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Important Announcement About USC Blog

When I started this blog 29 months ago, it was going to be more of a hobby after covering USC for more than 20 years.

I never imagined it would grow to its current size and attract such a loyal audience.

Well, now it’s time to grow even more. Today, I’m taking the InsideUSC blog to Sports Illustrated. The new address is https://www.si.com/college/usc/

The new USC blog will be the same in many ways but will have much more video, more recruiting and a stronger “community” area for comments. I hope you will join me at the new site for even more USC coverage.

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      1. In the words of Ted Kennedy — she’s “only a person who saw hunger and tried to end it, saw war and tried to stop it and saw saw suffering and tried to soothe it”….
        #……OrSomethingLIkeThat

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      3. Ok, on the list of all the ideas/issues/interpretations/judicial philosophies that one might ask, this one is a deal breaker?

        #TheArticleShowsCoreyBookerIsAlsoDim
        #AsDimAsTheyGet

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      7. Was there a time when it wasn’t complete gibberish, 67…?
        #IMustaMissedIt….
        #…Example:”You’reDrinkingTheKoolAide&YouDon’tKnowWhatFlavorItIs”…
        #..WTF?

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      9. Not lil’ at all, gt —he’s actually accomplished exactly as much as Obama did…..
        #I’mTooMercifulToGetIntoHowMuchThatIs…..
        #[But…Let’sJustSayIt’sTheSameAmountAsJoeBidenAccomplished]….

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    1. Of all the profanations I have seen (today), this is THE worst! When a totally white couple walks THIS close to a pumpkin patch —well, let’s just say it makes my blood boil!

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      3. Michael, I am glad you brought that up. There is indeed a slippery slope here. Very slippery. And very steep. We need to nip all of these colonizers in the bud, if you know what I mean. Can we get Corey to head this up?

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      5. So if pumpkins are cancelled, then the Peanuts comic strip featuring Linus waiting in the pumpkin patch for The Great Pumpkin is next. Good thing Charles Schultz didn’t live to see this day.

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    2. Yes, the next to go is Peanuts, which brought unmeasured happiness to kids around the globe. Everybody could relate to Charlie Brown and the gang, in one way or another.

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      1. Fun Fact: The Peanuts Specials were removed from television this season…. for first time since they were produced…
        #OneMore”Sign”

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      2. That’s great news, MG!

        Those of us–parents and grandparents (someday, I hope)–who understand the very decent morality of Peanuts, Charles Schultz, and all of Mr. Schultz’ characters may reserve the VHS, DVD, Hulu/Netflix stream of these family classics for a special family viewing night with our children or grandchildren.

        The morality was subtle and nuanced, but it was there.
        Charlie Brown’s struggles always gave a thoughtful parent an opportunity to discuss these issues with their child(ren).

        Glad that woke/in your face/burn the mutha down America won’t be joining us on this sublime journey.
        #theirloss

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      3. So well said, Bourbon!
        #1Outta10FamiliesWillFindWaysOfSeeingTheseW/0HelpOfCBS…
        #…..AndThat’sEnoughToKeepTheLightBurning

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      1. I guess this means I’m not even under consideration for this prestigious post….which I’m sure I could handle fairly….well, pretty fairly…

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  7. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Here’s the kind of racist patronizing amoral Hollyweird Bimbo that epitomizes Hollyweird Democrats:

    OH MY SIDE HURTS FROM LAUGHING SO MUCH!

    AHA HA HA HA HA!

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    1. Yes. This is what usually happens if you place the elderly in locked covid wards, close all the restaurants and bars and entertainment centers…
      #DemBumperSticker:”AlwaysHereToMakeBadSituationWorse!”

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      1. The whole point of NYC is to rent a Cracker Jack box size apartment and spend all your waking hours at all the restaurants, bars and entertainment centers!

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      4. Yes, gt! I saw it when it was still magnificent too— the City of Jack Dempsey, Lerner & Lowe and Nelson Rockefeller.
        #WeWillNeverSeeThatCityAgain

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      5. I somehow knew I would never be able to jog past the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, again. It seemed too good to be true that Central Park was a safe…..and it was thanks to Sonny Cuomo and de Blasio.

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      6. Last visited NYC in December 2016. We visited NYC yearly in December for a medical meeting. No longer.

        I call NYC my $1000/day homage to consumerism:
        A windowless room in Midtown, overpriced/low-quality food, $5 bottle of water, stinky taxi cabs…(My wife and I choose to walk most of the time–even if it is 40 blocks to the Met or to Wall Street.). While the food in NYC is overpriced, Guarino would like the Classic Neopolitan Meatloaf on mashed potatoes and wilted spinach at Il Gattopardo.
        I order it nearly every visit. Liked the cannolis also.

