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Monday, June 29, 2026
Ira Winderman has made oblique criticism of Erik Spoelstra before, referring to the need for "better coaching" in addition to a litany of other necessary improvements. Here, his readers take up the theme.
Q: Ira, don’t you think Kel’el Ware was some kind of test for Erik Spoelstra and Bam Adebayo and they failed this test? Ware could’ve been the Heat’s main center and Bam could’ve adjusted as power forward. Ware exposed Spo’s and Bam’s lack of flexibility, depth, integrity. –Vip.
A: Or the Heat simply were able to get Giannis Antetokounmpo and Kel’el Ware was part of the cost. Not to constantly reiterate, but from the outside, only a scant portion of Kel’el’s Heat work was visible. There is so much more to the equation, from practices to shootarounds to strategy sessions. And even with all that, it’s not as if the Heat simply couldn’t wait to dump Kel’el, or else he previously would have been dealt for Kevin Durant. So it also can be viewed as building Kel’el up enough to make him a desired trade component.
Q: I’ve long criticized Erik Spoelstra for his inability to get consistent results from a two-big lineup (Chris Bosh/Hassan Whiteside, Bam Adebayo/Kel’el Ware). With Giannis Antetokounmpo, Bam and Bobby Portis, his hand is now forced. If these rotations fail to get results, will Spo take the blame or will fans forget his history and fault the player who is underperforming? – Rodney, Davie.
A: If a mix with Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo doesn’t work, blame will transcend not just Erik Spoelstra, but also what would turn into a miscalculation from ownership to management to the coaching staff.
I agree with both readers, although I don't know where Spoelstra's and Bam's "integrity" come in (Vip's question). Spo does not like traditional Bigs. They don't fit his positionless system. Hassan Whiteside is a sore point with me as it is with Rodney. All the guy did was lead the entire Association in rebounds one year, and the entire Association in blocks the next year. If you can't find a place for him in your positionless then maybe your coaching needs to improve. And to state the obvious, as Ira does, the Giannis-Bam partnership has to work. Period there.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Public Occurrences June 28, 2026
The shooting from Iran and the Toilet Nation, ostensibly, is because of a new transit route through the Strait of Hormuz that is entirely in Omani waters. From the excellent nytimes article by Erika Solomon linked below:
Iran’s rulers see the newly devised routes through Omani waters as directly contradicting the fifth article of what Washington signed onto in its memorandum of understanding with Tehran.
In their reading of the vaguely worded document, this article granted Iran oversight of the waterway because it charges Iran with ensuring safe passage through the strait.
That is a not unreasonable, but overly broad, reading. The MoU does not say Iran and Oman will guarantee the Strait is kept open--because Oman had not shut it with shoot-'em-ups, only Iran did.
It also says that Iran is to conduct dialogue with Oman, the other nation bordering the strait, “to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz.”
From Iran’s perspective, analysts said, the route Oman organized with the U.N. maritime organization — and without consulting Tehran — violated that, and had to be challenged.
"Ostensibly", because Iran saw itself as losing control of the Strait in the fairest reading. Also, because it does not trust the Florida Criminal---completely understandably! Iran thinks, reasonably enough, that it is the Criminal-in-Chief who is buying time--before the midterm elections--after which he will attack Iran again, the mirror image of the Criminal Regime's mistrust of Iran, also reasonable, that it is buying time to replenish its stocks of drones and munitions in the 60-day window of the MoU.
The MoU sets the terms for a ceasefire: abide by it, both sides, and the shooting stops. But if there is a misunderstanding, the agreement does not say, go to mediation, for example; it does not say in the event of a breach by one party, "pick up the phone", as veep JD Vance said Iran should have done. That is, Iran was not violating the letter of the MoU by shooting first and agreeing to talks later (Tuesday in Doha, Qatar).
But: if Iran sincerely had been animated by the spirit of the MoU, if it had sincerely wanted a ceasefire, then it would not have started this tit-for-tat.
