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Monday's games:

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Crazy to think... Kamala wins 6 months ago and this is a very gloomy night in Canada.

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If the Liberal Party gets a plurality but not a majority, would one of the other parties join a coalition? Or would the others favor the Conservatives?

Last government was that case, with Liberals where NDP kept liberals from being defeated in the house in exchange for certain policies. I think ...

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First 20 ridings called so far all going to incumbents except for 1 (flipped to conservative).

Looking like a bit better than expected night for conservatives. Gonna come down to what happens in Ontario.

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First polls reporting in my riding...

Again, I'll be (pleasantly) surprised if my riding, or many rural ridings, switches to Liberal. Felt good to vote in a close race though.

Doesn't seem like they're counting particularly fast out east this evening...

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After Sunday: (plus some adjustments because I hadn't entered a few team wins/loses on the weekend)

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Missed an update yesterday, so this is Friday/Saturday combined...

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up to date standings

(one posted yesterday was missing team points and OTG)

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ROSTERS

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I sent an email to people who took Gabe Vilardi... I forgot to mark that he was injured on the player list... Still practicing in a non-contact jersey but also made the trip to ...

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Last chance for anyone else wanting to send in an entry... do it before tonight's games start and I'll add you in.

I'll post rosters and updates tonight. Received entries from:
sancarlos
giff
chedda
steve
wlu-lax
trav

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Some nervous moments needing a third period comeback, but overall good game from the Jets. Only 7 shots against after the first period. Looked dangerous once they found their game. My brother's at the game, says it was insane.

Lets see Colorado and Dallas kill each other now.

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The NHL scheduling is a head-scratcher. Four teams start playoff play today, and they all play their second games on Monday. Yet, four other teams don't play their first playoff games until Tuesday.

I think these two series tonight are the only ones where neither team played Thursday. NHL didn ...

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https://338canada.com/alberta.htm

Liberals projected tp win in 7 ridings in Alberta? That would be a record (the previous best is 4 in 1968). And that would surely be a Liberal landslide.

Can't help but feel like the results aren't going to match the projections. There's just so little riding ...

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Back again for 2025, its the Swamp NHL Playoff Challenge!

Rules:

- Players are ranked by regular-season Points Per Game, then divided into 10 groups. Each group has a different "multiplier" to alter the value of the goals and assists those players score in the playoffs. This levels the playing ...

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OK. I can have it ready in the morning

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Hans clinch final spot.

Final night of regular season Thursday and not only are all playoff teams decided, all the matchups are too. 7 meaningless games. That must not happen too often.

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Reading what I wrote about Amy ... She's not interviewing randos... Tina Fey, Martin Short, Rashida Jones and Katherine Hahn so far.

(I don't dislike Short, but, man... I don't need to hear him interviewed on any more podcasts.)

What I love most about Daniel Tosh’s podcast is that they’re ...

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brian wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 6:06 am
Giff wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:41 am First playoffs ever without a Bruin, Ranger, or Penguin.
First time Original Six teams based in US all missed too.

A new dawn!

All the WHA teams are in - Winnipeg, Quebec, Hartford, Edmonton. (I’m fudging it for Winnipeg)

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Not being a smartass. It’s obvious how much he wanted this but if he had lost it’s easy to wonder what the opposite of this would have been and it’s not fun to contemplate .

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The tragedy of sports, which has been witnessed countless times?
Like, do you think he would have offed himself ...

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Not being a smartass. It’s obvious how much he wanted this but if he had lost it’s easy to wonder what the opposite of this would have been and it’s not fun to contemplate .

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The tragedy of sports, which has been witnessed countless times?
Like, do you think he would have offed himself or ...

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brian wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 6:16 pm Rory becomes first person to win Masters with his own two hands wrapped around his throat for two hours.

All he had to do was beat everyone else with three hands wrapped around their throat.
(Except Rose)

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wow. Playoff.

I think Rose might be favoured here...

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Kind of funny the story when Nicklaus won in 1986 it was like “CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS OLD FUCK WON?’” but Rose is like 18 months younger and that part of the story would be a shrug.