        Chestnuts roasting on the open fire kinda smell rank, IMHO.
        Bergdorf’s and Saks Christmas window decorations ARE over the top.

        After blowing $5,000 in 5 days (airfare included), the “highlight” of the December 2016 visit was the full day we spent at the 9/11 Memorial–our first. I think it cost a couple of bucks. My advice is to only visit it on your last day in the City (infra vide). You will sob. Defund the Police? Yeah… riiiiiighttttt.

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      7. New York dining in the 60’s —steak, spinach, mashed potatoes, red wine…. and Sinatra music playing in the background….

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  10. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Disoriented Senile Joe wanders behind the stage as “Dr” Jill addresses honking cars!

    This is really happening, it isn’t a Monty Python skit!

    OH MY SIDE HURTS FROM LAUGHING SO MUCH! AHA HA HA HA HA!

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    2. I really like when Jill is screeching “Will you stand with Joe?!!” and Joe isn’t aware he’s on stage…. or that he’s the “Joe” she’s talking about……

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      2. Oh, everybody has 20/20 hindsight —nobody could possibly know in advance that mentally healthy fans would object to inserting what amounts to a Marxist Political Message into America’s favorite pastime…

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      4. Now that politics is front and center in sports, the entertainment part of sports sort of goes out the window. Are we the only people who don’t want politics – right, left, or whatever – invading every aspect of our lives?

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      5. The libs have politicized everything. I ‘m so old I can remember when the Weather Channel showed you the weather instead of preaching about Global Warmism.

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      6. I don’t think so, 67. In fact, I think the opposite. I bet ya all these woke film companies (I’m talking to you, Disney) and Sports Cable Stations (I’m talking to you, ESPN) are gonna end up as toast…

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      7. gt — Marxist, Racist and Anti-Male —you’re not talking about baseball fans, you’re talking about my last supervising attorney….

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      9. Kinda nice to go to Mass on Sundays (social distance and a mask) for an hour, hang out with a diverse group of people–some rich, some poor, various skin tones, some gay, some straight, some Dems, some Repubs (and probably one greenie)–and share a few songs and stories with no political slant.

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    1. Poor moderator tried to stop him but she was too late…. Joe broke into the open and ran with it….
      #”Yes!IMeanIt!Don’tTryToCutMeOff!IWantToSayIt!!”

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      2. 67 –did you see the email to Hunter (written by one of his relatives) where he’s being told to stand up to Joe’s bullying? Telling him Joe’s destroying him? It may explain why Hunter turned to abusing children.
        #ThisIsOneFUCKEDUpFamily….

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      4. It was read by Steve Bannon last night on Newsmax, gt. [And I believe he’s going to do a whole show on it this morning in about ONE hour –check your local Newsmax listings —-Bannon is also talking about taking the email to CNN’s Jake Tapper on Monday and sitting in his office until he lets him on air —since Tapper disputes it’s authenticity]….

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      6. Bannon is saying he’s gonna “Bomb Tapper’s twitter account with it and project it on to the outside walls of the CNN Building.”
        #TapperAskedForIt–HeThrewDown&NowIt’sOn

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      9. From the Great Santini, when Duvall was being scolded for his difficult personality:

        “I like being an enigma…like a c#!nk.”

        Bull Meachum was a decent man. Crashes the jet instead of saving his own life.
        You know what Biden would have done.

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    1. He’s a bigot (even though he’s not saying the word as much as quoting the word —it’s the ease with which it always came off his lips)…
      NOTE: Don’t you get a kick out of the band- aids always on Joe’s forehead from his latest transplant??

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      1. Joe looks very much like Woody Allen in “Stardust Memories” here ….only Woody wasn’t vain enough to spend $40,000 on his hairline…

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    2. Joe is a 21st century carpetbagger. Plain and simple. He is happy with the way things are in Baltimore, Chicago, SF, Detroit, Richmond VA. He assumes the black vote is in his pocket. Black unemployment and income growth was at a record prior to COVID. Didn’t nearly do as well under Joe and Obama.

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      2. He’s not a leader. He spent his whole life doing the bidding of others, including destroying Robert Bork’s life, along with that other intellectual midget, Teddy Kennedy.

