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Tuesday Night open thread

Just over a week until Rookie Camp in Brandon adn South Florida. And it won't be long after that for the Lightning to commence their preseason. Already players are taking practice at the Ic e Sports Forum in Brandon.

Yeah, well, what about the home of the Tampa Bay Lightning? It's just shy of three weeks before the Forum hosts it's first and only preseason date. Will the building be ready in a round-about way to host the Lightning and the Florida Panthers? Here's the latest renovation update from the Bolts:


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About that Tampa Bay sports bromance….

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 7:32 PM EDT reply actions  

Vinny & Marty’s you mean? ;o)

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

More like Joe Maddon + Raheem Morris + Guy Boucher = BFF

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 7:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

baseball

meh

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

Speaking of which, college football is an exception of the Bromance. Skip Holtz is not part of the clique.

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 7:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

not too shocking

college sports are definitely their own thing

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 7:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

Jose Bautista is not “meh”

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by Kevin Sellathamby on Aug 30, 2011 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

who?

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 7:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

booo

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by Kevin Sellathamby on Aug 30, 2011 7:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wikipedia says he's a retired Uruguayan defender

but I plead “wasn’t watching the ’86 World Cup”

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

you mean you don’t know the best player in baseball?

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by Kevin Sellathamby on Aug 30, 2011 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

I seriously had to Wiki it

I’m an avid sports fan, but baseball is somewhat of an exception. I haven’t followed it with any regularity since high school. I thought the best player would be Albert Pujols or Josh Hamilton or somebody

But I know about the transfer of Tennessee’s third string strong safety and of the talks between both North London clubs and the Trotters over Gary Cahill.

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 7:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hello everyone! I am back!

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 7:35 PM EDT reply actions  

welcome!

hard at work this week?

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

more like Hardly working

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by Kevin Sellathamby on Aug 30, 2011 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

Work and family, family and work. My daughter started 1st grade two weeks ago. My classes started last week. Lectures are written for the first 3 weeks. Not one committee meeting set for the next week and a half! Whoo hoo!

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

nice!

my classes starting last week as well, and PhD classes have a lot more reading than I’m accustomed to. bit overwhelming thus far

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

Grad school was the hardest thing I’ve ever done (outside of parenting). You’ll get used to the workload and come to love it.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 7:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

sort of scary to hear, sort of good

lol. I have another 80 pages to read before bed tonight, so I probably shouldn’t be here

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 7:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

A few breaks are good for your concentration. :)

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 7:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

indeed they are

if only my breaks last night hadn’t turned into an evening of no work, I’d be in much better position

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 7:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

I’ve had breaks like that.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

Do we get a prize? ;oD

(Sorry – I couldn’t resist!)

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yes! Me! I’m the prize! :)

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

Oh. Well. That’s alright then! :oD

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 7:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hi, Back. Where’s Clare?

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

:P

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

Lets see a show of hands

How many of you watched the video?

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 7:42 PM EDT reply actions  

errrrr…. (avoids eye contact)

I’ll go watch it now, shall I?

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 7:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wait. There was a video? Where? ;o)

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 7:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

Huh. No one’s commenting. I wonder what you all could be doing right now. Hmmm. :o|

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 7:47 PM EDT reply actions  

Two IM windows open, scheming with you in one, listening to my friend Keith in another.

MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH….

crickets

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 7:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

evening folks

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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 7:48 PM EDT reply actions  

Hey Kev

How were the little people in Mo?

“We’re off to see Plante, the wonderful wizard of Mo!”

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 7:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wait. That’s like a real name. WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH 8K?!?!111

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 7:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

he’s living in a van down by the river, which after Irene stopped by, is now closer than it used to be

"Don't look now, but there's one too many people in this room and I think it's you." Groucho Marx

In Prust We Trust

"Kovalev would work with Tortorella like a kitty would work in a microwave.

A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 7:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

Boom :-D

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

Someone needs to stop dating girls named Irene, then.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 7:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

she had a busy week with a lot of people from north carolina to vermont

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In Prust We Trust

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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 7:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

And her sister Katia looks like she may follow suit, too.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

Not to dismiss the bitch but....

Katia looks like it’s going to be a fish storm to be honest. The track has it going north of the Leeward islands. Of course, it’s WAY too early to depend on a computer simulation

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 7:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

CASSIE MCCLELLAN, YOU WASHINGTONIAN .... uh, wait a minute

It doesn’t quite work for girls now, does it?

