MattPie

I often wonder if the famous composers and authors from the past are truly the "best", or just the most famous. Is Shakespeare a 16th century Stephen King or, well, Shakespeare? Mozart might have been Britney Spears or The Beatles.

Heh, my 20-year is tonight and tomorrow. I'd go since having a few beers is always a good time. Unfortunately, MrsPie is due in 28 days and a 6-hour drive means no va.

No direct knowledge with brined pork, but unsalted water will draw the salt out of the meat generally. It's one of the prep things you can do when you're cooking a "country" ham if you don't want it to be extra-salty.

Best part is, unless I have it wrong, diesels work by squirting just enough fuel into the cylinder to burn. Those guys are shooting way more fuel in than can burn which causes the smoke, so it's the best kind of douche-move: one that irrefutably shows you're stupid.

I don't hate the shootout, but the theory is that 3v3 is still "hockey" moreso than penalty shots. I'm not sure which is more gimmick, but 3v3 has the potential to be fun.

People that dodge honest questions. :P

And somehow that makes you feel good?

https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/puck-daddy/vladimir-sobotka-leaves-blues-for-khl--maligned-steve-ott-back-as-plan-b-162438546.html This implies they offered him $3M+. The $1.4M (I assume) was the qualifying offer to retain his rights into the summer. (Also: Petr Svoboda sighting, I guess Sobotka liked the sound of his name. :))

The matches get a *lot* better when both teams aren't content to sit back and hope they don't get scored on.

It could have just been the pieces not falling into place with trades and whatnot, and deadlines from other offers. We'll probably never know. For instance, STL offers what they did to Ott, with July 10 being the day that offer is taken off the table. Ott is waiting on Murray if there's some trade in the works. Since that trade hasn't happened Ott tells Murray he needs to take STL's offer. It's just like any other job interview process.

I always have hope for another Snow-job on the Island.

That's OK, being Americans most of us know nothing about your country. Other than Beer and Mussels.

We already have. I'm sure it predates it, but let's call it the NcNabb Effect (NME). Young kid on D throws a few checks and suddenly he's the next Scott Stevens (but cleaner).

Je suis Inigo Montoya, tu as tué mon père.

Sure thing, what do you like.

Hodgson + Ennis + NYI 1st for Kane!

I was so hoping to find out the BC Lions (CFL) had gone to a bunch of Grey Cup games but never won it all. But they have, twice. In 1994, surprisingly enough, against the "Baltimore CFLers".

The Hipsterfication of America. I've seen several yutes lately wearing dark mid-height socks and "athletic" sandals. I wish those kids would get off my lawn.

Yeah, it's just Buffalo. It's not like the guys here in Philly on the radio said during the recent Giroux arrest, "Damn, why couldn't this have been Crosby."

As soon as you cross the Mason Dixon, that becomes the norm. I have to switch into "It's OK to pass on the right" mode as soon as I hit Maryland.

I'm not sure how socks relate in this case the staff infections, but dark socks are a "thing" these days. Get with the times, man!

It's a fix. The Brazilians were going to burn the place down whether they won the final or lost it (hi Vancouver!), but hopefully losing in the semis will keep the mayhem to a minimum.

We'll be living with it no matter what since we have no input on how the Pegulas run the team. Why worry about it? As fans (except for Stafford who reads the board religiously) we only ever have two courses of action: watch or don't watch. Everyone has to make their own decision where the line is on that one.

Fair enough. I figure that those 1st-rounders are a 50% hit rate and the 2nd rounders are more like 25% (I don't even know if I'd go that far) so of the 20 we're only going to see 7 really good players, and I think we have at least 7 holes in the line-up to fill. :)