Wait this is tonight’s obligatory hockey post? Not Team USA* beating a vaunted** Russian*** squad for the chance to play for gold?

Wasn’t Monterrey in serious consideration for the Expos relocation? Did they just fall off the face of the Earth after that or what?

how exactly do you prove a “feeling” wrong? 

I hate to tell you it’s tourists from Kansas rather than native New Yorkers packing your shows. You already perform for the deplorables.

Routine hits don’t end with the hit-ee getting carted off the ice.

I don’t know that I would call it “clean,” but it was pretty routine. Guys finish checks against the boards like that a dozen or so times a game trying to disrupt the breakout and wear out the opposing defenses.

Even the cleanest hits tend to look borderline when you’ve got 2+ inches and 20+ pounds on most of the guys you’re laying out.

It’s a routine forecheck pasting of the sort one sees a dozen times every game. If you want to see that called every time, points for consistency, but with how tight the refs are calling this game the fact that went unpunished is pretty telling.

Only in the strictest literal sense that some parts of the season had to be “higher” than the others.

The annoying thing is enablers like Leitch who engage in obfuscation, misdirection, and whataboutism to avoid ever acknowledging that they get played on a biweekly basis by transparent hoaxsters. The entire thesis here—that people need to “do something”—relies on an assumption that there was something to be done, when…

You’re glossing over the mistake he already made, which is to presuppose that this was a situation which called for doing something. If we assume (as the weight of available evidence counsels us to do) that Saleh was engaged in a jackass prank, the right thing to do is sit by and let his ass get booted off the plane.

• Some passengers back up Saleh’s story. Some passengers back up Delta’s story.

http://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/Details/comparativeadvantage.html

/CTRL+F’s “automation”

I wish more teams had the forward vision to do this. The Ravens plan to trot out their starters this weekend is utterly moronic.

We’ve been warned of the many disturbing parallels between Donald Trump and Hitler.

Nobody tried to suck up to Drew by pimping his book?

Since when does a panda care about sex?

You expect me to take my recreational cues from an animal too bored by sex to procreate at a replacement level?

I think it matters from a player evaluation perspective, not necessarily a “distraction to the team” perspective. If a guy is losing his marbles regularly, that’s symptomatic of a problem with his mental approach and, by extension, how we might expect him to be able to perform in certain situations.