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Oh! Who is your bet on, Jimmy? I hope not a LIV player😆

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No Greedy LIV players, thanks.

I had Schauffele, Noren, Spieth to Finish Top 20

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Nice! Go team!

I'm really hoping Schauffele finally wins. Poor guy has come close so many times.

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He did

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Spoiler alert!! Ha ha!!! That's nice.

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You certainly can pack a story into few words!

100 words for 18 holes.

Howard's hatred of Stewart has seared his conscience.

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I'm having fun getting back to my micro roots. Glad you like it too J/S.

I'm sure I'll go back to lengthier stories.

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I like them long or short. Sometimes the short ones require more consideration.

To my thinking, it's much harder to pack an interesting story in 100 words, and you impress me every time!

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Thanks J/S.

As like not as they're entertaining I don't care how long they are either

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Hope you win the bet and win over some new subscribers, Jimmy.

Just noticed your recent recommendation, by the way. Thank you so much! It means a hell of a lot coming from you. 🙏

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I thought I had been recommending you for years. Just happened to look at the Recs page and freaked. I was certain I did. Obviously I am now.

Spieth cost me a solid bet with a weak Sunday. Baseball covered his ass ( and mine ) quite nicely.

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Oh don’t sweat it at all, my friend. It’s all good. And I genuinely appreciate the recommendation. Happy to hear about the baseball bet!

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Howard had a contract to fulfill.

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I struggled with whether he was doing it for himself. I think he was.

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If it went that deep - and I get it - that had to have been some serious ———.

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I've known some people with some pretty serious vendettas. But it was just a conceptual story.

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I realize. Just interesting to contemplate

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That's what I do it for. So people can contemplate what I'm thinking about, what's in my head, or just take one element of the story and run their own way with it.

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Stewart had a conscience but a bad memory.

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100 words can convey a lot. Thanks for reminding writers of that possibility!

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I see a lot of fiction here that eases into itself. Writing 100s is a good way to remind the writer to grab the reader early.

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Twisted! You pack a lot of story into 100 words…

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Hi Jimmy, hope you don't mind but I used Hume.AI to analyze your piece (emotional and sentiment analysis). I found the results fascinating, hopefully you find it informative as the author and it gives you some interesting feedback. If you want to check it out I @JImmy Doom'd you in the post.

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I'm not a fan of that whatsoever. I suppose you have the right to do it, but it doesn't resonate with me at all, a machine assigning a value to a piece.

Humans tell me what they think of my writing every day.

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I analyse the piece because I thought it would give you some unique feedback based on a super intelligent AI that was specifically designed by a brilliant Berkeley researcher to analyse emotions and sentiment. I apologise if you did not enjoy it and I will not do it again for any of your stories.

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Wow, didn't see that coming! Neither did Stewart. I'm always suspicious when a person I haven't interacted with for some time invites me out to eat or to a game or such. Most of the time it's innocent, but once in a while, I get pitched to buy a product or invest in something and feel like I've been blindsided.

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Yeah, I'm wary of that too. I hope I don't have too many enemies out there.

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