Hank

You're probably right, the owners are full of schit. They're business owners, and like all business owners (few exceptions maybe?), They want to maximize profits. That doesn't equate to being slave owners.

I like the fancy stats very much and appreciate the people who put the time and effort into the charts, but this made me laugh. ?

Brown and Green are available for a RB.

A young Filipino woman replies to a job opportunity in South Korea. The company interviews her, helps her get her paperwork in order and flies her into Seoul. When she arrives, they take her passport and force her to work as a juicy girl in a bar on hooker Hill in Iteawon. She's told she can work off her debt for bringing her over by earning xx amount of dollars by getting men to buy her drinks and turning tricks. Sometimes hooking is optional depending on the owner. If she's lucky, a GI will fall in love with her, buy her freedom, and marry her. These are woman who are being prayed upon. Football players have a job, to play football. If they can't do their job they may be replaced, like any other employee in any other job. I think calling them preyed upon and referring to them as slaves is the height of stupidity. Why do so many posters think they are educated enough to understand the risks that these poor criminally mistreated professional athletes take, but the athletes themselves are too stupid to understand it them selves? They're all just ignorant Meatheads? Pathetic.

My wife made me shave my beard.

Suicidal thoughts amongst the retired are common in all facet's of society. Sports, military, corporate, everywhere. I went through it myself. It's a tough transition. Hockey is a business, ROI matters. Players are slaves? Typical Hoss. Also predictable which posters jump on board. Good grief.

Josie - "pull yourself up by your bootstaps". There's something to this. It's not a bad motto to have in life. You seem to use it in a disparaging context. It's not code for being a bad person. I'm sorry for you that that seems to be your experience. Just my two cents, which, admittedly, isn't worth very much.

Good man

I sure would like to move on, yes.

My mistake, it was around Christmas, not over a year ago.

The last (only?) Time was well over a year ago. It was a one page thread that was deleted after I received my time out. I have no idea what you are talking about.

No, chz gave me a three week time out. Either way, no one told me that I misremembered.

What I remember reading from him, and someone else, was years ago. If I am misremembering, than my sincere apologies go out to him. This is the first time I've been told I'm misremembering. Not even by him. I wish at the time you would have sent me a PM and said something along the lines of "hey, I don't think you're remembering things correctly. Either way, that's not cool." I probably would have deleted what I wrote. But instead of doing that you chose to run to a mod and tattle. I was definitely wrong about you.

I honestly don't remember the second one, would you mind PMing it to me?

Yes, directly at him, after an unprovoked attack of his own. Once, not three or four times as you claim. I was asked to explain things, I did, I mentioned noone specific. Scrutinize away.

I mentioned noone in particular in a pretty long post. You isolated it and drew attention to it. Good job. If you delete your post I'll delete that portion in mine.

I don't think that's the right way to look at it. Thompson being a better fit with Eichel would be great but that doesn't replace Reinhardt, that pushes to a different line. Would you rather have Reinhardt or Pominville/Baptiste on the roster?

No, I was not trolling. My posts regarding Ramos and the match we're reasoned and factual. I'm not the only one who thought your opinion regarding Serena's actions during and post match were off base. Wildcard, for instance, saw it the same exact way I did. __________________________________________ I have a daughter!I HAVE A DAUGHTER!!???? thank God the umpire and opponent weren't white or we'd be hearing for weeks about how everyone involved is racist!! ^^^^^this is an example of what I would do if I was trolling. I'm not above trolling, but I wasn't regarding this match.

In fairness, you don't qualify for a military discount as you are neither active duty nor retired and don't have a military ID.

You mention both uncomfortable and annoyed. That's an important distinction. If someone thinks the DOD markets/recruits (that's what I think it is, not some diobolical plot to put the public eye on individual servicemembers to distract them from the lost lives and money, because I don't believe the public outcry has reached the level where the DOD is concerned about it) and that annoys them, whatever. I don't get caring enough to be annoyed, but to each their own. It's become an acceptable norm in our culture. Like holding a door instead of letting it smack the person behind you. If someone is being honored, you stand and politely clap for ten seconds, it's what you do in our polite society. If anyone feels like they are judged harshly by those around them for not doing it, it's for that reason and not some bigger "you must hate the military" garbage. You asked me to define uncomfortable. I can't, I've never been made to feel uncomfortable (In the context of our discussion). You asked me what it is that makes that person an inferior man. I think a man that feels uncomfortable (different from feeling annoyed at the perceived endless marketing/recruiting effort by the DOD) seeing servicemembers honored sees himself as inferior, and if that's how he sees himself, that's how I'll see him. To be honest, I've never heard a person in real life express feeling uncomfortable (or annoyed) by this. Ive onle seen it mentioned on these boards I guess in hindsight this shouldn't surprise me. I think there's a lot of group think pack mentality on these boards. Fake outraged social justice warriors. It's definitely not a representation of the blue collar Buffalo I grew up in. We have a young man who believes white men are pre-conditioned to see black men as violent gorilla's who need to be put down (his words, not mine) and would find social injustice everywhere wether it existed or not. Mind you, he has no life experience outside of his Western New York small town lilly white bubble. We have a poster who's a(n) (reformed?) Abusive drunk that wants the NHL to look like the women's game. The examples go on. When "those" type of men express feeling "uncomfortable", yeah, I'm going to see them the way I do and judge them accordingly. On that subject, I believe in a previous post you asked me what characteristics/traits went into making/being a real man. There's really too much that goes into it to write down. I've never sat down with my son's and had that discussion, nor do I know anyone who has. It's one of those things that are better expressed through teaching points as they present themselves in life. For instance: Son, you can't break up with your girlfriend over text, a real man doesn't do that. Dad, why do you still work when you get 6k a month from the VA until you die? Well, at my age if I sat on my ass all day every day I wouldn't be able to feel good about myself as a man. Plus, while we live very comfortably, that extra money provides the quality of life that we enjoy, like season tickets, taking Mom to the Opera, dropping three hundred on dinner at Ruth's Chris or Morton's instead of one hundred at Longhorn or Outback, spending five weeks in Sydney instead of two weeks at Hilton Head. Dad, why do you have all these credit cards if you're not going to use them? Because available credit and debt to income ratio are two things that determine your credit score. It's important for a man to have good credit in life. That's why the APR on my mortgage is 3.25% and interest on my car loans were under one. By the time a man reaches his late 20s he should have at least 20k in available credit at under 12% in case of emergencies. If he doesn't than he's made a series of poor life decisions and hasn't matured enough to clean up his credit. Dad, why do you have a second job when you're in the army? Because it's important for me to show you boys that it's important for a man to have a strong work ethic. Besides, I like being debt free minus the mortgage, it helps me feel good about myself as a man. If I didn't do an adequate job of answering your questions let me know and I'll try again. My views are just that, mine. No one is wrong if they don't share them, just different.

USA vs Mexico starts in about an hour at Nissan Stadium in Nashville. Midfield ten rows up. Can't wait! USA! USA! USA!

Wildcard is right, Serena's conduct was unprofessional, and trying to play the sexism card was pathetic.

Your full of schit. I asked you to have a discussion if there were posts of mine that you disagree with. That's a perfectly reasonable request. If not, cool, let's move on.

That's an interesting take, I like it.

Is this speculation or did you hear/read something? I hope it's true.