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  1. The minute jerseys have ads on them is the day I stop buying them.

     

    Remember (old timers) when they sold ads the meme was that it would keep ticket prices down. Never happened. Just more profit. I think it's just a matter of time that our uniforms and rink look like the circus that is European hockey.

  2. So, the Islanders were on the front page of NHL.com because they visited the Barclay Center, which, I didn't realize until now, was retrofitted from basketball-only. So it's weird. And pretty laughable.

     

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    Keep in mind that this cost $1 billion to build. That's 5.3 times what it would cost to build the FNC today. And because it wasn't designed for hockey, the atrocious sightlines eliminate seats. It seats "14,500" for hockey, which is the smallest venue in the NHL and a move down from the 16,170 of the (dilapidated) Coliseum. It's like the team is skating in a world class college hockey rink- three NCAA venues have higher capacity. More pics here, including a pic of the scoreboard that's over there.

     

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    I'm not knocking it that hard. I'm sure for the dollars-per-seat spent, it's a nice lavish place to catch a game, and everyone knows it'll be better than the Coliseum, but damned if it isn't funny looking. WANG'D.

     

    When the US Airway center was built in PHX years ago it was basketball only. When we got the Coyotes they had to play there where a couple of thousand seats could not see the entire ice surface. Ours was built with taxpayer money, bet the Brooklyn one was too.

  3. Adapting and manipulating every situation and person is what Walt does. It's ALL he does. But he's not complex.

     

    He's a guy who initially wanted to do something bad for a good reason. Then he did a little more bad. Then a little more. Because there was a lot of "bad" to him all along and he gave into it over the course of about three seasons and has pretty much been a monster since the end of S3.

     

    It's a masterful performance by Cranston but the character isn't very complex. He's not struggling with who he is or what he should be doing. He used to do some mental gymnastics to justify everything, but that stopped a couple seasons ago.

     

    Breaking Bad is a study in the banality of evil -- how once you knowingly do the wrong thing, it becomes easier and easier to move in that direction. And where that eventually gets you. The book (and movie) A Simple Plan covers this amazingly well too. It's a man sliding into hell and justifying it as he goes.

     

    Totally agree. I said to a co-worker, who got me hooked on this show, that he is so manipulative. She didn't see that at all. But then again, I'm 52 and she is 25. Cranston is brilliant in this role but I don't feel sorry for him at all. Even if the cancer returned. I feel for everyone close to him.

     

    I love this show. It's amazing that Jesse is the one with a soul in this show.

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