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What it all comes down to is what needs to happen to both Philly and New Jersey in order for them to switch positions is incredibly unlikely. Laviolette will pull up if he thinks it is to his advantage though. Just look at what the Flyers did in their matchup with us at the end of the season last year.

Did I catch a "sweep the leg" in there?

It's such a long shot with them 3 up on New Jersey. And if playing Florida was such a big deal, don't you think New Jersey would do the same exact thing? Philly can't possibly lose that 3 point lead if Jersey wants to stay where they are.

I won't necessarily say I want him to win, but I would like to see Tiger make a run. The game is so much more watchable when he's near the top.

I was thinking along the same lines, but it stops being a metaphor the second he makes it specific to Gore. Killing the team's head was a metaphor, but once you say to kill Gore's head, the message is very clear. The editing makes it a bit unclear as to the timing, but if you go with that whole kill the head metaphor and then tell your team to hit Smith in the chin, again, say goodbye to it just being a metaphor. The whole thing is incredibly disturbing to listen to, especially with what we now know about all of the concussion issues.

Eyesight is the one thing that actually goes in its favor.

The huge "NIKE" on the back of the shoe seems completely unnecessary though. Luckily that shouldn't show up on tv.

He's been great in just about every role. And just like you, I only watched his WWE stuff. My favorite was when he was a bit of a bumbling idiot, when he and Stone Cold were paired up as heels. The stuff from the 2 minute mark on in this video is what I always remember the most. And it was so fast too. I don't remember many careers taking off as quickly as his did.

I'm trying to think of any top tier athlete right now who was able to cross into the world of entertainment and be as good as he was. His athletic ability was never in question, but he was also ridiculously amazing at the character side of things as well.

That's a sure sign you're watching one of the best. If they can get that kind of reaction from a crowd even though every single person knows who will win, they're doing something right.

Every so often I can tune in, but most of it turns me away at this point. Still, I was tempted to check it out this weekend just for nostalgia's sake in seeing the Undertaker probably calling it a career.

I probably should have mentioned that I'm in Boston too, which is why I asked. My gym must have some crazy setup. They were hit with that NBC situation at the start of the year though, so I know it's DirecTV.

Is there something local with ESPN now? My gym has their tv service through DirecTV and now all of a sudden ESPN has been replaced with YES.

I won $2. Maybe I'll hold onto that until the next time I play the lottery in about 3 years from now.

Boston listed as one of the safest? That absolutely shocks me. People out here view red lights as optional. I guess cars who just have to beat out that red light and wind up blocking the intersection because of it don't actually lead to accidents since no cars are moving in that situation.

Ahhh, for whatever reason I was thinking this one had 6 numbers and THEN the money ball. That just shows how much I pay attention to this. Just divide 175,711,536 by the number on the right side of the listed odds and that's how many of each of those prizes there are. I did it really quick so I'm sure I screwed up (lots of rounding), but I got something in the neighborhood of and additional $32 million won through all of the other prizes. Take away taxes and any of that other fun stuff and that disappears a bit.

Great stuff.

I just scanned the story quickly and I don't think they mentioned one other thing. All of your other tickets will win the 2nd/3rd/etc... prizes. So it's what, 6 balls and then the mega ball? Right there you'll have 6 different tickets where you get the second prize by having all but one of the six numbers. So that would cut your losses a bit depending on what all of those other prizes pay out.

And then if you wind up splitting the jackpot with a couple people you're quickly down a couple million dollars.

I know the chunky that left these Chunkys... Newman!

A tax on math idiots, I love it. I really wish I had thought that one up because it's exactly how I feel about the subject. My dad's hooked on his numbers and on slot machines. My guess is he could probably have a pretty good car or two with the amount of money he's thrown into all of this. I guess that at least with the slot machines you get the entertainment of all the flashy lights, if you're into that kind of thing.

And with that change you've increased your chances from 1:124123451235235 to 1:124123451235230 (not real numbers obviously). If you want to play birthdays I say go for it. Either way you're still throwing away your dollar.

My dark horse would probably be the Nestle's Crunch. It's pretty basic, but damn is it good.

It's definitely being used for that exact reason, but white hispanic isn't a new term in any way. I've seen the designation show up on a lot of surveys. I've got one set of data in front of me right now that has ~6% of the subjects falling under that label.

It's amazing what a little confidence can do. You can see it in so many of these players right now.