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      4. Black unemployment “improved” under Obama (6%), but Obama/Biden captured the easy “easy to re-employ” after the “great recession” of 2008. The difficult re-employment was done with smart policy in 2017-2019 (2.5%)–capturing the chronically unemployed/underemployed (white and black). The present Administration’s policy encouraged the most downtrodden unemployed to give work a try.

        With the “plan” that Biden has disclosed (really, a lack of plan), chronic unemployment in the 8-10 range seems inevitable.

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  16. Life in 3rd World Alta Kalifornia under Governor Mimbo and the One Party Democrat Machine: blackouts whenever the wind blows!

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    1. And yet…the vast, vast majority of Californian voters like the way things are going…. and the rest are thinking of leaving what a mere decade ago was considered a Paradise…
      #NiceGoingDems…It’sAlmostLikeYouSetOutToDoThis

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      1. The vast majority of what used to be Californians have already left and were replaced with 30 million illegal aliens who are used to a leftist power mad Governor running the One Party State into the ground, their power being off most of the day and having to ration water, food and toilet paper…so this is an improvement to them.

        #VenezuelaDeathSpiral

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      2. Don’t exaggerate —it’s not more than 12 million….tops!
        I have always favored liberal housing, education and medical benefits for all American citizens — but you’d have to be crazy to promise the same to anybody who can make it across the border —California is ALREADY in the red —it’s like a bankrupt father of 13 kids coming home and telling the family he’s just adopted 3 more children cuz….compassion.

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      3. I don’t know, MG, my chiropractor just moved to AZ, one of my best clients just moved to Idaho and my client base has been largely replaced with recent arrivals to our dear state. Even the Elites who live in the gated communities, make six figures for life and belong to the country clubs are mostly Hispanic as the Baby Boomers are retiring and dying off. Even the derisively labelled “white” high school in our area is 50% recent arrival Hispanic and the other 5 are 80-90%. 12 million is a low ball figure. I just assume I live in Mexico now.

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      4. Plus they ran an article in the local fish wrap bragging about how the neighborhood by my office is a staging area where illegals are transported by coyotes before they scatter to the other lower 47 states.

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      5. Damn, when I retire and consider moving, I need at least one state to be sanely run. All of the locals in Idaho, Wyoming, TX are saying Californians are bringing crazy ideas with them.

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      7. The closing line by Nicholas Cage in his final dream from one of my favorite movies of all time–Raising Arizona:

        “….maybe it was Utah!”

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      2. The devil is in the details, JO…
        1. Covid kills obese, hypertensive, diabetic and elderly people.
        2. America is the most obese, hypertensive, diabetic society on the planet
        (if you do not include a few small islands in the Pacific).
        3. Basic algebra…if A=B, and B=C, then?

        I battled the obesity epidemic in my 30 years as a surgeon. I’ve watched America go from overweight in 1984 to obese/morbidy obese in those years. No amount of mask wearing would have changed our Covid death rate EARLY ON. New York/NJ/Connecticut happened. No single person was to blame.

        Here is the difficult data to digest:
        If you scour the JHopkins’ website database, you will find that the countries with the highest mortality rates are nearly all Latino majority. Covid has disproportionately affected Latinos in the USA also. I’m not sure that I can blame any single person for either of these facts.

        There is a price to being obese, sadly. One does not get away with it. With the exception of FLOTUS Michelle Obama, I’ve not heard many leaders bring the issue to the fore.

        I do.

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      3. Can’t go wrong with Bourbon……and, yes, Owns, too (even though I only agree with 3% of what he says)……
        #10,000BeforeElectionDate!!

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  29. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Joe Biden’s Texts to Hunter Show Ex-VP Had “No Hesitancy” in Helping Son Get $1M From Chinese Communist-Linked Business Partner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    OH MY SIDE HURTS FROM LAUGHING SO MUCH! AHA HA HA HA HA!

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    1. Eight more days till the election 22. Nine more days before the dancing in the street ’cause Biden easily knocks out the AH Trump.

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      4. One thing I’ll say for OWNS- after every humiliating ruin loss he showed up afterwards while the rest of the ruins disappeared.

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      1. After the Watergate Era I thought we would always have a free investigative watch dog press. I stupidly didn’t realize that Nixon’s crimes were going on during JFK and LBJ’s administrations but, as Herb Caen later put it, the watchdog press didn’t mind because they were on the same team.

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  35. Long-standing claims of Biden corruption all but confirmed with Hunter’s emails

    By Peter Schweizer and Seamus Bruner

    October 24, 2020 | 1:55pm | Updated

    Thanks to three brave Americans, we now know that Joe Biden has long misled the public about his involvement with his family’s foreign business entanglements while he served as vice president.

