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Feels a couple years early for the sellouts to be over. Minnesota sold out 409 straight when they came back before their streak was broken.

@bigg jay remains in first with 55 picks, @wayner in second with 53, and a 5 way tie in third with 50 picks: @Jpan85, @kelownabomberfan, @LeBird, @M.O.A.B., and @rebusrankin. Picks this week need to be in by Friday @ 6 PM Standings below:

For anyone worried we re-sign him.

Some interesting developments over the last few days: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/daryl-morey-s-tweet-hong-kong-shows-how-china-calling-ncna1063551 NBA Rockets GM Daryl Morey supports protests in Hong Kong on twitter. His tweet is soon deleted and the NBA and Rockets are suddenly offering all sorts of apologies and trying to distance themselves from the tweet as China sponsors pull out and preseason games are banned in China. The Rockets had previously been a huge money maker in China due to Chinese basketball star Yao Ming in the early 2000's. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/south-park-banned-chinese-internet-critical-episode-1245783 South Park is banned in China after they make fun of hollywood for cow towing to China demands. South Park tells China to **** off and makes fun of them again in a new episode. By the way, the last part of that tweet is in reference to Winnie the Pooh being banned in China because bloggers have been comparing the plump bear to China's President Xi Jinping. https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905181/blizzard-hearthstone-player-ban-marco-rubio-ron-wyden-china-hong-kong-protests-blitzchung Blizzard / World of Warcraft bans a player for a year and takes back a cash prize they had awarded him after he supports the Hong Kong protests in an interview. China is a large revenue stream for the company. For a long time, China has controlled what foreign companies can and can't do (censorship) within their borders and those companies agreed to get access to the large market. Now that those companies have a huge financial stake with a foothold in China, they are exercising their influence to control what these companies do outside of the Chinese borders. What's next? Is the cost of doing business in China really worth it? And why is a cartoon the only one willing to stand up to them......

@bigg jay remains in 1st with 52 wins. @wayner in 2nd with 50 and @kelownabomberfan in 3rd with 49. Picks this week need to be in by Friday @ 6PM. Standings below:

Beaulieu is out 4 weeks with an upper body injury.

Bit of a shakeup in the top 3 this week. @bigg jay takes sole possession of first with 49 picks. @wayner moves into second with 47 and @kelownabomberfan and @M.O.A.B. tied for third with 46. Picks this week need to be in by Friday @6 PM. Standings below:

Jets leave themselves with $7.7M in cap space this season. $7.6M of which was ear marked for Buff. Remember when they first came back and a lot of the talk was that they would be a budget team and never a cap team.

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-may-soon-have-a-battery-that-can-last-a-million-miles

Top 3 remain unchanged this week. @M.O.A.B. and @bigg jay tied with 46 and @wayner in 3rd with 44. Picks this week need to be in by Friday @ 7:30PM Standings below:

Following tweets for context.

I get the allure of the principles of communism, the problem is it has never successfully been implemented. And most countries who try have always said .. yeah but what happened before wasn't TRUE communism, we will do it right, but nobody has. You may be able to successfully implement it in a society of 100 - 250 people, but at mass scale it does not work. In pretty much every instance the people with the best of intentions for the populace are either dead or in prison within the first few years. Then the fun happens. This book should be mandatory reading to understand the dangers and what has gone in in communist countries. https://www.amazon.ca/Gulag-Archipelago-Aleksandr-Solzhenitsyn/dp/1843430851/ref=sr_1_2?crid=309F29F30CCWZ&keywords=the+gulag+archipelago&qid=1568921052&s=gateway&sprefix=the+gulag+ar%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-2 What we have here in the West isn't perfect, but it has lasted longer and has spread more wealth and improved the quality of living of people at all levels of society far more then other then other structures. Is it perfect? No. Should we keep trying to make it better? Of course. But it doesn't mean the whole system should be thrown out.

Came across this clip of an old Bill Hader interview on David Letterman. This Ctrl Shift Face channel is showing people just how crazy digital manipulation and deep fakes can be. Can't believe a lot fo what you see these days. Watch how Hader's face pretty much seamlessly shifts in and out of Tom Cruise and Seth Rogen when he does their impressions.

Third instance with video comes out. https://globalnews.ca/news/5922861/justin-trudeau-brownface-video/

Some movement at the top of the standings this week. @M.O.A.B. and @bigg jay tied with 43 and @wayner in 3rd with 41. Picks this week need to be in by Friday @ 6PM Standings below:

Super happy with this signing. Steal of a deal for 8 years.

Top 3 remain unchanged with @bigg jay and @M.O.A.B. tied for first with 40 correct picks and @wayner in third with 39. Picks this week need to be in by Friday @ 9PM. Standings are below:

Updated standings from last week:

Completely forgot about this this week. Will get last week's updates up soon. This week's picks need to be in by Friday @ 6:30 PM