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just heard this exchange.

ANNOUNCER 1: Shea Weber joined the Canadiens in the big trade for P.K. Subban.
ANNOUNCER 2: That trade changed the complexion of the team!
[pause...]

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Adams State (Alamosa, CO) became the first Division II football program to sign a woman to a scholarship letter-of-intent.

Yes, she's a kicker.

Trivia that may only be of interest to Pruitt and me: 1960s/1970s Cleveland Brown kicker Don Cockroft also attended Adams State.

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That shortstop needs to get his ass in gear and start hitting.

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brian wrote:I associate it with Sammy Davis Jr because he was a global star and I've literally never heard of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

Ha ha. Dude we come from different worlds!

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I guess it's my age or something, but I am surprised somebody associates Mr. Bojangles first with Sammy Davis Jr., rather than with either Jerry Jeff Walker, who wrote it, or the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, who had the hit record with it.

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I met the man once. He was nice. So, I have a buddy who is from Pittsburgh. He told me a funny Dan Rooney story (although this might be an Art Rooney story - I'll have to check). Apparently, my friend's father knows a guy who owns a very small piece of the Steelers. Rooney wanted to buy the guy out...

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brian wrote:I hope that's a joke.

There's no fucking way I would say anything remotely out of line to those folks right now (or actually ask somebody else to do so.) Those gate agents have to be really on edge, almost suffering from PTSD right about now, and I wouldn't even engage them at all unless necessary.

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MMQB vs Breitbart (and the referenced article on the multinational effort to get back Brady's jersey was actually pretty interesting) Boy how times have changed (and, has it really been 10 months since a post in this thread?) Used to be that Fatty McB was a favorite Swamp whipping boy. (My very fir...

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DaveInSeattle wrote:I just met David Byrne (from The Talking Heads). For some reason, he's being shown around the Institute.

He's shorter then I expected.

In my imagination, he behaves like Sheldon of The Big Bang Theory. But, I don't suppose that's actually true.

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P.D.X. wrote:Yay I get to fly UA on Monday.

Say something snarky to the United gate agent. Let us know how the person responds.

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My early concerts were somewhat limited to who ventured all the way to Grand Junction, Colorado, which isn't close to anything, but is on I-70 so we got the busisgoingwestfromDenverandtheyhaveasmallcollegesowemightaswellplaythere bands. Starting in 1975: Foghat/Head East Charlie Daniels Band Ozark M...

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Everything I've read says this is a great choice from a hockey perspective. Less so from a PR/media standpoint, as Gallant is said not to be a smooth media-friendly type guy.

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Pleasantly shocked by the Sharks. After getting beaten twice by the Oilers recently, they outshot them 44-19 tonight enroute to the win. wtf?

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What a world. Stephen A. and this clown show and Skip Bayless have plum jobs. Almost anybody off the street could do better.

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degenerasian wrote:Sharks have Jones and Burns. In fact I really like the Sharks defense of Burns, Vlasic, Martin and Dillon. Schelmko is pretty dynamic too.
Pavelski, Marleau, Ward.. so much experience.

Oilers have no goalie and no defense. I think Talbot is on fumes. 73 starts this year!

I really hope you're right!

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An example of why the Avalanche suck.

Avs to protect old, expensive, injury-prone goalie (who Vegas might not have picked anyway) over promising younger inexpensive goalie.

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brian wrote:
Jerloma wrote:So...fucking...slow...still.
Don't care. I agree with the AV Club.

Fargo and BCS are the two best shows on TV.

Huzzah!

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Sabo wrote:Wow, a new trifecta.

David Letterman's mother.

J. Geils.

Charlie Murphy.

We're all over J. Geils in the old guy music thread. That linked obit is horrible. The writer thought he was a vocalist and called them an 80s band, even though their first album was in 1970. Sheesh.

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I'm surprised that so many of you guys picked the Sharks over the Oilers. Frankly, I only did so out of my fandom. Realistically: 1. The Sharks enter the playoffs having lost 9 of their last 12 games. 2. Two of those losses were to the Oilers, one at home. 3. Edmonton enters on a winning streak and ...

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I mean, their stock has already gone down over a quarter of a billion dollars. There should be some other backup plan available short of flying them private. In point of fact, UAL closed at $70.88 on Friday. They closed at $70.71 on Tuesday. Lots of companies with no news at all did worse than that...

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Any time you guys want to talk about investing in high speed regional rail, by the way. At approximately 300 miles, you're looking at a 2-3 hour ride, downtown to downtown. You can stand up, walk around, drink in the bar car, pee whenever you want, whatever suits you. I have never understood why th...

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I have that album. Peter Wolf was a great frontman - his patter before Musta Got Lost on that album is hilarious. He is still going too, heard him just yesterday, interviewed on Sirius radio's Underground Garage . RIP J. Geils. Funny that his name was out front, but he was not a showman himself.

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They are supposed to be building high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco but if it ever gets done I'll be surprised.

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P.D.X. wrote:Had to google that.

We had a whole page of a thread explaining that some time ago.

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* - Play it more during the peak of his career. That said, I'm pretty sure one of the stated reasons for not liking Augusta was he didn't like how the course set up. With no evidence, I'm going to guess it also had something to do with Augusta being run by tight-ass country club racists who didn't ...

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A_B wrote:
Shirley wrote:I'm not sure why that Leroy Jenkins tweet cracked me up so much.
Be cause it was funny.

Funniest thing I've read today.

And, it's fun to imagine Spicey saying it.

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They thought that the new seeding system would lead to series' between teams like Anaheim/Los Angeles/San Jose and Edmonton/Calgary/Vancouver. But, ha ha, instead you have San Jose vs. Edmonton and Calgary vs. Anaheim. Not exactly rivalries, although you could have one of those rivalry series in the...

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This doesn't really belong here, but since we don't have an offseason thread yet, I'll note that the Los Angeles Kings fired their two-time Cup-winning coach Darryl Sutter and GM Dean Lombardi. I feel bad for those two guys, but nothing but schadenfreude for the franchise.

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A_B wrote:Jesus enough with this freaking "close" shit. Hole out or get out.

This part of the Swamp is a hard, hard place. Hard as coal.

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I get not wanting to wait. I also get stopping at whatever bar is between me and the baggage claim and dropping 8 bucks on a beer for my troubles. Or taking a wiz! Seriously though, if it's taking 30 minutes for your bags to arrive, get a new airport. The bags usually beat me there. The experience ...

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rass wrote:
sancarlos wrote:Winning series' early is a key to advancing.
For posterity. Winning is key to winning.

You quoted that before I edited it!!

But... yeah...

eta: I thought I was editing it, but I had actually quoted it...

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govmentchedda wrote:
Nonlinear FC wrote:Fuck you guys. Jinxing mf'ers.
Jinx or not, I don't think they lose more than one game per round.
Winning series' early is a key to a deep run. Need the rest that a quick series win provides!

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govmentchedda wrote:
Nonlinear FC wrote:Fuck you guys. Jinxing mf'ers.
Jinx or not, I don't think they lose more than one game per round.

Winning series' early is a key to advancing. Need the rest that a quick series win provides!

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degenerasian wrote: Calgary over Anaheim

To win this series, Calgary must get their first win in Anaheim since January of 2004.

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I will always gladly hand over my bag at the gate. In fact it's my biggest pro tip about flying an airline that charges baggage fees. I understand carrying on to avoid the fee, but who wants to drag that thing on and off the plane? The people who don't want to wait a half hour or more at the luggag...

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