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I hope we are the Cubs from 3/4 years ago.
One can dream.
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Dude needs to pony up a few bucks and hire a Falconer.
My buddy is a Falconer (falcon trainer) for a local landfill. The falcons fly around and scare away/kill a few nuisance birds to keep them from the area. Coupled with some pyro and you no longer have a bird problem.
The tri-county area I live in has been pushing crows around for awhile, but if you are the one with pyro and falcons, you don't have much to worry about.
They are not expensive to hire, and there are more than a few around.
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Watching this team is like listening to someone scrape nails on a chalkboard. Nothing comes easy. Making a simple crisp tape to tape pass is near impossible. The puck ends up behind where the player has to stop and turn around, or misses him or goes directly to the other team. I mean this is getting really painful to watch how bad this team is at simple fundamental plays that other teams make in their sleep without thinking about.
If I was Housley I would make practice just about fundamentals until they started doing them properly in the game and tell them they havent earned the right to practice anything else yet.
You want to not be able to do stuff that you learn in Pre-Wee hockey? Fine we will practice like we are in Pre-Wee hockey. You make a bad pass? Cool. You sit there and watch while every other player skates a lap. Because at this point nothing else really matters until they can start doing fundamental things right. They give themselves no chances in these games playing the way they are right now.
Yeah, what a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad effort.
Not only did everyone look bad and out of place, but also slow and lazy. You would think we were 65 games in and already eliminated.
I really hope the team "comes around" as the year progresses, but if it doesn't happen soon it will be too little, too late. Plus being slow and lazy is not generally something that rebounds well.
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I'm pretty sure that all good music throughout the ages has been ignored on the charts.
Perhaps. I did some research to that point. I went back to the 70's, since in my opinion the best decade for music of just about every kind.
I looked at several years and yeah, you are right. Very little representation by the "greats" on the year end top 100's. Perhaps great music is like great art of other kinds, destined to only be fully appreciated after the fact.
At least we have the internet now, and can access all kinds of stuff. If I rattled off all of my favorite bands still making music, probably most folks would not recognize many of them. "Obscure country" I have been told, so I definitely appreciate music that isn't popular.
I guess I just don't understand why good stuff doesn't make the charts. Then I did some more research. Turns out a large majority of the music sold in the US is sold to teens and preteens. They have interest in new music, and no bills= disposable income. Now I get it. They only market to kids. Adults will find and/or already know what they want and search it out, while kids don't, and are more succeptible to being "told" what is good and crave whatever is new.
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Any time a person generalizes "the music scene today" into any negative pigeonhole, they're just showing that they don't bother to look for any interesting music. There is SO MUCH GOOD MUSIC being made today, both with analog and digital instruments, you're not trying very hard if you're not finding it.
I agree with you. But my point was, as I said "forefront".
Good music is being made, as I also said about Shooter Jennings' record label, specifically for getting Sturgill Simpson to the charts. My point is, for the most part, the good music is getting ignored on the charts. You have to look for it, all while dubstep, edm, rap, pop country, etc is being shoved down our throats at every turn.
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Speaking of which, this is a GREAT story. I would have never thought of it. I hope shelters all over start doing it.
http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/10/shelter_cats_get_second_chance.html
It seems like dog people want to own an animal, and the stupid dogs are happy to oblige. Maybe cat people want to be owned — if so, their cats seem more than willing to fulfill that fantasy.
That's a great story/program. Cats are also much happier when they have a purpose (just like everyone), and are just plain incredible at killing. That's why big cats are so dang scary.
Nowadays I get free cats on craigslist. But it has been a problem on shelters with people who want "mousers" are denied. I went to a shelter with (no BS) 400+ cats. They parted like the red sea when I pulled in, and there were 3 cats on my truck when I came back to it. Anyhow, I was denied a cat because of my wanting it to eat mice. I recued/"adopted" all 5 of my dogs and I am pretty much a perfect candidate otherwise.
Glad to see them use sense with these "hard case" cats, I do know that cats get killed in shelters at a much higher rate than dogs.
And it's good dogs are kinda dumb, because we pretty much rely on stockholm syndrome to make them love us.
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Dog person myself to, don't get what people have with cats.
I like cats because they keep varmint from the property. Without the cats, my barn was overrun by squirrels, field mice, opossum, and birds. Enter cats, no more problems.
I'm not a "cuddle with kitty" type of person. My dogs live in the house, cats live on the property. I used to say "I hate cats" too, buy now have much respect for their utility.
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Shotgunner... ahh jeez, nice avatar.
Haha thanks.
Like Archie, sometimes I'm party line, and some times it's parody lines....
Meatheads and dingbats abide. :angel:
Now get me a beer. :beer:
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Housley lambasted them postgame yesterday amd rightfully so.
This team wants to make you believe they work hard..well maybe at practice but apparently not watching film to understand opponent tendencies away from the rink...its easy to work hard when you are being watched...what are you doing when nobody is there to make yourself better? Apparently nothing...
Housley went off on them saying they were completely unprepared and it was an unacceptable level of preparation. He furrhee went on to say that you just csnt step on the ice and expect to win the games in the NHL and that is takes a lot of hard work and preparation on and off the ice and now the players know what to expect and there will be consequences if they dont do things the way he wants them done.
I guess we know why they look lost out there...they have no clue what the other team is doing. What an indixtment of the so called leadership...could you imagone Chris Drury ever allowing this type of thing to happen??
