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I was listening to a radio conversation about this where they said she is a "British actor who is african american". Ummm yeah, that's not how that works. I guess dual citizenship would make that possible. I don't know.

It wasn't a statement about you. It just made me think about the tackler in the video. It's a nice reminder to not act like an idiot because all it takes is one other idiot for things to go too far. No matter how douchey Willow was acting, that other guy is very lucky to not wind up in handcuffs.

So you'd be the guy in the video that did attack him. No matter how much the guy was asking for it, that one has to qualify as assault, right?

The same exact move that the flayed pulled off a few times. Hmmm.....

I worry that the scope of this show has become too big now. We now have Russia and a good number of main characters living off in a completely different are (did they say where?). This show is at its best when it's a bunch of crazy things happening in a small rural town. Even with an upside down wormhole connecting them to Russia, there's no way anyone should be setting foot in the USSR on this show.

I know people are really put off by their service and price, but it couldn't have been any easier for me. I called and told them I was looking to change since my contract was up. They put me on hold for a bit and then immediately offered to cut my price down to right around $70 without a new contract. I might top that through a combination of streaming services, but it would take more work than it's worth. The price change is only for a year, but once that's up, since it's not a new 2 year contract, I can just repeat the process. Maybe I just lucked out and got the right person, but I don't have any complaints.

I'm at the same point in the show. The Russian thing in general seems like an odd fit for this show. I know these kids have been through a lot, but trying to break into a room guarded by foreign military types armed with massive guns seems a bit over the top for them, especially since all of this is brand new to two of them. Speaking of the Russians, I like the terminator vibe from the guy chasing Hopper.

I'd love to see thoughts like this truly put to the test. But unfortunately (actually, fortunately), GMs are typically fired before that can ever happen. If 8 is too high to take a defenseman, what does Murray do if he's presented with the first overall pick with Dahlin on the board? There's clearly some line where a stupid rule like that gets thrown out the window. It's the same thought I had immediately last year when I heard the Tom Dundon quote that the Hurricanes will never draft a defenseman in the first round as long as he owns the team. That comment conveniently came out right after they had finished second in the draft lottery. With him though, I genuinely think he just might be so stupid as to force the GM to take Svechnikov over Dahlin.

I do think that it was mostly a case of Murray not placing anywhere near as much value on the defense position. It goes beyond the drafts. Look at all of his moves while he was here. He focused very heavily on adding scoring. He never traded for defense. Any d-man he did acquire, it involved a defenseman going back the other way (Myers -> Bogosian, Pysyk -> Kulikov). Other deals actually depleted our D numbers (McNabb -> Fasching/Desluariers, Zadorov in the O'Reilly deal). Only one trade lead to a net gain in D (Gorges for pick). He also didn't pay any serious attention to the position in free agency. Take a look at this list, he never looked beyond the bargain bin: Meszaros Strachan Benoit Donovan Sanguinetti Colaiacovo Franson Fedun Falk It's a very short time frame, so it's definitely possible that he would have turned his focus to the D once the offense was fully established, but completely neglecting it for those three years is a big part of why he's gone.

That's what counts as taking a shot at your former team nowadays? Those comments are even more tame than our daily plenz/JohnC slap fights in this thread.

Get the popcorn ready. There's clearly something larger in the works. It pretty much has to be Ristolainen, but with McCabe still unsigned, he jumps right up to the top of the possible trade list too.

Is Chris Ostrander the guy from American Pie?

And then there's all that cash he was always handing out to the entire family, even Buck.

I'm two in right now and I'd say the slow pace is definitely there through them both. At least it give me the chance to shut it off for the day and not get sucked into watching the entire season in one sitting.

Wasn't Steve at one point the dean of a community college as they were attempting to make a spinoff show?

It's crazy how little direction this show has at this point. It died with Madison.

There must be some modern day version of this Ted McGinley thing. I'm sure someone can think up an actor who has killed off multiple tv shows within the past 20 years.

I just got an email from Directv offering me a $3 amazon gift card for filling out a survey. I hate surveys in general, so the offer of a massive $3 won't convince me to fill one out.

The show starting to get stale really doesn't have much to do with Jefferson though. Steve left after the 4th season. If anything, going stale was probably due to the same thing it always is with shows that rotate around a family, the kids get too old too fast. Me personally, I enjoy the dynamic between Al/Jefferson better than that between Al/Steve. I forget if they ever actually hit on it, but I forget why Steve even lived in that neighborhood in the first place. Jefferson? Ok, he fit right in.

Why isn't Disney spreading these out a bit more? That's three of them in a very short period of time now since they also had Dumbo a few months back. Also, it feels a bit strange to got to "live action" versions of a musical that has nothing but animals. Let's take an animated movie and just animate it a slightly different way. There's one big thing that bugs me with those movies. The wife and I saw Alladin a week or two ago and it had such an auto-tuned sound to it. I had the same exact thought with a few others in the last two years too. Now maybe the cartoons were like that as well, but I don't notice it since the visuals are completely fake too. I'm not the target audience for the movies anyway, but that sound is really distracting for me. Sure, you'll need it for certain actors, but there should be a decent number of people in these movies who can actually sing.

If it makes you feel any better, you managed to add a different level of confusion for me. I thought Motzko was still with St. Cloud and I had no f'n clue as to how they fit into anything.

I'm pretty sure that's almost every company's target demographic.

Why would Aho sign their offer if he's mad at it?

But why even let it get to that point? They've risked alienating their best player and this whole process will be remembered in 5 years when Aho hits UFA status, if he's still with the organization. And the rest of the players in that locker room see it as well.

I think that love of Blue is going to slowly die off. There's way too much available today thanks to the micro brew explosion. It'll always be there, but once you have an entire generation of drinking who have been exposed to the current market, the tastes are going to shift. Of course, Labatt will start to make other options as well.