That Aud Smell

Also - lol - I swear I thought Gritty had a bowler hat on. It's an effing helmet, idiot.

Not in Miami, apparently.

Sheesh. Who was the player who got badly injured because of some slippery concrete ring between the seating and the field? Watched it. That is nucking futs. This oughta go in the "do the owners care about player safety" thread.

Touche’. Did Coughlin’s daughter also get the run of some unprofitable retail space at the team’s facility? Make some lousy merch design decisions? Anyway, I think my issue is specific to ownership. These owners, more specifically.

RB, I get, to an extent. But WR?

Looks like my Twitter/consumer brain was playing checkers, while the Flyers’ creative team was playing chess. That thing is hideous and weird, and that’s how the franchise is going to play it. Full marks.

This is also a fair take. There's something corrosive about the current environment on social media. Roll-outs like this seem to face an inevitable knee jerk tsunami of negative reactions. I do think Gritty is pretty bad, though. The fook's going on with that bowler hat?

That's a tough story - I'm sorry for the abuse you and others have had to endure from that man. I was imprecise and probably implied things I didn't intend when I talked upthread about abiding people with whom I disagree and invoking love that never fails. I don't have the time or energy to expound now. But, for present purposes, I would suggest that what you have in mind above when you use the words "love" and "solves" (solution, etc.) is almost certainly different from what I have in mind. Right now, I am thinking of books I've read by Thich Nhat Hanh, for starters.

^ I mean it when I say: Good on the Bills for hitting a layup shot in terms of getting fun content out there. This reminds me of the Timmy Howard stopping things meme.

Jeebus Christmas. Just saw an animated Tweet of that thing doing a ... stomach twirl (?) under an array of flashing stage lights. And someone was like: "TFW the edibles kick in."

Holy moly - she does bear a striking resemblance to her mother, nah?

Oh, it's not? I think you take an overly formal view of matters to get where you want to be (or feel you need to be). I'm full of surprises. And as indicated, this is not something I'm perceiving in isolation. If the Pegulas had to date proven capable of running a merit-based and professional operation, this Instagram post would have likely breezed past my attention. But there's more nepotism and cronyism in PSE than I care for. Actually, it appears that cronyism is much less of a problem than it used to be.

As with most things, the fact that this particular situation is not currently problematic or might never prove problematic does not mean that, as a policy or practice, it's something that should be condoned. Just a bad look, imo.

It's mixing business matters with personal matters. Simple as that. Bad practice. Par for the course, though, I'm afraid.

It's part of the overall picture. Consider how PSE has gobs of resources, but put Kim's brother in charge of a major part of operations, how they feature generally terrible designs from their kids (remember the striped-propeller-beanies? (or whatever they were)), and how they provided a store-front for a Pegula-daughter-restaurant-concept that, as far as I can tell, has not caught on but is being propped up by PSE bucks. I understand that pro sports franchises are proverbial "toys" for the owners. But the fact that it's becoming a playground/sandbox for the entire family is not to my taste.

Hear, hear.

Those are true statements. That leaves room for a lot of other things to be true, too. For my own part: I don't like it. It just continues to make the Pegula ownership seem like a long, extended amateur hour.

Gonna plunk this here because I treat this as the default thread for discussions of the Pegulas' ownership of the local sports teams.

This sort of got lost in the sauce. It's a whole new aspect of Pegula family dipsh1ttery if one of the adult daughters is Kardashian-ing around with rostered studs. Nah?

I was only able to listen to the game. I'm less inclined to be excited about the result (I've learned my lesson when it comes to games that seem to turn in large part on fumble recoveries), and I am more curious to hear what people saw with Allen's play. It's just one game, sure. But it sounded as though he showed really well -- not just with the goal line dive and hurdling stuff -- but with overall play (sounds like there were several bad drops). Any feedback is appreciated, even if it's a link upthread.

Good take. The PSE work product is derivative, but not even faithfully so.

Football is the most brutal sport going. An NFL team wants to use a player up. Wants to squeeze every last bit of effectiveness and of health out of him, while he’s still under contract, and then discard him. It’s the nature of a salary-capped league where most players’ careers are over before they turn 30, a brutally cold calculation that everyone on both sides of the negotiating table understands. Le’Veon Bell understands it. It’s why he’s holding out, calculating that at his age and with his mileage, another season of 400-plus touches could wear him down, an injury would sabotage his offseason, when he will enter unrestricted free agency for the very first time in his career. He’s right to fear it. The Steelers, knowing they’re not going to re-sign him, have no incentive not to run him into the ground. It’s a business, and the business model says to squeeze him dry. After all, what do they care if he’s useless after he’s no longer a Steeler. https://deadspin.com/listen-to-earl-thomas-1829265298

Smh

Kazoo!!

The thing that came across to me: He seems to know his own mind. That is not something I would have said about Eichel at the same age. In fact, I think Jack's just getting there.