    At considerable personal risk, former Biden family business partners Tony Bobulinski and Bevan Cooney, and computer shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac, have come forward with tens of thousands of primary-source documents — internal corporate records, emails, and text messages — detailing years of business dealings that centered on trading on the Biden name.

    This material suggests that, despite Joe Biden’s insistence that he knew nothing about his family’s business deals, he was well aware of his son Hunter Biden’s business ventures in China, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and elsewhere.

    These new troves constitute hard evidence of Biden family corruption, and confirm our reporting dating back to our 2018 book “Secret Empires.”

    In 2018, when we first broke the foreign influence scandals that have now engulfed the former vice president, it seemed apparent that China and Ukraine were not paying Biden’s family members for their expertise, they were buying access to the vice president of the United States. This was never a scandal solely about Hunter or Joe’s brothers, James and Frank. It was, and has always been, a Joe Biden scandal.

    For nearly three years, Biden and his surrogates have responded to the scandal with an increasingly unconvincing series of denials — including another from the former Vice President in his last debate with President Trump.

    In response to “Secret Empires,” one of Joe Biden’s aides said “we aren’t going to engage on a politically motivated hit pieces …” Team Biden did not bother to respond to specific allegations that the Biden family vacuumed up millions, in the exact locales where Biden was Obama’s policy “point man.”

    When the issue reemerged during the campaign, Team Biden continued to call it a “conspiracy theory” but this time, Joe Biden firmly put himself on record. “I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses — period,” he told reporters in August 2019.

    “I never talk with my son or my brother or anyone else in the distant family about their business interests, period.” He repeated similar blanket denials on numerous occasions.

    These denials all proved to be untruthful. Period.

    We now know that Joe Biden met directly with his son’s Chinese business partner, Jonathan Li, in a Chinese hotel lobby on a fateful trip in 2013 (a trip that allowed Hunter to spend hours with his father, the vice president, on a transoceanic flight to Beijing aboard Air Force Two). Ten days later, Hunter landed an unprecedented $1 billion private equity deal, bankrolled by the Chinese government.

    But this was not the only meeting Joe Biden had with Biden family business partners. As the New York Post reported, e-mails on Hunter Biden’s hard drive reveal that on April 16, 2015, Joe Biden met with a high-level official of a controversial Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, which had put Hunter on its board.

    And a recently unearthed photo shows that Vice President Biden met with Hunter’s Kazakh business associate in Washington D.C.

    After first dismissing the gathering scandal as a “conspiracy theory,” the Biden team shifted to the position that Joe had never talked with his family about their business dealings, then shifted again to the position that he’d never met with his family’s business partners.

    Now, with the latest document revelations, Joe Biden unveiled his latest defense in the recent debate: “I have not taken a single penny from any country whatsoever, ever.”

    Team Biden points to Joe and Jill Biden’s tax returns as evidence that Joe did nothing improper. It is worth noting that the family members upon whom foreign entities showered money are not required to disclose their finances.

    We now know the Biden paydays were anything but conspiracy theories.

    Hunter was getting roughly $1 million per year from Burisma.

    Treasury Department alerts reveal that Russian oligarch Elena Baturina wired $3.5 million to Biden’s interests.

    New text messages reveal that China Energy Company Ltd (CEFC) apparently paid $5 million to the Biden family.

    Another e-mail indicates Hunter demanded a $10 million per year “fee” from one of his Chinese business partners.

    There is no more doubt.

    The New York Post broke news last week that Joe Biden himself may have benefited from his son’s dealings. The Post quoted a cryptic message from one of Hunter’s partners, saying that “10 [percent] held by H for the big guy?” The recipient of that message, Tony Bobulinski, says “there is no question” that “H” stands for Hunter and the “Big Guy” is Joe Biden.

    We gain further insight into the operations of Biden Inc. in emails provided to us by Bevan Cooney, a former business associate of Hunter Biden. Cooney, who is currently in prison for his role in the Indian Bond Scheme that is sending Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer also to jail, shared 26,000 emails that show what Hunter’s role was in their business ventures. The Biden name was considered “currency” for their foreign business ventures, and was a “direct…pipeline” to the Obama-Biden Administration. Deals involving Hunter benefited from the “Biden lift,” the help that the name would provide in overseas dealings.

    What might the Bidens’ foreign benefactors have expected in return for all this largesse? We can’t say. But some may see a correlation between that foreign money and Joe Biden’s policy posture toward the sources of that money.

