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I haven't been able to pay much attention to them this year, but people always seem to blush about Darling. Can they find a way to keep him around on the cheap and send Crawford packing? That certainly would open up some space.

And I thought it worked well. Hand out a little basic information and then we'll get back to you when the plans become more concrete. I know we all want to think that there's a specific vision of exactly what will happen at this very moment, but that's completely unrealistic.

This immediately brings to mind some of the owners born into the industry, the Rooneys and Maras of the world. Those two being the first that come to mind, that's two very successful organizations. I wonder how these multi-generations ownerships have fared as a whole.

I assume you mean Ron Francis 3 or 4 years ago since he is the GM in Carolina. Anyway, I think Drury is exactly where he wants to be. Not that he's anywhere near ready to be anything other than what he is now, but he is not leaving that organization. edit: , I just agreed with liger (I assume that's you).

With the crazy beads her sister had in her hair at the start of her career, I just assumed she was a Predator.

I won't say I wanted it, mostly because I never seriously considered it as an option. That said, I have no problem with the decision. These times where you are completely restarting things, to me, are some of the most exciting times for a team. Whoever steps in and takes over is definitely starting from a much better point than Murray did.

I can think of one poster who will love this idea. It's time to turn Kim into the owner from Major League.

I liked the general message Pegula presented today, but that might be fully the result of having low expectations. It was not the trainwreck I worried I'd see. He felt more like an owner than he has at any point before. I still worry that he's not the best equipped for finding the right people for these jobs, but I feel better about it than I did at 9am today.

When questions start to pop up about a lack of structure and communication, it's completely natural for the very gruff guy like Murray to find himself on the chopping block. I can't picture someone like him ever correcting that type of issue. Maybe he's just a better fit as a completely behind the scenes guy in the scouting department.

Just posted it in the other thread. I will definitely ask around with my friends far more in tune with that program when I get the chance.

Is this sort of like a Sports Illustrated Football Phone?

I might as well chime in on this character thing. I think it's 100% on the front office and not about the players one bit. A pretty clear picture has been painted of a lack of communication from the coach and GM. That's very easy to picture with the persona Murray presents. The whole thing clearly went off the rails in the last couple months and they need to go in a much different direction.

No one shot our dog (where is he anyway) and it's not the end of the world. Let's not throw common courtesy out the window.

I know we're not happy, but I really don't need that word popping up on my screen here at work.

No one. They already have two spare forwards. They roll with them short term.

I'm a little over a mile from the lake, but much higher ground. Our retaining ponds overflowed and flooded the greenway paths, but there was really no sign of trouble in my neighborhood. Then again, since we're all new construction, there really isn't much in the way of trees to be knocked over. The craziest thing to me was that on sunday one day after all that rain, my yard didn't even feel like it was wet.

My brand new tv is on the wall, ready to go. Hockey was my main motivation for the buy.

Have people not realized yet that you should never make a bet involving the Bills? All they do is disappoint, even when you pick them to lose.

He doesn't have a contract. You can't suspend someone who isn't your employee. But yes, they do get cap relief if he's not on the team. His entire $0 salary no longer counts against the cap.

It's certainly far more possible than at any point in not so recent memory. They've got a shot on one single day to sweep them and it's also at home. Even if there's only a 25% chance they win that, it's still miles ahead of where they've been been in ages.

I've got my webers mustard ready and two sahlen's hot dogs on the grill. Time for a nice lazy lunch while working from home.

The 61 year old? Did I miss a joke by only reading the last post?

I'm pretty sure I came up with the same thing when I looked yesterday. And it's the streakiest 9-7 of all time, nothing but multi-game winning and losing streaks. Interesting schedule

Mini-LGRs? Things just got even more bleak in this thread