I don't trust Iran. After Olympic-level mental gymnastics I came out against the 2015 5+1 JCPOA. No reasonable person could believe that Iran's nuclear program was for energy production only. You don't enrich uranium far, far in excess of peaceful levels if you don't intend to build an A-bomb.
7:36 pm:
This is what it is. It is power that the Toilet Nation gave them, the Strait had never been tolled before
| the war. But it is also true that Iran has flexed its newfound muscle after signing a | "Memorandum of Understanding saying that they would not---for only 60 days. They | couldn't wait 60 days. That's bad faith. That's a bad actor. Iran cannot be trusted.
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Iran Risks Peace Talks With U.S. to Maintain Leverage Over Strait
Iran Titted Again (Bahrain, Kuwait); Fourth Day in a Row of Titting for Tatting; Florida Felon's Turn
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Public Occurrences June 27, 2026
“This is not a violation of the ceasefire; it is ceasefire management.”-Ebrahim Azizi, Iranian Parliament
AP
AP
Who? Ebrahim Azizi "heads the Iranian parliament’s national security commission." Iran, you need to sideline Ebbie. This is no time for your B-list spokesmen. That is the most inane statement. What, did Ebbie go the the iDJiT Orwellian School of Communications?
Iran has a fractured leadership problem. The people with the power are the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Ayatollah and those close to him, not the parliament's fucking national security commission.
Now listen, Iran: You signed the MoU. All you had to do is keep the Strait open for 60 days. You couldn't even wait 60 days? Iran, serious as a heart attack now: Do. NOT. Fuck. Around.
Iran Tits, Toilet Nation Tats, iDJiT. If Iran Tits Again...
5:48 pm:
"...the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist! President DJT"
5:48 pm:
More Than 1,430 Now Dead in Venezuelan Earthquakes
Venezuela was hit by two very large earthquakes less than one minute apart on Wednesday, June 24. The first measured 7.2 on the Richter scale, the second 7.5
And then today, just a couple of hours ago, the country was hit by a 4.8 shock.
Third Day of strikes-counterstrikes by Iran and U.S. One Week After Memorandum of Misunderstanding
Thursday, June 24, Iran fired on a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. Yesterday, the U.S. bombed Iran in retaliation. Today, Iran attacked Bahrain with drones.
Pregnancy Today
A pink heart balloon floats up, up, up in a brilliant blue Miami sky. Pink or blue, little one, your granddad will 🫶 you.
Dr. Ana and my son are having a baby!
Friday, June 26, 2026
Fucked Beans
...the reason both franchises had pursued Antetokounmpo so doggedly in the first place: They simply weren't championship contenders, or even close.
Both team presidents had said as much after their seasons ended in disappointment.
"I am not going to tank. We are not going to lose. We are not going into the lottery and do that insanity because I will quit -- if I ever get ordered to go down that road. I am always thinking of ways to win," Heat president Pat Riley said after his team lost in the play-in tournament. "Now, all I can give you is a bunch of excuses. And I don't want to do that. We are just not good enough. ..."
The Celtics had lost in the first round to the Philadelphia 76ers, sparking a series of organizational discussions that led to the conclusion that the current roster simply "wasn't good enough," as one Celtics source put it.
"If you would have told me last summer that we would have won 56 games in the regular season, that the young guys would all become contributors, that people would have great impact all up and down our roster, that we would get [Jayson] Tatum back for 20 games or whatever it was, I would have been thrilled with those results," Celtics president Brad Stevens said.
"But the reality is, we came up short. And so now, the job is to do an honest assessment."--Boston prez Brad Stevens.
Ramona Shelburne, Jamal Collier ESPN
You would think it's Boston who had gone an average 44-38 for the last twelve seasons. Stevens did not say the "Celtics" Roster "wasn't good enough." A "Celtics source" did. But Stevens did say they had come up short and that the org. was going to do "an honest assessment." And Stevens acted as if he too believed his roster wasn't good enough, trying to trade Jaylen Brown to Beer.
