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I just hope it isn't the same situation for a lot of the other dealers. I'm going to be in the sedan market for the foreseeable future, so this move would eliminate them from my consideration. It's a real shame too since a guy in my neighborhood manages a Ford dealership. Goodbye to at least one car buying experience where the salesman wouldn't attempt to screw me over every possible way.

I feel like I see a ton of Fusions on the road. I would have thought they were doing really well with that car.

I decided last second to grab an Avengers ticket for 10:15 tonight.

Even if the miracle happens and all of the winners are revealed in those first 10, you're still left not knowing the order of the top 3. But whatever, it isn't happening. I'm too lazy to figure it out, but if I'm thinking this through correctly, there's a 4.3% chance of this happening.

Yeah, I'm completely on board with that one. But they'll do it this way so that a few extra viewers decide to watch through the first period of the game they're showing that night. It's such a pointless move though. The people who want to know lottery results are more than likely the same people who want to watch hockey anyway.

There is nothing exciting about the process. 4 balls popping out of the machine and then a guy going over to a massive chart to see who won? It doesn't make for good tv. And then they do that whole process 2 more times. Instead they want to focus on the actual entertainment, the games going on out there on the ice.

I have to say, one of my finest drunken moments was yelling out "May Day! May Day!" while standing right next to a table where Ray Bourque was sitting. It was mid-2000s, so 5 or so years after he retired.

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I think that's a big part of why people want to credit the 90s. You have major expansion in sports right around that time, but the talent pool hadn't yet caught up. You had more jobs to fill, but with a bigger talent gap. Later as the talent gap shrinks, there are more good players who are much closer together in terms of skill. It becomes that much harder for someone to excel beyond the rest of the field.

Just to put Gretzky in perspective a bit. He score 985 total points from the 1980-81 season through to the 1984-85 season. From 1990-91 to 1998-99, he scored 875 points. I realize I'm missing part of the 90s thanks to the 89-90 season, but that takes more digging around than I'm willing to do. But anyway, 80s Gretzky blows away the 90s version. I chose my cutoff of 1985 intentionally. Those insane point totals I added up? They do not include the following season (85-86), which just happened to be the season where he put up the most points all-time. His better playoff runs were in the 80s as well. But then again, this is the same thread where 12 years old as of 1/1/1980 Barry Sanders and retired in 1965 Jim Brown are credited to the 70s.

Gretzky's dominance was in the mid 80s. Tyson’s major moment in the 90s were going to jail and biting Holyfield’s ear. That are just just two glaring cases of you crediting the 90s for the previous decade’s moments. And then there’s your list of the 70s...

It felt like they were trying to end the series. They probably should have. The show needs to clear out a lot of dead weight if they want to move forward. Unfortunately they blew their chance at that. I'm with eball when it comes to Daryl. He's been pushed so far into the background now, they probably would have been better killing him off along with so much of the other dead weight. Anyway, I caught the last 10-15 minutes last night. I know I saw some talk upthread not understanding why Jesus would go along with Maggie and Daryl's thoughts of lashing out a bit. I don't think he ever actually said he agreed with any of it. I thought he was just feeling them out a bit to see where they were.

Ha, en entire community of red shirts. Did anyone beyond Ezikiel, Jerry, the kid, and the farmer woman even get a name at any point? I know there's also the other woman in the hockey pads who is still out there fighting, but I don't have the slightest clue what her name is. Oh, but I will say it is now 2 main characters who died this year. Forgot about Shiva. She got way more character development than anyone who was killed last night.

And I'm guessing a lot of people associate the black and red with Adelphia and the Regis family. That's not something many will want to revisit.

They had a chance to clear out some of the glut of characters, but if I'm tallying this up correctly in my mind, we only lost one main character this entire season. I'm not going to count Simon even though he was one of the better characters on the show since he was still nothing more than a more developed red shirt. You have a show where they like to claim that no one is safe, then you add in a war. Somehow that equals killing absolutely no one of value?

I was hoping it was enough time for at least something interesting. It cut out immediately after “save him”. edit: but at least we got the walking deadpool

10 minutes left and the big storm here finally knocks out my signal.

How many stops do they wind up making during that stretch, just one for each city? I don't have much train riding experience, but I've always wonder how useful these fast trains can be if they have to make too many stops.

You're giving me Rasmussen nightmares right now.

I feel like the lottery is very likely to convince teams to attempt a different type of tank. If you're a bubble team, what's more tempting: 1. adding players and salary near the deadline to make a run and then getting bounced quickly 2. even a 1% shot at landing McDavid Obviously it take the right player in the draft, but I'm sure it has and will continue to happen. That's the exact reason why they can never do a lottery where everyone has the same odds, as I've seen suggested randomly over the years. People want to question the integrity of the game when a horrible team tries to lose, but what happens to the integrity when a playoff-level team decides to lose? I'd say that is so much worse. There is no perfect system for this. I wish they'd just stick with what they always had. Even now, they're still tweaking the lottery odds every single season. That one does feel a bit suspicious to me.

I won't say it's easy to move, but I don't think the contract would be too bad. It runs until he's 32, so not too old. Then it was front loaded, so the cap hit is larger than the actual amount of money remaining to be paid. You know what kind of teams are perfect for that, the one's trying to spend close to the floor. I don't see any no movement or no trade clauses attached to it either, so there's another issue out of the way. They'll find a taker if they do want to move him.

Let's see who will be the one to make the blatantly obvious yet horrible pun.

And the true nerds among the group will be pouring over the internet trying to find out when and why the change happens. I hope it's so simple as drunk Han crashing the ship into a space pole.

Yeah, but he gets to stand still for that one. It's all that other stuff where you actually have to move where you need some motivation.

To me, his voice doesn't fit with Han so far. Granted, I watched it on crappy laptop speakers, so it's possible that with better sound it might not be an issue to me anymore.