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Hah, you're kidding, but that would actually be awesome.

Our city hall is freaking awesome. At night driving north on the 190 it looks like something out of the Batman cartoon in the 90's: Looks like the Bat Signal should be coming out of that thing.

Said my piece in the JW thread. Learning the "voice" of this forum takes a bit, but its so, so worth it.

Cheers :beer: J-dubs is a big fan of The Replacements. The 'Mats is a nickname for the band. "Pleased to Meet Me" is an album by the 'Mats. I only know this from following Mr. Wawrow on the twittersphere.

I've been an active participant on a solid dozen of forums, and these two things are one of my favorite parts of this place. I think its more like 2 dozen or so, but I like the trim feel of the place, I like the combined threads that don't spiral into six discussions of the same thing, I like that its heavily moderated. I'll agree that it can be intimidating as a new user. If I hadn't known d4rk and josie IRL I probably wouldn't have stuck it out here. Learning the way people interact on here can be tough, its different than other places. And because its a smaller community it takes a while to get references and know who the hell people are talking about (I still don't know usually, I've just accepted it). But I like that it IS a community, instead of just a bunch of strangers yelling at the void like most interneting I do.

Hello John, I've always been interested in a sports journalist's opinion of this: should sports reporting be taken as "seriously" as things like political or financial reporting? Not trying to belittle you or what you do, or say you don't or shouldn't take it seriously. Its very important to me as a sports fan, and I really respect the real reporters like yourself and Paul Hamilton (among many others) who do the real journalistic style reporting on this stuff instead of just tweeting contracts or stupid sports takes (which I also eat up, because I am sports fan and its just what I do). I guess the easiest way to explain what I mean is to tell you what got me thinking about it. A couple years ago, certain Buffalo media members got mad about Terry Pegula not speaking to reporters more often (or really, at all). I don't remember where you came down on that if you commented at all, but it struck me as sort of odd; he's the owner of a sports team, not the president, or a local politicion, or the CEO of a company (ok well, kinda, but you know what I mean). Does he really OWE it to us to come out and answer questions about Ville Leino? In that case especially it seemed like it was the media that was mad, not that the people were crying out for answers and were being ignored. I realize, too, that there are columns to fill, and radio silence from an owner during a rough time for the team can make it tough to write articles. There have been other times over the last few years that make me roll my eyes and think "Come on [insert name here], its sports, you don't have to get that grim over the whole thing". It can be frustrating. I'm rambling now, but if you get a chance (and like half an hour to read all that), I'd love to hear your opinion my initial question there. Thanks.

Loved getting to see some interaction this week. Seems like it will be quite a while before we get to see that in the books (probably not even in TWoW); it scratched an itch for me.

Thats all I got. EDIT: http://www.topendsports.com/sport/icehockey/nhl-combine-players-2012.htm He's on the list, but there's no more info.

Looks like you've got a pretty good jump on it!

We have 3 thirds next year give them one and call it a day.

Good luck, this sounds like a cool project. You can give Ancestry.com a try, too, if you haven't. A quick search I did of that name and location popped some stuff up on him, including a link to Find A Grave. I have a subscription to the site, so if you run into a paywall on there let me know, I'll send you any info you want.

I saw some tweets that say that "game sevens" is actually correct. Something to do with compound nouns? lizzy ~showtime~‏@wiseaus does "games seven" sound grammatical? no, bc it's not. "game seven" is a compound noun, correctly pluralized as "game sevens"

That blows, man. My wife used to travel a lot more than she does now, but even without the travel her work is so busy from January to March that I basically see her for 15 minutes at night, and maybe a few hours on the weekends. For the first bit I kinda enjoy the bachelor life, play a bunch of video games, go out with friends, but it gets old pretty quick. Obviously I feel bad bitching about it because, you know, she's actually WORKING for that time and I'm just sitting at home feeling bad about myself, but it can be exhausting. A month is a long time, try to find stuff to keep yourself busy.

Seriously, pop over any time, lol. Brevas, I'll have to remember that, those look about right.

If you don't feel to weird about posting a picture (I would understand if you did), people might have some more ideas for you.

I foolishly bought a bunch of Gurkha's last fall because it was a good deal, I had just gotten a humidor I wanted to fill, and it came with a nice lighter, which I didn't have. Regretting it now. They're not even that bad, they're just HUGE, and not really my style. Forcing myself to have those first to clear some room in the humidor before smoking anymore of my preferred Undercrowns. Anyone have any suggestions for shorties? I like the Arturo Fuente Hemingway Short Story, I think I might pick some more up. I like having a short smoke for mowing the lawn, or when I don't want to/have the time to make a full hour or so commitment to a cigar.

And overall I don't think they've seemed to penned in by becoming the "official" station of both teams. They seem to be just as critical as they were before (outside of the two team owned shows, of course).

Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!

God help us if Battista was in that picture of Murray and Bylsma last night.

Yup, he's one the few sports interviews I enjoy.

He was on GR about an hour ago. Worth a listen. Talked about Babcock, other coaches, Eichel, some other stuff.

IDK, I guess it is, but if the Oilers wanted McLellen as bad as they appeared to then the Sabres weren't getting him, and now Babcock who is a moot point, other than that if anything it could GROW (see:Claude Julien). You could also make the argument that if they had interviewed someone else, made a huge offer to Babcock, and then went to guy #2 when that offer failed he would feel like a second fiddle and not be as inclined to take the job.

Three teams have signed coaches, the Oilers who locked onto McLellen EARLY and hard, and the Flyers, who hired someone no one had even mentioned, and now Toronto, all of which have officially happened in the last 3 days. I mean, good for those teams, but lets not pretend that the Sabres dragged their heels and now have to hire Ted Nolan back. There's a LOT of good coaches out there, including Richardson who has been mentioned for this team for a loong time now.

Hey! Tyler Bozak plays for them, and that's who Conner McDavid compares himself to!

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