I parse this so because Boston is just two seasons removed from their last NBA title, in a Finals series in which Brown won MVP, coming off a 56-win season that Jason Tatum missed three-quarters of, a season in which head coach Joe Mazzulla won COTY, in which Brown finished sixth in league MVP voting. If Beans had gotten Giannis, Joe Mazzulla would have had to change the way he likes his team to play. Stevens failed to get Giannis but Mazzulla still has to change his team's style of play entirely...because Stevens has now estranged Brown from the "Celtics". I parse this so because, in short: Stevens, why the fuck did you do that?
USMLE Today
(from memory)
Master Matabolism Map (Chat GPT, FIRST HALF OF MAP ONLY)
Fasting state(glucagon, epiniphrine)
Glycogen
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Phosoglutamase (sp?)
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Glucose-6-phosphate
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Pyruvate PPP (NADPH Liver only
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-Leads to second branch-
Checking memory....
SUCCESSFUL MEMORIZATION!!!!!
You know how when you are so in love, just saying the other person's name gives you butterflies in your stomach?
"Eleven" "Eleven" "Eleven"
It's a beautiful name. It rolls off the tongue easily. No hard consonants, it sounds almost French it's so mellifluous.
Eleven is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen. Soft as her name, tiny, completely feminine. When she's trying to look her best to impress me, she will sit with perfect posture and her tail curled demurely around her fore paws, as proper as a sixteen-year old debutante. She is the only creature who has lived with me 24/7 for over 20 years, and we've been exclusive roommates now for over two and one-half years.
We know each other now. I understand her cat language; she understands my person language. We have our routines, whisker-alarms at day break, soft plaintive meows when she is appealing to me for food. She understands "Where my kitty?" and eagerly greets me at the kitchen window and front door. We have our games, like "I'm gonna get that kitty" as I hide behind the wall separating the kitchen from the living room and then spring out on her. She goes into spasms of excitement. She understands the game and play-fights back, but knows that she can't bite my hand too hard. I let her nibble and gently claw at my hand.
She knows not to use me as a scratching post when I'm wearing my linen pants. Jeans, no problem. She can nest on my chest except when I'm wearing an Uniqlo tee-shirt, it's too thin.
She has her games. When I'm standing at the toilet with my arms against the wall I'm her step ladder. She jumps up onto the toilet tank, springs up onto my left shoulder and then up onto the shower stall top railing. She used to jump back onto my shoulders when she was ready and I was finished. Now she plays forlorn-cat-stuck-in-a-tree and pretends she's scared and can't get down. She then moves to the furthest place on the shower top from where I am so that I have to strain to squeeze between the toilet to reach up to grab her. Meanwhile, she backs away from me in faux fright and I have to stretch to my right to get a gentle grip on her belly and bring her down...to my shoulders, where she then alights, afraid no longer, having gotten me to indulge her, and onto the floor.
I am totally pussy-cat whipped.
I am totally in love with "E-lev-en"..."E-lev-en."
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Public Occurrences June 25, 2026
Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center has closed, governor says
With Kristi Gnome
11:30 am:
Putin’s reign may not survive the impending fall of Crimea
On the day [June 24, 2023] of [Yevgeny] Prigozhin’s uprising, Russian dead and wounded numbered just over 223,000. Three years later, Russian losses in Ukraine have swelled more than sixfold, nearing 1.4 million.
Prigozhin understood something Putin could not: The Kremlin is incapable of defeating Ukraine on a conventional military basis.
Putin’s end in Ukraine is coming. Russia cannot continue to sustain these levels of military losses. On Tuesday, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte noted that Putin is losing as many as 35,000 Russian soldiers each month. He also said that Moscow is spending 50 percent of its government budget on its military. For reference, the U.S. spends only about 15 percent of its federal budget (and no more than 9 percent of its overall combined state and national government budgets) on defense.
