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And the Visual Effects Oscar goes to…….

Really sorry to hear of your losses. Deepest condolences. If you need anything, do not hesitate to reach out.

IMO Toy Story 4 tarnished the reputation of the series. The third instalment was a perfect way to end things. Now to go to 5 when 4 was a let down will almost certainly hurt it more rather than redeem the overall arc if movie history means anything (you can guess I have little hope for Indiana Jones 5 as well).

Curious loophole that they don’t get paid because they aren’t “writers” as everything is improv. But the show is now being sold overseas and to cable. Wonder if they could claim copyright infringement for the unauthorized usage of their “intellectual property” without fair compensation as a way around it.

Wish we had an “angry” emoji. The leaps of logic the Government will go to justify avoiding any type of gun legislation is staggering.

Anyone who only knows him from Austin Powers is missing a lot. He was a giant in the songwriting business for 3 decades. Many songs you know as someone else’s were actually written by him. Here is a good obit that breaks down just how much he added to the music industry in his time. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/entertainment/burt-bacharach-death/index.html

The context of this is brilliant. Biden accused some Republicans of wanting to scrap social security and Medicare, which elicited boos and the calls of “liar” from the gallery by the GOP, notably MTG. So he says “ I’m glad to see [that’s not the case] then. I enjoy conversion (nice dig at the transgender-phobes there). So now that we all apparently agree that social security and Medicare are off the books….” And the GOP got played with a Jedi mind trick from “the senile senior President” and McCarthy was compelled to lead a standing ovation in response to Joe’s words.

Are you saying we have…….unfinished business?

With the number of satellites in the sky, computer hacking, and wiretap capability, does this balloon really pose a novel security threat?

Hard to process that Ralphie’s mom from “A Christmas Story” was the same actress who was in “Slap Shot”. Died Jan. 9 but not reported until now. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/entertainment/actress-melinda-dillon-obit-christmas-story-trnd/index.html

I would not offer Demski that much in hard money, but let him achieve that amount with bonuses if he can show that he can stay healthy and play a full 18 games.

Maybe he could perform like this:

Honestly, this game was similar to Philly in one way: in both the Jets actually came out well and carried play, but when they fell behind on Saturday they just folded. Bowness said they needed to show more patience and trust the system rather than playing as individuals. Last night they did that, and despite a hot goalie, bad puck luck, and a power play that needs fixing, they stuck with it and didn’t quit. They finally got rewarded, and the floodgates opened once they stopped squeezing the sticks. Gutsy win. Now they need to remember that for their first game back after the break. Liked the emotion as well, but he basically said in his postgame comments that he was pissed off with the fans who were (justifiably) booing the team and wanted to give it back to them as much as exhorting them to get behind the team again.

Thanks. Appreciate the suggested trade, why you think it is equal to what they got, and why you would not make that move anyway. I agree Horvat’s pending UFA status makes any trade dicey, given what they are asking in return for a likely rental.

No Lady Byng for Connor this year.

Since it wasn’t started yet. Capobiancco in for Logan Stanley. So why do the Jets do about acknowledging Hull’s death? Nothing? Just moment of silence? Video tribute? Tribute but also a team donation to a woman’s shelter?

Then I’ll respond with “OK armchair GM, give me your Jets trade that would have landed Horvat?”

So if one were conspiracy-minded, the Conference Finals in the NFL did little to quiet the skeptics that suggest the refs fix outcomes to get their desired match-up for the league’s Super Bowl cash cow. 11 Niner penalties to 4 for the Eagles, plus a blown call on a 4th down conversion that led to the first Philly TD. Cincinnati gets 5 penalties to KC’s zero (OK, 1 declined) in the 4th quarter after tying the game, including 2 that extended drives after failed 3rd down conversions by the Chiefs, plus a referee do-over call on a “that play didn’t count” decision after another failed conversion. At least two or three of those calls were fairy ticky-tack, when equally bad holds by the Chiefs (one on the final punt return for 30 yards, setting up the game-winning FG) were missed or ignored. Now I don’t blame refs when my team loses, it is a weak whiny argument 99.9% of the time when the fact is the players, not the refs, determine the outcome almost all the time, and bad calls are a product of the human element of the game rather than “they are out to screw us” excuses fans like to throw out. That said, is it time to ask how potentially close we are to pro sports being illegitimate with the growth and acceptance of endorsed sports gambling by the big leagues? Consider: …..Baseball already has had a documented rigged World Series because of gambling, and also caught it’s all-time hit leader betting on his team’s games while managing them. Also doctored baseballs and a blind eye to the steroid era cheating to increase offence and draw fans back. …..Basketball busted a ref in Tim Donaghy for match-fixing with biased calls to enable a gambling ring, but the LA Laker championship that was a direct result of the cheating was never rescinded. …..Hockey has had a ref on hot mike admit that make-up calls are a regular part of how they call the game, and promote gambling sites in commercials featuring not just the best player ever to play the game but also it’s current best player and face of the league. Yet no worry about a conflict of interest? …..Football has our league making an active partnership with a gambling site for profits, while the NFL has expanded it’s embrace of the gambling industry to talk openly about game odds in its broadcasts and now have a halftime Super Bowl event with Rob Gronkowski which is just a glorified sports betting commercial This doesn’t even touch on Olympic corruption and proven rigged judging examples there. So the question is, are sports results at risk of being completely illegitimate when the influence of gambling is growing so fast, and what does that mean for the future of sports? Do the optics of potential unfairness and conflict of interest matter, or will it take another active match-fixing event like the Black Sox scandal for people to care? Or will that even matter with the dollars at stake? And how close are we to seeing that kind of scenario take place again where a team/player/ref deliberately pre-determines the outcome of a sporting event for money gain? Thoughts?

Not really though. 8 rushes all year in 18 games, same as Grant who saw the field a lot less on offence, and less than half of what Demski did. And his production wasn’t great there either (yards gained were 0, 0, 3, 6, 9, 13, 15, and 19). Gadget play sweeps, which were rarely used with him and were unsuccessful as much as not.

Actually not true. Targets in the first 6 games were 5.2 per game, last 12 games was 5.3. He just underperformed. In fact, take away one huge 4th quarter against BC, a good chunk of it in garbage time, where he got 11% of his season’s worth of catches and yards, and 22% of his TDs, and he averaged about 3 catches and 37 yards a game all season. He was pretty much a non-factor in this year’s playoffs (4 catches, 50 yards total). Hey, I like his intangibles like attitude and blocking, he’s a quality class A interview, and many are misled by the “Showtime Scheed” love, but at 125-135K he’d be overpriced by about 15-25K IMO. Money needs to be saved somewhere, and I’d rather extra dollars go to an interior d-lineman than a #4 receiver (placing him behind Schoen, Demski and a healthy Ellingson).

ABC pie!

The Night Court episodes were totally hokey, but it was pretty much the same humour (and laugh track) as the original. So either modern humour tastes have changed or the original was massively overrated (I vote the latter, it was carried by the Cosby Show, Family Ties, Cheers juggernaut). But turning Larroquette’s character from a sleazy prosecutor to a bleeding heart public defender could be the change that sinks the show.

HNIC was talking about the interest in Jansen Harkins and how “he tears it up when he plays on the AHL” (a bit of an exaggeration IMO), but he may be on the radar for teams looking for playoff depth.

Yes, the generation that invented the Tide Pod challenge has always been known for its discerning taste.