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How does that work? Is there cross-breeding involved? Like, would future kids be super-immune?

What if the gift cards are for Applebees? You're going to have a ton of mozzarella sticks and no game. You could play mozzarella stick Jenga, maybe, but I don't think that's what you're aiming for. I'm not exactly a gamer, but I did read somewhere (not necessarily a reliable source) that there were death threats? Seems kind of unfair to you gamers; some idiots pushed them to take it out of the oven before it was cooked.

Not gonna happen, my man. Next week.

Well that takes the pressure off. I'll do a New Year poem instead.

He's in Texas. There are no protocols.

It's an explorer with a fur hat writing in his journal, duh.

What's wrong with Eklund? (Kidding.) Nice user name.

It gets pinned every year for easy reference.

Thank you again @Brawndo!

I'm not going to ask. Hopefully the wife is happy.

You lost a lot of weight during chemo, man. Glad you survived it!

Except the article strongly implies that it's to protect the regional networks. If you live in Buffalo, MSG wants you to pay (through your cable/satellite provider) for its broadcast. That's what is being protected.

Thank you. I was just about to make a "Gary, where is the schedule?" post.

Cali?

2 seed.

It doesn't seem to be working here, at least. Or in a few European countries. I'm still inclined to think that the rise is due to colder weather, not to people socializing. We aren't socializing. Not here. I just don't think it's working. I'm not going out to protest or anything; like I said above, I'll just follow the rules. Why not?

This is fine by me, but you know the NHL wants McDavid on screens in Montreal and Matthews on screens in Vancouver.

1. The Sabres already pay for the on-air personalities and the crew, from what I understand. 2. I pay $14 - ish for Netflix, $6 for Hulu, and would pay, what is it, about $15 / mo for NHL? That's a far, far cry from what cable costs.

Maybe? It doesn't really matter what I think anyway. I'm following the rules.

It would be if I could watch my favorite team on it. Someday, the league is going to figure this out. Spectrum or DirecTV pays MSG a few bucks per month, a fraction of which ends up in the NHL's pocket. So let's say the NHL gets about $1 per month per subscriber. $12/year. Think of how much more money the league would make if it told MSG to go screw itself with the blackouts, took less money from MSG, and marketed its streaming service with no blackouts. Presumption is that ad revenue remains constant across all distribution channels.

Can we get a schedule up in here already, Gary?

I don't want to put words in his mouth but I'm pretty sure Woody isn't arguing in favor of a total lockdown. I think his point is that people are going to catch it with or without a lockdown. I am increasingly of that opinion myself, but I won't even pretend to have scientific expertise; I'm just an average jerk on the Internet.

Even as recently as the late 80s / early 90s, teams played in-division 8 times per year.

It's so irritating that they do this. Hopefully, the league someday realizes that it would make more money by not having blackouts on streaming services than it makes by agreeing to the blackouts for the benefit of regional sports networks, and moves forward.

I'll gladly take the Bills win over the Oculus I was going to buy if I won it all.