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Putin’s end is coming in Crimea. As we and retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges have long argued, Crimea is the decisive terrain of this war. Ukraine does not even have to retake it — it needs only to render it untenable for Russian military use. That day is now fast approaching
The struggle for Crimea will likely culminate in Ukraine finally destroying Putin’s $4 billion Kerch Bridge. Can Putin politically survive the loss of Crimea to Ukraine? We highly doubt it.
As Ukraine seizes ‘first chance to win’, war horrors come home to Russia
President Putin has hinted at peace talks as the economy fails, people flee cities and toxic ‘oil rains’ fall.
USMLE Today
Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase, medical acronym MTHFR.
Now, how are we going to remember that? 🤔
💡
MOTHERFUCKER
Great success!
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
On a day dedicated to the Miami Heat’s future, Pat Riley was ruminating on, of all things, “extinction.” As in, on a personal level. As in, becoming irrelevant—perhaps the worst fate of all.
It was late June 2014—two weeks removed from the Heat’s crushing Finals defeat to the San Antonio Spurs
Italics in original.
And this from Heavy:
The Miami Heat is the hottest talk of basketball after landing Giannis Antetokounmpo
That term from the Ringer and that half sentnce from Heavy are why I am so proud, relieved really, about the acquisition of Giannis. The Miami "Heat" and all of Greater Miami, are relevant and the talk of their world again after being "in other action" for 10 of the last 12 years. That bothered me.
Public Occurrences June 24, 2026
Pro-Israel politics just took a huge hit in New York
Progressives critical of Israel swept a trio of House races in the home of the nation’s largest Jewish population — a stunning shift that carries national implications for the party.
9:21 am:
Mamdani Emerges as Kingmaker, Pushing His Slate to a Primary Sweep
Mayor Zohran Mamdani shook the Democratic establishment by helping drive three progressive candidates to victory.
All the winning candidates share Mr. Mamdani’s progressive economic platform, and they each ran campaigns that focused intently on ending American support for Israel, a sign of how far public opinion has shifted on the issue, even in New York.
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Late Tuesday night, the mayor stood beaming at a victory party in Brooklyn, where supporters chanted “Free, free Palestine” and “D.S.A.”
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...the outcome will now cement him as the unquestioned political kingmaker of the nation’s cultural and financial capital and the Democratic Socialists of America as a formidable force.
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Brad Lander, 56, a close ally whom Mr. Mamdani urged to run for Congress, ran up a staggering 30-point margin in the affluent 10th District in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. He defeated Representative Daniel Goldman, a wealthy Levi Strauss heir who had opposed the mayor in last year’s elections and had close ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby.
Our enemy now is This Israel
"Our enemy now is Canada", 'Witz, aka Isaac Clotiner's bitch at the "Rage Against Hate" conference on Oct. 27, 2025 at Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage.
Should such an arrest occur, Dershowitz vowed, “I will come up to Canada. I will defend Netanyahu, and I will go after everybody who has tried to arrest him.”
Were 'Witz-bitch on fire outside my condo front door, screaming for help, I would open the door only to see who was making the racket, and would not piss on his disgusting, flaming corpse to put the fire out...And I would not come out of retirement to defend 'Witz-bitch against any charge.
Dershowitz also told the Post he is “in favour of Trump putting tariffs on Canada for its statements regarding Israel and Netanyahu, and even sanctions perhaps."
Expressing outrage over former President Barack Obama’s call for an end to Israeli "occupation," Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz expanded on why he’s never talking to the Democratic president again.
"I think he always had a deep hatred of Israel in his heart. He hid it very well. He called me to the Oval Office and he said to me, 'Alan, you've known me for a long time. You know I have Israel's back.' I didn't realize he meant to paint a target on it," Dershowitz said Friday on "Mornings with Maria."
"He's never been supportive of Israel. And finally, his true feelings have come out now that he's no longer president and doesn't have to be elected," the professor continued. "He has contributed enormously to the problem because he is respected among young people. And if he says the occupation is unbearable and that anything can be done to stop it, he is encouraging people to engage in their antisemitic, anti-Israel and anti-American attitudes. He should be ashamed of himself. He should apologize, but he won't."
