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SwampD

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  1. I thought you said bottom of the top ten/top of the teens.

     

    EDIT:Awesome research, though. I'm sure the difference will be about the same here and not enough for me to justify wanting to lose to Dallas and the Jets, because, well, screw Dallas and the Jets.

  2. I think the only real value in winning now is the difference between talking a free into joining a 6-10 team and an 8-8 team. I'm fine with people who don't want them to lose. It's not a crazy concept.

    However, any notion that winning two games at the end of a lost season with potential changes afoot is absolutely nonsense, in my opinion. There's over eight months until their next game after these final two. It's not going to factor into next year. I can say that with confidence.

    There's probably nothing more than a coincidental difference between, say, 15 to 18... But I'm sure it wouldn't take much to show a difference between the bottom of the top ten and the bottom of the teens.

    My cursory look over the past couple of drafts doesn't really show this to be true.

     

    I agree, though, that how we end this year will have little to no effect on next year. And since it seems like my entire sports viewing life has been about the promise of the future, I just want to enjoy the next two games for what they are right now. I want to see wins to end the year.

  3. There is a hell of a lot of value in building confidence.

     

    And they could knock the Jets out of the playoffs next week, too.

    Also, who GAF about a couple of slots in the draft?! I need somone to show me that it matters at all where you draft. Unless there is a Luck at number one, I couldn't care less about draft position.
  4. Ironically I wouldn't know. I don't follow many players as I don't care about their tweets much aside from a few exceptions. If they tweet anything important I follow enough people that would retweet it onto my feed.

    If you're a casual "Twitterer," though, it's worth following them all. The very occasional tweets they have wont clog your feed and will give you insight into them.

    I must be getting old. It used to take a couple of hour long interviews to begin to get some insight into someone. Now it takes 144 characters or less. Not meant to be a slam on you, Hoss, just on the Twitterverse as a whole. If I ever do the Twitter (been thinking about it), I'll definitely use this thread as a reference.
  5. Merry Christmas to all. Hope everyone has a great day.

    Merry Christmas to all!

     

    Hanging out waiting to Skype with family. Our timing is up to a 3 year old's mood swings. Wouldn't have it any other way.

     

    We just got done with our Skype. Greatest thing to happen to family relationships since the invention of the television.

     

     

    Second-best Billy Joel parody in site history.

    Damn right!
  6. Examples of a better experience?

     

    It's the little things. They often play "Shake it off" after the opponent scores. That would irk the crap out of me if I was a player. It just reeks of people who don't have a sense for the game making that decision and I'll leave it at that. And please stop announcing the opponent's goal three minutes after play has resumed. Do it before the faceoff. Who wants to be reminded you got scored on after it's already being put away in your head? Stupid. The organist's musical choices are atrocious. And, oh yeah, Doug Allen shouldn't be the anthem singer, whether or not 47 people shout "oooooggggieeeee" before he starts.

    Other than Doug, all of those things happen at every arena (at least the ones I have been to). 

     

    I wonder if there is any correlation between NHL fan enthusiasm and the decline in fighting. If players don't care enough about the game to get mad enough to fight, why should the fans care?

  7. I'm not there.  The NFL changes so fast were as hockey changes almost glacially.  This season may well have been different if the injuries and penalties weren't the focus.  Tyrod will be better.   This essentially was his rookie season and he held up well.    I did not like Roman's play calling.   It was rather vanilla to start the season.  It got more imaginative as the season went on.  Rex needs to stop being the focus of his team.  Next year will be better, I'm convinced.  Is it enough, I don't know that.

    …and the circle is complete.

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