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  1. GDT:Islanders at Sabres 12-27-2014 7PM

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    Frankly, I'm glad the guys we've got are developing. If they weren't, and we were bad enough to have the worst record in the league, adding the #1 pick wouldn't make that bunch much better. You guys might be worried about the "Ninth Place Treadmill" but I'd be much more worried about the "Edmonton Treadmill."

     

    Down 3-0 and they fight back and get two points out of it? Against a team having a really good year thus far? That's some encouraging ###### right there.

  7. Star Wars - now with SPOILERS! (Read at your own risk)

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    Despite what the professional hustlers want you to believe, there's nobody who actually cares about John Boyega's skin color.

     

    http://thewilderness.me/race-wars/

     

    The issue of Boyega’s skin color has been such a heated topic of debate online that none of the news outlets who ran stories about fan racism directed at Boyega could cite a single example of it happening. Not on Twitter. Not in an Op-ed, not on movie fan sites.

     

    Not one.

     

    The story appeared at Mashable by Annie Colbert and once again didn’t link any actual criticisms about Boyega’s race. The closest any of them came was Kimberley Dadds from Buzzfeed embedding tweets that mentioned people were outraged yet linked or provided no examples to any actual racist comments to which those tweets were referring to. Variations of this story that appeared at The Wrap and Verge opted for headlines like “Black Stormtrooper fires back at critics” but didn’t reference a single critic. Yahoo Movies took it a step further and used the occasion to slam Fox and Rupert Murdoch but once again provided no tweets, links or blogs. Kriston Cappsfrom The Atlantic wrote a full Op Ed titled “Of Course there are black Storm Troopers” with the tone that people were once again objecting and he was simply responding to them. Yet in his entire piece, he didn’t provide a single link, tweet or even anonymous YouTube comment, deferring instead to a Mel Brooks joke about the black troopersusing an afro pick to “comb the desert” in Spaceballs. If these writers are going to start claiming Mel Brooks is racist they may want to reach further back to minimize any attempt at looking foolish by targeting Blazing Saddles instead.

     

    Of course, being that this is 2014, not one thing can go uninfected by narrative ######.

  20. OT: Is the world series, and baseball, done as a major sport?

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    I know what my problem with baseball is. It's just too serious. There is rarely any emotion shown by anyone playing. Nobody smiles or even looks like they are even remotely having fun.

     

    Not accurate at all. Adam Jones, Carlos Gomez, the Dodgers with their bubble machine, Eric Hosmer (and all the Royals), Jake Peavy, Freddie Freeman's hugs, all the signs that players make toward their dugout once they get back on base, Jose Fernandez, Munenori Kawasaki and so many other examples. There's a ton of personality in the MLB. A ton.

  21. OT: Is the world series, and baseball, done as a major sport?

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    It's the exact reason that many people mention first when talking about why they don't watch anymore.

     

    I don't know. I find it flimsy. If I love a sport and a game, I'm not going to be like "you know what, ###### this, it's taking 20 minutes longer than it used to."

     

    I don't know. Maybe that's a legit reason for y'all. I'd love for you guys to come back into the fold if they take measures to shorten the game. I just doubt it. I don't think it's "lying" about it or anything, I just think there's other factors involved. Beyond a time aspect, it's hard to rekindle the love for a game that you've stopped watching, no?

  23. OT: Is the world series, and baseball, done as a major sport?

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    No team has made a more exciting postseason run than the Royals in a long long time... But it's still impossible to ignore the fact that nobody watches the Royals. Cool story. Not cool rating.

     

    Which is sad because people whine about the Yankees and the Red Sox and blah blah but when they get a team like the Royals into the World Series after 29 years they end up not caring. Makes no sense.

     

    And I'm not sure where the "greed and lack of loyalty" thing comes from. I'm not a fan of labeling any business, organization, or corporation "greedy" since their entire purpose is profit, but if any league can be qualified as "greedy" it's the NFL, what with its attempt to infiltrate every night of TV, spreading exposure of the draft, all the fantasy sports ######, etc.

     

    And if it's the players who are greedy? Well, baseball has no salary cap. Some players get more and some players get less. Mike Trout, the best player on the planet and a guy you can legitimately compare to Mickey Mantle took significantly less than what his market value would have been to stay with the Angels for like 7 more years. Andrew McCutchen and Paul Goldschmidt, two superstar players took way less than what their value would have been otherwise to stay with Pittsburgh and Arizona respectively. The Braves (my favorite team) locked up all essential pieces of their core last offseason for likely much cheaper than they would have gotten on the open market were they to hit free agency. Plus with all the arbitration rules and team control rules and all that, baseball is an entirely different beast anyhow.

     

    Baseball is a very unique sport and I think I've realized a big reason why I love it so much. The game variation. I can watch games and STILL see things I've genuinely never seen before. In football, basketball, or hockey, it's always a big lead and a comeback, a low-scoring game with a last second shot or a field goal, something like that. In baseball, there are *so* many ways to win. Hell, even tonight, I saw an infield chopper that somehow got into the outfield and drove in two runs. Last year's World Series featured a "walkoff interference call" for example. There is just so much variation that the game doesn't feel stale. And I don't get too up in arms about game length anyway, and I generally refuse the "pitch clock" idea since the beauty of baseball is that it's not bound by any clock. Pitchers should work quicker and more efficiently anyway, but I'm a Braves fan and I'm spoiled in that regard, watching countless games that don't go over 2.5 hours in length.

  24. OT: Is the world series, and baseball, done as a major sport?

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    It used to be on in the afternoon.

     

    You're absolutely right, it's not gonna hurt him. I would have no problem letting him stay up, he just falls asleep.

     

    I'm not suggesting all the games be on in the afternoon, but at least the weekend games. So the kids have some energy for it.

     

    Yeah. And I'm okay with that. Especially a day game on a Saturday. Sunday wouldn't be such a good idea, what with the NFL and all. But yeah. Sure.

     

    I just think it sucks that people are being deprived. They want something to be drawn to with the game and they act like there isn't anything but the sport is in a really, really special place right now. Madison Bumgarner is doing ###### that basically nobody has ever done in the history of the World Series and the freakin' ROYALS are in the World Series! That's worthy of watching and getting really, really excited about.

  25. OT: Is the world series, and baseball, done as a major sport?

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    But at the same time, allowing kids to stay up until 11:30 ET, 12 ET for the games isn't going to kill them. I don't understand this. If anything, they'll learn to love and appreciate how cool the playoffs/World Series are and think, "hey, Dad's letting me stay up to watch this.....this must be pretty special."

     

    So they go to school groggy for a couple days. It builds character. Who DOESN'T have stories of sneaking a radio to bed, staying up late or even at the ballpark until late, etc? Not to mention staying up with your kids and watching with them, sharing that moment and sharing your memories with them. THAT'S what builds lasting love for the game.

     

    Baseball is magical. It used to be treated as such.

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