Obama spoke at the Obama Foundation's Democracy Forum last Thursday, where he called for a two-state solution and an end to the "occupation," while not clarifying what occupation he meant.
"All of this is taking place against the backdrop of decades of failure to achieve a durable peace for both Israelis and Palestinians," the former president told the forum audience.
He continued: "One that is based on genuine security for Israel, a recognition of its right to exist, and a peace that is based on an end of the occupation and the creation of a viable state and self-determination for the Palestinian people."
The Harvard professor on Friday accused Obama of lying "through his teeth" about what the former president called an "unbearable" occupation of Gaza.
I don't know what President Obama was lying "through his teeth" about unless it's Israel's right to exist: Israel does not have the right to exist. No nation does, not the Toilet Nation, not Canada, not Ukraine. However, to continue the symmetry of this commentary on Wacko 'Witz-Bitch, I will issue a blanket charge that he is lying through his teeth.
"To compare those disputed claims with the rapes, beheadings, burnings, kidnappings, it's just obscene and despicable," Dershowitz said. "And what it does is it lends support to those students basically, who are saying, ‘Well, what Hamas really did was not so bad... It was in response to the occupation.’"
"Although he said that the attacks by Hamas are not justifiable," Dershowitz added, "he made them justifiable because if life really is unbearable, as it's not, then you can do anything you want."
'Witz-Bitch noted Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Oct. 16 comments to British podcaster Mishal Husain on her podcast, saying Canada would honour the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and arrest him if he entered Canada.
Were 'Witz-bitch on fire outside my condo front door, screaming for help, I would open the door only to see who was making the racket, and would not piss on his disgusting, flaming corpse to put the fire out...And I would not come out of retirement to defend 'Witz-bitch against any charge.
Dershowitz also told the Post he is “in favour of Trump putting tariffs on Canada for its statements regarding Israel and Netanyahu, and even sanctions perhaps."
I am in favor of cutting of all aid whatsoever to the Christian Protectorate of Israel and for canceling all federal and state contracts, and binding American companies to Boycott, Divest, and Sanction the Protectorate. I am also in favor of "tariffs", or any economic or punitive sanction(s) against 'Witz-Bitch for his "statements regarding Israel and Netanyahoo."
Expressing outrage over former President Barack Obama’s call for an end to Israeli "occupation," Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz expanded on why he’s never talking to the Democratic president again.
"I think he always had a deep hatred of Israel in his heart. He hid it very well. He called me to the Oval Office and he said to me, 'Alan, you've known me for a long time. You know I have Israel's back.' I didn't realize he meant to paint a target on it," Dershowitz said Friday on "Mornings with Maria."
I have a hatred of This Israel, I don't know how deep, I don't have a hatred depth finder. I have hatred for 'Witz-Bitch and it feels at least as deep.
"He's never been supportive of Israel. And finally, his true feelings have come out now that he's no longer president and doesn't have to be elected," the professor continued. "He has contributed enormously to the problem because he is respected among young people. And if he says the occupation is unbearable and that anything can be done to stop it, he is encouraging people to engage in their antisemitic, anti-Israel and anti-American attitudes. He should be ashamed of himself. He should apologize, but he won't."
I find 'Witz-Bitch anti-American in his attitudes.
He continued: "One that is based on genuine security for Israel, a recognition of its right to exist, and a peace that is based on an end of the occupation and the creation of a viable state and self-determination for the Palestinian people."
"To compare those disputed claims with the rapes, beheadings, burnings, kidnappings, it's just obscene and despicable," Dershowitz said. "And what it does is it lends support to those students basically, who are saying, ‘Well, what Hamas really did was not so bad... It was in response to the occupation.’"
"Although he said that the attacks by Hamas are not justifiable," Dershowitz added, "he made them justifiable because if life really is unbearable, as it's not, then you can do anything you want."
