MattPie

Bolded, good insight. That's real experiences. More memories that have been awakened: - A couple years ago, there burned-out house along US13 in Virginia with "KKK Burn Out" spray painted on the front. - For a friends bachelor party, I suggested a bar that I and groom liked and his black friend told us he couldn't go there because he worried he'd get strung up. Guy was a Marine that was a spitting image of Tiki Barber (both face and build)

What's your definition? If people saying things like "Mexicans are all rapists and drug dealers" or "Black people are lazy criminals", you don't have to look very far. And yes, I consider those things racist. Someone once said to me, "it was better when the police kept them in one area of town." This person was born in the 60s, so we're certainly not talking about pre-Civil Rights.

The same way "It ran last time I parked it" is a common refrain for cars. Things corrode and age with time; rats chew wires. Further, start-up is the most stressful part of many device's cycle; computer hard disks fail most often on booting up. Appliances and human bodies create heat. Think about going to a crowded bar or concert where it's a ton hotter inside than outside for an extreme case.

How about the Key-shka? (Also, I have no idea where the video mash-up came from)

Come on, someone on the Sabres had to have had an awesome Jeff Lynn-style fro back before mandatory helmets. Help me out, I'm just a youngin.

One of them, and I don't care which, should do the old, "offer the hand and pull it away to smooth their hair" trick.

So loss in regulation, right?

If that's his way of saying he'll stop slumming and on the lookout for rando hookups, I'll take it.

It could be Broasted Chicken, that's better than boiled. For me, KBC: Korean Bucket Company, makers of not all that fine motorsport helmets (including MattPie's first street motorcycle helmet)

It's bright enough, the navy blue will look like Royal.

Luke can't remember after the concussion Lindy gave him.

Grit can work in the NHL playoffs, but doesn't work in a short tournament like this. Team USA reminds me of a startup a friend of mine worked at a bunch of year ago. They hit the lotto on a bunch of young all-star computer guys that worked cheap since they were just out of college. Instead of seeing this as "hire good people", the lesson they learned was, "we can hire cheap college kids as other leave". Last I heard the company wasn't doing so well. The parallel here? Ryan Miller takes Team USA to the Silver medal in 2010 and suddenly a scrappy bunch of kids and a few wily vets is a team model, rather than bring the best players that work together.

With the stuff that's already out on Trump and Clinton, I'm waiting with bated breath for the October Surprise!

It is.

Cushy minutes yes, but IIRC the 3rd line in 05-06 was SRV (Vanek, Roy, and Stafford) and they tore it up against 3rd pair D. Once 07-08 came around, suddenly they're getting 1st pair D and shutdown forwards.

Couldn't possibly be that he went from the 3rd line to the 1st and the increased D quality he faced, right? I'm not saying Vanek was great, but a lot changed in the league and team at the same time he went from ELC to his big contract.

Do you think these would be OK, or would he flip out to find they're brown on the inside?

First part: 3 through 8 years aren't a spectrum where 5 is the middle. I'm not sure why I'm trying to explain this further but, with the pros for each "side": - 3 year deal: The Sabres aren't locked in if it all goes to hell; Risto has the chance to get paid a ton more per year if he continues developing. - 8 year deal: The Sabres are locked in but have a cost-controlled player that'll look like a bargain in years 6-8 if all goes well; Risto has the security that he gets paid a bunch of money if he gets injured or is terrible tomorrow. - 5 year deal: The only advantage to the Sabres is if he does turn to garbage they get out a couple years earlier (but that's what a 3-yr is for); Risto gets all the advantage; he becomes a UFA in the prime of his career and can command a metric ton of money. Again, if the Sabres think he'll progress, go 8. If they think there's a decent chance he'll be terrible, go 3. There is no good reason to go 5. +/- discussion: this is why advanced stats exist. Even within a team +/- doesn't mean anything for players unless everyone gets the same ice time and a random distribution of opponents. As soon as you get to "We try to match Risto with Crosby whenever possible", Franson's numbers are going to look better.

Evan's best chance, being 5'11" and 174 may be in Ennis can't come back. I'm not sure there will be room for him on LW otherwise. (I may be wrong though, is Ennis playing RW lately?)

What if I were to make my own sauce, but then "can" it in Mason jars?

I always took that to not advertise it's the extra-expensive version and not be quite as enticing to thieves, but it could be about appearances too.

Check out the link I posted, specifically the Hall of Shame. There's a whole culture of people trying to make their base-model car look like the sportier version. Or whole conversions, if you prefer, like putting Ferrari badges on a Fiero (I've seen one in the flesh!) Or, in an amazing bout of chutzpah, I saw a Ford Escort wagon (mid-90s body) with BMW badges on it. In teal no less, the least German color I can think of.

I put Nylander in since he meets the question (through training camp and starts the season in Buffalo), but I highly doubt he's in Buffalo past 9 games.

On a related note, I can't believe this site still exists: http://riceboypage.com/ Unfortunately, poseur.4x4.org is only around in archive.org and a lot of the picture links are broken.

And in the end, Buffalo wasn't saddled with Myers until the end of his "optimistic" contract. Residents of the Bogo Bunker and Conference Center may argue they just exchanged bad contracts (and maybe that's even true), but it's not like an 8yr $6M contract is necessarily going to hamstring the team forever.