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Nature abhors a vacuum and that’s all this is. There is literally nothing coming from the organization, so people just stare at the ink blots and pontificate. Which... whatever. It’s when those pontifications get built in to straw men...

Most people just say thank you.

I find their use of the word "deserve" really cringy.

There is nothing tangible to back up this statement, there is only your projected feelings.

Lol

I assumed Bran told Tyrion. When did Sansa tell him?

Right after she was beheaded, the arrows should have flown.

Tyrion should be dead. Cersei showed she was the monster. There was no reason to spare his life.

Yael is a professional soccer player. Had had a great career. Interesting take.

Eh. People are high if they think this is going to work. Professional sports only exist because there is a critical mass of people willing to part with their money to watch it. The NHL has a hard enough time getting fans in certain markets to watch and that’s the best hockey on the planet. Soccer works for women, kind of, because there are millions of little girls who play soccer and mom/dad want them to have role models. The National team gets a lot of exposure, but the NWSL is barely hanging on even with all these youth players. Until millions of little girls start playing hockey, this will be one struggle after another. The only hope is the NHL using it as a loss leader to get more female fans of the game, but I imagine that is a poor ROI.

Why are you putting yourself through this?

We should all be grateful if that discussion was shut down in one year regardless.

They need to be the Minnesota North Stars. I don’t care if Dallas has a team but they should have left the name behind.

The difference in local ratings in each market is astounding. https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2019/04/29/Media/NHL-ratings.aspx

Lol at the guy Bertuzzi crosschecked. Meme for life.

Sounds like a Gallagher skit.

Lol. Marketing? Marketing to who? What are they marketing? Do I need my credit card? What’s the ROI?

Or they got tired of DE/OLB designations and realized the game has change and so should the language.

Also note that the budget for this episode was probably $15Mish... not $250M+ like a real movie. It is a television show. Like Grey's Anatomy or CSI. And this was a single episode. Never forget this is just a TV show with a huge comparative budget, but not movie-like budget. Expectations should be set accordingly.

https://gizmodo.com/a-theory-about-why-last-nights-game-of-thrones-was-too-1834379081

The common consumer doesn't know that black levels are everything on a TV. Most shop size vs price. Low black levels are very difficult to achieve. Most LCD screens give a medium grey as black. It's why I choose plasma until they couldn't match size/cost numbers of LCD, but low-cost LCD have awful black levels. Scenes like last night highlighted the issue with their choice of tech.

1. I would agree 2. I suppose. I'm not sure why her and Jon couldn't have mowed down the entire army though in short order. I figured that had to be the plan once they started it and would have to be stopped by the NK. It seems they just got distracted. I'd have to watch it again. 3. Yeah, I watched it at 1am after my hockey game. I completely missed the blue eye/God of Death foreshadowing. (yikes) 4. Ugh.

I try not to be overly critical of massive episodes like this - you will never meet anyone’s expectations. The one puzzling stone in my shoe was where the hell was Dany when they lit the trench? The dead were all just standing there. I figured that was the time to light them all on fire. I also wasn’t sure where Jon was going when he raced into WF after the NK raised the dead and Dany cleared the deck. How did Arya know to go to Bran? With so many dead overrunning WF - anyone on the front lines should have been killed. Those are just a few minor questions. It was fun, but I think a bunch more characters needed to go given the way they portrayed the battle. I think there was a missed opportunity for someone down in the crypt to kill a famous dead Stark. That could have been dramatic if Sansa had to kill Ned or her mother. I’m not sure how an episode that was all battle was supposed to reveal who the night king was. In what context were we going to have that revealed? I’m not bothered.

And this made the NBC nightly news tonight.

The term is routinely butchered in the US in both hockey and soccer. Like irregardless, we hear it so much around here from players and others fans it sounds natural. If you watch EPL, they always get it right and usually the better PBP guys in hockey get it right too.