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Bill BurrBill Burr

Ancestry.com is a data-collection scheme to map the population for future control

That stupid fucking Ancestry.com... These fucking people, you're sending your DNA into the internet? Are you out of your fucking mind? And now they find all they need is 3 million people to do it. They can map out everybody... There's no fucking way they're not talking about it and trying to come up with solutions [for population control].

Privacy concerns over DNA sites became mainstream news later, but the 'population control' element remains a conspiracy theory.

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Oct 17, 2018
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Big CatBig Cat

America is sick of Aaron Rodgers winning games in predictable, dramatic fashion

He will win a game late, and he will do it in dramatic fashion, and he will drop dimes and all that. I'm sick of it. I think America is sick of it, to be honest, if I'm just going to speak for America here.

This is subjective, but Rodgers' style of late-game heroics continued to be a major NFL storyline for years, though 'America' was likely more entertained than sick of it.
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Oct 17, 2018
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Big CatBig Cat

Jason Witten was hired by ESPN solely to mend the relationship between the network and NFL owners

Jason Witten is in place to mend the ESPN-NFL relationship, which makes sense... they put him in there, and it doesn't really matter if he's bad for the audience. It just matters that the rest of the owners and Roger Goodell likes him.

While Witten's hire was widely criticized for his lack of experience, the specific 'mending relationships' motive is a matter of corporate strategy that hasn't been officially confirmed but remains a strong industry theory.
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Oct 17, 2018
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The NFL referees are being bullied by the internet into not calling the game by the rules

The refs are getting bullied by the blogosphere and the twittersphere into not calling the game by the rules. I would have liked to see [Clay Matthews] get penalized for that [hit on C.J. Beathard].

Whether refs are 'bullied' by social media is inherently subjective.

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Bill BurrBill Burr

Drake Maye is not the Patriots' problem

Is Drake Maye a fraud? Our problem is our offensive line. We can't run the ball either. We can't throw, we can't fucking run. And then what happens? We have three-and-outs and our defense has to keep coming out.

Whether Maye is a fraud and how much blame belongs to the offensive line are evaluative judgments.
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Bill BurrBill Burr

Baseball's expanded playoffs are a money grab

The divisional round of the playoffs, you're seeing these guys shaking up champagne. It's like, dude, this is a money grab by MLB. It's a second- and third-place team. They were seven, eight games out of first and they made the playoffs.

The claim that the format is a money grab is an interpretation of league incentives, while the references to lower-place teams are factual context.
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Bill BurrBill Burr

The NBA should turn on the three-point line only late in quarters

I would get rid of the defensive three-second rule. I'd get rid of the three-point line until the final two minutes of each quarter. Then it lights up, then you can take your threes. And we get back to pick-and-rolls, give-and-goes and backdoor passes and actually dunking on somebody.

This is a proposed rule preference and cannot be objectively judged as correct or incorrect.