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If this was a poll, I'd vote incomplete.

Your timing isn't too bad if you're interested in making the trip to Raleigh for the game in March.

Here’s a perfect example of the high quality of hockey coverage here in NC. Keep in mind this is the guy who hosts their pregame radio show each night, while talking about Aho in the all star game: ”I was surprised to see him skating on a line with two divisional foes”

Am I seriously seeing one person overvalue* prospects while LGR is undervaluing* them? My world has been turned upside down. *Over and under is based solely on poster 1's valuation relative to poster 2's.

Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

I'm just trying to get even for all the robo calls I've been getting lately. Someone has a sense of humor. I got one last week from an area code where I might actually get a call from. So I googled the number and it was a restaurant in the Charleston SC area. That seemed odd, so I googled a few other calls I refused to answer and they were also restaurants in other area codes.

Who is the youngest person to ever win a Nobel Prize?

That's a pretty good approach seeing as how you're missing over a quarter of the season. Those vouchers stack up quickly.

Do they have many Wednesday games? It would drive me crazy if I had to miss a significant number of games. Hell, it killed me to even miss a single game back when I had BU season tickets.

I was going to say he actually does belong there as a Pirate, but after looking up the numbers, he wasn't there quite as long as I thought. Still, his Pirate career (a couple MVPs) is a very different thing than Clemens' time with the Astros.

That's not completely true. Buffalo could include that in a trade, but it would have to be tied into a condition of it's own. Essentially it would be "Buffalo trades either the 3rd or 4th round pick, whichever is retained after the deal with Pittsburgh is complete". Look at San Jose as an example. They already owed us their 1st round pick in either 2019 or 2020 from the Kane deal. They then traded either their 2020 or 2019 first round pick to Ottawa in the Karlsson deal. The conditions of those two deals are perfectly reversed, so the deal was fine to make. So yeah, you can't include conditions in a future deal that contradict the terms of previously made deals. As long as they don't, it's fine.

I'm glad you threw in this part because far too often that's left out completely. People love pointing fingers but so many tend to stop right there. That's what I find to be pointless. My sink is leaking. Oh well, gotta keep eating my lunch.

I just popped in to see if people continue to make broad sweeping generalizations instead of dealing with the incident at hand I was not disappointed Seriously, why is there the need to throw an entire profession under the bus due to the actions of some of them? Do you gain some sort of moral high ground by lumping them all together? I expect this sort of condescending tone from some, but you’re better than this

There's never any rhyme or reason.

kev hit probably the most obvious one in Owens. He's in now, but it took far too long. There's also a bit more in play with them, but I think it's does play a rolewhen it comes to Bonds and Clemens. If they were likeable guys, a few more people would look the other way on the steroid stuff. Honestly, I'm not so sure why anyone from that era is given a pass.

It's truly amazing that a guy with such a track record of horrible actually has a Cup on his record.

I'd take that over the current practice of "he was mean to me once, so I'll never vote for him".

Hopefully it finally puts the "you can't be unanimous" stupidity to a rest. But yes, I kind of chuckled a bit that it was a closer who finally broke through on that one.

Does any HoF actually restrict their votes to just players and front office types? Grudges are going to exist there too, but I think it would lead to much more palatable results.

The other day I didn't realize that when you run out of regular rifle ammo, it automatically switches to explosive ammo. I wasn't expecting that gator to blow up.

I really wanted to check out that body after I took care of them, but I wound up being wanted and had to get away before I could check it out. I don't know if there was anything more I could do, but I would have at least tried to shoot out the rope. My most recent encounter was with a KKK ceremony in the woods. That one was pretty hilarious.

Those guys are funny. Come running at me with a knife while I'm on horseback? Bullet to the face.

I was watching the news last night. When they got to sports, the reporter did a long intro for Rivera, making a huge deal out of how he was the first person to ever be voted in unanimously. When they cut back to the lead anchor, his immediate comment was "that's really rare, usually a few people don't vote for a player. Where's the banging your head against the wall emoji when you need it?

Sam has always been doing it, but it's gotten a bit over the top in the last couple years. Winter lager is gone at the start of January, even though that's pretty much the heart of winter. I'm not so sure you can get Oktoberfest in October.

You don't take on a guy with 3-4 years left on a contract (I forget the exact number) if you aren't planning on him being around for more than two months. They full expected him to be a part of this team for multiple seasons. Getting out from his deal was obviously not a part of any plan.