I don’t know much about the standards for the WWE HOF but it seems fitting given how big a deal DX was back in the day that all of them would be in there.

I’m with you. The REAL racists are the private email publishers.

I get it. You’re just going along, minding your own business and then, boom, you listen to some news and you’re racist. 

Agreed. Rules about compensation aren’t really the issue. The fact that leagues reward terribleness over mediocrity is. 

Fair enough. For the record I don’t like him, never have, think he should be put out to pasture and that his popularity is wildly overblown. 

Yeah, but that’s always been his thing. I remember him making a big deal about that little dance Domi used to do after his fights and how he wasn’t respecting his opponents. 

I’d be the last guy in the world to defend Don Cherry but if you don’t think he’s gone off on goal celebrations he finds offensive you just must not have watched him for very long. 

I feel like there can be a middle ground here. You can feel like Cherry and the old guard and all their “respect the game” stuff is obnoxious and terrible while thinking that the new hockey media’s desperation to make everything a fucking meme is exhausting. It’s “Please Like My Sport” for the Internet Age and these…

Tough to see this going badly. If there’s one thing the last month has taught us it’s that the sports fans of New Orleans tend to react very reasonably to disappointing exits. 

I’m not so sure about that. I think the idea of Toronto getting a second team is a lot more likely with the Leafs being owned by the Bell-Rogers-Tanenbaum troika than it was under the Teacher’s Pension Plan ownership. The Pension plan would have demanded that territorial fee. If, however, the second team was given to…

I would absolutely watch the show about Marleau and Al hopping realities:

Yeah, again, this just seems like a massive waste of time to dispute something that most people take as a given. The size of a market for a sports team is the people they have access to. Their are other factors to take into account but they aren’t “size”. Why we had to do all this because you don’t understand that…

Well, exactly. How do we know this isn’t one of those realities. Now if my knowledge of Star Trek holds we need Marleau to go back through the portal so we can return to the reality we all remember where the Leafs are bad.

I received my Astrophsics degree from The Neil DeGrasse Tyson Institute of Quantum Mechanics and Not Telling Anyone What You Saw.

Sure but if Matt Martin(last year’s 4th line LW) was still on the team then Johnsson(who started the year as the 4th line LW) might not be. So this hit likely just would have ripped a hole in the space-time continuum where Patrick Marleau keeps hopping between realities.

Well, no. My argument is that market size is, yes, about the size of the market. However, as I’ve said repeatedly, market size isn’t, or at least shouldn’t, be the only consideration when weighing up whether or not a hockey team is likely to make money. The things you’re talking about like wealth and established…

The frightening thing is that the idea that better off people deserve to be paid more because it’s what they’re used to really is how these assholes think. 

Actually, I was talking about their relative size. As markets. Full of potential customers(and neither of those links say “Actually, a market size is about how much money people have and people who are already customers of your product).

No, I’m sorry, you’re being ridiculous here. Implying that, say, Winnipeg is somehow a “large” market because people there really like hockey vs. a market with many more people just shows a complete and total lack of regard for what large and small mean. Likewise we have perfectly good words for one place with more…

I think it’s important to point out that there may be a language issue here. What Embiid might not realize is that traditionally, in English, you are supposed to lie about the Referees.