Welcome to the Monday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!After spending half my morning on the internet, I think I can say for a fact that the only thing anyone is talking right now about is what happened at the Academy Awards last night between and Chris Rock.In somewhat related news, one thing I learned over the past 24 hours is that way more players watch the Oscars than I would have ever thought, and a lot of those players jumped on Twitter to react to
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