MattPie
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Agreed. If the initial conversation with the agent was was, "we think jamie is worth $4M/yr and someone will pay it" there's not much reason to go further from GMTM's standpoint.
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My first date with my wife was at Pizza Plant (sadly, the location on Main that's now gone) and it worked out that way. I think we sat and ate/drank for 3 hours (the place wasn't busy so we weren't keeping a table occupied). Then took a walk and finally went our separate directions 6 hours after the date started.
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meetup.com doesn't have anything helpful, other than the Northtown LGBQT Women's group at 6PM.
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That's not that bold, they're playing the Sabres with WOR at center.
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I don't think you can discount the narrative about how much people dislike HRC. Modern politics (as TBGED has told us) is about getting people out to the polls. In a normal election year, HRC might not get enough people excited to make the effort to vote to beat out a standard Republican candidate. This year, I think antipathy for HRC might be offset by the number of people that will come out to vote for not-Trump.
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Yep! :) This curmudgeon doesn't hate the sweaters. I wouldn't want my team wearing one, but they're not terrible for an exhibition tournament. I dare say they're even a little bad-ass.
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Are players under 24 allowed on team USA and Canada? (I'm really asking) If not, the split makes some, but not a lot, of sense. Otherwise, I'll revise my statement to "a team of under 24s that weren't good enough to make the national teams doesn't make much sense." :)
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I could see doing something like team Europe to bring together the good players from countries that don't have enough to put together a team and be competitive, but I'm not sure I understand team North America, considering it ends up being the "B team" to USA and Canada. I could see USA, CAN, SWE, FIN, RUS, CZE, GER, and ROW (rest of the world) as teams.
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That truly is awesome.
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I think I need to take a leave of absense from this place. I hear Scunthrope is nice this time of year.
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Dan Bylsma new Sabres head coach (now official!)
MattPie replied to spndnchz's topic in The Aud Club
From my armchair, there's "no way" GMTM fires HCHDDB after just one season coming off last year. Next year if the team doesn't progress, perhaps. If nothing else, firing a guy after one year is burning bridges with other coaches. -
Does this help?
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I think Nikki Haley said the other day, "Donald Trump is all the things I taught my kids not to do in Kindergarten." Serious question: why? What about Trump makes you think he'll be a good president? (I'm not trying to be argumentative, I really want to know; others on the board have asked the other Trump supporter (bobis?) and he wouldn't give us anything to go on)
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Here I thought it was going to be "All In" or "Oceans 13". :)
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Wow, lots of gloom and doom. I'll still be watching, the hockey is more fun this year.
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Hah, nice. I thought Lehner was really shaky. At least twice he was making snow angels in the crease for no apparent reason. He made a few nice saves, but the giant rebound on the called back goal, and weak OT goal.
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I knew the name, from another life when I played bass. Nice reference. Phew.
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Curses, I wanted to see Toronto throw a pick like that and then see Stamkos sign for less money than Toronto offers somewhere else. They'd have to find a more extreme headline than the "Ultimate Insult" one they pulled out for Gorges signing here.
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I get what you're saying, but that's a list of 24 players spanning at least 25 years. If Tim Murray finds one of the handful of guys out of the 150 that'll be picked in the 3rd thru 7th round this year, hooray! But if none of the guys pan out, I'm not going to cry about it either.
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It's been a long time since I read it, but the things that stood out to me where that the system only allowed 5-character passwords and that the NSA built some sort of giant custom computer that melted down. The latter is possible, but at the time (and now), all the largest "public" computers in the world were built using many, many, units of fairly common server hardware running software that ties them together into a cluster. I remember there being more things that irked me, but it was at least 8-9 years ago. I liked DaVinci and Angles and Daemons, but I can't think about those books now without thinking that his grasp on those subjects is just as tenuous.
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I gave up on him after I read the NSA one. It was so, so, wrong about how computers worked I couldn't look at the other books I'd read the same way.
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I can't believe GMTM traded away a top-line forward for Cody Hodgson! (double ;))
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Over under on Toronto throwing a pick to TBL for Stamkos' rights in June. I'd put it at a 4.5 rounder. Discuss! :)
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I agree, they're not a huge piece, but they might be enough to swing things. Hopefully at the end of next year we're in a position to need a rental player. :)
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I disagree.