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  1. That Aud Smell
    ^ Read something else and saw that Fleury hasn't been bad, per se, but the Capitals are getting really, really high percentage chances. But, whatever. Fleury and the Knights were riding his ridiculous SV% during the playoffs. There was a good chance it would regress. And it has.
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    Did not watch the game, but saw the SV%. Fleury's been ... not good during the SCF.
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    Preach.
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    It's a fun story, on several levels. And then it gets even more fun and weird when you hear that the error got permanently fixed at one point (removed his name entirely), only to have the league be like, "nah, man -- put that old codger's name BACK on that band of silver and X THAT SH1T OUT ALL OVER AGAIN."
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    My favourite Cup snafu is how Basil Pocklington's name is X'd out (on the original - not the replica). There's a story about how the band of silver that had the elder Pocklington's name on it had to be re-made at one point, but it was re-made omitting his name entirely. The league (or the Cup's owners?) insisted that it be re-made *again* so that Pocklington's name was there and X'd out yet again.
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    Amazing.
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    Also: Buffet didn’t get rich by squandering assets.
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    You keep referencing him. The people who run TBN report to Buffet. They want good numbers and good news (ha) to report to him. Those are the folks I have on mind.
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    The principal observation is that TBN has, of late, become weirdly solicitous of local business interests (including the biggest “business interest,” the Empire State Development Corp. (Cuomo)). The principal theory, that I floated, is that TBN’s solicitousness of business interests extends to PSE. The further flung theory is that TBN may even be trying to stay cool with PSE so as to ensure a role or voice in downtown stadium development. I’m no tinfoil hat jabroni. I think that last piece is plausible.
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    Smart move by JBOT. (Am I doing this right?)
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    No idea. I'll admit that it's a little out there, as theories go, but it's far from wackadoo, imo. I've been saying it for a while (and I'm hardly alone): There's something genuinely weird going on at TBN.
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    Or, as was just floated by someone on the Twitter, maybe TBN wants to be well positioned to sell their land when PSE comes looking for a downtown stadium site.
  13. That Aud Smell
    Holy Christmas - is that ever weird. And, yeah - most definitely not an incident on public transportation. You have to think that the AGM was impaired in some way. Flynn's tack is sort of funny: Not the crime of the century, but I gotta call a press conference about it. In this particular instance, though, I sort of love that my elected DA is maybe going out of his way to take a shot at a divisional rival for "uncool" behaviour. Also, having dealt with Flynn quite a bit back in the day, I had more recently observed to myself that Flynn's public appearances were more ... polished than I recalled him being (those appearances that were in his capacity as a candidate for DA and then as the elected DA). This presser featured more of Flynn's trademark style of speech. I always enjoyed it.
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    I wonder if it's a nod to Canada, though. (HNIC.) I clicked because I thought I'd read some wacky story about a fist fight on the metro rail. Turns out, it was an incident on a hotel shuttle bus.
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    Well, there's no automated way of tracking that sort of readership, innit? I'd venture to say that TBN could rely on a large share of print readership to look for Sullivan's and Gleason's columns. I'd also surmise that TBN is not terribly concerned with retaining print readership. There's certainly no growing it.
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    My point would be: If the clicks were there, TBN would not have moved to take away their columns.
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    ^ Interesting. Occam’s razor, as Eleven noted. Especially so if the antipathy crossed over from “I’m going to click to see what this idiot says” to “I never read that guy’s column.” The click numbers wouldn’t have lied.
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    Is June 1 a date of significance?
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    But those who must generate and then report financial results to Mr. Buffett very well may. In this particular instance, though, I tend to agree with you more than not. I only got this started by saying it was plausible that TBN's business interests in separating Sullivan and Gleason may have extended to an interest in currying favour with PSE. OTOH, if that were really what's afoot, Vogl would have stayed put and Harrington would be gone.
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    And sometimes a foundering legacy media company that kowtows to the region's wealthy in a desperate effort to shore up its bottom line is just ... is just that.
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    It's that simple, eh? Oh, and they sho nuff do. They sho nuff do.
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    There was a lot to like in his demeanor. There was not a lot to like in his roster-building and franchise architecture. The former was evident right away, and was naturally celebrated. The latter took some time to emerge, and was rightly decried.
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    Query how and why that came to be. And what implications that might have for a sphere of influence. PSE may have little or nothing to complain about when it comes to TBN, but that certainly doesn't foreclose them having influence. Quite the contrary, I'd think.
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    Lord (Stanley), yes. And now I'm trying to think of what other saves belong that list.
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