Friday's GMIB newsletter

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Good morning.

I was planning to write about how to make a play-in tournament palatable to all parties, or dive deeper into the group stage idea. But it’s difficult to write about that sort of fleeting ephemera given the righteous pain and suffering being expressed in Minneapolis, Louisville and other cities, as well as the escalation from those in power.…