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I have an acquaintance who went to the Winter Classic in 2007. Him and his friends always got piss drunk when they went out. That game wasn’t no different. Well, after however many beers he had to take a piss, but was really too drunk to go far. There was a lady in front of him with a hooded fur lined parka. So, you guessed it, he got the brilliant idea to take a piss in her hood so as not to make any noise. Her compainon wasn’t too happy.

No. That has been rectified you ***** *****.

That was not an elite shot. ?

They did something like this in the 90s in Virginia. Someone tried to buy up the vast majority of tickets when it became favorable to them.

This too.

Do we need an official “days since we had a winning record” counter, so that we can keep resetting it?

I looked away. What did he do?

We shoot that wide more often than not.

My impression is that non-skill players do this. I was talking specifically about guys like Jack and Casey. Every time expect them to pick a corner it turns into Zhitnik shot from the point.

It’s more the opponent.

I’m not sure this is an accurate observation- please correct me if I’m off base here... After watching most of the these opening games, I’m a bit appalled at how far off our skill players have been shooting on net. I’m talking about those unpressured times where they have a great look, time and space and they shoot the puck two feet wide. Casey... Jack... all of them... So many times I get excited for a prime scoring opportunity, only saying to myself WTF what’s that?

Fans go back and forth between the has-beens and the up and coming new superstars. Every time one is fired the other one is desired.

That’s a very involved question. It is answered thoroughly here (the answer is that when you take taxes and duplicate winners into account, the answer is it is never worth it. With taxes only the threshold is $1.4B. With no caveats the threshhold is $232M due to secondary winnings). https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/01/13/the-science-of-powerball/amp/

My wife is not good at math. She just bought some tickets this week because of such reasoning. I routinely laugh at her because of the absurd assertion that $500M is somehow more life changing than $50 or $100M. As if the $50M wasn’t worth the $2 risk, but $500M passes the walking around money threshold. If people want to light money on fire - that’s their business. The biggest problem is that those who buy those tickets day in and day out are the ones who can least afford it.

Lotteries... a tax on people who are bad at math.

I just checked and it appears unlocked. ?‍♂️

That's a beer hockey special. All the guys playing down try to pull that on the weaker centers.

What does that have to do with pulling the keeper with 4:xx on the clock and down by 3? Was that a mistake worthy of criticism?

So, this is a legitimate complaint? He’s doing what is best to win and he should be criticized? Good grief.

In practical terms what does this even mean?

A quick convo with a trusted media member with daily contact with the Bills: ”The plan was to start AJ or Nate. Allen’s apparent progress in first 2 preseason games opened possibility of him starting season, then the Bengals game happened. They were planning on keeping AJ until the Raiders approached with trade offer.” FWIW...

Agreed. They mostly offloaded middling talent that may be better than what they have now, but not good enough to make any real noise. They lack high end talent in every offensive position (except the fumes McCoy is running on).

Well, I don't think that exact trade was considered at the time. ? If you go back to the summer and preseason - the field reporters will tell you Peterman won that job. It was not a surprise that he started the season. It is hard to comprehend coaches whiffing so badly on an evaluation, but they managed it. You may not believe the plan was to start McCarron in the beginning. You may not believe Peterman was plan B. I believe those things and I think all their actions support those decisions.

I’m not in the locker room. I don’t know what was said to McCarron. In a vacuum, what you said makes sense. But that didn’t happen. Why? Clearly Beane valued the 5th over the alternative. JoeB suggested that McCarron may not have been on board with the position he found himself in and may need to have been moved for attitude reasons. Perhaps it was also contrary to what they told him at signing and they were trying to do “the right thing”.