That Aud Smell

Ugh - the wording of the press release seems ominous. Here's wishing her a full recovery.

McCapricious.

Yeah - I don’t get it. Edit: From the man's mouth at ~4:48

Oh for sure. I know an Irish MacGuinness, whose name is nonetheless pronounced mehk-Guinness. And I know at least two Scotch-Irish-American McElroy clans -- one of them are the mehk-Elroys, and the other are the MACK-Elroys. Lol.

There's limited rhyme or reason, as is often the case with matters Celt. One rule of thumb was that if you have a vowel following the M' (as the prefix used to be expressed - no Mc or Mac to it), then you used a Mack sound. But McNamara, as an Irish-American name, became an exception to that rule. (The McNamaras that I know from Ireland are "Mehk-Namaras.") The only 100% reliable guidance is how a particular family pronounces their name.

because that's the way he and his family pronounced their last name.

It’s the sleepy days of June ‘round here (sad face emoji) … don’t sleep on this post, ‘Spacers.

‘S WHATUM SAYIN’!! Also, more good stuff.

Fair, fair. Like I said, I was hung up on the idea that their legacies were similar because they never put it all together (won a Cup), and how that’s every Sabre. Then there was how differently they came to their success. But I get your thesis now much more clearly — and @dudacekmakes a compelling case for how similar they are from a … 15,000 (??) foot view.

Every Sabre great has had a similar legacy, if a key metric is failing to win a SC championship. I can’t see the 2 players as similar because of the way in which I see them putting their careers together. Relative to his peers, Perreault was a bit of a freak — so physically superior. He was the FOA pick for good reason. He probably didn’t think the game as much as he could have as a result. But man he galloped and walloped through the league for a long time. 500 goals! Also, he came from an era where what it meant to be a pro athlete was still evolving. Miller, otoh, was a physically sub average physical specimen relative to his peers. Scrawny. Late round flyer. Through hyper intense focus and training, the guy became an elite player (for a stretch of time) and carved out a great career. More is illuminated by their differences than their similarities.

It is weird. I have to wonder whether this might be one of those deals that's like, do me this favour now and I will be sure to return it when the time comes.

It's a beauty of a deal (??). 3.5 in actual cash gets you nearly 5 million toward the floor.

Who's not letting fans have a different take? Who's leveling personal insults? Who?

Hot take for a Friyay afternoon: It's lame to want to gatekeep # retirements with more rigorous standards.

i had forgotten about this one.

aww, man - now i've already had a little cry over this. love it.

well - it's in keeping with the standards, sure. whatever. i don't really care. it'll feel good.

next time, use a little canola oil.

By the numbers, he's the franchise's best goalie. And he was part of a team that should have won a Cup. Plus he was/is a groovy dude. So, sure.

Assailant is James Anastasio, 29, of Staten Island. Holy Moses is that a type.

Agreed. It’s not the digital nature of the asset that gives me pause. It’s the manner in which some (many? most? all?) NFT’s are sold — greasy promoters using platforms like discord (sp?) and twitch in order to promise incredible upside to their insider/early investors, then the flipping that occurs once the first sales occur, then the crush of people trying to get in before the upward arc levels off and descends. As I think @inkman was suggesting: It’s all very Ponzi-ish.

The report indicated that he’s got a share of the venture, fwiw. I heard a long form radio essay on how NFT’s work — colour me skeptical that they are essentially the same as physical trading cards. I think finance bros use that analogy to grease the skids and keep regulators at bay.

It's enough to get fans who sing the song banned. It's enough to get the manager of England to publicly plead with supporters not to sing it. It's enough to be branded "ultra-nationalist" and "discriminatory" by some of the sport's governing bodies. And it's all sort of fascinating to me. I mean, Germany. Your country bombed the sh1t out of England less than 100 years ago. Should English fans be entitled to taunt you about that?

If I read it correctly, he's invested in the venture. I'm sure there's some fixed money flowing his way. But it sounds as though he's counting on the upside.