That Aud Smell

GOOD LORD. Thank God.

Bob McKenzie @TSNBobMcKenzie Situation today is no different than what we reported on @LeafsLunch1050 yesterday — Auston Matthews’ contract extension with TOR appears imminent. Today, tomorrow, whatever, it’s getting done. Projection is 5 years with an AAV of $5.5M, give or take 100K or 200K.

Oy vey. I'm quietly just hoping the team can finish as a respectable bubble team, which is where I figured they'd finish when the season started. And, btw, they have WORK to do in order to accomplish just that. #90pointsorbust #89wouldworktoo #88mehokay

familiar.

C'mon, team! I saw the factoid about how, following the 10-game magical win streak (and I mean magical) this team is playing the 3rd worst in the league hockey. C'MON. Let's go, Buffalo.

This has been kicking around on social media for a while, I guess. A middle-aged mom painted an egret, and was worried that no one would like it. Apparently, her son is an artist (?) so he painted her holding her painting of an egret. And then a whole bunch of other artists got involved -- with amazing results. https://nubleh.github.io/i_painted/old.html?fbclid=IwAR0FS1C0Jmb-BMyuzuPFE3Rt9zDS8GYj4VbgNnNmDxx04NghwmHDPCEEJMs

I can always generate some visceral hate for the Stars. Let’s go, Buffalo!

Exactly. I can see wanting to give Hunwick some run. But not at Pilut's expense. No - indeed it does not.

Agreed on all counts. E-Rod looks to be a valuable NHL player. But if he is in your top-6, then your team is not a playoff team. Enjoy! What in the actual ....

What a weirdly long break. Let's go, Buffalo!

So much power. So much privilege.

Long day at the office for me today. I couldn’t tell what’s literal and what’s metaphorical in this post. And we good, fam.

The arc that explains why why this thread, and its direction, has amused (and maybe bemused) me is a difficult one to reconstruct. I know it will over-simplify matters, but I'll try it this way: A story of a middle-aged white male executive acting like a horny sh*t heel and abusing his station and power in so doing prompted me to #SMH and reflect on how far too many middle-aged white male executives (still!) engage in this sort of behaviour and that I really wished it would stop post haste.** The ensuing defence campaign for the cohort at issue is, in the end, nothing short of confusing to me. I mean, are there other human beings who are not middle-aged white male executives who also do things that are bad? Fookin' right there are. I just don't see what that's got to do with the issue at hand, as I perceive it. ** And in so reflecting, I counted myself among the people who need to be part of building business cultures that are better. Shoot - in the time that's elapsed since this conversation started I came to realize that I had likely steamrolled and mansplained a junior female colleague during a planning session.

Just popped back in to see whether middle-aged white male executives were still getting a stirring defence. I was not disappointed.

I only got to see a bit of the game. The Sabres were positively dominant out of the gate. I saw the SOG this morning. Shame that the team didn’t get a better result - looks like they deserved it.

Well. Okay, then.

Perhaps because he presents as more ... entertaining (?) quarry.

Now, now. They do illuminate. They don't tell the whole story, of course. For sure. And of late they've been trending closer to good. Not sure where it's been discussed, but the TOR faithful have apparently been brutal to Gardiner (sp?). So says Twitter, anyway. Carolina would agree with that. OTOH, someone posted the top-12 (or so) Corsi teams the other day -- all but one (Carolina) was in a playoff position. It's his shtick.

Lol. I love Tierney's charts. So pretty! They often confuse me, though. Tierney's Corsi graphs plot the Sabres right between "Dull" and "Bad." I struggle with how to translate that into normal hockey/sports-speak. Like - what does it mean to be betwixt and between being dull and bad? Also, I have often found that characterization (dull/bad) would not really square with my experience in watching the team. I dunno.

I feel like sometimes the purported prohibition on stereotyping people can be weaponized in order to deny or dispute that a certain demographic has a shared experience and culture. Anyway, rather than being stupid, I found Chris Rock's joke hilarious. Here's a quote of it from a review of the special Bring the Pain: "You know what I like about Clinton? He's got real problems. He don't got president problems, he's got real problems like you and me. He's runnin' out of money. His wife's a pain. . . . All his friends are goin' to jail. I know Bill Clinton. I am Bill Clinton."

Re Dahlin. I saw some of Sean Tierney's charts this week that reflected that, of late specifically, Dahlin is already playing like one of the league's best d-men. I forget the metric at issue, but Dahlin was an outlier in the company of Karlsson and a couple others.

White privilege always has room for some token Uncle Tom's. Clarence Thomas is among the whitest motherpluckers out there. Which brings to mind one of my favourite Chappelle [edit: trying to recall who did the joke about Bill Clinton] bits: It's Chris Rock I was thinking of. I can't find the clip. It's the one where he talks about Clinton being black. I think Toni Morrison more famously called Clinton the first black president.

Thanks. When I drop in and drop out over the course of days, I lose the thread sometimes. Like: "Wait, what are we talking about?"

The slurring of the white male. So tragic. I shouldn't poke fun, actually. That exact sort of feeling wound up having a truly surprising effect in November 2016.