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If someone starts quoting Marve's stats in the chatroom
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I've noticed Willy having to step forward or reach out to grab slow snaps, that can't help but throw off his timing.
Wonder how many plays are disrupted by a non-crisp snap?
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Is it just me or are Picard's shotgun snaps terrible? When they're on-target, they're slow. When they're fast, they miss Willy's hands.
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Casey Bramlet was the worst I've ever seen.
Mind you, the guy was hardly set up to succeed, he came in midseason and was thrown to the wolves by Kelly. But he looked like a toddler out there.
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Good news, everyone! According to Ed Tait in the WFP, Matt Dunigan will be doing the color on today's broadcast.
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Which is such a stupid rule. Yes receivers calling for flags is annoying, but the last thing we need is more flags.
Not complaining. Just wondering if the official missed it or if the head office decided not to make that call when there's an actual PI. I'm real curious to see what kind of in-season adjustments they make to the officiating.
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Officials just ignored a receiver calling for a PI penalty.
There was a PI penalty on the play, but I thought that calling for one was an automatic unsportsmanlike even if there was PI flagged.
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Can't let a team like Calgary up off the mat like that.
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Ottawa secondary stepping up...
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Doesnt that take them nicely to their out clause?Glendale giving them 2 years to find a home it reads like
It means that the issue is settled until expansion is completed. Wonder what kind of deal the NHL cut with Glendale to protect its expansion revenues from the Coyotes?
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Just another example of an encounter that was escalated by both parties for no good reason or result. It's shouldn't be "News of the World" that nobody likes being stopped by the police but when it happens all one has to do is exactly what they ask and the encounter is over and done with in a flash. In this case the woman decided to protest and traded a warning ticket for her life.
Sorry, but this is horseshit.
When you criticize Ms. Held's choices, you are deflecting blame from the cop who massively overescalated the situation. Let's set aside her suspicious death for now, because no one here has any idea what happened in her cell. Tell me, at what point does she do anything that warrants physical assault, a taser threat, an arrest, and jail time?
The blame belongs with the cop. Not with the victim. The cop shat the bed on this one. http://www.texasstandard.org/shows/current/10-things-about-the-sandra-bland-traffic-stop-every-texan-should-know/ dissects his mistakes in some detail.
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I bet we see a different Stoudermire this week.
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yeah, this stinks from every angle.
Compare how Sandra Bland and Clive Bundy got treated during their run-ins with American law enforcement.
All I can say is that I hope it gets investigated properly.
Jesse Williams has an epic rant on this:
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I dont think the NHL cares as much about who pays for an arena. They've helped lobby government for tax payer assistance for sure and one of the reasons they fight so hard in Glendale is because they did lobby so hard to get the taxpayer to build the place and they dont want any other city using that example to say the NHL cut and run.
I think it's simpler than that. If the Coyotes are on the market and available, that's one less $500MM expansion cheque for the NHL to cash.
The market for half-billion-dollar NHL franchises is super soft. The NHL contacted a number of potential ownership groups and only two could get a bid together. Kansas City, Markham, and Seattle were all supposed to be in the mix but none of them emerged.
I really suspect the league announced expansion when they did because the Coyotes are likely finished in Arizona and the league needs to grab the sweet expansion money before they formally come onto the market. The timing looks right: expansion was announced less than two weeks after Glenndale terminated the Coyotes' lease.
If I were a prospective NHL owner, I'd say to hell with expansion and wait for the Coyotes to finally get evicted. I'd get a far better team for less money.
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My son played for Jacques Chapdelaine at SFU last year & I like the guy. I feel bad for him as the offense isn't the reason the Riders are losing. Watching Cory Chamblin's defense screw up over & over is just so entertaining. Heh, heh, heh. Knowing how Chamblin rolls & his track record, somehow he'll throw Jacques under the bus & blame Chapdelaine but not himself.
Chapdelaine would be the next guy up if Chamblin got fired, right?
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Interesting (if stale) article about the NBA in Seattle that has NHL ramifications:
According to the article, the NBA rejected moving the Sacramento Kings to Seattle because the proposed Seattle arena would have been mostly privately funded, whereas Sacramento was building its new NBA arena with public money. The league didn't want a precedent on the books of a team owner funding his own arena. They like public money too much for this, and they also like having Seattle as an empty chair for when the music stops again.
(mods, feel free to tell me to shut up about Seattle)
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why couldnt Jenner accept a "Golden Globes" (weird suggestion) rather than a sports award my response was a) she wan a gold medal in the decathlon for crying out loud
I think people don't realize just how big a deal Bruce Jenner was in the 70s. He was one of the most famous non-pro athletes of that decade.
I grew up in the deep sticks with two TV channels (weather and reception permitting) and two shitty local radio stations and no daily newspaper and I knew who he was.
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I really like what she said at the ESPY's.
"If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it. But for the thousands of kids out there who are coming to terms with being true to who they are, they shouldn’t have to take it."
For me, that's the real story. I remember back in the 90s when Freddy Mercury came out (sadly, just before dying of AIDS) and that really helped change how my crew thought about GLB people. I wonder how many people out there will be similarly affected by Caitlynn Jenner.
(no, we didn't realize that Freddy was bisexual before it became public. We were a sheltered bunch.)
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Monday night Seahawk games here are an absolute disaster. The stadium is downtown so you have a bunch of people trying to get into downtown right around rush hour. If you ever try that again, look at parking in Everett or another northern place and catching the Sounder train down -- I think they run the commuter trains on game days....
Anyway, bonne chance to Quebec! Vive les Nordiques nouveau!
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Yeah. Our traffic is worst in the nation right now. We're expecting to add a Winnipeg to our population in the next couple decades and we're absolutely terrible at building infrastructure. How terrible? We're replacing a downtown viaduct with a boondoggle waterfront tunnel that was conceived by the creationist goofballs at the Discovery Institute.went to seattle a few years ago by car, planned a night stay there, almost got hit by a bus on tracks, couldn't believe how horrendous the traffic was, left immediately. I've driven around Los Angeles, it's much easier than Seattle.
That place is not laid back.
On top of that, our geography is awful for traffic, we're nothing but hills and lakes, so traffic is funneled onto a few choked thoroughfares. Also, we have very little mass transit. Our one downtown-airport train line covers maybe 5% of the population. When we bought our house last year, I made damn sure it was located on that train line.
It's like iso said, any NHL team here would have transportation issues playing weeknight games.
(sorry to rant but holy crap Seattle is bad at transportation and infrastructure.)
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NHL should have told Seattle to get ready the minute the NBA left.
If the NHL wants to pony up the cool $500MM for a new arena, we can get the shovels in the ground tomorrow.
It's like I said before, Seattle's not a big hockey town. There isn't a lot of pent-up pro hockey demand here, especially among the local monied and political classes who can make all this stuff happen. They want the NBA back more than anything.
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No Seattle bid. Hope the Coyotes relocate here. It would be a trip if Jets 1.0 followed me to Seattle.
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"There is nothing Marve can show in practice this week"
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Let's table Marve vs. Brohm for now and move on to Wayne vs. Shuster.
I always thought that Shuster was the funnier man. It's way harder to be the setup man than to deliver the puckish punchlines. Shuster had to play within the system, whereas Johnny Wayne got to freelance and ad-lib all the time.