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
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Russia Pressures Belarus in Bid to Open New Front in Ukraine War
With Moscow’s prospects faltering on the battlefield, the Kremlin is trying to nudge its closest ally off the sidelines
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the anti-Netanyahoo, a Jewish head of state fighting a defensive war against a brutal invader who targeted, and targets still, civilians, including with rape even of babies, with kidnappings, and without Trump's help, in fact with his opposition;
-A Jewish head of state who has not committed genocide or war crimes in retaliation for the genocide and war crimes committed on his people;
-A Jewish head of state who has given the world clarity: There is no question who the good guys and the bad guys are;
-A Jewish leader has made himself and his nation an inspiration not a pariah;
-And a Jewish leader of a Christian nation who will defeat the Antichrist.
Slava Ukraini
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"SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED" is already one of my all-time favorite posts here. Look at the time: midnight on the dot. I had to get up at 6:30 today, I'm fucking old, I was all ready to turn in, already too late, when I couldn't resist checking the betting markets one last time. The post previous to that one was at 9:02, almost three hours earlier. I was up for almost another hour, my last post was at 12:57 am. Totally rested today! :)
(My) Projected "Heat" Starters 2026/27
Davion Mitchell
Norman Powell
Andrew Wiggins
Bam Adebayo
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Bobby Portis
Pelle Larsson
Keshad Johnson
Simone Fontecchio
Myron Gardner
Norman Powell
Andrew Wiggins
Bam Adebayo
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Rotation players:
Bobby Portis
Pelle Larsson
Keshad Johnson
Simone Fontecchio
Myron Gardner
Miami's championship odds immediately plummeted from 30-1 to 18-1.
MIAMI GETS GIANNIS!
OFFICIAL: GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO
TRADED TO MIAMI!!!!!
Shams Charania
@ShamsCharania
Heat president Pat Riley now makes his long-anticipated new landmark acquisition, with Antetokounmpo joining elite Miami pickups such as LeBron James, Shaquille O’Neal, Chris Bosh, Alonzo Mourning and Jimmy Butler over the past 30-plus years. Riley will pair the two-time NBA MVP and 2021 Finals MVP with Bam Adebayo to lead contention in the Eastern Conference.
After informing teams that they were open for business at the NBA draft combine in May, Bucks general manager Jon Horst landed a haul with the Heat’s offer that brings high-level starting/rotation players and young talent, as well as significant draft capital.
bleacherreport
40m
BREAKING: Giannis has been traded to the Heat per @shams🚨😱
OMG. 🤯🤯🤯
SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED
Giannis Next Team Odds
Kalshi 11:52 PM:
Miami 99%
Stays with Milwaukee or retires 1%
Polymarket 11:53 PM:
Miami 98%
Minnesota <1%
Boston <1%
Milwaukee <1%
Monday, June 22, 2026
Among the many individuals I would like to strangle are Beer's front office. They have a rotating NBA governor, this year it's Jimmy Haslam, last year it was Whit-somebody. But the governor's rotating out are still on the decision-making board. It's a collective, a committee, and you know what they say about horses designed by committees.
So in that vein there are now reports that there is a "split" on the committee (who'd a thunk it?). Some want to get a star back, that would be Jaylen Brown; some want the greater "quality" of Miami's future draft picks. You think beautiful women make a man go cross-eyed? Well, when you're a billionaire sports team owner, the beautiful women are those nameless, faceless, grade-schoolers, middle-schoolers and high-schoolers who make up future draft classes. Billionaire owners see swans swimming in the future, there are no ugly ducklings. They see that Jaylen Brown is a knockout, but compared to what the imagination can see, he's a beauty for sure, but one who is getting a little long in the tooth and has a mole here and there.
That's the holdup right now (reportedly). That's why I want to strangle Beer's committee. The cognos now say the trade will be announced right prior to the draft, tomorrow at 8 pm.
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