Yeah they mentioned a few times about Rory would be the second-oldest, and then like... Isn't Justin Rose older ...

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A_B wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 7:19 am I'll say an albatross happens this week. And I love today's pin position on 13 for it, if someone flat crushes a drive.

Hoveland just lipped out for an albatross

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After 4, somehow Rory up more than when the round started. Bunch of guys (cough* Cory Conners) gonna be regretting not making a run early to get in the lead group.

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Really pumped for this weekend. Great looking leaderboard, Canadian in the mix, and the wife is already on board for an all-sports Sunday. Originally got her into golf by turning the masters into a drinking game… might have to do that again.

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degenerasian wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 9:59 am robo umps or the challenge system please!

I didn’t want to complain and sound like a biased fan but watching live this seemed like a horrendous umping performance. Cannot believe Schneider didn’t go out and get himself ejected, I was scared of him through the tv.

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I got really into it while in costa rica and panama, and have been pretty avid the last 7 or 8 years.
Obviously binoculars are a must. Nothing fancy really, anything that zooms in too much ends up being really shaky. I just got a scope for christmas this year, but that will probably be more for ...

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Cool thanks.

Another eye-opener I got was interpreting BABIP not as simply "higher=better player" but actually the bigger deviation from mean as an indicator of luck. Baseball's PDO! (is there also an equivalent beat reporter who claims a team's system is the true cause of their .390 BABIP?)

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Got half-way back into baseball at the start of last and the Jays went and had one of the more depressing seasons in recent memory. Trying again this year (vibes much improved) but also trying to follow the league more as a whole. Started diving into Fangraphs. Beyond OPS and WAR, which I've got ...

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In. Shapes prove it out, right?

ruled no goal inconclusive

And the camera isn't directly over the red line, so the puck is even more in the net than it appears.
If the puck looks at least 99% over the line from that angle, then if you were directly overhead, it would undoubtedly be across ...

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Got half-way back into baseball at the start of last and the Jays went and had one of the more depressing seasons in recent memory. Trying again this year (vibes much improved) but also trying to follow the league more as a whole. Started diving into Fangraphs. Beyond OPS and WAR, which I've got a ...

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He made a documentary 3 or 4 years ago (called "Val", i think it might be on Prime?) that was a pretty interesting look at his perspective on his career, his reputation, and his gradual progression of loosing his voice from throat cancer. For a movie someone made about their own life, I thought it ...

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Pretty decent opening F1 race in Australia. Rain + six rookies made for some decent action. McLarens look great, Max still max.

I've got two more episodes of Drive to Survive to finish, but just saw the Checo / Liam Lawson episode, and I don't even care if it was all Netflix editing, Lawson is ...

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https://bsky.app/profile/phrly.bsky.social/post/3ljofkornnc2s

This basically sums up what I'm seeing locally, in deeply conservative rural Maritimes. People that normally know nothing about politics or world events viscerally understand "Trump attack Canada". 80% of the hardcore MAGA (MACA?) crowd ...

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Amazing hockey.

I know I'm really invested in something when I can only listen to the audio and have to distract myself (online catan) to not go crazy.
Even euphorically blocking out the fact that the players on the ice were the only Canadians that didn't feel this as more than a hockey game (and ...

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Nova Scotia 2, Sweden 0 in the first period.
My enthusiasm for this event has gone from "nice, they've fixed the all-star game" to "oh baby that's the good shit" real quick. Like right around McDavid-to-Crosby-to-McKinnon one minute in.

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I’m not losing any sleep over it or clutching any pearls but I don’t agree with it. You want to boo Trump, fuck yeah do it. I’ll do it with and if I got a bucket of tomatoes and he’s in distance I’ll chuck them with you.

But Trump does not = America. No more than Trudeau = Canada. The majority ...

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Still no excuse. Poor form.
Sarcasm?

No you don’t boo another country’s anthem. Sports are supposed to be beyond or at least not beholden to all that petty bullshit.

L O fucking L that these are the norms that are just too sacred. Better start clutching those pearls harder because it's ...

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