probably will - swing back as the actual games get closer, but as of right now, fuck FIFA and fuck this bullshit ass corporate fatcat tournament.

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  3. I've been playing around with The Athletic's playoff simulator this morning and it's worse than I thought.

    The gist of it is that we have to finish at least 0.5 games ahead of both Chicago and Carolina (bc both have the tiebreaker over us). Then we also need at least one of Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle, or I guess maybe Green Bay to collapse pretty thoroughly.

    Root for the Panthers tonight (even though we need them to lose as well, the model thinks it will be much easier for us to get ahead of them versus passing the 49ers).

    Finishing 8-8-1 doesn't get it done. 9-7-1 and we've got a chance, but not a great one. 10-6-1 probably gets it done.

  4. 10 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    People pay $3mm+ to live in Southlake?

    Wait- so the rangers are taking on payroll now? I don’t get it. 

    Saves like $5mm per year for the next 3 years. Then you have 2 more years of Nimmo after that for $20mm per year. So we took on total dollars but cut payroll in the near term. 

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