Keys Open Doors

For your first point, I think the only possible cause of death was Floyd drinking the medicine at a lethal level.

I agree they jumped to poisoning too quickly, but I also understand why they didn’t think Richard was culpable.

When speaking with the cops, he assumed Floyd was drinking hard liquor to get drunk and was clearly unaware of what the medication was.

The only way to have killed Floyd would be to coerce him to drink the medication. The easiest way would’ve been to put it in the Bloody Mary mix and hand it to him.

Clearly Richard couldn’t have done that, whereas a lover or spouse could have absolutely pulled that off.

Also Floyd had no cuts, bruises, or other body trauma, so there was no other way to explain his death than his consumption of the fictitious medicine (Amphezine?)

So it was always one of three possibilities, but all with the medicine imo: accidental overconsumption, suicide, or murder.

I have the 2002 WC in white, the 2022 WC in white, and the 2023 one in white with the blue dots.

I wonder if it’s suicide, but then his wife messes with the scene to cover up that it was suicide so she could cash in on the life insurance.

That way, Bateman has done nothing illegal while the wife has committed insurance fraud.

That would be an anti-climatic ending though.

At this point, the two people who would shock me are his step-son Richard and Bateman himself.

I think they’ve written a clear character arc where Richard is the only person who truly respects and appreciates him. Bateman clearly likes him, but he definitely pities him as well.

So this will mean 52 automatic bids and 24 teams playing 12 play-in games, as opposed to 60 automatic bids and 8 teams playing 4 play-in games.

It can work if needed, it’s going to require 6 games on Tuesday and 6 more on Wednesday.

Dayton has apparently embraced their role as a host and can do a third set of games each day imo, but they’ll need to find another site for 3 games each on Tuesday and Wednesday for these entirely unnecessary games.

I worry that they will go for either face value or right below face value on the secondary market, which means that most crappy tickets are still $250-450 for random games, even with a big drop off.

I agree that the secondary market prices won’t hold.

But it’s also likely that flights are going to be quite a bit pricier so the only people who can benefit from the drop in prices are locals.

People used to post believable bait.

The only benefits are that you know your exact seat and that the prices are even higher on the secondary market.

However, most of the games already have no availability or truly limited availability already, so we will have to use the secondary market, regardless.

I’m in

Plenty (like several hundred) of Category 2 seats for Cabo Verde and Saudi Arabia for $380 in Houston

1 Category 1 seats for $600 for Sweden and the Netherlands

Plenty of Jordan-Algeria tickets for $380 at SF Levi’s

A few $140 and plenty $380 tickets for Austria-Jordan at the same location.

No games even available in Dallas or Philly.

Some bad seats available for Canada versus Bosnia in Toronto for $1600 or $2240.

Some solid seats for USA versus Paraguay for $2735 or terrible ones for $1940 in Los Angeles.

4 terrible seats for Morocco-Haiti at $400 in Atlanta

Then I got kicked out of the queue.

This is why I hated the decision to schedule games against Belgium and Portugal as our final games before June.

It lowers morale and makes people think we are worse than we actually are.

I’m sure the team doesn’t respond in quite the same way, but it’s probably somewhat similar.

FWIW if we get second place, we will play the runner up for Group G.

This is a very weak group. Belgium will win. The other teams are Egypt, New Zealand, and……Iran.

There are some bigger bag fumbles but this is up there.

Nerlens Noel had a really big one a few years ago where he turned down something like 4 years and 64 million.

George Hill, Dennis Schroeder, and DeMarcus Cousins, too (though Cousins was all about his injury).

Cam Thomas was definitely overrating his market value by a lot.