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They say the agent told them he wants to play closer to home. If that's the case, Chicago would have to be crossed off the list too. If he winds up there, that agent kind of looks like an ass for the blatant lie. I suppose that's the job of the agent though, better to make yourself look like an ass instead of the player.

Suicide Squad is right up my alley. I'll go see it just to see if they do justice to the Harley Quinn character. I'll probably save that one though until I can get my brother out to the theater too.

He'll go to Jersey to be closer to Ryan Fitzpatrick.

I have to decide between Star Trek and Suicide Squad on Friday. I'm not sure if Star Trek will still be getting many showings at that point, but that is my first priority.

And unfortunately, he will eventually be forgotten. That's just the way things go. I'd bet that a good number of Sabre fans today have no idea who the Knox brothers were. This stadium naming was going to happen some day, so at least it goes to a locally based company and will bring some money to the area. Their names will live on through the countless donations they made over the year and, to me, that's the most important part.

That was just the language he used to transition the story. He's definitely playing the tough guy act in his story, but from his description there, I don't get the impression the he said a single word.

Was he in the crazy Scientology movie?

Forest Whitaker looks really strange with that hair.

It seems like there's one every other year or so. Two more come to mind for me, Justin Schultz turning down the Ducks and Blake Wheeler bailing on the Coyotes. Each of these guys goes against my earlier post about late bloomers, so I'll flat out admit I was wrong with that one. Those late bloomers are the guys who tend to wind up as undrafted free agents (brain fart). It's tough to really pin down a connection between each of these guys as the situations are a bit different for each. I'd be curious to see if there was any overlap between their "family advisors", aka agents. Really though, if I try to look at this from unbiased eyes, I'd say that if you've actually gone long enough that you can become a free agent, you'd be crazy not to. Not very many are going to have the choice of where they start their NHL career.

I'd like to add a third competitor into the field, Ditka.

But can he run across that pool faster than Phelps?

There really is no refusal to report here since he was never under a contract. It's not going to be common though. Most of these higher level college guys tend to leave early. It really works best for everyone. The teams get their guy into the system and the player gets out of the restricted entry level contracts sooner. The guys who are more likely to go this free agency route are the late bloomers.

I would have guessed he was much older. It seems like he was there forever.

I don't know. This new guy at work is giving them all a run for their money today. He's got these pink dress pants on with white dots. They're super wrinkly, so that combination makes them look like pajama pants.

I have both. I don't know if I'm looking in the wrong places, but the regular shorts seem to be a bit shorter most of the time and don't come down close enough to my knees. The cargos seem to consistently be the right length for me.

I was terrified that my weekend house guest who was flying back home yesterday was on a delta flight. I may have driven off a cliff if I had to deal with that one more day.

She looked better in some of the old picture they were showing than she does today. That's as much credit as I'm willing to give.

I had to look up the cast for that movie. I didn't think it was possible for him to do a move without Michael Caine.

And he did it with a par on the last hole too. So he's on the last hole pretty much knowing he's got a 58 in the bag. It must be kind of depressing though shooting that in the final round and only winding up tied for 5th.

I'm not so sure I believe that the selection process is random at this point. I have lived in three different states and in all three I have been summoned within 6 months of becoming eligible. Each time I wound up on a jury too. That part's just dumb luck, but the rest makes me wonder. I'll never understand those stories from 50 or 60 somethings about never being called once seeing as how they're practically beating down my door to get me to come in. The first time (Buffalo), I was 19 years old and wound up on a 2 week long trial, which also just happened to be the last two weeks of my summer before heading back to college. I figured there was no way they'd want a 19 year old on a jury, but was so wrong. During the selection process, they sat everyone in alphabetical order, started with the As, and asked all their questions. The kid sitting directly in front of me was dismissed the second he said he was heading back to college at the end of the next week. But since they were running low on people by the time they got to me, that same exact reason didn't fly for me and I was kept. It was a civil trial about wrongful dismissal and a battle over stock options. Two weeks of that and it was the most boring time ever. Even worse, once it was done and it went into deliberation, they immediately dismissed me since I was going back to school. Talk about a huge slap in the face. To this day, I still have no idea how it ended (I assume the sleezeball who was suing lost). So I've been a bit poisoned by the process since that one. The second was a better experience. This one was in Boston. There was no selection process here. They took 10 or 11 people out of the room randomly and put us on a criminal trial. Once the prosecutor finished the opening statements, there was a brief discussion with the judge and the lawyers. We were then immediately dismissed because the prosecutor had said something he wasn't supposed to. So that 4 or so hour day was so much better than the first one. My third was just a few months ago here in Raleigh. They randomly picked 40 or so people for the selection process. They wound up with their full group of 10 and I thought I was clear. But then they said they had to randomly select an alternate and I knew I was screwed. This one was a civil trial where the ex-wife was suing the current wife for "alienation of affection", which apparently NC is one of very few states where that complaint can even be made anymore (judge told us as much after it was done). It was a really screwy situation where the guy wound up marrying his secretary. I'm convinced they were screwing around long before the divorce, but there was no proof. Really, it was a case where both sides seemed like scum and I didn't want to see either get anything. This one went on 4 or 5 days. Even after it went to deliberation, I couldn't leave yet because apparently, had they decided in the favor of the plaintiff, there would have been a second level of damages that we would have had to go over. It was quick though and they chose to dismiss the charges. That last one was kind of a crazy case where the lawyers didn't ask me any questions at all before keeping me. If they had, I'm sure I would have been dismissed. As the trial got underway and they got into the current wife's background, it all hit close to home for me. She had moved to NC from Boston just like I had. Then they mentioned her maiden name and where she grew up. My sister-in-law had the same last name and was from the same town. It wound up being pure coincidence, but I couldn't help but wonder about it for that first day.

What would that be exactly? I won't consider it advice, but I'm a big fan of throwing the phone in a wood chipper.

It certainly was a click bait headline. Such a disappointing article, we were all hoping for your version of the story

Did you read the story? Nothing in it actually suggests that she plays the game.

I'm with you 100%. We're seriously offended by someone being wished a happy birthday?

TSN confused me for a second with this headline.