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I assumed the one ticket was for Josie. :) TW is solid. No issues.

Hah. No doubt. I'll actually be in Boca Raton next week. Business trip with no time for non-business items unfortunately. In on Wednesday morning, out on Thursday night. Ugh. Otherwise I might deliver a shot for you!

And yet we care more about the championship of the NFL, NHL, MLB, and NBA more than any respective world tournament. We would rather see our local teams succeed rather than see our National teams take our best talent and win. Just the way it is. The National Anthem and Pledge are false patriotic traditions that are holdover from an era when we needed to be brainwashed. The most "patriotic" American couldn't give damn about the United States competing against the world. They care about their college football team winning an SEC championship or their NBA team winning the final. Other countries celebrate their internationally successful athletes and their respective sports. In the US we view the Olympics as second fiddle to our big 3 (and some throw hockey in there for #4).

Finally able to get out tonight for some much needed relaxation. A couple of shots stitched together over Lock 32 Canal Park in Pittsford, NY.

While many of us are approaching this from the US attitude (very little nationalism)... there are people in other countries who are not happy their country's best players are not able to represent their flag at the Olympics. I am sure they will enjoy rooting for their best players from the other professional leagues but they'll really want the BEST players to be there to give their country the best chance to win.

I think McCabe offers it to him and he declines. Pommers takes 17.

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It will be interesting to see if it happens.

Your name is a name because your country is recognized as a massive contributor to brewing history. So much so that the official styles (bjcp.com) use the name and as such so many brewers have to use those names to fit their beer into a style for that purpose. Do you also get upset that there is Belgian Candy Sugar? Belgian Waffles? Belgian Bulgur? (no I made that one up). Just curious. Are you looking for it to be like Champagne or Tequila?

I'm good either way... as long as it works. I'll adjust.

Can't afford that kind of spend.. :) Well... I could if my kid didn't play hockey. Eleven - I will post a shot of a good whiskey pour later... you'll like the thread better then maybe?

Nice... Kuka/Andean Brewing makes one.. they are in Blauvelt, NY

Kuka brewing?

Keep it. You can use it for MetaMucil or Ensure in your later years. From Mendon Ponds Park out on the kayak the other day.

You cannot stream MSG via any source. The broadcast agreement for MSG forbids any streaming except via MSG delivered methods. It's not market related. And of course MSG is stupid... so.. http://www.msgnetworks.com/2017/02/01/msg-go-acquires-live-streaming-rights-to-nhl-games/ They control the rights.. you can stream it on MSG Go and you can only get MSG Go as part of a cable subscription. Derp.

Nice work. Those are some cool shots too.

Did you buy some jewelry after watching that? Everything is sponsored these days... good lord.

In these days of cost cutting we sometimes have to F off... errr leave an F off. :)

Donald Fehr wants what MLB has? Imagine that! The systems are broken because they pay older players based on prior achievements and not current players on current achievements. Why not just use fancy stats to review all contracts signed over the past 20 years and then derive a salary algorithm that extracts the key stat metrics for each "role" on the team and then assigns that value to a player based on their prior season performance? You could then have salaries be automatically partitioned out of a set allocation that each team gets (and is equal). So every team has a salary system to pay its roster $65M next season. Avg goals over past 3 seasons = $X per goal Avg assist over past 3 seasons = $Y per assist Players who are drafted get their first 3 years on controlled salaries to establish their baseline performance metrics which are used in year 4 to determine their pay. Players are able to move to a new team in their 6th year, 10th year, and then can move every year once they hit 13 years of service. Player movement is limited because you can only pull in so many 35 goal scorers before you have broken the bank. I made all of this up without any real thought over the creation of this post... (3 minutes).

Nice shot! What I said above! :)

Probably changing his data models.

Or Sebastian Janikowski?

I don't even think about the NHLPA as a union per se. I grew up in a "union" house. I lived through plenty of strikes and watching what happened to my family during them. The fundamental flaw in the real world is the belief that you can't be replaced by someone else. This sure as hell does not apply in professional sports where no one is replacing the majority of the athletes. You can bring in the "next tier" of athlete but the level of play will not hold up. Your view of capitalism is in vacuum. What defines what you are worth? Are you the next $13M, no championship guy or are you the next $10M guy with 4 championships? Are you the guy who everyone says is the best to never win or are you the guy people call a perennial winner? Are you the winner who gets asked to appear on magazine covers, gets endorsement deals, gets a nice $100k per speaking engagement where you put in 30-45 minutes of work? I'm still amazed that these player unions have not just overthrown the system. They are irreplaceable talent. If there was a true desire to change the system they could win that standoff. An owner with a big building to fill and no sports team is going to lose a lot of money. The players could form their own teams, hire their own leadership, and then offer the owners the ability to rent their ice time to the players to play their games. Hell, the players could find smaller arenas for the short term. It might lower income but the owners couldn't last more than a year before they'd be forced to make changes. They aren't going to get the same attendance by pulling in an entire league full of guys who can't make an NHL contract, let alone an NHL roster. You think people are going to shell out enough money to fill an arena full of ECHL teams? Not a chance.

Sigh. The entire problem with unions summed up in one sentence. Screw everyone, I'm the most important. It's never about the team being successful, it's about how much can I get when I can get it. And they all get paid because we spend our dollars on the product. We perpetuate the problem. Makes for a far more interesting question. If you feel strongly about how people are getting screwed over why are you a part of it? (not just directed at you specifically, to everyone involved). I sometimes play it out in my head and ask why I feel compelled to continue supporting millionaires and billionaires getting paid while more important things in this world are neglected. I've yet to overcome my own irrational fandom and I know I'm far more moderate than a lot of people.