shrader

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.

Hes gone. Let it go already

I cringe at the thought of having to deal with the stuff that parents collect when that day eventually comes. There's nothing wrong with the stuff my mom has, but I'll never have any use for it.

It has nothing to do with the rest of the post, but it drives me crazy when I hear any team making a claim like this one today. The point and win totals are inflated now thanks to the bonus point handed out to shootout winners. They can't be compared to anything prior to 2005-2006. Now that I've vented on my hatred of the shootout, carry on.

It reminds of of how much I used to laugh at Boston games back around 2009 when 20-something year old Bruin fans would attempt to taunt me by asking how many Stanley Cups I’ve won. First of all, since I never played pro hockey, clearly I’ve never won any. Second, I’ve never really understood being able to claim something that happened almost 20 years before you were born as a bragging right.

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

It's amazing how many crappy team names are out there in minor league sports.

I miss the days where the odometer would turn over when your car hits 100,000 miles.

Wouldn't it be all of the other cases of incredible accuracy with guns that would be tougher to swallow than one scene with tons of missed shots with an automatic gun?

I'll go with Tara as the "good guy" death, mostly because I've found her to be the most worthless for a while now. Carol dying could be the thing that would finally make Morgan leave though. I don't think they go that route though because they probably want to develop Carol/Ezekiel a bit more. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if they finally killed Daryl too. They barely use him at all anymore Something is going to have to happen there with he and Tara's love/hate thing going on with Dwight.

I forgot about her. The only person I could think of was Dwight's wife. It's the same exact thought though, someone that proves to Negan that Dwight is stabbing him in the back.

Haven’t you been following he thread? You know damn well why you can use that no longer existing emoji

Don't do it! You'll regret it.

All I can think of now is crayonz old avatar, the Homer Simpson X-ray of a crayon in his brain.

I guess it's possible that Tom was dreaming of a threesome with Duhamel/Olyphant and Perry/Kaplan/Blunt/Deschanel. This dream, of course, was planted into his head.

But if they're all the same person as you're suggesting, wouldn't it be a regular old one-on-one session? Because if you actually have the technology to implant memories, of course you're going to spend your time making people think Sinbad was in a genie movie.

These kind of things drive me crazy. Assuming that race is the only reason why someone could form a specific opinion, isn't that itself racist?