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

You can always remove “son of a”, but I wouldn’t recommend it – no matter how true it might be. ;o)

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 7:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

because "daughter of a bitch" doesn't exactly roll trippingly off the tongue

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 7:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

I didn’t say “replace”, just "remove. :o)

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

I know

I was just noting that the other option doesn’t work either

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 7:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

I gotcha.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 7:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

I don’t care who he is, but boy does he have an awesome first name.

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by Kevin Sellathamby on Aug 30, 2011 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

I had some pcitures to talk about

but I can’t get them to work, galdurnit!!

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 7:50 PM EDT reply actions  

How are you trying to post them?

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 7:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

I have the url and I’m putting it in the box, but it’s not showing up in the preview.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 7:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Do you have access to the html? Copy & paste that into the editor box if you do (don’t click on the picture or url links). At least with Flickr, that’s the only way you can post pix. Otherwise, I don’t know what the deal is.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

So

Who’s gonna be the rookie who has the biggest impact in 2011-2012

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 7:57 PM EDT reply actions  

Biased opinion: Adam Larsson

Unbiased opinion: Gabriel Landeskog

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by Kevin Sellathamby on Aug 30, 2011 7:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

Love the last name “Landeskog”. Now if only his first name was Nils instead of Gabriel. What were his parents thinking?

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 7:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Did you see the article at Arctic Ice Hockey about “Most Interesting Names in NHL history”? Cracked me up, but then I’m a history nerd.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

you think Larsson makes the devils?

"Don't look now, but there's one too many people in this room and I think it's you." Groucho Marx

In Prust We Trust

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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

He can- he’s better than half of the other guys fighting for those roster spots. The real problem is trying to make space for Urbom and/or Merrill on the blueline in a few years.

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by Kevin Sellathamby on Aug 30, 2011 8:02 PM EDT up reply actions  

"Kevin Power"

That guy is going to kick ass. He’s like a pro already. You’d think he already knew commenting from somewhere.

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 7:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Ryan Ellis

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 7:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

I finished "The Game" (the Dryden book) last week

It. Was. Awesome.

Starting in on the Esposito book this coming weekend.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:02 PM EDT reply actions  

Phil?

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

yes. “Thunder and Lightning.”

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:05 PM EDT up reply actions  

I lost

:-p

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

Lost? Were we having a race or something?

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

seriously, you don't want to know

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

Question

Lightning logo: Positive opinion or negative opinion? Go.

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:05 PM EDT reply actions  

haven't we already played this game?

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

People often change their minds as they get used to something.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:08 PM EDT up reply actions  

It gets people talking :-p

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:08 PM EDT up reply actions  

“Meh” opinion.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:08 PM EDT up reply actions  

I like the old one better. More dimensional. But it’s not as bad as, say, I don’t know—to pick something completely at random—the new Preds logo, which looks like a saber-toothed cat with a bad cold.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:08 PM EDT up reply actions  

I sort of like it. The Preds, that is. It has that Michigan Wolverine thing about it. But then, I’ve always sort of liked the Wolverines. :o)

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

what? how can a Pac-12 fan like a Big 10 team?

Charles Woodson is the Devil

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

The Pac-12 considers the Rose Bowl to be the premier bowl to attend. Mostly because it’s where the Pac-12 champ plays the Big 10 champ. So, when the Huskies were particularly bad, I’d pick a Big 10 team I’d rather see win the Rose Bowl over, say, USC.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:11 PM EDT up reply actions  

the Rose Bowl was the whole reason I figured you'd hate the Big 10

I thought that was about as intense a conference rivalry as there was. but I can understand wanting to cheer against USCjr

I wonder if the SEC/B36 might’ve passed the Pac-12 rivalry though. Lotta hate on both sides

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

The hate within the conference is typically much greater than the hate between conferences.

B36? What’s that?

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:16 PM EDT up reply actions  

B1G is what they're calling themselves now

which just looks like B36 in base 20 to me.

and there’s definitely some hatred for them in SEC country, mostly ‘cause they’re pretentious

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:19 PM EDT up reply actions  

It’s the snot line that bothers me the most.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

The Nashville Runny Noses is catchy though!

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

Ha! “Catchy.” I get it.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

And somewhere, a confused Hugh Jackman is smiling.

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

(yes, I know, WolveriNES. I did say he was confused :-p )

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:11 PM EDT up reply actions  

WOLVERINES!!!!!!!

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:12 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

I’m sort of feigning the fact they’ve remade this.

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

they did? How? It doesn’t work in today’s world

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think it's the Chinese or the North Koreans who do it

But I believe it’s int he can and gets released later this year.

