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See my post...

Just had lunch with a friend, whose four-year-old had a cold last week, and said four-year-old does not distinguish between "cold" and "COVID." So the kid has been running around telling anyone who will listen that he had COVID last week, forcing his father do to a lot of damage control, to my amusement.

Yeah, we got stupid already.

I feel like Payday doesn't get enough recognition. Plenty of protein, and the salt/caramel thing is awesome.

It is difficult to deal with no fans on the one hand and bandwagonners on the other. I can see the cause for confusion.

Screw Vegas and the expansion rules that let them get there this quickly.

You've missed a few years.

Glen Sather would be reviled here as a fossil. Look what happens when Boudreau, Babcock, Gallant, et al are brought up as coaching candidates. There is no fanbase more critical of its team than this one, except perhaps for the Rangers/Knicks fanbase.

We usually do these by rounds, and I'd recommend to @Norcal that the title be edited to indicate the first round.

Wait, a first-time GM isn't being supervised / assisted by someone with 30 years of experience?

Or start the playoffs and let Vancouver and Calgary play their meaningless games while the rest of the league is doing important things.

This always is fun. I'm in! Thanks for setting it up and hopefully I don't finish DFL again. (Although I did win once, too.)

I've been there a few times and never noticed. I love Puerto Rico.

Where in the US do they not use Farenheit? It's like the only part of our measurement system that actually is better than metric.

No analogy is perfect, and you have exposed the imperfection in mine: thirst is not transmittable the way disease is. Ok. Still, it's an emergency. Let's just do what we can for now, which is taking one of the numerous vaccines that have been developed, and work on getting even better later. Perfect should not get in the way of good.

If I'm about to die of thirst, I don't care how the water tastes. This is an emergency. I'm sure that the world will continue to work on it.

Good to know; thanks!

Well, the forum is in favor of it, but just very slightly.

IMO we can appeal to common sense without mocking the rhetoric of idiots, but you may feel differently. I tend to ignore coal rollers for the same reason.

Hey man, I'm just going to address the gas and chip things, neither of which have that much to do with COVID. The gas thing is real; I have employees in the mid- and south-Atlantic regions who are out. Panic buying. Not COVID-related. The chip thing, I think, has a lot more to to with crypto-mining than it does with COVID. See Doohickie's explanation below. @That Aud Smellposited this upthread, and I think he's right. And then @SDScemented it with the "we" v. "me" thing. Again, we live in a society. We have to do what's best for 99% of the people 99% of the time. And that means getting a vaccine right now.

This is really freaking simple. 1. If you are a healthy adult/near adult over 16, get vaccinated. (Not sure on the 12+ situation yet but that's looking pretty good, too.) 1a. If you are in the EXTREMELY SMALL subset of people who have religious objections to vaccinations--and I mean EXTREMELY SMALL like even Christian Scientists say it's ok--just isolate. You've probably pretty much done that already anyway. 2. If you are unable to vaccinate for medical reasons, you probably have a lot of other stuff going on, and we'll pray for you, and please remain at home and be safe. 3. If you don't think the vaccine is effective or safe, look toward the billions of people across the globe who have received it, and the effective rate. Don't be deliberately simple, even if you're an NFL quarterback or receiver. If that doesn't convince you, look at the billions of people who are scared to death because they CAN'T GET IT. Stop being spoiled. Get the vaccine. 4. If you're just an anti-vaxxer, please, please go live on an island somewhere. We live in a society. We make sacrifices for society all the time. We agree with those sacrifices sometimes and we don't sometimes, but we do it because we live in a society. We have speed limits. Driver licenses. Smoking laws. Regulations on where you can have a beer. Regulations on where you can shoot a gun. Shut up and take your shot or go away. Simple.

Just give up and invite @darksabre and @josie in already.

Oooh good point.

Which shocked me, because it is not a hitter-friendly park for players that supposedly are just on the cusp of making the majors. But there it was, last year, hitter-friendly. I took from it that there is a larger difference between AAA and MLB batters than there is between AAA and MLB pitchers.

That is what I understood you to mean. Just clearing up some of the legalese.