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IKnowPhysics

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  1. Home Depot really needs to sell you some .
  2. In the same vein, I'll fire up this throwback.
  3. Almost by definition, that makes your accuser a complete and utter asshat.
  4. Haha, found this randomly:
  5. Wang has been trying to sell the team (and doing a nearly criminally poor job at it). I think he has been staying out of the roster management lately. His negative influence shouldn't be underestimated.
  6. Management, amirite?
  7. Kane and Lehner are reportedly healthy.
  8. Or, if you could post/link any presentation materials that they make digitally available, that might make for good reading.
  9. Should... should we throw an offer sheet at Huberdeau? $3.6M-$5.4M/year would cost us a first and third. We have $10M in cap space. His player fancy stats are legit; he was the 3rd overall in 2011. Perfect age for our group. He's their top LW, which makes a division opponent weaker AND stacks our left side (Kane, Moulson), almost forming three scoring lines (with O'Reilly, Eichel, Samson, Girgensons, Ennis, etc, excluding that pesky RW depth).
  10. I'd consider going if I was in WNY.
  11. That's a genuinely happy day for that guy. I'm happy for him, the coaches and front office, the team, and the fans.
  12. ♫ The bills are makin' it happen now. ♫
  13. This is still funny to me.
  14. W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W
  15. It sounds like it'd be a good time.
  16. George Laraque to play Fezzik (Andre the Giant's role) in a live reading of The Princess Bride at Toronto International Film Festival.
  17. The ubiquitous popularity of the monopolistic NFL, which grants their monstrous profitability from advertising and television rights, is provided by an edifice of integrity and righteousness that is advertised and sold, unchallenged. When the situation finally arises that erodes the shroud of these falsehoods, be it cheating, concussion-related wrongful death, economic scandal, Patriot whathaveyou, the popularity and profitability will fall accordingly. However, the NFL PR department will do everything within their enormous power to maintain the pristine image and minimize brand damage of the league. Examine deflategate. It's a violation of the fundamental integrity of the game, and the violation is unable to be kept secret. How does the league look afterwards? "Hey, we did everything we could to punish the offenders, but that was rejected in the court of law. Not really our fault." How do the Patriots/Brady look? "Hey, we didn't do anything wrong, and when we thought we were wrongfully punished, we were vindicated in the court of law." It's a show. It's an episode of Sports Center Law & Order (doink doink). But getting pissed off at this result is rooted in the belief of the advertised, pristine image of integrity in the NFL game to begin with. The NFL advertised and sold that image, and those that are angry, are angry with the actual quality of the product they've been sold. The outrage is the buyer's remorse of a product that the buyer wanted to pedestal as an institutionalized past time that is impervious to fault because, god dammit, 'Murica. But what they bought was the sales campaign by a PR team for a mass media cash cow that is managed by a highly polished team of buffoons and has successfully codified eleven minutes of game action per three hours and twelve minutes of advertising telecast into Americana. If you refuse to buy the infallibility that the NFL self-installs, you don't feel so bad when they spoil it. And that's a perfectly blissful result. Know the league will be shitheads, but don't let it stop you from enjoying a good game. Just hope that most of the games are indeed good. FOOTBAW!
  18. Ball or be balled.
  19. HAY YOU GUYS TALKIN' BOUT MUNCHIN QUCHIS?
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