MattPie

Big Oct-ee-gon. Little Hex-ee-gon. My kid is F'N adorable.

Orpik (I assume the same one) was a long-time Pen. Of all the hockey teams Philly fans hate, I think the Pens are #1. I'm not sure if that nuance is in there, or if it's just "me like smashy players".

That's how I feel about watch the Office (either version). I sit in an office all day, the last thing I want to do is watch an office on TV when I get home.

It doesn't exist in the PS3 client, I think people were complaining about it before so I'm guessing it's not there, and may never be.

For me, that's the latter. As a friend on mine put it, "Yeah it was brutal. We left when it was 4-1 and people started throwing stuff on the ice."

You should check out the song she was quoting (Sell Out from Reel Big Fish), that's the central theme. People get invested in things and when the creators find a way to retire on their hard work everyone gets mad. It happened recently (kind of) with Revzilla, a Philly-based motorcycle accessories place. They entered an agreement with another place for mega-bucks, and tons of people are "I'll never shop there again!". I don't get it, if I could sell something right now and retire? I'm on it in a heartbeat.

I'd rather not have hockey in July, FWIW.

Heavy Truck Traffic. Does that mean there are a normal amount heavy trucks, or a large amount of normal trucks?

I did analysis a couple years ago, and 7-9 +-1 game was 14 of 17 seasons (at the time), 6-10 only hit 13 of 17.

The only thing I really remember from that movie (I think it was that one) is Travolta had music that they'd play every time he came on screen.

Good info on Ennis. Further, Ennis is probably the least "TM" player on the roster (based on the Ducks stereotype; big forwards).

The Chet.

I hear Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants is a great movie.

THURSDAY night game. :( Also: it was a lot more fun playing Miami, in Buffalo, at the end of December, what seemed like every year, when both teams were good.

MODO, so sorry about the relegation, that really sucks. I often wondered how relegation worked at the team level. It's kind of a cool idea in terms of making teams play hard, but once you go down it seems like it'd be really hard to get back and stay back as the first year back in the big league you'd almost surely be near last. Is there relegation protection for teams that come up for a couple years? Otherwise it seems like you'd have a few "bubble teams" that are constantly bouncing between leagues (although I suppose losing players each time you go down would hurt the chances of popping back up the next year). As for the players, even if they all didn't become FA, it'd be really hard to pay and recruit new players to the team. How does drafting work, for that matter? It seems like once you go down, it'd be really difficult to get talent to make a run to play in the SHL and stay there again.

Yep. Most other places, excluding Chicago is a sad imitation of Brooklyn style, which is that thin, floppy nonsense. I hear out west it's all thin cracker-like crust. One variation is (and I don't know how prevalent) Sicilian crust. These are usually square and thick-crust; not the same as Buffalo thick crust, however. We made pizza today from a Wegmans Organic dough-ball and it's the closest thing you'll find to Buffalo-style. I'm trying to think of a bread that has a similar texture but I'm drawing a blank. Dense with air bubbles, chewy, a bit of yeast to it, and perfectly capable of holding up the weight of the toppings. Another note: green olives on pizza are as common as unicorns outside WNY.

I drink almost-exclusively local beer, and to a lesser degree spirits. When given the option, I stop and get cases of beer directly from Victory so they've only been transported a few hundred feet prior to the trunk of my car. I used to do a lot of growlers (ultimate re-use, not even recycle) but that's more expensive. Are any of them any good? Although shipping them would negate the benefits.

Only one, I'm tempted to keep the name secret so I don't have to fess up when I'm last.

It's not a pretty solution, but the last few work laptops I've had I stuck some velcro on the lid so I could stick an external drive to it when I'm using it. It's nice that I can pick up the laptop and move it without breaking connectors with dangling drives. :)

With those odds, I don't think Moulson is scoring there either.

Man, I can't believe someone else made that dad-joke. :)

The Robert of Guhle I'm trying to work a "Moon over Buffalo" joke to go with the above, but I just can't make it happen.

I tend to agree, but I don't think it's coming very soon. If nothing else, the long-term sports contracts keep people locked into having cable. It'll be interesting to see though, since I don't know that there's enough money out there to maintain the amount of stuff that's on cable if people have to pony up real money too watch it. I have a hard time believing the NHL reaps $1B (that's roughly what NBC is paying out, right?) via a la carte. There are a lot of people (many here, I bet) that like to watch the Sabres but aren't going to spend $170 or even $50 per season to do it. Even at $50/yr, you'd need 20M subscribers to get those numbers. To but that in perspective, the Blackhawks average 205,000 viewers per game.

I wonder if there's an import/exchange thing going on here. There are tons of places that serve better burgers than McD's, but (last I checked, a few years ago) nothing that'll touch the ~$1-2 for the basic and maybe $5 for the fancy stuff. You can get great burgers, but they're going to start around $6-8.

The NHL wants TV providers to carry NHL Network, they're not going to give them a pass. The only way TV channels get picked up by a provider is enough people call to tell their TV company they want it.