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I don’t think I will ever tire of the giraffe gifs.

FFS. Everyone chill out in here please. And before posting something nasty or disrespectful or accusatory, please read it, think about it, and tone it down. I get that external stresses have made it more difficult, but it's important to converse in a friendly and respectful manner. The board is a place where everyone should want to come for a pleasant diversion in the form of friendly conversation.

Oooooooooohhhh. That stings. But Earl was worth a few minutes of your time on YouTube IMHO.

Well you had to like Earl Campbell, innit?

No one is saying he’s as good as Chara — only that Chara continued to develop and improve even while he was the same age as Risto.

So my wife, my daughter and I went to a local clinic in upstate NY this afternoon to get antibody tests. It was pretty simple and well-run -- we didn't need an appointment, we were able to check in and provide insurance info on our phones while waiting in the car, and they called us into the building when they were ready for us. We should have the results in the next couple of days. (We've been out of NYC for about 10 weeks, and haven't had any symptoms other than ordinary-course sniffles now and then, and the incidence of the virus is quite low where we are, but we still would like to know our antibody status, as sooner or later we'll need to return to NYC, the kids want to see their friends, etc.) Here's the kicker: the doctor who examined us immediately before the blood tests was wearing his mask pulled down below his nose! WTF?!

Possibly, although we of course really have no idea. My point about whether TP will trust JB to make this kind of significant move by himself is in part based on Tim Graham's recent comments in the Athletic to the effect that TP was/is pretty close to firing JB.

I think Risto, like the team generally, was unquestionably better in the D-zone this season, and I'm inclined to credit RK's defensive structure and power of positive thinking. I continue to feel that Risto is a flawed but good and valuable player that has been stuck in a terrible situation throughout his career, that I'd like him to stay and be part of the resurgence that I really freaking hope is coming, and that if they trade him, it had better be for a really GD good C or RW. It will be interesting to see whether TP allows JB to trade Risto without some other hockey person signing off on the deal.

Well, race is only a factor if the driving behavior is the same -- i.e. if a higher percentage of the members of group A, relative to group B, drives in a way that is more likely to result in getting pulled over, then those group A members are not getting pulled over because they are members of group A and not group B -- they are getting pulled over because of the way they drive. I don't doubt that there are some cops who are more likely to pull over members of group A because they have issues with group A, but I think we need to be clear that if group A members are pulled over more frequently than group B members, it's not necessarily because they are group A members.

So he’s 28, and, depending on whether you believe elite prospects or Wikipedia, either 5’10”, 172 lbs or 5’11”, 183 lbs. He’s a LW and shoots left. He was 7th in the SHL in goals each of the last 2 years, with 17 per year. OK, sure. Why not?

Losing your not-that-expensive-but-not-that-cheap-either earbuds, knowing that they are somewhere in the house or the car but being unable to find them, and knowing that they will turn up immediately after you buy new ones.

Of course, the Sabres had lost 6 out of 7 when the plug was pulled, so...

https://hockeysverige.se/2020/05/18/lamnade-farjestad-ryktas-till-nhl Google translate version:

Promising vaccine developments: https://www.wsj.com/articles/moderna-says-initial-covid-19-vaccine-results-are-positive-11589805115?mod=hp_lead_pos2

Some more great quotes from MJ: - when asked who gave Sam Smith all the inside dirt for his “Jordan Rules” book: “It was Horace [Grant, who strenuously denied it].” - Immediately after a legendary 1992 dream team scrimmage, pitting a group led by MJ against a group led by Magic, with plenty of trash-talking between MJ and Magic, and MJ taking over down the stretch for the win, without a trace of a smile or good humor, to Magic: “how’d you like that ass-whuppin’ we just gave y’all?”

I will just add that there is NFW that JB was going for DFL in his 1st year. He tried to improve the team and missed by a mile. Even though they ended up with Dahlin, that team was JB's first NHL team and it was terrible. Actually, 1 more thing: I think I believe Tim Graham that TP was very close to firing JB.

I too agree with this, and with @dudacek’s additional color, although JB has been here for 3 years, not 4.

From Tim Graham today in the Athletic: https://theathletic.com/1816003/2020/05/15/the-satchel-jason-botterills-future-the-bills-outlook-for-2020-and-more/

Certainly it would've been different in someone else's hands, but I think there are quite a few scenes where MJ looks like a jerk. In any case, though, his intensity is still there and very compelling IMHO. (I think he has whisky and a cigar going pretty much all day, every day, just to take the edge off.) "I hated Isiah." "I took offense at being compared with Drexler." His reaction when he was asked about Pippen's migraine in game 7 vs the Pistons. Great stuff for a documentary.

The Michael Jordan documentary on espn is flawed but still really good IMHO.

Strong move by @Crosschecking.

I thought John Brown had a number of terrific plays last year. Separately: while I don't dispute the number of drops the Bills had, I think there was something either upthread or floating around elsewhere that essentially indicated that the high number of drops didn't translate into that much in terms of reduced scoring.

Well, of the 2 posts you responded to, one was unquestionably a domestic political post and the other was an international political post. Your response looked like a combination of the two. This thread is better suited for discussion of the virus, its impact on the people here, etc. Discussion of the government's response (federal or state) to the virus should stay in the politics club.

Moved some posts to the politics club.

"The airing of grievances" was nothing short of genius.