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I don't watch other teams enough. The nationally televised games are more than enough for what I would watch over the course of the year. So CI is pretty much just for Sabres games in my house. I really hope they'll someday finally get to the point where the package is sold on a team-by-team basis instead.

Everyone has their limits though. I for one always hated the way Pat Kaleta played hockey and that was a case where you actually had that extra level of tribalism due to him being a local. When it comes to Skinner though, I'll be curious to see if he has toned it down a bit in recent years. My view of him is a few years old at this point. But who am I kidding, I still don't think I'll be watching much this year. I'm still not at the point where I feel like it's worth the price of center ice.

I'm not so sure he can do it sparingly though. I always got a good laugh out of the fans around here who would brag about how he draws more tripping penalties than anyone else. You realize how he's doing that, right?

He’s always been a bit of a diver, but I can get over that if he’s scoring goals for us.

I don't know why, but all I can think is "now's the time on Sprockets when we dance".

Is that the girl from Stranger Things? Does she get to fight them too?

Alcohol, "special"... even those possible explanations don't make any sense. Absolutely nothing about that video makes any sense.

I'm more interested in his NBA career. I'm also fairly certain that not only did he throw himself in the river, but he also set the bush on fire himself.

I still have no idea how the smurfs ever had any clue what they were saying to each other.

Hopefully me marries that girl some day. It'll make for some entertaining conversations after the engagement.

Yes, they completely changed Thor's character in order to fit that Guardians comedy direction. The change wasn't as obvious with Lang since he was a bit of a goof in the first one. But he was also presented as smart and a quick thinker in that one. I'm not so sure they ever showed that with this one. Pym and Hope are the brains of every single move in this one.

I only have one episode left now. I don't know how I didn't watch it after the second to last one was crazy enough, but I wanted to get some sleep before heading to work.

And they call her by her first name constantly while in the company of the people who don't know her true identity? Yeah, that show is really horrible with that whole thing. But anyway, they popped off their masks essentially every time the returned to full size, even in the middle of fights. Other than that, the one thing that kind of irritated me about the movie was how they pretty much turned Lang into a bumbling idiot. He was not like that at all in the first one. It's another piece of how they're overemphasizing the humor in their movies lately.

I feel like it all started with the Tobey McGuire Spider-Man movies, but wow did they take the whole “heroes excessively taking off their masks” thing to a whole new level in Antman and the Wasp. Anyone who wants to rant about the vanity of Hollywood needs to look no further than this. Anyway, fun movie. I wish we could get more stand alone movies.

Mittlestadt will be starting his second contract at that point and they'll be negotiating Dahlin's second deal. So if those guys live up to their hype, a lot of that cap space could get eaten up very quickly over two seasons. That year is definitely a big book clearing moment though.

I do the same. I'm not interested in the fight or the awkward stares, so I get as specific as humanly possible. If I'm not sure what a place carries, I'll just ask for "a diet coke or pepsi, whatever you have".

It's easier to avoid something happening in one stadium (Hardy/Brown/Mixon) as opposed to something happening in multiple stadiums (kneeling). That said, why do we always consider these groups to be mutually exclusive? There are going to be plenty of people who fall in both camps at the same time.

I'd rather go with a steak fry as opposed to the thinner ones. Any place where you can clearly see them slicing their own fries always climbs up my list immediately.

Out of all of the suspensions they've handed out, were there any where the suspended player wasn't the person who inflicted the actual abuse?

I'm with you on this one. A close second would be the sour patch watermelons. My friend and I always called them crack watermelons.

Out of all of them, I kind of wish they wouldn't phase out Thor. It feels like they've just started to make him into something bigger. I guess they probably can't do much with him if he turns into an overseeing god type like Odin, but it could work for brief cameos if Hemsworth every wanted to sign on for something like that.

I'm about halfway through the first season of Ozark. I've been busy and haven't been able to get back to it for about a week now. I'm very curious to see where it goes the rest of the way. It seems like it could branch out a couple possible different paths.

I just can’t get past the insanity that revolves around Cruise. I have no interest in paying for anything he does.

Bean bag? What the hell is in there?

I'm not sure what the purpose of an offer sheet would be. Toronto is going to back the brinks truck up to his house anyway. You can't stick them with a cap hit they weren't already expecting and they certainly don't have any issues with spending money.