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If it's not out of a reasonable principle, then since its free, easy to sign up, and readily accessible, I think I'm doing the right thing by you in encouraging you to sign up rather than providing the fish itself

In other words, I'm not your tweet donkey - but if you have a good reason like Elon Musk tried to kill your brother, then I'm totally on your side

haha I have it all copied and pasted ready to post, but that reason isn't good enough to press submit. I don't like to let people off the hook for the intended sacrifices they intended on making if it was out of principle - you know - in order to help support them in their mission

Can you tell me why you don't have X? And I would be happy to post if you give me the reason

I'm not sure what the consensus will be, but I would expect Brooks to defeat AJ Ferrari 7 or 8 times out of ten. If they only face two or three times, Brooks could easily sweep the series. Primarily because I think Ferrari hasn't shown enough high level offense to compete with someone like Brooks.

I was kicking around on Excel and trying to think of a solution for the problem of too many subscriptions. Because of the natural limitations of fewer people that know about or care about wrestling, this solution would not be extremely profitable (and that's not really its design). It would also need software development in the initial capital outlay to design the interface with each feed, as well as ongoing support (probably absorbing any possible profit). It's designed to help streamline. But I wonder if customers could essentially get away with paying closer to $50 a month for access to all wrestling channels instead of the current 64.29 that they pay. Simplification + small savings for the customers. Each channel in the model below is accepting a lower fee from the platform for subscriptions, provided that it can guarantee 500 new users. This is completely back of envelope but just something I was thinking about when I had too much coffee

Yes that is the annual rate - which I find to be among the best deals in college wrestling over the last several years. I don't know if they offer a monthly rate, but worth looking into for someone who didn't want the full season

Poor, sweet VMI

It's been talked about like its nearly set in stone, so the post about him doing a campus visit - rather than being listed on the official roster - seemed like confusing news.

Curious to see if Hamiti remains at 174 for the tournament or drops back down to usual

The U.S. agriculture sector extends beyond the farm business to include a range of farm-related industries. Agriculture, food, and related industries contributed 5.4 percent to U.S. gross domestic product and provided 10.4 percent of U.S. employment; Americans' expenditures on food amount to 12.8 percent of household budgets, on average. Among Federal Government outlays on farm and food programs, nutrition assistance far outpaces other programs. https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics-charting-the-essentials/ag-and-food-sectors-and-the-economy/#:~:text=Agriculture%2C food%2C and related industries contributed roughly %241.264 trillion to,0.7 percent of U.S. GDP.

Okay I think it's 5.4%

Agriculture is a relatively smaller share of the overall picture anyway - representing about 5% of our economy and 10% of our workforce.

Wrestling in America has historically been more popular in rural / suburban places that have an appreciation for hard labor - whether agricultural or industrial. Those communities have tended to be less racially diverse on average than urban communities which may lend to the stereotyping that wrestling is defined by being a racist community. I would argue against that being the case, while also acknowledging, there may be a higher likelihood of minorities facing cultural challenges because of the natural demographics of the sport. This is why when the black wrestlers took a photo together a couple years back, I found it was in recognition of their success in the face of a shared experience and I thought that was really cool and worth taking the time to celebrate. I don't think it's racist in a negative sense for them to take such a picture. If white people did the same, it would be racist in a negative sense to me. It would be celebrating success from the position of shared privilege instead of shared challenge. If this was a basketball team, it gets more complicated, because white players are not typically as successful in the sport than their black counterparts. I think it is also worth pointing out that from a long-term perspective, there was more of wrestling country in the union than the confederacy (and a significant portion). Not that it matters specifically today, but often times, there are lots of invisible walls that take hundreds of years to tear down. Our current media structure which has the urban and rural sides pretty firmly aligned with the two major political parties, there is another dynamic in play, where we fall victim to viewing the other team as the enemy, and using visual cues like race, fashion choices, etc. in order to make those determinations. So that acts as an amplifier to an already sensitive situation. In summary, I think wrestling is not a racist sport, but there is a decent amount of nuance to consider how each race may experience the sport in its current form.

https://www.themat.com/news/2023/december/21/major-holiday-events-midlands-championships-and-soldier-salute-to-live-stream-exclusively-on-b1g-

As for the word liminal - I had to look it up and even still not quite sure

I do love those fries

Agnostic people don't tend to push their beliefs but atheists can be just as annoying and evangelical as deeply religious types. Live and let live is a concept I take pretty seriously

In the spirit of Christmas, I just wanted to express my gratitude for having a community of people that like to talk about college wrestling and most of you happen to be awesome individuals. Cheers mother***duck**ers

I don't see Ferrari going for Italy unless he is banned from the US team. DeSanto... maybe but I doubt it. Suriano - absolutely

Spencer Lee doesn't know the first thing about Fois Gras or Chataneuf-de-Pape

https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2023/11/espn-platforms-to-feature-more-than-200-collegiate-wrestling-events-during-2023-24-ncaa-season/?fbclid=IwAR1-n1sneRTkeZXCqLi144WyIoP3yIB5HbvwY4KBI6UpmRWwO158qFSr938 Thanks to Purler Wrestling for sharing this in Facebook. Click the link for the ESPN info. Screenshot is for BTN

O'Toole is awesome man. I always liked him, but only rooted against him because he just happens to always be the favorite and I liked underdogs (see the avatar)