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

oh that is so gonna suck

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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

Read it and weep

They’re trying to remake Wargames now, too. What The Fudge?!?

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:16 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hollywood is out of ideas, and out of balls, so they’re remaking the successful “classics” because it’s safe.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

By “Hollywood” – you mean the Studios.

The Indie directors and writers are able to try and actually create and write and do new shit. But they are either kept out of the Studio system or opt to stay outside of it.

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

As long as he’s smiling, I don’t really care why. (great smile)

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:12 PM EDT up reply actions  

White logo on the blue background: positive.
Blue logo on the white background? Negative.

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

I actually think the blue logo on the ice looks decent though

but it mostly gets a meh from me

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

Better than what they had

but could still look for improvement, such as a little more detail and maybe some black or silver thrown in to break up the blue and white

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

I asked this earlier on Twitter, but what do you most look forward to in the preseason?

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:17 PM EDT reply actions  

It's end.

;-)

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

this

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions  

hockey

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

1. Hockey gets played.
2. I get to see hockey getting played.
3. It means that the games that count are coming up soon.
4. It means that the weather is getting cooler.
5. All of it—the ice, the arena, the players, the fun. HOCKEY SEASON!!!!

(I’m getting a bit overwrought. Sorry.)

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

no more constant rumor mongering

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by Kevin Sellathamby on Aug 30, 2011 8:22 PM EDT up reply actions  

Like that’ll happen?

There has been constant rumor mongering of one variety or another for ages… it’s just the WHO of those rumors that are mongered that change from day to day.

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:24 PM EDT up reply actions  

do the Rookie Tournaments count as preseason

because if so…those games as well

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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:24 PM EDT up reply actions  

It’s hockey, isn’t it?

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:25 PM EDT up reply actions  

very true…and now MSG is going to air the Traverse City tournament

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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:27 PM EDT up reply actions  

Sweet!

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:27 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wow.. people are actually here…

Wow.. people are actually here…good evening everyone…

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:26 PM EDT reply actions  

Hi Tina. How’s it going? I see you changed your user name.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:27 PM EDT up reply actions  

I certainly did. Thanks to Kristen at SB Nation support. Took her like 10 seconds to do it..

Figured it was about time for me to be the real me.

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

A real you in a virtual world. That’s almost ironic. And not in that Alanis Morissette way, either.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

I checked in the mirror.. I am really here.

I think.

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

even

how goes it?

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:27 PM EDT up reply actions  

Good evening Jay. How’s school? You have started already, right?

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:30 PM EDT up reply actions  

yep

started last week. definitely a lot of work. that I need to do this evening. looks like good classes though

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:32 PM EDT up reply actions  

Good! good luck with it this year.

When is the ‘Heels’ first game?

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

Saturday

against James “We Beat VT” Madison

But I’m going to be in Knoxville watching the Vols against Montana

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

priorities. good thinking. I’d rather watch UT than UNC anyway.

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

absolutely. see the sig? lol

although I will say that hushpuppies at the beginning of the year party are a cool thing about being at UNC. I don’t think they’d even know what those are in Boston

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

Oh, Missoula. How I do not miss you. Hope you cream Montana.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

thanks

I’ll be in the upper deck with Dad and Moriah (my 10th grade sister) cheering loudly for such a result

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:38 PM EDT up reply actions  

They beat my school a few years ago – when we still had a football team, that is.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

ah

well, they are pretty dominant in their division. but hopefully we can crush them. I’m thinking something like 45-13 is reasonable

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

Speaking of the Big Sky, Washington plays Eastern Washington this weekend. Eastern won the national championship in what used to be D-I AA. So, it could be a pretty good matchup, actually.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

yeah, I saw that

actually opened with the same line as UT/Montana (18.5), but then UT shot up to 29 point favorites, and UDub is still only 18.

But I think I’m irrationally favorable towards Washington this year. Everybody expects a dropoff, but I think Sark is a good coach, they return a hell of a lot of starters, and sometimes losing your best player causes the rest of the team to pull together and stop relying on someone else to get the job done. UT won our national title the year after Peyton Manning graduated. Still, I think UDub could be a legit top 25 team this year

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:46 PM EDT up reply actions  

I like to think so, but I’m biased. So long as they improve from last year – and they beat Wazzu, of course – I’ll be happy. I’m waiting for Montana to get the starting QB job and see what he can do.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

Who are you?

What are you doing with TJ_Hockey’s sig?!?

