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***** got a Stanley Cup ring out of the deal after St. Louis quickly showed him the door, to boot.

That was just the icing on the well-baked and years old hate-cake. For me anyway.

Doug G*****r. /thread.

This seems to be the spin put on it after the Aho situation. I honestly fail to see how this is the case, however. A GM who knows what he's doing has/had the ability to lower the boom in a few situations this summer. They're just not doing it for fear of being challenged to a barn fight, or some such. Unless you're Marc ***** Bergevin, then you just get played like a fiddle and go on about your business afterwards.

God, I hate Tom Clancy...

RIP Patches O'Houlihan.

I had my shoes off... all good.

Update: just woke up not having realized I fell asleep on the couch. HVAC dude left a note saying he couldn’t wake me and that the ac is working now. Good. Going to bed...

Bottom line: if you must live in the south: make sure you deal with HVAC professionals who know what the Christ they’re doing. Evidently, even given the climate we live in, there are still incompetent bastards banging around our (okay my) basement far beyond what is reasonable. But I still might have to cut him if he hasn’t figured it out by now.... Hold for results.

Oh goddamnit he went downstairs again...

It’s not Thursday, so this goes here. I’ve been awake for 31 consecutive hours at this point, thanks to work and family requirements. I have to be back to work in 10 hours. There’s a dude who was supposed to have fixed my mother****ing a/c two hours ago puttering around my basement far longer than this should have taken, and I think I might just have to murder him if I’m to remain tired and hot for much longer...

Of all the guys to ***** with though... yeah, the kid’s dumb.

Okay, fair enough, they did.

I mean, give JJ some credit...

Watching the derby now as I was at work while it was happening. Just watched Vlad’s round 1. I hope everybody else gets the benefit of no longer having the first ball landing before the next one gets tossed up like he blatantly did...

Instead of posting You Should be Dancing... wait, no. Sleeping. That's it...

Nah. The scam artists in charge of youth development at USSF are busy filling kids (and more importantly their parents, who, you know, write checks) that what we need is another Landon Donavan.

Have you ever seen Gerrard win the League? have you ever seen Gerrard win the League? Have you ever seen Gerrard, ever seen Gerrard... Have you ever seen Gerrard win the league? We’ll just go ahead and take the rest of this to the soccer club should you feel froggy enough...

I come at this from two places. 1. Pegula has brought the Sabres no success, but not for a lack of trying. Incompetence, bad hires, perhaps meddling surely. The other sporting love of my life, Arsenal FC, is owned wholly by Stan Kronke. Made some money through Trumpish shady real estate trading then made most of his money marrying into the Walton family. Dude literally set up a shell company to pull millions out of the club and into his own pocket for “consulting fees.” Could not possibly care less what results on the field are. His fans are paying the highest ticket prices in Europe for a second-rate (if I’m generous) product. It’s about to bite him as his investment loses money as the club spirals into irrelevance, but he won’t see it fast enough, he’s getting what he wants for now. For this reason, I have a lot of time for the Pegulas. They want to win. Which is what, at the end of the day, this should be about...

Random chance re: hires made explains this. Assuming the same due diligence went into both, well, that’s just life.

Which is much different than Pegula deciding ROR must pay for what he did to that Timmy Ho’s and had to go... I am in no way saying the return wasn’t hot poo, or couldn’t have been better.

It’s also entirely possible (and I’m just spitballing, connecting dots that may or may not be there w/ no actual inside info) that ROR, not for the first time, threw all available toys out of his stroller and left his GM in an untenable situation, forcing him to salvage what he could. JBots didn’t have the luxury of dealing with TM, however...

I mean, the NCAA isn’t going to let some of the workers without rights off the plantation. That door will remain fully closed.