IMHO, the true measure of NHL’s southern expansion is going to be in the next 10-15 years or so. Like you point out, we’re starting to see more and more players enter the league who come from “nontraditional” markets; if that becomes a real steady influx, I think that will be great for the league going forward.

If they can’t get their act together for the Olympics I am not sure how likely this is to happen for a couple of reasons. Given the sheer number of teams it would take waaaaaaay longer than the all star break. Think of the NCAA tourney, which has roughly the same number of teams. That needs what, 6 days? Six days that…

I kind of really like this idea. On the one hand, I could watch a rock-paper-scissors knockout tourney, if it was branded well enough, and had compelling teams/personalities etc. (point-in-case: last year’s Olympic Curling).

Florida and Arizona, no, no. That cannot be true, so many of my fellow countrymen yell and scream that no one in the southern states cares about hockey and all the teams should be moved back here to Canada.

Intriguing. Top 16 states get a bye to the second round. 17-46 are automatically in the first round.  47-50 are the play-in states.  Have an independent committee with people from all regions with the seedings.  Not sure how popular it would be, but have it during the current All-Star break.

All things considered, looking like a bunch of hostages is probably an upgrade for Jets fans. At least in theory, hostages have better places to be.

Why don’t they just put Bowles out of his misery going into the bye? He clearly doesn’t want to be there anymore. He lost the defense when he blamed them for the loss in Miami last week and then the defense looked like they didn’t want to be there yesterday.  Get him the fuck away from Darnold, who might actually be…

We will never be the “good guy with a gun.” The 2nd amendment was never written “for us” it was written to protect “them” from “us.” 

Duh, Katherine, clearly it’s because he is crass.

But there’s no reason to do it on a Tuesday, or to brand it as Election Night Pt 2. The recounts aren’t exactly an exciting process that need to be covered in real-time with the usual table of talking heads.

I see it more as Dr. Strangelove meets Woody Allen’s Bananas. But yes, it will need to be a miniseries. Just the White House staff over the last two years would require a cast larger than Selznick used in Gone with the Wind’s wounded Confederate scene. He did use 1,000 dummies, though, which would work surprisingly…

They already paid the room rental. may as well roll on with the asshattery. 

The fact that the two of them soldiered on with their press conference in light of the incredibly amazing internet drubbing they got yesterday is honestly hysterical and sad at the same time. This is what happens when a 20-year-old has already gone through a major legal proceeding and got off with a slap on the wrist.…

What’s dumb is he didn’t have to say the part about not knowing who murdered Khashoggi. Could totally have left it out. He pulled out of the same investment conference that everyone made a big hullaballoo about right after the murder, he could have just said “We’ll continue to work with the Kingdom for right now”.

There is an adage used in the U.K. that a Labour (usually left wing except under Tony Blair) government will allow you to make money by big rounds of spending while a Conservative (right wing) will allow you to keep it, by cutting taxes and in theory spending less.

I worked from 1984 to 2007 in the brokerage industry (EF Hutton, Shearson Lehman Bros, Paine Webber, and others). Stock brokers are salesmen and gamblers and con men (and women). The vast vast majority are not, and never have been, interested in the financial well being of their clients. Their primary motivation is…

the reality of finance depend on the idea that the richly-paid people who make all the strategic buying and selling and investing decisions are very smart, and that they are uniquely positioned to deploy capital wisely because they have superior access to facts about the world, which they presumably use to analyze the…

I’d imagine that at that level most people don’t trust Trump, they’re just confident they can take advantage of whatever he implements. Trump has an audience and can direct attention to certain industries in a way that must be a dream for investors shorting stocks.

Supporting Trump means backing a man who does not in any way subscribe to the existence of objective, verifiable reality. How does that work in the world of finance, exactly?

My experience in the financial sector is that among capital markets folks (i.e. the “Wall Street” guys) or among more senior operational/accounting/finance people, is that if they are Trump supporters, they just sort of wince at the stupidity of most of what he says and hope that the tax cuts and regulatory scheme…