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Was one draft stronger than the other? Had they already hit a critical mass of prospects all on the same time line and would rather push one back a year? Could it have been part of some other future considerations deal the teams had made? There's any number of reasons why a team might do that. A 21 spot change in two separate drafts really isn't all that much of an attention grabber. I could very easily see a situation where you're just not interested in anyone left on your board so you decide to trade a low value asset for whatever you can get last second. Armed with the incredible power of hindsight, I'm not exactly hurting over anyone else drafted after that point (yeah, still a bit early I guess). And yes, I know the Sabres did draft someone later that year, but in my scenario, they're not finding any value or interested parties in the 7th round.

The problem is that plenty of times you have that team that just plain sucks without trying to.

I hope he does play. Getting two of the three first round picks into the AHL playoffs already? I like it.

What happened to the Johnson thread? I got a notification about getting quotes in there but it apparently doesn’t exist anymore.

I saw it in theaters originally, but honestly, I didn’t remember just about a single thing from it. I will say that it was decent enough on free tv.

Go with the Captain Morgan pose in front of a large industrial fan. You can't lose. edit: Unless you get a little too close to the fan

It's so much more fun when they're just doing their own movie and not trying to advance the wider MCU storyline. That movie also gives me a lot of hope for DC. The 2nd movie was good, but I thought they went a bit too overboard on the humor (aka. Drax). Gunn definitely took his foot off that gas pedal in this one and found a much better balance. On a related note, I randomly turned on the A-Team movie this weekend. It was hilarious to hear an exact copy of his Rocket voice coming from Bradley Cooper.

I'll see if I can have a bright red robe sent to you. I assume you're leaving that thing untied to flow freely in the wind.

Speaking of golf, I played 18 last week with a kid who just finished his freshman year on a D1 team. That was an eye opener. I don't pay too close attention to scores, but I can't remember a single bogey and he did have at least 3 eagle putts.

Old lady running outside to her mailbox wearing a bathrobe and hair net... at 2PM.

Hell, they may already know he's decided to move on. If that's the case, you don't go out an announce it so that you retain any trade value that might still exist.

Hyundai sonata. Bought it, then the Sabres made the playoffs for the last time.

Since it's not thursday I'll sarcastically use this thread. My car died on me mid-drive earlier today. The tow truck driver and the shop both said that it sounded like an alternator to them. I got the call a couple hours later... engine is shot. Apparently it was mysteriously down two quarts and it gave out. It was a good 2000 miles away from its next routine service and there isn't a drop of oil on my driveway, so I have no idea where that oil relocated to. I also don't know how that would kill the engine so suddenly. But anyway, I have to have it towed to my regular guy next week before I issue the death sentence. She's almost 13 years old, so it was going to be time soon anyway. Still, just like looking for a new job, it's much easier to car shop when you already have a car.

They finally called me yesterday. It turns out that they've had the gate on site for a while now. So my thought about the guy just not caring was probably correct. The other day I was trying to find my invoice and I clicked on one of their online notices. I'm guessing that triggered something on their end and it's the only reason they called.

I'd have to imagine that towards the end they actually lost money opening the doors for a game. That whole thing fell apart so fast, along with the league itself. But they were gone pretty much at the very second Golisano bought the team. Hamister and his embezzler partner lost the bid for the Sabres to Golisano and then he immediately moved the team to Columbus.

I can't imagine the Destroyers leaving had much of an impact on anyone.

I feel like they'd have a hard time consistently coming up with 16 neutral locations each season. I think there would be burnout over time at those locations from the fans as the novelty wears off. Let's face it, they'd be hitting the same cities over and over. They wouldn't be playing games in Des Moines.

And that's definitely not a "wear and tear" injury. It's a fluke that can happen to any QB in the league.

I'm going to wait it out, but I'm willing to bet that the guy who measured it never did a thing after that. It couldn't have been any more obvious how little he cared.

I had a fence put in back in March. It was the typical deal where I paid half up front and they would take the rest upon completion. They initially put in some temporary gates until the proper ones could be delivered. They put the regular ones in maybe 2 weeks later, but it turned out that they weren't the right ones. Their head design guy came out maybe a week later to remeasure and make sure everything was ok. This guy didn't seem to be all that interested in the job, but told me he'd order the stuff and they'd let me know when it is in. The company said I could pay the balance if I wanted to, but were fine if I waited for the gates. So fast-forward 2 months and I haven't heard a single word from them since. I'm convinced that guy didn't actually order anything as it was clear he didn't care one bit. It was not so little things like the company telling me that guy was on the way to my house but then he never showed up until 3 days later. But anyway, I have completely functional gates, it's just a minor cosmetic issue. But meanwhile, no one has ever asked me for that remaining balance. Am I crazy to just sit back and wait until I hear from them? I have all the paperwork and communications from them showing that the job is not yet done.

Seriously, some people should not be allowed to post.

It probably helped that Scott was 8 feet tall.

The scary part was that I had hit 500 that very day. I started doing the math in my head and I thought “awww crap”.

Well it does make a bit more sense than putting the two most elite prospects of the last 40 years in Pittsburgh and Edmonton.

But now I can't watch any more national broadcasts with Keith Jones.😪