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

remember that whole “living in a van down by the river” thing?

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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Boom

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:30 PM EDT up reply actions  

Google+ has corrupted you all already, I see.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:30 PM EDT up reply actions  

i don’t use google+…i just make 90s SNL references

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:30 PM EDT up reply actions  

Were you even alive in the 90s? ;o)

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

i was born in ’90…so no

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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

I feel old.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

I wasn’t going to say anything, but I graduated high school in 1991 and had my 20th class reunion last weekend – that I did not attend.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

My 15th is coming up next year. I really feel old.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

my. . . 5th

was last year. actually, I don’t think they do anything for 5. But it’s the best I could do on short notice

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

We were going to have a 5th, but we scrapped it and waited until the 10th for our first reunion.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

**sigh

Children. Both of you.

My 30th was 2 years ago.

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

To quote Red Foreman

“your’e not old, you’re advanced in beauty.”

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

LOL I like that explanation.

For a while now when somebody asks how old I am on my birthday, my reply has been “29.95 plus shipping and handling”

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

I love it. I may steal that.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

:) help yourself

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

I tell people and they fall over. Most think I’m about 10 years younger than I am. Which I think is hysterical, but whatever.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

My real age, that is.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

Not a lot of people think I’m the age that I am either.

wait, what?

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

people think I’m 19 and not 21 sometimes

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:46 PM EDT up reply actions  

I got "are you a freshman?" until my senior year

I’ve stopped with that all of a sudden. I think gaining 50 pounds had something to do with it

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

I feel so sorry for both of you. I haven’t been carded in years, but whatever.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

I still get carded every once in a while. :o)

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

the day I turned 21

I got carded twice in the same bar, and I was leaving, the waitress told me that there were people in the back asking her to card me again because there was no way it could be right.

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

Shut. Up.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

(I’m joking of course. Hope that came across.)

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

don't worry, I followed

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

when I was in NH last week I was carded in a restaurant even though I ordered a glass of water

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

I saw somewhere that NH is the drinkingest state in the country

they probably just assumed you meant alcoholic water (which is to say, light beer)

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

I started college when I was 26, and I got “are you a freshman” until I was almost 30.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

LOL…. poor baby..

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

People usually think I’m probably about 8 years old. They’re always looking at me like they’re shocked.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

then they realize that you have impressive verbal facility for an 8 year old

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

YOU feel old? What does that make me, I wonder...

I’m not saying anything…

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

Remember: you’re only as old as the person you’re feeling. Wait. That doesn’t seem quite right….

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

Makes perfect sense to me.

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

:oD

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

resisting the urge to make a dirty joke

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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think Cassie already made the dirty joke

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wow, if you think that’s dirty, then you’re easy.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

that’s what she said

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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

How sad for you. :oD

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

white horse fell in a mud puddle.

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

Sneaky.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

I have absolutely NO idea who I am. I’ve asked myself that for years now. Got no satisfactory answer yet.

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

No. We’re not actually “here”. We’re just figments of your imagination.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

What’s up with all these strangers appearing on Raw Charge?

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by Kevin Sellathamby on Aug 30, 2011 8:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

What? Don’t like the competition? I can’t help it if I’m stranger than you are. :oP

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:32 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah, you are a little strange, now that you mention it. I wasn’t gonna say anything, but now that you have…..

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:32 PM EDT up reply actions  

we're not strangers

we just have multiple personalities

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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

OK. So it’s going to be THAT kind of evening..

My first post and it doubles up what I was saying…

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:26 PM EDT reply actions  

off to a good start no?

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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 8:27 PM EDT up reply actions  

Apparently. :)

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:27 PM EDT up reply actions  

Well, let me rephrase that…

when I sat down to join this thread I managed to know my canned Mt Dew over and spill it all over the computer table. As I made a frantic (and futile) grab at the soda can before it rolled OFF the table to spread the rest of it’s contents on the floor, I managed to knock over an open cup of hot dipping sauce from the wings I had for dinner.

Result-sticky hot sauce all over the table AND floor.

UGH

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:38 PM EDT up reply actions  

So you double down with another comment. Was that the wisest move? Lets see what the dealer has to say about that….

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about playing blackjack… I’d never get rich doing it.

So double down is probably NOT in my best interests.

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

Splitting

As Cassie and Tina know, I’ve been having issues with my eyes lately and I can say with certainty that watching a computer monitor at night is not helping. I’ll see you all later.

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by John Fontana on Aug 30, 2011 8:37 PM EDT reply actions  

Later, John. Hope that improves.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

Take it easy John. Have a good night.

