I’m still dreaming of the day that the NCAA dies, the choose-your-own-adventure conferences and scheduling go with it, and the whole mess is replaced by a European style Promotion/Relegation system that ranks the teams with no bullshit polls, and makes every game relevant. Best part is eliminating the idiotic “best…

Or you could be more humane and just waterboard them.

Anything with aspartame in it gives me an instant migraine after more than a few sips. I’ve learned to stop drinking as soon as I notice the sickly sweet “fruit loops” aftertaste, but every once in a while they mask it well and I’m in agony for the rest of the day.

Yes Andrew, the 4th largest market in the US has a fucking skyline.

Philly definitely has a European vibe. Biggest difference is that we’re mostly on a grid, with only a few diagonal or curved roads anywhere near the core of the city. We also never had a major street widening campaign like most other North American cities did.

What land? If I look at the area, it looks like Marlins Park is in a relatively developed residential area

4 dinner settings minimum, but if you have a table that seats 6 (or more), make sure you can set it.

Well, much like the 90s Phillies/Eagles, they’ll try to pretend that the 4th largest sports market the US/Canada somehow is a “small market”, and use that as an excuse to underspend.

His time on the Philadelphia Union was frustrating, though really most of the Union’s 5 year existence under miserly ownership has been. Several times a game, he’d pull down a long pass, and you’d have the briefest flicker of hope before you remembered what happened every time in that situation. Freddy would seemingly…

Yeah, in my experience there’s very little overlap between Hockey and bouncyball fans. Hockey fans often have a negative impression of the nba and college sports because they get so much mainstream coverage. Especially in northeastern cities where the NHL is more popular, where the bouncyball coverage is dictated by…

It will be truly sad if the ghost of the Sonics kills NHL Hockey in Seattle yet again.

yeah, it’s how a lot of euro leagues in many sports work.

Seattle starting a new team in 2017, 100 years after being the first American city to win the cup, and 50 years after the first NHL expansion, would be very appropriate.

There is no “loser point”. When a regulation NHL game ends in a tie, both teams get a point, they then play an additional 5 minutes, followed by a shootout, for that 3rd point. The biggest problem is that this encourages getting to overtime to generate that third point.

Baby one more time - Britney

Find songs that don’t require you to have a singing voice. Cake songs like Never There or Short Skirt Long Jacket are among my go-tos for that reason. (I Will Survive and The Distance are a bit more challenging).

Nick Sakiewicz has been trying really hard to be worse. The Union are so bad newspapers in Britain are following them for the lolz

The main limiting factor in NHL expansion is goaltending, but there are at least half a dozen backups who could be starters. NCAA hockey is growing and increasing in quality, so that will expand the player pool. The salary cap has led to an increase in unsigned 30-something free agents, who would be good veterans for…

Even just among major markets, DC, Atlanta, and Houston are all sadder. Dropping down into the second tier, you’ve got Phoenix, Seattle, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Denver, and Cleveland.

It is frustrating that the minidolls are such a big departure from minifigs. Given the shape and detail lego is capable of, surely they could have created a curvier minifig that wasn’t mostly incompatible with the other themes. Round off some of the corners, pinch the waist, and they could have a “feminine” minifig.