    Consider the case of the Penn Biden Center, a D.C. think tank named after Joe Biden. According to the Center, its mission is to “Address Threats to the Liberal International Order.” The Center analyzes the threats of “Russia” and “climate change” in detail

    But China — the largest violator of basic human rights on the planet — does not make the list.

    Why?

    Perhaps we now know why.

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    2. “White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday that the US is “not going to control” the coronavirus pandemic, as cases surge across the country and nearly 225,000 Americans have died from the virus.” WTF!!!

      So, on Nov. 3 the “…nearly 225,000 Americans (that) have died from the virus” won’t get to vote thanks to Donald J. Trump, who BTW, still refuses to take responsibility for his banana republic efforts to minimize the CV-19 pandemic.

      Can’t wait for Nov. 3; the worst ever POTUS will lose the election in a landslide.

      22, don’t wear a mask.

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      1. but OWNS the Socialist, 220 million Americans died, not 225,000!

        Your Queen Kamala aka Willie Brown’s Bimbo, said so…

        She knows nothing but says what she is told. She claims Trump killed 67% of Americans.

        Kamala Harris: ‘We’re Looking At Over 220 Million Americans Who Just in the Last Several Months, Died’

        https://www.air.tv/watch?v=PQhwT_IoQpSQz0oZtKMJNQ

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      4. I’m not gonna rehash what you said 2 days ago, gt — but the Dodgers’ chances may be doomed for the very reason you pointed out….
        #OneSelfInterestedSOB

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      5. Imagine if that selfish jerk David Price had started this game instead of Urias and Urias could have come in as a set up reliever…

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      6. I don’t know about you, gt —but after a choke like that I think the Dodgers either bounce straight back & win game number 5….or they’re through…
        #TheyNeedToProveSomethingToThemselves…
        #[ItHasToDoWithCharacter]

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      8. A question for you, gt (and Owns too): do you think a loss like last night’s has ANY ‘negative carryover’ (a term invented by Tommy Prothro—bruin coach —hence the need for Owns to weigh in) on the next game?

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      9. I think the beauty of baseball is that each game is it’s own separate drama, with a different starting pitcher who can overcome any hangover from a crushing loss. The best example is the 1960 Pirates who overcame several blow out losses to beat the Yankees in the 7th game on Bill Mazeroski’s dramatic home run.

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      10. I’m thinking Los Doyers will be resilient and come back with barrels ablazin’.
        I might be off by a run, but all of the Dodgers runs last night–like so many this post season–came with two outs. Supremely confident at the plate.

        Their talent is overwhelming, and they continue to swing smart bats. Despite really a double error last night (E-7, E-2 IMHO), the defense has been stong, and the pitching steady.

        Now, if the Rams can get their game together…..
        #cityofAngels Nah.
        #cityofchampions?

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    1. Joe hilariously looked directly into the camera yesterday and stammered through a very sincere message to his troops—-assuring them he’s created the “biggest election fraud team in history.”
      #FreudianSlipsAreABitch….

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    1. Love this concept!
      #ForAllPracticalPurposes,ItENDSThe4thAmendment…
      #That’sFirst,Second&FourthDownForTheCount..
      #Can8th(Cruel&UnusualPunishment)BeFarBehind?

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    1. I don’t know about you, gt —but after a choke like that I think the Dodgers either bounce straight back & win game number 5….or they’re through…
      #TheyNeedToProveSomethingToThemselves…
      #[ItHasToDoWithCharacter]

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  47. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    BREAKING: Joe Biden Calls a Lid and Hides in His Basement with 9 Days Until Election Day

    That senile old coot is in hiding a week before the election!

    OH MY SIDE HURTS FROM LAUGHING SO MUCH!

    AHA HA HA HA HA!

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    1. But…luckily….just before he was put into his crib he had time to announce his creation of “biggest election fraud team in history.”
      #ActuallyThatWasTheREASONHeWasToldToGoToHisRoom&Sleep

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    2. Handlers understand that all he can do at this stage is hurt his candidacy.

      It all comes down to a few thousand men and women in the PA oil patch.

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    1. Isn’t it more and more clear why Joe won’t let a team of “scientists” (Sacred, Never Wrong SCIENTISTS!!!!) analyze his blood before a debate? It’s okay for team of his SCIENTISTS to “cure” him of the “stutters” (for 45 minutes anyway)…BUT he doesn’t want a Trump team of SCIENTISTS to check under his hood —–
      #Cuz…They’dFindNiceMethCocktailPresentInBloodstream

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