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by Tina Robinson on Aug 30, 2011 8:38 PM EDT up reply actions  

Bye John. Take care of yourself.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

Any predictions on how the Southeast Division will end up this year?

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 8:52 PM EDT reply actions  

I don’t like to make predictions because I keep wanting to hedge my bets. IF this happens then this way, if not then another way.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

Still in the interest of conversation: Regular season only:
Caps, Bolts, Canes, Panthers, Jets

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'm gonna be boring

and go:

1. Caps
2. Bolts
3. ’Canes
4. Panthers
5. R.I.P. Atlanta

the debate is whether there are two playoff teams or three

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 8:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

Let it be noted that I beat you to it by whole seconds. Probably because I didn’t use punctuation.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 8:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

or didn't care to make a show of support for our dearly departed brethren

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 9:00 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yes I expect that cost you a good 1.5 seconds right there.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 9:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

But who ends up in playoffs? Or is that too much to ask for right now?

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 9:02 PM EDT up reply actions  

In the division, Caps and Bolts.

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 9:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

Caps get one of the top 3 seeds

Lightning get one of 4-6 and Canes get one of 7 or 8

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 9:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

I’m less optimistic about the Canes than that, but I wouldn’t be surprised, either. The rest seems right to me

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 9:04 PM EDT up reply actions  

my August 30th playoff predictions

1.Washington
2.Boston
3.Pittsburgh
4.Tampa Bay
5.Philly
6.Rangers
7.Devils
8.Canes

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 9:08 PM EDT up reply actions  

Copy that and save it somewhere – see how close you get at the end of the season.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 9:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

that sounds about right

although Montreal may sneak ahead of Carolina.

which makes the ’Canes home finale (vs. Montreal) potentially huge

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 9:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

well, as you can see by my last line

I’m teetering on the brink of calling for Carolina to make it. it’s a pretty rough battle for those last couple spots with the Habs, Rags, Sabres, and Devils. I’m 50/50 on them.

Caps are probably the #1 seed again, because Washington knows regular seasons, and the Bolts are around 5 or 6.

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 9:05 PM EDT up reply actions  

You’re all far too polite for this kind of thing – and you agree too much! How can we have a rousing discussing when everyone says, “yeah, that sounds about right?” I’m terribly disappointed in you all. (Okay, not really.)

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 9:08 PM EDT up reply actions  

Well gang, I've got to get going.

Y’all have a good evening. Jay, get back to work. ;) Later!

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by CAustin on Aug 30, 2011 9:08 PM EDT reply actions  

See ya, Clare!

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 9:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

later

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 9:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hey guys

’Z’ing through 200 comments is quite frightening. Like a seizure.

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by Chris S Roberts on Aug 30, 2011 9:11 PM EDT reply actions  

Hey, at least it’s not a coma.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 9:12 PM EDT up reply actions  

or death

"Don't look now, but there's one too many people in this room and I think it's you." Groucho Marx

In Prust We Trust

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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 9:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

Three words I thought I’d never see together – but somehow make sense. Drag queen bingo. Huh.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 9:15 PM EDT reply actions  

Sorry – momentarily distracted by Facebook.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 9:16 PM EDT up reply actions  

who are you friends on facebook with that is playing Drag Queen Bingo

"Don't look now, but there's one too many people in this room and I think it's you." Groucho Marx

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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

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by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 9:19 PM EDT up reply actions  

Well, actually, I have a few friends that would be involved in something like that. :oD

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

So I think we’re about done here?

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 9:19 PM EDT reply actions  

i guess so…till next time?

"Don't look now, but there's one too many people in this room and I think it's you." Groucho Marx

In Prust We Trust

"Kovalev would work with Tortorella like a kitty would work in a microwave.

A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep

Follow me @8kpower

by Kevin Power on Aug 30, 2011 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

Oh, probably. :o)

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

I need to be

made it through about 30 pages while talking, but still have 50 more.

so. . . night

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

Good luck.

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

thanks

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 30, 2011 9:22 PM EDT up reply actions  

Thanks for joining us, everyone. Hope to see you all next Tuesday. Until then, have a great week and long weekend!

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by Cassie McClellan on Aug 30, 2011 9:24 PM EDT reply actions  

Dammit, just got here. Night you sleepy eastern folk.

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by Chris S Roberts on Aug 30, 2011 9:26 PM EDT reply actions  

I’m even later! :(

Firsties + 220 :)

by KubKub on Aug 30, 2011 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

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