Add in..Kane has been a motherfvcking beast most games and has been the best player on the ice for us and Reinhart actually factored in on 3 of the 4 goals last night and Housley seems to be flexible enough to understand that even though he doesn't like Reinhart standing in front of the net on the PP it led to 3 goals for them last night...one by him on a tip and two more by the goalie being screened by him. Reinhart and O'Reilly both got going last night..hope that continues.
Me too. Reinhart should change his address to "opponents goal crease", and just camp out in front of every goalie if it's going to work that well. It was interesting how cognizant he was about being in Subban's sight lines, and obviously effective. Also it frustrated the goaltender, and we know as well as anyone (with Lehner) that a goalie "on tilt" can be less than ideal.
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Where is the Chris Drury type leader on this team that would demand players come prepared and those players would be so afraid to incur his wrath they wouldnt dare come to the rink unprepared?
O'Reilly is talked about as this great leader where is he when this is going on? Is he one of these players himself?? If he is preparing he should be all over these other guys who aren't and I am sure he knows who they are.
This comes from players holding themselves and each other accountable. Once enough players do this everyone else will fall in line. But it has to start somewhere and Jack has to be on board with it. If he falls in line everyone falls in line.
You are right, every great team in any sport relies on players holding each other accountable.
I can imagine how badly O'Reilly has played this year, up until last night sort of undermined his ability to do that. He has been lost and useless by his own admission. Hard to be a leader when you clearly need to be led yourself.
That's why I think Housley went public with it. Time for the general public, media, and fanbase to hold the team accountable since they have shown they desperately need leadership and accountability. I imagine he is hoping it will spark a player (or more) to bring accountability back in-house, where it's more appropriate and effective.
My $.02
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Anyone paying much attention to a group of 20ish guys called Greta Van Fleet ? Highway Tune is all over radio right now and sounds alot like Zeppelin. Not comparing them to Zep of course but they've borrowed heavily from the Zep and are a throwback band for sure. Singer sounds like a cross between Plant, Lee and the singer for Yes the name of which I forget. But he leans heavily to the blues side a la Plant. Watched their other tunes on Youtube and they're not bad. Takes me back to my youth.
I saw this a couple weeks ago while waiting for my account to be activated here.
I couldn't wait to watch the video, wholeheartedly expecting to be like "yeah, right. Zep? Not even close"...
...then I watched it. Then listened to some more. Holy it's like someone cloned Plant and Page. Maybe a little Peart mixed in (vocally). You could convince me it they were unheard deep tracks from the legendary Zep, if I hadn't seen those kids singing it with my own eyes.
So thanks for sharing. Between what these guys are doing (and storming the charts, 2nd last time I looked), and what Shooter is doing with Saving Country Music; I have renewed faith that real music with real instruments can make it's way back to the forefront. Perhaps even battle this robot seizure garbage that has taken over the "music" scene thess days.
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We don't know the address. Here's what happened: A man found the cat while he was out with two friends, a couple, who were visiting from out of town. The man is highly allergic to cats, so the couple said they would take the cat. The man contacted my girlfriend on some lost pet message board with a photo of the cat. She said yep, it's hers. He said he'd put her in touch with them, but apparently (according to the man) they aren't responding to him.
We're not at the end of this road yet.
Wow that sucks.
Good luck getting the cat back. Hopefully human decency prevails.
I am more of a dog person, but have cats.... and taking someones animal is like taking their kid.
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We think some people found the cat--but it appears that the out-of-state couple who fond her are reluctant to return her. Not returning phone calls or texts. Aggravating.
I would be showing up at they're front door...
And not leaving without the cat.
What kind of person won't return an animal they know is somebody else's?
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Problem is, she (and my girlfriend, her "human") only moved into their apartment on Sept 1. So she (the cat not my girlfriend) might not know the neighborhood, etc.
For what it's worth, when I moved in where I am now, I dropped the cat off in the barn a week before we moved in. When we did, I realized sadly the cat had gone. More than 2 months later, I opened the door and to my surprise there was cash (cats name), with a broken tail but back nonetheless. And bigger. Must have been chowing down on field mice.
Not sure how city cats do, but in my case he was gone for months, after only being here a few days and still found the way home. They are mighty instinctive. And I would imagine those city rats make an even better meal than tiny cornfield mice.
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I think what ROR said after the game applied to pretty much everyone:
"I don't even know what I was doing. I was invisible out there... most of the time I was just skating around"
That's what I saw, too. 15 even play tonight?
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It looked worse. The PP sucked as well.
We may regret not keeping the coach who ran the PP.
Fair point.
It was just so disorganized and chaotic.
Also, I have always thought Eichel carrying/holding the puck was a big part of his success. He has excellent handling skills, speed, and passing, but I have seen him do very little of that this (admittedly small sample size) season.
Hopefully it gets better. Starting today.
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Hard to argue with Okposo there. Last game looked no different than last year.
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Does Dennison suck at play calling, or is our talent just not good enough to do much else?
Also, Rogers pulls another magic ending out of his hat!
Dennison is OK I think...
Tyrod is limited in what he can do, and holds the ball too long.
Shady flashes, but is starting to look old or O-line forgot how to be good.
I'm 31 and 300 lbs and could probably walk on as WR right now.
No TE's now that Clay is done for at least a while.
Aaaand, Kaelin Clay...
So Dennison might suck, but it's impossible to know right now. He has been successful before, however; so I give benefit of the doubt for the moment.
GDT Buffalo Sabres at Columbus 7pm ET 10/27/2018
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Alright. Got a point, so we don't go home empty-handed...
Now let's see how the "new" Sabres do in OT